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Can't remember for the life of me...Hi guys, first post here, only 20, but I had a spectrum for a fair amount of those years (until the keyboard stopped working :() There was a text ba…
... a fair amount of those years (until the keyboard stopped working ... :()
There was a text based ... the life of me remember the name, but I remember a few of the ... things you could do/that were in the game ... -
Can't remember name of a Text AdventureHello there! I can't remember the name of this Text Adventure I used to play... and to complicate things further, there's not much i remember from t…
... I can't remember the name of this Text Adventure I used to ... />
In one of the scenes near the house (2 or 3 ... "smell reminiscent of rotting fruit" and the "buzzing of many insects"
of finding the still-warm remains of campfire... but ... -
What's the name of this game ? (not a quiz)I once played an adventure-game on a Speccy, back in the 80's, but I have forgotten the name. The main character's name was maybe Harry. He was he…
... images in the game, like a drawing of the room where the character was ... in. It was not just plain text ... .
Then the aim was to ... -
The life and times of a tempWell my boss at my job has been acting funny ever since the end of last week, and low and behold today I go to pick my check up from the agency and b…
... acting funny ever since the end of last week, and low and behold ... pick my check up from the agency and boom, I've ... with 4 other guys, if the bastards wanted to save money ... they shouldn't have hired the extra 4 fellas in ... -
Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... , blood stained den of eniquity.....
the only place in town ... not open all day in the week
The Cricketers - meh
the town pubs all that much, plenty of them, but ... -
The next update of FUSE?Uberjack (author of the great FUSE PSP) tells me that FUSE (PC/Linux) is due to be updated soon. I thought FUSE more or less did everything (except f…
Uberjack (author of the great FUSE PSP) tells ... everything (except for reading .pok POKE files), so I was wondering ... held down, runs the game at the full speed of the host PC (useful ... for bypassing static screens) until the ... -
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…
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Anyway the other week i decided to get rid of my bamboo ... went to pass him one of the blinds and he just continued ... estate as most of the houses are owned by the Indian family who ... not living in the new houses on the outskirts of town. The thing that ... -
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…
... of all time[/B]
Including VGChartz software data for the week ... making it the best selling videogame of all time. The game, bundled ... games as a minor part of the entertainment industry.
... often derided by owners of the 360/PS3 as being ... -
Jet Set Willy - the Attic BugJust thinking about this game and that it couldn't be completed without a patch. Did anyone discover it wasn't completable or had the news and patch …
... 't completable or had the news and patch already ... to a certain part of the game before I read ... about it in the magazines. I used the POKE probably from Robin ... get past the admittedly tricky Banyan tree last week, I ... was only prepared to play one set of ... -
what is the purpose of "Group begin/end" entry in a .tzx file ?As far as I understand, for the same information purpose I can use either of the two methods (let's say some levels, each level comprising of several…
... purpose I can use either of the two methods (let's say ... /> I.
[color=blue]Text description for the following data[/color]
the tape)
Text description for the following data[/color ... -
the weirdest cover art / inlay text..I just got a tape the other day , I think that qualifies for both hence the thread. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012421[/u…
I just got a tape the other day , I ... that qualifies for both hence the thread.
... the inlay text....
A MESSAGE FROM HOWARD
The aim of the ... you must be one of those dumb ape-creatures ... /> what I think of your half witted attempt ... -
The Sadness of my Decaying Speccies.I've been avidly collecting ZX Spectrums since the late 90's and whilst at the time of the late 90's and early millennium my Spectrums and associated…
... s and whilst at the time of the late 90's and ... today as I catalogued the serial number of my kit, I ... data for a week or so, before the file not found ... now that almost all of the original owner spectrums are ... now in the hands of collectors? Or are ... -
The Death of Arcades and why it sucks...For the past week I've been travelling, and I've been in at least 7 diferent airports... spent lots and lots (and lots) of hours in them waiting for …
For the past week I've been travelling, and ... over the place...
Nowadays with the "death" of the arcades and the idea ... because after a week with out any kind of games, I came ... -
Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... to various parts of the innards. The pics are quite ... at the bottom of the CPU and, following the trace ... the machines build date? Is that the 8215 on the top of the modulator (15th week of ... '82)? If so then it was built approximately 1 week before the ... -
The end of the road for the CD is nearWell, it seems that cds are now definately on the road out. There was a report last week that Mercury will stop pressing cd's at the end of next yea…
... on the road out. There was a report last week that ... Mercury will stop pressing cd's at the end of ... look at HMV's sales, the same is going for DVDs ... as i like to have the music in my hands ... ).
The writing has been on the wall for the cd for ... -
An apology to Mark Jones and David and Anna from The Attic BugI've wanted to post this for a week, but I'd involved a moderator because I wanted to have the thread locked right away and they were going to vote o…
... to post this for a week, but I'd involved ... I wanted to have the thread locked right away ... back so instead of posting the full text here I'm ... this thread and that the first moderator that comes ... to get the whole picture – or asked – instead of just ranting ... -
This week is 'Retro Week' on The Register[QUOTE][B]Retro Week[/B] Thirty years ago today, a pre-knighthood Sir Clive Sinclair launched his first colour computer, the ZX Spectrum, and the ea…
[QUOTE][B]Retro Week[/B]
Thirty ... colour computer, the ZX Spectrum, and the early 1980s home ... of the many, many other - usually incompatible - 8-bit micros of the ... days coverage of computing in the 80s: the machines, the games, the listings - ... -
Renegade:Attack of the Clones :)I have been examining the code of Renegade recently as I really like this game and would like to know how it is done. Look what I have discovered : …
I have been examining the code of Renegade recently as I really ... discovered :
POKE 38337,0 POKE 38338,0 (48 kB ... /> Actually I like the idea of making some mod/remix of this game ... it in the future, But I have a lot of Spectrum projects ... -
Kindle version of 'The ZX Spectrum on Your PC'Any Kindle users out there interested in owning a copy of my book, 'The ZX Spectrum on Your PC', might be interested in knowing I've finally gotten a…
... The-ZX-Spectrum-Your-ebook/dp/B00BX01SMA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text ... The-ZX-Spectrum-Your-ebook/dp/B00BX01SMA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text ... something in the region of 77p in the UK, 99c in the US and ... rates).
Of course, the book remains free here on ... -
Identifying the authors of classical beeper tunesDear all, I am currently working on a small demo, a compilation of some classic beeper tracks from ZX Spectrum games dated between 1985 and 1992. Alt…
... include into my demo a text that would precisely specify ... (if possible) who was the author of the beeper engine. In order ... Whittaker (introduction contains text "JAS C BROOKE DID THE MUSIC", while ... other titles)? Is he the author of the beeper engine as well ... -
What's the POKE that removes the Start Tape message when saving?I'm sure there is one... you could POKE one of the system variables and when you SAVEd it would do it without the pause and the Start Tape message. …
... is one... you could POKE one of the system variables and when you ... would do it without the pause and the Start Tape message.
the screen at a higher address ... -
The Spectrum Resuscitation ThreadKicking off this thread as a place where people who are fixing/restoring Spectrums (or indeed any other piece of related hardware) can show off their…
... kind of thing well.
So earlier this week I ... well as all of the 74LS chips (funnily enough, the replacement 4116' ... 'POKE 32768,85: PRINT PEEK 32768' returned 93, so consulting the ... chop of the membrane tails to get the keyboard working, here's the ... -
Playtesters required for "The Axe of Kolt"Hi all, My name is Larry Horsfield and my name may be familiar to text adventure fans as the author of several games from the 1990's such as "Magnet…
... be familiar to text adventure fans as the author of several games from ... /> Some of you may have played the "Megpoints" competition version of the adventure which ... ]reliable[/U] playtesters for the ADRIFT version of "The Axe of Kolt", which I ... -
JSW1 - The Attic Bug In ActionThe well known "attic bug" caused by invalid arrow data. By applying a couple of extra pokes in addition to the usual lives / fall height to remove s…
... detection...
POKE 37982,0
POKE 37994,0
POKE 34795.X
... making its way across from the bottom of the screen:
[ ... br />
At this stage, the text for items collected starts to ... -
Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[SIZE=6][B]Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[/B][/SIZE] [URL="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/15005543009_7bcf3b3031_o…
[SIZE=6][B]Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[/B ... 16k RAM chips, bottom left of the board) should be between +11V ... and +13V
[*]The +12V (for the LM1889N colour encoder chip ... some other issue boards next week. -
180 - Still the king of darts games on any format?When I first got GTA V I had a go at the darts mini game at the bar near Trevors house. Multi million pound game, and the implementation of darts wa…
... a go at the darts mini game at the bar near Trevors ... million pound game, and the implementation of darts was crap. 301? Who ... , nobody!
So this week I revisited 180. I put ... think? Is it still king of the darts games on ANY format ... -
The text edition window shrinksJust when I thought that all my problems here were solved , another bug has popped up : When I begin writing a message , no matter if a new discussi…
... just after typing the first character the text edition window ... I can still write the message and scroll through ... line of the text at a time . Additionally , the characters ... the text in the "Activity" window which behaves normally . Then I copy the text to the ... -
The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
... of the esxDOS v0.8.0 release was coded in 1 week ... he is preparing the release of the API to the public.
... it more portable, etc), and the development of the "DivMMC" stalled.
... interface based on the (at the time) state of the FPGA DivMMC prototype ... -
Jet-Set Willy: The Text Adventure!!! :DSo, having been playing quite a bit of Zork, and Colossal Cave Adventure of late, I thought to myself, why not mix it up with another childhood class…
... /> I reckon a text adventure version of JSW could be quite ... springboard basis for a text adventure game... Strangely ... semi detached on the lip of the basin, uprooted from the ceramics.
Potential as a text adventure (the concept that is - not ... -
Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. BUGFIX.While playing around I managed to put the game in a bugged state. When the game is in this state any enemy that's facing right while executing an att…
... doesn't resets the jump variable that holds the state of the jump, so ... [b]POKE 44989,195[/b]
Another thing, in the c64 ... made a poke that allows Usagi to be closer to the ground ... br />
Shuriken Improvement: [b]POKE 40540,42[/b]
