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What computing platforms do you have in the house?Just took delivery of my first Mac so now in our house we have: Study: HP Compaq desktop running XP Living room: Dell laptop running Vista (spit)…
... monitor) Not sure the specs yet, but probably made in early ... joysticks, paddle controllers, driving controls. Got it on ebay for $40 ... me by my girlfriend :) Recently got it.
-Sega ... and 2 with the 6 button). Got it at the local Goodwill store ... -
Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... put what I've got online though... perhaps ... header at the start of the video file, and having ... as long as the filesystem places the file data across consecutive ... graphical glitches - with the basic delta algorithm, you ... , but I never got as far as determining ... -
R.I.P - The Corkscrew.The Corkscrew at Alton Towers took its very last pasengers today and will soon be dismantled. :cry: :cry: :cry: It's been at Alton Towers Since 1980…
... a row on The Corkscrew - literally got on, went around, got off, legged ... it round the queue crap ... bottled it at the last minute (although it was probably written into ... -
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…
... had it...)
The school got a few ZX81s first, though ... />
I felt the same awe when the school got a Speccy. We ... with the school's 16K Speccy, is it had a fault (probably ... all over the screen).
By the time I got a Speccy ... -
Where has my thread gone????:???::???::???::???::???:
... how much I just got paid to take a ... my clock seems to have got screwed up. We moved ... shelves nightshift. I'm probably earning more money than I ... I'm doing, and the overtime probably just adds insult to ... after a while they just got boring and frustrating. I ... -
PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
... over the last couple of mornings when I got in ... So I put the theory to the test, I got a 5 star ... killing machine, I think the only way to progress Resi ... the survival game on Code: Veronica, but it's been probably ... require you to beat the Mercenaries with all 5 ... -
PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
... I put the theory to the test, I got a 5 ... phrase - Capcom's probably trying to get their ... the survival game on Code: Veronica, but it's been probably ... require you to beat the Mercenaries with all 5 ... honestly prefer to use the Punisher, Killer7, Broken Butterfly ... -
Ever regret posting a thread?My most recent one is the "End of the line?" one in c.s.s., in which I probably misconstrued how things stood. But that's not the main reason I now …
... that I've ever got anyone to change their ... or political, not worth the hassle to be honest.
the booze had got hold of me and ... board, but that would probably be one that I'd ... on anyway, you know the ones, troll/hate fests ... -
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 (…
... in the bar we got onto the subject and a few of the other ... the medical unit for the troops form the camp down the road during the war,the ... just a shadow as above..Probably due to sleep paralysis, a ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
AC/DC - Black Ice
Track - She Likes Rock N Roll
Just got it today. Good stuff.
Probably stick on W.A.S.P.s Neon God: Part 2 - The Demise next. Got that yesterday. -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... level buffering (ie at the FILE* level and before sending ... a floppy disk device probably has to have one ... implemented at the moment (ie between the FILE* and the device driver), ... that contains information on the specific file descriptor being operated ... -
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…
... with this game. I got past the Del Lago before I even ... I couldn't put the pad down, I got the game just over ... different combat system, probably due to the fact that the GBA has four ... . I think the way they got around this is the rather generic ending ... -
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…
... at the time it was the perfect machine. I got hold ... crap. I also got superior versions of the Street Fighter Alpha ... available than the PS version (Until the directors cut got a UK ... converter/memory expansion the lithium battery has probably died and I ... -
VirtualBox...Anyone here use VirtualBox? I've tried installing it, but every version I've tried so far gives me the following message: "The software you are ins…
... There's a site on the interweb that has them all ... create is one whopping great file, probably somewhere in your MyDocuments folder ... and all of the files for running the OS in the virtual environment ... 98 will install to either the Windows or WINNT folder - I ... -
A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
... using SPIN 0.62 (Not the latest).
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You can probably see in the code I'm using ... found somewhere on the Internet. (I got it from a ... generator too from the same website - but the 16-bit one ... 8-bit one for the 6502 processor, perhaps I ... -
Trouble recording avi in ZXSpinTried both 0.622 and 0.666 releases, I get an access violation on each codec's dll file no matter which codec I choose, as soon as I press Start Reco…
... each codec's dll file no matter which codec ... .666 and got the same problems. Also tried the HUV codec ... and got a "not ... enough space on disk to create file" ... the file's going to be bigger than 29GB.
Anyone got ... -
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…
... awesome game. Probably one of the best on the N64. The multiplayer was sheer ... true for the other consoles.
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I got a ... PS1 just as they released the new Slim ... play it back in the day, but got it again recently and ... -
Old or new first person shooters?Yep, another poll, well it's either pester you lot or post on another forum, and they've all banned me. Martijn daren't ban me from here (tee hee :lo…
... I got bored with the whole genre by the time we got to Quake. The ... new ones are probably ... as playable as the ... -
Best film tie-in games...I started playing [I]The Warriors[/I] on the PS2 again last night, and I realised that it's probably the best film tie-in I have ever played. I don't…
... saga really well ( remember I got the game before I read it ... really captured the spirit of the game, although by the time I got the game ... coherance is probably the video game from "Street fighter-the movie", the movie was ... -
Games you own but haven't even started yetGo on then. What do you own but you haven't even started, even though the intention is there, but the time never seems to come around or you already…
I've got quite a few games that ... after buying them. I've probably got too many to mention, but ... Defence Force 2000 (? the 360 game with the big ants in)
I've also got loads that I've only ... -
Reviewing methods and gamesI've just been reading the WOS entry on Stonkers, and see that it was awarded three "[b]K[/b]"s by the [b]BIG-K[/b] magazine. Good job they never re…
As a newby to the forum, I am only just learning about the many stonkers jokes. But I have to say, way back when, I thought it was a really refreshing change and it probably got quite a few people into strategy games.:grin: -
Nickedi got nicked and given a police caution tonight, for carrying a controlled substance. my fault i know. really shook me up, being barreled through a t…
... ? Crikey.
The problem with anti terror legislation ... whatever unintended consequence that the politician is dismissing. It ... be in Belmarsh probably because of all the items I have ... in the USA got interviewed by the FBI as the apartment manager got ... -
Top 5 Never Released GamesWhich are the Top 5 Never Released Games? I mean games that we know that started being coded, or were intended to but finally didn't come out. 1-Tok…
Havent seen any screenshots for it, clicked on the link for the game in your thread and clicked the icon for screenshots but nothing.
Plus as its by Dinamic you've probably got 1 life against ultra hard opponents ;) -
Top 5 Never Released GamesWhich are the Top 5 Never Released Games? I mean games that we know that started being coded, or were intended to but finally didn't come out. 1-Tok…
... for it, clicked on the link for the game in your thread ... and clicked the icon for screenshots but nothing ... its by Dinamic you've probably got 1 life against ultra hard ... ;)[/QUOTE]
I know the screenshots are not available, but ... -
Best game of 2008?The year 2008 is almost over. Which game was the best one? :wink: Text adventures & games with less than 5 point on WOS not included. Btw, admins, c…
Farmer Jack & the Hedge Monkeys got my vote - probably the game I've played ... the most out of the ... at it at the Retro Fair earlier in the year :-(
How did these Women Survive?![url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7636577.stm[/url] How on earth did one of them manage to get up after being hit by a car and even then it took a gro…
No prizes for guessing what game i thought of when watching this....
[img]http://www.horacegoesskiing.co.uk/pictures/HoraceSkiHire.png[/img]
They probably got charged $10 when the ambulance turned up as wellTop 5 Never Released GamesWhich are the Top 5 Never Released Games? I mean games that we know that started being coded, or were intended to but finally didn't come out. 1-Tok…
... for it, clicked on the link for the game in your thread ... and clicked the icon for screenshots but nothing ... its by Dinamic you've probably got 1 life against ultra hard ...MIA: Sir GawainAs previously announced, here's the release of Sir Gawain, a Microhobby type-in program. Included in the archive is the .TZX with the generated bina…
I got the idea to use FreeOCR ... /> to read the images as text (As it got no fu... ... write a utility to check the text for valid Hexchars, ... check the chevksum and convert it to ... can then replace the old with new code in the file.
What ...ANNOUNCE: Fuse 0.10.0 releasedFuse 0.10.0 and libspectrum 0.5.0 have just been released. Highlights of this release include: …
... the close X i considerd this as a crash, but probably ... it is a loop indeed.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the ... and with which file in which directory, is the file write-Enabled,
is it the 1rst, 2nd ...
