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  • 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…

    ... the TS1000 selling more than a million machines. It *was* well received ... many of them saw over a few months of use anyway ... ? There are at least a hundred TS1000s on ebay every ... more should tell you something. They saw no use or 1 ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Stupid SuperstitionFive minutes ago in the office, one of my female work colleagues was working away at the desk opposite. I was just in the middle of typing a reply on…

    ... appreciation thread - there was a story in the early 80s ... ; now I know where they got that name from. ... stupid - an inventor builds a computer with 1,000,000 ... number between 1 and a million which would select the ... was Death Wish, with a guy called Blake Edwards ...
    Spector Spector September 2006 Chit chat
  • Which emu?I'm running a rather old version of ZX32 and was wondering what emulators (for PC) you guys use? I've heard good things about Spectaculator and don…

    ... it? And THAT'S from a C64 boy. Just for the ... /> WEC Le Mans

    They're the ones that have ... ; although I suspect i'm a little too old to get ... People on the Spectrum, as they are far better on the ... (plus some rubbish ones when they sold out to U.S. Gold ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Emulators
  • These sounded great...Torstum's post about a hypthetical new micro-computer (on this forum) reminded me of something, but rather than post in that thread, I thought I'd ma…

    ... , they almost sort of work, but not quite. You get a splitting ... use and it's about a million times worse if you don ... /> I think we still have a pair of them around here ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... it. Not to mention they did a redesign and it's cheaper ... all a big part of what sold it.

    Sticking a ... 128K Spectrum board into a modified ... not really sold on extra graphics modes either; they'd require a major ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…

    What was the going rate for a quarter of a million spectrum games? And how the hell did they move it?
    Womble Womble October 2006 Games
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... many were produced starting out. They wanted to produce 200,000 ... the first year and they didn't even come close ... sites claiming that 200,000 sold a month but I haven't ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... more C64's have been sold in the last couple years ... and it's still being sold today.[/quote]
    Well, if ... would go more for a PC and they had a clone of the ... 8088 too. I'm sure they ... this isn't turning into a computer war thread!
    bcass bcass October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)

    ... (no suprises what they sold.) once they ran a competition on the ... back of the little paper bags they ... used to give you, for the game. It was a ... the feeling of getting a mail order game ... down. and there was a copy of 'question ...
    mile mile October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Car ServicingJust got my Car service Oil, Filters and Plugs. Cost me 70 squids...... Is that a fair price or have I been ripped off?? PS: I own a Ford Focus

    ... I had an unusual car - a Talbot Tagora

    a local garage. They said "Mmm.... ... be expensive - expect a couple of hundred quid ... for 2 weeks, they still hadn't fixed ... a fairly common Peugeot/Chrysler part or something similar, and they sold ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2006 Chit chat
  • Total Worldwide Sales?Does anyone have an accurate source showing total Worldwide sales for the ZX Spectrum (all models, incl. Timex)? I notice the Wikipedia entry for th…

    ... Amstrad website that they claim the CPC sold 3 million in total. We ... be substantially more than 3 million:

    [url]http://www ...
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Andrew Oliver: "The Dizzy games were rubbish"I think he's going to regret saying this when they start trying to reissue the old games and/or issue a new game in the series: [url]http://www.euro…

    To be honest i was never really a fan of Dizzy but i wouldn't say they were rubbish, the only one i liked was Treasure Island Dizzy, but they sold by the truckload. I think there was a remake on a console a few years ago but i might be wrong.
    zx1 zx1 October 2006 Games
  • MTV Boyband - Upper StreetNow before i start i cant stand pop music specially manufactured boy bands ! A while back they had a documentary following the talentless Lisa Scott…

    ... , a lot of good indie stuff but then its like they 'sold out ... thinking theyre so talented that they reached #35 !
    psj3809 psj3809 October 2006 Chit chat
  • Alittle pic of the two different rubber key mats Grey and BlueAnd they are naked too :o Can someone please post a pic of one of the supposed faun coloured speccys i am desperate to see one :) [url]http://www.s…

    ... t believe there ever was a faun keyboard, its mentioned ... sites, that there is a faun colour version of ... some one would have sold a faun speccy by now.[/ ... Incidentally, do you have a link to that site?

    If they didn't, then my issue ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy Film/TV License that bears the least similarity to its sourceI was thinking earlier today about the computer game version of [i]Jaws[/i] that was published in 1989 or thereabouts and has pretty much nothing to …

    ... Escape even meant to be a tie-in? I don't ... /> But as a consumer buying a computer game set in a German WWII ... />
    You have to admit they sold the game based on peoples ...
    WISE OWL WISE OWL November 2006 Games
  • Troll, Troll, Troll-ity, Troll ... It's Everyone's Favourite Troll ...We've had a lot of "memorable" visitors to the forums over the years so, as it's almost bedtime and my mind fills with peculiar, random thoughts, I b…

    ... popular across Europe, so they have a lot more potential retro- ... , but those joystick emulators sold in the UK have to ... 20 years ago so they're very rare and ... big IF I know), it sold, it would be economical, yes ... like ?20,000 a year, and they're not even having ...
    DEATH DEATH November 2006 Chit chat
  • Which next gen. console will you be getting?I'll be going for the Wii myself. Mainly because of the unique quality games for it, eg the Zelda franchise. The innovative controller, cheap price…

    ... 454K figure is for a *game*, not a console, if you ... anyone would agree that a game selling over 450, ... If you don't think a total sell out of 600 ... thats horse twaddle. they havent been sold out in Walmart ... units....did they drop that so low as they sold out at ...
    beanz beanz November 2006 Chit chat
  • Manic Miner Marathon!!For anybody wanting world fame, I was just checking Twin Galaxies (the most recognised record of high scores ever!) and discovered that there are lo…

    If they accept AIR files as proof ( ... find out) then there's a recording floating around somewhere of ... a million (I think) points, from one of the Speccy Tours. If they ...
    gasman gasman December 2006 Games
  • Mayhem Accelerator - Prototype Complete [Sam CoupI am now pleased to announce that on the 8th June the prototype of the Mayhem Accelerator was finally completed. With work on the accelerator start…

    ... beasts could shunt just under a million bytes-per-second (complete ... a 6809 and a nibble-per-pixel bitmap - no blitters. They ... still had separate sound hardware though.

    A ... :roll:

    Perhaps a clone - written from scratch - would ...
    Chris P Chris P December 2006 Announcements
  • Phantomasa, new ZX Spectrum gameWe are proud to announce the release of a new Spectrum game! Phantomasa!, a platform game that combines puzzle and hability. You can download it (f…

    ... properly yet but so far they look good. And no, not ... Thank god you have about a million lives, but I've figured ... some emulators that can cause a problem -- simply turn off the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Games
  • "The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […

    ... ll have filled a thousand Galaxies. In a thousand years, a million Galaxies. In ... the question of the report they were to make to ... suspension over the eons. Sometimes they roused for material activity but ... star is dead."

    "They must all die. Why not ...
    Daren Daren January 2007 Chit chat
  • American ParanoiaI just had to write about this: Yesterday, Jan. 31, a bunch of suspicious light emiting packages were found in Boston, MA: LED magnetic lights with a…

    ... advertising was on a british radio show. they ran a thing called ' ... flirt divert' where they gave out a mobile ... .

    so they played a message, and it went something ... and the drinks are sold at a resonable rate too.'
    mile mile February 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... were higher but spread over a million units meant nothing.
    ... by someone else unless they too are developing under ... , etc constraints. Only a system desgined from ground up ... am not so sure they will come down to ... from where they are now that they will be ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Chit chat
  • What is this ?I found something named Amstrad NC 200 on Ebay. [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-AMSTRAD-NC-200-NC200-NOTEBOOK-LAPTOP-NC-200-200NC_W0QQitemZ22008088639…

    ... .


    even had a phone call from jim bowen ... fame) ring me and have a fit because his one had ... me.

    looked a bit like a toy really with the ... not done it.. but yes they sold by the bucket load
    andy_st200 andy_st200 February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Ultimate Play The Game prize trophies....where are they now?Looking back over some back issues of Crash the other night it struck me that those lovely trophies that Ultimate gave out as prizes for mapping thei…

    I wrote to Ultimate asking them if they sold any t shirts or baseball caps like the ones the competition winners received.

    They sent me a lovely reply on beautiful UPTG headed paper basically saying that they were only for the comp winners.
    sully sully February 2007 Games
  • The Ultimate Play The Game prize trophies....where are they now?Looking back over some back issues of Crash the other night it struck me that those lovely trophies that Ultimate gave out as prizes for mapping thei…

    ... to Ultimate asking them if they sold any t shirts or baseball ... winners received.

    They sent me a lovely reply on beautiful ... asked for some posters. They sent me a UPTG T-Shirt, posters ...
    ChuckieEgg ChuckieEgg February 2007 Games
  • Why are there no adult British cartoons?I don't mean adult as in sexy/smutty/erotic etc, but adult as in [I]The Simpsons[/I] or [I]Family Gu[/I]y style, where they appeal on different level…

    ... ; Gromit film was $40 million, and they took a year just to do ... of the audience so they only have a fraction of the budget ... Fawlty Towers episodes, they wanted to put a lot of effort into ... was great too, until they added a laughter track which made it ...
    udgoverload udgoverload February 2007 Chit chat
  • Why are there no adult British cartoons?I don't mean adult as in sexy/smutty/erotic etc, but adult as in [I]The Simpsons[/I] or [I]Family Gu[/I]y style, where they appeal on different level…

    ... ; Gromit film was $40 million, and they took a year just to do ... the scene where they meet in ... like Wallace and Gromit takes a huge amount of resources, yes ... on a shoestring in a few days, which is how they manage to ...
    gasman gasman February 2007 Chit chat
  • Driving/Racing from and 'onthetrack' viewIts poll time. Pick the selection of these you like best. None of these take the overhead view. and there are no strategy/manager games in the poll.…

    ... =thx1138;173978]I voted for a few games including Full Throttle ... wonder if it's not a different game I was thinking ... when Mastertronic re-released it they changed the name. Most people ... gather that it still sold a heck of a lot of copies. It ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... all this way before as they all jumped ship ( ... going under was a big reason why they lost interest. ... well the Sam sold - and of course a lot of potential ... before they bought a Sam. It was a bit of a vicious ... launched. If they had got them a few months before ...
    Quazar Quazar March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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