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ZX Spectrum Software Hire Clubs. Does anybody remember them? They used to be quite popular circa 1983 . I think some were just for the ZX Spectrum , Others covered a broader range of micros . I think they rel…
... that in "real terms" the software was quite expensive. Some were ... and bought an old game! You could hire unusual software or stuff ... -
How to Use a real Physical Old Style Retro ZX Spectrum INFREQUENTLY and EFFECTIVELY.These days a lot of WOSSERS use emulators most of the time but like to get out the old Speccy ,every once in a while ,for a quick nostalgic revisit .…
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1) A new (now old!) keyboard . Some like the DKtronics ... connector" problem.And these old keyboards are now quite expensive ... a scarce resource . With the software we had to jump through ... " our involvement with an old machine that can sometimes be ... -
CHARITY SHOP - JUNK SHOP - CAR BOOT SALE - Spectrum games recovered!i've just paid 20p a piece in the Aged Concern shop for Penetrator (48k Spectrum)and Space Raiders (ZX81). it seemed such a pity to leave them to gat…
... .THX voulnteers in 2 chairty shops, and intercepts all retro stuff ... up "cash paid for your old computers/electronics blah blah blah ... box of Amiga hardware and software.
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When time stood still for 42 par secsWhat I mean by that is that around 4 years ago (maybe more, memory fails me) I innocently entered "ZX Spectrum" in google, and a moment later the wor…
... out that you could buy old games on ebay. I was ... and software now than when the spectrum was available in the shops ... -
GB Max SoftwareEllo chums... I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about GB Max Software? Specifically, if they have a list of games "by" them, and what they were…
... against pirated business and office software rather than games. Video ... years ago many computer shops earned considerable amounts of ... mail order firms traded Spectrum software (full-price titles only), ... with some very, very old games. Of course the overall ... -
OceanCan someone help and solve an argument? I vaguely remember reading years ago that Ocean software started out as 'Spectrum games' but my brother says …
... the last game the "old" Imagine released was Pedro. ... tried to get the shops to start selling this unsold ... price[/url], but the shops were not happy at ... - it's quite an old torrent now so I don ... org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Imagine+Software+Ltd$]this list[/url] ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... a consumer product , but software based ones , we had ... gather together a few old Spectrum games.[quote]only ... the games are in the shops [i](blah blah yet ... flogging other people's old games. Most people are ... new games[/quote]...or old games...[quote]to submit ... -
When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... Nemo from DVD in the shops rather than digital broadcasts?
The difference between using an old analog cable box like a ... to see the improvements over old analog hardware. If you cant ... use hardware decoders instead of software ones (even though alot of ... -
Got my Wii modchipped todayAnd it's working great. I've tried four "backups" so far, and everyone has worked perfectly. The chip I went for was the [URL="http://www.wiikey.cn…
... really think a 12 year old boy swapping copies of jetpac ... is the same as the software piracy of today ? does anyone ... 't have bought in the shops, for their own personal use ... -
Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... I grew up on ID Software but I did eventually move ... Quakes (particularly Quake 2) got old.
[QUOTE= ... that people don't buy old books any more? For ... of print authors these shops are a lifeline.[/QUOTE]< ... years due to charity shops getting on the 2nd ... -
Spectrum more loved than C64It just occurred to me that the Spectrum must be more loved than the C64 these days. After all, it has been more than a year since an update was made…
... who only care for some old games, but don't expect ... never ended up in the shops, go to [url=http://gtw64 ... C64-related discussions about hardware, software and games, go to [url ... 're virtually all just cracked old games, thats hardly new releases ... -
Spectrum more loved than C64It just occurred to me that the Spectrum must be more loved than the C64 these days. After all, it has been more than a year since an update was made…
... who only care for some old games, but don't expect ... never ended up in the shops, go to [URL="http://gtw64 ... C64-related discussions about hardware, software and games, go to [URL ... , although most of them are old or unreleased games.[/quote]
I'm walking around in Derby againlike in the other thread when I found that latvian bird's passport and the policemen were everywhere they really fucking creep me out they do looki…
... to look at the shops. They had a software shop with a ... the County ground, a fine old ground that was. Until you ...When did you buy mainstream Spectrum-related computer magazines?Just working on "the special", and this poll will help me define my focus. Which years did you frequently buy or read mainstream Spectrum-related co…
... in shops, there were always pretty-big displays of 8-bit software ... largely moved on to flogging old stuff by then bar the ...Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
... t alowed to undercut the shops for contractural or other ... a lower price than the shops did. Whatever the cause ... grew up with it grew old with it, and now ... a managing director of a software house. If you were, ... two now by almost every software house you can name, ...Sintech-Shop in UK openedHello Spectrum-friends, our Sintech-shop made now the first step into UK market. We would welcome anybody to just have a look in our shop and write y…
... do this. Our stocks are old, very old. We bought them in ... of Hit Squad, Codemasters, Alternative Software, Domark and few others. However ... stocks we bought from other shops and it was not obvious ... surely not from the Spectrum software sales.
Most ...Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…
... got all my games the old guy only sold budget titles ... of my games.
Shops in town that had Speccy ... , and moderately priced full price software, but they never did that ...ps 2 infoi think theres been loads of ps2 threads before but anyway, i should be getting a ps2 off a workmate tommorow with some games, pads etc im giving him…
... every genre imaginable, and the shops sell used copies of the ... adapter, [/SIZE][/FONT]and the software from:
[URL]http ... too (I have the black, old, fat PS2, not a slimline ... bought my a drive (80GB) + software CD from ebay, and it ...DVD regions, why?Why do we have to put up with DVD region encoding? I mean, I know why they were invented (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incident…
... bought myself from various electric shops, then I'd be breaking ... 625 lines. My 16 year old Sony TV will quite happily ... can actually make your own software player for DVDs, and libraries ... (well, if you can write software that is :-)). The players for ...Unemployed? Share your views and frustrations!Recent figures in the UK reveal their are around 2.4 million out of work. When you think about it, the government has massaged the figures to their …
... was go through the same old newspapers looking for jobs and ... say it but all the shops are sexist towards men. When ... to know anything about design software to get it. I had ...Repair options for my own dear old Spectrum 48k?Hello all, This is my first post to this wonderful forum, which is part of a truly great website! My name is Arnold, and I live in Utrecht, The Nethe…
... to it. Mostly because fixing old 80's machines is very ... 's/monitors, datarecorders, books, tapes, software (games [B]and non-games ... these were sold in the shops. There were many kids doing ...Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…
... the company specialised in TRS80 software and carried a full range ... of software from Infocom Adventure games to ... and given away by some shops - copied software was seen by a ... "lack of categorisation in the old index" and announced that they ...updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…
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Russian software support often also FAT32 FS. Old devices (flash card ... very hard to buy in shops. Manufacturers produce devices bigger than ...Micromega article in Retro Gamer issue 81I'm not one for banging my own drum - [I]but[/I] - I've written an article about Micromega and it's in the new issue of Retro Gamer (in shops on Thur…
... issue of Retro Gamer (in shops on Thurs 16th Sep).
Micromega was obviously a Speccy software house in the main, so ... of the articles ever get old!Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
... to get the games in shops, so often friends gave them ... did. I doubt that Speccy software died commercially because of this ... something against that lack of software and found SINTECH. We bought ... /> Oh. Sorry... while dreaming about old times I got off topic ...Emulators for the pspanyone know anything about it? I've seen some videos on youtube where people put emulators, etc (some cracking the psp with just a simple program).…
... wronged party (copyright holder in software case) to prosecute the offender ... .g. garden) and in the old days taping off the radio ... the book on but people, shops and even church fetes do.Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
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[COLOR="Blue"][B]Software City did not sell pirated ... mould from 2/3/4 shops, into a mini chain ... Phoenix, rise out of Software City's ashes, for ... Laminate wood fittings, in the old 'hearth' of the shop ...Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
Software City had three shops....
3, Lichfield Passage, ... Queens Square, Hampton Walk...the old Alfred Hall menswear shop...
shops, but also setup in them ...Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
[QUOTE=Clakkers;563733]Software City had three shops....
3, Lichfield Passage ... Queens Square, Hampton Walk...the old Alfred Hall menswear shop...
shops, but also setup in them ...Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... (Applied Programming Techniques) - mainly database software for stocktaking and some edsoft ... , or somewhere amongst the old houses off the shopping areas ... those streets were built as shops, but looking on Google ... an upper room of the old town/bingo hall on ...
