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Lets hear it for the USBOf all the numerous improvements that have been introduced over the years - some of which like Bluetooth I have never used (at least knowingly) - th…
... been introduced over the years - some of which like Bluetooth ... the most useful. I don't know how it works ... I suppose I ought to Google it, but the ... have tried connecting the old type of serial port to ... well just a note of appreciation as I sit ... -
Special mono tape recorders for Micro owners of the early 1980s So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them out from the normal mono tape recorders ? I cannot really remember- but I have …
So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them ... out from the normal ... ?
2) Were the heads very accessible and easy ... half of its most astounding features . And how did the "most ... -
The best games of 2019 for the ZX Spectrum2019 is not far from ending so lets check out some of the best games that this year had to offer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0eZ90UeGxQ&t=17…
2019 is not far from ending so lets check out some of the best games that this year had to offer.
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Giving "Lords of Chaos" expansion kit a quick whirl I have the instructions for the Expansion kit which includes "The Islands of Iris"(Scenario 4) and "Tombs of the Undead" (Scenario 5) . I though…
... to load the TZX file of expansion kit 1 into the TZX of the main ... not matter that much if the TAP works except that this TAP ... one of the scenarios if the TZX does not work (the TZX has the 2 ... -
Dispair at the pace of life > 40 years.Its been a funny kind of winter this year. The fall from August to December went so fast for me that it seemed like a blink. Christmas comes and ever…
... down. Now I'm the other side of it, I did not ... I'm past 40 all of the striving I've done seems ... maximizing the amount of pleasure I get out of it rather than the continual ... striving which while the results ... -
Jetman Complete Works KickstarterFor all the CRASH! fans, Fusion Retro Books with permission from Future Publishing is putting together a Complete Works of Jetman book with all of Jo…
For all the CRASH! fans, Fusion Retro ... Works of Jetman book with all of Jon Richardson's comic strips - including the ... paperback or hardback, perks on the Kickstarter include mugs, cushions ... com/projects/47744432/jetman-the-complete-published-works-all-in-one- ... -
The Legacy of the White Crane - Ishido 2Hello! I would like to introduce the second part of my 2015 game, The Legacy of the White Crane. New part - new features: a taoist monk, Dalgon, wh…
... to introduce the second part of my 2015 game, The Legacy of the White Crane ... monk, Dalgon, who lives in the game. New game mode, a ... -
The Complete List Of The Causes Of Lower Ram Failure?Well the aim is to get a comprehensive list.I ask this because I know very little about it . I know that failure of "power supply" related capacitors…
Well the aim is to get a comprehensive list.I ask this because I know very little about it . I know that failure of "power supply" related capacitors can do this . But I suspect there are loads of other ways to damage lower RAM ICs? Any ideas? -
Finding the issue.My sister recently found our old Speccy in her loft and having no interest in retro gaming promptly put it in the bin. Her husband text me and I res…
... it up and play some of the classics. Sadly I've been ... on and displays the menu screen, the keyboard works and the cassette player also ... see the loading lines in the boarder. It reminds me of when ... it was the game cassettes themselves and bought one of those ... -
Return Of The Improvers: GALACTIC TROOPERAlert readers will be aware that myself and the super-talented Pgyuri are always on the lookout for historical Speccy wrongs to fix, from the unplaya…
... bugged graphics of Maze Death Race to the wonky colours of [url=https ... by Romik[/url], a clone of the arcade game [url=https://www ... [/url], coded by the later-legendary duo of Ian Morrison and David ... at the higher difficulty levels - but it's a bit of a ... -
The Dilemma Of ModernityHere's one to ponder, gang. My current jam is Bear Bovver played at 2x speed in Spectaculator (music off, obv). What was always a decent but slugg…
... for 2021 to mark the 30th anniversary of the original (which I've ... ? The recoloured/redrawn Donkey Kong, or the astonishing reskins of the Renegade games, or the ... colorisation of Rodland and ... -
Songs of the Spectrum's Heydeys - 1983Ok, we did 1982 the year the Spectrum was released. But now on to 1983 which was the year Sinclair computers were selling in very big numbers. For me…
... was a year of great pop. It was the year MIDI began ... had a big impact on the syncopation of electronic sounds that predominated ... music. Songs of this year began to typify the 80s sound largely ... in part to the lower cost of electronic instruments such as ... -
English translation of Start Heritage demo disappeared from the archive?Hello, all I can no longer find the English translation of the demo version of [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/star-inher…
... no longer find the English translation of the demo version of [url="https://worldofspectrum ... WoS. Where is it? The original forum thread is still ... translation/p1"]there[/url], but the screenshots are gone and links ... />
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Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…
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That is one of the concept details that no one ... the allow the 48K screen ( 256x192 or 512x192 ) to occupy the lower 48K of ... memory and leave the upper 16K ... second copy of the primary screen.... Kind of like the PC operating ... -
New release of Tapir + new MDR management utilityMikie just made a new release of Tapir, with the following changes: - Corrected a typo in the Data window that was there since day one (doesn't anyo…
... read the labels?)
- Data window - changed the way font scaling works, ... hopefully now it works more correctly ... the raw contents of the selected file.
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Artist Con Aslanis, Melbourne House, The Hobbit, Terror-Daktil 4D and moreI'm interested in ZX Spectrum game cover artwork. I was looking at early Melbourne House games today and I thought I would compile some of the inform…
... 1975. Cozzolino attributes the success of the collective to 'sincere ... but whacky promotion' "... "an innovative group of ...
A photograph of the All Australian Grafiti artists ...
By the time Lord of the Rings Part One ... -
Hall of the Mountain King?If you remember there was an Abersoft Adventure game on the Speccy, based I think on the Scott Adams Colossal Cave game. There was a location call…
... Abersoft Adventure game on the Speccy, based I think ... There was a location called the Hall of the Mountain King.
< ... was actually the inspiration?
Hall of the Mountain King ... is also a piece of classical music ... -
The Hanging Gardens of........the Barbican ;-) Anyone here ever visited this wonder of Post War Britain - Brutalist architecture softened by hanging plants and water featur…
....the Barbican ;-)
Anyone here ever visited this wonder of Post ... in featured in part two of The Fourth Protocol Game and ... served basically as the adventure maze.
the-barbican-complex-a-brutalist- ... -
We're already using free energy in the UK?Does anyone know anything about electricity? I dont :D but I've seen a few things that raise my suspicions: There is a voltage difference betw…
... .caltech.edu/II_09.html#:~:text=The%20total%20potential%20difference%20from,atmosphere ... the kite itself provoked the lightning, instead of what we believe..which is the ... /> Does anyone know anyone who works in a power station? Cos ... -
The State of the Scrabble Game TodayI did have some reasons to be a bit interested in recent trends and changes such as:- 1) The non availability of new versions of DELUXE SRABBLE (…
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1) The non availability of new versions of DELUXE SRABBLE (this ... dog chewed up a few of the tiles . He had no luck ... ?
2) The question of the ongoing popularity of the game. Is it as ... -
Help Me Identify This Game Please !!!!!!Hi All, I once borrowed a speccy game back in 1996, it was a game where we were asked questions like " whats your name ? ", "what do you hate ?" if s…
... Eliza, but I suspect the game that Spectrumer has in ... Spectrum release). The game was the fiendish brainchild of 'Uncle' Mel Croucher, and I ... been his first project after the glorious, but ultimately doomed ... find ID quite easily in the WoS archive.
Deus Ex MachinaAm I the only person who loved Deus Ex Machina on the speccy? Just wondering. I've even got the soundtrack that i downloaded as mp3 and put onto aud…
... everlasting memory of this game is (I think) Mel Croucher or the other Automata ... it Saturday SuperStore?) and showing the bewildered presenter (Cheggars?) Deus Ex ...Deus Ex MachinaAm I the only person who loved Deus Ex Machina on the speccy? Just wondering. I've even got the soundtrack that i downloaded as mp3 and put onto aud…
I think Andrew Stagg was the name of the programmer on Deus Ex Machina ... know if he was part of Automata, or if he just ... that game.
Wasn't Mel Croucher's partner at automata called ...ID and Chaos, two of the strangest games for the speccyID was a sort of artificial intelligence program. A mixture between a.i. and an adventure. Cant remember who has produced this game. You had to find …
I loved ID, along with Deus Ex Machina it was one of the most innovative games I ever played.
I know ID was by Mel Croucher and somebody else - so it may have been published by Automata, but i'm not sure about that.Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
Q1... What were the four games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 ... unofficial and an official version of the same arcade game was ... For 1 point who was the star of Automania?
Wally Week ...
Edward Thomson
Mel Croucher,
do I get extra ...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
Q1... What were the four games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 ... and an official version of the same arcade game was ... the only person who may leave the island? 1 point.
The ruler of the ... for 1 point each.
Mel Croucher, Ian Dury
...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... OCEAN was the official and unnofficial version of the same game ... with the unnofficial version ... />
Q9... the star of automania was WALLY WEEK
JON PERTWEE
MEL CROUCHER
DONNA BAILY
...Sharopolis's QuizHere you are folks, My quiz, edutainment at its best. This is the first quiz I've compiled so sorry if its too easy or hard or whatever. Some of the…
... br /> 7. The 'Shining Path' is the common name of the communist pary in ... Spectrum program on the B-side of one of his solo ... I will guess at Mel Croucher for the question as set.
the founding father of existentialism, Discuss (5. ...Crash page/mp3 needed :-) Can anybody do me a greyscale scan of page 76/ issue 16 (bruce lee map) as I don`t really want to buy off ebay for 1 page :( This is due to …
... issue 78 ("Mel Croucher's Computer Fun Line")? Details of the tape are ... was one of the games on the tape. The 'magazines' section of WoS has ... just the 4 seconds of mad chuckling at the beginning, not the entire ... my mp3, which is the full version, give me ...Game with best A.I?Hi folks, as I'm been interested in artificial intelligence since the 80's, I'd appreciate your opinions on a Speccy game with the best A.I, "human-…
... Mel Croucher was determined to try and push back the boundaries of AI on the ... on the Spectrum - the other is a simple implementation of the ... are really AI in the sense of the machine learning anything, ... , the best implementation of AI comes from one of the very ...
