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Games TM - they don't seem to like the Speccy do they?Or is it just me? I've been reading a load of issues recently that I didn't have the time to read earlier - and can't help but notice this seems to …
... the retro "world" to dismiss the Spec as always being graphically inferior to the ... detail over blocky colour any day of the week."
... to have, is it? Yes, Bomb Jack is pants on the ... and play the best versions, without resorting to the tit-for- ... -
100 envelopesWell, in the pursuit of a new job I have just finished writing 100 covers letters and posted them off with CVs to various offices around Belfast. Wh…
... day off to ask me where I was, and caused me to have to ... them to forget it, because I've seen a recruitment day for ... really, really want this job. Perfect for me. No traffic at ... going home in the opposite direction to the rush hour traffic. The hourly rate ... -
last nightwent round to a workmates for a drink and smoke session .....first time ive been out on a friday night for ages. i got smashed. caught the bus home…
... -army types to travel town to town imprinting respect on the foreheads of ... .
Its hard to go out 'on the fief' when your arms ... they rob and steal all day to get their fix.We'd ... possible because crime rates would drop dramatically. -
Network issues?Hi folks, The past 2 weeks, I noticed a dramatic drop in FTP traffic from the WoS archive, which I can't quite seem to explain. The amount of files …
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The past 2 weeks, I noticed a dramatic drop in FTP ... traffic from the WoS archive, which ... the maximum number of files one is allowed to get per day has ... -
It's near halloween so here is a true ghost storyWhen I lived in Sweden(here I go again). I stayed for a in cabin deep in the woods with my gf for a bit. For 3 nights she was called to work and I wa…
... years. One day many years ago his Dad went to an old ... /> So in he went to the room where the television was, as directed ... think?
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TZX 2 WAV requiredHi, Francisco Javier Crespo here (author of TZX2WAV)? or someone who knows his e-mail address or nick... need to send him some feedback of using T…
... tonight I've managed to delete the latest source code and ... br />
:) beer is always the nightmare of creative people... but ... loading it all to emulator... this takes half a day or whole ... /> maybe you could drop a note to Francisco to agree with using his ... -
Livingstone Supongo 2How to complete Livingstone Supongo 2, Part II? I collected all five potions, but what to do then?
... ! :o
Firstly, restore the original data with
to rescue your snap.
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Public Domain SoftwareFAO Andy Barker. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Screen+Compressor$&pub=^Mikropol$"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infosee…
... archived was the Comms stuff - never had chance to compile it ... . Somebody wanted firefox or somehing just the other day ... was writing comms software for the Spectrum 20 years ago!< ... be happy to drop it down to you some time.
The only ... -
RARE/Ultimate games!I recently bought an XBOX 360 and Perfect Dark Zero, and it made me realise how much i missed RARE and Ultimate - Play The Game. Anyone else have an…
... ?) and I loved Underwurlde, to this day it's my favourite Ultimate ... , Rare brought out Perfect Dark, to my mind the best game ever. It ... on the N64; Perfect Dark, Goldeneye and Conker's Bad Fur Day. I ... -
Would you buy speccy games if they were made/sold today?Say for some crazy instant that ZX Spectrum came back on the scene bigtime and they started making selling ZX Spectrum versions of the latest games, …
... clash. The whole Pokemon phenomenon is a perfect example of ... could be translated effectively to the Spectrum (a bit ... the 1990s and the modern day. Britain would have to resemble the ... /> Or if the government had tried to bolster the British computer industy ... -
Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
... pushing values to the calculator stack etc, but at the end of the day it ... compiles a PRINT statement to a ... method (which destroys the printer buffer) is less than perfect. I'm ... -
Funniest Spectrum-related memorySeeing the emulated loading screen on the Dreamcast speccy emulator reminded me of something from many moons ago. I was in the local computer shop w…
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On the way home from school one day with my speccy ... mates we stopped of at the local newsagents to ... get the latest issue of ... solution to Contact: Sam Cruise. It was perfect apart from at the end ... -
Retro GamerI'm really quite sad, but I am cancelling my delivery of retro-gamer. I got as far as Issue 21, but it's just not doing anything for me now. Added …
... the mag and I am amking steps to resolve this. In a perfect ... world I'd be spending the ... each month and trying to find the time to squeeze everything else in ... 'm always willing to listen to ideas, so feel free to drop me a ... -
Arcade games that never got converted to the SpeccyOver the years, loads of arcade games never did make it to the Speccy. What games would you have like to have seen converted to the Spectrum?
... reproducing most arcade games of the day.
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Obviously ... used to playing on MAME, where the controls aren't as responsive. Bomb ... no music. So, at the end of the day, pretty much all you ... -
Arcade games that never got converted to the SpeccyOver the years, loads of arcade games never did make it to the Speccy. What games would you have like to have seen converted to the Spectrum?
... reproducing most arcade games of the day.
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Obviously ... used to playing on MAME, where the controls aren't as responsive. Bomb ... no music. So, at the end of the day, pretty much all you ... -
OK lets be honest, which great games were infact TOO FUGGIN HARDLeading on from another thread there are many great speccy games, so called Crash Smashes etc etc. But infact are they that good when they're so bloo…
... bought it until this day I've never got ... hard, miss the pixel perfect landing, restart, miss the pixel perfect landing, restart ... forms): with the amazing psychic ability to be able to jump 1 ... just seemed impossible to pass the room with the pots stacked up ... -
"The ZX Spectrum Book" preview chapter updated...Hi all. I've updated the preview chapter from 1987 with a few changes... * review scores. * several layout changes. * Nick Humphries' history of 19…
... haven't had time to read the content, but the layout is spot ... need to get creative, or maybe just accept that whilst the cover ... be times when the rectangle won't be perfect. (i.e. ... sent you the other day should be OK, especially the one with the transparent ... -
Here to go!Welcome to the new look! This migration took [B]a lot[/B] longer than expected (2 hours on the test setup, 5 hours on WoS), but everything ought to b…
... the moderators, I would like to be able to set the "From the" drop-down value to ... more than the last day ... .
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Here to go!Welcome to the new look! This migration took [B]a lot[/B] longer than expected (2 hours on the test setup, 5 hours on WoS), but everything ought to b…
... the moderators, I would like to be able to set the "From the" drop-down value to ... more than the last day ... .
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There's a Berlusconi hanging over me.Election day in Italy. This afternoon the exit-polls saw the left coalition ("Unione)" largely winning. Now, it seems, the evil dwarf has regained gr…
... every day, and nobody minds it to take advantage of the weaker ... would like to be perfect as the role promoted by the televison but ... than it's time to shift to the opposite direction and change ... is looking forward to go back to his country one day and find ... -
Stuff for SaleHi all, To clear some space, we've decided to sell some games. This is what we have: PS1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Star Wars: Epis…
... the closest follower to GE's formulae, aside from Rare's own Perfect ... Enough. And in the 2002 film Die Another Day, Bond is in ... the MI6 building when it ... so they said "No" to the contract to produce the next Bond game, and ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... trophies)
Outrun Coast to Coast (what game could be ... a pure classic is just perfect)
Infected (each ... agree that the majority of the time I just want to have a ... ...cooooooool.
At the end of the day ist 'horses for courses ... -
Share your best practical jokesWhat is the best practical joke you've ever pulled? Mine: I used to work in a bookies in Belfast, and occasionally we would come across small corne…
... company and wanted to confirm fitting for the next day. She kept denying ... put my 'secretary' on the phone to confirm the booking. She in turn ... bit good, so for one day maybe for some random reason ... back over the road to mine as we had a perfect view of ... -
What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …
... considerably whetted my appetite the night before) and was ... at 2 in the morning the next day before sleep finally ... the toilet, bath, food and even chatting with friends who happened to drop ... in (and who proceeded to watch me play the game for the ... -
Eng vs Paraguay: BORING!Must say it was uninspirational stuff except for the Beckham freekick in the opening minutes of the game! And the English attack all but disappeared …
Unconvincing start, especially after the early goal. The only bright spot is ... we do tend to start slowly ... performance today. Ericsson does appear to have made a mistake in ... not matchfit yet.
A perfect day yet still concerns. -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... going to do it, unfortunately we dont live in a perfect world. The ... PC just happened to become the popular home computer and windows the ... if you want to pay me 6 grand a day I'll ... applications, pay me 500 a day and I'll recommand windows ... -
Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... the best for the exact same reasons as was given for Perfect ... Dark - but the fundamental difference is that the game can be modded to ... t shoot them in the arm for them to drop their weapon, PD ... I detest the Xen levels. The trouble with both HLs, to me, ... -
Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... about what might one day exist, we're ... exists now, comparing present day games (and mods), and ... the hand off the player, and have the ability to pick the ... the results:
Game.............IGN.................Gamespot
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Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... 20-something year old games to the public domain, now they ... they might be a perfect marriage! The console is after all where ... />
this goes right to the heart of the matter. W98SE is extremely ... I use Windows almost every day, and fix/upgrade my friends ... -
The best ever isometric game on the Speccy.Lets see the show of hands in numbers eh? ;) For sheer nostalgia I have a soft spot for Batman and I really enjoyed playing it. However, Head over H…
... very hard to complete , i mean scrolling down to see the walkthrough and ... /> Practice makes perfect...!
HoH is one of the few games ... had actually completed back in the day.
When I created ...
