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Just would like to say..........Im going to bed now spec-chums :smile: To dream about Spectrums, Legend of kage, Robocop, Rodland, Bugsy, Chase HQ, Cisco Heat.... I love it when I…
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To dream about Spectrums, Legend of ... me, light is just about to come on. I will say this ... !!.......and playing Dustin! whilst listening to Hold my hand very tightly ... -
Retro Shop is going ahead!Hi! Guys, Just to let you know that the lease has been signed for new shop premises and we hope to open on the 2st March 2009. The sho…
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I would also like to 'showcase' homebrew hardware projects if ... any suggestions?
To start with there will be ... people to come down just for a 'chat' , to talk about all things retro ... and so on.
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New shop update!Hi!, Just a quick update. If things go to plan then the new shop should be open by next Monday? All through March I will have a 'clearance' sal…
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If things go to plan then the new shop ... .
So anyone close enough to come to the shop (Southborough, Kent) can ... .
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Need help making a program workAfter more than twenty years and thanks to the help of Jose Manuel (who kindly preserved the Timex 3" disks with cpdread) and John Elliot (who kindly…
... to convert those images to +3 .DSKs) I now have, among other things ... time nor the hardware to recover these things, so he left everything ... trying to get the program to work again and would love to come up ... -
Psycho ex's!Good grief chums I usually hate these threads about people's personal lives but I'm really shaken up. It's a bit of a read but I got to get it out of…
... cold wouldn't talk to work things out, but stupid me ... is alone. She tries to get him to flirt, but ain' ... - she has been engineering things for weeks (maybe months of ... />
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The Real Retromaniacs - new website now up and running!Hi everyone. As some of you may have been aware by the link in my sig, The Real Retromaniacs is now officially up and running! You can get to it her…
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We're just getting things started at the moment but ... and running, so feel free to come along, join up and also ... feedback is much appreciated. To register and get to the forums, just ... -
Poor me...Violins out everyone, I've just found out that I have diabetes. Yes, it's not a major thing, and yes many, many people are worse off than me, but I'm…
... and I'm going to have to "re-assess" ( ... food intake. Salad, things with no tastes, nothing ... very difficult addiction to overcome) to drinking full sugar ... and relatives asking me to "come and look at my ... services deteriorate in proportion to the fare increases) ... -
Timex keyboard overlay scans neededPlease take a look at these scans. I apologize if some of the links don't work at first. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. [url]http://brunof…
... br /> One gentleman already offered to scan his TS2068's keyboard ... as possible (300dpi ought to be more than enough) ... and send it to me.
... stuck or can't come up with something with ... already sells a few things to make our computers look ... -
ZX Demos and the wow factorI remember reading a few comments in the past 3 years regarding demos. Some comments included how boring it was to see this or that effect again, how…
... authors didn't even try to come up with quality material, etc ... done before? After watching certain things done by Gasman, EvilPaul, ... the Spectrum to impress. I still like to think that things can ... be done to make people ... -
Some pages from Richard Branson' autobiographyNot sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I read this and decided to type it up for others.. Points made in this are probably already know…
... Roger Seelig, who asked me to come and meet a friend of ... began to listen to music more, and Holly began to do other things. Just ... as they had turned us on to ... a number of software writers to come up with programmes for CDs ... -
DAB Radio?I don't listen to much radio, though I should (it's better than TV for many types of broadcast, and you can get on with other things whilst listening…
... get on with other things whilst listening to it, unlike TV where ... DAB radio manufacturers seemed to expect people to through away their old ... so who's going to want to reduce the usable time of ... college, our morning post used to come before I left for college ... -
Bargain - ?15m and the Pope will call roundHis Holiness the Pope, former Nazi youth and leader of the richest organization in history (in terms of both wealth and land ownage), is visiting Br…
... the Catholic church, who claim to be his Earthly representatives, ... 's population are starving to death. To say nothing of support ... entirely different things, so views about God are irrelevent to this ... is all any religion is) to come here, especially when that ... -
So you need to double (or triple, or quadruple) the clock speed...No particular reason for posting this, other than I was looking at an eZ80 evaluation board that does this, and that jogged my memory of a project I'…
... save them from having to solder things to their Speccy motherboard. So ... recommend you use one for things like this since they ... it's interesting to understand how these things work. The phase ... - effectively a simple digital to analogue converter (see some of ... -
FA: ZX Spectrum 128k - Boxed with accessories and gameJust found this awesome little treasure trove of a website! I'm selling my ZX Spectrum 128k (heatsink version) and thought I'd put a notice up in he…
... true lovers of all things Speccy get to see it.
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As it was free to auction yesterday so I shoved ... the original one was starting to play up. I did ... manage to fix it but it ... running reliably for many years to come.
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Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... racket! And to think, before the Dizzy games had come along and ... . Bad days indeed, but now things were *so* different.
< ... would be almost certain to come to their senses, and to guard against this ... and jump over buses and things. He can change into that ... -
Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... racket! And to think, before the Dizzy games had come along and ... known that this day would come. One day, the poor mugs ... would be almost certain to come to their senses, and to guard against this ... very fast and jump over things (buses and stuff), and so ... -
Covering your hardware...Hey, you WoSsers remember "back in the day" people would have special covers for their printers(typewriters) or even computers? I remember these din…
... like it tonnes so want to keep it clean and dust ... . My collection of typewriters all come with covers so I don ... 't have to implement any special considerations there ... had to come up with this search-string to weed out irrelevant things:
Fao dmboozefreekIf you've been following the news recently, you know that even Mr. DMBooze Freek's horoscope says he's cocky. However, you might not know that DMBooz…
... present way of thinking and come to realize that if I recall ... truth is that DMBooze may come to represent the most insidious corruption ... he really believe such birdbrained things? To answer that rhetorical question let ...The best Explorer (file manager, not browser) replacement for Windows?There's a stack of utilities that claim to make Windows faster, or more reliable, or easier to use, but one type I've never really bothered with is t…
... of utilities that claim to make Windows faster, or ... more reliable, or easier to use, but one type ... command line aphobic people to come to terms with the lack ... wanted it to, with no problems. The only things offhand ... files across from one to the another (or too ...Did anyone forsee the internet?I was just wondering, given how much the internet has changed everyday life, did anyone actually forsee any of it in the pre-internet days? I mean, …
... , most of which fail to come true at all.
... virtual online markets, talk to anyone via text/audio ... online dating, musicians trying to get noticed allow their ... least a list of things that other people have ...
For all these things, and for so much more ...How do 3D earphones work?Something I've wondered before is how 3D headphones work. Has anyone ever tried them? To be exact, it's not the earphones that are 3D, it's the littl…
... (i.e. the sound seeming to come from a spacial direction) is ... the boxes where you have to supply the earphones separately, which ... with ones that are uncomfortable to wear.
The ... images are two entriely diferent things, I'm just saying that ...New tellyIt's fair to say that I know nothing about new televisions...I mean I have no idea which is best between Plasma, LCD, LED, hubble telescope etc... I…
It's fair to say that I know nothing ... price of other types has come down a lot. I've ... ?
Any gotchas or other things to take care about?
Any ...Newbie's development thoughts.Just wanted to thank WOS development forum regulars, for the amazing information etc contained within these pages. 20+ years ago a did a little asse…
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Returning to it now, thanks to reading these forums ( ... new ways of doing things I just wouldn't ... through JC's "How To Write ZX Spectrum Games" ... , I am going to have to start looking at graphics ... there are more to come (and more routines to steal) yet.< ...Modified 8x8 Font...Hi Folks, I am trying to come up with a good looking font for the Spectrum. I have looked at the BBC Micro font, Apple Mac etc. and so far I have: …
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I am trying to come up with a good looking ... know of any issues or things I have wrong.
I'm being sued...3 months ago I interviewed an old man who used to be important for the portuguese movie industry... I had a couple of conversations with him, all ve…
... , so I had to go to his personal archive to get them...
to his photo archive to get the pictures ... /> now the interview was finally to come out and the granddaughter asked ... making acusations that I wrote things that he did not say ...world war 2 tweetssome fella is tweeting like its 1939 [url]https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII[/url] everyday he will be posting things that historically happened, …
... /> everyday he will be posting things that historically happened, on the ... 1939, and for 6 years to come.'Our cat...The missus got back from the vet 2 hours ago and it might not be good news for our 15 year old cat. He's had a cough/hack since the start of decembe…
... . He was given tablets to clear up his lungs. ... always tried to find the easiest ways to do things. Instead of ... then a medium jump over to the bunker. We always ... social smoker but due to health problems myself I ... him for a long time to come. Wish I hadn't ...Looking for a JoystickNormally I would suggest to everyone that they use keys (in both PC and Spectrum gaming), however my spectrum is hooked up to a 42" tv and being so c…
Normally I would suggest to everyone that they use keys ( ... my spectrum is hooked up to a 42" tv and being ... seems they're not easy to come by (at least not around ... willing to flog me? I'm not bad at fixing things, so ...HMV, Game, and Gamestation to close down?Has anyone heard if the (British?) shops HMV, Game, Gamestation and maybe others are to close down? A bloke at work today claimed he'd been told by a…
... taking a very long time to come out, but another bloke ... on March 1st, redirecting customers to Gamestation instead.
... , and look forward to welcoming them to the growing community at ... gamestation.co.uk." - Game Spokesperson to MCV
35 ...Laser Squad cheats and mods requestBefore anyone (or Grussu) says "Why would you spoil such a great game with cheats?", I'll just say "Because it's fun". :-P I'm feeling like doing a …
... a few things that are not supposed to be possible ... What do I need to do to prevent Sterner Regnix ... difficult? I would like to increase scenario #1' ... house and force the enemies to come out.
... I need to be able to blast everything to smithereens with ...
