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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 …
... to the inlay, the doors to the final chamber (at the bottom right of the maze) are supposed to open ... when the ... -
Broken ZX 48kHey all. I have acquired a broken ZX 48k. It looks in good condition - tried the membrane and it is working with my other 48k very well. When you tu…
... for producing the -5V was broken most of the time. It seems to break in ... concert with one of the memory ... chips belonging to lower ... -
OT: Where should I go on Holiday? Tell me about where you live.Right, I need a holiday, I haven't been away for 2 and a half years and Im getting fed up of Burnley.Trouble is I don't know where to go. Seening as …
... /> Is that in the french part or the english part ( don't ... I was pretty drunk most of the time and had to lay down a ... -
Doom 3 - hell's bells!Two days back I picked up a copy of Doom 3 and even before I'd started the game I had this strange creepy feeling... Two nights of playing later... …
... , the action, nor the fun-designed arenas of it's predecessors. And most of the guns are ... wimpy (especially the ... -
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 …
... to the inlay, the doors to the final chamber (at the bottom right of the maze) are supposed to open ... when the ... -
Conflicts 1[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Conflicts+1$&pub=^PSS$&model=spectrum"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^…
... that throw most of the decoders.
I need to revisit this ... I just need to adapt the other instances of Theatre Europe which ... is the troublesome title ... Classic Conflicts. Just need to get it working as ... -
voting system failureWhy is my IP banned from voting for games? Is it because I voted for the same game a month ago and forgot that I had(?) or is it because I wanted to…
... games?
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The entire *.cache.pol.co.uk ... voting since the very first week of the voting system, due to massive amounts of abuse ... -
Game enginesHow many Spectrum games were based on the same "game engine"? The most obvious examples are Ultimate 3d games (Knight Lore, Alien 8 etc.). Also "Cobr…
... . The endless-falling thing has been changed and many of the rooms are compressed to ... fit the much larger environment into the game. -
Dr Who - Peter Kay epWell, that was crap. Truly awful. Looks like they've started trailing Rose's impending death.
... episode of children's television. I was surprised how high the death ... toll was for a Dr. Who episode. Plenty of ... pathos, a classic tragedy really. Admittedly it offered less to ... as hell and from most of the fans here seem to agree hence we ... -
Is the full moon......exceptionally bright where you are tonight? Went out for a crafty fag and the back garden was lit up. Thought it was a neighbour with their secu…
... a giant Batman-signal type of doohickie ... but my ... to go round the back of it.... To the dark side of the moon.... but due to lack of ... light it would be verry hard to ...
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Morrissey in talks for EurovisionCouldn't believe it! [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6244153.stm[/url] "Former Smiths singer Morrissey could represent the UK at the …
I don't get why countries don't put their best bands and singers on there, make it a sort of musical olympics. Most of the entries are unknown or relatively mediocre even in their own country. -
Battle of Games 5!! :)Greetings ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Battle of Games 5! This time, we have sort of a Battle Royal of games with a twist: I will allow m…
... there since that's one of my favorites, together with Hypersports ... about Combat School: overrated in the magazines. Most of the challenges are way too hard. -
Battle of Games 7 - Shoot-emups 2Greetings ladies and gentlemen :) Welcome to Part 2 of the shoot-em-up battle. Again, as in battle 6, we'll have a [b]multichoice[/b] battle with som…
I only voted for Cybernoid - that actually looks like a developed game design, whereas most of the others are straight shooters. -
TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... Great machine. Shame they abandoned the Z80 in their later machines ... was about 15 (the owner had upgraded to an Amstrad 1512!). ... as my Z80 assembler reference the "Series 1 Editor/Assembler - ... A4 job with most of the 250 pages dedicated to a Z80 instruction ... -
That scene in "Big".....Anyone remember that scene in [URL="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/"]Big[/URL] when Tom Hanks finally completes the adventure game, towards the e…
Me being the smarmy bastard I am finished most of the games I wanted to when ... get anywhere on half the games I used to be good at ... have softened me up, to the brutality of some 8-bit titles.
the term "Big" moment all the time, but it ... -
Easter egg Vs normal chocolateWho reckons that Easter egg chocolate is better than ordinary chocolate? I would have posted a poll, but I dunno how :(
... Egg choccy tastes better than the regular stuff.[/quote]
I ... it seems to taste better because of the occasion (especially due to childhood memories of Easter ... -
Anyone here have a Mac running an Amiga emulator?It's the only one I've had trouble running. Even then I can't find the Roms, all i wanna do is play 'Typhoon Thompson', 'Dungeon Master', 'Eye Of The…
well I've got the game now (thanks) but now I cant find an Amiga emulator that works, most of the links are dead! :( -
Anyone here have a Mac running an Amiga emulator?It's the only one I've had trouble running. Even then I can't find the Roms, all i wanna do is play 'Typhoon Thompson', 'Dungeon Master', 'Eye Of The…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;183463]well I've got the game now (thanks) but now I cant find an Amiga emulator that works, most of the links are dead! :([/QUOTE]
Try the EAB - link given earlier. There are some extremely talented people there. -
GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
... =Skarpo;189447]Definitely in favour of the Atari! :D And Karingal's ... definitely in the Amiga camp. Most of the main posters tend to veer towards the Amiga ... -
GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
[QUOTE=karingal;189481]Most of the main posters tend to veer towards the Amiga, quite ironical ... ]
It makes sense to me. If I didn't ... , so it is quite logical the next choice was Amiga and ... -
GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
... of the Atari![/quote][quote]Originally Posted by [B]karingal[/B]
Most of the ... main posters tend to veer towards the Amiga[/quote]Cheers ... the Sam Coupe:- Got one of the first batch of Amiga 500+'s to hit the ... -
Budget GamesWhch is your favourite Speccy budget game? *And I don't mean full price re-releases* There were some real class Speccy games that you could pick up …
... , I'm bonkers, and like most of the early Atlantis games.[/QUOTE]
Yea i quite like some of the early Atlantis stuff as well ... end until i died on the last screen!) and there was ... or something.
Most of the later stuff seems to be a bit 'samey ... -
Budget GamesWhch is your favourite Speccy budget game? *And I don't mean full price re-releases* There were some real class Speccy games that you could pick up …
... ]Yea i quite like some of the early Atlantis stuff as well ... end until i died on the last screen!) and there was ... or something.
Most of the later stuff seems to be a bit 'samey ... Load up again! Thanks for the reminder.
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Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... someone else has kinda thought of the same thing... I'll give ... ][/I]
[I] - The behaviour of the Spectrum is due to its simplicity. If you ... find you're Jumping through hoops to ... -
Letters with accents on the SpectrumIs there any way to type letters that have accents (for example ? ? ? etc) on the Spectrum? Maybe it's really obvious but I don't know how.
The Portuguese version never had the accents, but the Spanish did.
Portuguese software used a custom character set most of the time. We changed '[' to '?', etc. -
Letters with accents on the SpectrumIs there any way to type letters that have accents (for example ? ? ? etc) on the Spectrum? Maybe it's really obvious but I don't know how.
... a custom character set most of the time. We changed '[' to '?', etc.[/quote]
I think that the Spanish version ... was taking advantage of some government initiative to ensure that computers had ... -
Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…
... to try to write a sprite routine. You start by learning the ... and there, then progress to moving the data around in 8x8 blocks ... ve learned to do all that you'll have most of the knowledge you ... need to write a game. -
most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
... recall most of the games I played to death on the Amiga ... Pond[/I], [I]Shadow Of The Beast[/I], [I] ... 've been trying to think which Speccy games ... The Tortoise[/I] and [I]Shadow Of The Beast[/I] had it (and the ... br /> EDIT: Woops, forgot to quote Zagreb's post (#85 ... -
Alien 8 RemakeIve not noticed anyone post this on here yet, so I thought I'd mention that the rather spanky looking Alien 8 remake is now out. [U] [link removed] […
Most of the graphics are in violation of [I]something[/I].
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Looking for an extended BASIC graphics routine from mid- to late-80sHello all, This is my first post here so please go easy. This is basically a cut-and-paste job from comp.sys.sinclair where I've had no luck with an…
... liked it. Most of the programs I wrote to take advantage of it used the "FIL ... alone fill routines for the Spectrum, but none of the ones I tried ... were as reliable as the one ... [/i]. Plus you had the other commands to play with.
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