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Best episode of the series so far?Tonight's episode of Doctor Who is definetly a contender for best episode of the series so far IMO - spot on in all departments - story, effects, cha…
... episodes will be anticlimactic in comparison. Someone else said (on the ... -
Joystick JuryHi, No, not games...but joysticks. I still have my Kempston Competition Pro 5000 knocking around and it was, IMO, by far the best Speccy joystick. …
... come up with a meaningful comparison for mine...
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Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…
[QUOTE=Malc74]All pure conjecture and no hard facts, mind. Interesting read, though.[/QUOTE]
i was going to mention this but you beat me to it; the signed screenshots hint that [i]something[/i] was amiss though don't they... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
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There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
Transformers!Well.... I'm excited :D [url]http://www.transformersmovie.com[/url]
I was looking at the new Optimus Prime in a shop last year sometime and I thought it was crap in comparison to the original.
Isn't that always the way though. :)
Necros.Futurama Returns![url="http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/19/1417253.shtml"]http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/19/1417253.shtml[/url] "Another 26 episodes of Futuram…
... /entertainment/back_to_the_futurama_entertainment_don_kaplan.htm]actors have signed up too[/url]."You are not going to believe what just happened in Lost! *** Major Spoilers ***Last warning. Do not scroll down if you haven't seen season 2 yet. They …
She only signed up for one season.
Apparently she suffers from Attention Defecit Disorder, so I doubt she wanted to do more anyway.new spectrumI have notices all sorts of advances on the C64 sceene such as 20mhz cpus, gui`s, and IDE interfaces. are they any kind of advances in development fo…
... clones. Most countries have now signed up to the Berne convention ...Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…
So... who's gonna take to the task of disassembling it and making a comparison with the ROMs we all know of?Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…
... disassembling it and making a comparison with the ROMs we all ...PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
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By way of comparison, check out these screenshots of ...Games club wc 15/07/06Sorry its late folks - voting will still end staurday..
... [/I] would be a better comparison, even.
I'd ...Problem with rotating procedureHi folks! I wrote a proc in z80 asm, based on: x' = x * cos (z) - y * sin (z) y' = x * sin (z) + y * cos (z) I used a precalculated table of sin a…
... star. Math is done in signed 16bit, game writes pixel directly ... around object centre in 8bit signed numbers and add result to ... of some nice demos uses signed 9bit and logarithm based multiplication ...What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... of the Spectrum Hardware Manual, signed by Adrian Dickens
Sealed ...Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... 'average user', really secure in comparison, sacrifices a bit of speed ...Problem with rotating procedureHi folks! I wrote a proc in z80 asm, based on: x' = x * cos (z) - y * sin (z) y' = x * sin (z) + y * cos (z) I used a precalculated table of sin a…
... fixed point calculation. Anyway, the signed X * sin(Y) takes just ...Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... why PD will pale in comparison.
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The ...Off Topic: Really annoying ebay related problem. Hope someone can help!Okay, so you know the counters at the bottom of ebay auctions which give you an idea how many hits the page has had? Well they don't display on my co…
... 'm sure I only ever signed up for their free counters ...Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…
... an author.
He signed with different names in those ...LoC question (again)- sorry!Hey guys, I posted this question a couple of days ago- sorry to repeat, but just wondered if anyone could help (perhaps someone who didn't read my la…
... it's very primitive in comparison to Gollop's later games ...More ZX Game book updatesThe latest PDFs are now up and ready for viewing... Chapters 1985-onwards still need a careful reading, but they should be pretty good, especially af…
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I claim my free signed and numbered (no.1?) book....A Public Service AnnouncementThis thread is here for anyone to plug brand-new websites. I'll read it, so you'll get at least some marketing/exposure out of it... I'll start the …
[quote=Where's that AY chip gone...][B]Are you dumb or something?[/B][/quote]
No, and definitely not in comparison to some...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... and was very affordable. In comparison to the c64, for example ... hobbyist market was small in comparison to the new million machine ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... was a computer, and only comparison non technical people draw between ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... game was usually appalling in comparison to the Spectrum games I ...In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... is not too bad in comparison to, say, a [URL="http ...TZX specs v1.20 RC1Hello folks, after months of waiting finally you have the latest update proposal (RC1) for the TZX format! This update includes revisions to the 0x…
... million? This fits into a signed 32bit integer. The minimum can ...Help with a pc speaker problemI recently was given a 19" Hansol Mazellan 900p CRT Monitor which replaced my old Packard Bell smaller monitor. The speakers i have are fairly ancien…
Any standard PC speakers you buy will have their own mains adaptor, so you will have no problems.
Besides, the one's built into monitors are terrible in comparison to even a cheap £10 set you can buy.
