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Speccy achievementsI was musing about what kind of achievements some speccy games might have had if the system was around back then. What individual feats might have m…
[b]Manic Miner[/b]
Get yer Willy oot!: Get Miner Willy out ... version without making the Attic Bug happen :p
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Famous Arcade coin ops wich did not get Spectrum conversionsI was thinking about this the other day, and realized that the spectrum users we were very lucky on this, since we got most of the most important and…
lady bug isn't too different to taffy turner?
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spectraNET 2012Hello, time ago I got a divIDE interface and found it awesome, not many IC and so amazing capabilities. Nowdays Internet is everywhere so I looked ar…
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The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…
... ; they'd say games (probably manic miner or such like); rather than ... code, learning BASIC, using utility software for a wide variety of ... -
New MM ProjectHaving finished VHW, thought i'd have a crack at doing a Manic Miner game before getting on with AGD. Been on it for a couple of hours so well under…
... , and i'll do a Manic Miner special edition of the game ... have just the one, a bug-ridden piece of crud :lol ... scoot over to the JSW/Manic Miner user group (if it still ... -
Recommend some late era Spectrum classics.My era is the 1983 to end 1987 era. Come 1987 I was working at Ocean so didn't play that many games as I working on a Spectrum in the day. I used to …
... , Antiriad, Dan Dare, Equinox, Frost Byte, The Trap Door, The Great ... classics (such as Jet Pac, Manic Miner, Atic Atac...) and say there ... -
Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…
... Manic Miner :-). There's plenty of great new stuff in Brand New Software ... -
Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…
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Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…
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As for Manic Miner, I'll definitely add it ... TAPE2WAV / k7zx stuff to get software into the unit. I would ... -
BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…
... with an OUT, saving a byte each time). But there is ... or i.e. flashing (like MANIC MINER).[/QUOTE]
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SkoolKit 3.0SkoolKit - the suite of utilities for creating disassemblies of Spectrum games in HTML format - has reached version 3.0. Important new features in th…
... [i]ref[/i] files for Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. If ... the cavern/room data in Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy, SkoolKit ... ]) and [url="http://mdfs.net/Software/JSW/Docs"]J. G. Harston ... -
Imperica Horizons - The whole weekend :-)So now it's all over, I'll do a quick writeup... It all started for me at 5.20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't so easy now that Aer …
... by the audience using tracker software running on a Speccy. Someone ... the first time (and play Manic Miner on it, thanks to the ... -
Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
... /> I'd go for the byte scan method as recommended by ... but faster than Manic Miner and Jetset Willy.
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What?s on your C90?Hellloooo! Here I am, having a good old sort out of over 200 “non-original” or, "blank" cassettes from various sources. Yes, it’s…
... them on different cassettes) [B]Manic Miner[/B] (not checked which version ... [/B], [B]Pinball[/B] (Sagittarian Software) - Ooh, someone else mentioned this ... -
Steve Wilcox quote in latest 'Retro Gamer' magOn page 7, in a feature on his IOS Spectrum emulator, he is quoted as saying: "The Android market has been 'poisoned' by a number of very shoddy Spec…
... say you bought Jetpac, or Manic Miner, or Skooldaze, or R-Type ... play the game until the software house officially says "No ... so many favourites, can a software house legally say "[I] ... becoming download only, and with software protection needing permenent 'net ... -
Steve Wilcox quote in latest 'Retro Gamer' magOn page 7, in a feature on his IOS Spectrum emulator, he is quoted as saying: "The Android market has been 'poisoned' by a number of very shoddy Spec…
... say you bought Jetpac, or Manic Miner, or Skooldaze, or R-Type ... play the game until the software house officially says "No ... so many favourites, can a software house legally say "[I] ... becoming download only, and with software protection needing permenent 'net ... -
Has any one tried ZX Spectrum 4.net?In this week's Micromart, the Specccy emulator [I]ZX Spectrum 4.net[/I] is given a rave review, and it does sound really good. Has anyone tried it ye…
... to be able to play Manic Miner, Head Over Heels, Lords of ... would allow people to write software that takes advantage of it ... -
Semi-Dead Spectrum - Help RequestedI have finally got my hands on my two old Spectrums - neither of which work, but ideally I hope to get both of them working again. Spectrum number o…
... range of software without any problems. Then I tried Manic Miner and found ... of the relevant part of Manic Miner planned to pick through the ... -
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... such as Horace Goes Skiing, Manic Miner and Sir Lancelot. Sadly that ... WoS and all the new projects going on for the old ... -
How far are we from a single-chip 100% ZX Spectrum compatible solution?I really like to read about the projects of some geniusses here on WoS who are working on their ZX Spectrum clones. IMHO some main steps that have b…
... card to expand on the software choice.
I would ... read sometime ago the veteran software house Elite were rumoured to ... would be made, the original software producers will want a share ... think of Ultimate games, Elite, Manic Miner, etc, but many of those ... -
Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…
... resides. Ever noticed how [I]Manic Miner[/I], [I]Jet Set Willy ... Spectrum, that's the first byte of the second 16K chunk ... -
Film on the UK software industry - Kickstarter to complete it..Thought you guys might be interested in this - came up on my FaceBook Newsfeed, endorsed by Mel Croucher (of Automata fame) [url=http://www.kickstar…
... Braben, 3 Speccy 48Ks with Manic Miner & JSW signed by Matthew ... all those computers and the software off eBay or wherever would ... -
Announcing MetroSpec: ZX Spectrum 16/48K Emulator for Windows Phone 7 / 8Hi All, I'm the author of MetroSpec, a ZX Spectrum 16/48K emulator for Windows Phone 7 / 8. MetroSpec V1.3 was actually launched in September 2012, …
... for purpose". Given Elite's Manic Miner runs fine on my Mozart ... .
Regarding Elite's Manic Miner running ok on the same ... have the developer of that software, Jimmy Engstr?m as a ... 'm still not sure why Manic Miner runs flawlessly on low power ... -
Time for all games to become (legally) available?It just came to me that none of us are getting any younger. Not much of an earth-shattering statement I know, but more came of this original thought.…
... else to start making the software available at a price?
Manic Miner 360 - based on the original ... some people who are 'preserving software' - last year, I came across ... -
Time for all games to become (legally) available?It just came to me that none of us are getting any younger. Not much of an earth-shattering statement I know, but more came of this original thought.…
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For serious top-quality software there could be a reasonable ... games being some sort of Manic Miner just wouldn't cut it ... about this!" crowd. The software and packaging would have to ... about unsuccess with producing new software for old platforms isn't ... -
Sound programs that use +3DOS/AssemblerHi I am working on my final JSWed project and have nearly finished but i am considering changing the standard in game tune you get,the editor instruc…
... am using the Jetset Willy / Manic Miner editor JSWed for the second ... directives. The rst byte is a command byte, which may then be ... is optional.
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Adding games to Spectaculator on un-jailbroken ipadI have just found that you can manually add games to Spectaculator on an un-jailbroken iPad, but, just wanted to check if this is classed as 'hacking…
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Just because a software company has been generous enough ... a very good reason for software houses never to grant permission ... an instantly-accessible version of Manic Miner that you can show to ... -
Adding games to Spectaculator on un-jailbroken ipadI have just found that you can manually add games to Spectaculator on an un-jailbroken iPad, but, just wanted to check if this is classed as 'hacking…
... =gasman;696214]Just because a software company has been generous enough ... a very good reason for software houses never to grant permission ... an instantly-accessible version of Manic Miner that you can show to ... -
Adding games to Spectaculator on un-jailbroken ipadI have just found that you can manually add games to Spectaculator on an un-jailbroken iPad, but, just wanted to check if this is classed as 'hacking…
... gasman;696214]Just because a software company has been generous enough ... a very good reason for software houses never to grant ... an instantly-accessible version of Manic Miner that you can show to ... you said above that the software company has given permission ...
