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Rediscovering my inner Spec-chumIt's been a LONG while since I last felt like this about Spectrum retrogaming. My interest in my current websites waned quite a bit over the past cou…
... a newspaper over the TV screen
during the game so ... 48k music, together with the very slick
gameplay.
Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…
... to the blank start-up screen when a key is pressed ... keys again!
Thanks very much.
ClareIs there anyway of fixing my spectrum?Hi people, i have just got my pride and joy back out of the closet (48k +) and turned it on and to my horror the arial socket is not working properly…
... properly, the screen is black and white and very fuzzy no matter ...Whats the name of this game?Never played this game but remember the review and advert. I remember there being lots of alien vegetation around the foot of the screen and the revi…
... around the foot of the screen and the review saying that ... struggle against very high gravity. I think the screen was very green.
Should I upload this?HI All! The game is called MicroChip and I don't find nothing about it on InfoSearch. Here are a few details : 1) On loading screen there is SPECI…
... :
1) On loading screen there is SPECIAL PLAYGAMES presenta ... robot picking up blue and yellow balls and do... well, something ...ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner Screen Editor 1.0.1I have just released a minor new version of my Manic Miner Screen Editor. It no longer allows the user to specify an amount of air which causes the S…
... version of my Manic Miner Screen Editor. It no longer allows ...NEW INTERFACE FOR ZX SPECTRUM!!Hi all zx-maniax! Here is a letter from Polish inventor, Yarek Adamski. He constructed a new brilliant interface for ZX SPECTRUM. Ready carrefuly i…
... and most of YAMODs are very simple, so
they are ... can generate interrupts on every screen line as Sam
do ... .EPLIP - closely undefined (for me) very fast
parallel interface, with ...Anybody wanna swap ???Send your dupe list or requested to :- [email="cornishdavey@dsl.pipex.com"]cornishdavey@dsl.pipex.com[/email] Quite a long long list, come very co…
... a long long list, come very cool bits there as well ...
Robocop x 2
Screen Heroes
Super Sports
Can anyone help me with a game please?? Sorry to bring up such an annoying topic, but figuring out the name of this one is really doing my nut. You controlled a robot dog that could fire…
... eyes, and moved from screen to screen dodging enemies and shooting things ... .
Not a very colourful game, the screen was black and the ...name of the gameit was a race game,topdown view, tracks were fitted in one screen, no scrolling. i remember it uses colors (green for grass at least), cars were very…
... , tracks were fitted in one screen, no scrolling. i remember it ... grass at least), cars were very small but well animated. up ...z88dk Spectrum Screen Driver problemHi guys, I've been messing around with z88dk a bit and was trying to output some stuff to the screen. Reading the docs, it says that I can use the Z…
... output some stuff to the screen. Reading the docs, it says ... I can use the ZX screen driver to set the x ... 0x01 and 0x20 after my screen clearing routine in order to ... set the screen to 32-character mode... anyone ...Z88I was just reading about the Z88 and was amazed to read that you could link it up to a PC!!!!! That bloke Sinclair was just leaps and bound ahead of…
... it only had a very basic LCD screen but I would love ...ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
... fills the red square with yellow
PAINT 50,50,3 ... with yellow
PAINT 50,50,2,3 fills the entire screen ...Jet Set Willy Problems...I THINK I've completed the "Lord of the Rings version of Jet Set Willy...I've reached the "Grey Haven" (or whatever it's called) but when I jumped ov…
... just looped back to a yellow room 5 screens back. What ... I've made a loading screen in "OCP Art Studio", how ...Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
... code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine ... compressed the text in the screen so more characters could be ...Long Lost ListingsWay back in the day when I still had those three issues of Sinclair Programs (which got lost in the Great House Move of three years ago DAMNDAMNDAMN)…
... some loose pages of a very random computer magazine. It had ... Dragon listings which I was very tempted to try out, having ... , printing the result on the screen as it went along... "Comedy ... watches you menacingly, brandishing a very large spanner.
[ ...HighSPEC (brand new RADICAL High resolution emulator) Hi there, This is an announcement to all spectrum lovers of a brand new (and radical) spectrum emulator called HighSPEC! It is the work of Tom Walk…
... routines) and is currently a very beta v0.1.
screen updating and my own specially ... depending on the amount of screen changes occuring, but most games ... />
The emulator is still very beta, but has a lot ...et tu SAM Coupe...Today I put my SAM Coupe on the desk, searched 5 hours for a file conversion utility PC->SAM, and tried to unlock the secrets of SAM mode 4 screen :)…
... secrets of SAM mode 4 screen :).
The reason: I made ... they said that it is very good, so this mode will ... "Optimised Palette", "Spectrum Palette" (Not very good results) and "Custom Palette ...Z80 to TZX Converter !Hey Everyone ! I have a bit of time lately and I coded a little utility that can convert the Z80 snapshot (any version, 48k and 128k supported) to T…
... % of normal speed) and is VERY reliable - altough for 6000 baud ... can add an external loading screen.
The resulting .TZX ...Elite - %@$(*!$!*(%! dockingAllright, all you die-hard Elite veterans out there, a neophyte needs your help ! I know the age-old 'trick' for docking is to run up near the stati…
... happening. After two succesful and very easy docks, I can't ... just reloaded my savegame, moving very slowly, perfectly lined up with ... Diso. Also, when viewed on screen, the door is spinning clockwise ...Insanely difficult gamesOK, folks, so we know Speccy games were difficult in general. But have you ever played some games which were totally unfair from your point of view ?…
... you've barely entered the screen and you get shot at ... because:
- The ship has very poor handling even at lower ...You had a Cauldron and several Ingredients...Does anybody remember which game this was? It's driving me mad! It was a flip-screen, side-on view platformer like Dizzy etc. You had to collect cre…
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It was a flip-screen, side-on view platformer like ... of those games with a very large map of quite empty ...Help me find this futuristic race gameI remembered this game when I was playing Zig Zag. In the game you're looking at a some sort of mesh of roads from the top. Many levels have their …
... . Its NOT whole map per screen. Every time you move long ... distance from screen to screen and you control this ... from above.
Its VERY VERY similar to the racing in ...Gamebase ZX coming soon!For the last few months i have working on a new database called 'Gamebase ZX'. The single goal of Gamebase ZX is to be the ultimate offline database …
... have two screenshots, one Loading screen and one Ingame.
The very first version with 132 entries ... will be available from WOS very soon. Updates will follow until ...Name the game...When i first got my Spectrum + many years ago i had a few free games with the package. Some were very poor but they were very playable. One was a s…
... package. Some were very poor but they were very playable.
screen, when all were coloured then ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... (Little Men walking across the screen, woo hoo)
Moon Strike ... the plot of the game. Very clever)
Dynamite Dan II ...photos/videos from AY-RIDERS' concertOK then, the concert has took a place. It was shocking how many persons came (about 150-200) and they were having great fun, they were dancing, even…
... big-screen (it was HUGE-screen actually).
The concert was very cuccesfull ...Super Crap Invaders - a super crap review by mel the bellSuper Crap Invaders - a super crap review by mel the bell Meet Miner Willy the unsuspecting star of a brand new spectrum game Super Crap Invaders wi…
... .
The game has a very good mix of Jet Set ... cant get off the first screen without losing 1 life, sometimes ... arrows being fired from off screen and of course the classic ...Game Search : Controlled 4 robots around a mazeHi, I looking for an old Spectrum game that I used to play to death when I was a kid, hopefully some of you guys have played this and remember its n…
... and force feilds (iirc). Each screen is different and some have ... and you have to be very quick)
Hopefully thats ...Dan Dare 256 colour project many may not be aware of.I still need/want to try Vladimir's emulator. But I think many people here aren't aware of another 256 colour project, which was mentioned on C.S.S. …
... /> problem with that. I would very much invite offers of hosting ...
