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Why did I buy that crap game? Hype, Cover Art or Licenced Product?Was I the only person to buy "Knight Rider" before any reviews came out? I doubt it. What made me buy it? Yep, it was hyped and a licenced product of…
Great Space Race... yesss!
Purchased a big box edition from a ZX Microfair for the tiny sum of 50p.
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"La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…
... for example at the beginning when they follow that son of a ... Bernardo Gui arrives and the name of our abbey becomes stained ... hopeth thou shalt uncover the identity of this murderer we doth ... King James version for the great examples of this linguistic style.< ... -
Money!How much money do you think Kevin Toms made from the Football Manager series? I only ask because I imagine if he sold the units today that he sold ba…
... my old friend Paul Angel for the Least Money Made From ... put a lot of effort into writing the excellent Ethnipod (available ... in the archive, great Cybernoid ... houses he sold it for the tiny fee of ?50 to a magazine ... -
Drive Sir Clive's C-5!Anyone remember Sir Clive's C-5? For the uninitiated it was an electric car that failed miserably and was clive's eagerly awaited follow up to the s…
what possessed you to buy a wing mirror!
btw/ 2 c5's are up on e-bay for the tidy sum of 700 quid the pair. Stickers fair better, just a tenner! [but beware of fakes]
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THE BEST EMU'I've beem using ZX32 for about a year now.However,certain ROMS such as Double Dragon 1 or Phantomas will not run with this emulator.Is there another,…
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OutrunHas anyone tried playing Outrun on an emulator where you can increase the z80 speed? Get the speed right and, apart from the lack of colour (no fault…
Thanx for the thread...indeed that old screenshot ... why the eventual release was given 83%. Funny that it went for the ... C64 formula of different vehicles to drive ... in the end though. Dare I ... -
Complete stupid bastards don?t give up...IDSA wrote this word to Zx.da.ru ( [url="http://www.zx.da.ru"]http://www.zx.da.ru[/url] ) "It has come to our attention that your server located at […
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just "plus other bits"Meteor Storm, Quicksilva Games 1, Sinclair Rainbow book of BASIC programs, WH Smith Cheers, Steve. [ This Message was edited by: steven on 2003-04…
I only know of the AMX and Kempston mice for the Spectrum, neither of them had fantastic support, I only wanted mine back then for use with Art Studio.
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Urban Speccy MythI remember many moons ago my mate telling me that there was some RANDOMIZE USR command that would destroy your speccy!!!! Is there any truth in this…
Yes, I also removed a kempston interface by mistake. Nothing at all happened, leading me to the sadly untrue opinion that plugging it in while the computer was on was harmless as well... Damned the day I tried for the simple sake of experimentation... -
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…
... nearly all conditions, for the very sake of preservation, that info ... inferred or computed). Otherwise, the question is more like "do ... spare info about the machine that generated the block". However, ... s tolerance being higher than the 1% speed variation), ... -
sound sampling softwareWhat is the best sound sampling software for use on winXP pro that is free to use so I can start recording some of my collection for posterity. Has …
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ELITE HELP!I start playing Elite (first part). And I have some problems. I need any documentation on this game. Can anybody help me?
... anyone please,please have the instructions for the NES version of this game? I ... play, but cant figure out the subtle differences in controls, and ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... might want to round the drawings out more, i ... so blocky, if thats the case, i know that ... can get as much of the characters extremities into individual ... even altering the graphics to suit the 8*8 blocks ... own or optimal color for the best use of colour.
Music to my ears? Hi, I`m just wondering which game music/tune you thought was cool, I`ve just replayed Head over Heals and the the chirpy intro had me chuckling, bu…
Greetings,
One of the best pieces of music I remember from my ... ten minutes, IIRC) for the sole purpose of listening to the title tune. I ... eventually finished the game too ...Are there any talented speccy programmers out there?Whats happened to all of the spectrum enthusiasts? There are very few new releases for the spectrum and remakes for new platforms don't interest me. …
Jonathan Cauldwell is coding games for Chronosoft, and they are pretty ... think.
As for the rest, all of them are busy with ... something or the other. A lot of time, patience, energy ... up, and who knows the programming scene might kick in ...Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... of the Nintendo versions. When the first game was ported onto the ... .
As for the American artwork of DD1, I really like ... I think it really captures the spirit of the game, even though Jimmy ... , obviously influenced by Fist Of The North Star (don't ...Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... give 8000 packets of data to the sound device for every second. Lower ... reproduced with the AY sacrificing one channel of music for a duration of a ... need to be sacrificed for the short duration of the sample, but then resume ...Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... store the number of lives in memory. Let's say, for example ... s preparing the number of lives we have for printing on the screen ie ... is 99 in hexadecimal) for the Ammo Search for 3E 0A (0A ... 10 in hexadecimal) for the grenades
The actual pokes are ...Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... of the arcade game know that Matthew Westcott has finished the music for the ... first level of DD, and me ... 's superb. A great rendition of the arcades soundtrack.
I'll update the website soon, as you know ...which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
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I think for the most part though, people here ... for the Speccy instead of have Speccy games remade for the PC? Its certainly more of ... a technical challenge thats for ... Park is a work of genius for example, putting Theme ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... then just get 1 out of the voting. actually there should ... .
and for the record, alot of ultimate games werent all ... clever people they kick the crap out of some mc games, ... dislike something. some of the best songs, including the ones ive written, ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... then just get 1 out of the voting. actually there should ... .
and for the record, alot of ultimate games werent all ... clever people they kick the crap out of some mc games, ... dislike something. some of the best songs, including the ones ive written, ...WOS forum needs graphic redesign. Badly.First of all, Martijn, if you're reading this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't ban me from the forum for life ;) - I'm just trying to express some constru…
... increasing traffic, and increasing number of posts, WoS did need a ... service.
As for the looks part of the forum, I dunno, it ... . I agree it isn't the most fancy looking page in ... the world, but it works well. ...Translating games from RussianThe recent arrival of biotoxin and his obvious enthusiasm for Russian games has set me thinking: Will any Russian games ever be translated into Engl…
... alphabet years before for the sole purpose of translating the Russian text that appears ... throughout "Goldeneye" on the N64 ... to speak in English for the most part, but the English is written ...Warajevo TAP -> TZX ?Does anyone know of an utility that does the above (i.e. Warajevo TAP -> TZX) conversion ?
Handy to know that for the fixed version of HiSoft Basic Compiler that is on the Warajevo page. :)Best strategy war game on the Spectrum?Great to find a site like this...Ive owned so many consoles etc since buying my 48K Spectrum as a kid...but I have more affection for the Spectrum th…
... ]Encyclopedia of War[/B] - for the endless possibilities of building battles it provided, and for ... />
[B]Guadalcanal[/B] - one of the most realistic wargames ever designed ... how to use concentration of force/local superiority - the armies are quite ...Games so bad you enjoy themThere are a handful of games so laughably and utterly bad, that I actually enjoy playing them: [I]Los Angeles SWAT, East Enders, Pit-Fighter, Sabrina…
Anyone remember The Quest for the Crystal Orb ? A very early adventure - crap but I loved it...CSW 2Have you been using csw 2 yet? I find the total pulses is sometimes wrong by 256 too short. Also there is a small shift to the right by a few sampl…
... ask for of a CSW viewer.
Would it display the CSW ... Maybe I've missed the point of what your utility does but ... some spare time. For instance timings for the turbo blocks of Gremlin Loader, Mikro ... see if I can refine the figures for Players etc...
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