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Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
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Help!For a book i am writing i need to know the following things 1. what was the first speccy game 2. what was the first speccy game 3. what was the exact…
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3. I think W.A.S.P. released the song ... , though it didn't come out as a single, though 'I WANNA ... -
The state of this bloody country.I went for a rare night out in town tonight. Usually I avoid such nights cos most times it ends up with me either whacking someone or getting whacke…
... /> I went for a rare night out in town tonight. Usually ... have a few inside a nightclub. So, at 12am a few ... of town standing in a queue of drug dealers ... In response, I pointed out that a dress code in St. ... />
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Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…
... etc. It's like a bag of jelly babies.... ... all colours - a supposedly random assortment, but ... that someone has selected a quota of colours somewhere ... them how to put on a turban.
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Games club - Week 13Morning all this weeks game is [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Auf+Wiedersehen+Monty$&pub=^Gremlin+Graphics+Software+Ltd$"…
... that, unfortunately suffers from a few flaws that I seem ... die the moment you enter a screen simply because you ... may be right under a crusher and unable to ... possible to move off a screen or not because ... cost you a life to find out.
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I'm worriedusspeccyfan hasn't posted today. I hope he hasn't been run over by a bus or anything.
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UK Daily Mail There is a 3-column technical article on how the ZX Spectrum loads computer games in today's UK Daily Mail (Answers to Correspondents Page 55). I am…
... always someone trying to blag a drink. If they can' ... my mind to just walk out of a job & claim ...
When my first job (a YTS placement) raised my wages ... t be bothered to get a better one because he' ... Sarah can train to be a theatre nurse. When she ... -
Attack of the chavsA friend of mine just got attacked by three youths. Apparently a recent craze is to take photos or video by mobile phone of your friends attacking pe…
... idea of someone coming on a forum shouting "Have you ... seen this footage of a girl getting raped?!?" amusing ... in a bizarre kind of way .. ... of ELO carving a notch out of a piece of wood ... in a vain attempt to ... -
dead whitelyyup king of the countdowns kerfuckered :p was just yesterday i read an ad in the whitby gazette for a trip to filming of countdown and it stated " c…
At least he went out on a nine letter word - PNEUMONIA
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dead whitelyyup king of the countdowns kerfuckered :p was just yesterday i read an ad in the whitby gazette for a trip to filming of countdown and it stated " c…
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At least he went out on a nine letter word - PNEUMONIA
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PC Manic Miner Remake- Any thoughts? Opinions?First off, let me know if this is the wrong topic fot this thread. I'm new to the forums. Also, this is a looong post. Hope you have a lot of time…
... classic game. I'm a real perfectionist about my ... aiming to get a one-level demo out in the next ... to get these shots out in a decent time frame (my ... a scaled version of the original. I finally made out ... would look best shooting a fireball or something? I ... -
dead whitelyyup king of the countdowns kerfuckered :p was just yesterday i read an ad in the whitby gazette for a trip to filming of countdown and it stated " c…
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On 2005-06-27 19:45, Daren wrote:
At least he went out on a nine letter word - PNEUMONIA
Daren
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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…
... time I challenged a big van to a game of chicken ... .
It was a bright November afternoon in 1988 ... over me but I crossed out onto a main road full of ... up the next day in a hospital bed where I ... am left with a damaged knee that pops out of place far ... -
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…
... a scout camp, I rolled up some hay in a page ripped out ... of a magazine like a huge ... end of it on a bonfire and inhaled, just ... I'd never even had a cigarette before. Consequently, I ... was coughing my guts out for a good while afterwards - ... -
Amstrad or Sinclair: Who Made Better Speccys?Just wanted to know....
... 've thought about making a Spectrum out of a solid block of Titanium ... favorite metal, yes I have a favorite metal ho hum
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…
... /> I managed to squeeze out of a stairway window on the same ... INCREDIBLY fit mate over. What a great "rest of the holiday ... " that was.
A f**king wierd coincidence though ... one of them had done a similar thing with the balconies ...So very proud today...........to be a Londoner. We've got the games, and we've got the backbone. Rest in peace. T.
Must admit that Blair's impressed me in the past 48 hours. Providing he doesn't overreact like Bush did after 9/11 (which I doubt he will), he might actually go out on a high note."Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... for little when you are a spectrum owner, I mean what ... opposed to 64K. Also having a software driven screen also restricts ... you seemed to have made out, but a restriction which home computers ..."Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... opposed to 64K. Also having a software driven screen also restricts ... you seemed to have made out, but a restriction which home computers ... screen size is a major benefit. Try writing a Spectrum game then ... the CPC, you'll have a lot of rethinking and reworking ...Outrun 2Today I ended up in the seaside resort of Tramore, Co. Waterford. Naturally I headed straight for the video game arcades where I discovered Outrun 2.…
It's been out almost a year now... and having a copy of it (like I do) you get a bit fed up with it. Project Gotham's a much better racer (also Xbox exclusive).Outrun 2Today I ended up in the seaside resort of Tramore, Co. Waterford. Naturally I headed straight for the video game arcades where I discovered Outrun 2.…
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It's been out almost a year now... and having ... I do) you get a bit fed up with it ... . Project Gotham's a much better racer (also ... ideal for a quick-blast adrenalin-pumping race straight 'out of ... ' as opposed to starting out with most of the decent ...Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
... - jejeje, as Arjun pointed out, is a blatantly obvious giveaway as to ...Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
... - jejeje, as Arjun pointed out, is a blatantly obvious giveaway as to ... someone has dared to announce a project before they have something ... for write the code, please. A lot of patience.Dragon's Lair 2: How To Complete It?Does anyone know how to complete the last level in Dragon's Lair 2 ? When I had a Speccy I used to play this game a lot but I still haven't completed…
... the Dragon hit you with a fireball.
You will ... turn to flames before dying out after a while thus allowing passage ...Super-chavIs it a bird... Is it a plane... No, it's... ...SUPER-CHAV! [url="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/showbiz/showbiz5.shtml"]http://www…
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He is a grade A idiot, when you saw him ... he won it he looked a half decent bloke then just ... and who then might splash out on a 'biro' are pretty sad ...Super-chavIs it a bird... Is it a plane... No, it's... ...SUPER-CHAV! [url="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/showbiz/showbiz5.shtml"]http://www…
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Hes gonna have such a shock once all that money ... Stupgets
He is a grade A idiot, when you saw ... he won it he looked a half decent bloke then ... and who then might splash out on a 'biro' are pretty ...Special Edition CGEUK Spectrum Disc, Would you be interested ?We are going to do a one off , limited edition , one day only etc. PC CD of spectrum games , for the show , pre - future proper commercial launchs of…
... /> ZX Shed could always run a competition. Prize donations welcomed..
out? Just a thought.Describe what makes the Spectrum so special and uniqueFor me its very much a nostalgic thing. I havent even seen a spectrum or a spectrum game for real for 13 years, and so when I found this site I was j…
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You make it out that a large amount of Spectrum 128K ... was just about dead as a gaming platform. And even ... of games that came out could still play on ... of the year that came out for Xmas, Teenage Mutant ... you are suggesting that a lot of of early games ...Which games were a magazine flop, but made it big.In light of similar questions. What games received poor reviews or marks from reviewers, and then went on to be a big hit or a 'peoples' smash, if yo…
... "]SU[/url] reviewer gave it a respectable 5/5 stars (he ... claimed it was a really tough game too, but ... read the reviews before shelling out on a full price game though ...128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…
... could be done with a custom loader; keep a count of the ... simply, save each bank as a separate headerless 16k block. The ... ,7FFDh
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