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C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…
... Target: Renegade on a C64 emulator the other day, at first I thought ... to look like the guy on the cover, some of the enemies are cooler ... , etc). Still, you cannot beat the ... just say that some of those shots haven't ... -
The Best Era of Crash MagazineMost of you probably did buy Crash on a reglular basis. I'm just wondering what era you thought was the best. Mines has to be 84/85 era with Robin…
... I lived in the same street that the first issues of Crash were made ... showed me the magazine they were working on. One of the first things I ... saw was the original artwork for the ... (it was it's day of release). I popped round ... -
Insanely difficult gamesOK, folks, so we know Speccy games were difficult in general. But have you ever played some games which were totally unfair from your point of view ?…
... 't get much further than the first part of level 1. Trying to ... 1! Give me JetPac, any day.
Another game I ... get past the barrier that appears on the second screen. By the time I ... by similar barriers in the next couple of screens.
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Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
... it on a real SAM though, at least for the first 90 % of the project ... , although at the moment I have to progress on the thing before I ... great... In it`s day (even as the Amiga was dying out ... never seen anything like that on the Spectrum... although I couldn`t ... -
Dixons - and the "death of the video"MIKE: Right. That's it. "Your video is now ready for use. Insert cassette, rewind to beginning of tape, and press play. Happy viewing!" VYVYAN: Ha h…
... through 6 videos on my first day and wasnt let ... on the extensive training (which was actually quite good - at the end of ... it you come out with a NVQ, all free of ... about ?20k worth of stock, and they just ... likely to really affect the company in any ... -
Opus Discovery Floppy Disk DriveHiya all I've just bought an opus discovery. I have been informed that even though it has a picture of a 48 rubber on the cover, it is in fact the u…
... read modern day floppys, but I have it on good authority ... /> [/quote]
The first lot of Opus's only had 40 ... read these on a PC with a bit of fannying ... the write-protect hole) when trying to read them on a ... edited by: Jon Needle on 2004-12-03 23:51 ... -
SPIN betaHello. This is my first message in this Forum, so excuse my bad english as it is not my main language. I would be extremely grateful if somebody cou…
... on my question in them. Well, hypothetical example: Let's say the first day ... the first level and will stop with recording in midway of the second level. The ... next day I will record rest of the second ... -
SPIN betaHello. This is my first message in this Forum, so excuse my bad english as it is not my main language. I would be extremely grateful if somebody cou…
... on my question in them. Well, hypothetical example: Let's say the first day ... the first level and will stop with recording in midway of the second level. The ... next day I will record rest of the second ... -
Troubleshootin PeteAll this talk about a certain person has been a downer this week, so to lighten things up how about if we had some tales of YS? Preferably ones that…
... this got interesting was on the day the artwork had to go off ... and arrange them on the layout boards. Of course the wax coverage ... was a tradition of creating an in-house Christmas magazine. Not ... riot, with most of the building working on the thing for about ... -
1st Game Club GameThe announcement of our first game is here and it is BOOTY, the classic platform puzzler. remember you are to dedicate all your playing time this we…
... that the key you want is on the other side of the screen ... if there's a lift involved. The placement of the ... work around. My fave is the first screen - getting them just ... spent my pocket money on it back in the day - and it' ... -
1st Spectrum Game you ever played!I remember the very 1st spectrum game I ever played was Hunchback in my garage with a friend on a mini black and white TV in about 84... I was hooked…
... this day I can't remember who he was.
The first ... game I played on my own Speccy though ... (keeping with the theme) Horace Goes Skiing on the 6-pack of games that ... hooked on racing games (which I still play to this day with ... -
Dr Who.....Yup, it`ll be starting soon, but the big question is.... What will happen during the broadcast? a) Nothing at all - it`ll all go fine. b) "We are s…
... episodes of Doctor Who, next week is the first part of a ... two-parter so expect "To be continued..." at the ... end of it.
on his run). Plus ... is set in MODERN-DAY Cardiff. Swansea was used ... -
Quickest-Play-Through Game?Hi all, I was actually going to ask hints for games that offer gaming pleasure in, say, 2-3 minutes, but the question goes: what are to your knowled…
... the first couple of times round. It does become much tougher on ... stabbed on the final stage.
Robocop (back in the day, ... once you figured out the little shortcuts on the platform stages.
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Dr Who Waaahooooo Ooooooo OoooooooooThis is the first programme i've been excited about in many years, all we need now is Star Wars the series. [ This Message was edited by: swordhe…
... the light of day ever again on telly or DVD due to the large amount of ... on (The first one isn't since, it contains a lot of another doc on the first ... disc).
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Why emulators are not as good as the real thingI think I remember thx1138 saying before that emus didn't cut it for him. Well, I agree. They are good fun, and I got into the Speccy for a second ti…
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Most stupid thing you've donePulling on the handbrake at 50mph in a Bedford Rascal aint to clever, but its nice the way they roll. Also pulling the trigger of a BB gun aged abou…
... down on top of the crash barrier. Then carried on rolling onto the other side of the ... when my head put the side window through on the first impact that I ... completely fucked.
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A Harder Game Than JSWHere's one: "Gift Of The Gods" ps: has anyone beaten "GOTG"?
... be one of the hardest games there is on the ZX Spectrum ... all 5 scientists on the same day you got it?
the ins and outs of it (it was ... in Spectaculator and got the first guy after about ... can rush past the first barrier and the 2nd barrier is ... -
A Harder Game Than JSWHere's one: "Gift Of The Gods" ps: has anyone beaten "GOTG"?
... be one of the hardest games there is on the ZX Spectrum ... all 5 scientists on the same day you got it?
the ins and outs of it (it was ... in Spectaculator and got the first guy after about ... can rush past the first barrier and the 2nd barrier is ... -
Movie / TV show scenes that really freaked you out!!!Having just watched the infamous 'boat ride' scene in Willy Wonka, I thought I'd start a discussion on which parts of films or tv shows really scared…
... goes on top of the lift, to the top of the building, and swings across the top of ... for the first time was unsettling. Or how about the League of Gentleman's Christmas ... -
Today I did something I had not done for 25 years...............I ate a Texan Bar !!! I went into my Local paper shop this morning and there they were. A full box of Texan Bars. I was so excited I bought two, a…
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New GP32 coming out....The spec looks excellent and should run MAME, SNES and hopefully GBA full speed. Whats also exciting is the TV out connection !.... The ultimate ho…
... be getting a PSP first(at the end of November), purely cos there ... to be releasing several emulators on the same day) - I think this (when ... ) will probably signal the end of emulator development for the GP32 as eveyone ... -
New GP32 coming out....The spec looks excellent and should run MAME, SNES and hopefully GBA full speed. Whats also exciting is the TV out connection !.... The ultimate ho…
... be getting a PSP first(at the end of November), purely cos there ... to be releasing several emulators on the same day) - I think this (when ... ) will probably signal the end of emulator development for the GP32 as eveyone ... -
ebay feedback troublesi recently bought 3 games off a seller on ebay from the pictures i noticed they were freebies that came with the sun but they were going for a quid e…
... I'm no exception. Just the law of averages, I suppose, and ... and have a feedback rating of 1100, the only two negs ?I ... him a number of times, with no answer, on the 60th day I left ... without even emailing me first.
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durell software....remember them?Just been chatting to a m8 of mine who works for what was Durell Software - now Durell Solutions, and he told me of a sequel to the old 80's classic …
... the morning the first day I got it. All the little details only added to the ... realism. Trying to knock off the guys on the ladders was ... two guys crossing the road carrying a pane of glass. :lol:
US Gold arcade conversions, did you like them?I recently read Retro Gamer and there was an article about Streetfighter II on Speccy, and i wondered if anyone had played it, or any of the other US…
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... under emulation-it gets rid of the multiload) today.
... on it's day of release and never regreted the decision ... The First Street Fighter was great (I played the demo ... pretended to be on the next level!) Ghost ...Can't Remember Game NameEDIT: AAAAAAAAAAH! I FOUND IT, LOOK AT THE SECOND PAGE! Oh please help! I've searched the web for soo long... I know there's a remake of this game…
... 09/01/1986 (first day of school). The screen definately scrolled, the map was pretty ... on one continent and established on another. I can't remember the specs on ... -between them right on the top, like this ==> ||*|| . The fact that it ...Can't Remember Game NameEDIT: AAAAAAAAAAH! I FOUND IT, LOOK AT THE SECOND PAGE! Oh please help! I've searched the web for soo long... I know there's a remake of this game…
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a time frame of between 04/24/1992 (I turn 3) and 09/01/1986 (first day of school)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…
... first customer, when they opened. We all used to stop by on the ... play games for free every day. Then every Saturday, be in ... from CJE Micro's on the other side of town. They are still ... a complete range of BBC's in the back of the stockroom for sale ...Robocop: Hardest Speccy game ever?I have been trying to beat Robocop for the best part of two hours now, and it seems that it's nigh on impossible! The warehouse level is just too ha…
... just played it for the first time in 16 years ... and completed it first go. Mind you I ... back in the day. I did lose a life on the warehouse level ... again, remembering the funky music and the joy of the anti tank ... can't get past the first couple of screens.Spectrum Only GamesHiyas peeps. Has anyone out there got a list of 'spectrum only' games? As in, games that were only ever brought out on the spectrum, not cross plat…
... underrated game IMO. Played it the first day I got my Speccy and ... of the random maze generation. It's as challenging a game on the ... x'th play as it was the first time.< ... generating the layout) but the scrolling routines (or maybe most of the GFX ...
