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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'…
... desirable.
The fact is that most Spectrum games would eschew ... attempting pixel accuracy for the simplicity of the 8x8 ... think you can ignore the fact that most games were done differently ... wasn't a consideration on the C64. -
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 game would chop terribly. There was no smooth games with ... 50 Hz. The alternative that most speccy games used was to ... update the screen about ... I reach the same conclusion: The C64 was better at scrolling games.
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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'…
... I reach the same conclusion: The C64 was better at scrolling games.
< ... with your statement that "C64's and Amstrad's couldn ... to keep up with the redraw rate of the spectrum","
< ... for displaying sprites on a C64 to modern 3D accelerators then ... -
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 ... The redraw rate is generally higher in scrolling games on a C64 ... , thanks to the hardware. ... -
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'…
... different types of games. I said that the Spectrum were better ... at CPU-intensive games like ... Super Hang On, and the C64 was better ... at scrolling games like Turrican 2 ... -
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'…
... zeroes doesn't mean that the games will have a high redraw ... . I'm not contesting that the C64 may have specific subprocessors for ... can count the number of not quite crap Spectrum BASIC games on ... />
"I rate the BBC above the spectrum for games since it has ... -
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 ... other persons basic games. I was thinking about the thing that sets ... persons crappy basic games isn't fun. (With the notable exception of ... -
That Nostalgia ThangI was bored sitting waiting on a bus the other day and it was bucketing down with rain. As it does in gloomy situations like that, my mind started t…
... flaw) and
the constant sneers of our C64 owning friends (who ... patronising rubbish),
the original games, the true classics, the amazment of seeing ... astounding
games (Knightlore, Jetset ... -
denied gamesI to am guilty of sending denied games by email to other spec chums who are new to the emu scene,spesh ultimate games as they are some of the best an…
... is a crime even if the games are still sold and marketed ... uploaded the stuff to the internet.
If downloading old games was ... the police were to make a raid on my appartment. My retro 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 ... .They dont make games like this anymore sadly, and the time I ... on the amiga was beyond a joke........all in all top games..... -
what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…
... hooked, The colours the games the cost of the games. I could'nt at the time get ... , C64 and the Spectrum. The Spectrum won because of cost and I thought the games ... started to collect the old Spectrum games, When You load the games those loading ... -
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…
Many thanks for your help and advice about the retro games site.
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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…
... most of the old Speccy games better than the newer Playstation games. A Speccy ... most new games don't have the gameplay of the older games.
games if you search !Yahoo for ... forsale list of Speccy and C64 games. -
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…
... ! I've begun collecting games for the C64, Atari ST, the Amstrad CPC too ... go" factor was huge in the old games, methinks. I have a ... and imagination in games in order to keep the player hooked. I ... good, that most of the games have the same effect on us, even ... -
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…
... helping the fella with all your might.
b) Multiload games ... of games, whatever you think it's going to be the nicest ... />
I must say that the C64 was WAY more picky about ... own buzzing wistling imitation of the loading noise and tried loading ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... more subjective with these machines. The BBC had far more expensive ... the others but it's graphics modes were pretty useless for games ... . It was mainly designed for education after all.
The C64 ... far more than simply play games and don't want to ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... The fact is that the C64 had bias towards SPRITES and most games ... and one of the reasons the screen updates are ... is that the screen is essentially monochrome. The way the screen ... design was organised is totally unsuited for sprite games ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... right. I still prefer it the Spectrum way though. By ... hardware, you are telling the programmer that the game must have a ... certain amount of sprites. Okay most games ... limitations. Like everything else, the strength of the C64 is also it's ... -
Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... the "Vipers"
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2: Name all three games ... : Name all 4 games on the Spectrum/Amstrad release of the "They Sold ... the C64 but utter pants (except for the loading screen) on the Spectrum. Name the ... -
Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... the "Hawks" and the "Vipers" Hypaball
2: Name all three games ... : Name all 4 games on the Spectrum/Amstrad release of the "They Sold ... the C64 but utter pants (except for the loading screen) on the Spectrum. Name the ... -
The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
... and 2 were completely brilliant games on the C64. The Spectrum versions were close ... get so high ratings in the Spectrum mags back then.
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MIA portuguese gamesI would like to know if there is some Portuguese speccy games and educational programs, mostly published by Astor Software. Here is a very short list…
... of the portuguese speccy games as possible! as well as the c64, amiga ... as the spanich games i dont think, but the spanish games have ... a resource for the portuguese games anywhere. the only portuguese game ... know names of the games by heart so the more names ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
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The C64 was superior to the Speccy - the noise the latter made ... as loading screens from c64 and amstrad cpc games i recreated) , they ... of them look better than the c64 and cpc counterparts. this ... have ANY color. on the c64 a square could only have ... -
The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
... Jet set Willy on the C64 than on the Spectrum. Umm... don't ... think I had any other games ... Dizzy was better on the Speccy than the C64. Being a girl an ... ' all, I went for all the lame games ... -
question about italian softwareHi, I readed at Lemon64.com about Simulmondo (italian games company) they let free the distribution of their old games.. They say they released aro…
... late for the speccy...) the C64 managed to squeeze in as the only 8 ... -bit, sometimes... Like, there would be 'low end games ... ' for speccy and C64, and 'high end' ones, for C64 up ... common enough to get the bigger slice of the market.
The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
Music on the C64 was better than on the Spectrum, I reckon. Actually, does ... up while certain C64 games were loading? It was on the Great Escape ... as well as many other games I'm sure. (Bet some ...what would you?.................hi everybody, what games would you have liked to have done the programming, graphics etc for and why? :)
... and even attempted to download the game. (dumbass.)
Also wish ... , Secret of Levitation, all the Dizzy games, Jet Set Willy and Wizball ... think that one was for the C64.)Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
... never really liked these new games , got my first speccy in ... i got the c64.ill say now though , most of the games i loved ...Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
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At the end of the day, younger games players are expecting ... a lot from their games ... possibly hold the Speccy in such high regard, or perhaps retro games in ...Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
... This was apparently the best arcade conversion out of (C64, Amstrad CPC ... huge blocky graphics. I prefered the 'duo-chrome'
look.< ... you used colour on say the C64/Amstrad then you ended up ... br />
Those were the days, the games don't look as good ...
