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Games you DIDN'T buy because of the inlay/coverAre there any games that you judged by the cover and avoided. Personally I avoided anything by Microdeal. That fat ginger freckled kid on the cover …
Are there any games that you judged by the cover and avoided.
Personally I avoided anything by Microdeal. That fat ginger freckled kid on the cover of every game just put me straight off ever wanting to try one of their games. -
FAO THX, and anyone clued on laws of Royal MailSome major advice needed. Sorry if I ever offended our resident postie (just looked back to a 2005 thread... :() Where does the law stand if the lan…
... law stand if the landlady of my business premises, and my ... open it without my knowledge of the content? -
boil on the face of the internetI really, really, really hate this website [url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] I have done for ages and I can't stop thinking about it :-) it keeps …
... the C64! the general choices of games always seem to favour ... -
Title of game=? #49152Hi all. If anyone has a moment (and a good memory), could you help me out with this query? I'm looking for a game that was (I'm pretty sure) on a cov…
... had their own colour. One of the power ups may have ... , maybe it was only one of those, and I'm just ... thinking of the god Thor or something? -
disassembling raw images of ROMs.Pip pip. I'm wanting to disassemble a few ROMs. I have the raw file, a dump, but I'm looking for a way to take every two bytes and print them not in …
Pip pip.
I'm wanting to disassemble a few ROMs. I have the raw file, a dump, but I'm looking for a way to take every two bytes and print them not in hex, but in octal.
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Now I want one of these.... :(Got the Spectrum which has only lead be to remind of other childhood memories :( Big Trak [url]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+tra…
list of removed / banned games?Hi all, apologies if this is outside the etiquette of this forum, but I was wondering if there a list of all of the banned or removed games from the…
... this is outside the etiquette of this forum, but I was ... wondering if there a list of all of the banned or removed ...Decoding of speccy keyboardHello everyone. I face following problem with spectrum keys decoding and need some explanation. I know how to decode a single key press by reading po…
... to 0x7ffe). Im too aware of fact that if more than ... between players ?
Deeper explanation of keyboard matrix reading will be ...As a fleeting point of interest...A fleeting point of interest to you all may be that I've just decided that after triple checking my PCB design for the Spectranet (Spectrum Ethernet …
A fleeting point of interest to you all ... fab for a prototype order of ten units...
... ... bit to test each part of the PCB in as ... out the least painful way of assembling them, which is likely ... their grubby mitts on them. Of course, when I say leading ...yet another jerk of a teacher...Remember I told you guys some time ago about me going back to college, and how a teacher had flunked me because I was friends with some other teacher…
... classes, has 15 avarage (out of 20) in both the exam ... classes was one of the most important aspects of grading...
the son of a b... I know i ... to kick the shit out of that faggot.
I ...A Case Of Good Parenting.....Now I see a lot of press about young parents, and how they aren't planning for their kids futures or what skills they should push their kids towards.…
Now I see a lot of press about young parents, and ...Almost one heck of a great night!Being a Single guy for the past 2 months, I've been taking a really liberal life in the past few weeks, and I've totally forgoten how easy it was to …
... at the same time (advantages of being drunk I guess).
it was one hell of a night, and when the ... screaming from the other side of the bar "yo dude it ... hug me and screaming lots of drunk crap that scared the ... ...All in all hell of a nice night!Darkening of aging CRT monitors / PowerstripI'm using a CRT that I got way back in 1999, and it's still working, but the screen seems to have gradually darkened over the past few years. I think…
... well as a whole host of other things. You can define ... any hotkey combination of your choice for any of those functions, further ...Remove certain types of games from Mame?I think it was on this forum many a moon ago that someone asked for a program to remove naughty games from there Mame collection so that their kids c…
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Does anyone know of a program that does this ... ? I had a search of the forums and the program ... something that could get rid of certain games like all those ...How rare is the silver label Sinclair release of Panama Joe?I was wondering how rare is the silver label Sinclair release of Panama joe is? This was one of my first Spectrum games that I got back in '82-'83 (a…
I was wondering how rare is the silver label Sinclair release of Panama joe is?
This was one of my first Spectrum games that I got back in '82-'83 (and I still have it)
Over the past years I don't think i've seen one for sale on ebay.Arcade Hall of Famehi This compilation (Arcade Hall of Fame) [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011205[/url] is incorrectly listed. It should have…
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This compilation (Arcade Hall of Fame)
[url]http ...New version of EightyOneThanks to Mike for his new version of [url=http://www.chuntey.com/]EightyOne[/url] and is Dedicated to Abbey, 1998-2008. Thanks Mike very much app…
Thanks to Mike for his new version of [url=http://www.chuntey.com/]EightyOne[/url]
and is Dedicated to Abbey, 1998-2008.
Thanks Mike very much appreshated :-)Power connector Pinout of +2A/B +3Can anyone please tell me the right pinout for power connector of +2A/B +3? I need a picture to exclude all possibility of doubt because I do not hav…
... right pinout for power connector of +2A/B +3?
I ... picture to exclude all possibility of doubt because I do not ...Think of a suitable punishment for that Austrian nutterThat Austrian psycho that imprisoned his daughter for 20+ years and fathered 7 children with her is looking at a maximum jail sentence of 15 years, I…
... at a maximum jail sentence of 15 years, I think.
Can anybody think of a fitting punishment for this ...2 kibiposts of bravo sierraIt seems of little consequence that I have now posted 2048 items of drivel to this forum. Roll on 4096!
It seems of little consequence that I have now posted 2048 items of drivel to this forum. Roll on 4096!What resistance should primary of a mains toroidal transformer measure?Not speccy related but still hardware. I am fixing a dual audio mixer at work. When you plug it in it blows the mains fuse straight away. Opening u…
... with on board toroidal. One of the transformers was smelling and ... seems very high. :-? What sort of figures should I be expecting ...Games of Space ConquestAre there any good space conquest strategy games on the Spectrum? I'm interested in games where you have to conquer planets and use their resources …
... . I've been playing Master of Orion (old DOS version) on ...First lightning storm of the year.In south wales near Cardiff, and we are having the first lightning storm of the year. Yay. Gunna take my camera out, drive to a big hill and see wha…
In south wales near Cardiff, and we are having the first lightning storm of the year. Yay.
Gunna take my camera out, drive to a big hill and see what I get.OT: Removing the metal shield of an Amiga A501 ram expansionBefore I bugger off to an Amiga forum, I just wondered if anyone here has removed the metal shield off an A501 (to swap out a leaky battery) without …
... /> I'm at the point of using tin snips (thus destroying ...The Secret of the NautilusThis is a PC game (aka. The Mystery of the Nautilus) which I got for a fiver recently, on the understanding that it was the WinXP compatible version,…
... PC game (aka. The Mystery of the Nautilus) which I got ... to. There are fragmentary rumours of a very few people who ...Graph - rise and fall of the Speccy* X-axis is the year of the first review of this piece of software * Y-axis is the count of those pieces of software - NOT sales * Each piece of so…
... year of the first review of this piece of software ... is the count of those pieces of software - NOT ...
* Each piece of software gets counted once and ... included.
* Year of release based on earliest ... to be the number of full price releases
Massive Collection of Spectrum Magazines (Crash, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User) SaleThe time has finally come for me to part with my beloved collection of old Speccy magazines. I'm selling my entire collection of Your Sinclair, Cras…
... part with my beloved collection of old Speccy magazines.
of Your Sinclair, Crash and Sinclair ... as the "Big Final Issue" of YS! In total there are ...OLPC - a refreshing gust of reality[url]http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi[/url] Although I still think of the OLPC as the new QL.
[url]http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi[/url]
Although I still think of the OLPC as the new QL.On the subject of reverse engineeringIn this world of emulated hardware, there are Specchums out there who would like to put their hands on that peripheral they never had, that add-on th…
In this world of emulated hardware, there are ... been explored: the reverse engineering of Spectrum interfaces.
The ... Trastero' gave us some examples of what could be accomplished, and ... /> So, on this subject of reverse engineering, and without deviating ...
