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Floppy Days Podcast - call for co-host(s)Hi, guys. I'm doing an upcoming series of episodes on the Floppy Days Podcast (floppydays.com) on the ZX Spectrum. First up will be a couple of show…
... upcoming series of episodes on the Floppy Days Podcast (floppydays. ... a couple of shows on the history of the machine (including an interview ... need volunteers to co-host the other episodes, covering such ... help me make sure the episodes are the best they can be ... -
Anyone still using Ebay.I have began selling again on ebay after years of just being a buyer. I was thinking I could just click on sell, list my item and be done. Oh no, so …
... longer integrated, which given the history of the two companies is surprising and ... on the surface seems so damn stupid ... take 12.5% ish of the final sale value rather than ... -
Re PSI Chess and others...After reading about Ed's 36 hour decoding mission on PSI Chess, I feel that the one thing we need is a totally comprehensive instructions section. I …
... I don't know the history of its development, but ... be useful to split the "Games info" section ... download a file from the "Games info" directory, ... going to give me the original inlay instructions, ... article or the full, spoiling, solution for the game.
TBThumb Bandits (UK C4) had a Spectrum feature celebrating the 20 years of the machine but... they say on the site that Knight Lore is the first isomet…
... in old machines or in the history of computers and video games ... ant attack wasnt..seems only the big surviving companies get credit ... for the advancement of games nowadays while ... have a genuine interest in the history of it all.Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
... owned but I've seen the history of PC games too, some ... if you look beyond the presentation the basic simplistic structure is ... game.
Essentially the better games we deserve for ... experimenting with dithering software for the graphics - and it must ...S.O.P. Save Old ProgramsHi ! Does anybody have any idea how can I save my old collection for the future ? I've lots of tapes full of programs. I use Z80 emulator (ver 3.50)…
... but I lose the intro screens.
The second way is ... . I think in this time the history will repeat itself. I have ... . Hmmm.... ZXCOPY, OMNICOPY at the beginning of history and COPY 86M later ... . Do you remember the time?
Two funny questions about EnglishOh, I have two funny questions. I live in Czech Republic and I would like to receive reply from native speaker only. 1. When we were children, we ha…
... the company which made the Spectrum, from the name of Sir Clive Sinclair, the ... the brand of the computer. Other Sinclair computers were the ZX-80 and the ... .
On the history of the company, visit the excellent 'Planet Sinclair' webpage ...All hail Queen Elizabeth the queen Mother.Our thoughts turn to Buckingham Palace at this sad time. She will be remembered for her lively spirit and for her strength of character. If not for h…
... happy to hear of the death of the Queen mother, she was ... as one of the most privelidged people in the history of humanity and ... to reiterate my original point, the spectrum and computers in general ... . Anyone who looks to the Russian and Eastern European demo ...Quizzical 1 - Wots the story?Hokay, here it is then. My first go at setting a quiz on this forum. A few quick things first: * Post ur replies HERE only! * Try and NOT copy the…
... , anyone interested in reading about the history of Infocom, including Cornerstone and ... why the company eventually went under, could ... also a companion presentation in the same directory (a piffling 5Mb ...Avalon codesIt's always the same: you find out about a game, you want to play it, so you load it up and... it's got a code entry at the start. Anyone have the co…
Is Dragontorc the same game re-released by a different company, or is it the sequel of Avalon (don't know much about the history of the game)?Just how popular was the Spectrum?I was wondering does anyone have any idea how the Spectrum stands in terms of popularity as a system in General? With clones available as far afield …
NES has nearly 700 games, Super NES has over 700 and Game boy/Colour has over 700. Ultra 64 has much less though. The Game boys are a big source of income despite what the figures show.Glad to see the ZX Spectrum is in the Science Museum in London.About time too! Last tiem I looked there was just the ZX-80 but the Spectrum is in there now too, alongside a pong-clone and a Vic-20.
The museum is now free.
IT is in the basement, in ... the 'History of the Home' (or whatever it ... .
On the 2nd floor in the Computer section there is ... has been cutaway to reveal the circuitry and chip.The Great Gina SistersDid anyone other than Crash & YS ever get to play the Spectrum version of this Mario clone?
has anybody researched the history of The Great Giana Sisters Mystery?Crash Index needed which came with history binder Lutz kindly donated the 1st 12 issues part of this oddity, just wondered if anybody else had the rest of it, (issues 13-50), which they could sca…
... /> If you check the advert for the history binder if states that ... there is an index for the ... issues which includes all the reviews and ... which is only available with the Crash history binder, Check out page ...I had no idea this existed...Found this on ebay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3007221548&category="]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
Its also been called the worst console in the history of consoles. Didn't sell very well on release and looking at the opening asking price it overpriced. I've seen these fail to sell for ?1 before.
ADJBI had no idea this existed...Found this on ebay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3007221548&category="]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…
... been called the worst console in the history of consoles.[/ ... quote]
Surely not - you're forgetting the ... Commodore C64GS (released about the same time ... as the GX4000) which ..."La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…
... :33, Amigo wrote:
in the beginning intro there's also ... in a city steeped in the history of Simon De Montfort I ...MicroMart battle semi-final has started - go and vote for the Spectrum!We've been following this lately, and the first semi-final has begun between the Speccy and the Amstrad to find the greatest home computer of all tim…
... only need see the relative sizes of the sections on ebay to ... realise that the amiga ranks will be swelled ... the speccy hasn't much in the way of backup... mebbe the amstrad boys ... will chip in though eh.. seeing as they had the ...Complete stupid bastards don?t give up...IDSA wrote this word to Zx.da.ru ( [url="http://www.zx.da.ru"]http://www.zx.da.ru[/url] ) "It has come to our attention that your server located at […
Thank you for the history lesson. Some of the facts are already known by me, so for example the meaning of "Cosa nostra" and that it is not the mafia themself, but a "Family". I did not knew that the black hand/rose are a bit outdated now...AMERICAN SPECTRUM FANS?Hi all. I was wondering, who many Spectrum-fans could live in America... I have many addresses in my zx-base, but not many of them belong to Americ…
... documentary on the history of video games and the section about the start of ... "Codemasters" had the ZX Spectrum ... good closeup of the sucker. The program was on the "Science Channel" and ...Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... cos it's the damnable work of the satan himself! ... 's extensive research into the history of commode64 has revealed, ... have to look at the first four letters in ... we? It's the same with the Speccy vs Commode ... brand loyalty attached to the Speccy, and time is ...Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... possible. But because of the weakness of the 6502, you couldn' ... market.
The Spectrum, on the other hand, was intended ... quirky. It featured the same processor as the big boys. It was ... to prefer colour to the detail. The C64 versions just don ...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…
... lightyears ahead of the original Speccy port IMO (the background was ... about the only really decent ... Binary's efforts on the final mission, the blocks look to be ... I expected the game to come out if the Renegade boys got their ...jack and the beanstalkcan someone tell me what to do on the second screen. I never worked it out in 1985 and nothing`s changed.
... ignore it! The colour clash is the greatest in the history of Spectrum ... gaming, but it's one of the ... better game than the others in the series too. The software house ... their ad for the game at the back of the mag and ...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…
... am Cyborg - the greatest human being in the history of the world! Ok, so ... site, but I'm STILL the greatest!"Mastertronic are backThe Return of the King 20 years on, the most famous re-publisher of them all is set to return to the industry. Mastertronic will be re-launched by ga…
... i will always equate the Mastertronic brand with jizzum ...
If i remember correctly the good games were always sold ... Are there any behind the scenes reports on the history of Mastertronic [i ... .e. how they started/etc] on the ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... capable of not seeing the games the way you do, voting ... do not entirely serve the purpose of the feature very well...< ... game belongs to a contest (the history of spectrum production, for example ... !
theres the reverse of the coin.
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Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... capable of not seeing the games the way you do, voting ... do not entirely serve the purpose of the feature very well...< ... game belongs to a contest (the history of spectrum production, for example ... !
theres the reverse of the coin.
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Old/New Systems comparisonThe Teletext Magazine "Gamecentral" today (2nd September) printed a letter from someone talking about the C64's superiority to the Spectrum and how b…
... which I'm not), the fickleness of the public in general is ... ;)
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Regardless of ... not so much interested in the history, heritage or technicalities of ... that would claim to have the best machine, regardless. BBC ...Old/New Systems comparisonThe Teletext Magazine "Gamecentral" today (2nd September) printed a letter from someone talking about the C64's superiority to the Spectrum and how b…
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The PS2 (and PS1), while it ... not so much interested in the history, heritage or technicalities of games ... Spectrum and C64 gamers of the late 1980s. Perhaps those ... trouble loading programs, (b) lost the tape recorder or (c) burnt ...
