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End of level - bosses and brawls - Other SystemsSpinning off from Jumping Stacks post about this in the Speccy games forum I figured why not post one for other systems in the chit chat and share a …
... for other systems in the chit chat and share a bit about ... some of the big buggers who ... remembers the first time Tyrant burst through the floor of the Helipad, and started ... I thought 3 was crap and the bosses were all pretty stupid ... -
'Caused' a car crash today and happy about itWas driving home at 7am from my night shift and entered a roundabout as had right off way and clear coming from the right. As I was going round the …
... had right off way and clear coming from the right.
... the approach to a roundabout either and went straight into the back of the ... bit round the roundabout and went home for some Cheerios and toast ... bodies splattered all over the road and I ignored it. : ... -
What's the roughest place you've ever been?My mate recently got himself a council flat in a town in Scotland called Coatbridge, the district is called Greenend. Jesus, this place has to be se…
... town in Scotland called Coatbridge, the district is called Greenend. Jesus ... cars, rubbish all over the streets and lots of people growling at ... me. This has to be the ... bat handy when he answers the door. It's a shite ... -
Can I download the Hitch-hiker's game from the WWW site?You know the remake of the text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, at: [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml[/UR…
... the remake of the text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the ... it possible to download the game, and transfer it to an ... onscreen shortcuts to cut down the typing, and it has graphics too ... better text entering system than the DOS version?
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The best kind of peripheral/thru port orientation?So, given no standard Speccy backplane, there's soooo many ways you can make a peripheral and through port. You can mount the board vertically, with…
... use with some peripherals on the port, and might suffer from "rampack ... (just back of the envelope calculations suggest the casing and through port would ... be more expensive than the peripheral ... -
Reviews needed for a Speccy book[B]Edit - this link will be updated quite often... [url=http://www.sabremultimedia.com/speccybook/speccybook.htm]Speccy book[/url][/B] [B]Current w…
... few personal comments about the game and then the review score it had ... their name put into the credits for the book.
... 've got one for GameX and Farmer Jack etc.
... long, others short depending on the game.
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Name the GameSomeone over at the Retro Gamer forum is asking what game this is for the Speccy, lets do WOS proud !... "I remember playing a game on my Speccy, bu…
... br />
Anyway the game was quite simple - you ... the bottom of the screen, and you could move left/right and ... fire (ala space invaders). At the top of the ... screen it was all green, and drips ... and you had to shoot them before they hit the ... -
Character on the homepageHello all. First post, and I'm afraid it's a 'what game is...?' one. I promise to do better next time! Anyway, the question is about one of the litt…
Hello all. First post, and I'm afraid it's ... next time!
Anyway, the question is about one of ... the little sprites on the homepage. It's ... the game and loving it, but can't quite remember the name of the ... -
Looking for the game which goes with this pic.OK. I just looked at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004053"]Realm of the Undead[/URL] and wanted to play it because of the …
... 0004053"]Realm of the Undead[/URL] and wanted to ... play it because of the in ... -game screen. I finished the game and much ... to my dismay the screen provided ... br /> Whew! I had the window still open in another ... -
Diag Board and Simple 8bit IDE IFHello, finally I have made it. After finishing Winston's Diag Board a few days ago I started yesterday building the 8 bit IDE Interface from Peras s…
... :00 am. But now found the mistake and it works great. Have ... already copied some games and the loading time is incredible fast ... add a NMI and a reset button and than the "super" rubber 48k ... -
DVD editing and conversion to .aviMy mate recently lent me his domestic DVD recorder, which has a VHS player built in, and I've converted some old VHS tapes of television programs to …
... DVD format), and now I want to convert the DVD's to ... to be able to edit the programs to remove advertisments.
the advertisment breaks) into .avi, ... file, and then edit the .avi file to remove the adverts and break the file ... -
Looking through the Crash online......web site, and browsing through the articles ,it makes me feel incredibly nostalgic. For example, The February 1986 edition of Crash has the Mikie…
... actually remember geting that mag and reading the reviews of gunfright, GG ... ]actually vivdly remember reading the magazine and deciding which games to get ... /> London
W1A 1AA
and the telephone number was 01 811 ... -
From The LoftHello All I have just been up in the loft (I have to clear it out Mrs VQ says so), and found my old Spectrun+2 (boxed) with outer sleeve telling me i…
... do with the printer and floppy drive. All the manuals for the console, an ... instruction form for the printer interface, and the Clive Drive.
As ... era.
Other than the games and the console there is no packaging ... -
The music of Sabre WulfI want to know the name and the composer of the classical music piece that sounds at the beginning of [I]Sabre Wulf[/I]...
I want to know the name and the composer of the classical music piece that sounds at the beginning of [I]Sabre Wulf[/I]... -
was there any yo yo em ups on the speccy?i can only think of one frak, but that was only on the bbc and *whispers* commode
i can only think of one
frak, but that was only on the bbc and *whispers* commode -
Specdrum2 For The PcHi guys n gals just wanted to let you know that i have written a remake of specdrum (you know the one from 1985(c) CheetahSoft Ltd. if you head ov…
... you head over to the remakes page and scroll down to specdrum2 ... /> then install specdrum2 and then run it and enter the code you wrote ... /> I used Blitzmax (The game and util Ide software and compiler) to write ... -
The book that never was.Having read Ultimate Video Game History many months ago and having just ordered another book on the same topic (video game history that is), I was st…
... months ago and having just ordered another book on the same topic ... about the rise and fall of commodore (On the edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall ... -
DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... it and powering the machine on, the logo appeared, the border went white and it ... /> So i opened up the 128 and unsoldered the Z80, installing a base ... other Z80 i tried previously (and the DIVide+ didn't work on ... -
Of soldering and whatnot.So. It looks like if I'm going to have any sort of active retrogaming habit in the future, I need to learn a bit more about the nuts and bolts. Emula…
... learn a bit more about the nuts and bolts. Emulated gaming is ... fine for a blast but lacks the ... utterly fails to capture!), identifying and replacing knackered components, that ... first, and see if I can complete all the projects as ... -
If you've got a real working MF128,IF1, and MDR combo can I ask a favour?So, if you do have a real Multiface 128, Interface 1, Microdrive and, oh yeah, a Spectrum (48k or 128k) that are all working, can I ask a favour...? …
... * Format a cartridge with the native routine and make a note of ... />
* Format the same cartridge with the MF128 and make a note ... />
[CODE]Hit the red button, and
(s)ave
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; ... and if you have, let the forum know!
What are you playing now, and how well are you doing?I'm on Egghead 5. (Adventure mode) Have been around the Med, and I, I , I... Am gathering together all the items from the countries and pooling t…
... the Med, and I, I , I... Am gathering together all the items from the ... countries and pooling them together in ...Severe problem with The Trap DoorHelp! I've got 2 Speccy emulators on my PC at the moment, ZX32 and SPIN, which are usually capable of perfectly running all the files from the archi…
... my PC at the moment, ZX32 and SPIN, which are ... usually capable of perfectly running all the ... files from the archive between them ... in front of the stove and doesn't pick ... up the heat.
...Sometimes You Just Miss The Boat![quote]Blackpool Illuminations Department is in the process of selling its giant model of Thunderbird 3, as seen in the 2004 Thunderbirds Movie. Weig…
... seen in the 2004 Thunderbirds Movie. Weighing 8 tonnes and 15.5m ... tall, the mammoth structure has a ... My Little Pony tableau from the 1980s and a range of horses ... January 30th between 10am and 4pm at the Department’s Rigby Road ...Great I think i have blown my speccy :(Well as we all know the +2a tape recorder i aint worth spitting on so I decided to get into the speccy and use another tape recorder instead. Now th…
... I decided to get into the speccy and use another tape recorder ... a jack on the end. Plugged it in to a tape recorder and ... then turned the speccy on, but nothing happend and still dont when the ... cable is not soldered to the ...Commercial life of the 16 bits?Just sat here, browsing the archive looking at the game adverts. The Spectrum went North commercially around 1993, and the C64 managed to hold on (al…
... at the game adverts. The Spectrum went North commercially around 1993, and the C64 ... much longer did the 16-bit "replacements" the Amiga and the Atari ST really ... last after the demise of the Speccy ...new to spectrum and problem with +2Hello to all guys, I've been around in the forum since a couple of days now and I've been reading various threads. My small speccy history: I've re…
... course I took the speccy's and the other stuff in ... to open it and clean the membranes and the rest of the parts.
the tape.
I opened again and checked the rubber things on the tape and ... noticed that the ...Who was the local psycho in your street?We had a guy who was a few years older than us, but a little bit slow. Still didn't stop him getting into heaps of trouble though... He used to sit …
... to sit on the little kids in the street and fart on their ... down the alleyway beside our house and turned into the street, with the other ... together when he stole it - and the handlebar came off in his ... bin stuffed to the brim with 10p whoppers and some such ...The best portable machine for Spectrum emulation?Which is the best portable or handheld device for Spectrum and non-Spectrum emulation? I only have a PSP, and whilst it has some good emulators, the …
... (including Caps Shift held down) and the ability to hold Symbol Shift ... to be dying off, whereas the GP32 and Nintendo DS' homebrew scenes ... seen a GP32 at all, and the DSs I've seen contain ... no homebrew.)
And what about the Eee PC? Fair enough ...Games you DIDN'T buy because of the inlay/coverAre there any games that you judged by the cover and avoided. Personally I avoided anything by Microdeal. That fat ginger freckled kid on the cover …
Are there any games that you judged by the cover and avoided.
Personally I avoided anything by Microdeal. That fat ginger freckled kid on the cover of every game just put me straight off ever wanting to try one of their games.If they've have been ported to the Spectrum...Spec-chums, There were many games that for various reasons never made it to the spectrum. As an aside to the If they'd have been released in the 80s…
... on the games that should've,could've and would ... 've been ported to the spectrum and ask ... what are they and how ... would do better on the speccy, but beyond Stonkers ... for a wireframe approach (and possibly took out flying ...
