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I am soo glad I owned a SpeccyJust passing the time here, and decided (after seeing some CPC screenshots of Shadow Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games with their…
... t stop some of the reviewers at the Amstrad Computer Games ... moaning consistently about how crap the Speccy is ...
[/quote ... (for the free full-version of Space Ace on the DVD cover ... the magazine I was amazed at the number of times the writers took the ... -
OT: I hate modern music!Sorry for this off topic thread, but I've been subjected to one hip hop/ r'n'b record too many when out tonight. Why do we have to listen to this? …
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AY-3-8912 help !Hi all. Happy new yeay. I'm new to spectrum programming, and am interested in writing some music for the +2 AY chip. The problem is...I cant find …
... the songs are (one of them is "MATASONG"). Using QAOP and space ... , move the cursor on screen over "LOAD ... SONG" and press space. Then load the instrument samples using "LOAD ... -
Beelzebub and other Spectrum owners...According to the site: [url="http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator"]http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator[/url] based on it's content, [url="http://www.…
... like Machine Gun Ettiquete by the Damned a lot, but Cpt ... when you realise he sings the theme tune to Jim Davisons ... to Rage Against the Machine & groups like The Drop Kick Murphys ... all, altough I did once meet the Krankees. :( -
New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
... space identical in every way except for the graphics. The ... z80s are synchronized, effectively sharing the PC and i/o space ... their own memory space), load data from the same address ... in their own memory space) and take the same branches.
Most Disappointing Speccy SequelOk, I'm going for 3 of the most obvious: Impossamole Renegade 3 Chase H.Q 2
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And the new monsters? And the IT factor? You found ... them in the coin-op ... , you found them in the Spectrum conversion...
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Play the original Atari game with MAME ...best coin opsthought i'd post 1 for the best coin ops(sorry if this has been done b4) as their is 1 for the worst. bubble bobble n chase HQ are top of my list. al…
... admit at the time i loved Space Harrier, for the speccy i thought ... seeing that dragon fella on the end of level 1.
The only vertical scrollers i can ... ok but not stunning and the same for Terra CrestaWill RealX ever be released?From what I have heard about it sounds excelent. There is very little about RealX on the Ramsoft website. Why don't they put on the website the la…
... us an idea of how the "real thing" will look and ... to see how the original code of Real Spectrum ... a lot of feedback about the experimental version and therefore want ... out an emulator that could meet the requests of our community.
Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... have played it through to the end (with 100%) numerous times ... !!! :lol:
Open the snap, press space (to select the video tape) and ... useful? :cool:
By the way, if you are thinking ... of the cemetary door, then that is ...games your playing at the minuteAs weve done all the whats your favourites i thought id ask Just out of interest what speccy games are you playing? this week, last week? Lately mi…
Currently
Elite
Skool Daze
Star Wars
I'm also working my way through the excellent Skool daze sequel Klass of '99 and playing Freelancer on the PC
Oh and I dug out Space Invaders on the C64 last nightEbayI know theres quite a few old hands at ebay on here and ive been wanting to get on ebay and flog some rare albums and stuff i have BUT....I just cann…
... hit you can take from the ending price.
As ... sell speccy items to fund the preservation projects. Unfortunately many are ... bargain. It's hard to meet the balance and depends on a ... of other expenses.
The missus has been hoggin my ...EbayI know theres quite a few old hands at ebay on here and ive been wanting to get on ebay and flog some rare albums and stuff i have BUT....I just cann…
... all stating that the buyer would have to meet the Paypal costs. Someone ... report me to ebay but the implication was there. When I ... that it is indeed against the rules to to pass on ... long as you live in the UK, that is).Command and the attack of the clonesOf all the war shooters, which one did everyone play the most? I played Commando to death, but never got beyond level 5. Ikari Warriors was fun to p…
... to that thread i discovered the Kommando game which is excellent ... a proper ending instead of the same levels with faster bullets ... to see the german version (Space Invasion) but the game in the archive at ... different sadly and cant be the one they used to ...games with digitized speechI can only think of one... METEOR STORM by Quicksilva Are there many more?
one of the best ones was 19: Boot Camp
Robocop and Chase HQ were both good.
Worst ones were I-Ball and that codemasters 3d space shootemup (with the C.H.A.O.S. speech).Redefinable joystick keysEr... difficult to describe in a subject line, but you'll see what I mean. :) Just about all Spectrum emulators allow you to map one of the joystick…
Fuse uses QAOP for emulating the joystick, which may be close enough to what you want. If not, it's a trivial recompile (see input.c:keypress() and keyrelease() in latest CVS).Top 10 Games - All Formats (Pre Playstation era)Without being biased only towards Spectrum games what are your favourite 10 games? (Apologies if this has been asked before) My favourites: 1 Sensi…
... . And surley the "First time you meet the T Rex" ... The neon electric lines.The moving full 3d landscape.The missile attacks. The ... chute ! Imagine rollerball without the skates, and ya have ... weapons .. cooler tracks... and the coolest soundtrack to any game ...Hardware section....Wonder why here is no specific hardware forum??? No one ever touched a soldering iron here? (o; I'm kinda lost here with my hardware stuff under: "…
Yes...2 bits per color...
You could use the 14MHz clock also for VGA if you're using normal CRT monitor as long as you meet the H/V timing requirements. But you would then have a slightly distorted picture.Spectaculator/Kempston/Spanish gamesWhen I use the kempston joystick emulation via the keyboard (cursor keys) in Spectaculator some Spanish games (e.g. Nonamed, Jungle Warrior) don't wo…
... a cartridge to emulate the speccy, and emulated it ... /> Uridium (this being the only one not spanish), ... sgrizam (Dinamic too).
The strange is:
I ... -a-space (the timex had a large space bar that the speccy ... have, so he used the space instead of "m" key ...Dynamite Willy/ Jet Set DanI played Dynamite Dan years ago but I didn't really play it until recently. I think that this game is just a tarted up Jet Set Willy ripoff. It's go…
... a slightly different atmosphere to the other two games and a ... desperately to get under the Guards and into the Entrace To Hades ... JSW2 and finding the Space Rocket above the Watchtower for the first time?
the time too. That "ooer" ...AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…
... further 8k extension to the ROM. The memory space is paged in 8k ... mapped into the z80 memory space.
Aside from the 3 internal ... memory banks, the 2068 ...Spin vs Rainbow Islands 128Anyone managed to get Spin 0.504 to load the levels for Rainbow Islands 128 (using the Vault's TZX) without resorting to 'real loading speed' setting…
The home versions all improved on the arcade game in my view. The characters are smaller, whcih gives you more space to move. The Amiga/ST version is probably the ebst of all, but frankly every version is a miraculous achievement within the hardware.I.E 6Can someone please help me! I know this is going to sound stupid but my I.E 6 has changed! It used to be that when I clicked on a file to download i…
... if you can turn the firewalls alerts off, cos ... harmless though, its just the high ones or ones ... a short space.
Alessandro Grussu the thing with ... dont see that is the problem, not merely using ... always let through, its the holes that let data ...best coin opsthought i'd post 1 for the best coin ops(sorry if this has been done b4) as their is 1 for the worst. bubble bobble n chase HQ are top of my list. al…
Op wolf was always my money grabber,i remember seeing space harrier for the first time and thinking "wow it aint gonna get much better than this!"
Another one was outrun i always(and still do)playC+VG review of OleToro review in MicrohobbyThis is funny,.. [url="http://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/103/MH103_05.jpg"]http://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/103/MH103_05.jpg[/url] its a commentary in …
... ... Commando was renamed SPACE INVASION over there and the soldiers were aliens ... />
I was wondering about the space invasion bit because i have ... and it mentions space invasion under the title (just on the instructions i ...Sparky eZX-BASIC Project in need of FPGA ExpertYou probably are not familiar with this project, but it is a computer system based on Zilog's new eZ80 chip and the OS is a superset of ZX BASIC. Ju…
... were having was the same, arbitrating the bus with the eZ80. It seems ... a 16 bit address space instead of the eZ80's 24 bit ... address space.
Their goal ...jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... For pixel perfect collision with the gaurdians one could make a ... of space.
It's the masking where the real ... problem lies...... Unless you plotted the ... work.
Gotta love the challenge.
[ This ...Idea for site - High Score ChallengeHi all An idea for the site.. CPC Zone (cpczone.emuunlim.com) has run a sucessful High Score Challenge for the past 12 weeks.. The organiser choo…
... I who provided the cheats for the game in question ... effort into understanding the workings of the game bouncing plenty ... wasting space.
He *knew* the location where the lives ... Looks like I was in the zone.......... THE TWILIGHT ZONE........"
[/ ...Announce Pasmo 0.3.7Hello. I have launched the release 0.3.7 of Pasmo, a multiplatform Z80 cross-assembler. [url="http://www.arrakis.es/~ninsesabe/pasmo/"]http://www.a…
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Ah, the best key ...Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisI can't seem to get this game to load either in Spin or with the online speccy emulator by clicking on the link from WOS - it goes through a series o…
... definitely crashes, but I got the TAP file I have working ... no problem. Once all the piccies have been displayed and ... 'll load the opening screen. Hit Space, then open the tape browser ... once more and click play - the ...
