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The cheek of some peopleAges back i posted about the excellent yahoo group freecycle. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12443&highlight=freecycle…
... on the door bang on time. The woman was quite small and the blinds ... were 6ft long and quite cumbersome so ... to walking back round the corner and getting the blinds back but decided ... -
The Spectrum ConsoleI was looking through the March '91 issue of Your Sinclair when i noticed an advert for the Computer Express (or something like that) and the front p…
I was looking through the March '91 issue of Your ... advert for the Computer Express (or something like that) and the front pages ... said 'the spectrum console'. I don ... Did it appear? I think the advert said it was from ... -
The Cecco controversySo as I said in the other thread, I'd try out Cybernoid - since I've never played a Cecco game, and never seen one, I'd be coming from a position of …
... , good music.
* The selection of weapons and the tradeoffs you need to ... make are good.
* The level ... is bloody annoying, and having to replay the first few screens over ... -
Found 128k +2 in the garbageHey there, I had a 48k Plus when I was a kid (still have, actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I know the basic of these computers. …
... the rubbers are good, the keyboard membrane looks good too and so do the ... I de-soldered it and opened it and the components are fine, just ... like the circuit board. The peripherals connectors ... -
The official Pandora handheld threadHas anyone here got a Pandora yet? If so, what do you think of it? Is it as comfortable to hold and use as we're all hoping? What is the screen like …
... 's the default software and operating system like to use? And the current available ... in all the documentation and features are available for everyone, and there's ... spelt Pandora wrong in the thread title, and the edit function won't ... -
Ive just got back some of my old..............punk singles i used to own back in the 80s *wanks cock furiously* gonna cost me ?20 SLF Nobodys hero Gotta getaway Straw dogs (no cover)…
... cover)
Questions and answers
The Skids
Goodbye ... The Damned
Grimly fiendish (no cover)
Alberto y lost ... disc)
Peter and the test tube babies
Zombie ... i had em in the 80s, and hes had em about ... -
Do DVD menus spoil anyone elses viewing ?Many a time have i bought or rented a film or TV series and i haven't previously seen. After navigating the usually anti piracy bits you are then sho…
... 3 and I click on the episode "A Death in The Family" and am ... greeted by screenshots of the ... while being during the "Cold Start" completely lost any impact and the way it ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum ... something being easier and faster on the Speccy than the C64.
... effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on the C64 including paralax ... it's late game Dragon and the whole screen flickers to ... -
The Quill[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006857"]The Quill[/URL] is listed as "The Quill Adventure System" which is what is reported i…
... is what is reported inside the program. However, all [ ... the same note, I have a "family pack" of both "The Quill" and "The ... Illustrator" in the same box (big, ... are separate instruction booklets and one tape with each program ... -
About the Gyron PDFThese instructions in PDF are in Gyron Arena, but I think they must be in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002194"]Gyron[/URL]…
... instructions talk about the two parts: Atrium and Necropolis, and the main page (of ... PDF) is similar to the inlay ... -
microdrive problems and interface 1I am having problems with microdrive. Whatever I try, the motor starts for a second or two and error message shows up "microdrive not present". If I…
... try, the motor starts for a second or two and error message ... interrupt by turning off power) and the motor is noisy.
Once ... , the CAT 1 command also worked ... to break it.
The interface1 seems to be working ... -
The quality of Ootub vids (short rant with a question)[RANT] Why, oh, why is it that the quality of uytobe videos go down so drastically after ULing? You don't have to answer it ... I already know the a…
... ... I already know the answer for the most part and I understand that ... that). I just hate the fuzzyness and the outoffocus-smoothing they apply sucks ... the job but the raw videofile is much better than the output on the ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 30 November 2008Sunday 30 November 2008 Happy Birthday, WOS! * Archie Robins sent in POKEs for Super Chopper. * La Sole sent in POKEs for Android Two, Automania, …
... in Making Whoopee!, Phantomas 2 and Phantomas.
... and Turmoil;
POKEs for Automania, Dictator, Eric, the Floaters, Indiana Jones, the ... .
* Paul E Collins sent in tips ... Jet Set Willy 64: Willy and the Dodecahedron, Krakout,
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Vote for the best games everGamefaqs.com are having a best ever game poll, and since Gamefaqs are very well frequented (it's a great site, apart from the trolls and the useless,…
... apart from the trolls and the useless, clueless moderators) the results should be ... every console and handheld ever, plus the PC and Mac) go ... , even against the (very good) bots, and that's why ... screen multiplayer, bots, and you save the babes, not kill ... -
[Need an Editor] Rodnay Zaks' Programming the Z80I'm submitting to WoS this book (as available on [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000292[/url] - English Version - 2nd Edition)…
... do some treatment on the book database PDF files. ... >80Mb books) and create a Table of Contents ... and the choice in fonts for topics and subtopics is not the same across the ... if the current TOC is satisfying or not, and if ... . I'll upload the book on my server ... -
[Discussion] Planned corrections to: The Complete Spectrum ROM DisassemblyOk, folks. Since I'm not obtaining replies from those involved in the previous effort to transcribe The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, I'm going …
... Table of Contents and corrections to the accompanying txt file ... to the current document to grab this chance and post ... ...
Following on the discussion from the initial thread:
the machine we love! And the book that explains ... -
Hmmmm I feel kinda weird, and at a bit of a lossIn the last 10 years or so I've had several people collapse in front of me, out of all those people 2 of them died right there and then, and 1 of the…
... boxes of Rice krispies on the shelf and seemed perfectly fine. When ... round the corner of the ceral aisle, and as I went round the corner the ... talk of I'm tired and the like, that is until I ... saw the blood and he started turning purple ... -
NOW 1 - released 25 years agoIt was pre-pig, IIRC. Now being re-released: Disc: 1 1. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love 2. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know 3. UB…
... br /> 10. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
11. Kajagoogoo ... Stewart - Baby Jane
16. Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My ... 's All
11. The Cure - The Love Cats
12. ... - Waterfront
13. Madness - The Sun And The Rain
14. Culture Club ... -
Recommend a PDF-reader plugin for IE/Ff (WinXP).I've been having misc. problems with PDFs on a work computer. I can read the PDFs just fine but once in a while (couple of times a month since 200…
... associated with the PDF reader (within both IE and Ff) and the computer ... open PDF) etc, etc. The problem is specific to viewing ... times over the years I've re-installed and updated the Adobe ... have lost interest in fixing(the official pdf reader that is) and ... -
Wii Sports is the best selling game of all time!To quote: [url]http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2724[/url] "[B]Wii Sports has now passed lifetime sales of Super Mario Bros (NES) to become the…
... confirm that sales and quality aren't one and the same, or else ... /> But forty million copies! And yet the media still seem to view ... came last in the two prior console wars*, and now they have ... gathering dust by their owners, and the console is often derided by ... -
Ridiculous amount of spyware and shit on my laptopHello specchums, I was having a bit of trouble recently, with my search links from google and yahoo being redrected to some dodgy fake "Check your P…
... I.T. manager in work and ran the full system scan.
So I brought the laptop into work and the I.T. manager had ... a look and was able ... Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and ran it.
Jesus - the amount of ... -
Console wars - does the least powerful machine usually win?In the console and handheld wars, does the least powerful machine usually win? I mean, for example, in the [I]XBox vs. Playstation 2 vs. Gamecube[/I]…
... ].
And the Wii is walking over the 360 and PS3, sales-wise ... the marketplace? and what about older consoles, such as the NES, the Coleco-vision, and the ... Atari 2600, how did they compare to and ... -
IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…
... affect contended memory, and the ULA stops the Z80 clock until ... operation, the ULA has been released the data bus, and the Z80 ... -A15 falls between the mentioned range, AND the ULA is accessed ... real Spectrums.
And the source code (to be assembled ... -
Defender of the crownI have checked recently the Spectrum version of this well known, great game and the Spectrum version is strange. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
... this well known, great game and the Spectrum version is strange.
The graphics are rather inferior to ... in any magazines and it was done by mysterious The Cat company ... , which didn't do anything else and no ... -
The Chuckie Egg playability factorYou all know the story of Chuckie Egg 2 and why it isn't as good as 1. The reason Chuckie Egg is brilliant is because your little dude runs around at…
... all know the story of Chuckie Egg 2 and why it isn ... 't as good as 1. The ... has a daft sound effect, and the game is really easy to ... you can manage to complete the 8 levels but must ... it quits.
The tricky question is - are there ... -
The SnowI'm glad I'm not at work tonight, I'd never get there, the Schools round here are shut so both the kids and the wife are off (she's a dinner lady) I…
I'm glad I'm not at work tonight, I'd never get there, the Schools round here are shut so both the kids and the wife are off (she's a dinner lady)
It's just started again and I believe it's in for the night, what's it like round your way? -
Diary of an Englishman in ScotlandOld but funny....... 20th DECEMBER The first snow we have seen in many years. My wife and me sat in the porch with our hot toddies watching the fluf…
... it. I did our driveway and the pavement. Later that day a ... additional 5 inches last night and the temperature dropped to around minus ... . Lost all my eyebrows and eyelashes. We hit a deer on the way ... to casualty and the car was a ... -
The best ... beginning with "I"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "I", which do you think are the: [B]Bes…
... ", which do you think are the:
... should try both that and illogicall, they're both ... a game): [/B]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
[B] ... B]Best thing connected to the Speccy, not a game ... disc drive of course (the +D and 3.5" DD was ... -
The best ... beginning with "J"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "J", which do you think are the: [B…
... : Jetset Willy 1 and 2 (and the many JSW rewrites on the Speccy, such ... : Willy to the Rescue), Jack the Nipper 1 and 2, Jetpac, and Juggernaut.
My favourite? Jetpac. No, Jack the ... -
Sinclair and the 'Sunrise' TechnologyI have a copy of this book listed on ebay - from 1p no reserve. Postage rates in the auction. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&r…
I have a copy of this book listed on ebay - from 1p no reserve. Postage rates in the auction.
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260359203886[/url]
thanks for looking.
Jc.
