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  • OT: These games look lovely!Saw some videos/demos of upcoming games at work today and was very impressed by these: 1) Halo 3 - A short in-game scene that looks out of this worl…

    [QUOTE=Arjun]If that were the case we wouldn ... . He mentions some games that have been released recently ( ... "levels" or "challenges" that does it but I can ... immediately negate that reasoning with Half-Life ... 2. Immense levels that I want to play ...
    Vampyre Vampyre June 2006 Chit chat
  • Horror Top Trumps - who was the 'Daddy'?Who else can recall the 2 'Horror' packs in the Top Trumps series that were made in the early 80s (if not earlier)? I was having one of those 2am co…

    ... in the Top Trumps series that were made in the early 80s ... more I strongly suspect we were talking complete bollocks (yeah, ... at home?

    What were the categories - there was 'horror ... one called 'strength' [?], but what were the others?

    And ...
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy June 2006 Chit chat
  • Live 8Anyone else seen 'THE CURE' play their set on Live 8? Robert Smith shocked me big time. He looks like a scarey old drag queen. He seems to have a…

    ... =liamenikufesin]but Pink Floyd were, that was about the only good ... Yep. Pink Floyd were excellent and The Who were pretty good too ... .

    However, you have to balance that ... wanna-bes and never-weres that were on beforehand, and the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Chit chat
  • Best game???Every platform has its best game. What would it be for the Speccy? Any type of game is ok. Thanks! cbmeeks

    [QUOTE=psj3809]That top 100 list isnt ... - Thought this game wasnt that good at all, surely not ... , judging by the way that games charge up and down ... ballot stuffing going on with that list.

    ... the best games were the ones that were designed with the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • Best game???Every platform has its best game. What would it be for the Speccy? Any type of game is ok. Thanks! cbmeeks

    ... games first came out they were better than anything else back ... when they came out which were head and shoulders above anything ... />
    You have to understand that besides english games there are ... vote the games that were special in their time. That's the good ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx June 2006 Games
  • Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …

    ... apartheid and so there were sanctions against South Africa concerning ... />
    Some examples were Sinclair User that was commonly a whole ... the only downside was that each tape-to-tape copy ... fell considerably, so buying games that were about 2 years old, ...
    Hedegaard Hedegaard June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…

    ... Warriors). Most of them were gash (UCM for example).[/ ... doesnt really have anything that betters it (just ask ... to those that could make ones that were playable - but that its real ... strength lay in the original games that ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • Transformers!Well.... I'm excited :D [url]http://www.transformersmovie.com[/url]

    ... , comics... The good thing is that when I visited him, his ... because his mother and mine were friends too.
    I still ... II game and some comics that were "requisitioned" at his house ...
    cascarria cascarria June 2006 Chit chat
  • Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …

    ... a theory many years ago that piracy didn't harm ... the industry, and that it was just their excuse ... virtually nil), and most games were at least £39, with ... a time ripped off versions that were available on markets and ... 't have the industry that we have now.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... to add some great loaders that were published in the magazine "Svet ... .
    It is a loader that displays a message in the ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat July 2006 Games
  • "Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…

    ... but I'd say that it's probably not ... key flat mono tape decks that were common at the time, ... the Spectrum was designed around that. The Mic socket therefore ... recorder with the computer that caused the amplifier in ... Mic socket, so use that. Then, when the tape ...
    mulder mulder July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... of lots of background apps that were running at the same time ... a message from my firewall that zxpin is trying to access ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2006 Emulators
  • Sir Clive unzips"Sir Clive unzips his bike in a bag" in today's Daily Mail [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=395144&i…

    ... 's kinda like those scooters that were all the rage a while ...
    Saboteur Saboteur July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    ... compiler were smart enough to compile source saved on disk that could ... library ("SDK") support available so that it wouldn't have been ... myself beimg a z88dk cheerleader, that is changing now with the ... have been full of tricks that were tied very closely to how ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    I always wanted to know who used to convert the games to Speedlok, Alkatraz Beepload etc and are the utilities that were used to master the games still available?
    DEATH DEATH July 2006 Development
  • WOS ChatlogsGood for a read this one, [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/chatlogs/technical.log.1.txt[/url]

    ... [10:44] dude, human beings were not meant to stare at ... of how much - that setup that i've got at ... two people if you were going to give decent ... hairdressers with 11 PCs in that were all old and crap< ... im not that desperate.. ill just talk here ..were at work ...
    jp jp July 2006 Chit chat
  • SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…

    ... with the few demo's that were released, and where can I ...
    icabod icabod July 2006 Emulators
  • SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…

    ... with the few demo's that were released, and where can I ...
    obo obo July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    Guesser, you're right that it's a Win9x thing. < ... windows XP. The menus were part of that - unfortunately somewhere along the ... problems with the new menus that were developed for SPIN.

    that he's quit the SPIN ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2006 Emulators
  • Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …

    ... it does quite well at that. However, when RAMSoft made ... MakeTZX, a program that converted sampled tapes into TZX ... files, they decided that because their emulator didn't ... have an inaccurate "approximation" included that were quite simply the result of ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2006 Games
  • Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…

    ... as well.
    And remember that the spike fall and the ... would be optimized for static objects that are on character boundaries as ... for the animated or movable objects. This would need to move ...
    Kiwi Kiwi July 2006 Development
  • Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…

    ... there are a few objects that move or can be moved ... sorting algorythm depending on where objects are (as Kakarot did in ... of BatMan).
    I think that ALL of speccy iso 3d ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2006 Development
  • Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…

    ... are rooms which can have objects that move around the different plane ... room with 4 or 5 objects that can be pushed and carried ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2006 Development
  • Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…

    ... had cutscenes, you were constantly made aware that you were in a game ... and 2, the fact that there were no cutscenes, just real ... given some of the weapons that were in HL1? The Snarks ( ... was attacked. There were other things that effected what happened in ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…

    ... . Well worth the looong hours that were put into it. About it ... are A LOT of puzzles that require stuff to be moved ... will admit there aren't that many as in HoH or ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2006 Games
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... .

    The Halo's were excellent (esp 1). I was ... one occasion I was horrified that we needed two components not ... available on the M$ site that were critical to getting a product ... party only supplied a message that M$ needed to be contacted ...
    Vampyre Vampyre August 2006 Games
  • Large collection going under the hammer!!This is really painful! [url]http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZcountvonschmellQQhtZ-1[/url] Having moved house, I'm now in somewhere far smaller,…

    ... area. Basically we were trying to reduce machines that were no good to ... mind the nightmare of buerocracy that exists in the UK, the ... is full so everything else that arrives goes straight to tip ... /> Incidentally, one of the things that has of late been bringing ...
    Count Count August 2006 Sales
  • Please don't shout at me - I bought something C64 related...Went in to Argos with the missus yesterday to get something dead exciting (bedsheets) and saw someone at the counter collecting one of those C64 30-g…

    yeah i have 2 that were a fiver ages ago, somebody got me 2 off the retro gamer forum cos the shops not in middlesbrough that they were cheap in at the time

    obviously speedballs not as good as the amiga version cos 1s 8 bit and 1s 16 bit :P
    mel the bell mel the bell August 2006 Chit chat
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... and software houses were attracted to write for ... ) and the originality that games sometimes displayed added ... were some games that I wanted that never appeared on the Spectrum, or that were ... who were discovering something, and belonging together that made ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The best ever isometric game on the Speccy.Lets see the show of hands in numbers eh? ;) For sheer nostalgia I have a soft spot for Batman and I really enjoyed playing it. However, Head over H…

    ... brake which made the endmessage that already had popped up disappear ... Amiga isometric games were in my opinion the ones that were converted from ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly August 2006 Games
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