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Climate ChangeThis has been on the News for a couple of days now, including coverage of worldwide rallies calling for more efforts to tackle climate change. I have…
... , what parts of the world are going to get warmer in the long term etc ... changes are people prepared to make to offset the problem?. I doubt that most people ... would be prepared to agree to the ... -
Soundic Victory MPT-02 - What are they worth?A friend of mine has had one these donated at her charity shop. It has it's box and comes with a boxed game cartridge called Star Wars. It is missing…
... MPT-02 appears to be a licensed (!) clone of the never released RCA ... Studio III, the follow-up to the black and ... like all other systems, most of the cartridges are common but there may exist ... -
Spectrum 128k advice neededHi, I'm new to this forum and the spectrum world. I have this spectrum "toastrack" that was working fine until today. It doesn't boot anymore, it s…
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That is a most unusual picture, I’ve not ... be a problem with part of the power supply circuitry.
... of the reset switch?
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I love WoS.There ... I said it. What do you mean, you're hard of hearing? I said I LOVE WoS! I mean, that's it, that's all. Like I said the othe…
... to this forum software. Some of the changes were due to the ... site being a mis-mash using long out of ... There were also clashes over the moderation of the forums.
There are also new Spectrum sites like ... -
I love WoS.There ... I said it. What do you mean, you're hard of hearing? I said I LOVE WoS! I mean, that's it, that's all. Like I said the othe…
... to this forum software. Some of the changes were due to the ... site being a mis-mash using long out of ... There were also clashes over the moderation of the forums.
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Happy birthday... Walkman ![url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman"]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman[/url] Introduced 40 years ago today. Man I'm getting old. :D
... family members kept pretending to be saying something!!! ... Of course, most of the Walkmans are not in perfect condition because of time and the influence of ... Sometimes it is possible to buy drive belts there. ... It is rather expensive to deliver from Japan. < ... -
Climate ChangeI have listened to both sides in this debate. But I cannot help feeling a bit skeptical at times still. I think both sides are getting it a bit wrong…
... from them...on anything. Most of the gasses are coming forth from their gobs ... them. Billions of gallons of fuel oil to extract the chemicals required..of a highly ... batteries..so off to the crusher it goes...but the REAL sad thing ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... everyone to watch it 'cos if you don't you are missing ... . I'm sure these series are all great, otherwise they wouldn ... was superb, but most of the people I talked to at work etc. had ... /> Man, I'm starting to get the hang of "longer" rants now. ewgf ... -
Island (the remix)I've been working on a more polished version of my C.S.S.C.G.C 2022 entry Island. So just like the old days I'd thought I create some over hyped prom…
... and the fall and they both didnt do anything. Also there are ... just a lot of water locations in the game so ... on the floor.
"We are in your dept"... wrong kind of ... make a game where most of the time you need to type a long ... -
Vixen mystery solved !, ZX SPIN now loads it !Hi folks, I again, resampled my Vixen tape (CSW & WAV) and set to decode it with MakeTZX, strangely it refused to decode it this time, failing at s…
... /> BTW, Ramsoft devised the MakeTZX program and many of the decoders before Real ... Spectrum was created (or concieved). So none of the ... TZX are built to accomodate the emulator.
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Five updated ZX-Modules programsDear forum readers, I have updated my ZX-Modules programs to the following version states: ZX-Editor 1.1.0.4 ZX-Preview 1.0.1.2 ZX-Paintbrush 1.2.0…
... updated my ZX-Modules programs to the following version states:
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Most of the about updates have to do with SEV (SevenUp ... very unhappy that I had to delete the LZH file support, as ... at any time using the new versions of ZX-Explorer and ZX ... -
Game's top 100, erm, games.[url]http://www.game.co.uk/greatestgames/?cm_mmc=update-_-wk2008-_-intro-_-greatestgames[/url] Me is not impressed at all, not one bit. Worst 100 g…
... conceived. I'm betting most of the voters are about 5 years old.
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Budget Game World Cup Quarter Final Group AWell here it is the first group for the beginning of the end :D Due to the coin toss this group gets 5 games, but the same rules apply 2 highest sco…
Well here it is the first group for the beginning of the end :D
Due to the coin toss this group gets 5 games, but the same rules apply 2 highest scoring games go through to the semi final. -
Phaser2 - new two channel beeper music engineA follow-up for the Phaser1 engine, most of the features are improved - both channels are phase synths, more synth features, customizeable synth drum…
... -up for the Phaser1 engine, most of the features are improved - both channels are phase synths ... , more synth features, customizeable synth drums.
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Collision detection in Arcade Game DesignerI've been playing with Arcade Game Designer recently but I can't get the collision detection work between two sprites of the same type even though I'…
... on which parts of the squares are colliding.
... think the other parts of the code are relevant to the ... problem but if you want to ... TO Y // Moves the sprite that is being controlled to the
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Video Gaming Exhibition at Oldham GalleyThought some you might be interested in an exhibition that is running in the Oldham Gallery, Oldham, Greater Manchester. Oliver Frey, Rick Dickson …
... few arcade machines from the mid eighties. Most of the works are original, although I ... did see a couple of really ... from Oliver Frey including the original painting of Crash Magazine issue one ... -
Good or horrible: RamboThis was one of those games that I got as part of a compilation - They Sold a Million 3 I think - that I played a bunch of times but I wasn't sure if…
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It was really difficult, the colour scheme was a bit ... it was better than most of the games that tried to copy Commando.
Speccy emulation dead on Mac?I'm a longtime user of the Speccy (15 years plus) but now use Macs 99pc of the time, and although I have access to PC's I still wonder why there are …
... any of the 128 models due to some bug in the code (it used to have ... +3 with .dsk support) but features emulation of the 48k ... well be the first Speccy emu on the Mac to emulate the Russian Speccies ...Wanted - Fish! (Rainbird)Anyone got this? It'd be great to get this major game off the MIA list. I could convert the disk to a .dsk file if anybody's got the original...
... /> Dave.
PS Most of the dsks are in Ulrich Doevich's extended ... dsk
format which preserves the ... copy protection format of the
disk, and X128 is the only ...Is this legal?This is in reference to the "special occasions" thread I started. (I need to be careful how I word this...) I want to put Ghost N Goblins on a websi…
If the copyright holder has granted general permission to distribute the game, no problem. However remember that many of the permissions are specific to WoS, so you'll have to check exactly what was said for each game.I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…
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Most of the games were far to square for my eyes ... a little too raw compared to the sweat AY tunes (128k).
of the blue/purple BASIC screen though ... of course it was a UK machine, whereas the C64 was from the ...Back 2 School ObjetivesWell, the other day sit and remembered all Spectrum Games, But I forget the objetives of the game Back To School. So if someone can help me, I?ll be …
... to fill the cups on the bottom floor and everytime one of the teachers is due to ... pass underneath, shoot them with the catapult so that the ... pee bounces of ...please update my speccy emu knoledgecan anyone please tell me what a tr-dos image is?
very imformative thanx. so i guess that most of the games are in russian, true?Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... the tank to clear most of the guns & Hele's to The Right when u get to the ... swamp that u can't cross, go back to the ... your Chopper to pick up the yellow bridge & take it to the Swamp ... up get out the tank pickup the last part of clock & ...Is Spectaculator Worth Registering?I normally use RealSpectrum and was thing of trying another emulator. What are the pro and ons of Spectacultor? Does it support disk image files?
... doesn't come precompiled for the fellow M$ users (or ... far as I read on the website, it hasn't even ... for windows. We had experiences of successfully cross-compiling SDL-based ... side of the world -- seeing as around here, for instance, most of the users are M ...Available New Spectrum ClonesHow many new Spectrum clones are there today that you can purchase or build with good supported websites. I can only find these, are there any more…
... bit like the Chrome project regarding to features, but without the CPLD. ... it's always interesting to see how others have ... to find a list of converting the TTL to standard 74xx ;) Most of the TTL is easy to ... it would be nice to have a 74xx translation ...Adventurer #15 magazineNew Adventurer magazine is here: [url="http://scenergy.natm.ru/files/adv15trd.zip"]http://scenergy.natm.ru/files/adv15trd.zip[/url] It's probably as …
most of the articles are in english too! I've read it yesterday, it rules!My little videogames database : )Hi, here you can find my "little" videogame database: I hope you like it! [url="http://bozan.interfree.it/index.htm"]http://bozan.interfree.it/index…
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It is exactly as the person states - though it is ... partial translation in it, but most of the comments are still in Italian.My little videogames database : )Hi, here you can find my "little" videogame database: I hope you like it! [url="http://bozan.interfree.it/index.htm"]http://bozan.interfree.it/index…
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It is exactly as the person states - though it is ... partial translation in it, but most of the comments are still in Italian.
Anyone here an eBay power seller, or a square trade member?I eBay a fair bit - there is a chance that I might make Power Seller status by December. Minimum ?750 per month turn over, for 3 months I think? Bro…
I note on that Ebay auction that most of the tapes are freebies and mostly crap anyway!
