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What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
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Happy happy joy joy.What was the happiest moment in your Spectrum life? (To narrow this down, this thread doesn't include recieving the Spectrum, or buying your best ev…
... a Speccy BASIC interpreter for the PC. I started this, and came stuck ... near proficient in that yet.
SPIN was up and ... me full time (though in truth he followed and contributed ... after etc etc. But the real moment for me was the dull "thud" that ... -
Nokia Ringtones?????hi all does anyone know where to get spectrum ringtones for a nokia? thx
... know how to use the ringtone composer for this as I have ... not worked out the keypresses, ... with the PSSST! level complete tune, the Manic Miner in-game ... the tunes here if anyone is interested.
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Load games from mp3Hi, I'm a very new member of this forum, so please don't take offence of this topic. I'd like to know if I can load games from mp3 files. And if it…
... I express myself in writing because nothing was further from my ... query I am interested in learning the answer to, then that ... , who can blame me for reiterating or clarifying that query ... , but I got the impression you thought this was the original proposal, due ... -
city slickerhello i was playing this game and then i remembered from when i played the original,you could use the PEP pills in the bottom left hand corner.but n…
... had this game on the hard disk and I had edited the instructions ... the keys for taking the Pep pills) to include the correct combination. Unfortunately, it was ... lost in ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... on how the Speccy version of DD was programmed in the long-running ... slow and unplayable, and the scrolling is smooth but ... sluggish.
For examples of excellent programming technique ...
Dave
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Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... DD3 for the Spec?
High res mono graphics did this version ... justice and it looked faithful to the coin ... the colour clash problem a few years ago. I'm sure this was ... demonstrated in an art package a few ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... DD3 for the Spec?
High res mono graphics did this version ... justice and it looked faithful to the coin ... the colour clash problem a few years ago. I'm sure this was ... demonstrated in an art package a few ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... , bcass wrote:
For whoever composes the music, I recommend Vortex ... i have found all the music for it including a slightly ... from the arcade version to the spectrum. though if this is all in ... /[/url]
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Favourite Spectrum game musicDoesn't have to be 128k music either... Anyway mine is the 2nd track on Xenon.
... /> best in-game music ever, and dont slate me for this, was the music from ... Delta on the C64
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Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
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The reason for the glitches was that a list contained in page 3 ... , even if the list was incompletely written, the program worked OK. This was not true ... with the +3 however ... -
code cards etcJust been looking at the code cards etc for jetset willy and the like and i had a thought :o Back in the speccy days when they released games with s…
The best protection for me was always lenslok - a physical copy- ... clever attempt at copy protection in the 16-bit era by Team ... for Team 17, groups like Fairlight hacked the software and completely bypassed this ... -
ZX or MSX for music ?Hi guys, I don't mean to offend anybody, and I really love my 128K +2 Speccy and all the spectacular emulators available for this system, but I reall…
... the prog sadly.
Although I was interested in MSX music for ... , if I recall (even AY was there probably).
for me.
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Atari ST Diskshello again, forgive me for the format change.... some of you may remember i requested some *original* atari ST disks a while back for dumping to pr…
... thanks for that.
I'm not interested in the boxed ... these. I will check later for the full list.
the Amiga sites for this, but I thought ... on the A1200. Fingers crossed.
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EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…
... in the Palette, is mixed with the current char attribute. This is documented (and this was ... cycling is also responsible for the keys to flash. If you ... for the keys so that they flash even in 256 colour.[/quote]
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EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …
... not save.[/quote]
This was so in 0.1 release (and may ... and second for all other GFX-related files listed in the message.< ... it cannot remember the path of the last save, while for loading games ... Windows2000 or the Explorer 5.5 installed do this work for me ... -
Top games music.I suppose this one's been mentioned before but having got hold of some music demos (48 and 128) I've compiled this little list of top tunes (In my op…
... the music alongside the game and get the real arcade feel, which was crap in ... ...I just checked the inlays at WOS for now and both show ... I've forgotten what the music's like for that - no MP3 ... Compo 2004!!!
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Emulation or Real Thing?Having just been on ebay, I counted well over 200 Spectrum games for sale. That got me thinking, with the availability of emulation and almost every …
... the same time, as my PC is JUST about fast enough for this ... (Celeron 800) in most games.
... find that winding the tape along the dodgy part and ... pardon the expression) usually works.
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The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …
... BASIC.)
in my opinion the main reason for this compo is: NEW ... BLOOD FOR OLD ... long...
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OT:Buy digitalcamera?Hello! What digitalcamera do you use? Whats good and bad with your digitalcameras? I'm going to buy one but don't know witch. The one that seems ok…
... Camedia C-740 Ultrazoom earlier this year, and I'm really ... to.)
The main advantage for me was the 10x optical zoom, much ... distance, planes in the sky etc. The big lens makes the camera very large ... don't really care about this. It's so big it ... -
SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... of benefit"? The answer will depend slightly on the final license for the IPF library ... entirely depend on what it was. :) If it really is ... willing to go open source for the reasons mentioned, but not ... be arguing for us to open the source in the first place ... -
ModdingWouldn't it be great if we could mod Speccy games just like today's PC games.
... at a retroactive excuse for this vandalisation... Now, in the 21st century, I find ... it's time! My mod was an attempt to inject more ... disco into the machine. Yadda yadda yadda.
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Games you used to haveI used to have virtually all of the Ultimate games including the dire Bubbler and Martianoids and swapped them with people at school for other games.…
... was out in the mid 80`s ?
It was A5 in ... in British news agents, had`nt thought of it for ... nearly twenty years until this topic came ... I got my Spectrum... the Avro Lancaster, Spitfire, and ... />
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Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…
... rare kind (it is described in Zilog catalog, but I found ... know the hardware details for this computer)
If only for Spectrum, then this might ... />
Cristi
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Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... they were a kid. Remove this old neural link and you ... playing the game in it's original context. Robocop, for example, was brilliant in 1987 ... appeal was in that it seemed quite groundbreaking for a Speccy game at the ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... playing the game in it's original context. Robocop, for example, was brilliant in 1987 ... was the idea of this thread.
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PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks
... play it when I was supposed to be at ... cool thing about this game ... I made the playoffs in my first ... season and lost the first leg ... 0. I somehow won the second leg 5-0 to ... I beat Swansea in the final 4-2. I was well chuffed :D -
Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…
... though, up there in the top 5 platformgames for sure. The lifts were what ... made it for me.
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I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…
Thanks Cyborg for your comprehensive reply,
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8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... slightly coloured-in versions of the Spec version[/quote]
This was often ... because programmers / software companies were lazy and ported the graphics ... version rather than redrawing them for the CPC. These games were known ...
