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Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…
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Whaaaaaaat?Check out this auction ... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3025557192&category=11994"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.…
... right???) or ANY company for that matter, can afford to do such ... -
Mortadelo y Filemon games?This is especially addressed to Javier: are there any Spectrum (or for other platform, for that matter) games based on the popular Spanish comic 'Mor…
... (nor Mortadelo y Filemon for that matter...)
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GTA: Vice City C64 IntroI've just got Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for the PC. It's intro contains a short 'tribute' to the C64 - did this appear on the PS2 version too? Yeah…
The people that made the game were based in Scotland I think, so they should know better. But of course, it's a global market nowadays, and it is set in the US.
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Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…
... just me, but I find that 3D horizontal rules (HR tags ... quite a number of users that are WOS regulars (hopefully not ... , not a brilliant *anything* for that matter).
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More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
... an entire Basic program for that matter, using numbers and the same ... change any line number to that number.
example:< ... anything before that line 100 it will change that instead. That was just ... saved it to autostart with that BREAK Poke in there, ... -
What is YOUR eBay I.D?A lot of us on these forums use eBay. Just curious, what is everyone's eBay i.d? here is a link to mine - I never bother sellnig anything in July/…
... Zynaps and other games for that matter?
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Most sought after gamesWhich original games are most sought after by the avid Speccy collector??
... listed or not listed for that matter in infoseek ala MIA/STP ... -
help me find 2 more games. pleaseGame#1: You control a man OR vampire who runs around the dracula castle destroying coffins and collecting items. Game#2: You control a turret on the…
Second game sounds like Beach Head, which I played on the C64 but never on the Spectrum.
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Edge magazine and Spectrum originalityI was reading a letter in the new issue of Edge magazine that said there were very, very few games of any originality on the Spectrum, because the on…
... for the slight bias, is that people that owned other machines constantly feel ... -
Edge magazine and Spectrum originalityI was reading a letter in the new issue of Edge magazine that said there were very, very few games of any originality on the Spectrum, because the on…
... the slight bias, is that people that owned other machines constantly feel ...
There was nothing that was actually more sad and ... computer/console" playground arguments that existed in the early ... />
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Ultimate Play the GameHi there.I've just registered on the site and was wondering if anyone knew the reason why most software houses allow downloads of their games,yet UPT…
... from Martijn without involving other people. That said, there ARE companies who ... -
Uncle Clive speakLink to an Uncle Clive interview: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/CliveSinclairInterview1982/"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/CliveSinclairInter…
... them for things that i can do that i find enjoyment ... sometimes, and no doubt that with them it's made ... thanks to all the people that have come up with great ... newer versions of windows that's why it's ... against the Amiga sites, that I slowly just drifted away ... -
Remakes for sale on Ebay, Legit ?Chuckie Egg... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041405931&category=11994&rd=1"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View…
well, technically i think selling information is not illegal. it sounds stupid yea, but theers plenty of people that dont know about these places and aren't sharp enough to do a google search in the first place.
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Dragons LairI remember the local Ice Cream shop(O'Driscolls) got Dragons Lair in 1995. It was the first interactive video game in County Tipperary, Ireland. When…
... worse fool than the ones that would waste 50p to play ... />
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Spectrum ConsoleWhat about a very simple device that would allow people to run Spectrum games without a PC? Something along the lines of the Intellivision or Atari d…
... I would like to remind people that the Spectrum was never exactly ... as a games machine and that many of the best games ... -
Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…
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Got some people actually sending in that they like them. They ... much as do most other people. And that "Mr Head is square ... representation.
>Phew, that's the reasons why I ... . I am glad that 99.9% of people that downloaded it and made ... -
Combat(from Atari)...similar game for spectrum?Hi, One of my favorite games was combat for the atari. [url="http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=94"]http://www.atariage.com…
I don't like that idea.
the beauty ... it 2 player.
Even people that don't much play video ... -
The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…
... . But what does that matter when it's gameplay that counts? Both games ... sum of their parts, and that's what made them what ... more important, and producing something that just gels is the most ... -
Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…
Isn't it funny that these people that have strange unhealthy relationships, also have beards.
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are all the spanish games bad ?can anyone explain why a lot the spanish (mainly dinamic) games seem to play the same way , same huge graphics , same boring scrolling shoot em up , …
... thought (as most of Spanish people) that Spanish games were among the ... -
Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…
... , it's always the French that come up with the goods ... /> Isn't it funny that these people that have strange unhealthy relationships, also ... -
Do you think the Speccy will live forever?Sorry if this was already discussed, but what do you REALLY think...will the Speccy live forever, or will the machine die with our generation... I …
Things that are directly relevant to ... exciting things. It doesn't matter how good a game is ... a song or movie for that matter), it can never quite have ... when it becomes "old". That's why when they have ... are after 1967, because that's when the world changed ... -
OT: I hate modern music!Sorry for this off topic thread, but I've been subjected to one hip hop/ r'n'b record too many when out tonight. Why do we have to listen to this? …
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The Darkness aren't *that* bad, and it's a ... but the commercial stuff that gets in the charts and ... DJ Shadow and anything that looked good from reading Future ... far cry from a people that work hard to make a ... living from music that will never have mass ... -
Hi! I'm new here! :)Hello, I mainly use my Amiga(!) nowadays but i have always been a fan of the ZX Spectrum computers. I used to own a 48k and +2 range. I now play the…
... ... just wanted to say that there are people that think all 8-bits ... -
Bootable emulator?Just had a look at the page of the 'bootable emulator' by Emanuele. Sadly, the translation from Italian to English by Babel Fish leaves much to be de…
the author does say that it is pretty useless ... so is Amiga XL for that matter even though it runs ... emulators emulating different models that would be a plus ... PC floppy drive is possible that would be a plus. ... about it myself, except that he said it's an ... -
Deviants 48k?Hi All I noticed the archive indicates that "Deviants" by players is a 128k game but I can assure you I spent long ours mapping that game on my old …
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Blood Brothers mapI checked the WOS update and had a peek at this ... my GOD it looks awful. A pefectly decent map completely and utterly destroyed by the use of the J…
madmekon - don't stop making the maps just because I said I don't like them... there are other people that like them even if they are mis-aligned ! I am a perfectionist and that is just my opinion... sorry if I offended you in some way.
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Speccy modems and telnetDid anyone use a modem for the Spectrum back in the heyday of the British service telnet? I wish I had known a bit more about it at the time, that wo…
... about it at the time, that would have been a crazy ... , or were there only 3 people that ever got their modem to ... of the sinclair mailing list that preceeded it. 300 baud was ... -
Codemasters petition and suchAbout a year ago there was talk and a petition to get codemasters to release their back catalogue, either to the public domain or on CD... Did anyth…
... of the reasons that codemasters (and Elite for that matter) don't want ...