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Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... Firebird, Melbourne House, Activision (and subsidiaries), Martech, Dinamic, Opera ... Worst Software house
Easy one... Macsen
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... they did in commercials, and when then would it' ... hit the wall or rail and stop.
one end to a tree or something and run ... strip and you'd hold one end and throw it and the ... sticky hand would catch things. and man ... -
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... `m a Speak & Spell, and so is my wife!
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Car boot PricesYesterday i went to a well known car boot sale up here in lancashire , i spotted a box of speccy games on a table , its ages since ive seen any at a …
... So far it's been one success and three failures.
... offered him $25 for his console and 9 games. He ... ridiculously common - there's one on ebay USA just ... that he pulled out of his unheated garage. Now, ... back into cupboards, garages and basements for a few ... -
Where Time Stood Still bugWhen you go up the slope past the temple, near where the armadillo roams, the game freezes as you get to about half way up the slope. Has anyone else…
... of helping Dunny make his map, nothing more... and what a cracking ... #3 Invincible apart from hand (and rocks?)
(The ... br />
Check this one out and sit back...
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Shock Horror, Spectrum mentioned in MAME Forums Anyone else here a member of the Mame forum? Got the Spectrum mentioned today, and someone mentioned Sabre Wolf... felt really good seeing an old g…
... of Trapdoor, Through the Trapdoor, and Popeye :)
... loadsa old cartoons, Jamie and his Magic Torch etc etc< ... br />
and... bumbumBUM... Dogtanian and the three Muskahounds... hahahaha ... continously drawing Renegade level one in lessons..
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RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
... :17, CKay wrote:
Nice one... I thought the only Emulator ... were the original Lerm one, SAMTape or whatever, and the others that ... ZX81 emulator too.
And then there's some of ... (think MAME on the Sam!) and his 6510 CPU emulator for playing ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... personally ridiculed within a post, and the author starts using the ... for years, contributed to discussions and efforts).. you don`t do ... little heat, when a grown man has his opinions, or stuff that ... just duck beneath the parrapit and say little when they feel ... -
WOS archive on DVD?Hello This question has appeared few times, but I have not found any place to order WOS archive. Is anybody selling the whole arcive on DVD's? Jocu
... comment on the "no-one is being forced to ... disks"...
No-one was forced to pay ?110 ...
I'm sure Martijn and his team will come up with ... some fair solution anyway - and how they decide to ... I might add!) included in one of these ?30 collections. ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... "][B]Jackpot 3[/B][/url] and [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co ... /cgc2004files/NoughtsAndCrosses.zip"][B]Noughts and Crosses[/B][/url].
and his ten year old son, Eddie ... the reviews etc that no-one reads anyway a little later ... -
Star Wars Trilogy DVDAmy got me this online while I was in Venice and it arrived yesterday. I've looked through bits of it, but have mainly watched the Special Features …
... amount of computing power and programming prowess can faithfully ... when real objects interact. And despite the technological smugness ... bonus disc), and I'm not even one of the slavering ... 'The Creator' and his fawning sycophants spout, and just dig that ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... "play the ball and not the man"
and once again you ... ??
Which one had the best basic and was easier to ... ??? What are your arguements for and against ????
As I ... what was the best computer and why ??? Not to be confused ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... the ball and not the man"
and once again ... />
Which one had the best basic and was easier to ... , i basically said - one cant argue taste. what ... used is an expanded one and to compare i ... discussions like this one brought up, and there were ... -
Speccy Maps: Just what the hell is going on here then?Some time ago, a chap going by the name of Pavero built a few maps of Speccy games. Though they weren't brilliant, but they sufficed. He decided th…
... unify all maps under one place (namely his site), I don't ... here is not of legal one (we all know where we ... anyway) but of a moral and ethical one.
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What's Going On?We have a bit of a problem here. A guy is spamming the forum like crazy. The topics are being posted individually to delibrately mess up the site. It…
As I said in one of the other threads (!), he ... i.d 'retrolover', and his posts are similar (and was flamed!).
is boat run the worst game everi think that boat run (unpublished) is the worst game ever! (or at least very bad). i know that without it one man and his droid would never of been …
... 's pirate version of Molecule Man; it seems quite good (if ... like Molecule Man) -- until you get all the miners and start looking ... the exit, and find that there isn't one! :mad: (And if you ... POKE one into the maze ...HOW TO *FORCE* AMSTRAD TO PRODUCE ZX?!OK then. Many chats last times about new ZX models, old ZX models but contemporary produced ;) , about Amstrad - what could it do and why didn't do m…
... serious one' you didnt say 'no it wasnt' you said 'and his was ... a rude one'. In that case you ... now "...for christ sake". And theres you moaning about someone ... ?
You are confusing and you have many double standards ...Idea for site - High Score ChallengeHi all An idea for the site.. CPC Zone (cpczone.emuunlim.com) has run a sucessful High Score Challenge for the past 12 weeks.. The organiser choo…
... that thread he was cheating and was caught.
... .
No one will take his other high scores he ... seriously after that.
And Biolaboy seriously expected an apology ... Amstrad posters there were sensible and said 'each to their ...OT: World Exclusive - US Election. I call Kerry.Yes folks, here it is another WOS world exclusive, John Kerry has won the US election! it's been a close race, but renouned one man news angency Sha…
... a EU commissioner based on his anti-gay, anti-women, anti ... the name of Rocco Buttiglione. And guess what has the Italian ... rightfully his own :p
So it's the last one in ... present :mad: No wonder Berlusconi and his lackeys are staunch followers of ...OT: RIP Fred DibnahCompletely off topic, but this news really upset me because Fred was such an enthusiast for his engineering, especially Victorian engineering. [url=…
A true character from the 80's and one man who could lay claim to initiating an interest in retro stuff; albeit in another world away from Speccy stuff.
RIP Fred.OT: RIP Fred DibnahCompletely off topic, but this news really upset me because Fred was such an enthusiast for his engineering, especially Victorian engineering. [url=…
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... by a friend from school and his family for a day ... Fred was doing the business and the family I went with ... we all ended up at his house.
... were soon exploring the house and then we found the ...Emlyn Hughes RIPEmlyn Hughes has died of a brain tumour [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3995263.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3995263…
Oh man :( What a top guy he was, I remember watching Question of Sport as a kid and his game rocked! My heart goes out to his wife and family.WIP Target Renegade mod for Beats of RageHi W.O.S. readers! I am currently working on a mod for the game engine "Beats Of Rage" based on Target Renegade (Speccy version of course!) The mod…
... after seeing the graphics and what was possible I ... college 7 years ago and this means that temporarily ... designed for larger sprites and hence happens from too ... am using Robocop level One enemies and backgrouds as they ... to use some of his amazing graphics in my ...For CKay and his Sam CoupeHope you like it!, [url="http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk"]www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk[/url] Steve(spt)
Nice one Steve :)
Great content, and I like the layout (never ... , looked really interesting... and as it was a one man job it makes ... the SAM manual mostly done and ready for download, you`ve ... ` use or code the SAM, and Sim Coupe :)
If ...Bomberman ClonesHas anyone or any company tried to make a Bomberman clone for the Speccy? A European company had made a Bomberman clone for the Amstrad CPC called M…
... org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Eric+and+the+Floaters$&pub=^ ... Sinclair+Research+Ltd$"]Eric and the Floaters[/url] predates Bomberman ... the same year as Bomber Man, and the "BM" version of ... Ball" -- a silly name, since one would expect bubbles or balloons ...Best kids tv presenter you rememberThe last thread got me thinking about other stuff we did as kids. One was wathcing TV programs a lot and especially watching kids tv. Who was your …
... presenters.
Johnny Ball and John Noakes were pretty good ... a fan of Mr Scholfield and his ilk though.
Thinking ... I always used to watch and enjoy Swap Shop but I ...
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One of my friends had an ...Anyone see that top comedians programme on Channel 4?Only caught the top 30 or so, but what a complete load of old toss. I was eagerly awaiting the top ten, thinking there'd be something decent like Ri…
... a genuinely brilliant stack of one-liners and is a tremendously charismatic ... the Marx Brothers films look and feel dated (they are) ... taste. Some of his films (like "Take The Money And Run") are ... "Zelig") are more subtly funny and inclined to make you smile ...Questions for CliveFollowing on from the meaning of zx thread - if you could ask Clive one question, what would it be?
... mentioned that he was a man before his time. Although the C5 ... right idea but the form and timming was a little out ...Were any speccy games ever given 10/10 or 100% in reviews?Just having a look at the review for Head Over Heals and Crash gave it 97%, and quite rightly so!! GTA San Andreas on the PS2 has had several 100% a…
... being round my mates house and his dad had just bought ... Deus Ex Machina, and he said you have to ... same time and I though "whats this mad man on about ... ", but lo and behold it was ... an amazing game and quite scary considering I ...How far did your "Anti-Commodism" go?We?ve all grown up and like many of you, I have arranged myself with the Commode and can appreciate it nowadays. And like many of you, I hated it wit…
... he can stick his commode up his you-know-where and his llamas!
How dare he speak such rubbish about one ... feels a tad jealous that his games aren't worshiped thus ...
