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  • Hey Hey 16K style animations? Any more?I've seen some .swf (or whatever they are) animations before, though Hey Hey 16K is by far the best. Anyway, I was wondering if there was a WWW site …

    ... DO hate the A8; or a little bit of both.
    they existed until a couple of years ago ... , and I have no idea what they ... 't know how may units they sold, I just made that bit ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2005 Chit chat
  • Gamestation in Leeds has Speccy stuff (bizarrely)The gamestation in leeds near the market currently has a mint Speccy 128k +2 with 2 joysticks, a mint cond. manual and 100 games (all with box and in…

    ... so on, plus you get a warranty of sorts.

    sold already! last time i went in they hardly had ... anymore, don't know if they sold them all or what, but ... they had tonnes of sega saturn ... really in leeds, which is a shame.
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere December 2005 Sales
  • Gamestation in Leeds has Speccy stuff (bizarrely)The gamestation in leeds near the market currently has a mint Speccy 128k +2 with 2 joysticks, a mint cond. manual and 100 games (all with box and in…

    ... time i went in they had loads of master ... stuff, and a fair bit of megadrive, but they've revamped ... its partly driven by what they get their hands on, ... i'd be surprised if they sold 40+ megadrive and master ... system games in a month or so between ...
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere January 2006 Sales
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... , games stacked up everywhere - but they sold games cheaper than anywhere else ... (and if you took a copy of one of their ... YS or SU in, they gave you a discount).

    Ah ...
    RandySparks RandySparks January 2006 Games
  • Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…

    ... than that it was sold with a monitor and that the ... called seemed to last a bit longer than the ... my parents think it was a word processing system and ... reports that the 664 sold over a million in 1986 (I think ... my opinion the CPC was a very good computer and ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Brand-spanking new(looking) C5 up on eBay.[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-C5-Car-80s-Retro-Batterycar_W0QQitemZ6599231837QQcategoryZ4150QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sincla…

    ... />
    You don't need a million. You can get them from ... /> It needs new tyres though. They will only last 20 years ...
    Geoff Geoff January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nokia 770 == Spectrum +4?I know it isn't, but it *feels* like a Sinclair product, and in the good way. A wonderful little gadget that screams "have a play around and have fu…

    ... . When they sold out worldwide within a couple of days they realised they'd better ... sell this "properly"! There are a couple ... , but I don't think they've done anything in Europe ...
    NickH NickH January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Boxed Game and Watches up for Grabs this time :)[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…

    ... not so demaining/important and they will have more spare money ... promise of that BJ when they sold didnt materalise, so what the ... art. and as such raise a very good price, beyond inflation ... k if not more, and they just dont appear too often :(
    Cornishdavey:)) Cornishdavey:)) March 2006 Sales
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... , games stacked up everywhere - but they sold games cheaper than anywhere else ... (and if you took a copy of one of their ... YS or SU in, they gave you a discount).

    Ah ... run it used to be a right miserable bald chuffer (but ...
    xenomorph xenomorph March 2006 Games
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... , games stacked up everywhere - but they sold games cheaper than anywhere else ... (and if you took a copy of one of their ... YS or SU in, they gave you a discount).

    Ah ... remember them, also there was a great shop in Cheadle had ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) March 2006 Games
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... same name in Cambridge, were they a small chain of shops perhaps ... />
    I never realised they were a chain, but there was one ... until 1999 when the bit they'd redeveloped thirteen years ... town called Zedems which mainly sold peripherals and did repairs (much ...
    lee_prince lee_prince March 2006 Games
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... 1990's ('98 I think) they sold off their 8bit and amiga ... really cheap, and in 2004, they closed their doors forever (muffled ... )

    I remember when a rival shop set up opposite ... removed before mid day, or they'd close the place down ...
    Graz Graz April 2006 Games
  • Ref. Takashit64's "My Own Home Computer"WTF is an "intelligent LED"? :roll: And how does one construct an LED anyway -- an LED-based illuminator perhaps, but surely an actual LED is somewha…

    ... retro stuff from as they have a nice supply of ... />
    However they've had a C64 in a cabinet there for ... commodore tape deck. They've never sold it and in the ... quid to 160. They also have a CPC which looks ... 's been dragged through a maggot farm backwards then ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amazon charge a fortune to use Z-SHOPSI sold a Dr Who vhs video ( The Face Of Evil ) using Amazon just to see how much they charge for using their service, I sold the video for &#163;7.99…

    [QUOTE=swordheart]I sold a Dr Who vhs video ( The ... how much they charge for using their service, I sold the video ... for ?7.99 and Amazon add on a set ...
    mel the bell mel the bell May 2006 Chit chat
  • Memorable game demisesHi, No, not demises in games...demises OF games. I can remember three of my games meeting their fate in an unnecessary way Battle of the Planets -…

    ... QUOTE=Wolverine]I've snapped a Half Life CD in two ... I once tried to break a CD in two; the ... suddenly bang, it broke in a million little pieces. I spent ... two; that was easy, they seemed to be made of ... cardboad. I also destroyed a Donkey Kong handheld game ( ...
    cascarria cascarria May 2006 Games
  • This is the bike that I am going to buy. Sale agreed![url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Car/bike.jpg[/url] A friend of mine is going to sell me his Honda 600cc, this is a picture of it…

    ... fun to ride so I sold it :-)

    ... Sure they have a bit of power being a 1200, and they have ... spades of torque too.
    But they ... aren't a sports bike, so ... them differently.
    Being a little on the heavy ...
    Kiwi Kiwi May 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…

    ... be sold in a similar way the Spectrum was sold: a low- ... it's just a fact that they're going to ... the consoles at cost - they all do - in order ... Spectrum Sony therefore has a vested interest in ensuring ... systems. My PS2 has a net connection and USB - ...
    cyborg cyborg June 2006 Chit chat
  • Why so many disk systems?Why did the Speccy have so many floppy disk systems like wafadrive, tr-dos, +3disk, and many more? As far as I can see, this did nothing but create …

    ... could have chosen. They used it cos they had used it ... checked this). If only they gone down the industry standard ... read somewhere Sir Alan had a million 3" drives he needed ... CPC/+3 machines (yes, they came out as single ... .5" floppy drive to a +3 quite easily and ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • David Hasselhoff - Jump in my CarYes folks, it's another smash hit from the pill-popping, alcoholic, manic-depressive Hoffmeister himself: [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc…

    ... Germany the Hoff sold a ton of records, had sold out concerts and ... so long. I put on a fake accent to pretend i ... call me 'roast beef' (which they find so funny) i'll ...
    psj3809 psj3809 July 2006 Chit chat
  • Joystick compatibility on the +2AHey folks, now my +2A is working, I decided to find some more problems (not really...I didn't "decide"! :( ), basically the joysticks won't work prop…

    I'm absolute pap with electronics really, but thanks for the replies. As it happens a guy sold a cheeter and sinclair joystick that he used in a +2 on ebay for £2 so hopefully they'll be ok! :)
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere July 2006 Hardware
  • How much can Sir Clive be credited for ?This may sound like the old Norwegian saying "To swear in church", but I wonder: - Sir Clive is credited for inventing lots of stuff. But when I re…

    ... engineering cos they had to do things a bit clever ... i.e in the Speccy they bought bad 32k memory ... a few years ago. When he sold to Amstrad, he sold ... the lot EXCEPT the name. He retains Sinclair as a ... on the work. They do a lot of engineering clever ...
    Count Count July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Large collection going under the hammer!!This is really painful! [url]http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZcountvonschmellQQhtZ-1[/url] Having moved house, I'm now in somewhere far smaller,…

    ... last week cos they had a 5p listing day)< ... .

    They are running a pretty unique service and ... of competition means that they and eBay can charge ... an eBAy company afterall. So they winwin.

    ... item have sold, and the half that sold have made ...
    Count Count July 2006 Sales
  • What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …

    ... sold a few on ebay a while back because I had 10, they got ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • You heathens...[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&item=270010111371&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1[/url] Just thought the Cornish D…

    ... not a million miles away from this item.

    They sell what ... have as much culture as a failed petri dish experiment i ...
    ADJB ADJB July 2006 Chit chat
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... NCSA had no idea that they had done this, but suddenly ... which point they took an interest.

    After a couple ... company to reverse engineer what they had already created and ... they needed a browser fast - NCSA were struggling with demand so they sold ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty July 2006 Games
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... wasn't a lot of people at the time; they sold something like ... sure, but it hardly represents a watershed and I doubt it ... obvious ones, but there are a whole heap of attitude-related ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... of the copyrights. They are basically still working ... 8-bitters wont they seem a bit flat and ... /> But then again... they might be a perfect marriage! The console ... called 'Windows Compatible'. They can only set guidlines ... -Box 360 is sold at a loss and the ...
    Count Count August 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... and it was only because they sold so strongly that third party ... , some of the early games sold in the hundreds of thousands ... despite there being a comparatively small user base at ... continued to sell, there was a glut of games on the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... wasn't quite conceived as a business machine, but it ... apps. I'd guess they felt there was an ... to fit in, so they tried a different non-existent niche ... that at that price they were basically being dumped, ... at that price. They could have sold it at that price ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... of Timex's circumstances. They were a sinking ship at the time ... I think they pocketed around $5 for every TS1000 sold even when ... it was only a couple more years until they self destructed ... themselves with a series of flops ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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