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Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... like 'SPY HUNTER', 'BEACH HEAD', 'RAID OVER MOSCOW' really did show ... -
Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... which impressed me - Blue Max, Raid Over Moscow and Spy Hunter ... -
A athlon 3000 32 bit system or a athlon 3000 64 bit systemThey will cost about the same which i was suprised to learn, but which system would you recommend, if i build the 64 bit one, can I still play my 32 …
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A athlon 3000 32 bit system or a athlon 3000 64 bit systemThey will cost about the same which i was suprised to learn, but which system would you recommend, if i build the 64 bit one, can I still play my 32 …
... need to install 3rd party RAID drivers etc press whatever now ... -
BlueyonderMy sister has no internet. It just stopped working this afternoon. She rang blueyonder at ?1 per minute. After 20 minutes, the guy gave her the nu…
That's how they get you unfortunately. Luckily enough, the ISP I use got rid of the premium rate tech support line last year and now it only costs the price of a local call to phone them.
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A athlon 3000 32 bit system or a athlon 3000 64 bit systemThey will cost about the same which i was suprised to learn, but which system would you recommend, if i build the 64 bit one, can I still play my 32 …
... need to install 3rd party RAID drivers etc press whatever now ... -
Where are the famous guys and gals gone from the old speccy mags ?Just thinking where`s all the guys and gals gone after the years of YS,SU and Crash ? I know Jon North is on here but what do you do now for a job a…
Simon N Goodwin (Tech Niche in Crash) is also freelance. He wrote a big multi-part emulator special for Linux Format a couple of years back, and was at the ORSAM show last year. -
Crisis At Christmas + SUI've loved this text adventure ever since I first played it. I've just seen it published in Sinclair User. *IN* Sinclair User. (Dec '86 issue) 4 1…
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AmigaI'm probably gonna get a lot of abuse for this, but does anybody know where I can get Amiga disk file online? My usual site only has a hand full of t…
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FairlightSo, I already have a copy of this and it works just aces on a 48K machine, but not my 128. Then, I pick up a sealed pack of Spectrum games from Games…
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Celebrity Big BrotherAnyone been watching? I can't make my mind up who's plastic surgery is worse, Jodie Marsh's or Pete Burns. Jodie looks like someone's punched her in…
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Celebrity Big BrotherAnyone been watching? I can't make my mind up who's plastic surgery is worse, Jodie Marsh's or Pete Burns. Jodie looks like someone's punched her in…
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Odd story of the day.Poor guy, hope he is ok ... too bad about the vases. [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/[/url] Add y…
Here is a funny one from Tech TV in America...gotta feel sorry for the guy..
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Odd story of the day.Poor guy, hope he is ok ... too bad about the vases. [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/[/url] Add y…
... is a funny one from Tech TV in America...gotta feel ... -
Odd story of the day.Poor guy, hope he is ok ... too bad about the vases. [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100282/[/url] Add y…
... is a funny one from Tech TV in America...gotta feel ... -
where did you keep your games?i kept mine in a biscuit tin. my father had a long running joke where he'd open it hoping to find some biscuits, and look confused at the games i ke…
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Adding graphics to a text adventure??Hi everyone. I've always wanted to create a Spectrum adventure game and have spent several evenings browsing the forums here, WOS and the internet on…
... you give. One very low-tech method I have used - please ... -
The whole denied games, abandonware and buying from eBay issue I understand that it's a software company or author's right to ban free distribution of their games on the Internet. This is a wider issue these da…
... latest ones for the hi-tech platforms. I dare say you ... -
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…
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Hardest game you actually completed?Mine was Sonic Boom (the monochrome sega shoot em up). I managed to finish the whole game despite it being (a) rubbish and (b) impossible to see the…
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StonkersEverybody on this forum knows that "it's definitely not Stonkers" joke, which can be found in almost every topic. My question is: why "Stonkers" was…
You've stonked for 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Now guide your tanks over the bridge....NO! not in the fucking river I clicked the bridge. Oh I give up I'm getting Cassette 50 out! hahahaha! -
MP3 Players?I was going to get my girlfriend one of those iPod Nanos for her birthday - until I heard a rumour that it only plays music downloaded from the Apple…
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3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... released in the states as River City Ransom, but bares no ... should've used Kunio or River City Ransom instead of that ... -
Best song lyric(Mondegreen or actual.) I've already posted the Genesis mondegreen "Can't you feel arseholes ignite"; to my mind, one of the best actual lyrics I've…
... water flowing
The endless river
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.TRD files?Can anyone point me in the direction of a specification for the .TRD file format? Cheers, MikeW
[url]http://www.ramsoft.bbk.org/tech.html[/url] , near the bottom.
(IIRC, a .TRD file is a plain sector-by-sector dump of a TR-DOS disk, with no special header)
