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Has anyone ever owned, played on, or even seen an Amstrad GX4000I ask this question because the machine must have existed because Mean Machines from issue 1 until about 8 reviewed software for it until it flopped.…
... , and pretty pointless. I bought one in 1991 for £19.99 ... Mean Machines and looked fantastic. One screen had a sunset effect ... I still use them today. One great thing about them is that if ... you plug one into the Comcon interface for ... -
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…
... moving house.
Its one of those things where now ... , i used to be a great hoarder but the last few ... so later !
Thats one great thing about emulators and games on ... , can bring back all those great memories but not take up ... -
There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
... underappreciated game.
Thats one great thing i love about Speccy emulation ... -
There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
[QUOTE=psj3809] Thats one great thing i love about Speccy emulation, ... ]
Yeah; it's great - I've got so many ... go back to the real one and enjoy it all over ... -
Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... of them :) Especially the swearing one lol. Uridium can be like ... scrolling speeds is another good one, I think it's easy ... intensively I will admit, and one great thing about this thread is that ... -
Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... mixtures of the two. The one great thing about z88dk is it allows ... or both.
The one thing that C will do for ... . In fact C is a great introductory programming language that is ... to assembler and provides a great bridge to learning assembler. By ... -
New Red Dwarf episodeFor all RD fans out there. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm[/url] Good idea or impending disaster?
... looked that cheap. That was one great thing about the film, for its ... -
New Red Dwarf episodeFor all RD fans out there. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm[/url] Good idea or impending disaster?
... looked that cheap. That was one great thing about the film, for its ... -
PC Build help requiredLadies and gentlemen. I mentioned some time ago about speccing up a new PC to replace my 4 year old AMD x64 doo-dah that I currently have. However,…
... ]yer I used to have one like that, weighed a flipping ... to do it.
One great thing about the case is I ... use a video capture USB thing on the PC saves having ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... Carlisle - We Want The Same Thing
Belinda Carlisle - World ... Look Away
Big Country - One Great Thing
Big Country - Wonderland
Cutting Crew - One For The Mockingbird
... Hall And John Oates - One On One
Daryl Hall And ... -
Football Manager 30 years old this year!Kevin Tom's brilliantly fun Football Manager will be 30 years old this year! I wonder if he imagined, the genre he created would turn into a huge sno…
... back in 82.
One great thing the original fm did teach ... league.
Fm was great, as was 2.. the third ... -
The Euro 2012 England supporter's threadCome on in, grab a beer and try not to get too depressed. Let's take the time to enjoy the Euros now, cos we won't be enjoying it once they start! :…
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I noticed that one when he said it. Even ... knew it was a crap thing to say and kept quiet ... that he ignored.
One great thing may have come out of ... -
WHAT DID YOU HAVE BEFORE YOUR FIRST COMPUTER?Hi, what were you playing before your first computer weather it was a C64 or any other computer? Mine was the Grandstand game FIREFOX F-7, what a gam…
... =Hairy;816404]I had one of these before my ... Spectrum, and I just bought one yesterday for ?10 :)
Nice find getting one for ?10!! Well done.
one. Great thing is you can get ... /> I never had this one, but I loved the adverts ... -
Induction CooktopAnyone here have an induction cooktop? Our electric cooker packed in this week, the oven runs way over temperature despite changing the temperature s…
... is better, more like gas. One great thing about them is cleaning. Way ... -
spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…
... what the spectrum can do. One of them was Muliti Color ... wont seem like a revolutionary thing but i think it makes ... colors yes but its a great thing i think. if anyone knows ... -
New version of "Abadia del crimen" RemakeStarting destruction of Shakespeare's language in progress... (I speak just a bit english) Well, I don't know if this is the right place to post it,…
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Of course, the great thing is that now has 256 ... the original 16 bits PC one. As the basic code of ... section can be the right one. (If the boss don?t ... -
One good thing about the GameSwag fiasco......it got me to checking his maps directory to see if he's ripped-off any of mine (I don't want anyone claiming copyright on my hard work, thank you …
... knew it couldn't be one of mine ('cos I've ... never published one).
I've been ... also a bit unfortunate that one monster is called "Frankenstein" when ... -
Are there still any good games to be found among MIAS?There is over 1000 of missing games listed at WOS, however I have the impression that the best games written for Spectrum are already preserved. The …
... the mags, that almost no one wanted to buy them (bad ... among MIAs to be found one day?
BTW: I do ... but preserving them is a great thing and all Spectrum community should ... -
SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…
... or nothing.
One strange thing the disk light is permanently ... or anything out of that one. I don't know if ... /> So all in all a great buy off ebay. Is it ... -
Lethargy and EggHead4 trained ...Hey all. Seeing that not many of you have heard of the great NEW game Lethargy I thought I would do a re-crack of it from TR-DOS which was trained b…
... you have heard of the great NEW game Lethargy I thought ... back to .TAP format so one can easily load it into ... ;-) ).
Oh and one more thing... Slider also did a good ... 4, so I recracked this one also. It features a very ... -
It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use ... ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and ... more complex, but the great thing about a CPLD as ... location in memory which no one *ever* calls (perhaps 3FFD ... knowns.. always a good thing! However, I'm going ... -
Help with mystery game programmer...Hi, I wanted to try to revive an old C.S.S post from 2004, where I was trying to track down the name of a very exploited Spectrum games programmer. …
... very messed up young fellow. Thing is, I can't figure ... they all said yeah great, let's have a ... of gob shite about how great
everything was, ...
JOE - I wrote one great game. I ripped it off ... I'm working on; everything, one big lie. When * **** went ... -
Help - recommendations for a portable PCFor a year or so now I've been meaning to buy a Pandora hand-held ( [url]http://www.openpandora.org/[/url] ) when they became available, and have wai…
... even if I can get one and get it modded (necessary ... EE PC type notebook thing.
The great thing about the Pandora ... , GTA 3, Deus Ex, No One Lives Forever 2, etc. Normally ... -
Faulty rubber speccy - advice neededHello all speccy hardware gurus :) Recently I moved to a new flat and after a long time have some space (and time) to dig out my old Speccy hardware…
... br />
I suspected one of the Speccies was dead ... output and to my great joy I had a ... , at least one of them. The other one worked too, ... exclude the possibility of one of them causing the ... on :)
One other thing, after fitting back all the ... -
Your favourite Spectrum [whatever] beginning with the letter 'A'[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/games/a.html[/url] [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/textadv/a.html[/url] Personally, I'm going to say: B…
... Utility: Artist III (a great hack of a superb program ... ll say that one.
Best thing connected to ... br />
Best thing about the modern gaming scene ... A lot of games are great! If I can't ... .
Worst thing about the modern gaming scene ... -
Street Treasure !!!Everyone loves street treasure, this time the junk gods smiled on me. I found a iMac and a small LCD TV! I now have a dedicated TV/monitor for my roo…
... one desktop thing. It came with all the install disks all in great ... -
DISCOVERY ...Hi, I have just bought a DISCOVERY drive for Spectrum, but i have not the documentation with it... Do you think that i can find it on this "marvelous…
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Probably.
"One more thing, do you know how to ... Spectrum + Discovery ?"
With great difficulty I would summise given ... -
The threat from the ISDAWhat does everyone here think about ISDA closing down abandonware & emulation sites? Personally to an extent I can understand their position, but if …
... in wanting sites like this one closed down. The simple fact ... of the site goes to great lengths to ask permission to ... individuals now.
One other thing, the bit about being able ... , for example stating that one site and one site only may distribute ... -
What are you playing now?A bit off topic for this forum perhaps, but I'm curious about what games people are playing now. Platform does not matter. It's crazy, I have lots a…
Well said Lars, the great thing about emulation is that you ... to get really 'into' any one game and tend to just ... -
TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
One more thing...
You can't ... .
Both designs were great and served their purposes very ...
