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Article about Kevin Toms in the TelegraphThe Telegraph have a (very) [URL=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/7943029/Football-Manager-meet-the-man-who-kicked-off-the-genre.htm…
The Telegraph have a (very) [URL=http:// ... -Manager-meet-the-man-who-kicked-off-the-genre.html] ... Nothing new about the game in the article, but it ends up with ... com/]blog[/URL], and the news that Football Manager is ... put his fizzog on the icon and splash screen ... -
The best modern(ish) RPG/FPS (and Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4 discussion too).What's the best first person shooter/RPG game on the XBox 360 (well, on the PC or PS3 too, as most big name games are cross platform now, so if you p…
... Oblivion (Game of the Year, so it comes with the expansions), Fallout 3 ... Stones, which means I can have it raining wherever I like (I ... and in games, in the latter it makes the game world feel more ... couple of decades in the future, yet the settings look more ... -
Silver speccy on the inside, you know what it is ?I was looking at one of my 48k speccys it has a label underneath with the serial printed on it and signed and dated, there is no permanent serial num…
... speccys it has a label underneath with the serial printed on it ... it up and sure enough the top and bottom of the case on the ... prevent the solder side of the pcb shorting on the silver as it is ... to help prevent interferance, is it for the USA market ?
Will the real, *Darth Vader* please stand up.Well, with all this [I]Matrix/Terminator[/I] dispute going on, I was reminded of a [I]Star Wars[/I] contention, with Bob Anderson's claim as being th…
... has long claimed to have pretty much played the whole charater by ... want to detract from the boost it gave the actor's career. In ... , saying, "Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader ... some recognition. It?s ridiculous to preserve the myth that it?s all ...The Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All TimeYep, another "best of..." list posted on the 'net, and like all lists based on opinion it's contentious, but even by the standards of most lists I th…
... I do have serious reservations about the list. It would have helped if they ... 'd defined first what the ... (have on the others though), just tried it via emulation, but it does have some ...Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 ... the old days). I have not had to work this weekend so it ... files?".
I have looked at the features of Speculator and ...Help, I have no idea what I'm doing :-)Hi guys, As it says in the title and my user name, I have no idea what I am doing :-) Both Hubby and I are 'children of the 80's', whereas I had an…
... As it says in the title and my user name, I have no ... changed it for a Spectrum ;)
Anyway, I have ... that's the right way of writing the name of it, but ... had to tune it in using the volume button. Do ... basic questions, but I have never even used one.< ...TV report of the morning at RetroMa?OK, so it's in Spanish, but the pictures really say it all. Antena 3, a national TV broadcaster in Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is …
... it was in the 80s and early 90s.
The kids obviously have ... loads of fun. Of course, all the machines have something ... />
The games of the 80s didn't have graphics in 3D ... 've shown is that the kids have just as much fun ...A night at the London O2I took my son to see Wrestling at the London O2 last night for his birthday and I thought I'd share my observations of this experience. Firstly, the…
... believe it's real and boo the bad guys. It's ... a girl at the front who must have been at least ... go to the toilet or wherever, the boy in the row ... drunk to notice!
It's about time there ... br /> Too summarise, The show was great. The venue and parents however ...Crash no. 98: the final issueFinally, after buying it off Ebay many years ago, I got round to reading Crash issue 98. I never could motivate myself to read the scans, and looking…
... myself to read the scans, and looking at it now, I can ... 't know right until the end that it was folding. Just a ... two page advert in the middle about the ... well, we'll always have Crash in the good old days, '86 ...Question to the hdd techiesI have just got me a WD 2tb hdd. As expected the hdd didn't show up in xp but i didn't care about this. I like to have all but the system hdd encrypt…
... this. I like to have all but the system hdd encrypted with ... formated/encrypted it with that program. It all work like it should, the mounted ... br />
And now the question. Is it because xp won't ... recognize it or could it be that the hdd is somehow ...Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... want to move it please do it does have a sort of ... I have today.
The first "It worked when I put it in the ... about electronics. However I have learned that the the term "working" when ... if you have stuff plugged into the back please clean it all up ...It's enough to make you cry.....I have just had the very sad task of pouring 50 pint bottles of cider down the sink. Due to a slight technical hitch (my fault entirely, which makes…
I have just had the very sad task of pouring ... way to put it right. By the time it settled down there was ... about 2" left in the bottle and it looked like sludge.
have made never try and cut ...Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... as it should have?
The lack of innovation in the +2 ... making minor changes to the 128. But for the +3, they ... but could Amstrad have done more? Should the +3 have been a significant ... leap forward from the 128?Twenty Reasons Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html[/url] [quote]We've had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt'…
... , Jordan and Syria suddenly protests have appeared. In Ireland young techno ... ; in Greece striking and rioting have become a national pastime. And ... themselves.
At the heart of it all are young people ... , here's 20 things I have spotted:[/quote]How is the PS3 hack situation?I don't have a PS3, so I've not been following the news about it being hacked, so I was wondering what the situation is now. Can you now download, sa…
... have a PS3, so I've not been following the news about it ... do have ambivelent feelings about this. On the one hand, I feel it ... the games that I liked - it's not difficult, I don't have ... many games, and I now have the cash to buy all of ...Jet Set Willy and the Speedlock loaderHi everybody, I'm building a Manic Miner/JSW tribute site (yes, another one) and I was missing my original copy of Jet Set Willy. It's buried in my …
... bid and win it for 99p. It says in the description "is ... It completes the first block and then fails horribly! Why? Let's have ... , and it loads up. The loading screen is the same as the original... ... (hence the poor quality labels) and the fact that it's fixed ...The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…
... The N64 was the last gaming console to use cartridges, it's contemparies the ... Playstation 1 and the Sega Saturn ... with all this against it, the N64 did manage to ... 'acceptable' for adults. The N64 did have adult games, such as ...A question about the suggestion(s box)The pop-up suggestions box is a nice feature, but there is one sma-a-a-ll problem. I noticed that when I selected Books and typed "rom" (looking for …
... had "rom" in the title. Actually, it offered the list after typing "ro ... typing the rest of the phrase. In particular, it did not offer the ... of which some did not have "mo" in them, but ... thought that this behaviour might have something to do with alternative ...Have any games ever been sold with limited play time?Have any games, on any computer or console, every been sold with limited play time? What I mean is, has any game ever been sold where you could only …
... you legally wanted to have the right to play it.
... they could have added something about you only owning the rights to ... /> I suppose back in the old days it never occured to anyone ... online to contact the server.
I have heard of this ...3rd time is not the charm...My PS3 worked fine till february, when all of a sudden it stopped reading the games & DVD's I called assistance, and they gave me a new PS3 but afte…
... of a sudden it stopped reading the games & ... have time to try it till the 18th and it came with the ... exact same problem it ... if it was some kind of problem with the electric ... do, other than send the dam console back... to ...I think someones stealing my mail at the post office.I get a almost all of my games and dvds online and have done for the past 7 years. I maybe got 1 or 2 games/dvds lost in the post per year which whil…
... and dvds online and have done for the past 7 years. I ... 't turned up even though the sellers have definatly sent them and ... towns/cities so the fact that 5 individual parcels have gone missing ... case just to see if it arrives ok.The HobbitIMHO game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006440"]The Hobbit[/URL] should have a "known errors" note as described [URL="http:…
... the original version 1.1 of the game it was impossible to kill the ... , mind. It sounds like it was a slight fault in the routine where ... spot the difference between the versions is that the names of the programmers have been ...The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…
... the 10th of June).
The strange thing is, it's ... code to download the demo, and the only way to ... the code is to pre-order the game!
It ... buyers to play the demo as it might well put ... of games don't have demos released for them?
Jack the Nipper III do not understand what happens to this game Never manage to finish, there is always a problem. Always fails any of the antics I've played a dozen …
... fails any of the past. (I do it correctly.)
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After thinking about the lost time, it is logical that one ... Sometimes fails when the soldier guarding the entrance, you have to do that ... fall into the water ...What is the current state of (non-Spectrum) emulation?It's been years since I've bothered with any emulators on the PC other than Speccy emulators. I do still occasionally use MAME and other emulators on…
... along now, some of the machines it now emulates must be ... 'd recognise them, it's probably the best part of twenty ... they add the highscore save ability again (the authors took it out, I ... still wanted to have the ability anyway). Some of the ROM files you ...Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomI suggest the following "known errors" description for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002475"]Indiana Jones and the Tem…
... all the children free, it says "exit through the mineshaft" ... explicitly avoids checking if the player reached the exit:
... /> ;two graphics represent the exit doors when
... /> $6769 cp $00 ;have we touched an exit?
The Hobbit ZX book up for grabsHi folks, I just found my paperback of the Hobbit that belonged with my ZX version of the game, now long gone. Does anyone want it? Make your offer (…
... it should cost more of course). Otherwise it goes to the charity shop. The ... book is the one with the dragon ... page. It's in used good condition, obviously the pages have yellowed somewhat ...The Apprentice 2011Have searched for an Apprentice 2011 thread without success... so I thought I'd start one. It's not the sort of telly I would usually rush to watch …
... one.
It's not the sort of telly I ... where it not for the link to Amstrad, but watch it I have...
So, of the ... understand is whether each of the candidates have business proposals to put ...The complete Contact Sam Cruise RAM disassemblyFrom the creator of the [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/skool_daze/"]Skool Daze[/url] and [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/back_to_skool/"…
... his other Microsphere-related obsession: the [url="http://pyskool.ca/ ... you'd rather have a copy of the disassembly for offline ... your own copy of the disassembly from the source [i]skool[/i ... [i]ref[/i] files. The choice, as the saying has it, is yours.
