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Gears Of War 2Is anybody playing this? I've almost finished it now as I'm on chapter 5. I must say that I've really enjoyed it. It is rather linea though, but the …
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Berserkers were an absolute PITA and I hated ... give it a go one of these days to see if ... it supports a max of 1080i and not 1080p. Not much of a loss but ... -
Abadia del crimen laThanks to someone voting the score 1 for other games such as manic miner , skool daze , head over heels etc , the Adadia game has finally made it to …
... It was blocked because of a flame war over at ... number of votes (both "1" and "10"), not because of an attempt ... of the recent votes are from the UK. This would very much ... imply it's not the same person ... sabotaged by a rake of number 1's.[/ ... -
Web Site Design SoftwareI am going to have to design a simple web site for work. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for software I can use to do this. I have n…
... I say and not as I do" is an issue there as ... CHARGE for accessibility and, while not so obvious, they also up ... care, or are in too much of an hurry, to understand they shouldn ... too afraid of learning HTML. But a good solution nonetheless. Much better ... -
Web Site Design SoftwareI am going to have to design a simple web site for work. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for software I can use to do this. I have n…
... little bit more work - not as much as people seem to think ... described, and completely out-of-reach of the common folks that just ... CHARGE for accessibility and, while not so obvious, they also up ... care, or are in too much of an hurry, to understand they shouldn ... -
Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... I knew about an emergent undocumented behaviour of my code, ... the next... it's not enough just to just ... the curious fragmenting behaviour of flash memory took effect ... as an endless byte stream, but alas, it's not ... to be. (This wasn't so much of an issue ... -
[BASin] Bug report and question[B]1. Bug report:[/B] BASIC Editor behavior I'm using a variable to store the contents of the BC register. But the BASIC editor works strangely. I t…
... as I said it's not that $+ shocks me particularly. ... if the problem is not tied to any implementation complications ... The $ is not part of an instruction - it's part of an expression that returns ... Besides, it seems that pretty much all the popular assemblers use ... -
Outlandish claims on Spectrum games adverts!I was flicking through The 'CRASH' Xmas special today (yes, I was on the loo at the time) from 1984/85 and it made me giggle some of the claims softw…
... first game, although that's not much of a selling point.
< ... allow Orestes to perform an astonishing repertoire of feats from the ... other game? What a load of tosh![/QUOTE]
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Some TV/DVD questions1. Very often, on my television (PAL, 29" or so, CRT, by Bush, two or three years old) when there's text on a TV program or a DVD film, the left hand…
... couple of additions, the cropping occurs because of the "safe area" of the ... , but even then it's not exactly right!
60Hz ... in resolution isn't that much of an issue on consoles, since they ... anti-alias the fuck out of the image anyway! -
HugsMy Mum wanted to talk to me. And I listened. My greatest fear is being on a stage with people looking at me. Naked. (That's me naked, not the crowd…
... stage in front of hundreds, if not thousands of people is a piece ... of piss, especially if it's not ... 've done it hundreds of times. It's not bad at all ... />
...wouldn't have been much of an actor otherwise, but a guy ... -
Best / Most iconic Speccy game packaging!Not the artwork or anything, just the boxes used. Nowadays, a system more-or-less sticks to the same type of packaging throughout its life, but the …
... durell releases. They sort of reminded me of mini vhs cases.
of the spectrum's life, I simply [I]could not stand ... boxes. They were far too much of an overstatement for a humble eight ... game really) and just could not be stacked properly!
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... QUOTE=Jumping Stack;351479]Castle of Illusion on the Megadrive emulator ... hard setting?
Oh the master system version although ... more indepth and more (but not much) of a challenge. Plus had ... of freedom to how you played the game (not that much ...River Raid Tech DemoJust a little something to look at. Enjoy. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_01.tap"]Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_…
... not that much of an exciting game to be honest. There's not a lot of ... t think there's much to be gained ... one of the PUSH statements swapped for an OUT( ... 254) to control the border, and a big table of ... pre-prepared colour data. It's a long way off an ...Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... a file name to "tape" (an audio connection to a PC ... will have been provided via an earlier "list" save REM request ... too?
I'm not much of a Speccy developer but a ...How stupid is the (British) nanny state?I was watching Steptoe and Son a few days ago. It was on at 11pm on satellite, and was black and white, and made in the mid 1960s. It was an episode …
... , that's almost a certificate of shit :lol:
Although ... Movie[/i], and that is not really much of an achievement :DGreat leaps forward... Timeline thoughtsHi guys What would you say were the great leaps forward in the life of the speccie. I was only in the scene for a few years (from 82-85) but in tha…
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[B]Knightlore[/B], not much of a game (it's true ... Spectrum) sound, and so, so much variety in the enemies. Only ... Club 3, etc, but for an 8-bit it was astounding ... . Total freedom of driving around a living, breathing ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... loading, but that's not much, and I have to ... />
This might not be as much of an issue as you think ... it is, actually. One of ... can), so the bulk of the 'interesting' code is ... might have taken all of this into account already. ...More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... all. If anything the issue of colour-clash blighted the Spectrum ... ] have done it, I'm not sure they [I]should[/I ... on the CPC. This sort of thing would have subtracted from ... that the 128k wasn't much of an improvement over its predecessor when ...More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... , or it's not. Let's not burden application authors with ... having to go down a road of ... that vendor might be too much of an overkill, however, firmware versions ... for anyway.
Of course, open to suggestions, but ...X-Com on STEAMJust got my self the Lucas arts adventur game pack as well as monkey Island (Well I had them on SCUMM, but for some reason all the games bugged event…
yer fate of atlantis was a nice game, ... same time, but I'm not much of a trekkie.
I ... errm the win 95 version of MI 2... if memory serves ... re-did it.
oh and full throttle , really nice ...Martial Arts gamesThe games I know are: The way of the Exploding Fist Fist II Fist + Kung-Fu Bruce Lee International Karate Shao-Lin's Road Yie Ar Kung-Fu 1 & 2 Writ…
... 1: Upper? That's an interesting little game.[/QUOTE]
of an upgrade than something like 'Super' or ... mate?
EDIT: Oh and hey, apologies for the ... I have a video of one of my favourite matches I' ...Announcing: The +2A/+3 FLASH ROM adapter boardAs I've mentioned in a couple of other threads, this project is coming along quite well now, so I thought I'd post some details up here. I've built …
... 3 you can't use an interface 2? since thats the ... +2a or +3 (because of the different edge connector layout ... etc yet cause I'm not much of a programmer. I just about ... ... that's the extent of the flash utility so far ... have a nice long read of the z88dk manual and ...My Car Is..... Advice Needed!!Well I am a nob head!!...(I know, I got that in one!) Well, brought some anti-freeze yesterday, was gonna put some in the motor this morning/today..…
... into the system of a newer car (too much electronic crap ... pretty good job. (Again, not too sure about newer cars ... 't rely on it too much.
I patched ... gotten some more use out of it if I had ... gasket went it was too much of an investment to fix so ...Favourite/Least Favourite Arcade Conversion?The Speccy was home to some great arcade conversions considering it's relatively miniscule power. I've put my ten favourite and least favourite up o…
... tell you, I'm not much of a NES fan at all ... , but they're just not Double Dragon. The first ... [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek]
Last but not least Toki a total sin ... slow boring shambling mess of a turd of a game. Why ... even though it's an eyesore still managed to capture ...Remove the beinning of an RZX?I've had a [URL="http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/d.php#darksceptre"]Dark Sceptre RZX[/URL] sent to me, with quite a long playback time. However, the firs…
... the case. It's not actually cutting out the game ... vid instead?[/QUOTE]
Not feasible really, as the playback ...
It's not that much of an inconvenience, just wanted to know ... if there was some way of ...my neighbours (if you think yours are bad)over the past 5 yrs or so Ive had the worst succession of neighbours ever. I live on a 1st floor flat with 2 other flats across the corridoor which i…
... walls are somewhat thin (usually not that much of an issue because fortunately, most ... neighbours are not that loud). When she ... I hate it much more when you work an early shift and ...Anybody Own An Apple TV?I was thinking of buying one to put my Itunes library on (just finished ripping 1000 plus albums on). The idea being that it would be a back-up for m…
... , I've made too much of an investment time wise not to. The other ... . Does anyone have any experience of doing anything similarSpectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... M1 cycle (instruction fetch), regardless of address or memory type (because ... reads/writes). This was part of the standard since day one ... the video RAM is not part of the Z80's memory map ... TMS9918 datasheet), which aren't much of an issue in practice.
Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... M1 cycle (instruction fetch), regardless of address or memory type (because ... reads/writes). This was part of the standard since day one ... the video RAM is not part of the Z80's memory map ... TMS9918 datasheet), which aren't much of an issue in practice.
Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... outside of video RAM. If it does, then it's not much different ... (e.g.: putting a pair of NOPs between consecutive OUTIs), or ... TMS9918 datasheet), which aren't much of an issue in practice.[/QUOTE]
I'd say they ARE an issue in practice. Some people ...Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... , the video RAM is not part of the Z80's memory map ... TMS9918 datasheet), which aren't much of an issue in practice.[/QUOTE]I ... updates and provide an alternative method of scrolling. Most of the games we ...
