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System Shock is now free! And some other games too...The game System Shock, a reportedly superb PC FPS/RPG hybrid that was way ahead of it's time on release, has aparently been released as freeware by i…
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Game cover differencesDo any of the games listed in our archives have references to the more 'subtle' differences on the inlay cards? Ie: The Imagine games that have alte…
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Q. on ColourCode patent.Just a quick question (or two). I remember reading on the bottom of the colour-code sheet, which came with JSW, "PATENT PENDING." I would love to…
What was the +2 and +3 keyboard like compared to the 128 and + one?I had a Spectrum 128, which had the infamous plastic-but-spongy keys. It was fine for games where you only had to press a handful of keys repeatedly,…
... , but typing long bits of text in was a bit of ...Study of Valhalla.Just noticed a few brief references to Valhalla, The Hobbit, and a few other Speccy titles in the book, 'Creative Computer Graphics' by Jankel & Mort…
... cant scan in all the text, but if anyone is interested ...PSP or GPX2 (or Pocket PC or whatever)?I'm going to get either a PSP or a GPX2 (or a Nintendo DS, or a PocketPC or something), so what are the differences between the PSP, the GPX2 and wha…
... handheld machine for emulators and text, and don't need a ...Two gamesHere is my "I remember the game but not it's name" post. These two games are in my blurry memory, maybe my memory playing games with me. my 1st unkn…
... in desert (mode7 or parallax scrolling ), I really cannot rememeber what ...Star Heritage::TranslationHi all! I am almost finished with a translation of a Russian adventure game Star Heritage (demo) to poor English. I need a volunteer(s) with a good …
... /> The game is a graphical text adventure. It went on one ...Post your funny text messages hereGot this one today: A tramp walks into a jewellers and casually begins to finger his own arse. Jeweller screams GET OUT. Tramp points to sign-COME I…
Got this one today:
A tramp walks into a jewellers and casually begins to finger his own arse. Jeweller screams GET OUT. Tramp points to sign-COME IN & PICK YOUR RING IN COMFORT.
and this one yesterday:
Man says ...PngConvRight. Thought I'd move this to a new thread, simply because I can. If you've not been reading the thread about [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…
... an option to customise the text output if that's what ...Best-illustrated adventure game?Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations? It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.
Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations?
It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.Looking for a gameHi there. I vaguely remember this one game. It's a kind of an usual flip-screen shooter/maze/adventure. You control an astronaut and guide him throug…
... made in, but the game text apparently is in some non ...Flippin` ebay banner ad :(Sorry to post a new thread over something so trivial, but is anyone else getting sick or noticing the new ebay ads on websites, the banner sized flas…
... start to hemmel seriously when scrolling through other webpages, and didn ...Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... the command line, enter plain text, not tokens, it uses his ...Services[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1][COLOR=#000000][B]Software Houses[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica][B]Brand new software[/B], that i…
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[FONT=Arial ...Component Equivalents/substitutionsA while ago, I mentioned to somebody in a thread that we should have a list of component equivalents and substitutions so that it's easier to fix our…
... /> Section in [B]bold[/B] text: Updated info from a link ...Pirate or Prototype?A Spectrum ZX (48K) app, has come into my hands called: Masterfile. Looking at your databas I found it however the tape\cassete leaf scan shows a muc…
... can add their own data. Text in italics is the data ...Help with a couple of Crash ReviewsHi. As you may or may not know I'm busy getting all of the Crash Reviews into a database that's viewable on one of my sites (see sig). It's a long …
... is what the squashed up text is. If someone could kindly ... either post it here as text or re-scan the page ...Keyboard oddnessI was recently given a Speccy (the 48k '+' model to be more precise) by a chap I work with who was clearing out his loft, & earlier tonight I thought…
... white screen with the sinclair text at the bottom, but (horror ...zx81I have one ZX81 computer here at home which was given to me today. I?ve never had a ZX81 before and therefore have know nothing about it :) The thin…
... "video chip" is damaged, the text which shows on the screen ...funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... , there would be a side scrolling level to get in to ...Anyone remember this game?It's a long shot but maybe someone remembers this game. The only thing I can remember about it was that it was side scrolling platform/adventure typ…
... was that it was side scrolling platform/adventure type game (I ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... of the Speccy. Full screen scrolling, multichannel music, more colour, and ... obstacles. On the Spectrum, the scrolling is slower, so you have ...New BB codes availableAs requested by Daren, 2 new BB codes are available now (without the spaces of course): [B]Strike through[/B] <s>text</s> in HTML. [ strike]strike …
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ZX Maps Book - Final Template UpdateHi all, after a few hours work, I've finalised the template for the map book and finshed the section for Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monster…
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Again, the introduction text comes from an online Crash ...National Hunt Race Ratings - Sport & Racing SoftwarsI have aquired the tape "National Hunt Race Ratings" for the Sinclair Spectrum by Sport & RACING software. I can find no mention of it or the softwa…
... is yellow card woth black text and shows an image of ...Help me find this gameIt is a space side scrolling affair. You are a white space-suited character going a long in space. You have to use your thrusters to keep in spaces b…
It is a space side scrolling affair. You are a white ...Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
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[*]Text-based configuration file, residos.cfg ... I/O from BASIC and text windowing (as currently provided by ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
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