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WOS - Download queryHello, great site...I am one of the 20somethings who had many nights in front of Chaos and ToadRunner (a game I have only recently learned was techni…
... up. If all else fails for me I simply come off the ... (when I have to). That usually works.
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Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…
... isn't a mine is better than yours argument at all ... potentially superior sales. It's simply about looking at Worldwide sales ... C64 sales on it. Anyone else have any luck? -
hallowe'enis anyone going to any parties, doing anything fun..... or maybe you would like to share some spook stories.....
... was a ghost or anything else for that matter, just telling ... stuff..
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Saddam - should he swing?The bastard probably deserves it, but would hanging him be good for the soldiers on the ground in Iraq? I'd hate to see the number of suicide bomber…
... , given the appeals and whatever else that his lawyers will spin ... 'd rather they didn't execute him, I'd prefer him ... , as that's a far better punishment than a quick death ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... in games. Maybe it´s better to me not wastin much ... do it or get someone else to do it. Be especially ... this machine was originally bought? Usually TS's are 60Hz NTSC ... be nice to work on better resolution. It would make things ... -
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…
... probably mis-read, misunderstood or simply just plain screwed up here ... it as much as everybody else, and as long as it ... ! Doesn't make his venture "better than WoS" in any way ... -
Nooooo my speccy died!??!!Hi! I am quite sad. :( Tonight I got a kempston interface so I rushed home to try it on my spectrum+ The edge connector of the interface was narrower…
... were easily repaired just by simply replacing the CPU, but in ... just the CPU to go. Usually, it's RAM that goes ... chips before they did much else. If the voltages are not ... -
Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... new set of callable routines simply for gaming![/QUOTE]
cases where there are more than ... fully ansi compliant and generates better quality code than z88dk but ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... know the type where you usually play some kind of warrior ... i discovered drinking was a better passtime! A shame because it ... the Quill.
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Keyboard Problem?Hey all. I'm Dave I'm in my last year of college before I go to University. I'm in the UK. I got a +2 a while back when I first told my mum and dad…
... (x) membrane - is this something else we should be looking at ... a case of age, more simply they were built by a ... built machines seem to last better. Even an old PC1512 I ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
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embedded systems are usually installed in high volume products ... with anything written by someone else unless they too are developing ... understand why one implementation is better than another, not to mention ... -
"The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... Arthur C. Clarke wrote much better strories, if you ask me ... "co-wrote" with anyone else; it usually means the basic story was ... -
Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... speccy.
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The samples will usually be played at 8kHz (8000 ... .
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Why are there no adult British cartoons?I don't mean adult as in sexy/smutty/erotic etc, but adult as in [I]The Simpsons[/I] or [I]Family Gu[/I]y style, where they appeal on different level…
... nothing else on. It wasn't brilliant, but it was better than ... during the 4 Music season (usually september leading up to Chrimbo ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... , you could sort it by simply checking your position.[/QUOTE]
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Oh not another Bleugh! case......Hey fellow speccy people, Just when I thought it might not happen to me... I recently bid and won an Ebay auction of USD.200 for some ROM cards for…
... ]Hmmm i do think in cases like that the person should ... and shamed so no one else from here bids on his ... have experienced. Made me feel better how lucky I am that ... -
Dead Spectrum +Hi all, I've recently dug out my old Spectrum + with the idea of repairing it. When I last looked at it, when I was much younger, I was soldering a …
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Help make Retro Gamer greatI'm more than happy with the articles that are now appearing in Retro Gamer, but I want it to become far more of a hub for the retro community than i…
... i'd disagree with "marginally better" personally but my bias towards ... the AY fans don't usually come with a superiority complex ... a reason why this "marginally better" sound chip is generating so ... fresh content that can't simply be found on the web ... -
Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
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Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
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Datacorder "on strike" on my 128k +2AHi, I have a problem with the built-in datacorder on my +2A : The sound became "noisy" with cracks... Giving the tape recorder a little hit was the…
... , the other is ground and usually forms a braided coaxial "shield ... adding that wire was to simply ground the already grounded tape ... effect so I thought nothing else of it.
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Bourbon Biscuit SandwichesI used to eat them as a kid. Just watched the Bond movie on DVD. Must say, although I don't like the shape of the guys mouth, this ranks as the best…
... free (to do what everyone else does).
Beanz you ... close to white bread........even better something close to warburtons super ... at those places because they usually have suggestions, or offer "home ... -
More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... /> New Doctor Who is much better than old. I was worried ... />
Biggest travesty is Firfly. Simply the best SciFi series ever ... operas when everyone knows everyone else in the same street, and ... -
No new Doctor Who thread yet?Then allow me to be the first. :) Last night's episode was great. I think Freema Agyeman is going to be a brilliant companion. The Mr. Saxon subplot…
... point was that Davis was simply trying to show political correctness ... opposed to made up something better.
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TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... 's not the point. People usually like to implement file formats ... times more complex than anything else there was before. They don ... thus it will make it better in the long term. I ... -
Help! Need to prove the Speccy's worthA friend of mine who used to own a C64 (well, alright, not a friend, an aquaintance ;) ) was saying how good Dropzone was, and how it proves that the…
... seems to me to be simply better. in contrast, i believe, you ... or lunar jetman with any better version of the same. they ... just poorer versions of somethig else.)yet, i guess, there?d ... scrolling, which were the arcades better in even then, already...)
Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... TZX format v1.13), and simply release the few tapes that ... Wynne and nobody else?) can trivially design a format better suited to ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... , and thinking about various use cases, like direct saving to PZX ... block, it would be perhaps better to introduce flag field which ... like this noise or something else.
So, these ... proposed changes. Are they for better or worse? Speak now and ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... design. This would result in cases where it fails, somehow, even ... solution would suit them even better than one-format-for-all ... not necessarily true. There is usually always some price to pay ...Time travel...Time travel is a very, very interesting concept. Surely everyone has dreamt of going back in time, to see how things used to be, or of going into the…
... the earth was somewhere else you'd asphyxiate pretty ... travellers from the future simply appear to us as ... that would harm anyone else, so out future members ... impossible?) and do whatever else they can to minimize ... commentary, but it's usually just used as a ...
