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funeral of a biker fried in Bedford todayA member of my bike club died last month. His funeral is today. I'm off in just over an hour to meet up with club members. Pete was also active in t…
A member of my bike club died last ... , British Legion, Serv etc, a large turnout of bikes is expected. The ... open to all celebration of life has been postponed by ... -
Vague Memory of a GameI am trying to remember the name of this game. I think it is a Spectrum game as I think I actually remember the color clash! I think it played on a…
... the name of this game. I think it is a Spectrum game ... it played on a single screen. There were lots of WWII type ... the various planes were all a different single colour (hence the ... colour clash). It's not a lot to go on I ... -
"Spectrum Scene" from "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" (1986)Here is a link to the clip: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9IT95k1UoM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9IT95k1UoM[/URL] I remember when wathi…
Here is a link to the clip: [URL=" ... to know
the name of the car game the Andy ... 'm fairly sure that a copy of The Never Ending Story can ... /> be seen to the right of the computer. But there seems ... -
Need a names of a gamesHello, [U]First one:[/U] There`s a little tower on the picture at the main page of this site, right under big S in "Spectrum". Remind me the name pl…
... one:[/U]
There`s a little tower on the picture ... at the main page of this site, right under big ... :[/U]
There`s a kind of platformer. I remember only this ... -
Help with the name of a FilmI remember back in the mid 90's i saw a film one night but cant remember what it was called but do remember bits of it and was wondering if anyone wo…
... teens camp with hopes of stopping him becoming a criminal when he ... his mum had tons of different brands of cigarettes and chain smoked ... kid and his friend steal a piece of the councillors Harley Davidson ... and throws all of her different packs of cigs out the ... -
Trying to remember the name of a game...Hi, all! I used to play a game 20 years ago that I liked a lot... I can't remember the name. The idea of the game was like this: You control a creat…
... You control a creature that looks like a thick flexible ... stick and moves in a peculiar way: the stick ... something that looks like a horseshoe (an upside-down ... the other five creatures of the same species and ... creature means you finished a level. That's pretty ... -
Proud owner of a grey +2And for once, everything works! including the DivIDE+! Came with a bunch of tapes (sorry fog, no make a chip, although ive now got another copy of c…
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Came with a bunch of tapes (sorry fog, no make ... a chip, although ive ... now got another copy of ... I seem to have acquired a TRS80 copying program "Copsys ... 48k in the bundle plus a few sticks. Anyway, ... -
Just found this in a stack of photo'sBless him Oli, he signed my posters for me and stopped for a bit of a chat even though he was busy [IMG]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/…
... for me and stopped for a bit of a chat even though he ... -
From a spectator's point of viewApols if this has been done before... Many games on the speccy were single-player affairs and so if you were playing with your mate/sibling you may …
... share :cry: As a shared owner of a rubber-key speccy in ... ones where there is a certain amount of exploring or strategy ... of exploring. A really weird atmosphere that captivated me as a young 'un. A ... looks great and has a feeling of real achievement when you ... -
Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with DongleWe have now managed to resurrect an early example of the Sinclair QL home computer as it was first unveiled to the expectant media, complete with the…
... required for the PM version of QDOS. Unfortunately, the other two ... /> PM was one of the earliest versions of QDOS (pre-release).
of modifications to the motherboard / ZX8302 ... ).
This could be a unique QL and it is ... -
Movie Critique (posh way of saying this is a film recommendation thread!)We haven't had a film recommendation thread for ages (so it seems), so I thought we should get a new one started, and hopefully everyone will post wh…
... , unless they are in a spoiler box of course.
This is a really funny film, starring Steve ... at. It's sort of a competition where each guest ... Carrell) and the rest of the film is brilliant. ... I'm not really a fan of many modern comedy films ... -
A major revamp of a computerI'm thinking about buying this motherboard here: [url]http://www.asrock.com/MB/overview.asp?Model=A330GC[/url] AFAICT the DIMM slots for RAM are the…
... says it will accept memory of 533MHz. My old stick are ... problematic to use those in a slower system?
Here ... -
name of a game, amiga 500it was a 2nd world war 2 turn based stratergy game. in sort of hexagon tiles came on about 12 disks. :-D can't remember the name. cheers
it was a 2nd world war 2 turn based stratergy game.
in sort of hexagon tiles
came on about 12 disks. :-D
can't remember the name.
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Name of a tuneCan anybody give a name/artist name to this song? I've heard it on a film before I think. There is about 5 seconds of it on this you tube video. …
Can anybody give a name/artist name to this ... /> I've heard it on a film before I think.
There is about 5 seconds of it on this you tube ... name so that will be a dead end.
[url ... -
Need the name of a comicI wonder if someone can help with something thats been bugging me....... I remember a comic that i read in the mid - late 80's that contained mainly …
... bugging me.......
I remember a comic that i read in ... fi/horror stories, i read a whole load that my cousin ... can't remember the name of the comic and its annoying ... ) was called 'Tough of the track' about a runner and another was ... -
Name of a Speccy homebrew with a ball and gravity and stuffAnyone remember what this is called? It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something.
Anyone remember what this is called?
It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something. -
Trying to remember the name of a football game...Think it was budget, overhead view, released around 89 and on title screen when you made a selection or moved cursor it played a bit of sampled speec…
Think it was budget, overhead view, released around 89 and on title screen when you made a selection or moved cursor it played a bit of sampled speech that said "go for it".
any ideas? other than I should have been playing something decent? -
Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... I prefer to use a special kind of cardboard as desk cover ... Cleaning these kind of mechanisms is quite a toil because there are ... what appears to be a staple (several of these were found) and ... assembly, the final polishing layer of a German product used for what ... -
Someone with a bit of a thing about clone games:I don't know if anyone knows who this is, but it's a blog post on arcade game clones and the development of licensing over the 8-bit era. I came acr…
... clones and the development of licensing over the 8 ... look up the extent of Harry S. Price's ... bile and fuming hatred of any sort of 'Froggy' or ' ... games. There's a definite touch of the David Starkey to ... just about to release a loose clone of an arcade game, ... -
Game of Thrones author - a speccy fan!?Have just finished book 1 by George RR Martin, a song of Fire and Ice towards the end, one of the protagonists of a large battle is none other than …
... 1 by George RR Martin, a song of Fire and Ice
towards the end, one of the ... protagonists of a large battle is none ... -
Physics of a bombim sure a few of you clever chaps can answer this. Im flying a plane at 100km and hour my altitude about ground level is 1km im flying dead level…
im sure a few of you clever chaps can answer ... this.
Im flying a ... level
i drop a 500lb bomb
how ... same speed as me, decelerate a certain ammount over that time? -
The smell of a brand new ZX SpectrumThis may be the weirdest question I've asked here... Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case to reveal your brand new…
... here...
Most of you probably remember the day ... smell emanating from the inside of the case.
a particular smell. That's ... ago. I was opening a ZX81, and to do ... moment I took off one of the rubber feet, I ... -
Dizzy - A Change of OpinionAll my friends (and most members) on here know how much of a Dizzy fan I am - I've enjoyed the games, even spending many an hour playing the Megadriv…
... ) on here know how much of a Dizzy fan I am - I ... continue to enjoy the rest of the games? -
Formalhaut year of release and a bit moreMartijn, this game was released in Microhobby semanal 117-120 which is from 1987, not 1986 (I guess the year of release must prevail over the year of…
... I guess the year of release must prevail over ... the year of completion of the game).
... magazine covertape" instead of "part of a compilation" since the compilation ... from Ignacio Prini was afterwards, a ... -
Eurogamer report on Horizons, a celebration of the ZX Spectrum[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url] Gasman gets a mention for his live performance of a speccy vers…
... .net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url]
of a speccy version of "Never Gonna Give You ... -
A "bit" of a curiosityHaving to use a bit of m/code to do the AND in that key check function, I was prompted to revisit the "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up wit…
Having to use a bit of m/code to ... m/code. An advantage of this version over that ...
[code]
REM a = val1 = 1st number
... /> d = bits = number of bits to check
g ... br /> LET ba2=INT (a/2): LET bb2=INT ... -
Question on a brace of DI games in the archiveRe: Fighter Pilot on Timex (MIA) and ATF 2 (never released) Do we have evidence that FP was indeed released on Timex? Also, what does the "never re…
... said he had never heard of a timex release for FP and ... 2 was always planned as a 16-bit sequel to the ... -
Anatomy of a bad M1No, not the motorway (although at times the tarmac M1 goes about as well as this one...) But the bad M1 problem that seems to occur most with issue …
... , date coded 8425 (25th week of 1984).
... a maximum voltage of 778mv and a minimum of 534mv.
To get a ... there's a lot of other noise on top of it. It ... honestly looks like there is a ... 's left of the M1 signal is a bit lower ... -
Could anyone do a bit of testing for me please?Hi, I'm currently working on a remake of a Sinclair game (more of a conversion, actually), which I'm hoping will raise a little bit of money for a c…
... currently working on a remake of a Sinclair game (more of a conversion, actually), ... which I'm hoping will raise a little bit of ... money for a charity. If ... PC. There may be a Linux version too with ... -
Turrican 2 - Mock up of a Mock upOne of the games that I was most looking forward to in the latter years of the Speccy's commercial life was Turrican 2. The previews made the game l…
... in the latter years of the Speccy's commercial ... /> The finished product looked a fair bit different and in ... all honesty, a bit crap compared to ... this afternoon I was a bit bored and wondered what ... Apart from a bigger main sprite, the rest of the graphics ...
