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  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    "Once more I reach the same conclusion: The C64 was better at scrolling ... clashes with your statement that "C64's and Amstrad's couldn ... to keep up with the redraw rate of the spectrum","

    C64 to modern 3D accelerators then ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... the following way: The redraw rate of the C64 is lower than the Spectrum because the C64 ... 's obviously true that the C64 has less information to ... games on a C64, thanks to the hardware. This is ... br /> It's the same thing with Spectrum vs. C64.

    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... have short memory. From the start to now, I ... have said that the 8 bit computers were good ... games. I said that the Spectrum were better at CPU ... Super Hang On, and the C64 was better at scrolling games ... to an 8 bit computer. The comparison holds.

    ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... I'm not contesting that the C64 may have specific subprocessors for ... don't know much about the C64), you cannot skew everything ... etc."

    The BBC has the same processor, a Z80 ... joysticks through the expansion port and the 128k machines had the AY ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... I'm not contesting that the C64 may have specific subprocessors for ... have been argumenting back for the sake of argumentation then? ... that you never denied that the C64 was better at certain ... from gaming consoles, namely the ability to use them creatively ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • Theatre EuropeAnyone know the nuclear release code for Theatre Europe

    midnight sun

    well it was for the c64 version anyway
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2001 Games
  • INPUT ArchiveHowdy folks. I'd really appreciate some help in this. I'm planning on creating an online archive of the old coding mag INPUT (having recently acquir…

    ... etc) and JPEG for the more complex graphics (paintings, ... photos - the non-functional stuff). The GIF LZW compression ... already doing this like the C64 character set (currently making ... />
    Thanks for the suggestion - I appreciate ALL feedback ...
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket October 2001 Games
  • Is their a paradroid style game for the speccy?I remember a game like paradroid on the c64, for the spectrum. Does anyone know its name?

    Question : "Yes, "Quazatron" is the ZX version of Paradroid" - it' ... ?
    I think "Paradroid" is the C64 ( and worse - 2D ) version of ... destroy them) to
    clear the city of QUAZATRON (and then ...
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2001 Games
  • Ultimate GamesJust got a computer and found this site. I know this must be asked all the time, but what's the deal with Ultimate games on the net, why are they un…

    ... discussion page about the same thing on Wednesday. The C64 Ultimate games are ... with no problems. This includes the spectrum conversions which were awful ...
    Anonymous Anonymous September 2001 Games
  • mercenary: what did u think?mercenary was a fantastic game and i just started playing it again, it wasn't everyones cup of tea though, it had fast graphics (thx to the small scr…

    ... anything i played mercenary on the c64....remember spending a fortune at ... the time on the deluxe pack that had ... like this anymore sadly, and the time I spent on damacles ... when it came out on the amiga was beyond a joke ...
    Tyronne Tyronne September 2001 Games
  • Please help me find this gameGuys, Your help is appreciated Canno remember the title - Basically the main character of the game was a ball , bounces up and down and you directe…

    Wizball! What a fantastic game! I remember the spec version being much faster than the C64 version. Something I could slag my mates over. Action Reflex is quite good as well.
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket August 2001 Games
  • Thumb BanditsFor those of you who get Channel 4 and were unlucky enough to see the Speccy 'editorial' - was that the worst piece of TV ever or was that the worst …

    Ignored the c64? It's only been a series of two thus far...

    I have no idea how the BBC accesses it's screen so I couldn't really say anything about that.
    cyborg cyborg January 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Thumb BanditsFor those of you who get Channel 4 and were unlucky enough to see the Speccy 'editorial' - was that the worst piece of TV ever or was that the worst …

    ... are doing the Sega Master System and the NES, so ... to go back to the C64 after that since they ... be wrong and in the last programme they go ... loving bastards- the C64!" and then devote the whole programme to ... it. Then I'll switch off. C64 ...
    Spector Spector January 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Currah Microspeech: good or guff?I've just been looking through old Speccy mags and saw the Currah Microspeech add-on. It certainly looks good, with lunar jetman having speech among …

    ... . Look at "The Rocky Horror Show". On the Speccy version, all ... which adds to the atmosphere of the game. On the C64, it starts with ... the "Enter At Your ... over non-stop. The effect? It kills the atmosphere stone-dead. ...
    Spector Spector November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…

    ... can be seen is the playable Mortal Kombat Demo ... up too much of the processor time, wonder if ... c64 and cpc screens. So far Ive done The Last Ninja, The ... come out better looking than the c64 version ), Mickey Mouse, ... see examples of what the spectrum could de in ...
    tommt tommt July 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • respect to the WOS forum !!!I have been reading all kinds of newsgroups and discussionboards for years now. And i have noticed that the ones that we have here are one of the mos…

    Completely agree with everyone. The WOS forum is an excellent ... /obvious/naive to some, but the replys are always polite and ... long you have been in the Speccy Emulation scene, another person could ... if there's anything on the Internet about it?"
    Chris Chris June 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum collecting and nostalgia.I have recently started to buy and collect old Spectrum games and thought that it would be easy, but easy it is not. Well I say not because on auctio…

    ... collecting games for the C64, Atari ST, the Amstrad CPC too! ... " factor was huge in the old games, methinks. I ... had to get the gameplay right given the limited memory, ... in order to keep the player hooked. I guess ... that most of the games have the same effect on ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…

    Im 29 now and I was 10 when I got my first speccy. I sold it and made a career on the C64 scene. I now work as a programmer and projectleader. Thank you speccy for that.
    /Icon
    icon icon March 2002 Games
  • Most nice Loader ScreenHi, What is the better loader screen from speccy games?? or simply which is the screen you more remember.. I remember a lot the screen$ from Roboc…

    ... couldn't turn off the loader noise on the Spectrum so you ... loading though. I always envied the C64-owners on account of that ... . ;)

    Ranarama, showing the instructions while loading, was pretty ...
    Lars Lars March 2002 Games
  • Totally original gamesWhat games on the speccy were totally original? Not copied or based on something done before, but a completely new idea for a game? The obvious ones…

    Sentinel came out on the C64 before the Speccy, and probably on some Atari before that.

    Shadowfire and Frankie Goes To Hollywood were original.
    frobush frobush March 2002 Games
  • Whatever happened to Oliver Frey?The best covers of the eighties mags were Crash and Zzap, by Ollie Frey. What does he do now? Is he living a reclusive lifestyle, babbling on about w…

    Were the Frey's not the prime movers behind Thalamus Software (who produced Sanxion on the Spectrum and Delta on the C64 amongst others)? That might explain the Thalamus Books connection.

    Possibly.

    degsy. :o)
    Derek Glen Derek Glen March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What game stopped you from venturing out to play with your matesFrom the topics on here it seems most of us are in our late 20's or 30s possibly 40s so most of us will have been playing spectrum games when we was …

    ... II)... Those sports game had the advantage that you would get ... . Oh, and Emlyn Hughes on the C64. How many times I was ... stuck home playing it on the speccy instead! ;)
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi March 2002 Games
  • Moon AlertOcean did this in 84, the one with Wagner playing over the titles. I'm one of those gits that likes playing games on their origianl Spectrums, but th…

    ... tried the game in ZX-32 with Kempston joystick emulation and it ... 's a way of switching the Sinclair emulation off on your interface ... . Otherwise, surely the game should work with Sinclair joystick emulation with your ...
    Ed Ed March 2002 Games
  • Moon AlertOcean did this in 84, the one with Wagner playing over the titles. I'm one of those gits that likes playing games on their origianl Spectrums, but th…

    ... this behaviour was down to the program detecting both Kempston and ... 2 joystick interfaces (even if the I2 emulation wasn't 100% accurate ... And it does seem that the "Sinclair Interface 2?" question only ... a similar device such as the RAM Turbo interface should ...
    Ed Ed April 2002 Games
  • Monty on the Run pokesHi, Does anyone know any good pokes for MOTR? Preferably an invinciblity one? Cheers.

    I apologise now if it was the C64 version, but I remeber in the Hi-Score table you could type

    I WANNA CHEAT

    and you got infinite lives.
    Vampyre Vampyre April 2002 Games
  • Witch groups are still active on the speccy scene?Sorry for a rather lame question! But as I have only being a part of the c64 scene, I have now overview of the scene on speccy. All the guys over at …

    ... only being a part of the c64 scene, I have now overview ... of the scene on speccy. All the guys over at ... demos made recantly beats the ones on c64 by far. :)
    [/quote ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey April 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Witch groups are still active on the speccy scene?Sorry for a rather lame question! But as I have only being a part of the c64 scene, I have now overview of the scene on speccy. All the guys over at …

    ... from my unwavering belief that the C64 is the work of Lucifer himself ... , I do aggree that the latest Speccy demos are in ... anything I've seen on the C64 in a while.
    Have ... name escapes me) Never in the field of human coding had ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis April 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…

    ... these theories really applied to the C64. That machine was notorious for ... each other of breathing on the joystick or blinking too fast ...
    GeeKay GeeKay April 2002 Games
  • Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…

    ... to sit there through the whole process helping the fella with all ... /> c) Not having the TV tuned to the spectrum channel would not ... />
    I must say that the C64 was WAY more picky about ... own buzzing wistling imitation of the loading noise and tried loading ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi April 2002 Games
  • How many games?I was just wondering, how many Speccy games did u actually own when u had ur original Speccy? And how many Speccy games do u own on ur PC (under emul…

    In my Spectrum days I had about 500 games. Under emulation, 1377 as of now (carefully selected, of course - you wouldn't believe how much crap I've been thru since I joined the Spectrum emulation world four years ago!).
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2002 Games
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