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100 envelopesWell, in the pursuit of a new job I have just finished writing 100 covers letters and posted them off with CVs to various offices around Belfast. Wh…
... all sorts of crap that simply wasn't true. I checked ... that) but not for anyone else.
The last straw ... more money and a much better manager and prospects :)
Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…
... not developed'. Maybe we need better simulation of Spectrum's Ear ... /> And again, 'maybe' we need better help in software - without it ... them then the files just simply won't exist. Until Ramsoft ... the original data. As someone else on this thread pointed out ...RARE/Ultimate games!I recently bought an XBOX 360 and Perfect Dark Zero, and it made me realise how much i missed RARE and Ultimate - Play The Game. Anyone else have an…
... incredible Fairlight, which far, far better than any Ultimate 3D game ... company) arcade games, or anything else they did, until the N64 ... divided over which game was better (between DKR and MK64), ... for the N64 (which today usually costs more than the console ...Looking for ramsoft MGT +D Software Compilation ArchiveOnce upon a time on the internet there existed a mgt +d archive on the ramsoft website with specially adapted multiload games as disk images etc. I …
... want with protected games, else why not simply snapshot the games using ... the multiface 128 would be better suited. Snapshotting the games works ...Another idiot writesGuy's I seem to have a problem when trying to download files from the WOS archive. None of the links (such as [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub…
... as a client don't usually have anything to do with ... , but anything else will at least give you better indication as to ...Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
... , and/or there was little else but the company logo on ... on those later games where (usually) a rather lame half-arsed ... /or when something a lot better would have been expected (most ...4-pixel scrollingDo you think is 4-pixel scrolling accetable for horizontal shooter ? (aka do u like Chronos ? :)
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In ... as a first project. Far better to get a couple of ...Linda BarkerI was sitting in a coffee shop today drinking my favourite caffeine-filled beverage and flicking through one of the local newspapers when I came acro…
... thereabouts. The name has become better known/well used over the ... the old days it was simply funny.
I do ... amuses me more than anything else.
Im married with ...I just did something very out of characterI was downstairs when i heard something come through the letterbox. It was a newsletter from the BNP as soon as i saw what it was i opened the door a…
... fact that some jobs are better suited to men or women ... my knowledge discrimination in those cases would be illegal. So how ... are safer drivers, rather than simply to support women, this doesn ...b00mzi11a - where is he?I transferred money for the xbox to his account nearly 3 weeks ago, since then he's dropped off the 'net. I don't want to jump to assumptions as he'…
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Everyone else on the forum, fair enough ... an XBox that I simply didn't get round ... that regardless of anything else this is unnecassary name ... feelings on it. Anyone else feel free to asassinate ...+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... have to be formatted, else the system would not be ... an error, so +3DOS simply corrected the error during the ... track from start (usually 0) to end (usually 41 for my ... disk from tape option) simply does a WRITE track instead ... may be able to simply send you a disk ...Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…
... second idea of Spectronia even better since it's original and ... should also point out that usually game design dictates the graphics ... deal for me, or someone else, to spin off a few ...When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
... by hand. You are much better off writing the time-consuming ... the C everywhere else rather than depending on optimizations done by the ... commercial compilers seem to be better (I've seen code output ... by hand.
Something else that has a major impact ...my dodgy speccys.hi people, i was wondering if i could engage some opinions / thoughts / ideas of anyone, regarding my current "fixing up" of my speccys, since you s…
... of the +2 needs 12V, else it won't work. Starve ... really good - but. you cannot simply swop over the whole keyboard ... quiet tape loading Chuntey is usually caused by either a dirty ... the tape deck to work - simply wire in two different sockets ...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…
... don't see why anyone else would get offended by any ... I put to JC were simply a way of taking the ... , when I just thought it better for all to leave it ... .[/quote]Of course you felt better to leave it - because you ... Stop trying to bring ANYONE else into it. You're a ...a question about isometric gamesHello I have a doubt... in the isometric games(Batman, Head Over Heels,...)the view is over 45? or 120? ? thanks.
... neither of these in most cases. So as to look nice ... , the X/Y lines are usually rendered at a screen angle ... , the former perspective looks much better.New Cronosoft game release - MEGAPLEXJust a case of getting the website updated to take account of the new release...! MEGAPLEX, by Triumph Game Labs, is a new 128K only Speccy releas…
Words simply cannot describe that website! I ... ...
Apart from anything else, the homepage contains 269 HTML ... sons mates can do it better... everyone is an expert!
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... placed in directory, and nothing else. You may see whole Basic ... far better to rename 1500 files (in those few rare cases when ...Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... news to Tomaz but anyone else interested can sift through it ... isometric games. Some of the optimizations relevant to isometrics that it ... can be marked for drawing (usually done automatically by move sprite ...Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
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Absolutely better level design! The canal levels ... when they come round - nothing else will do, not Halo, not ... single player was an overall better experience, I sold my ...Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... news to Tomaz but anyone else interested can sift through it ... isometric games. Some of the optimizations relevant to isometrics that it ... can be marked for drawing (usually done automatically by move sprite ...Large collection going under the hammer!!This is really painful! [url]http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZcountvonschmellQQhtZ-1[/url] Having moved house, I'm now in somewhere far smaller,…
... components (as well as distributing better machines). Never mind the nightmare ... buy it fresh. (in many cases it also costs MORE carbon ... plant is full so everything else that arrives goes straight to ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... chose a Spectrum over anything else because at that time, the ... and then the game was usually appalling in comparison to the ... (not brilliant, but far better than some...), a fast and ... Spectrum, or that were plainly better on other machines (especially arcade ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... to carry out many functions simply by pointing to a picture ... a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by Commodore ... [quote]
The TS2068 was better than any Speccy but it ... the games from being playable (usually they were title screen special ...+3e ROMs v1.28 releasedAfter a slight delay (ahem), I have updated the +3e ROMs to v1.28. Amongst other things, this release provides: [LIST] [*]Completely rewritten (and …
... goodness. Isn't the +3e simply lovely.
Tried it out ... do with block size. I usually work out that a screen ... of the IDEDOS format) is simply the same as a +3 ... there's probably a much better resource online somewhere. Just search ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... say the Speccy was much better at 3D games than ... make out the C64 is better than the Spectrum, on ... and all the mine is better than yours arguments I' ... that it would be something else in the Speccy's ... order is actually performed by simply writing
ld (ix+ ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... us who had disk drives usually bought software on tapes and ... 't see going with something else.
Amstrad seems to have ... " drive would have been the better choice, but for 1987 I ...Does TommyGun need a new name?I visited a site today and it said TommyGun was a stupid name for an application. So does TommyGun need a new name to reflect more on what it does? …
... the product, although in some cases it does help.
simply an image paint tool.
better name and then it turned ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... it for another interrupt somewhere else in the same frame. I ... thinking mass storage is much better than tape. I left a ... weren't on cartridge were usually available on tape or disk ...Seventh Harry Potter book?What will this be called? My guess is [i]Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Codex[/i]. :D
... 't like the books, nobody else (or no other adult at ... people who ought to know better: the "plagiarism" bollocks. J. K ... whatever, which gives special powers (usually invisibility), is common to the ...
