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Unbelievable! how to strike oil ...[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=150314249041[/url] some of the auctions this seller had went for …
... have noticed the recent autions of this trader. He was selling ... He was fully aware, that they are MIAs (mentioned it in the auctions ... names) and was expecting to make his ... to those valiant ebayers who won them for WOS. -
Help Identify a Kid's Book I Read Many Years AgoI'm not sure why but the memory of reading it just popped into my head today and I'm curious about it now. It was about a young London girl called Pe…
... 'd Earthsea and was shocked to learn there are six in the series - I ... always thought it was a trilogy ... . The first three form the trilogy and were written in fairly close succession in the ... -
(not quite as) Nice PhoneMy dad brought me a phone home from his latest work trip to the Caribbean, so I am now the proud owner of one of these: [URL]http://alistairsserver.n…
... think). This is mine. (The phone number on it isn't mine ... think the phone number is in use any more - it was changed when the line was ... re-activated, but I didn't want to change the ... the other. So the phone is as it has been since it was ... -
CronosoftIt's a bit of bad news, but I'm sorry to say that I'm probably closing up the Cronosoft label. I'm struggling financially at the moment, and Cronoso…
... text. Some of the games have the word "info" in the table but it ... ? For most of the games in the 80's it was screenshot/review only ... wrote cheques, doesnt stop me in the future because of that one ... wouldnt stop using it. A girl breaks your heart, you dont ... -
The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... 've only watched Dr Who in bits and pieces since ... 've just got through the first 3 episodes from ... I the only person who was very dissapointed with what "The Face ... words, all he said was "you are not alone". ... I thought it was going to be something ... -
The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... 've only watched Dr Who in bits and pieces since ... 've just got through the first 3 episodes from ... I the only person who was very dissapointed with what "The Face ... words, all he said was "you are not alone". ... I thought it was going to be something ... -
Vixen - Corrine RussellI was flicking around the Internet Movie Database tonight and was looking up one of favourite "bad guy" actors - Clancy Brown (Kurgan in Highlander, …
... a friends caravan park in Worcestershire back in the early 90's.
the camp tosser (who was an LA bouncer or ... something) and was sun bathing. I was pissing around in the pool with a ... -
Vixen - Corrine RussellI was flicking around the Internet Movie Database tonight and was looking up one of favourite "bad guy" actors - Clancy Brown (Kurgan in Highlander, …
... a friends caravan park in Worcestershire back in the early 90's.
the camp tosser (who was an LA bouncer or ... something) and was sun bathing. I was pissing around in the pool with a ... -
Greetings from the USAHello, [INDENT]I'm now in North Carolina way up in the Mountains. I spotted this whilst shopping and thought only in America could you get a Santa Cl…
... 325766]If you were in the 'bama you could have ... Apart from my actual wife who pointed out that they ... get in touch with Andrew but he was not in the USA ... when I was going by. ... He came all the ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... for the tv version (the cop with her tits out in the locker room was ... one thing that was filmed twice ... think they even said in the letter that it was done by one ... of the southern England ITV regions who then ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... for the tv version (the cop with her tits out in the locker room was ... one thing that was filmed twice ... think they even said in the letter that it was done by one ... of the southern England ITV regions who then ... -
Why did the QL fail?Browsing some old magazines: an advert appeared for the QL, 128k of ram and 32 bit processor etc...also very cheap compared to other similar spec com…
... reservations. Price of the boards (the kit 1 is cheap ... the One True programming hobby. I was a PIC lover and when the ... AVR arrived sometime in the ... mid 90s I was one of the vicious ignorants who ... -
Prince Harry and the word "Paki"Prince Harry is in trouble (yeah, right) for using the word "Paki" to describe a Pakistana colleague, according to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/…
... lived in the UK, the shaven headed gentleman, in his In-ger-land top, who was beered ... up at 10am, and lived on the ... against using Paki in the UK.
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Corrections to "Authored with Quill"Started testing today from the end of the list... These are not written with Quill: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^You+Ca…
[QUOTE=mheide;329282]The corrections were made.
... information we have is that the game was still for sale, hence ... demo version in the archive.[/QUOTE]
Who said that it was distributed by ... far as I know, it was never distributed by Inforcom. If ... -
Some digital/analog "flaws" I enjoy/miss.I enjoy the soft fuzzyness of a CRT TV when watching shows/movies but I do enjoy the crispness of a LCD monitor when used with a computer/console. I…
... a laugh in the office when it was quiet. At least the customers couldn ... I was working on the station, and a broken rail just in the ... has been smashed to someone who's shouting and yelling at ... stone wet through and the angry guy who's demanding you personally ... -
Did anyone produce anything for a commercial game at home before it came out?I.E: Way back in '85 I saw that 'Ghosts'n'Goblins' was coming out for the Spectrum so I made a loading screen for it. Wasn't used of course, I was at…
... was so naive, while stuck in the hotel room I was messing about on the ... 'Music Box'. I had the ... to Mike Lamb who then put it in the game. 'Arkanoid' was released then ... -
Farewell, Dubya....24 hours to go, and then life gets excitingly interesting. Satirists around the world are already [url=http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/1…
... information, from a friend who likes that sort of ... started the moment he was sworn in.
He was sworn in at ... 12:03pm.
Who was ...
She is now technically the first woman POTUS, and also ... -
Missing girl foundGreat news about that kid Shannon Matthews [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm[/url] Must admit i really really thou…
... wishing that there was some polite phrase in the English language ... who was there to look after her, and yet the mother was ... even years before (the evidence in her hair-growth was alarming - she ... many mothers who actually care in the penal system who will take ... -
Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…
... I certainly don't support the dickheads who were being abusive (though ... it's in the word "bastard" and the way in which it was mean offensively ... , and malwaring your PC to death. Anyway from what I've ... -
New game - W*H*B - Help wanted!I'm currently writing a version of Cuboid/Bloxorz for the speccy, and was hoping for a little help from the WOS folk, or anybody, in designing levels…
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About falling off the edge of the levels... personally I'm ... that was because of lot of repeated graphics in the animations whilst ... I was getting things working ... in 48K, should be able to get a good number ... -
'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back, videos & photos'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back Longton, Stoke On Trent, 7th March 2009 "One of the most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester…
... appeared and not recognising the person in the passenger seat, who I rightly assumed ... -stripper I did in fact realise that I was in the god-like presence ... of the boy-genius himself ... -
'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back, videos & photos'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back Longton, Stoke On Trent, 7th March 2009 "One of the most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester…
... in the world. Even from the moment we were all in the car together. I was ... , another ex-Ocean staff member who was there and knew Joffa, to ... out maybe dealing with anyone who wanted to speak to him ... be interesting and that people who weren't there would find ... -
Comic Relief 2009Am I missing something here? Where is the comedy? So far this past hour, only Harry Hill has offered something amusing.
... Relief started out back in the '80s it was a comedy-driven telethon ... documentaries about the people in the UK who also benefitted from the money raised. The telethon ... that donated money in. Back in the day Comic Relief was a day/evening ... -
6 King's ParadeBefore Willis Road appeared in Sinclair Manuals it was 6 King's Parade as the H.Q.. Now a purveyor of books and a meditation centre (no change there…
... few houses so No.9 was the nearest and numbers are computed ... automatically by software too. The number on the door says 6 though. < ... /> A short walk up the parade to the North is a pedestrian ... and Altwasser studying in the 1970s for what was to be the ZX81 and ... -
which company do you respect the mosthave been registering my ninty products on the web and they make you fill in a questionaire, which i don't have a problme with as im always complaini…
... , you prefer the American version of The Office to the English one, ... you prefer the C64 to the ... it to IBM was a supremely smart move, the fact they bought ... It's primary product IS number one in the world...regardless of whether ... -
which company do you respect the mosthave been registering my ninty products on the web and they make you fill in a questionaire, which i don't have a problme with as im always complaini…
... don't prefer the c64 to the speccy..I ... br /> Microsoft are admirable. The strategy of licensing DOS rather ... to IBM was a supremely smart move, the fact ... primary product IS number one in the world...regardless of ... got most of the episodes, the early ones werent ... -
"Ignore the decent majority, and legalise cruelty" [paraphrasing]I would never vote Tory (Conservative) anyway*, but here is yet another reason why not: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7986804.stm[/URL…
... in the town centre, it was eating a kebab out of the gutter. everyone was ... giving it a wide bearth in case ... man in a sack then bung a fox in there and see who ... -
Aowens posts disapearingUmm is that a system glitch or are they being deleted..I see he is down to 168 posts since 2002.
... ]I thought we had abolished the death penalty in this country? seems to ... death.[/QUOTE]
He didn't point the chair leg at the ... .
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Who Are You Guys..... ???I'm curious to learn about the guys (and no doubt gals) who keep this forum alive. Were you all Spectrum-heads from the start? Did any of you come la…
... aren't you the lad who did the Crash challenge thing ... the lead BUT the ball stopped before the goalline and the goalie (who ... had dived) stood up and then was ... on top of the ball, that was it, couldnt do anything, bug in the ... -
question about installing xpI have been given a Packard Bell easynote f7305, but it has a not got the recovery cd with it it was my brothers, and he gave me it because it wasn't…
... them in the startup menu, it was still running slow i defragged the hard ... to add to the 256mg one :) ) the windows serial number sticker is on ... of xp but use the easynotes serial number ?[/QUOTE]
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