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Best use of colour in a spectrum gameEven though the spectrum couldn't manage individual colours per pixel like the Commodore and Amstrad, some games managed to achieve very effective fu…
3 Weeks in Paradise, Extreme, Dizzy games, Popeye and Robin of the Wood would be my candidates.
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Vanished without a trace.Hi everyone, I've just noticed that ENERGY4UK's posts have been deleted in their entirety. That's great. Hopefully our beloved administrator will co…
... /> He really is an idiot of the highest order. :)
[/quote ... /> Fifthly, when shown the error of your ways, and you have ... then in a matter of hours reverse track and start selling again ... -
1.44 mb disketteswhat stops a disk drive formatting 1.44mb disks as 720k disks, is there a hole or a dent or something that the drive detects the capacity. if so woul…
At the label end of the disk there is a hole for ... write protection at the opposite of the label there should be ... a 720 put a bit of sellotape over the non- ... left that detects wether a disk is write protected or not ... if it is an HD disk or not. The right prong ... -
ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…
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On 2004-12-07 10:52, DodgyGeezer wrote:
I have got a plus d and use standed HD disks with it.
The problem is accessing from a PC.
You must cover up the hole opposite the read/write tab.
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ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…
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please help to find certain speccy art page........that I found sum time ago. (and can?t find now, of course..) On that site one guy has put his own remakes of Dizzy loading screens, there was o…
... . It comes as a part of the disk interface MB-02+ that ... Message was edited by: XTM of TMG on 2005-01-20 ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 31 January 2005Monday 31 January 2005 A dose of Chickenpox meant I FINALLY had time to put this update online. And very good it is, too.. The update, not the Chicke…
... Senda Salvaje ,
Shadow Of The Unicorn , Silent Shadow ,
Chronos: A Tapestry of Time , Colin The Cleaner , ... Arkanoid 1 , Arkanoid 2: Revenge Of Doh ,
Badlands , ... Chapter , Rescue ,
Robin of Sherwood , RoboCop 2 , RoboCop 3 ... -
Unbelievable tape loadersHi, I search the most unbelievable tape loader. For the present I think the loader from game Joe Blade 2 is the winner in this competition. (During l…
... loading sequence.
...and Robin of the Wood by Odin. not ... so much of the loading, but I remember ... when i reach the middle of the tape you could clearly ... the words "Can you help Robin in his quest for the ... said at the start of the game. -
Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
Well he may make Heartland have a decent ending rather than resetting the machine!
A real shame especially as not all the games have been completed on the rzx archive yet either (was going to attempt Robin of the wood :-/ -
Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
... either (was going to attempt Robin of the wood :-/
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of Yesod in a few days ... -
The Spectrum Oscars...Seeing as it's nearly Oscars time; I thought it would be fun to have one of our own. So get your votes in folks :) 1) Best spectrum game 2) Best gfx…
1 Everyone's a Wally
2 Robin of the Wood
3 Jet Set Willy
4 Clive Townsend
5 Durrell not ultimate i repeat not ultimate
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Odin and Thor Denied!Oh man.... I Loved Nodes of Yesod.... Now it's gone. Denied. Totally. What a bummer. :(
... their trash. There's plenty of infinitely better software around.
of Yesod, Nodes of Yesod, Robin of the wood, Heartland, ... when someone denies the right of distributing its old Spectrum software ... . It's a piece of Spectrum history that won't ... -
Paul Mckenna 2I can't be bothered reading all the Paul Mckenna posts so I'll start a new thread Are any of the games he's denied any good? :confused: [ This Mess…
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Paul Mckenna 2I can't be bothered reading all the Paul Mckenna posts so I'll start a new thread Are any of the games he's denied any good? :confused: [ This Mess…
... [/I] good, [I]Heartland, Nodes of Yesod[/I] and [I]Arc ... of Yesod[/I] were great. But ... -time Odin favourite is [I]Robin of the wood[/I].
I ... a tear for the likes of [I]Jack and the beanstalk ... -
Greatest 128k soundtracks?I was just wondering which 128k games you all thought had the best music?
Incredible spectrum soundtracks:
-The Untouchables
-Batman (the last one)
-Robin of the wood (odin)
-Robocop
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Best loading screen.What's the best loading screen in your opinion? I really liked the one on Rescue from Atlantis (maybe minus the text) [url="http://www.worldofspec…
My fave loading screen is probably [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/r/gif/RobinOfTheWood128.gif"]Robin of the Wood[/url]
Daren -
Super League Soccer - for the Amstrad PCWHi, I made a game called Super League Soccer for the Amstrad PCW series. It ran on Mallard Basic under CP/M. I released it in 1992 through DG Softwar…
... do not have a copy of the game but one buyer ... to send me a copy of the disk and would be pleased ... me ? Asking for the code of an Amstrad game at a ... -
If you could forget any game to play it all over again......which would it be? Morning, Specchums. Monday morning topic, to serve no other purpose than a bit of a chit-chat :) Which games touched you with…
... in paradise
* Nodes of Yesod
* Robin of the Wood
* Saboteur ...
PC :
* Eye of Beholder series
* Wizardry 7 -
What were the most addictive games?You dont seem to experience the same level of addiction with modern day games like you did with Spectrum games, or maybe that was just because it was…
... :
For me, Arkanoid Revenge of Doh was probably the most ... of others too, like Nodes Of Yesod, Robin of the Wood, Rambo 2, Lords Of ... -
Q on DevPac+3 (not loading)I'm trying to get this to work under Spin: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Devpac+%2b3$&pub=^HiSoft$"]http://www.worldofspe…
... CAT to view the contents of the disk.
For the ... I would have a read of the [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum ... -
Q on DevPac+3 (not loading)I'm trying to get this to work under Spin: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Devpac+%2b3$&pub=^HiSoft$"]http://www.worldofspe…
... CAT to view the contents of the disk.
For the ... I would have a read of the [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum ... -
uncredited likenessess or paradies of real people in gamesWhat games featured uncredited paradies or graphics of real people? I dont mean like rambo from rambo II or anything like that. I mean uncredited I'…
... that same Robin of Sherwood game, that picture of Lady Marion ... Praed was the definitive Robin (Jason Connery being a ... br /> *correction* it wasn't Robin of the Wood... it was Adventure ... International's Robin of Sherwood game.
uncredited likenessess or paradies of real people in gamesWhat games featured uncredited paradies or graphics of real people? I dont mean like rambo from rambo II or anything like that. I mean uncredited I'…
... :
*correction* it wasn't Robin of the Wood... it was Adventure ... International's Robin of Sherwood game.
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Damn. If it HAD been Robin of the Wood by Odin, then ...uncredited likenessess or paradies of real people in gamesWhat games featured uncredited paradies or graphics of real people? I dont mean like rambo from rambo II or anything like that. I mean uncredited I'…
... br /> *correction* it wasn't Robin of the Wood... it was Adventure ... International's Robin of Sherwood game.
[/quote]< ... Damn. If it HAD been Robin of the Wood by Odin, then ... Michael Praed-like image from Robin of the Wood - that might ...games with sampled soundHow many games have sampled sound? I don't think about sampled speech. I remember one game: Shanghai Karate 128. Anything else?
How can you forget Nodes? Or Robin of the Wood?
D.The A-TeamThat was Saturday entertainment! For me that was the best show ever. I still love it. I wish UK Gold would sort it out and ditch 'Waiting for God' or…
Robin of Sherwood was one of my fave Saturday TV programmes. Nice Clannad soundtrack too.The A-TeamThat was Saturday entertainment! For me that was the best show ever. I still love it. I wish UK Gold would sort it out and ditch 'Waiting for God' or…
oh man, I had totally forgotten about 'Robin of Sherwood'
That show was greatThe A-TeamThat was Saturday entertainment! For me that was the best show ever. I still love it. I wish UK Gold would sort it out and ditch 'Waiting for God' or…
... return to the days of the A-team, Airwolf ... and the Dukes of Hazzard. Far better than ... />
The Dukes of Hazard was voted, and is ...
All of us are guilty of enjoying stuff that should ... .
*Robin of Sherwood was great yeah
Best Sprite on the SpectrumWhich sprite or character from any Spectrum game do you think is the best? I personally like both the Miner and Jet Set Willys, because of thier sim…
Charlie from Nodes of Yesod definite nr. 1 for ... in general.
Robin from Robin of the Wood was also great ... and some of the monsters in ... Lords of Chaos were very ...
