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30 years later - Your personal favorite games of 1987Happy New Year everyone :) Looking back to 1987, which games would you choose as your top picks today? There was a lot of good stuff published tha…
... as 1986, but a bunch of great games:
Exolon (my ... and Opera releasing:
Mystery of the Nile,
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30 years later - Your personal favorite games of 1987Happy New Year everyone :) Looking back to 1987, which games would you choose as your top picks today? There was a lot of good stuff published tha…
... 87 was the beginning of the rise of the 16 bits, and ... palettes, with memory spoken of in terms of megabytes, instilling a ... gnat's), brought this magical mystery of computing into my world.
mystery tour. :) That of course, and Frontier: ... -
You know you're getting old when..........I was walking home from work last week when i saw a trio of young girls heading for a night out on the town, they were dressed up to the nines with s…
That solves the Mystery of the Smelly Smell!
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Test of screen switching timings.I modified the btime.tap test by Jan Bobrowski to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime-128, produces different results on diff…
... go through to solve the mystery of the floating bus on the ... -and-red stripe (4 px of each color) appears at cycle ... -
Need help with keyboard scanning ?After getting frustrated with learning ASM for a while I'm back into it. The little listing below is using the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sp…
... handle “interrupts” in a manner of speaking. For example, your ... a programmer have no way of controlling when it occurs. ... change this behavior. Think of it as sneakily inserting the ... /> Finally, to solve the mystery of the source of the interruptions. On the ... -
Wow we're getting hammered by this cold spellOut here in VA's Eastern Shore, our home is all electric which means a power failure leaves you with no light, no heat, no water, no internet, no coo…
... /2015/11/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-mystery-of-the-arctics-toxic ... look at it, the flavor of the shark, but it also ... -
Jet Set 40-40The JetSet Willy And Manic Miner Community would like to present you with "Jet Set 40-40" :) [b]'Jet Set 40-40' is a redesign of Matthew Smith's c…
... really studying the technical side of his innovations.
The ... /messages/6778"]The mystery of completability (or lack thereof) of his "Maria vs ... -
New WoS quiz. Name that power supply!Can anybody tell what this power supply unit is from? It's heavily engineered and was way to OTT for the use it was used for. It was used to power th…
I have finally cracked the mystery of this PSU. It is a ... -
Whatever Happened to The Type Fantastic?"Tomorrow's almost over, Today went by so fast, That's the only thing to look forward to - the past." Over the best part of this year the contri…
... or broken ... collected together all of the old photos and greetings ... piled everything into the boot of a taxi, locked up and ... preparing for TTFn the listing of Bertie Bishop from Computer ... could help in solving the mystery of their presentation then I might ... -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
And the latest mystery in the TZX files ... Program: Tennis matches the output of MakeTZX.
... , is it more of a case of Spectaculator and Fuse being ... original. The following blocks of 6912 and 23100 bytes ... as to where the mystery of the extra bytes came ... -
Miscellaneous ZX81 stuffI was not sure where to put this . As it is not Speccy related I had a dilemma . Should it go in Chit Chat . But then I had a better idea : if I call…
... an order for a couple of these .Total cost for 2 ... my spare DK keyboards .The "mystery" of their compatibility (ZX 81 or ... -
PC based USB Adaptors for Joysticks and Gamepads and similar Game ControllersStrictly speaking ,this is hardware as it is not about emulators per se , but is more about how to get Speccy based emulators to work better with Ga…
... we had got one of them to work but ... think getting 2 out of 3 of these Arduino Leonardo development ... .
And the mystery of why they changed the colour ... of the LED from GREEN ... they just ran out of Green Leds and switched ... -
Best Type-In GamesWhat type in programs did you think the end result was worth the effort of typing them in? Even though most of them were not of the quality of com…
The Mystery of Silver Mountain one I remember ... -
Do you have a favourite cassette cover or series of covers?I was always tickled by the Software Projects artwork such as [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/14/a6/2614a6a72b9b8a2e07bd642b9b8134aa.jpg[/…
Dang. Forget the unified theory of physics, forget the mystery of the Easter Island statues, [i]this[/i] is the question that has eluded mankind for ... well since 1983! Will it ever be solved? -
The Mystery Box!I entered a competition with Gamespot over Christmas, where you had to tell them a Christmas Cracker joke..and I won their prize, which was a big Mar…
... a big Mario-Block style mystery box stuffed with game ... ] T-shirt, the [b]Arkham City[/b] Soundtrack CD, a ... Pizza[/b] CD, a box of [b]MSN[/b] sweets, ... and some [b]House Of The Dead Overkill[/b] ... /> [b]What playwright is scared of Christmas?
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No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…
... have kept the TAP file of CsA until now, because ... , while [I]all[/I] of the other versions currently available ... happens on my old version of the game), but on ... the versions of the game found on WoS ... of CsA in order to have a go at solving the mystery ... -
Entire collection of 80 adventures for sale!Hello All! Hapyp New Year to everyone. I'm putting my entire collection of Spectrum adventures up for sale and I am inviting offers. Please email me…
... m putting my entire collection of Spectrum adventures up for ... To Get The Best Out of Your Computer (including Adventure ... The Zaracon Mystery (Players) 5.00
Excalibur Sword of Kings (Alternative ... ) 3.50
One of Our Wombats Is Missing (Zenobi ... -
Sleuth: Shades Of Mystery...Just found [url=http://shades.playsleuth.com/]this[/url] on the intraweb, a half decent point-and-click (ish) detective "RPG" (that's what they're ca…
... 've only done a couple of investigations, but it's actually ... -
Return of the Unfathomable AdvertisementWhile working on the magazine index I came across some adverts in C&VG and Computer Gamer in Jul/Aug'86 which I couldn't attribute. I checked existin…
... related to some espionage/murder mystery game, but I've checked ... even be a Spectrum game, of course; there's no indication ... -
Game of ThronesAnybody else watching this, it's a sort of Lord of the Rings type world, but with the occasions normal name, like Jamie which is quite stranger in th…
Anybody else watching this, it's a sort of Lord of the Rings type world, but with the occasions normal name, like Jamie which is quite stranger in this setting.
Lot's of intrigue and mystery and quite gory really. -
JK Rowling launches 'mystery' websiteI'm surprised no one has posted this yet, but (from [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13805346[/url] ) [SIZE="6"]JK Rowling launch…
... /> [SIZE="6"]JK Rowling launches 'mystery' website[/SIZE]
... had seen a "breathtaking" preview of the Pottermore project
... added.
Producers of fan site The Leaky Cauldron ... had seen a preview of the Pottermore project, describing ... -
"I, Of The Mask" inlayI thought I'd rescan and clean up the inlay. The one in the WOS archive is a bit grimy: [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b357/mlucifersam/Retro…
... a mystery to me why they commissioned a decent piece of art ... and (IMO) an inferior piece of art was used on the ... -
A nagging but very minor mystery solved by accident.I got into the 80's band The Chameleons probably sometime around 2008. Their original cover artwork was done by their guitarist and the cover for th…
... couldn't for the life of me remember where.
6 year old minor mystery solved. -
Mystery Port on ZX Spectrum 48k +Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a little mystery? After I tripped over my first 48k +, and knocked out the joystick expansion, I…
... help me with a little mystery?
After I tripped ... , on the left hand side of the QL-style keyboard, there ... -
A Pine Cone MysteryThe other day I found a pile of 62 seedless pine cones at the top of my garden, of various sizes around 2"-3" in length. Although there are 100s of t…
... cones at the top of my garden, of various sizes around 2 ... length. Although there are 100s of trees round about and numerous ... different types of conifers, after spending 20 minutes ... have any explanation for this mystery, as to how they got ... -
Batman: Arkham Knight - or 'Screw the consumer' volume 2,375<div>If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game …
... looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll ... fan? Interested in picking up Arkham Knight at launch, or ... many options. Arkham Knight joins the dismal list of AAA games ... Increase the devastating firepower of the Batmobile.Batarangs While Gliding ... -
Batman: Arkham Knight (oh dear!)<span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm surprised that no one's mentioned </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Batman: Arkham Knight</span> on here…
... hugely anticipated fourth part of the Batman: Arkham trilogy* was released, bang ... not strictly speaking part of the trilogy, so Arkham: Knight is the ... third and final part of the trilogy ... -
Weird version of Saboteur! Can you identify it?I stumbled across this article today: http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2015/07/08/saboteur-2-gets-upgraded-to-128k-on-zx-spectrum-gaming-computer/ …
... I am a huge fan of Saboteur, in fact it is ... my favorite game of all time.
I ... to show an updated version of Saboteur 1, not 2 ... of Saboteur 2, so the game in the screenshots is a mystery ... .
Does anyone know what this version of ... -
Your personal game of the year?2015 is almost over (good riddance!), so what is your favourite game released in 2015, on any format? For me it's [b]Batman: Arkham Knight[/b], wh…
... me it's [b]Batman: Arkham Knight[/b], which whilst flawed ... Spectrum (1983).
Anyway, Arkham Knight disappointed me in a ... don't belong in an Arkham game, the Batmobile is overused ... city, and the identity of the Arkham Knight was far too easy ...
