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Your views on...Albatrossity[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0021876[/url] It's been out a few weeks or more now, but I only just got round to playing it t…
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It's been out a few weeks or more now ... an hour and give it a whirl. Better make it two ... mixes the final brew with a dose of Pete Cooke's ... , [I]A Whole New Ball Game[/I ... -
Spectrum 2.0 (soon to be) updatedI've just pushed out a "beta test" of the next version of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url] to [url=http://staging.spectrum20.org/]stagi…
I've just pushed out a "beta test" of the ... giving more ways to find a game to review
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ANN: Tipshop updated Wednesday, 01 April 2009Tuesday 31 March 2009 Phew! Another ton of tips, piles of POKEs, stacks of solutions, and (we get the idea! Ed).. * The enigmatic Dave confirmed th…
... work. Hurrah! He also pointed out a correction, which led me to ... Soccer ,
Everyone's A Wally , Fairlight , Fernando Martin Basket ... yet - rest assured, it's a goodie!
* Josep ... br /> Rider.
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Odd behaviour: Multiface 128/OneIt's been quiet round here the last day or two so... I'm now onto the second edition of the [COLOR=Green]Spectrum Games Bible (1985-1986)[/COLOR] an…
... )[/COLOR] and have been trying out a few games I either haven ... [COLOR=Red]Multiface 128[/COLOR] out for my [COLOR=Red]Multiface ... those mutant dogsheep things in a different game the other day ... multiple versions of Multiface ROMs out there, but has anyone seen ... -
Alternative histories, conspiracies and suchlike...Anyone else like reading stuff like this? My personal favourites are: - [B]Alternative Bible Theories[/B] I'm not a religious person, but I do lik…
... that Jesus was switched out and never crucified at all ... Templar[/B]
A staple for anyone that likes ... organisations etc. It's a good topic because it ... />
Like a lot of things, you have ... sometimes have to filter out a lot of cack as ... -
Level designers wanted...In the summer I requested some help for levels for a game I was writing, and the result was W*H*B, which I'm really proud off. Now I'm asking for he…
... some help for levels for a game I was writing, ... mentioned I'll be doing a game for Christmas, which ... a puzzle game based on a popular console title from a ... The game will have a level designer built-in with ... taking part and knocking-out a couple of levels or ... -
#speccy and #spin have movedThe speccy IRC channels #speccy and #spin have moved from Astrolink to a new server: irc.coldfront.net As before, the key to access the channels is …
... have moved from Astrolink to a new server: irc.coldfront.net ... #spin 16384, to connect to a channel.
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Retro GamerAnyone subscribe? I do, has anyone had their latest issue? Bomberman was the last issue I think the next will have an asteroids front cover. I was un…
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CrosswordsNot sure how many cryptic crossword lovers we have here, but I quite like them whilst I'm pushing out a Scooby - might as well exercise both ends lik…
... them whilst I'm pushing out a Scooby - might as well exercise ... I'm currently working through a collection of Daily Telegraph crosswords ... from a book.
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Mercenary titles & compendium formatsI was digging out my Knight Orc manual so I could look up a keyword to get into part 2, when I noticed a "Mercenary 1" game in the same box. "Mercena…
... thought that I'd point out a few ... errrmm ... points, ... />
* There's a title discrepancy on the inlays ... assume that it was from a 1987 cassette.
* ... was also released as a 2-cassette pack, although ... unusually has two inlays: a regular 2-panel card ... -
Oh mummy.I was at my mum and dads not too long ago and was in the loft so had a nosy around in some of the boxes up there, i pulled out a game and it was oh m…
... in the loft so had a nosy around in some of ... boxes up there, i pulled out a game and it was oh ... . so obviously it must be a later release but should it ... on there, i was just a wee bit confused?. -
Cheeky basts!Got a call over the weekend from Ipsos Mori (the poll people) saying that they were carrying out a survey on sports and leisure that would be passed …
Got a call over the weekend from ... ) saying that they were carrying out a survey on sports and leisure ... this type of shit with a vengeance so I immediately went ... to see if it's a genuine number.
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Anyone missing BBC1 & BBC2 on Freeview?In the north west region, BBC2 has been switched off today on analogue. As part of this, we've been advised recently that a retuning of Freeview boxe…
... 've been advised recently that a retuning of Freeview boxes may ... still not there even after a channel scan. I've even done ... ? It's not that old a Freeview box, 4 years tops ... -
Pavel Plivadue to the the quality of pav's prolific mapping, I feel it would be worthwhile identifying which map's are his infoseek, when your checking out a ga…
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Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
... a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out ... Crash which I remember coming out a good week or so before ... itself, I NEVER actualy worked out what you were supposed to ... -
Zynaps - anybody any idea what this is?Yesterday, I booted up the speccy after a long time and tried out a few games from tape. I noticed that the Zynaps tape I had, bought from a retail s…
... the speccy after a long time and tried out a few games from ... tape I had, bought from a retail store in India, didn ... one at all! Here's a screenshot of the same:
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Bah. BBC 6 music no more...I read on the front page of the paper we have at work that the BBC is getting rid of 6 Music (one of the things they want is that the BBC is not musc…
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Former maker of Sinclair add-ons in the U.SIn my continuing efforts to find people from the Timex-Sinclair past I found two gentleman who were, at some point, the owners of Byte- Back. This …
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I had a modem, a 16k and a 64K memory module and ... /> recall watching the printer zip out a line every so often... which ...
the correct stuff gets out there if I can still ... there are still a lot of nice people out there!
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Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…
... gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 ... just starting out a great deal to learn a lot quite ... Obviously, there are C tutorials out there, but it seems like ... Even using printf to make a Hello World program has stumped ... as I can make out from what is in ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 30 May 2010Sunday 30 May 2010 More Real-Life business meant I had to leave off a batch of Spanish tips - they'll be here next month! * Nick Humphries (why doe…
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* Due to a technical glitch (read: you're ... RZX Archive entries were missed out -
Ball, 3D , Beach ... t any notification emails sent out about RZX Archive updates because ... (because you'd never miss out a batch, would you?! Ed).
Pimania - The MovieMel Croucher has brought out a record of the tunes that featured on Pimania cassettes and there is even a video on YouTube [url]http://www.youtube.c…
Mel Croucher has brought out a record of the tunes that ... cassettes and there is even a video on YouTube
Anyone know how to turn Beep into Hertz?Im still tinkering with my Mid2Asm, wondering about the possibility of adding a preview option to play the beeper music using AutoIT's beeper command…
... about the possibility of adding a preview option to play the ... />
Does anyone know of a straightforward formula for converting the ... for scale of middle C , a few notes on moving from ... , but still haven't figured out a simple universal formula yet for ...Found an old tapeWay back in the 80's I wrote some basic (and later compiled basic) programs to hold character data for playing the fighting fantasy books. I tried fl…
... of the versions I sent out (I think I sold ... it seems to be in a bad bad bad way. Of ... a tape player in 20 years, probably. Any recommendations for picking out ... seems to fade in and out a lot?
Any ... audio/spectrum geniuses want a crack at the .wav?Adventure Gamebook Solver"It would take me ages to solve that adventure gamebook without AGES" - is what someone might say if they didn't have the [url=http://www.users.globa…
... 100 mhz - I'll sort out a little machine code routine to ... - although there's probably gamebooks out there with structures which would ... adventure; but AGES effectively provides a guide to help avoid taking ... for part two, and sorted out any bug reports.
< ...Your thoughts on Bonanza BrothersI quite enjoyed this game from when I had it on the CPC when it first came out. A nice game with not much violence, but concentrating more on the pu…
... when it first came out.
A nice game with not ... machine that let you use a second player) used the top ... .
It had a new lease on life by ... 360 and PS3 last year, a nice underrated classic.
New Spectrum game *Nelo and Quqo* from Retroworks!!Yes!! A new game for our Spectrums just came out! A videoadventure in the mold of classics like Garfield or Snoopy, translated into english and with…
... our Spectrums just came out!
A videoadventure in the mold ... , translated into english and with a peculiar sense of humor.
A game where you have to ...Logic sim for specHi guys, I was thinking about it and i was wondering, would it be good if i made a program that you enter details about a logic circuit, like what i…
... be good if i made a program that you enter details ... about a logic circuit, like what inputs ... what and then it prints out a truth table?
Thanks ... have been trying to find a use for my new printer ...New game: Jet Set ChileI've done made a game, y'all. Actually, it's more of a joke than a game. And not a very good one at that. But, I believe I can claim the dubious h…
I've done made a game, y'all.
... , it's more of a joke than a game.
And ... not a very good one at that.< ... being the first to trot out a video game based on the ...Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... he'd been eeking out a living as a
... br /> Dizzy starts out armed only with a shotgun, and with ... example, become the bloke out of Jetpac, and then ... can become the bloke out of Boulderdash, and can ... can become the bloke out of wheelie (complete with ...R3PLAY report and photosWell, R3PLAY is now over ... and what a great event it was. I have to thank all the organizers, their hard work really paid off and it was a huge suc…
... I think very well planned out, it was always easy to ... scene and got to find out how much fun the old ... the Twitter client. It turned out the hotel's WiFi was ... strolled up and started punching out a message without needing any instructions ...
