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Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…
... of spreading the virus to the other machines in the surrounding office ... viruses (this was in the days before wireless networks were common ... place) and the other machines ... back in the building for the rest of the day or at ... -
Cecco's arcade gamesThanks to Jesus for stirring up a more passionate debate than some of the flat games chat recently I thought a poll was in order. I have deliberately…
... because it was the first game on my ... forum) that could really get the hang on.
Since, I have played the game many, many times on ... reviews and hype in the day (even a production diary ... (have only finished the first level before I gave up ... -
Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…
... could have most of the day off and we would ... left it for hours before calling me. By this ... and started an ocolation before finally the little bits of ... being her boyfriend the very next day when she discovered ... fiance about 6 weeks before but was at work ... -
What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
... programmers/graphic guys back in the day copied games !) ;)
... a Speccy for the first time. Swapping the tapes in and ... for different games.
The games were Slippery Sid, Zzoom ... /> Used to buy all the mags before i got my machine as ... -
What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
... s Speccy (he had the game before me) was staggering. ... train came towards the camera the people panicked and ... (amazing, etc), Pyjamarama, The Sentinel, Manic Miner, Dynamite ... 's Bad Fur Day (still the best cartoon-style ... and sound on the N64). On the XBox there ... -
Letters in MagazinesAs you can view all the pages of various speccy magazines on WOS, who has had letters published? I read mine the other day which was printed in issu…
... remember reading that back in the day and thinking "how can you ... in what he thought was the solution to Contact Sam Cruise ... /software. He was horrified when the next issue of Crash came ... the cops she shoots you, call the cops and they arrest her before ... -
What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
Lords of Midnight first probably and Knightlore of course.
LOM wins the day because it was in my opinion WAY before its time in concept and graphics 'engine'. -
Goodbye.....bst :-(
... a 12 hour shift the Friday before the clocks went forward in ... />
I spent all day telling everyone on shift to ... they got home in the hope that some fool ... a hour early on the Saturday morning and I ... the burning shame at turning up at work a full hour before ... -
Jonathan Ross and Russell BrandJust saw this headlining the BBC news at lunchtime. It seems to be a matter of national importance. Is it?
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At the end of the day there are far more ... blatant joke about anal sex before introducing his house-band '4 ... about anal sex before introducing an episode of, say, The Graham Norton ... -
Your views on...Hunchback[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002383]Hunchback[/url] Most of my mates were into Hunchback, but I never really got into it…
... lot in the arcades before i bought the speccy version , at the time i ... it loops round to the start , unlike the arcade verion which ... /> I enjoyed Hunchback back in the day, but it hasn't aged ... died and the similarly creepy 'Rock the baby!' speech at the end of ... -
Where has my thread gone????:???::???::???::???::???:
Though this is the Chit-Chat forum , these are ... /> I can handle some of the more inane threads and find ... interesting, as I've said before quite a few of us ... page.
At the end of the day it's all about ... -
Where has my thread gone????:???::???::???::???::???:
... rather avoid Mongy Lard like the plague. (I'm with ... have discussed with mates in the pub before, without meaning to really ... been numerous inappropriate discussions stopped before, and with very good ... of a tabloid newspaper every day, or even a magazine cover ... -
What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
... . I do know that the day I wrote my first BASIC ... program to draw the Indian flag with the help of my ... wrote a simple catch-the-ball-in-the-bucket game on ... be a programmer. Nothing before then had given me an ... up medicine or join the army simply because my ... -
What Torrents Should I Look For?As I am a bit of a nostalgia freak (obviously) and I have recently been looking for old British shows to download. I am currently downloading Knight…
... old computing shows from the 80's around in ... was pretty good back in the day. It starred Ron Moody ... for a stone called the nidus or something! He ... and adventure.
[I]The adventure Game [/I]of ... saw some episodes on youtube before the misers took it down- ... -
Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…
... the right price. Leaving aside the likes of the Atari ST (launched the month before ... is rather removed from Match Day, but the likes of Microprose Soccer ... terribly good (hence the continued reputation of Match Day and its sequel ... -
Two different versions of Bruce Lee?There's a possible MIA here, I think. I sat down at lunchtime to play a bit of Bruce Lee and discovered that the version I'd downloaded from WOS (th…
... , you've mentioned Radzone for the CPC before, so I've just ... falling off the bottom of the screen.
7. The aim is ... />
15. To the right of the map is the sea. If you ... to convert it to the Spectrum one day: either as a straight ... -
Bah and Bloody Hell!I have a company in the US that I registered in a few years back called Hiive LLC... I do my consultancy work through it, as well as the book publish…
... 315575]There is of course the small possibility that it is ... a re-work of yours......the colours in particular.
... br />
Not to mention the fact that they refer to ... asked before and the date of the phone call matches almost exactly the day the other ... -
Any one Using STEAM?I've just bought Football manager 2009, and for the last 30 minutes I'm trying to install it in my pc...it requestes internet confirmation and allot …
... simple. Go to the online store section, buy the game, and ... this broadband age. The best thing is the pre-ordering of ... of the big games. You can download them (encrypted) weeks before ... they're released, and on the day of release ( ... -
Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
... on my 386 back in the day (well, except for JPP, but ... , I never used that one before.
Good find though ... "Runtime Error 200" on modern day computers.
I ... - which is mysteriously absent from the main Debian repository, but thankfully ... -
Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
... br /> data |- as at the original ZX tape
1 ... it is almost the same as the TAP format, except ... before I ever heard of TAP...
Use the tap2ltp ... be a trend of the day. Many alternative snapshot formats ... -
ghosts?right then. about a month ago I started noticing that despite turning my oven off every time I use it without fail - the big red switch on the wall (…
... was about 2 at the time, the handprints were up ... me across into the middle of the room and making ... all times of the day & night...The place generally had ... it being a time before every 3-year-old and ... I wandered forward to the edge of the grass verge, and ... -
ghosts?right then. about a month ago I started noticing that despite turning my oven off every time I use it without fail - the big red switch on the wall (…
... never had dreams like this before or since. I can't ... stay with me for the whole of the day.
After a ... week of this, in the middle of the ... my sleep (never had them before). My wife called an ambulance ... -
Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
[QUOTE=Winston;314090]Back in the day, we always called the Atari ST the "16 bit Spectrum".[/QUOTE]
never heard that before... but... its pretty close to truth.
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Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... =Fikee;317846]never heard that before... but... its pretty close to ... on it. and back in the day, I really liked some of ... know it's name but- the one with a boy floating ... over the sea on a disc shaped ... -
Which non spectrum game(s) gobsmacked you the most?Having read this thread - [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22537[/url] I decided to start a thread about non-spectrum ga…
... finish. To this day it remains one of the only games that ... 6th former from the year before popped into school one day and showed ... us that Doom was installed on the machine ... . From that day on, now work ... -
What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…
I didn't do anything before WoS, being a youngster with an unhealthy interest in early computers I didn't even know what a spectrum was.
I joined WoS in 2004 on the day I bought my first +3 :-) -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... you hit the roof or fall of the screen at the bottom.
the problems before closing date?
A ... game with N problems determined in the ... choose you loose 1 remaining day to the enddate.
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Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... although to be fair, the best ones were (as usual ... as an older gamer, the Playstation is better at doing ... more FUN...I missed the cutesy-platformers and instant ... !
Oh, and before I go...Blast Corps has ... t play it back in the day, but got it again ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... Probably one of the best on the N64. The multiplayer was sheer ... "adult" games for the PSX, but whatever the reason, the PSX quickly became ... />
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I have flu.I can't talk without coughing, my lungs burn when I breathe, my throat is on fire, I'm coughing up weird stuff every colour of the rainbow, except gr…
... my b'day) night at about 10.00pm. Spent the next 3 ... days with the shits and throwing ... up.
The year before that I had an operation ... neck to catch all of the fluid - and yes, it was ...
