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That minigame at the start of EurekaDoes anyone else think that minigame thing you have to play before you get into Eureka is really annoying? I've had it for years but I haven't played…
Does anyone else think that minigame thing you have to play before you get into Eureka is really annoying? I've had it for years but I haven't played the game much because of it.
Is there a hack to skip past it?
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Michael Carroll, King of ChavsAnybody watch it? I don't know what was more painful - watching Keith Allen obsequiously croney up to all of Carroll's bruising mates in Blackpool i…
... to all of Carroll's bruising mates in Blackpool in order to ... the garden shed at the end.
Have to admit, the clip of ... each other in the big field at the back of one of his houses ... , while his husky-voiced rap ran in the ... -
10 Years Since The Death Of Brad NowellIt's been ten years since the May 25, 1996 death of Brad Nowell, lead singer/gutairist/songwriter for the 90's Long Beach, CA based ska-punk band Sub…
... ten years since the May 25, 1996 death of Brad Nowell, lead ... Sublime, one of the most underrated punk bands of all time. The band had ... such an impact in the short ... bands such as The Suicide Machines, and some of their fellow third ... -
Anyone know the name of...... a game which involved two motorbikes: one was black, the other white. One of them (possibly the black one) could fire rockets, while the other co…
... was black, the other white. One of them (possibly the black one) ... could fire rockets, while the other ... could drop oil slicks. The game scrolled ... upwards on the screen and you ... -
Shearer on Zidane - the voice of unreasonDid anybody see Zidane's headbutt? Jesus, I thought he was going to put his head through that other guy's chest! I wonder what the other guy said to…
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I wonder what the other guy said to him ... I f***** your mother in the a*** last night", or ... from Zidane.
The thing that made laugh even ... the Zidane incident, however, was Alan Shearer's lambasting of ... down and he let the team down. This from ... -
The cleansing of joysticks.So I bought some joysticks for my +2, and they work, but seem a little stiff in the ol' button dept. A good bit of use on Rampage loosened them abit,…
... stiff in the ol' button dept. A good bit of use on ... an old school Sinclair joystick, the other is a Cheetah, is ... -
The next batch of Cure Remasters are on their way...Deluxe two-disc editions of The Cure's albums The Top, The Head On The Door and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me will be released on the 7th of August. As wel…
... -disc editions of The Cure's albums The Top, The Head On The Door and ... Me will be released on the 7th of August. As well as ... , a two-disc edition of Blue Sunshine by The Glove (Robert Smith ... side project with Siouxsie & The Banshees) will also be released ... -
Curiosity: La Abadia del Crimen (The Abbey of crime) slightly offtopicIt is a visor of the different rooms of the game, in java. The problem is that the spectrum version doesn't appear, that's the reason why this post i…
... visor of the different rooms of the game, in java. The problem is that the spectrum ... doesn't appear, that's the reason why this post is ... a little offtopic. But as the game is a conversion between ... .html[/url]
Respect the remake... I don't see ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by ... , and it works in "descending" order. I am having difficulty ordering ... them in ascending order (Changing "jr nc,noswitch" to ... want to get them into the order "2,2,3,7,40 ... -
The bizarre cost of thingsI think the world has gone completely silly when it comes to setting the prices of things these days. I've just bought a pack of 25 HB Pencils fro…
... when it comes to setting the prices of things these days.
of 25 HB Pencils from ... , and a 10 pack of Bic Biro pens for 32p ... car, a can of Red Bull from the garage shop is £ ... something a bit strange about the way that things are priced ... -
The ZX Spectrum Book of MapsFollowing some discussion in a maps thread, I have decided to make THE ZX SPECTRUM BOOK OF MAPS - VOLUME ONE At the moment, I have the following in…
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Regarding the cost of recieving a copy, I was ... plan to spend the month of December gathering materials for the project and ... if I do before the end of December, then the book will go ... up going on to the end of April/beginning of May because that ... -
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessAfter playing this for a few days now, I must say I love this game! I've clocked up nearly nine hours of game time, and I've only just got the custo…
... to enter the first dungeon. About a third of that time ... movements, just a flick of the wrist and Link slices his ... on the Wii - just flick the nunchuk. A couple of seconds later the sword ... The puzzles are at about the right difficulty level, a bit of logical ... -
Stuck in the Storm...[FONT="System"][/FONT] I really like the Magic Knight series, but I can't seem to do much in StormBringer!:-? I've learned how to use the spell "Pa…
... Rosmar to be happy in order to summon her so that ... mentioned), a sword at the Tomb of whoever the immortal, a banana (smellable ... to after I start the game) and the advert (I've seen ... can't get on the top of Dansk the Immortal's tomb with ... -
5 albums (only) that you could only have for the rest of your lifeamebix - arise (fucking awesome heavy as fuck, paranoid anarcho nihilist punk) leftfield - leftism (perfect mix of dub and dance) snuff - snuff said …
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leftfield - leftism (perfect mix of dub and dance)
snuff ... in there and its still the best by far)
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Blowtorch method of Speccy repairsI just did my first Spectrum repair (and successful at that). It was the Issue 2 spectrum I wrote about a while ago, I just hadn't got around to doin…
... of clearing the holes was to stick the vacuum cleaner hose on the bottom of the ... splattered all over the bottom of the board, and bridged all the connections. I ... the right keyboard connector, and confirmed that was in good working order ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
Read this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and worrying) reading.
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Fun accountancy question of the week!!!Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share my latest tax problem with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair. Read this and be thankful you aren't …
... 's the first part of my answer, which matches the answer at the back of the ... given at the back of the textbook! The breakdown given at the back of the textbook is ... the answer provided in the book, is the portion of bank interest falling within the ... -
Are you a serious programmer of the Spectrum?A statement at the back of "The complete Spectrum ROM disassembly". [quote] The "Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly" is a must for all serious progra…
A statement at the back of "The complete Spectrum ROM disassembly".< ... br />
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The ... must for all serious programmers of the Spectrum.
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of this book?
the first name that game of April!I remember playing a game...but I can't seem to find it anywhere... it was a space game (and in my mind it was a 3d game...but I'm not that sure now…
... ...but I do rememeber lots of shooting...
well not ... any one knows what was the name of this game? (I think ...Fate of the Spectrum drawing board?Dear All, I thought you might be interested, or even relieved to hear that the Science Museum has agreed today to take the drawing board as a permane…
... even relieved to hear that the Science Museum has agreed ... today to take the drawing board as a ... mats and metal covers - The manufacturer of the rubber mats was a company ... mouldings', once part of the 'London Rubber Co' The Aluminium key mat ...Anybody watch Panorama tonight? About the "Church" (aka Cult!) of Scientology?If you watched Panorama tonight, you'll really enjoy this: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9bCdHqU3s[/url] BBC documentary filmed quite a fe…
... years ago, about the goings on inside the Church of Scientology in London ... comments on this documentary or the Panorama documentary shown tonight... :)The birth of JasminHi, all. I'd like to announce, that a new ZX Spectrum emulator has just been born. I called it JasminEmu. It's written entirely in Java, and makes u…
... in Java, and makes use of JOGL and JOAL libraries for ... a couple more) thanks to the Java Web Start technology.
of speed, accuracy and... well... any ...New proccessors of the future and the Speccy[url]http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201862[/url] I was very interested in the part where it said "old embedded processors nev…
... /> I was very interested in the part where it said "old ... 8051s, Z80s, and more descendants of the x86 line soldier on in ... systems."
Long live the Speccy! I want to see ... /> Make you wonder where the hardware of the future is going and what ...Ubuntu, Ubuntu they drink it in the JungleIts my usual getting bored with having the same os for 6 months syndrome. At the moment my pc works rather spiffing. Its just a bog standard lappy w…
... months syndrome.
At the moment my pc works rather ... /> After seeing an interview with the 'owner' of Ubuntu Linux, Im thinking ... they, and what would be the preferred distro. (my spec ... app delevelopment (probably in that order too))
TTFN ...What is the price of a game that never worked...I have the spanish edition of Crete 1941 (Creta 1941), in a box, instructions... all complete. But the tape never worked, it is defective. Do I hav…
I have the spanish edition of Crete 1941 (Creta 1941), in ... ... all complete.
But the tape never worked, it is ... of shit? :D :D :D :D
Honestly, I believe the ...Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…
... , with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to ... />
In order to transfer these files into ... as it emulates the DivIDE and the plus3e (tho' ... real Plus3e, some of the files I'd copied ... and things). Interestingly, the partitions are listed perfectly ...The soundtrack of the Moroder version of MetropolisI've just read the "Silent Movie" thread on this forum, and was wondering does anyone have the sound track album to the Giorgio Moroder version of th…
... anyone have the sound track album to the Giorgio Moroder version of the film ... Metropolis?
I've never heard the ... soundtrack album, though I have the film. I've read ... has partially different music to the film, and thought it ...Getting games because of the covers?I remember in my early days that i used to feel the need to get games because of the covers, and then promptly wish i hadnt!! Earliest memories are …
... used to feel the need to get games because of the covers, and ... have had duel in the title, The pyramid by fantasy and even ... sabotage(?) on the zx81.
Anyone else ... used to get excited to the point of turning to jelly because ...Manic Miner - The AlbumOKAY - WELL we all know the music used in that little known spectrum game called 'Manic Miner' is called 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Edvar…
... actual album.
The running order I have so far is ... the Hall of the Mountain King - Erasure
In the Hall of the Mountain King - The Who ...
In the Hall of the Mountain King ...Adventures on the Spectrum by Mike GerrardBack in the years of yore (1989 to be more precise) Mike Gerrard, author of the Your Sinclair adventure column, wrote a book called Adventures on the…
... precise) Mike Gerrard, author of the Your Sinclair adventure column, wrote ... off ?5 in the post in order to get a copy ... scanned and uploaded to World of Spectrum!
[ ... explaining the wonderful website World of Spectrum (complete with full scans of ...
