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The Dizzy (spit spit) gamesI [B][U][COLOR=red]HATE[/COLOR][/U][/B] Dizzy. The shallow, one dimensional character and his stupid, annoying, repetitive games. If it was up to me,…
... did find the position of the traps, and the fact you ... of the things that I like about Dizzy in it.< ... priced higher but the Spectrum version was the same looking as ... because the series were always designed with the spectrum in mind in the first place ... -
What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
... specially book to use the Spectrum! In fact, I remember the computer club used ... you could migrate from the ZX80/81 to the Spectrum and then, if ... . I remember the first time I used the Spectrum: I think the first command ... -
VirtualBox...Anyone here use VirtualBox? I've tried installing it, but every version I've tried so far gives me the following message: "The software you are ins…
... a boot sector on the CD so you need ... 's a site on the interweb that has them all ... to install all of the files to your HD ... of the files for running the OS in the virtual environment will be contained in ... 98 will install to either the Windows or WINNT folder - ... -
VirtualBox...Anyone here use VirtualBox? I've tried installing it, but every version I've tried so far gives me the following message: "The software you are ins…
... of the files for running the OS in the virtual environment will be contained in there ... -
What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…
... there from the start I gave up the Spectrum in 87 or ... brothers 128k+ and bought the mags again, that led ... my energies into a Spectrum scene that was shrinking ... . So the Spectrum has played a large part in my life ... not a player of Spectrum games. Long live WOS ... -
15 years of comp.sys.sinclair!On 13th December 1993, thanks to the efforts of Arnt Gulbrandsen, comp.sys.sinclair sparked into life, taking the reins of the primordial soup of the…
Incredible!! When I didnt have a clue of what Internet was, in 1993, there already were people talking about the Spectrum in Internet!
And I see the group was founded by a scandinavian mate, interesting things in this thread :) -
Best game of 2008...!The WoS infoseek facility lists 56 games for 2008 - that's more than one a week! And it still might not cover absolutely everything out there. So, wh…
... ? fantastic: i remember that when the spectrum era ended i used to ... . When I got back to the Spectrum in 2000, when I got my ... and using the Spectrum, I thought I was the only crazy person in the world ... quite good, and we are in 2008 :) -
Farewell, Dubya....24 hours to go, and then life gets excitingly interesting. Satirists around the world are already [url=http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/1…
... of the reasons the Republicans wanted him as a candidate in 2000 ... think his supporters will admit in the coming decades). I don ... 't think things like the Guantanamo Bay scandals happened ... people behind the scenes who were actually running the country in his name ... -
A question for the older programmers of WOSWhen did the debugging tools that allow you to highlight the flow of execution within code and track the values or variables become available. Was t…
... ]Windbg is capable of doing the same on Windows, even today ... to be running the program in the debugger. They can give you the core dump ... when it crashes on the 27,523rd test of 50 ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... me: I did nothing for the spectrum scene. Do I get your ... done a lot both for the Spectrum in general, and to help individual ... ][COLOR=Gray](1)that are in the public domain, i must remind ... alter or delete the post. Unless the post in question is the subject of ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... often thought that the release of the Spectrum in 1982 caused the premature demise of ... the ZX81. By 1984 ... achieve incredible things with the machine - upping the graphics resolution from 64x48 ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... often thought that the release of the Spectrum in 1982 caused the premature demise of ... the ZX81. By 1984 ... achieve incredible things with the machine - upping the graphics resolution from 64x48 ... -
Speccy or C64?Which do you think was the best? The speccy or the C64? Answers on a postcard to: BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane London W12 8QT Or ring us on: …
... the Spectrum and it has awesome memories for me, but so does the ... prefer playing most of the classics on the C64 and I believe ... superior machine to the Spectrum. But that doesn't make the Spectrum in any way ... means of having to bash the C64 to make itself feel ... -
If Money Was No Object - Would You Have Bought A SpectrumTruthfully, at the time you bought your first ZX Spectrum, would you have bought something different if money was no object. Don't get me wrong - I …
... did look better than the Spectrum in the early years - it's Basic ... - but, it just wasn't in the shops. [I]Boots[/I] was ... a big help in that respect, but with the compulsory monitor hardly ... than a Spectrum contender. It wasn't long though before the C64 ... -
Commodore AmigaJust downloaded a Commodore Amiga emulator. What are the top ten games for Commodore Amiga? My fav types of game are dizzy type games, rpgs and shm…
... which is particularly relevant to the Spectrum scene. Of course, if anything ... 're saying is that the Amiga came after the Spectrum in your own affections ... the ST. If you were a Spectrum user it was quite possibly the ... -
Commodore AmigaJust downloaded a Commodore Amiga emulator. What are the top ten games for Commodore Amiga? My fav types of game are dizzy type games, rpgs and shm…
... saying is that the Amiga came after the Spectrum in your own affections ... /said about the Amiga being the big brother to the speccy and ... /experience.
The ST community in my world was non ... existent. So the 2 'personal' ... -
Best 128K games?My M&D bought me a 48K Spectrum in December '83, and I never had a 128K (sniff!). Well, until recently when I started collecting a few! I am steadil…
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Personally I think the two go hand in hand.
the future of the Spectrum in my eyes. Rainbow Islands ... is a goer in my books.
The Operation Wolf theme ... -
Kong by C*TechHi guys There is a guy on youtube who does some nice speccie vids. He has been doing Kong games of late and I suggested he uploaded one of C*Tech Ko…
... + CTRL p) and start the tape
the first part loads
the spectrum in caps lock (it needs this ... must press shift+2 and the spectrum curser should change to a ... "L"
now type KK48 in the speech marks ""
press and ... -
new system for DivIDE[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide/divide-bs-dos.htm[/url] It's modified BS-DOS 308 from MB02+ interface. More utilities, convertors and .MBD …
Back in the day I had a spectrum with a +D. I could ... ) takes n minutes to load. The divIDE+ was my way of ... bridging the gap, quick load / save and ... lot of people against "consolising" the spectrum in this way. I can't ... -
ThunderBladeDid anyone actually like this game?
... more than I thought in the game. As already pointed ... not been created on the Spectrum, but just ported from ... the Spectrum.
I think if the graphics would been drawn with the Spectrum in ... /> There is some music in the intro and between-levels phase ... -
Now seems to be a good time to add to your collectionsI have bought a few spectrum items to add to my collection recently, had i bought them a year or two ago they would have cost double. This is one of …
Actually something happened on Ebay that has never happened to me before, the person who posted the spectrum in the first link to me refunded me ?4.00 because the postage wasn't as much as he thought when he put up the listing :) -
Now seems to be a good time to add to your collectionsI have bought a few spectrum items to add to my collection recently, had i bought them a year or two ago they would have cost double. This is one of …
... to me before, the person who posted the spectrum in the first link to me ... refunded me ?4.00 because the ... thought when he put up the listing :)[/QUOTE]
... be dishonest people who make the news, so we hear ... -
Battle of the retro songs!I present you: The new release: Aqua - "Back To The '80s" [youtube]kw5s3CB_1pE[/youtube] The previous king of the retro songs: Bowling For Soup - …
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In the Atari VCS, you have to ... relegated to the vertical blank.
In the Spectrum, in order to ... have the variable timing outcome of ... not bugging up the timing, the same approach should ... -
Questions on PC distribution of ZX software...Im looking at ways to distribute ZX software (TAP,SNA,Z80,etc) to friends who don't have an emulator, or who aren't technically savay enough to downl…
... not distract the user from the ZX experience. By running the emulators in fullscreen mode ... , I remove the distractions ... script or something that simplifys the running of ZX software for ... -
Hello allHello all. Only discovered this today after years of bumming around Your Sinclair RnR Years. Obviously not to bright on the up take. I adored my S…
Villordsuch,
Hello welcome to WOS.
So tell us about you. What was your favourite game?, did you ever abandon the spectrum in the late 80's / early 90's? After your spectrum what came next, computer wise? -
Question about operations and target numbers[size=1]Title should say *operators. It's been a long day.[/size] :p One of the homework problems my kids are working on consists on using a set of …
So after all these years we can finaly prove that the Spectrum in fact [B]can[/B] be used for homework! ;) -
Question about operations and target numbers[size=1]Title should say *operators. It's been a long day.[/size] :p One of the homework problems my kids are working on consists on using a set of …
... we can finaly prove that the Spectrum in fact [B]can[/B] be ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... think it would have altered the Spectrums' course at all. If ... anything the issue of colour-clash blighted the Spectrum in some people minds ... I think of as a Spectrum), so although I think they ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... think it would have altered the Spectrums' course at all. If ... anything the issue of colour-clash blighted the Spectrum in some people minds ... I think of as a Spectrum), so although I think they ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... If anything the issue of colour-clash blighted the Spectrum in some people ... I think of as a Spectrum), so although I think ... reason.[/QUOTE]
The 512x192 mode would have been ...
But I do agree, the Spectrum was popular enough. Adding new ...
