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Magazine salesHi all, Mags I have for sale are :- Issues 31,30,26,25,23,21,20,103,88,87,86,85,84,73,72 All sensible offers cosidered, you will have to pay posta…
I have loads of Input, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User ... and I'll get them out of the cupboard and let you know ... the numbers. I also have tapes ... quite a lot.
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What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
Lots of games were like that. I stayed up all night seeing out of the hundreds of cassettes I have, which ones still load in. A lot of them seemed pretty tough and pointless.
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+2A external tape loadingGot a +2A on the way and will want to load externally. Now I know that the +2A is basically a stripped down +3 with a tape deck instead of a floppy …
... the inside of the machine and plug in on a fly lead taken out of the ... back of the ... machine (Could have mounted it on the case ... .
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Best Spectrum Tune EVER!Hi there!This is my first posting in this forum, and would like to know wich Tune you think is the greatest of all in Spectrum Games! For me Marauder…
if its down to what came out of the 48k's bleeper.. then its zombie zombie and ping pong all the way 8?) -
Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…
... sit there through the whole process helping the fella with all ... complete loading while you were OUT of the room. It would take ... c) Not having the TV tuned to the spectrum channel would not ... his own buzzing wistling imitation of the loading noise and tried ... -
what were your most..................what were your most memoriable times of the zx spectrum and why? :) octave
... be impossible to get the thing down on tape: ... levels load one after the other from tape (I ... different blocks on the scl file. Some of them are ... simply not used after the opening titles are shown the ... If they were cut out of the file and it could ... -
Favourite 16K gameThe Spectrum had many classics, but few talk about the early 16K ones- they had a simplicity that the later 48K games traded off for technical depth,…
Jumoing Jack is cool. My mum played it. My dad played it. Hell everyone played it for a whole summer! LOL.
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Bloody Jet Set WillyThis game suffers from the same problem that many others from that time do: it's too damn hard? Anyone got any pokes that will make the game easier, …
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go to the bottom of the stairs in the ... First Landing and type the word ... WRITETYPER then press a combination of ... neednt go back to the first landing to make ... -
+3 disks and pc'sHi, This is my first post, and was wondering if someone could help me. I have some +3 disks from my original +3 that I want to put on my pc to use i…
... ) but for Disks, hence the title SDP (Spectrum Disk Preservation ... so we might hit the 30% mark out of the 550 titles I've ... Amstrad FD1 unit (removing the floppy cable power of course) and it ... works
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Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... some rooms you can jump out of the game to room that is ... ". Nice bug. For example: run the game a go approx. two ... clouds and jump to the left, outside the screen.
Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... to walk left and the second you touch the coal bucket, hit ... jump left and just touch the house wall, and then immediately ... getting killed by the miner as he comes out of the house :)
Totally ...Just curious: are we all guys?I was wondering if this spectrum retro mania only affects guys, or if perhaps there are girls around too. And if not: why?! Not that gender is releva…
... wrote:
Who will win the football World Cup?
< ... it picked that answer out of:
the complete paragraph was: ... in Edimburgh". The system is based on knowledge of American English ...
Sadly enough it comes out with gibberish if you ask ...ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... memory) and use the bit that was rotated out of the previous one to ... rotate into in the next one ... load of stages.
To scroll vertically you just shift the memory ...Turmoil MusicBit of a classical music question for ya all. Who composed the music that is used in Bug-Bytes excellent Turmoil and whats it called? Cheers in antic…
In Turmoil? Easy!
That is 'the toreador song', out of the Carmen opera, by Georges Bizet. It's one of the tunes I can never remember, as I mix it up with something else (usually 'the hall of the mountain king').Turmoil MusicBit of a classical music question for ya all. Who composed the music that is used in Bug-Bytes excellent Turmoil and whats it called? Cheers in antic…
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That is 'the toreador song', out of the Carmen opera, by Georges ... Bizet. It's one of the ... with something else (usually 'the hall of the mountain king').
[/ ... 't understand why some of the folks here prefer it ...The Spectrum In EuropeWhat are the differences between Speccys in Europe and the UK? ie would a British 48K work in France or Italy, and vice versa?
... 're right, the 128K sound does come out of the mic socket, but ... it's so quiet! The BEEPer ... can hear it and the 3-channel music underneath ... sound is properly balanced yet the MIC sound is not. ... wonder why? (I have the original 128K)What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
... and died trying to get out of the cave. I loaded it up ... spectracide too many times. Even the coin-op is easier.
the first level of platform burger building.
the first level. Not possible (for ...32-bit handheld console GP32 / Spectrum emulatorFor your information Download Spectrum Emulator for GP32 [url="http://info2.info.tampere.fi/~teoarsa/ZardozJOnes/GPSPECCYV005.ZIP"]http://info2.info…
Yes, there is a lot of crap on the GBA, but some cracking ... commercial games too, a couple of ... which aren't SNES ports :D. The GP32 doesn ... to do things that the GBA does "out of the box". Well, that's ...Rescue on FractalusI'm trying to find instructions for the Spectrum version of this game, with particular reference to the keyboard controls. Could anybody help me?
... . Ethercorps Pilots are down - out of action and need our help ... toss you out of the Mothership, straight down onto the Jaggi stronghold of Fractalus. This ... or else he will run out of air and die on ... 3 have a number of gun emplacements. The higher levels (4 ...What Spectrum games do you play most, currently?What Spectrum games do you play most, currently? Mine are: -Match Day -Match Point -Decathlon
Lately I have only been playing Speccy games on my Amstrad E-mailer, so choice is limited.
Bomb Jack
Manic Miner
Galaxians
are my top 3 out of the 80 or so games available.Not stricly games (but what the hell!!)Before I start please read Andy Barker's plea on WOS forum: Miscellaneous > Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP) I think any who downloads regul…
... a thought: Most of the companies that have granted ... think it goes against the spirit of emulation. Emulation has ... be sort of a breach of trust with the copyright holders ... the question of compensation and try to squeeze a buck out of the deal. The legitimacy of ...Did anyone attend GAME ON in London this summer?I went twice, and enjoyed playing all the old games immensly. Although the Speccy was there (48k Rubber key), it was only there being displayed. The…
I would have gone for a game that forced more out of the Spectrum than previously thought possible(at the time), such as Myth, or Turrican.(Well the third level of Turrican onwards, the first two were rather sparcely, drawn.)Spectrum musichello, I was wondering if anyone had released some kind of music sequencing software for the spectrum? if so, can anyone point me in a direction of …
... get much more versatile sounds out of the 48K beeper if you know ... to the dismal sound on the Amstrad/BBC versions! OK so the processor ... much else whilst controlling the beeper - ahem! - but the sound effects are ...Transferring From Emulator Back To SpectrumI have windows xp and a soundblaster live card... what is the best way to transfer from an emulator file to cassette because everytime i've tried it …
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...or perhaps the noises you hear are the loading noises, in ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... wanted to make an update of the ZX Spectrum.
I'm ... /> That's why I thought of cloning an old systems and ... ,C++,Pascal,Java etc. are out of the question i'm afraid. They ... finished. I've dumped the old idea of using a 6mhz processor ...Help! Imagine: MovieHello! I can't get further than this one door-blocking knight in a room with three tables at the door and a bad guy. The passwords MOVE, OPEN, and P…
... one of the alleys there is a knight who blocks the way ... bottle between you and the knight and walk ... are next to the door, grab the bottle and go ... is used in one of the rooms which has a ... balls. Say "Puzzle" and the knight moves out of the way."
My own Home Computer (part 2) This one is set up because of the other one got locked... Oh, and anyone who tries to lock this one down will not get any satisfaction: i'll just s…
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That's one of the funniest things that I've ... ! Even more amusing than some of his previous "technical" comments. Take ... or IT career is probably out of the question for you. Have you ...The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
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Hmm. The only reason why companies *should ... nice thing to do - out of the kindness of their hearts. There is no ... this to death (again) cos the Codies and Rare et al ... these forums.
Shame the world doesn't work like ...Game over screensFunny, I don't remember very many of these... And I should, since if I had a penny for everytime it showed up to me... :) What do you guys think the…
... (well, that, and the fact that the game was nigh-on ... a burly guy kicked you out of the building with a speech bubble ... br />
On the plus side, the "reprogramming" section of Alien 8 was ... quite cute, and of course ...Connecting a data recorder to a +2A?I have a +2A Spectrum, and getting increasingly frustrated by the unreliable built-in data recorder, I decided to start using an external one. I got…
I`ve messed around with this in the past and found that taking the cassette mechanism out of the +2a and putting it into a +2 made even the most stubborn games load. In fact it is even better than a 48k with external tape.
