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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... is first home computer, you can made by your own hands, and ... that C64 better piece of hardware than Spectrum.
Infact, every Commodore ... , my "better computer" list would look like this:
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... wrote:
Claiming that Spectrum is overal better machine than ... is first home computer, you can made by your own hands, ... and he really better than
Spectrum ... that C64 better piece of hardware than Spectrum.
Infact, every ... -
There are two Spectrum versions of Space HarrierWell there must be, because this month GamesTM reviewed the other one. I wouldn't know where to start regarding what they say about the game. There's…
... comsumers about the dangers of dodgy kettles and timeshare ... did a piece about awful computer games that were complete ... of money.
First up was Super Soccer on the Spectrum ... , a piece of garbage by Imagine (Ocean really ... -
BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... a proper spectrum as it was made by amstrad ... always wanted a retro computer (especially a spectrum).. I tried a ... come with the OS by opening a window ... /> [ This Message was edited by: javaguy on 2005-08-28 ... /> [ This Message was edited by: javaguy on 2005-08-28 ... -
wouldnt it be good if:I know that some guy basicly said he waqs going to do what Im suggesting here but anyway: I was thinking and worring about the future of the spectrum…
... there will doubtless by the 22nd century equivalent of Adam Hart-Davies ... getting all excited in a computer museum ... as an original ZX Spectrum ("one of only three ... -
NVidia Display drivers - fuk!n up my system - need help!Hello. Im having problems with video card drivers. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB. I downloaded the latest (or tried the older) dri…
... and connects all of the devices in the computer.
of the most common causes of computer failure. A build ... up of dust in ... by buying crap hardware. My worst buy was the Creative range of ... -
Cronosoft customers - opinions wanted.This might look like a marketting survey, but actually it isn't! Obviously, there is some commercial value to what you have to say, but the research …
... , and I've heard of a couple of others, notably that wanker ... them all. Was it retro-soft? Worst of all, he's going ... been spectacularly unimpressed with all Spectrum releases now since Amstrad ceased ... />
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Why games get denied distribution?Does anyone know if any good reasons have been given by the creators of some old speccy games on why they wont allow their games to be distributed? …
... who can make copies of a particular creative work. We have ... example, and many of my favourite Spectrum games like Swords & ... , but the vast majority of Spectrum games have no such characters ... a poster of Keith Chegwin while singing hits by Brotherhood Of Man, ... -
Gamestage saysI'm not sure if this is taken out of context but it is a rather good quote from his site: Gamestage does not respect creators or collaborators
... were given (menny of them by th' same varmints), ... />
SPECTRUM COMMUNITY AT RISK! Fry mah ... permisshun fo' free distribushun of Sinclair ROMS. They ... as bugs on a computer program, so we ... /> Dear visito', yer by now aware of ev'rythin'. Yo' now ... -
Kung Fu MasterWhy why WHY was the Spectrum conversion of this game so BAD? It's like the Programmer played the Arcade game a couple of times and then wrote the co…
... WHY was the Spectrum conversion of this game so ... I recall a lot of articles where developers talked ... home computer conversions of Solomons Key only contained 25% of the ... a prototype unit sent by Taito. I can' ... /> [ This Message was edited by: Cappy on 2006-02-14 ... -
Z80 based computersHelp needed: Who can tell which computers besides ZX81/ZX80/Jupiter Ace/SAM Coupe: 1) use a Z80 processor 2) what the programmable RAM-size is (and…
... excellent machine by all accounts), it even had a Spectrum-emulation mode ... ever, never got a home computer worthy of it -- just, AFAIK, the ... -
Amstrad CPCWhy did the CPC lose out so badly to the Spectrum and C64 - it looks a tidy bit of kit and seemed to have a half decent number of games released for …
... to get into a boring retro computer war fight again but as ... arrived too late.
Spectrum game sales and C64 sales ... produced it, loved that bit of kit back then.
of the top early computers. -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... scene, I presume the games by the following authors are now ... )
(...plus a load of games by [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... made a single penny out of retro gaming. But like many people ... thing you are doing with Spectrum games is SELLING THEM FOR ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... t require removal, but various of the Spectrum licences (e.g. the ... , but, again, why are Spectrum games such a negative exception ... know , many contractual issues regarding retro games , are complex as ... when the intial 'use' of them by us over , many games ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... to say. However...[QUOTE=Retro-Soft]Most of the people here are ... totally irrelevant. Yet another example of you trying to divert attention ... the subject in hand (ie. Spectrum/retro games). I could go on ... debate in a thread about computer games! That was a very ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... disc of those , so thats 500+ games divided by 50 , across C64 , Spectrum ... . Retro soft who are doing serious damage to the retro scene. Most of ... the retro scenes current problems ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... a sizable difference between what Retro Soft does, and what ... , ZBLAST SD+, C64 games by TMR and Richard Bayliss etc ... 'certain computer show' in 2004, I was contacted by the show ... the sole project of the computer show.
Of course, nothing ever ... -
A very first computer, a very first gameMaybe i'm duplicating some other posts, but... what was your first computer and game??? For me it was a rubber zx-spectrum 48k and tape with only t…
My First computer was a spectrum +2, which i got in ... got with were 2 packs of games by Tynesoft, things like 'Who ... also given a free tape of Ocean games which were much ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... of this before using "tons" of machine time.
On Your computer ... like FAT is natively supported by the Spectrum anyway.
... it originated? There are PLENTY of proprietar encapsulative formats with this ... and a 100%(+header) waste of space. -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... you misread history. Early computer users in 82/83 ... time the spectrum, c64, etc came around that computer systems ... />
The Spectrum succeeded because of price and because users ... Spectrum probably looked a little better early on because of ultimate. By ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... said that the Spectrum was a very good computer. It had a ... magazines, Your Spectrum and Crash are arguable the best computer magazines ever ... by software houses who obviously had little experience of writing for the Spectrum ... -
At Last!!!!!Beware, there is not too much sense in following text, this is nothing more, than I would like to let whole world know, that I got my childhood dream…
... us it was directly imported by outside reseller
Spectrum
based computer in India? Was ... the db Spectrum+ a success?
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The Vikings (Status Software)I've obtained the C64 version of the game, and after checking the Infoseek record, I'd say there's a very good chance the game was never released for…
... that a tag-line of the "also available ... be a reliable indicator of existence. Given that " ... only reference for Vikings by Creative Sparks is an April ... Thorn-EMI stopped publishing Spectrum software in 1987 it ... 's probable that version of Vikings is "Spectral" ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... all the talk of building a new spectrum. I decided that ... make a nice little retro machine. Of course, with the interpreted ...
And of course, hopefully I can get the SPECTRUM command to ... do something useful by launching a Spectrum emulation for running ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... that I'd forgotten about Retro-Soft saying all the games ... in the hope of being licensed by Retro-Soft.
Then of course there ... Spin, an hour?
Retro-Soft tries to sound sincere ... sentence!!!) and to call the Spectrum game files 'ROMS'. That one ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... enough memory to use the computer's capabilities. The MSX ... and an unlimited amount of RAM added by the edge connector (not ... accessible by the z80. This makes direct manipulation of the ... as good as the spectrum original because of differences in speed.< ... -
Unlisted MIAsI'm working through back issues of Sinclair User from 1982. As mentioned (in my first ever WOS post!) there are a lot of pretty obscure games which …
... five of Sinclair User:
ZX Spectrum Character Programmer by ZED ... Learn With Your Sinclair Micro-Computer by Frank Orville/Mr P.L ...
At Last and Sailing by Micro Wares [URL="ftp://ftp ... four of SU but the company called itself EEBEE Computer Wares ... -
Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…
... no 8-bit computer stood a chance by 1988. It's ... The Spectrum was apparently the biggest selling home computer in the ... The biggest selling issue of Your Sinclair was allegedly ... than double the price of an old competitor would ... killed off the Spectrum and C64. -
Number of reviewed games?Does anyone have a quick answer as to how many programs were reviewed in the Spectrum magazines during their lifetime? If you don't, I'll finally ge…
Below are counts of software reviews from ... do a separate summary of unique reviews, or game ... TM")
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Your Spectrum 345 *< ...
