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  • Freeview - interesting timesabc1's gone, and ch15 is still free. FTN's gone, now replaced by Virgin 1, which looks potentially interesting, but restricted to a 4:3 picture. Nu…

    ... /> They showed the Top Gear American special at the start of the week. The announcer said ... before the program "this is the one where the ... them".

    Except that the Dave version edited out that ...
    NickH NickH October 2007 Chit chat
  • Loading MessagesHi, I've dug out some more unfinished stuff and plan to make up some loaders for it before I submit it to the archive.. Is it possible to create a …

    ... of the filename, and the 'comma' control code at the end (to obliterate the rest of the ... 'Program:' text that the ...
    gasman gasman October 2007 Development
  • Games were you where a Master!trough out times, there have been a few games where I was simply beter than any one else...in some of them just in a level... In Spectrum I think It…

    ... all forms on the SNES (This is the man who ... Silent Hill: PS1
    Soul of the Samurai: PS1
    Tekken ... Adventure: Megadrive
    Castle of Illusion :Megadrive/Master System< ... I sat and thought of all the games I'd ... , and maybe for the rest of the week :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2007 Games
  • Help!!!i had to re boot my computer recently and now i keep getting a message saying somthing about a generic host and win 32 problem.Please could anyone h…

    just got on so its not crashed yet! when it does i`ll make a note of the exact text.yeah my mcafee is up to date and i preformed a search and destroy just before i powered down so just waiting for the inevitable now
    Ragged_Sapper Ragged_Sapper November 2007 Chit chat
  • The wordjust been watching classic performances from nirvana and L7 off the word on youtube :P also remember mark lammarr arguing with shabba ranks about him…

    [QUOTE=mel the bell;227558]just been ... from nirvana and L7 off the word on youtube :P[/QUOTE ... on a swivel chair across the room using a rope tied ... isn't a prog like The Word anymore. That other prog ... it (they had a wanker of the week thing I think) was naff ...
    VincentAC VincentAC November 2007 Chit chat
  • Can anybody recommend some funny text adventure games?Any really funny text adventure games out there? I'm just getting into text adventures again, so any REALLY FUNNY recommendations would be much appr…

    Yup Escape by Tartan Software.

    One of the few text adventures I actually finished :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2007 Games
  • Fairytale of New York - edited[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm[/url] I actually dont mind this 'Xmas' song at all. I cant believe the PC brigade have go…

    ... to have the long drive to see the gf at the time.

    Remember listening back in the 90's thinking how do ... always mentioned his local pub the 'Hand Shandy'.[/quote]
    Mark ... Upper Lip as their record of the week?

    I still listen ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler December 2007 Chit chat
  • Fairytale of New York - edited[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm[/url] I actually dont mind this 'Xmas' song at all. I cant believe the PC brigade have go…

    ... Upper Lip as their record of the week?

    I still listen ... Radcliffe with Stuart Maconie in the evening, still very entertaining.[/QUOTE ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk December 2007 Chit chat
  • ** Vu-meter competition **Apologies if this is in the wrong section. At the moment, the official number of entries is [COLOR="Red"]0[/COLOR]. :p [B][U]Why?[/U][/B] I was tr…

    [QUOTE=zxbruno;233118]Yes, please! :)[/QUOTE]

    Ok, I'm kinda busy at the mo but I'll put somthing together by the end of the week.

    Andrew.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk December 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Finally...Yes :smile: I've finally reached one thousand posts. And yes, I know that many other people have reached that august figure too, but for most of t…

    ... West bombs you off the face of the Earth! The Pope be praised!". ... be crushed by the mighty Christian armies of the West[/I]".< ... , reasonable people found the treatment of the teacher over that Teddy ... you'll be in the 1000's by the end of the week, max.
    ewgf ewgf January 2008 Chit chat
  • What games to review ?Doing quite well with the Speccy Review Book (643 pages, 525 games reviewed) [url=http://www.sabremultimedia.com/speccybook/speccybook.htm]Speccy bo…

    Yep sounds great please send it on, very happy to have reviews of the main text adventures
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2008 Games
  • What games to review ?Doing quite well with the Speccy Review Book (643 pages, 525 games reviewed) [url=http://www.sabremultimedia.com/speccybook/speccybook.htm]Speccy bo…

    [QUOTE=psj3809;239566]Yep sounds great please send it on, very happy to have reviews of the main text adventures[/QUOTE]

    Ok, no worries... I'll email it to you at some point today/tonight!!
    GreenCard GreenCard January 2008 Games
  • Text adventuresI never found much fun in playing these when I was younger but have now with maturity started to enjoy them a little more. Has anyone got any pointer…

    ... not too hard, one of the few text games I've actually finished ... /> But one of my faves is Bulbo and the lizard king, it ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2008 Games
  • Does this program exist?I've seen many maps of text adventures here on WoS and was wondering if there is a special flow-chart/diagram program available just for those sort o…

    ... the little details, like the different colours, compactness of text, ease of reading, etc. Many of the ... other text adventure ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... , no colour clash certainly - but the player's spacecraft looked a ... crap didn't it , and the game itself was so S ... Flying Shark instead any day of the week
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley February 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... , no colour clash certainly - but the player's spacecraft looked a ... crap didn't it , and the game itself was so S ... Flying Shark instead any day of the week[/QUOTE]

    As for ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley February 2008 Games
  • MS Acces Help Again!!I have a DB in access that has the following tables: [b]Questionnaire[/b] QID [color="blue"]INT[/color] [color="red"]P-Key[/color] Questionnaire…

    Set the Control Source property of the Question Text text box to:

    ...
    (Assuming that frmQuestionnaire is the name of the form).

    Alternatively ... the Control Source property of your text fields to the corresponding fields of the ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2008 Chit chat
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... of your existing game ideas or completed games to the ... still haven't forgotten about the "Othello" article to ... .WOMOTEAM.DE[/URL] the release of a new magazine is ...
    As stated in the thread about Wolgang's illness ... version ready at the end of the week.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... .WOMOTEAM.DE[/URL] the release of a new magazine is ... really is the main man for the ongoing management of the mag.< ... br />
    [QUOTE]
    As stated in the ... a PvP version ready at the end of the week.[/QUOTE]

    ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2008 Development
  • Does this program exist?I've seen many maps of text adventures here on WoS and was wondering if there is a special flow-chart/diagram program available just for those sort o…

    ... the little details, like the different colours, compactness of text, ease of reading, etc. Many of the ... other text adventure ...
    dabac dabac February 2008 Games
  • sausage muncheri had a sausage casserole this weekend, 'twas very tasty. it came out of one of those colemans packets. All i had to do was to add the sausages, onio…

    [QUOTE=beanz;247089]You can get that at fiesta too.[/QUOTE]

    nice one, make up the spare room, i'll be there by the end of the week.
    mile mile February 2008 Chit chat
  • New Spectrum GameAs some of you may be aware I've been busy working on a Shoot-Em-Up Designer utility for the past few weeks. As the program is pretty much there now…

    ... , I am at the point where it asks ... input SYM+A at the end of the intro text but nothing happens. ... move around to the start of the sentence, removing the text (it seems to ... happens when I do the SYM+A there, then ... I tried the command finder (SYM+A= ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2008 Games
  • YSRnRY: Introducing the "Virtual News Stand"OK, so it's a rubbish name, but the new feature's quite nifty in that it ties in the magazine page image scan archive on the World Of Spectrum websit…

    ... little work. I got the idea at the start of the week, and it's ... just a twiddle on the back of the ... bit of trimming at the bottom of the webpages. Just a shame most of the page ...
    NickH NickH March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I just got Digi-cable.....Nice !I've just got digital cable in yesterday afternoon, so now I can finally watch Brit TV in the USA woohoo. Just watched the Everton and Portsmouth gam…

    ... as The Monster of Peladon, Destiny of the Daleks, The Horns of Nimon, Time-Flight, The Twin ... with the trusty screwdriver, or rely on a helpful assisstant/alien-of-the-week ... to save the day.


    JamesW JamesW March 2008 Chit chat
  • any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…

    ... should *always* be #1, and the other two shouldn't even ... ! Chaos trumps HoH any day of the week (except sundays, sunday's are ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve March 2008 Games
  • any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…

    [QUOTE=SnakeOilSteve;251756]You sir are completely hatstand! Chaos trumps HoH any day of the week (except sundays, sunday's are Chaos' day off).[/QUOTE]

    Well said young man!
    [FOAD]Iron [FOAD]Iron March 2008 Games
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... through properly. How about replacing the print statement in this maze ...
    bigjon bigjon March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... /> With a poke of the attribute file, along the lines of:
    POKE 22528+i[I ... mode if the player holds down e (for Einar!) using POKE 22528 ... back.[/quote]

    The POKE into the attribute file is worth working ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... generation section
    With a poke of the attribute file[/QUOTE]

    the current version, since it basically ... this:

    [CODE]
    POKE 22528+s*32+r,8 ... br />
    which has exactly the same size.

    However ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • name the game in the picture, pleasecould anybody name the text adventure in the picture on the right, please ??? [url]http://lifeslices.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/play-classic-zx-spectru…

    [QUOTE=cichlasoma;253925]thanks!
    (in my browser, i see it besides robocop, on the right.)
    (looks cool, could be the first text adventure i try :-) )[/QUOTE]

    It's definately one of the best text adventures on the Speccy. :smile:
    GreenCard GreenCard March 2008 Games
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