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The I've Had Enough of Mega Threads Mega ThreadAs the inventor of the Mega Thread (three word story, at the car boot sale, miss wos, thread of belly laughs etc...), I can honestly say that you the…
As the inventor of the Mega Thread (three word story, at the car boot sale ... , miss wos, thread of belly laughs ... honestly say that you the recent crop of mega thread bandwagon jumping ... -
Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the ... so far is delete the wavs i run through ... br />
Whats the deal with maketzx anyway? I ... being said...whats the prefered method of making tzx files ... these days? presuming of course i can actually ... -
games that sold off the backs of other formats..obvious things like elite I guess.. never saw the fuss, sorry but I noticed I got shedloads of speccy kikstart 2 tapes , was that because the c64 ve…
... elite I guess.. never saw the fuss, sorry
but ... got shedloads of speccy kikstart 2 tapes , was that because the c64 ... like that, I guess its the same with i-ball also ... -
Trying to remember the name of this magazineA memory of an obscure UK magazine has popped into my head, and wondered if anyone could identify it. It was primarily about learning to program (ma…
... Amstrad at least.
The main notable thing about this ... very clear memory of a news story about The Simpsons, saying something ... family is even bigger than the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!") I ... quite a cheap feel - the same sort of paper as, say Micro ... -
The Making of Karyssia Queen of DiamondsAs an aside/boxout for the Incentive feature I had published in RG a few months ago I was going to do a bit about this game. However, I secured a go…
As an aside/boxout for the Incentive feature I had published ... to give it a making-of of its own.
Here ... .com/2011/07/making-of-karyssia-queen-of-diamonds.html"]http://jdanddiet ... .blogspot.com/2011/07/making-of-karyssia-queen-of-diamonds.html[/URL] -
The Demise of Hedge PronIll try to keep this as clean as possible. When i was a kid about 10/11 years old there was a track behind a friends house where you could occasiona…
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I remember the excitement when me and my ... free and im guessing the unspoken ritual of the hedge porn cycle ... untill one day in the summer holidays we were ... he had got 2 of the tapes and to go ... />
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Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... br /> Here are some of the other spectrums waiting in cue ... br /> Close up inspection of the tape mechanisms reveal spewed grease ... pay attention to the rest of the cassette mechanism.
the English name for this) on the side of the rod, that holds/supports the ... -
The Legend of Chytt Tiatt- Online Text AdventurentureYou awake to find yourself in a dark space with a hard floor. You are fully clothed wearing denim jeans and a T-Shirt which feels wet. The strong sm…
... -Shirt which feels wet. The strong smell of wee, vomit and spent ... -
FFS... (the ignorance of modern youth)Sorry for the foul acronym, but I was just talking to a bloke I work with, and I mentioned that Bob Hope's widow had just passed away, and he asked m…
... away from millions of potential fans just because the networks don't ... was, he was simply one of the best comedians ever, his timing ... . He really was (is) one of the few comedians who could make ... -
The development of (possibly) the worst car in the world...which is of course the Morris Marina. For some reason, YouTube gave me this as a suggested video (I don't know why!). It was interesting at least.…
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My grandfather had one of the vomit green saloon models from ... many door handles and the subsequent parts of BL years later ... up the wall. If you look at some of the history ... sites about the company, many of the concept designs ... -
Getting the contents of tablesHi All, I'm risking a potentially daft question here as it seems pretty fundamental but here goes: What's the best way of pointing register pairs a…
... 's the best way of pointing register pairs at the 16bit contents of tables ... if I have a table of tile data and want to ... de at the graphic data, and repeat a number of times I ... ,(ix) command!), I'm aware of using sp to do this ... -
Lord Of The Rings; Files skipped ?Hi folks, Does anyone know what blocks 8~13 are for in the Lord of The Rings: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006601[/url] I…
... 8~13 are for in the Lord of The Rings:
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Block 5 contains the loader and a dis-assembly ... be trying to load the 5byte block 6 times, ... expect it to match the block sizes shown above.< ... br />
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The Adventures of Tintin (movie)I'm confused ... is this a 3D movie or actual live-action with actors and whatnot? I ask because the little I've heard about it, I keep hearing that…
... and whatnot? I ask because the little I've heard about ... 's live action, right? But the poster I saw had more ... want to know anything about the story line/spoilers as I ... am somewhat of a Tintin fan and plan ... -
Dizzy, Prince Of The YolkFolk: Alternate loading screen?Hi, Please have a careful look at the new Dizzy remake teaser (seconds 0:42-0:52) [youtube]LGW53914gDk[/youtube] That certainly looks like a [b]*r…
... loading screen (please forget about the, say, "custom loading scheme" ;-)) ... which is completely different from the loading screen currently shown at ... /> Indeed, the picture of the first loading screen matches the cover illustration of the [url=http ... -
Canny use of the 'r' register?Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=583188#post583188"]crunch sound thread[/URL] has made me th…
Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ] has made me think about the r register.
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As it cycles irrespective of whether interupts enabled so presumably ... (though much much faster by the looks of it).
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What is the name of this game?An adventure game, split in 2 halves vertically. I can't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science Fictional nature. Perhap…
... 't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science ... think it appeared on one of the 'Your Sinclair' cassettes.
Death of Chris "Kizzy" from Triad Developments / The KnightsHello all, It's my very sad duty to report the death of "Kizzy" from the UK demo group Triad Developments / The Knights. He was found dead on Tuesd…
... report the death of "Kizzy" from the UK demo group Triad Developments / The ... and a popular member on the website Sheffield Forum, where ... recently announced.
The biggest upset though is that ... his missing programs are in the archive.
...Help me remember the name of this text adventure game?Memory is hazy, I vaguely recall the following.. It was a text adventure game. Each prompt, was preceded by WHAT NEXT [i]name[/i]? If a command wa…
... is hazy, I vaguely recall the following..
... raised or dropped as the game went along, and ... some limited combat, with the odd graphic thrown in.< ... it a lot, some of the obstacles and hazards included;< ... to be avoided, and the route was blocked by ...Cause of the financial breakdown?I've written down (dictated) from a video, what Lord James of Blackheath said on the 16th February 2012 in the House of Lords. Though you can probab…
... of the contract.
Under the contract, the American Treasury has apparently got the ... also put at the disposal of the US Treasury the entire asset backing which ...New Game: THE LOST TAPES OF ALBIONOkay here's my present for the Speccies 30th birthday: [B] [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Lost+Tapes+of+Albion%2c+The$&pu…
... .cgi?regexp=^Lost+Tapes+of+Albion%2c+The$&pub=^Stonechat+Productions ... />
It's a rework of the StampQuest/EFMB idea but there ... . Can go off the top/bottom and sides of the screen.
the use of ALBION in the name, I didn ...The music of Titanic for ZX Spectrum (toposoft) played by an orchestraOriginal: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gsjSJA4YgBI#t=40s[/url] Version by Camerata Musicalis in RetroMadrid 2012:…
... sounds much better than the ZX 48k, of course ;)
[url ...New game: THE LOST TAPES OF SAMNew game: THE LOST [B]DISKS[/B] OF SAM Hi all With the blessing of Mr Dave "Moebius" Hughes I'm pleased as punch to present to you a new release fo…
New game: THE LOST [B]DISKS[/B] OF SAM
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With the blessing of Mr Dave "Moebius" Hughes I ... ^H^H^H speccy: THE LOST DISKS OF SAM. It's a ... collect-um-up in the same ...Way of the exploding fist - Kempston?The Way of the Exploding fist is listed where I find it online as having kempston support, but I am unable to select kempston, or find a way to selec…
The Way of the Exploding fist is listed where I find it online as having kempston support, but I am unable to select kempston, or find a way to select it. Does this game in fact support kempston interface or not?Dizzy Down the Rapids year of releaseThe reviews are from summer 1992, so maybe the year of release was 1992??
The reviews are from summer 1992, so maybe the year of release was 1992??Odd versions of the Multiface One.I've been looking through the adverts for the Multiface One and it's clear that there were a number of versions available. Note the earliest advert …
... /> It's not until the middle of the January '86 adverts that we ... anyone have any of these old versions of the interface? The 2K RAM and ... Kempston Disc versions must be something of ...Can anyone remamber the name of this game...I'm pretty sure it was a budget title - it was a side view, with you playing a little spaceman with a jetpac. Flip screen - and it had a kind of Dizz…
... - and it had a kind of Dizzy formula where you had ... progress.
Sorry for the vagueness.
Yes ...How to change the colour of an input line?Hello my fellow WoS'ers I remember the way-back machine on the humble 48k where I could write a REM statement in basic, but I could also change the …
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I remember the way-back machine on the humble 48k where ... I could also change the background paper of that text input. This ... project as its a bit of a chore to read - sadly ...The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…
... happens to be low, the current state of the joystick port will show ... the former). From the people that use the a real Spectrum, how many of ... with no support for one of the two major choices on joystick ... could leave 1/4 of kilobyte for the IM2 table, but if ...The Evolution of 8-Bit Art | Off Book | PBS[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYL1DsY8GMI&list=PLC3D565688483CCB5&index=5&feature=plcp"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYL1DsY8GMI&list=PLC3D5…
... . Plenty of discussion on 8 bit gaming and music creation. The ZX ...Scrotty furtlers of the world unite!Hi all. As a child of the 80's myself (if you're one too and you don't recognise the username, shame on you!) I found my way here yesterday. Haven'…
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As a child of the 80's myself (if you ... am salivating at the thought of getting my hands on ... Island (the one with the ship and all the islands to ... dodger in 3D) and all the rest.
the existence of Retro Gamer magazine ...
