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Your favourite abandonwareJust found a great adventure game called Dreamweb It runs with dosbox, a utility for running old dos-based games. It's a pretty good utility and ca…
... weren't 'abandonware' and lobbying publishers to release their old games ... become 'abandoned' officially by their publishers or original authors. It's ... -
Crazy Bugs! / Beetlemania problem?Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that Crazy Bugs! was originally released by AWA then re-released by Lothlorien under the name o…
I would say that AWA are original publishers with Lothlorien being re-release publishers..
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Crazy Bugs! / Beetlemania problem?Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that Crazy Bugs! was originally released by AWA then re-released by Lothlorien under the name o…
... say that AWA are original publishers with Lothlorien being re-release ... publishers..
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The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…
[QUOTE=Pavero;170431]And CodeMasters aren't here! Big shame! :-o[/QUOTE]
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The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…
... say it's full price publishers only :-))[/QUOTE]
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Ultimate's greatest speccy gameOk, time to vote for UPTG's best title on the speccy. My vote goes to Knight Lore.
... everything Ultimate did whilst other publishers were a front for many ... -
Ultimate's greatest speccy gameOk, time to vote for UPTG's best title on the speccy. My vote goes to Knight Lore.
... one of the top software publishers.
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Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…
... , the market drying up and publishers having very little power, reviewers ... -
Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…
... , the market drying up and publishers having very little power, reviewers ... -
Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…
... , the market drying up and publishers having very little power, reviewers ... -
Fun accountancy question of the week!!!Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share my latest tax problem with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair. Read this and be thankful you aren't …
Turns out the textbook was wrong.
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*** New Game *** Farmer Jack Now AvailableFARMER JACK IS NOW AVAILABLE ... ?2.99 + ?1.00 UK Postage (or a nice pack of cigars) I haven't updated the website yet though, as someone volunt…
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Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
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Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... from a theory amongst game-publishers that consumers expect to and ... -
Release years often wrong?For many games the "Year of release" section often bears little relation to when the advertisements and reviews appeared, and I assume they wouldn't …
... by one of the bigger publishers - i.e. It then gets ... -
What WAS going to be bundled with Bandersnatch?Just saw a documentary about the death of Imagine ( [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986[/url] ) and apparently they wer…
... one of the leading software publishers of '83. Their artwork and ... -
A book!Cast your minds back to the hazy days of 1989. I was 17 and decided that writing a book would be dead easy. My chosen topic was the history of comp…
... sending sample chapters out to publishers. Loads of rejection letters until ... -
What sort of speccy releases are these?I recently uploaded some snaps of the tapes that were available legally in India to this site: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/arjunnair/[/url] I'…
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None whatsoever Malc. Publishers/developers aren't mentioned anywhere ... phone or address of the publishers either. I'm not sure ... -
Ritman/ArticCan anyone remember or find a reference for why Ritman left Artic... I seem to recall that it was because he was unhappy with the marketing effort fo…
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bought uMIA on ebay todayhi if I can ask the team to upload this info for an MIA listing, it would be cool. I have looked under Forward Software and can't see it. (Invaders)…
... think?), though are listed as publishers in infoseek. I don't ... -
Spectrum Gamers Podcast !Got a podcast dont , just trying to work out how to get it online so you lot can download it. can anybody help? by the way to make it a longer podc…
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Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... believe me to be dead, publishers etc[/quote]
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Non-Ultimate filmation gamesUltimate was the first company that created [I]Filmation[/I] games: Knight Lore, Alien 8,... superb! It was the first, but others companies also pro…
... was copied extensively by other publishers in titles such as Fairlight ... -
C64 and CNNEnd of the world is here.... Front page of CNN.com this story.. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html[/url] Edit: direct lin…
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Identifying "inspired by" gamesIs there any way of getting the WOS database to chuck out a list of games which were "inspired" by a specific arcade game? E.g. I'd like to see a li…
... , as you would for Speccy publishers or authors.
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Deteriorating quality of artwork in Crash... during the "commercial" life of the speccy. I am making this topic about Crash magazine as that's the only one I know almost every issue of, so I…
... it seems that the British publishers of the time had got ... -
Tomahawk - Digital Integration - 2 versions ?Hi Is there two versions from DI ? Seen a listing for tomahawk on ebay, on the cassete is printed 48K/128K [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZX-Spectrum-…
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Artic computing gamesjust so i dont bung up necros's mothership thread. it inspired me to look at artics games on infoseek and think back to the quality, whether i liked …
... /> If I think of games publishers...Arctic has to be in ... -
Denmark cartoons round #2As if Denmark didn't make enough headlines the first time round, we're approaching round 2. Last week, police apprehended 3 suspects. The 3 suspect…
... some fightback.
The publishers of these cartoons chose depicting ...