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Have you ever queued up for a new game?....Have any spec-chums queued up outside the local computer shop for a new speccy game back in the day? Or been that excited about the new spectrum gam…
Have any spec-chums queued up outside the local computer shop for a new speccy game back in the day?
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Activision want a "screen shot touch up artist"We all know that screenshots for upcoming commercial games are often touched up (enhanced) before being given to magazines or uploaded to the 'net, b…
... commercial games are often touched up (enhanced) before being given to ... -
Give me your Minigame ideas...I am working on a new MiniGame as I write this. It is a combined version of Snake and Bingo. On a full screen at the start the numbers 1 to 30 are …
... more numbers will be displaced up to 50 (or so). When ... more levels possible by just setting a timer for the computer ... -
A PC console?Are there any console style PCs available? What I mean is, you can pretty much use a PC as a console, if you add a joypad(s), a TV card, and if you l…
... , to use for starting games, setting options, etc, and use the ... 'd still have the boot up time, Windows errors, and the ... 's not hard to set up either; choose a graphics card ... -
Extreme Close-Up TetrisWhile reading through the brand new issue of Retro Gamer that's just arrived today, there is a feature on the 10 best versions of Tetris you've never…
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+2 datacorder - close up photos neededI've just bought second hand +2 and there is one thing I'd like to fix. When I press "stop/eject" button the datacorder should open but it doesn't. T…
... like to see some close up photos of opened +2 datacorder ... -
Need a Win prog which shows what is using up the network (WiFi)connection ... G'argh!Ok ... it's a (WinXP) computer using a cable modem. It's firewalled. The other day a WiFi router was added to it. It's locked, it's supposedly sec…
... a different computer it pops up as being locked/inaccessible (unless ... a WiFi router is hooked up to it (AND [I]supposedly ... the same.
Both are up to date.
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Spectrum 2.0 back upAs some people may have noticed, [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url] fell over on 19th May. Typically, I went on holiday on the 16th and o…
... and it's now back up.
The management apologise ... -
The Real Retromaniacs - new website now up and running!Hi everyone. As some of you may have been aware by the link in my sig, The Real Retromaniacs is now officially up and running! You can get to it her…
... Real Retromaniacs is now officially up and running! You can ... (hopefully should be posted up on Monday) so should be ... discuss the shows, come up with ideas for new material ... discussions and a forum up and running, so feel ... to come along, join up and also let us ... -
New game idea, "sneak-em-up".A while ago, I was going to try my hand at a game on the speccy, but nothing ever came of it. Basically, I had an idea to do a "Thief" style game. N…
... Nethack - you could then move up behind a guard and attack ... out comrade will wake them up, which in turn alerts them ... anyone wants to pick this up and give it a go ... -
I fecking E bleeding 8!Is anyone else using this piece of furking shitty shite? I'm getting weird results whilst navigating... Let's say I start at my home page ([url]www…
... back should take me back up a level.
I ... />
Is there some arsey setting in IE8 that I need ... -
Winding up cold callers and saving your fellow neighboursHaving received a number of unwanted calls on my home phone despite being registered with telephone preference services I started on a mission to sto…
... a Saturday morning and hanging up, or calling when I'm ... pickup. Has anybody else come up with a novel solution or ... -
Who's this, what's he up to?[QUOTE]Police in Dargaville would like a word with an unknown man pictured sizing up the access to a banking machine. Security camera photos supplied…
... an unknown man pictured sizing up the access to a banking ... -
Divide Plus, +3e ROMS and Residos - computer locks upHello all I have Divide + and Spectrum +3 with +3e ROMS (v 1.37) I have read RWAP software's Divide Plus user manual and on page 9 of the manual it…
... too, but still everything locks up.
Any ideas what ... -
New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... ' to view the colour timing setting that it's automatically detected ... hidden option doesn't come up again, and doesn't muck ... -
Micro Men - negative advance reviewFrom today's Sunday Times: [QUOTE][b][u]Micro Men[/u][/b] (Thursday 8 October, BBC4, 9pm). Tony Saint's fact-based drama depicts battling boffins i…
... by winning a BBC tie-up. Both, though, made blunders and ... and discovery, with the recent setting offering the bonus of neat ... -
ZX81 Collection Up For Sale (or not...)Hi, I'm considering putting the ZX81 Collection up for sale as a job lot. In two minds at the moment. What would be your estimate of value for every…
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Up in the loft...I'm spending the day up in the loft today putting in some more board so I can manage all the JUNK I have up there. Came across my box of Spectrums, m…
I'm spending the day up in the loft today putting ... all the JUNK I have up there.
Came across my ... -
emulators and real tapesit's dependent on 2 things , the tape deck + the soundcard right? I use Spectaculator and have tried spin.. now I bought a machine the other day, wi…
... no messing with tone / volume setting.. and even if there is ... an app that could set up both volumes or optimise them ... -
giving up caffeineI would never have said I was addicted to caffeine - until I gave up. and it's pretty harsh. I wasn't drinking excessive amounts or anything, maybe 4…
... to caffeine - until I gave up. and it's pretty harsh ... out all caffeine and waking up pretty much craving a coffee ... -
Keyboard Issues When Setting Border ColourWelcome to the next in my series of inane 'Z80 on the Spectrum' questions! ;) Here's a minimal snippet of code for polling the keyboard until any ke…
... /> Another snippet I've picked up along the way is to ... -
"Up to 80% of violent criminals turned to crime because computer games"According to China (that well known bastion of openness and human rights), or at least the official China news people: [[COLOR=Red]Note: if you can'…
... equipment in an online game. Up to 80 percent of the ... way to keep their energy up during all-night gaming marathons ... before computer gaming, there were up to 80% less prisoners in ... -
Games Notorious for F*cking UpThis is a thread dedicated to games notorious for f*cking up or crashing mid-game (48K and 128K games). :) Music demos are also welcome. My experien…
... games notorious for f*cking up or crashing mid-game (48K ... - May 1991)
F*cks up if you press any key ... -
How can I divide a graphic image up... Hopefully such a program exists?Tesco now print out photographs and other images from memory cards (they've done it for ages, and most other supermarkets probably do) and so I want …
... for my walls, by dividing up images into blocks, and printing ... Tescos, and then then bunging up all the photgraphs to make ... -
Dirty stop-up. :SI haven't been up this late in ages. No more. Night night!
I haven't been up this late in ages.
No more.
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Spectranet updateWell, I've not put an update in here for too long, so here's a summary of what's been developing ... * A snapshot manager module. Basically, you can…
... "boot in USR 0 mode" setting.
* Get some "production boards ... getting solder paste stencils made up to speed assembly.
* Write ...
