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  • The best modern(ish) RPG/FPS (and Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4 discussion too).What's the best first person shooter/RPG game on the XBox 360 (well, on the PC or PS3 too, as most big name games are cross platform now, so if you p…

    ... it was more of the same. Some of the improvements were very welcome ... has been sent to rescue Elizabeth, a young woman imprisoned in ... and amongst the clouds, and harness the power of dozens of new ... not so sure that the idea of a flying city, especially in ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2010 Chit chat
  • .POK collection?Greetings, everyone! I enjoy pokes for Spectrum games, but sometimes before playing a game I need to couple through the-tipshop.co.uk to find the pok…

    ... Roadrunner, Robin Of The Wood, Sacred Armour of Antiriad, The and Superman - ... Azteken, Kyd Cadet II: The Rescue of Pobbleflu, Jumping Jack, Horace ... done another version of the database: all the pokes are sorted ... by letter with a POKES ...
    Lady Eklipse Lady Eklipse November 2010 Games
  • Mr Beep / ipod gameCongrats to Mr Beep who did the music for a new ipod game... Air Supply The game looks very old skool with simple 80's style graphics, plus with th…

    ... also if you fall off the side of a platform it counts as ... one jump and you can use the ... double jump to rescue yourself. Love the flying saucer ... of the amount of time I've spent playing it in the first week of ...
    Refrenz Refrenz March 2011 Announcements
  • Mr Beep / ipod gameCongrats to Mr Beep who did the music for a new ipod game... Air Supply The game looks very old skool with simple 80's style graphics, plus with th…

    ... also if you fall off the side of a platform it counts as ... one jump and you can use the ... double jump to rescue yourself. Love the flying saucer ... of the amount of time I've spent playing it in the first week of ...
    quantumsheep quantumsheep March 2011 Announcements
  • Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!.Hi all Just got up and heard this on the news,still can't beleive this.After all these years he got his come-uppance.Wonder what will this mean for …

    ... version of events as a frank and honest portrayal of the facts. The Americans have a ... rich history of making stuff ... up to suit themselves, for example the rescue of ...
    ccowley ccowley May 2011 Chit chat
  • Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!.Hi all Just got up and heard this on the news,still can't beleive this.After all these years he got his come-uppance.Wonder what will this mean for …

    ... version of events as a frank and honest portrayal of the facts. The Americans have a ... rich history of making stuff ... up to suit themselves, for example the rescue of ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2011 Chit chat
  • Meanwhile... in Fikee's insane mindHere are some ideas im playing with in my mind: [B]#1 Stickman virtua fighter[/B] stickmans from international 3d tennis kicking each other [B]#2 T…

    ... of this game appealed to you?.. The style of locations, the interface, the way of presenting the ... Personally, I rather like the idea of a survival horror game, ... based on something like Rescue, with dark graphic ... perhaps... Would be a bit of a curious mix, but ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil June 2011 New game ideas
  • 'screw' in modulatorI had 'used a metal screwdriver on it' (to quote the guesser from other thread) and broke it. what is the replacement part? are there plastic screwdr…

    ... and brittle at the best of times but the sharp edge of a screwdriver can ... interfere with the tuning of a circuit when you touch the adjuster like a metal ... /> what is the name of it? it looks like variable coil to me ...
    orange orange December 2011 Hardware
  • speccy sound input sensivityis there a way to increase sound input sensivity of 48K spectrums? As most of us trying to transfer tape files to spectrum via our onboard soundcard…

    ... either a transformator - a 4:1 would do the job if the low impedance coil ... is connected to the speakers ... of the speccy. Diodes LEDs parallel to this line could lower the risk of a ...
    ingo ingo January 2012 Hardware
  • How the DC-DC converter worksI've not seen this before. The DCC-DC converter inside the Speccy has always been quite a mistery for me: [url]http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/arch…

    ... to have a closer look. I agree the topology isn ... that the material of the coil's core preferred a frequency in the range of 50 ... KHz.
    You've got me curious about the ... waveforms now, the idea of a quenching oscillator ...
    roko roko May 2012 Hardware
  • The rescue of a coil.The problem at hand was a known defect transformer from the switching convertor inside a Spectrum. Both windings are not interrupted and not intercon…

    Where can I get 0.3mm dynamo coil? I am in the situation of a blown TR4 and I think it might be the transformer since any replacement i put there blows within seconds. However, there is no connection between primary and secondary wiring in the coil.
    Johan1973 Johan1973 May 2012 Hardware
  • Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…

    ... the bottom of a toilet basin (in much the same way, no doubt, that the ... considers the colour scheme of the ZX to be something pulled straight out of a ... things about a game)...
    6) Id take inspiration from Rescue to ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil October 2012 Games
  • 'Minimal' game boxesHas there ever been a game where the cassette box was more 'minimal' than: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/g/GoToHell.jp…

    ... , and rescue them.

    The game takes the form of a complex maze. The walls ... expecting a game that would reflect the same. Wrong. With lots of nasties ... certainly a very unusual game, full of very strange graphics. Movement round the ...
    Grunaki Grunaki October 2012 Games
  • One more grey +2 with video problemsI guess I need your help again to hopefully be able to do some proper troubleshooting myself one day. Here I have a grey +2, which could be a bottom…

    ... flowing in the primary winding, a current is induced into the coil of wire that ... forms the secondary ... is a short circuit fault between different (parts of) the coil (winding) of the wire forming the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2013 Hardware
  • My Rendition of Horace to the RescueHi Spectrum World, I have spent the last 2 month writing my rendition of Horace to the Rescue. Horace to the Rescue was a planned game but it was ne…

    ... the last 2 month writing my rendition of Horace to the Rescue. Horace to the Rescue ... was a planned game ... my version of Horace to the Rescue on the same formula as the original released ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore December 2013 Brand new software
  • 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…

    ... ]If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was my ... in and making you rescue someone from a jail in order to ... a random character and letting the leader of a group out (I've got the ... guy" character has gone out of the window :lol: [/spoiler]

    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob July 2014 Chit chat
  • ZX Spectrum 48K Issue 3, loss of -5V rail.Hi all, I've googled this problem and poured over the electrical diagrams for the circuitry concerning the power supplies and I believe I know what …

    ... , then it's the coil or a RAM chip. Change the coil next - it's ... ]possible[/i] that with the aid of a graphical test ROM you may ... obviously bad.

    Change the electrolytics first, then the coil, though.
    Spirantho Spirantho August 2014 Hardware
  • Jet Set Willy Walkthrough with commentaryHi All My latest walkthrough is on your tube: [URL="http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo"]http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo[/URL] This time it is Jet Set Willy, w…

    ... games again. I had a hunch the yellow baddie needed to ... ;791130]
    always found the nightmare room impossible, don't ... Ballroom East from Rescue Esmerelda either, that was a minor revelation< ... br />
    Cool that was the idea of a friend of mine at work.
    saberman saberman September 2014 Games
  • 'Interesting' Issue 2 modSo I've been lurking on this forum for a while and I've got to the point where I want to see if I can repair a speccy.. so I bought me a 'broken' one…

    ... removed, there is no longer the chance of a missing -5V supply causing ... further damage, as the chips that need ... of the state of TR4, TR5 and the coil. If TR4, TR5 or the coil is faulty, the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2014 Hardware
  • Studio Ghibli ReviewsThis thread covers my short reviews of the films from Studio Ghibli, the most revered and well-known anime studio in Japan - and related films. The l…

    ... , who seems to be under the influence of a strange demon named Grunwald ... discovers the source of the World's counterfeit money and must rescue the girl while ... the forest by destroying the source of the Sea of Decay, despite opposition from a legion of ...
    Swevicus Swevicus November 2014 Chit chat
  • Looking for Ikari-like game, seemingly called Hold FireUnfortunately, cant find such name among the games in the catalogue. Can anyone recall any games like Commando or Ikari?

    ... net ... Here's a list of vertically scrolling walking/run' ... />
    most of which never saw the inside of a Spectrum.

    Rescue, SD Gundam Psycho Salamander no ...
    until 12th December, when the site is closing down.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2014 Games
  • Saturday 6th December: "Geek Out!" + Oxford Speccy meetupHello folks. Who's up for a meetup in Oxford on Saturday 6th December, with a bit of a twist? I've been in discussions with the [url=http://www.mhs.…

    ... Owen came to the rescue with a selection box of ROM cartridge interfaces ... well as the biggest "aww YISS" moment of the day - helping a kid ... may have lost 2-3 of the channels to audio glitches ... one of the Spectrums didn't actually have a ROM), but the overall ...
    gasman gasman December 2014 Announcements
  • Elite missions triggers.So I started playing Elite for the Spectrum, not going for the "Elite" rating or anything but I thought it would be fun to at least do the missions. …

    ... /> [code]
    Does the Speccy version include any of the secret missions, such ... trench... sorry - wrong game!) rescue the crew of a
    Space Station whose sun ... /> into the next Galaxy.

    Mission 2 involves a bunch of ships ...
    tomas tomas February 2015 Games
  • Some Spectrum Adventure ReviewsHi, HeeHee... Today I found some old short reviews I did of some Spectrum Adventures for contributions to "SynTax" disk adventure magazine in the 19…

    ... to acquire the things I needed and with the help of a few< ... br /> tricks a la 'Alice Through ... /> way into the nearby village. You will have to rescue a girl who ... is
    being burnt at the stake, exorcise a ...
    catventure catventure March 2015 Games
  • Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …

    ... the base of a Maplin box and can be screwed down into the base of ... which will secure both the PCB and the coil block.

    3 ... ) I have planed down the dowel ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio May 2016 Hardware
  • My favourite b-list gamesBack in my Spectrum days I had a BASF tape. Onto this tape went all my favourite games as the years went by. It started off with Manic Miner, then Ha…

    ... . One of my favourite little-known games is "Raid" from The Korth ... had some of those Korth games.. I got them from the Puffin ... great, but then the games sucked.. I read the books, but they ... holes in the wall and rescue a guy from a cell in the middle of a maze ...
    Grunaki Grunaki May 2016 Games
  • Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.

    ... still be powering the transformer.

    2. The lack of a reset button ... , placing excess wear on the power plug ... one line.

    4.The 'coil' er 'noise' seemed to be ...
    spider spider October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Favourite Horace game?Which one was your favourite? Hungry Horace? Horace Goes Skiing? Horace & the Spiders? [img]http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/Thirdharm…

    ... Horace to the Rescue had a lot of the original graphics.

    The sprite movement ... in the originals had a ... a platformer you'd obviously have to use the jerky jump style of the ...
    Morkin Morkin October 2016 Games
  • New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…

    ... to the rescue of their base.
    As for increasing the number of sprites at the ... may be possible to give the illusion of this by destroying sprites ... when getting into a cloud and would reappear at the other side ...
    hikoki hikoki February 2017 Brand new software
  • New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…

    ... the rescue of their base.
    As for increasing the number of sprites at the ... be possible to give the illusion of this by destroying sprites ... getting into a cloud and would reappear at the other side ... That’s a . . . tall order. But I like the way you ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore February 2017 Brand new software
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