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Wildly OT: Computing Today's slagging-off of PascalIn the late '70s or early '80s (at the beginning of the home-computer era anyway, just before the dawn of the Speccy), there was a mag called [I]Comp…
... sadly I missed that issue, and ever since have wondered what ... it should be AS102 -- Ed], and repeatedly claimed (even in the ... knowledgeable readers) that the difference between compilers and interpreters was "academic" -- until ... -
Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation in Chile. What you think?Hello specmates, Maybe some of you - european people -, read in the news about the APEC reunion of the 21 presidents of the more important economies…
... more important economies of America and Asia. Of course, this ... acts, globalization, trade agreements and... only a little bit of ... microcomputers, frienly-enviromental bikes -, and I just think that what ... don't do comparison between Clive and GWBush. It's just ... -
Part ThreeI just got Return Of The King - The Extended Edition today. Woo Hoo!!! I'm happy. I just finished watching it an hour ago. Brilliant. Especially t…
... /> Brilliant. Especially the drinking game between Legolas and Gimli.
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Want to Buy Sinclair Magazines 1981-1983Please send me a message if you would like to sell Sinclair magazines between 1981 and 1983. I will be happy to pay for them, but you must ship to t…
Please send me a message if you would like to sell Sinclair magazines between 1981 and 1983. I will be happy to pay for them, but you must ship to the US (at my expense).
Thank you very much,
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A short horror filmHere is a link to the final part of the 'Olaf Trilogy': [url="http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UBU5XN615TUB129QVXM1VTGD6"]http://s34.yousendit.co…
... :30 short film. Totally improvised and all shot in one take ... whole film making process took between three and four hours to complete ... OT are "Swedish Shakespeare" and "Carol, Olaf and Whoopi Too", neither of ... -
3D Pool (Firebird) - a pleasant discoveryThis is one of those games whose memories just popped into my head, probably after all this 3D animation malarky and the fact that I love playing Wor…
... all this 3D animation malarky and the fact that I love ... games, or rather a cross between Pool and the Freescape games.
and fuzzy for some reason, as ... -
Retro-Soft / Cronosoft Tie UpWe are pleased to announce the tie up between us and Cronosoft , this will allow access in a 'real' format to loads of games , we will be concentrati…
... to announce the tie up between us and Cronosoft , this will allow ... on the porting of games and emulation side of the games ... -
Commercial Breaks 1984"The battle between Imagine and Ocean Software for the UK's Christmas 1984 video game market." A half hour programme originally broadcast on BBC2. 8…
"The battle between Imagine and Ocean Software for the UK' ... -
Crash mags up on ebay including issue 98 (last issue) Just been clearing another load of Crash mags out of the loft, all are in good condition and are issues between 70 and 98 (including 98 the last ev…
... are in good condition and are issues between 70 and 98 (including 98 ... -
XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…
... - pick a number between 1 and 15 for the first decrypter ... where it will run from and launches it)
... move it into position and press M to confirm. ... to what you want, and Q and A to change the ... stick the screen into SoftRom and bomb out.
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Microdrive + Interface 1 + 29 microdrive cartridges FOR SALEI am selling the following: 1 Microdrive 1 Interface 1 with rs-232 cable 29 microdrive cartridges (including the original 4 programs for the Sincl…
... Plus 2 and all formatted to a total of between 85 and 90 ... -
I've just found a couple of my old cassettes...Some people have interesting old cassettes full of machine code experiments they made while they were still at school. Not me. I found one cassette…
... those "type in a number between 1 and 3" games.
Basically, you had to pick between three ... games so select tape tester and press play", I wrote in ... -
Elite / Asteroids Hybrid!!!!Came accross this yesterday. Its a cross between Elite and Asteroids. Very engrossing. You have to mine crystals from the asteroids which you take b…
... this yesterday. Its a cross between Elite and Asteroids. Very engrossing. You ... mothership where you can research and build upgrades for your fighter ... turrets, strengthen it's hull and loads of other things. Well ... -
You were so lucky ArsenalWe were just 6 minutes away from putting a serious amount space between us and the gooners. The times are changing in North London, we're on the up …
... putting a serious amount space between us and the gooners.
The ... them off the park today and managed to piss off Arsene ... Lennon tore Flamini to pieces and Michael Carrick looked an international ... -
Is there any Sinclair world cup anthem?I've just been listening to a few World cup anthems past and present, but what I really need is a World Cup anthem that mentions any of the sinclair …
... few World cup anthems past and present, but what I really ... /> Something like a cross between Vindaloo, and hey hey 16K would be ... -
Wanted: Free/cheap Web hostingTo replace my present site on [url=korax1214.port5.com]Portland[/url]. I would say "must be more reliable than Portland", except that it's hard to i…
... dumb to know the difference between ZIPs and MP3s").
[*]If ... -
AgentX2 RemixingI`ve started to remix AgentX2 and need some help with the drums. Anyone care to add the drum track to [url=http://www.franksmusic.homecall.co.uk/spe…
... `ve started to remix AgentX2 and need some help with the ... original. Original track eq`d and retuned to G [url=http ... the original, because it was between F# and G.
I ... rest of the bass, lead and rythmn tracks over the next ... -
Google News now covers 200 years - loads of Sinclair stuffGeoff's going to have a field day :) Just did a quick search for articles between 1980 and 1990 containing "Clive Sinclair" and that alone came up w…
Geoff's going to have a field day :)
Just did a quick search for articles between 1980 and 1990 containing "Clive Sinclair" and that alone came up with 55 articles. Some you have to pay for, but others are free. -
Help me find this gameIt is a space side scrolling affair. You are a white space-suited character going a long in space. You have to use your thrusters to keep in spaces b…
... thrusters to keep in spaces between stalagmites and stalagtites (spelling???) every now ... you further along the game. and you have to shoot he ... previous treads about similar games and have checked out every space ... Dad brought it for me and my sister on his way ... -
my new old sheffield music site :)[url]http://sheffieldmusic.multiply.com[/url] the era between 1986 and 1996 in sheffield music mostly gets overlooked, my new site is to redress the…
[url]http://sheffieldmusic.multiply.com[/url]
the era between 1986 and 1996 in sheffield music mostly gets overlooked, my new site is to redress the balance :)
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What's this? Another name that game??That's right :) This one was a pure text adventure that I played in the early 80s. I don't have much to go on thought I'm afraid, apart from that th…
... the inlay was predominately green and one of the first locations ... you being a poltergeist, stuck between heaven and hell.
Anyone ... -
Features that emulators don't haveI believe most of us use more than one emulator, mainly because there isn't one emulator that has all the features we need or want to use. We also kn…
... string with converted text and/or create BASIC ... files without requiring conversions and resampling using other apps. ... paste text between Windows and Speccy, between MS Word and Tasword, copy ... from the clipboard and ... -
SophistryI was looking at the game Sophistry and noticed a couple of anomalies in the various tape versions: The [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl…
... looking at the game Sophistry and noticed a couple of anomalies ... ).tzx.zip]Zafiro release[/url] and they are identical apart from ... work -- the only difference between this and the one listed as the ... -
So you think you know your Spectrum games, do you....I thought this might be a fun thing to test your knowledge of Spectrum games - below is a quote taken directly from Crash in their description of a p…
... the twelve different adventures and find and destroy the twelve runic ... Lazer deactivated lock externally, and internally and indestructible intermittent ultra-sonic ... can protect and steer randomly transmitted programs between Transmitter and Receiver in ... -
ResiDOS v2.00 releasedI've just posted a major new release of ResiDOS, at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/residos/"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/residos/[/URL] T…
... . This makes transferring files between your PC and Spectrum really easy!
and transferring programs directly between tape and disk.
and transferring programs directly between tape and disk.
Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
... out of the line loop and print out the bloody numbers ...Are the Cure emo?This is a recent vandalism from an unsigned ISP on Wikipedia on 15 April from the Wikipedia page for The Cure: '''The Cure''' ARE A [expletive] [expl…
... records (Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography) are extremely influential ... There is a difference between emo and goth that many emo ... The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Hawthorne Heights are indeed ... in the lyrical and musical content between the two genres. ...one laptop per child projectI was looking at this mainly as a result of a word war between intel and others. I had heard about the project of course but this time decided to ha…
... result of a word war between intel and others.
I ... , (cpu 400, 256mb of ram and 1gb flash storage amongst other ...A question for Dunny (re: Spin)After reading post 25 in the thread: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15503[/URL] I downloaded the RZX file, to see ho…
... the problem is an incompatability between Spin and the RZX file, or ...stewis there a difference between stew and casserole? i looked on wikifoodia and they said there was a very fine line between the two, i think the later …
... a difference between stew and casserole? i looked on wikifoodia and they said ... there was a very fine line between the ... veg. any thoughts?
and do you have any recipies ...
