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Spectrum Gaming Eras.Hello everybody. A question I'd like to submit: In which eras would you divide the Spectrum years from the point of view of game production? Examp…
... is beginning to account for a lot of releases, not ... necessarily always a bad thing as a lot of earlier full price classic ... titles are repackaged and rereleased at budget price. ... compatible PC popularised by a dull turdy game called ... -
+3 upgrades advice neededI`ve just bought a +3 after years of wanting one here, [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZX-SPECTRUM-3-128K-c-w-BUILT-IN-3-FLOPPY-DISK-DRIVE_W0QQitemZ5234…
... on the speccy.
Then make a cable with a 3.5mm ... your speccy formatted disk. You now have a utility disk in speccy ... DD disks to their full capacity on the speccy. I use Cristian ... have the msdos utility onto a speccy formatted disk, you'll never ... -
Whats the worst spectrum game ever???Heres a question: whats the worst game you've ever played on the spec? Mines was LA SWAT by Entertainment USA it was just AWFUL! the graphics were sh…
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Blue Thunder, Super Soccer, World Cup Carnival...
So many to ... Award) review in Crash! What a complete load of old crudballs ... wouldn't describe it as a game (a game actually contains some ... -
Any good documentaries about the speccy?Hi guys, I read the post 'Tetris - From Russia with Love, BBC2 11.20 tonight' last night. So I watched it. Good show. Does anyone know if there wer…
... in the world, we led the world in most ... worthwhile areas, and the word British, was a ... We have a third world health service, a legal system that ... be called corrupt, a public transport system that ... least we invented the Speccy! Even if Uncle Clive ... -
Any good documentaries about the speccy?Hi guys, I read the post 'Tetris - From Russia with Love, BBC2 11.20 tonight' last night. So I watched it. Good show. Does anyone know if there wer…
... 'll make a slight change to that price. ?80-? ... 125 from a normal shop and could be any price from a ... place like PC World, just ... buy from a place like PC World, they deserve ... - That sounds more like a driver problem. If your ... -
Any portuguese in this forumHi my friends. Anyone in this forum is Portuguese? I?m interested to know if in this forum there are more Portugueses besides myself. :) J
... where he is now, was a good friend at the time ... ), but I still consider myself a speccy fanatic.
My ... cousin is now a profesional programmer/designer ([url]www ... . He introduced me to the Speccy world.
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Football games ??im after this kind of games, the only ones i remember are match day I and II and butragueno.. any more titles you played?
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Which games are you obsessed with?Do any of you find yourself returning constantly to a particular game or games,even though you've played it to death?My current obsession is Kokotoni…
... regretted not buying it on full-price. A game that brought out the ... -
MAME arcade cabinetWho should I be speaking to about building a cabinet for MAME? Where can I source a knackered cabinet from (where the outside looks wicked but the in…
... order: X-Arcade is a piece of overpriced crap ... and buttons for a fraction of the price if the ones ... as well build a MamePc using a mini-ATX that' ... your TV i.e. essentially a MAME Supergun.
a Speccy forum? There'd probably ... -
Bubbler auction ends at ?175 on ebay!!Must be the most this title has ever sold for. I predict there will be a few more appear on Ebay in the next week. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eB…
... (no pun)Game On The Speccy Thats Why it Goes For ... A Lot. I Think I Read ... Only Released 3500 Bubblers, Plus A Lot Of People Collect UPTG ... Place !.
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Are there still any good games to be found among MIAS?There is over 1000 of missing games listed at WOS, however I have the impression that the best games written for Spectrum are already preserved. The …
... a collector is going to want to get his hands full ... of germs from touching a tape from ' ... WOS to be much of a collector, but someone that ... for old sinclair A-N-D has a patient, loving, ... much concern to a collector, nor the price e.t.c ... -
Are there still any good games to be found among MIAS?There is over 1000 of missing games listed at WOS, however I have the impression that the best games written for Spectrum are already preserved. The …
... a collector is going to want to get his hands full ... of germs from touching a tape from ' ... WOS to be much of a collector, but someone that ... for old sinclair A-N-D has a patient, loving, ... much concern to a collector, nor the price e.t.c ... -
Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... t know if he was a member of the Pompey ... with him. He sent me a full copy of the OCP Art ... was there (Synth music, not Speccy music).
Through ... him, I became a tester for many of the ... titles. Again, I have a couple of tapes sent to ... -
Shortest Game Loading TimeFollowing from the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=9905&forum=4&34"]longest loading time thread[/url]... There are s…
Is that the Snooker game that came on a sporting games compilation along with Derby Day and Arctic's World Cup Soccer? If so, then yes, it has a very short loading time. -
did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
I wrote quite a few BASIC programs on the Speccy, although I ... then. But thanks to the Speccy (and BBC B) giving me ... now been gainfully employed as a commercial developer for the last ... a Sinclair QL text adventure published commercially back in 1988. QL World ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... display looks wonderful, but fo a Speccy gameing experience I think the ... at its best with such a resolution!!! No hardware streaching or ... (although some may miss the speccy loading screen)!!
Anyway ... for the same price.ish i got a supercard/superpass and ... -
US Gold arcade conversions, did you like them?I recently read Retro Gamer and there was an article about Streetfighter II on Speccy, and i wondered if anyone had played it, or any of the other US…
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Final Fight was a good conversion too. the graphics ... a jumble sale a few months ago and didn't pay full price ... -
How many pulled a sicky to stay home and play speccy?I used to pull sickies almost every time i got a new game, i used to act really lethargic and ill, and my mum usually fell for it, then i would spend…
Did they bring blank tapes or munchies and coke?
If so, no shame in that mate, worth the price of admission to a day in playing speccy with you're mates! :p
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Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... Scanner in there for the price on the label ?2. ... been out for about a week at full price.) ALL the copies ... funny before looking through their price book. He told me ... that "I shouldn't change price labels!!!" I showed him ... for ?1.99 each a year or two ago, ... -
Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... Scanner in there for the price on the label ?2. ... been out for about a week at full price.) ALL the copies ... funny before looking through their price book. He told me ... that "I shouldn't change price labels!!!" I showed him ... for ?1.99 each a year or two ago, ... -
Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... the late eighties there was a place in Nottingham -can't ... />
There was also a bloke in the back streets ... Club". Basically, you bought a game for full price, and exchanged it each ... week for a quid. Great way ... -
Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
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There was also a bloke in the back streets ... Club". Basically, you bought a game for full price, and exchanged it each ... week for a quid. Great ... br />
There was also a place in Nottingham
Sunk in the OceanOK, from what I've found out Ocean's 'Sly Spy' and 'Beach Volley' were never released full price on the Spectrum. However, with only a few Ocean titl…
I've got the full price version of Robocop 3... Or ... also had the full release of SpaceGun too and a friend of ...Break-InsHas anyone ever come home and discovered that their house was broken into and their Spectrum stuff robbed? Not me, luckily, but I'm interested in wh…
... other stuff (VCR, a Goretex tracksuit, a money box with about ... Twister, Wizball, Zoids. All original full-price versions in either double-size ... was that I found a button from a policeman's uniform ... Then the next day a neighbour complained about hammering late ...Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
... arsed/last-minute attempt at a full screen picture has been ... would have expected and deserved a decent quality loading screen, ... had paid top whack for a full-price game, after 1985-ish)...
A lazy empty afterthought.
...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
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There was a small(!) bug in the DirectDraw ... SPIN5 Returning from Full screen with DirectDraw as a renderer works like ... picture: [url="http://www.speccy.dk/SpinFull.JPG"]http://www ... .speccy.dk/SpinFull.JPG[/url]
Werewolves of LondonUsed to play this a bit years ago but never was any good at it and couldn't work out what any items did or how not to die before too long but waiting…
... don't think it was a covertape game - at least not ... it was intended to be a full price game - I assume they mean ... it was picked up by a budget label.
At ... any.
It is a fun game tho - crying shame ...Werewolves of LondonUsed to play this a bit years ago but never was any good at it and couldn't work out what any items did or how not to die before too long but waiting…
... don't think it was a covertape game - at least not ... it was intended to be a full price game - I assume they mean ... it was picked up by a budget label.
[/quote ... apparently looked and played a heck of a lot better during the ...Ever felt conned?Have you ever read a review for a speccy game and the reviewer gives it a glowing review and you trust him and go out and buy the game only to find i…
... I'd paid full price rather than swapped it off a mug punter ... />
Buggy Blast - Again, not a bad game, but hardly that ... instead...
Deathstar Interceptor - A shoot 'em up where the ... Moon came out.
Full Throttle - Nice idea, but I ...Anyone from Cambridge?just been down this weekend. I must say it was probably the most dissapointing place i have ever been to.
... and I visited Cambridge for a day almost exactly 20 years ... was one of the only full-price games I ever bought on ... reviews beforehand.
It was a fresh release (I'd not ...
