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  • 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…

    ... Amiga isometric games were in my opinion the ones that were converted from ...
    Vampyre Vampyre August 2006 Games
  • 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…

    ... by the range of preferences that people have listed! Just goes ... and quality of isometric games that were available on the Speccy.
    that couldn't be listed: Gyroscope ... game I'd played till that point in time. Great atmosphere ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2006 Games
  • what a sh*t dayhave no money. so went to the bank. 9 quid in my account bank wont let me draw out a fiver. walking back to work contimplating a night with out …

    ... 'd of killed myself if that were me. :)
    mile mile August 2006 Chit chat
  • Outrageous !!! :)I was looking at the top 100 chart on the site... and believe it or not there is ONLY 1 Ultimate game in the whole list. (Atic Atak in joint 68th) No…

    ... my top 100(if i were picking them).
    Sure, underwurlde ... my screenname, i enjoyed games that were difficult.

    Pssst was ...
    Technician-Ted Technician-Ted August 2006 Games
  • Plug in the TV Joystick Games Thingys (Spectrum one??)I brought a from a car boot one of those plug in the TV joystick games thingys for a pound. This one happened to be full with 20 or so Commodore 64…

    ... best justified by having games that were Spectrum-exclusive or played best ... [i]Cybernoid[/i]) or games that were notably better on the C64 ...
    Zagreb Zagreb August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Looking for ANOTHER game!Sorry, but I'm looking for a game that I used to get REALLY pissed off with. It was VERY hard (I only ever got off of the first screen once) and I th…

    sounds like ghost hunters to me too, though the graphics in that were either red or cyan (you could press a key to toggle them) on black, if i remember rightly, so no white main sprite. i quite liked that game, might give it a go again sometime.
    Lee_dC Lee_dC August 2006 Games
  • If you were a richman...Have you ever wondered what would you do with your Spectrum hobby if you were a millionaire and had a lot of money to spend? Would you hire some Russ…

    ... the thread (ooh), if I were stupidly rich ... I'd not ... a "funding" system tho', so that if someone wanted to get ... would link to them if that were the case).
    icabod icabod August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... the system allowing capabilities that were never planned just by ...
    Many of their competitors were going under as well. They ... that they couldn't afford.
    Way too many machines were ... had already decided that membrain or chicklet keys were for toys. ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... + keyboard), I still think that the 48K's rubber keyboard ... were no joystick ports, when by then it was obvious that ... Spectrum and see many games that were monochrome, just two colours in ... (especially isometric games, which were very popular and very prevailant ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Avast, me hearties! only 12 days to go!Talk Like A [url=http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html] Pirate Day[/url], 19 September.

    ... 18th Century privateer vessel that operates out of Cornwall ...
    Caribbean pirates were often called buccaneers. Mediterranean pirates ... based in European waters that were consistently called pirates.[/ ... didn't know that. I suppose that explains why those ...
    udgoverload udgoverload September 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 Launch Delayed Till March 2007 in Europe and AusAnyone whos been waiting for november will have to wait even longer now unless they live in the U.S of Japan

    ... games that were going for about a fiver were about 3 times that for ... I ever go ahead with that is another matter, seeing as ...
    hackersanon hackersanon September 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 Launch Delayed Till March 2007 in Europe and AusAnyone whos been waiting for november will have to wait even longer now unless they live in the U.S of Japan

    ... games that were going for about a fiver were about 3 times that for ... DVD2XBox, a brilliant XBox program that installs anything to the hard ... you), but if you change that hard disc for a larger ... example, can all use mods that were written for their PC versions ...
    ewgf ewgf September 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…

    ... camps for their respective CPU, that does something maths intensive, ... arguments about any application chosen that it would favour either ... years ago by the games that were produced for the respective ... computers, isn't that high a priority for me ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... . Most of its successors were though. Its large instruction ... 8080 compatibility. The instructions that were added couldn't fit into ... opcode was invented. That means that many of those additional ... 2-byte opcodes were constructed such that on completion of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?

    ... multiple selection, grouping of objects, layered objects and possibly a comment feature ... bit like tool tips for objects) so you can make ... ll also be adding invisible objects that the user can define such ... hit regions, triggers etc that can be exported into the ...
    Kiwi Kiwi September 2006 Development
  • What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?

    ... multiple selection, grouping of objects, layered objects and possibly a comment feature ... bit like tool tips for objects) so you can make ... ll also be adding invisible objects that the user can define such ... hit regions, triggers etc that can be exported into the ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo September 2006 Development
  • Cor chief!I've just received the complete Dangermouse collection on DVD. Every episode ever, of the greatest cartoon in history. The Simpsons? Great! Futurama?…

    ... into one?[/quote]

    That's a very good question ... seem to remember that some of the stories were broadcast both in ... the announcer's... er announcements that were broadcast after the five minutes ... , and one bad point is that the front end menu of ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Chit chat
  • ** New Game In Development **As one or two of you may already know, Jonathan (Joffa) Smith is currently developing a brand new Spectrum game. The program is called 'SAUCER' It'…

    ... various curious looking assorted large objects that nip about. Looks outta this ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2006 Games
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... QUOTE=Scottie_uk]James, that is a pretty controversial ... known dirty secret in that CS department but it ... the rest of us that were doing out own work ... />
    FWIW, anyone that has been in a fraternaty ... level. Most people of that type switched majors because ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... -interpreted. We've identified some that were false as I think compilations ... were broken down to individual releases ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... think).
    It's possible that it didin't differentiate between ... nice to only list entries that are confirmed in magazines rather ... /> There's also some entries that were only released on Amstrad or ... only a handful of tapes were made. Naturally anyone who may ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... confirmed to be advertised? Because that's unworkable...
    Ronald ... are plenty of games that were only advertised in the small ... show, many, many more that were unheard of before.
    ... g. the XFAWORLD Software games that were resolved last weekend). The ...
    mheide mheide September 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... " than trying to find things that never existed. :)
    [/QUOTE]< ... occasion I have "found" games that were commisioned to be made but ... for whatever reason were not released. Some have ... finished". Some of these were advertised because the adverts had ...
    ADJB ADJB September 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Whatcha listening to now?I'm listening to Audioslave's Revelations album. Fantastic work! Belting it at 12 in the night! Neighbours must be going crazy! :lol: Also listening…

    ... Life To Begin and Overkill that were used on Scrubs. They're ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton September 2006 Chit chat
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... union's population figures so that would have included the republics ... still other east european countries that were not part of the ussr ... and were not counted, as I mentioned ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... .
    The problem with that is proximity to Western Europe ... Polish numbers in a way that wouldn't be consistant ... in Russia were that great for members of her family that were still there ... .
    Actually, that was the ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)

    ... the world. That's how I got games that were cracked by Bolton ... from school and playing it were fantastic...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... off than Poland and people were that better
    [/quote]
    ... -sufficient and are planned that way 2 western companies ... dram chips, ROM chips, etc that were probably used in military technology ... 60,000 units for that period, sales were still very strong. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)

    ... a twin tape deck, and that was it no radio or ... . like those twin video recorders that were briefly popular.
    mile mile October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)

    ... a twin tape deck, and that was it no radio or ... . like those twin video recorders that were briefly popular.[/quote]
    It ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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