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slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …
... stopped using the Spectrum in what must be one of the earliest years on ... ship, what with the collapse of Sinclair, the buy out by Amstrad ... which I replaced with the black upgrade in 1985, which I thought ... was cool at the time, ... -
Are there any good RPGs for the ZX Spectrum that are worth playing?I'm new to the ZX Spectrum and I'm a big RPG and fantasy themed gamer and I was wondering if there are any games in these categories that are worth p…
The Valley is a simple but ... they are more arcade adventures, the Magic Knight series of games ... 's also Castlevania, possibly the best game written for the Spectrum in recent years. -
Multi-platform hits that lack a Speccy port?Title says it all, really: Do you know any games that were a great hit, ported to several (or even many) platforms, but -for whatever reason- didn…
... games, since the Spectrum/Sinclair brand wasn't too big in the US. When ... the Spectrum in this regard, as many of the American games that never reached the Spectrum ... , such as the Lucasarts point and click ... -
I don't like Ocean.There's are some greats, Match day, The great escape, Head over Heels, but I found most of their games average at best and they always came across as…
... probably depend on time. In the early years they were ... publishing good games (like The Great Escape) and even ... I lost interest in the Spectrum in 1987.) But I get the impression that their ... combination Ocean improving and the general market declining, but ... -
The day you unboxed your brand new SpectrumI was at junior school for much of the Spectrum's heyday, yet never owned a computer in that time. I was fascinated by computers back then, they were…
... ! And they made the BBC for longer than the Spectrum in the end, I think ... ?
Our +2 came with the ... some great years playing on the Spectrum and every so often when ... -
GTA 3Is it true that GTA III was the first free roam game that came out? Or was their anything before that? I don't mean something like Turbo Esprit but…
... Body Harvest on the N64, and Mercenary on the Spectrum. And others, ... playing Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum in the 1980s. It was so ... you couldn't go in the buildings, the pedestrians weren't ... , and added interiors to the buildings, more intelligent pedestrians, ... -
Reproduction Issue 1 grey keymats - yay or nay?A discussion is live on the Spectrum 4 Ever FB group regarding whether it's a good idea to have replacement grey keymats for Issue 1 Spectrums produc…
... keyboard, cos that is what the Spectrum in the original advert looks like it ... it was just he way the light fell on ... -
Reproduction Issue 1 grey keymats - yay or nay?A discussion is live on the Spectrum 4 Ever FB group regarding whether it's a good idea to have replacement grey keymats for Issue 1 Spectrums produc…
... keyboard, cos that is what the Spectrum in the original advert looks like it ... just he way the light fell on the keys.[/quote]
the model used in the original advert and retail ... ABS plastic. That probably explains the look :D
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What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
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I agree. The guy who developed the game did a good ... job considering the circumstances. There's a documentary ... -
Horace Goes Skiing. Eventually!Another video, this time from a day spent with Horace. This one is mercifully short...but the usual apologies still apply! All comments gratefully re…
I never had any Horace game back in the day. They haven't aged well, but Horace was one of the most iconic characters for the Spectrum in the early years (82-83). -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... games on the Spectrum.
Yes, the multiload is a pain in the neck - but ... we could get given the limitations of the Spectrum itself.
[b]4 ... game of this kind for the Spectrum in my opinion. [b]4.5 ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... something that runs on the basic Spectrum to convert in the first place, otherwise ... "]You can choose to freeze the spectrum in 1982 or you can choose ... "
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Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... of hack hardware on the spectrum that are closely intertwined ... find that it occupies memory in the spectrum's memory map so ... that really became standard on the spectrum in at least one part ... it and fatware avoid polluting the spectrum's memory map. As ... -
Speccy listings from 1984-1986 MikroBitti magazinesHey guys, I managed to scan these listings last night and now I uploaded them to my Dropbox. Grab 'em while you can. :D [url]https://www.dropbox.com…
... for preserving this legacy of the Spectrum in the scandinavian -Finland- countries. One day ... -
ZX Golden Years relaunchedIt's taken a couple of months, but I've relaunched my ZX Golden Years website, dedicated to the years 1982-1986. The whole thing has been complete…
Excellent site, loads of good stuff there. As someone who started with the Spectrum in '82, and had moved on by '86, it fits my definition of "golden years" perfectly. -
Detecting +3 / +2AWhat's a simple but reliable way to detect if code is running on a +2A/+3? My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking for the …
... of page 3, then put the Spectrum in all RAM (0, 2 or ... to find the FDC (as suggested early) will work in +3 but ... -
Wow we're getting hammered by this cold spellOut here in VA's Eastern Shore, our home is all electric which means a power failure leaves you with no light, no heat, no water, no internet, no coo…
... 5000 watts an hour for the last five days, luckily our ... be a negotiable factor. On the other hand it was surprisingly ... we started running the heaters in a futile attempt to warm the whole ground ... -
Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
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Most tools used in the spectrum community are very basic and ... you can think of. For the spectrum in the present day there are libraries ... project.
The main issue with the spectrum back in the day was lack ... -
VISTA apocalypse - FORCED into getting Windows 10So my laptop uses [b]Vista[/b] - it's old - but it runs fine... I've had this same computer for over 10 years! I hate change (when it comes to techn…
... are looking at it from the wrong angle?
10 years ... £129 , That's Cheaper than the Spectrum in 1982.....
A £99 16K ... Spectrum would cost £350 today (with ... -
Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…
... ]Remember, Acorn created the Electron to compete with the Spectrum, and a fair ... been able to get the Electron out sooner the Spectrum may have had ... not really a match for the Spectrum in terms of games (which was ... -
Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…
... ]Remember, Acorn created the Electron to compete with the Spectrum, and a fair ... been able to get the Electron out sooner the Spectrum may have had ... not really a match for the Spectrum in terms of games (which was ... -
1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
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The BBC ... finally found it way onto the spectrum in this year and is a ... perfect port of the original.
While the early couple ... of levels are of the standard collect the diamond and escape ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
For me, the spiritual successor of the Spectrum was an ... the main processor (which was useful in vector graphics like in the Spectrum), the ... a keyboard, and the Adlib or Sound Blaster ... the Amiga was better at the time, but it was the opposite of the Spectrum in ... -
Nirvana+ - Which games would you reproduce?Which games would you reproduce using Nirvana+ Early single screen or non-scrolling arcade games that could utilise the Nirvana+ engine for enhanc…
If I would have sufficient programming skills, I would try Donkey Kong, which can't be done on the Spectrum in colour without some kind of a multicolour engine. -
Super Mario Bros 64An 1:1 conversion of Super Mario Bros is now released for the c64 (and it's fantastic!). Things are looking good for the old breadbin what with Knigh…
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Well, for the c64 there has quite recently ... very fast indeed, faster than the Spectrum in some rooms. A little ... (or conversion) improves upon the original, either with better speed ... play. I'm in no way undermining the effort and challenge ... -
Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…
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1. The Spectrum TAP format (or any tape ... 's the preferred format for the Spectrum. In fact, it's the only format the Spectrum BASIC ... can handle, therefore the ... -
Has anyone checked out AMOS2I just watched this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-QOu8EAWY It looks promising but when I went to the guys site http://amos2.net …
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The Spectrum (in the scheme of things) was simple ... comprehend (apart from putting the floppy in and hoping it worked)
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Has anyone checked out AMOS2I just watched this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-QOu8EAWY It looks promising but when I went to the guys site http://amos2.net …
... beg to differ
The Spectrum (in the scheme of things) was simple ... comprehend (apart from putting the floppy in and hoping it worked)
the Amiga well because of the complexities of the custom chips ... -
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... unoriginal, does nothing to promote the Spectrum in any way, shape or ... from what MAY have been Spectrum screen shots, distorting them ... if that really is the case then ignore the rest.
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