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speccy+2 to HERCULESIn a few years ago I saw a Speccy connected to HERCULES monitor. Now I have one and I want to connect my speccy to it. If anyone knows how I can do a…
... need to find the pin connections for the input/inputs of your monitor, ... an older PAL monitor is the ... from the sound out jack on the +2 to the monitor ... manual, page three has the pinouts for the Spectrum+2 RGB output.< ... -
new look forum :)hi there, I like the new look forum :) octave
and as for the new look of the forum,
the program is definitely ... particular thing i hate - the signatures. they cause excessive spamming ... ,
often the signature is three times as ... large as the message body, which has ... -
what spec pc are you running your speccy emulator onAll them giga hertz and bytes and what do i do with it mainly...play speccy games and old arcade games.. What spec pc do you have at the moment? I up…
I'm gonna get an AthlonXP 2000, with geforce3 and SBLive!5.1
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Brand new topic? Who used to map games?IS this a BRAND NEW topic? :) I doubt it. But what the hey? Who here used to MAP games? I hadn't heard the expression 'walkthroughs' back then but I…
The one and only map I made was for Atic Atac, highlighting ... all possible locations for the 3 parts of the key while I was ... at it.
The map ... spanned 5 seperate pages of A3 paper and ... -
Name of a game ... againDear Speccy fans, I am happy that I have found this forum recently, because I am looking for one old game I played as a kid. I can't remember it'…
Sounds a lot like
Mindstone (aka Quest for the Mindstone)
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Name of a game ... againDear Speccy fans, I am happy that I have found this forum recently, because I am looking for one old game I played as a kid. I can't remember it'…
I noticed some gentleman made Quest for the Mindstone available for downloading after second post in this thread. Am I right? Thank you...
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.$b and .$c format helpHi, i have downloaded agame of lemmings (it took ages to find one that might work) i have downloaded about 5 and none of them worked. I have found th…
... are data files required for the later levels of the game.
However ... to playing the .TRD version of the game in Unreal, or any of the other ... more serious, and probably accounts for the fact that you're downloading ... -
BEST EMULATOR EVER ?!?somebody already proved many emulators? what is the best emulator?
... with the speakers turned up. ;)
I'm not much for the ... technical side of emulation, so as long ... cartridge and linker for it, I've tried the excellent FooN out ... with its multitude of video options to squeeze the Speccy's ... -
Games UNDERated by magazinesYep, a slight twist on the previous topic. Which were the games you thought were underrated by mags, but were really much better in your opinion. …
... same sort of scrolling - but didn't really get the praise it ... Firelord - In my Top 3 for the Speccy - but didn't do ... was that good for the time!
Most of the mags thought ... Green Beret, Fairlight II, Arc of Yesod, Arkanoid, Space Harrier, Trap ... -
Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…
... if I held the pause button of my tape ... in this position for the entire duration of the game loading.
of the Exploding Fist all the way to the end of the tape, only to have the ... screen completely glitch out and the ... -
Best Text AdventureText adventures were considered 2nd class games by many, but any1 who played them know they had as many great moments as most of the classics. My to…
... , plus several single titles like The Hobbit, Kwah?, Twin Kingdom Valley ... , Werewolf, Perseus and Andromeda, The Inferno, Quest for the Golden Egg Cup, Terrormolinos.
the Spectrum adventure scene was all ... -
Why people are addicted to bad graphic, silly gameplay games?and also, making remakes of them? why there are tons of remakes of boulder dash, jet set willy, manic miner, jetpac, monty mole and so on? why ther…
... what is "retrogaming". For me just point of that games is ... version of MM available for the Amiga in 1990 already. As for the PC versions of ... MM and JSW (to name but the two ... titles), there are tons of them, the best ones made by ... -
Someone knows the name of this game ?I remember an old game of kung-fu where in the first 3 or 4 screen you played against another man and after you played with two kung-fu men. I rememb…
... finalmente ? uscito Monty Python and the quest for the Holy Grail in italiano? -
Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
... have a soft spot for the Speccy version of Out Run, despite its ... shame, the arcade version was cool.
Big fan of R ... was (and still is) one of the most classically mental shoot-'em ... version was damn fine for the time, and the PC Engine version was ... -
What games shall I put on 1 floppy disc for a work colleague? Which emulator?Someone at work, in his 50's was talking to me about the ZX Spectrum. He has a Windows 98 PC, and mentioned that his kids used to like playing Head O…
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And, just for the sake of balance, I think you should ... couple of points about the above posts:
1. Of course, the Ultimate ... be much room left for the games, unless of course you added a ... -
Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... War veteran. Name the game and the author of the song (2 ... breathing Russian is searching for the lost treasure of Babylon, and his ... In the first level of this game, the four exoteric symbols of the Led ... for England.
Ace of Aces
29. Who is the ... -
Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
... have a soft spot for the Speccy version of Out Run, despite ... This was apparently the best arcade conversion out of (C64, Amstrad ... detailed graphics that made up for the lack of colour. If you used ... insert 'Square' into most of the game titles that he was ... -
new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
... yet. And look out for the Windows version of RealSpectrum, too, which was ... at the World of Spectrum front page is worth checking regularly for news ... recapture the nostaglic thrill of the border stripes and waiting five minutes for the bugger ... -
Did anyone attend GAME ON in London this summer?I went twice, and enjoyed playing all the old games immensly. Although the Speccy was there (48k Rubber key), it was only there being displayed. The…
... could have made it for the event (unless of course, if I'd ... some sort of software that demostrated the evolution of games over the years available ... at the event. Did ... -
Italian 'pirate' magazines.Hi, this emerged in another thread. We in Italy used to get plenty of cassettes which were regularly sold, and which all featured 'pirated games', wi…
Hi Alessandro!
Here I am! We can arrange the shipment for the tapes and *of course* I will send them back to you!
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My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... 'm planning of using disks instead of Tapes for the major amount of Software i ... 'm doing as of the loading ... on certain software for different times of day etc. The trouble is that ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... a little more technical grasp of the matter.
Anyway, Takashi all the best for ur project.
... of games for the Speccy. When u say recompile the software for ... use recompiled stuff for the machine instead of the original doodang? If ... -
Why the Spectrum?Of all the 8-bit [I]microcomputers[/I] that were around in the 80's, why did you choose the Spectrum and not another one?
Good question. For me the answer is an easy one. Speccy was the only ... that time with that kind of price (Rs 6,000 odd ... went for it because decibells was giving Rs. 1,500/- off, for the ... first month of its launch.
A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
Grussu: Apologies for the mis-labelling of the Speccy. I suppose I ... consoles' to 'systems'.
The question remains, however, whether 3D ... ant attack was the first 3d game on 8 ... systems?
Talking of big sprites, how bout Dark ...Se-Kaa of Assiahthis is a strange one - I have the 'Mastervision' version which looks very much like a mastertronic tape - I'm guessing this is the forerunner to the…
in the eginning the mastervision titles were for sal at my local shop for the massive price of ?6.49. when they changed to mastertronic the price dropped to ?1.99 and ?2.99. kane being the first one i brought couldn`t afford the ?6.49.New Spectrum Game Released - Egghead 3Just to announce that I have finally completed the third outing for the little fellow, Egghead In Space. Anyone wishing to download a 48k version of…
... I can't wait for the next version of BMP2SCR. Since I upgraded ... . I wrote three big articles for the emulation site Peek n' Poke ... did quite a bit of writing, especially on the third article now ... computer art site ( or in the game of course ):
[url ...Underwurlde = Crap?Ultimate have this huge reputation, and in terms of production it's deserved, but I don't think that the playability of their games are necessarily a…
... to have significant amount of luck (in the sense where and how ... of all Ultimate?s games and I am feeling very sorry for the ... unfortunate decision of Rare not to give ... was mint Underwurlde in the famous lot of 250 000 tapes/discs ...What about organizing a competition here?Hi! Would anyone be interested in organizing a competition in this forum? For example, we could do a competition of Bomb Jack and people would send …
... could send in a screenshot of the "hall of fame" or wotever with ... idea. Instead of altering the code you could also alter the screenshot. ... :)
I like the idea of the competition, but hard to get ... all be going to Arjun for the WOS meeting of course!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…
... Cooke did write some of the greatest games. I love ... child, but also for Midwinter on the Atari ST. A ... The people known collectively as Torus, which were not only famous for the ... Spectrum conversion of Elite, but also for the greatest ...TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…
... wrote:
ZX 32 loads the TZX files perfectly. Spin loads ... 8 bytes being 'ZXTape!' plus the 'end of file' byte 26 (1A ... don't have the 1A hex byte at the end of this header ... . SPIN therefore only checks for the "ZXTape!" part of the header.
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