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WOS Starts to take shapeCheck it out http://live.worldofspectrum.org/ Looking good (when can we start adding all the info?)
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The offer still stands. Please do not complain ... t recall I started ZXDB the day you posted "I had enough ...
Long before you decided to revert your decision, the ZXDB model ... to import from ZXDB (I still hope you do), you ... -
Anyone fired today?I was today. Been there 10.5 years, but 2/3 of the company has just been sold off and the last 1/3 has to limit their spending, so a fulltime IT g…
... the cull, but 2 of the people I work with on a day ... to day ... of the deal, but a few days before Christmas is still a ... lousy time to do it.
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Anyone fired today?I was today. Been there 10.5 years, but 2/3 of the company has just been sold off and the last 1/3 has to limit their spending, so a fulltime IT g…
... (Got the decision overturned after Christmas but I was obviously still quite ... a locker at work, on the last day leave an orange, a ... the hinges from the outside, and then snap your key in the lock before ... drives super glue on the tray before you close it. This ... -
Anyone fired today?I was today. Been there 10.5 years, but 2/3 of the company has just been sold off and the last 1/3 has to limit their spending, so a fulltime IT g…
... (Got the decision overturned after Christmas but I was obviously still quite ... a locker at work, on the last day leave an orange, a ... the hinges from the outside, and then snap your key in the lock before ... drives super glue on the tray before you close it. This ... -
Making your own tapesTowards the end of last year [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53607/recommend-modern-1994-2017-games]I dropped in here to ask a…
... deck A is still good for transferring the demos I have ... was still obviously clipped. A high-end machine (for its day) ... actually on the tape before it stops and moves onto the next ... constantly wobbling and still the game loaded. So the Spectrum is reasonably ... -
Turrican vs Turrican II (Amiga) - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the February 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Silkworm and Swiv against each other and after a mega…
... Has to be the original Turrican for me. The hold-fire weapon ... I even prefer the fading background colour to the copper bars in ... my mind back in the day and its still a go to game ... /> yeah the ST version was the one i originally got, before the Amiga version -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... bug things across the planets before you chat to ... a lot of the atmosphere. Still, worth a play ... about morphing back in the day when it was put ... English version, although the English soundtrack staff were ... !"
Still playing Hotline Miami 2 off ... -
Recommend: "modern" (1994-2017) games...No, that is not a typo in the thread. *Next* christmas (i.e. 25th December 2017) it will be 30 years to the day I opened a box containing a Spectr…
... I'd seen Shuttlebug somewhere before:
https://www.youtube ... a Dragon 32 back in the day (my dad bought it for ... . And the Phantom Slayer, for that matter. But there are still plenty ... , so I'll stick to the job in hand...
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... stuck with BASIC up until the day I got my Amiga ... for Glanford Council (who still use my Time-Analysis and ... games are the Cybernoids, Sabre Wulf, Where Time Stood Still and Explorer ... . My favourite PC games are the Thief series and the ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... stuck with BASIC up until the day I got my Amiga ... for Glanford Council (who still use my Time-Analysis and ... games are the Cybernoids, Sabre Wulf, Where Time Stood Still and Explorer ... . My favourite PC games are the Thief series and the ...If you could have a cinema marathon would you prefer...Hi Folks, Just a quick straw poll. I do some volunteer work with a community cinema and we're thinking about running a Marathon Screening Day/Wee…
... with the widest appeal, but you may find it's still (amongst ... ]The Force Awakens[/i].
If you only have one day ... . And it keeps the surprises and still makes sense at the end.
the beginning, or the night before, if you want!If you could have a cinema marathon would you prefer...Hi Folks, Just a quick straw poll. I do some volunteer work with a community cinema and we're thinking about running a Marathon Screening Day/Wee…
... If you only have one day, you could do [i ... .com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested ... Back[/i] first, then the latter two prequels, then ... it keeps the surprises and still makes sense at the end.
the beginning, or the night before, if you ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... hurt playing this back in the day on a plastic keyed 48k ... , but it's still an annoyance in the middle of a heated ... desperately scramble for the teleporter at the edge of the screen before it closes ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... but another RPG at the end of the day. I just realized 5 ... of the 11 PS4 discs ... own are RPG's what the hell was I thinking? ... I get to experience the whole game before being distracted by ... of time sinks, I'm still chipping away at [i] ...MANIC MINER vs CHUCKIE EGG - WHICH IS BEST?Hi everyone and welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed two Amiga shooters against each other,...X-Out & Z-Out, …
... in the day when I could go round it a few times before ... my hand cramped beyond the human pain ... I can still finish MM in one go? The Solar Power ... that game, everybody moans about the warehouse, but I personally ... , see if I can still finish it?Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …
... 'Defenders of the Earth' stuff were you given before you started ... on very early in the morning, before TV AM started ... while Defenders of the Earth was still on the TV and fresh ... the screenshot that appears on the back of the box. That was done before ...My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
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5. Suicidal Tendencies - I Shot The ... (2:55)
48. The Sex Pistols - Understanding (small faces ... /> 54. john cooper clark - the day the world stood still (3:49)
55 ... . The Misfits - bullet (1:35)
Used games are killing the games industry and should be banned (wibble wibblI was on a forum for flash cartridges ('backup' devices that allow you to play digital images on a real console, so you can download a game and play …
... do have the game and intend to play it one day.
the companies still charged a small fortune ... to be properly tested before release or the game company would suffer ... gamer). We tolerate huge downloadable day one patches that fix some ...Import new WoS data from ZXDB?This thread is intended to discuss [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/883669/#Comment_883669"]my[/url] [url="https://www…
... better?
You are still refusing to show your database ... data from old WoS archive, before you decide if you will ... new WoS site, it's still going to take you a ... />
I have started ZXDB the day you announced you were quitting ...What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…
... an Amstrad but the Spectrum seemed to be the best to me ... . It took years of pestering before i ... finally got one.
The games to ... back in the day of playing many of my games. I still have ...How much would you actually PAY for the exact Arcade machine you wanted?As you know, I'm an Arcade freak, and I've been taking notes and making tests with controllers so that in the future I'll be able to construct my ver…
... that, but at the end of the day my brain still tells me you ... bar stool or chair for the original ones...
[quote ... like me who gets killed before the coin has had a chance ... to reach the cashbox.[/quote]
Pinball ...Good MAME gamesJust as everyone has a list of must-play spectrum games, which arcade games are worth playing either because they are still good, or are just a big n…
... /> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Simpsons Arcade.
Tecmo Knight ... Wrestlefest, almost as crap as the game before it, but I loves ... Zone, it may have still been called The Point?). I haven't ... will. Also Red Earth by Capcom that's the same sort of ...Playing my own random 'Cover Tapes'So after reading through some old magazines, I started to get nostalgic about the old days, where I'd get a new Spectrum mag 3 weeks out of 4 complet…
... do this at Christmas, like the old games club, but somebody ... thing to do at the end of the year. The Chrimbo Covertapes were ... look forward to back in the day, even before the Covertape wars fully kicked ... /> Aye, could do...I'm still going to be doing it ...ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …
... money on the original Mist board... Better still, if one day perhaps ... somebody might try porting the NEXT core to the ... all those channels and still have room left over ... upgrade from the standard set by the ZX Uno... Before that time ...Are social media and cloud computing technologies making computer users stupid?I've noticed of late that young folks seem less and less technically competent with computers when they leave school. With the advent of social medi…
... get things done in the simplest way possible. As ... this day, depite showing her dozens of times, she still ... can't comprehend something as simple as copying files. In the ... automatically save everything to the cloud before the inevitable phone call where ...The Crystal MazeDear WOS, I thought about conceptualising a Speccy game based on the classic 1990s game show "The Crystal Maze", which has recently returned to TV…
... to solve to a still picture of the team players looking at ... up by Richard O'Brian the night before shooting, resulting in himself ... having stinking hangovers on set the next day. This would certainly go ...The ZX Spectrum and its derivatives used in a static , semi portable and portable way.Now on "portabilty" is there any where I will not be able to "go" with this (Now let me see!) Hmm ! Well semi portability should be totally OK as …
... of potentially portable software that still works a lot better with ... " (a bit late in the day) as the ultimate portablle Speccy game controller ... good emulators But before I "throw out" all the other options I ...The Amazon Key, what a great idea!Nowadays, lots of people order things online, and get the items sent to their homes. And inevitably of course, sometimes the delivery driver will att…
... limit on the card. Typically over £30 you still have to ... day before it defaults back to requiring a PIN entry. This keeps the ... />
Understood. Leaving this (still pretty stupid, if you ask ... Still, someone has to pay for all the debt and trouble the ...My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
... arse for most of the day.
Still haven't decided if ... if nobody else is playing before Bassy usually would?I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... who's been with the series since day 1, but it's ... anyway, and not canon, but still awesome in it's own ... price. Was still worth playing through, and with the multiple fighting styles ... the boss fights from the first game so much more interesting (The series before ...
