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  • Mastertronic are backThe Return of the King 20 years on, the most famous re-publisher of them all is set to return to the industry. Mastertronic will be re-launched by ga…

    ... them for mostly shoddy games that were all that I could afford. It ... until Finders Keepers came out that they actually released a good ... have sold my Spectrum before that happened, but if they kept ...
    WhizzBang WhizzBang August 2003 Games
  • Games you actually completedThis may have come up before but I am new to this forum so... Which Spectrum games did you actually complete? They were extremely hard by todays sta…

    ... I've got. The ones that were a pleasure to complete would ... " complition... :D )

    There were others, but completing them was ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie August 2003 Games
  • Attic Attac - return of the Speccy!I had gone to my hometown over the weekend to my grandma's place. And while investigating the attic, I found a trunk full of Speccy goodies includin…

    ... doc, I found this piece that says ESS chipsets (which I ... some other setting for that.

    That really buggers it for ... quality? I'm using tapes that were last used nearly a decade ... we lived,
    when we were young.
    In a world ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type

    ... from Gradius and other elements that were used in later Gradius games ...
    Yednab Yednab August 2003 Games
  • Do these qualify as MIA?I remember a book called "Exploring adventures on the ZX Spectrum" by Peter Gerrard. This book had three text adventures (type-in) in it: 1) Collosa…

    ... ins, or independently made games that didnt necessarily come out on ... />
    You see, there were some games that were BASIC type-ins in ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... />
    There's also BIN2TAP, that also creates a basic header ... />
    The sources for both (that were based in an old version ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain August 2003 Development
  • Unknown Games For ZX-Spectrum For Spectrum in period from 1980 to 1993 was made more 15000! games ...Where other 9000?(Don't check info) Also i find Names of very good games fo…

    ... to mention the countries that used spectrum compatibles and clones ... including small software houses that made software to sell.< ... , and ive found some that were mistakenly labeled as Spanish and ... worth remembering that a large number of games were released at ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • FIND'EM ALLPlease place on this site some information(sites with downloads,articles) of - "LOST" games (It is games from my forum "Unknown Games For ZX-Spectru…

    ... much they know about games that were released 20 years ago? I ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a August 2003 Games
  • Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…

    ... the past that some dumps are Multiface dumps, but these were taken ... access to the denied material that is preserved. The only ... is the stuff that is freely downloadable, and that?s when Martijn ... br />
    The files that were submitted by Mondo Dizzy have ...
    Gilby Gilby August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • I am going to check my entire collection of tapes tommorrow....I must confess to being very lazy with my Spectrum tapes, all tapes for that matter, I just have them piled in boxes around the place. Tommorrow af…

    ... ,

    Just to emphasize that were also looking for 3" disks ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Old/New Systems comparisonThe Teletext Magazine "Gamecentral" today (2nd September) printed a letter from someone talking about the C64's superiority to the Spectrum and how b…

    ... they were in the past. The are plenty of games that have ... of any really essential games that were only available on the cpc ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis September 2003 Games
  • Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…

    ...
    Is that the *exact* listing that's actually on the ... few games on there that were supposed to be on ... Jawz, 3D Tanx) that were mentioned in the book but ... Evil Crown) were also replaced, but were at the end ...
    And, now that I recognise the listing for ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2003 Games
  • vote rigging ?This is not intended to cause any major rows , id just like some sensible views on the voting from regular forum users , 2 games that ive noticed wit…

    ... for [I]Laser Squad[/I] that is firmly set at 9 ... set. Instead, all the titles that were at the top 5 positions ... not a proof, I know that, but it definitely looks like ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2003 Games
  • Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…

    ... but the same old sh** that these companies are throwing our ... on the places that were never used before :) Now that makes a game ... />
    It is clear that the gaming industry is going ... by fat money guzzling monsters that call themselves project managers and ...
    bjohnnybravo bjohnnybravo September 2003 Games
  • Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…

    ... criticised Ultimate for making games that were too similar...

    Sabre ... press (except Crash). Their games were as close to gaming perfection ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2003 Games
  • Spanish GamesHello! I'm a spanish player and i wish to know how many spanish games do you know and what is your opinion about those games. Thanks!!

    ... do know of many games that were made in Spain so to ... sound. Most of Dinamic games were tough though. On the whole ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2003 Games
  • Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…

    ... the extra space between the objects that should touch the wall and ... . Was it a concious decision that he should fall off in ... , the reason I fell into that room in the first place ... is that I landed on the block ...
    John H John H September 2003 Games
  • C64 TZX Files'ello whats the reason why C64 tapes arent stored in tzx format? is it technical? or it polictical? is it coz no-one has time? i ask this coz i may…

    ... C64 support to TZX there were a few people (Ben Castricum ... 2 more TZX blocks which were done solely for this purpose ... quite a lot of loaders that were TAP'ed back then and ... to add a block for that though.

    Anyway, with ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…

    ... didn't like the ones that were going after the C64 and ... tunes piss, so I changed that to my liking - i.e ... inside rooms either ( I knew that from the start infact ) since ... game overall...
    The fact that I am a part of ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2003 Games
  • Who is your favourite Software House ?? and why ??So which games company was your favourite and why ?? and come to think of it .. who did you think was pants. my fave has to be Ultimate I can remem…

    Beyond and ultimate were my two favourites , ultimate were very consistent and i ... regularly , beyond always releases games that were trying to break new grounds ... ) but on the whole they were innovative and pushed the speccy ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 November 2003 Games
  • WOS and it's futureI just got into a good old fashioned argument with some guy on another forum about WOS. Basically I recommended this site for games, and this guy cam…

    ... Moto/-

    I worry that with the advent of so ... that were popular then often have concepts that were highly original and I think that that ... ?

    If such moves were made would it lead to ...
    Keasty Keasty November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bizarre GamesJust having looked at the encyclopedia-obsucra website and noticed there was a weird series of games in Japan called Cho-aniki (a beat-em-up with hom…

    ... didnt normally like any games that were weird.
    Vortexrider Vortexrider December 2003 Games
  • Elite - %@$(*!$!*(%! dockingAllright, all you die-hard Elite veterans out there, a neophyte needs your help ! I know the age-old 'trick' for docking is to run up near the stati…

    ... good god - the only thing that travesty has in common with ... a few of the things that were planned for the game.
    were experimenting with Fractal Maps, these ... /> There were many other things planned but none of that really matters ...
    dasteph dasteph December 2003 Games
  • Elite - %@$(*!$!*(%! dockingAllright, all you die-hard Elite veterans out there, a neophyte needs your help ! I know the age-old 'trick' for docking is to run up near the stati…

    ... few of the things that were planned for the game.< ... There were many other things planned but none of that really ... it's a shame that some of those features ... related note, I understand that people don't want ... />
    Best end that one right here - getting a ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2003 Games
  • Beelzebub and other Spectrum owners...According to the site: [url="http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator"]http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator[/url] based on it's content, [url="http://www.…

    Not to mention the fact that he got kicked out of ... thugs... I've been told that his so-called Thelemic abbey ... and old people in that village still keep objects that the "Englishman" gave ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... br /> True, but you forget that we are talking about ? overlays ... [/quote]

    I think that emulators are getting better and ... games, and even those that were actually converted into more colorful ... techie majority out there) that supports a pre-defined ...
    Arm73 Arm73 January 2004 Emulators
  • The 5 games you thought you should like or should be better at playingThe games i think i should really get into or should be better at but cant cos im crap at em / just dont like em are :- 1) All flight sims (really r…

    too right mikkal, its not that were bashing it....just as the thread says wed love to like it too and prolly do but just cant play it, get into it :(
    mel the bell mel the bell January 2004 Games
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... limitation,[/quote]


    :) that would be great! i've ... ships above firing laser beams that the player must dodge. ... 8x1 pixel attribute mode! That would have settled the argument ... CPC screens at a website that were redone using only the Spectrum ...
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 Games
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... clash.
    [/quote]

    That's an interesting point to ... it's a pity that there were no alternative graphics modes ... CPC screens at a website that were redone using only the Spectrum ... good results. Basically the screens were redrawn to fit the 256 ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • Abe's Mission - EscapeIs there anybody here who rescued all 40 Mudokons in this game? I think that I have already passed all the screens, but I didn't find 15 of them at a…

    ... , I have NO idea how that happened... :confused:

    All I ... can presume is that it was something ... 't know. I shall delete that second repeated post now... ;)
    jil jil February 2004 Games
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