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The Press Are Rather UnderhandedI was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but I'll let you judge for yourselves. The News of the World has a story on it's site going on a…
... yourselves.
The News of the World has a story ... doorstep and talks to her through the intercom using probing questions designed ... , who has all the opportunity in the world to coin it ... this dude talking to her through the intercom is full well aware ... -
3D engines and the ZX SpectrumCastle Master's engine, [I]Freescape[/I], is described as the first proprietary 3D computer engine on the Wikipedia. I have a few problems with this…
... the first known case of a company actively promoting their games through ... promoting their games through the technology used (the One marketing aspect ... was used in the development of the sequel and apparently ... If anything Freescape was the first 3D engine widely ... -
Speech reproduction on the Speccy - 2009 style?Thanks to Chapter 33 of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000388"]Super Charge Your Spectrum[/url] by David Webb - "Speech Repr…
... then play them back through the speaker at the same rate as they ... ] allowed you to easily change the sampling rate, too - which ... d relive this experience in the 21st century with pre- ... expect a full explanation of the required algorithm complete with pseudo ... -
Wii Sports is the best selling game of all time!To quote: [url]http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2724[/url] "[B]Wii Sports has now passed lifetime sales of Super Mario Bros (NES) to become the…
... Including VGChartz software data for the week ending 27th December 2008 ... selling videogame of all time. The game, bundled in every ... have a machine that sells through the roof. A lot of Wiis ...
* Well, second in the Playstation vs. Nintendo 64 war ... -
Boo to The EdgeThe thread on Fairlight, at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23670[/URL] has made me realise just how much The Edge, th…
... realise just how much The Edge, the games company, are total ... . They released the excellent Fairlight, which was the first in a ... />
2. The way they treated the programmer (Bo Jangeborg) might ... they wouldn't lose any through the release of a remake, and ... -
The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit ... only by the flares (if you use the ... was really atmospheric. The game, the dialgue, the levels, the sense of danger ... game and seeing the game world through a TV screen.< ... -
connecting an xbox360 to the internetnot sure if i have asked this before, i might have done. anyway i still am failing to connect my stupid xbox360 to the stoopid internet. now you mig…
... i have tried. ie been through the manual loads of times, ... looked at the support websites (the eng one, and the aus one) ... confirm this.
going through the procedure it fails to recognise ... can someone please talk me through step by step what i ... -
The Great Escape 2:Homeward BoundOk , having been inspired by the Blake's 7 thread , here's my proposition for a game. Does anyoe wonder what happened after you'd escaped from the c…
... 's own perils. The way West means travelling through highly populated towns ... soldiers , particularly on the roads and easier passages through the mountains.
The game would be played ... -
Brush with the local constabularyRemember this thread spec-chums [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20575[/url] Well, just before the Manchester Utd Vs Bar…
... br /> Well, just before the Manchester Utd Vs Barcelona game ... have already ordered the food through a phone call ... with "Please, pull around the corner sir..."
the back of the panda car and ... They even ran my name through the radio, to see if ... -
The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
... Sound Effects: [/B]The Sentinel (although the "chink chink" sound ... had sound through the TV (as opposed to the 48K/+, which ... head down the toilet, and the penguin waiter looking through the door.< ... br />
[B]Best utilty:[/B] Genie (the ... -
Slaine The Celtic Barbarian - Wheres the name from ?Slaine, the Celtic Barbarian [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004562[/url] should it be "Slaine From 2000 AD" I had a quick l…
... a reference to the current title.
The original release " ... Slaine From 2000 AD"
the spine is "Slaine From 2000 ... "
The cassette is "Slaine" and the instruction manual is ... /> just cant see it.. "wood through the trees" maybe! :-D -
The new Batman demo.How else has downloaded the demo for the new Batman game? I downloaded it last night. It's a massive a 1.58gig and it took me 3-4 hours to download a…
How else has downloaded the demo for the new Batman game? I ... to download and I sailed through the thing in about 15mins. It ... you wanting more :) The graphics are excellent and the atmosphere is top ... department.
I have the game on pre-order and ... -
The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... history and the suffering of the place, as you play through the game. All ... add to the fun of the firefights. And the game levels ... through them in the course of the game.
On the ... powerful, although I hated the way the viewpoint went to third ... -
Sorting the wheat from the chaff...So, I know I can ignore posts by other forums members through the User CP, but is there a way to ignore new threads started by those ignored members?…
So, I know I can ignore posts by other forums members through the User CP, but is there a way to ignore new threads started by those ignored members? Ta -
Monkey Island, Faith of Atlantis, The Dig...I've just seen this games are all on a low budget on STEAm, my question is... should I buy them? (I know I can download most of them, but DOS emulato…
... easy as SPECTRUM).
the games do look cheap, and ... have a pc back in the day, so I never got ... I'll still have the patience to go through the games, with old ... graphics and such, does the game ... -
What was the name of that game?Hi there, This is my first thread of any kind! I hope it brings me beginners luck. I?m after a game I used to play and was very fond of, but you'v…
... would start on the top left of the screen and would have ... negotiate your way to the exit on the bottom right/left. Gravity ... big part to play.
The character you controlled was a ... a case of falling through the bottom of the screen.
If ... -
The best (and worst) Second-sequel.When a film series gets to #3, one of two things usually happen: It's either going to be the best of the series - as the company now know how to tre…
... going to be the best of the series - as the company now ... properly, and negates the need to sit through the first two films, ... claustraphobic atmosphere, it becomes the best of the bunch.
... 's daughter and the rest of the 2 dimensional fill-ins ... -
Graphics: What is the point of ...... actually, let me apologize for such a stupid vague thread title, I so wanted to avoid this but the whole sentence I wanted to write is just way t…
... as it might fool the uninitiated/uninformed viewer into ...
Well-known examples are the screens between levels in Speccy ... screenshots on websites to show the graphical capabilities of a ... animated GIF that alternates/cycles through the different 2 or 3 ... -
Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... 's all so contrived, the sets, the styles, the people, everything.
the shark". The quality of the program was very high all through the two ... seasons, and never let up, but the last episode, containing the ... -
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…
... plus whatever the cost of the Police, all of the organisation, etc ... Good job this countries going through the biggest financial boom in ... place, mostly during the many wars that the church supported.
the wealth to the poor, instead they ... -
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'…
... together off chip and passed through the low pass filter).
the circuit just floats.
Pass these through a low ... the output from the circuit, the top trace is the 8MHz output from the VCO, the ... -
Help with the name of a FilmI remember back in the mid 90's i saw a film one night but cant remember what it was called but do remember bits of it and was wondering if anyone wo…
... .
Later on the main kid and his friend ... steal a piece of the councillors Harley Davidson so ... later scene the kid takes the Harley and rides it through the cornfields i ... think he may have had his friend on the ... -
Ebay geek help - did i do the right thing?right i aint an ebay geek, ive barely ever used it, i dont know the ettiquette etc anyway recently i bought a cardiacs cd.......cheap (the seller is…
... a cardiacs cd.......cheap (the seller is the record label) it was ... flimsy plastic sleeve rather than the usual cd box, but obviously ... left neutral feedback stating the good bits, plus the bad bit
through the letterbox so i didnt have ... -
Computing: the next 25 yearsWe saw the birth of the 8086 microprocessor which introduced Space Invaders to the arcades. Zilog Z80's microprocessor was released as a cheaper alte…
... introduced Space Invaders to the arcades. Zilog Z80 ... to-head with the release of the 6502 microprocessor ... the BBC microcomputer and the Commodore 64.
We then lived through the ... birth of the 16 bit microprocessor, thanks ... -
Games you can walk through...In the thread: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30506&page=2[/URL] the topic drifts onto games such as Airwulf or Roboco…
... advance which route through the screen will work. The original Manic Miner ... get the shields. The only problem is knowing the date of the history ... win (well, go back through the game again, as there is ... lesser men can barely get through the first few stages of ... -
Chuck your speccy through the window momentsInspired by my recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a mission first try and then the game crashed. I then failed to do this mission fo…
... recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a ... to some frustrating moments on the spectrum. Of course it ... Dizzy mis-timing the jump over the collapsing bridge. The bridge would remain ... collapsed for the rest of the game, rendering it ... -
New feature: copy previous query to the next query fieldAnother old request: the option to let Infoseek copy your previous query into the query box, like Google does. This is now possible, configured throu…
Another old request: the option to let Infoseek copy your previous query into the query box, like Google does.
This is now possible, configured through the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekconfig.cgi"]usual config facility[/URL]. -
The laws surrounding nudity at homeOur office block faces a row of Victorian terraced houses, and occasionally one of the residents will appear at their bedroom window wearing nothing …
... and occasionally one of the residents will appear at ... an interesting debate on where the resident stands legally.
... parties could conceivably see you through the window?
... for example, opening the door naked to the postman/delivery driver/ ... -
The Hobbit:A guide and how i play it.Yes i know there are walkthroughs and guides on the net but what i want to do here is give chance for those people to complete the hobbit who have no…
... type anything so try leaving the dungeon through the W exit and approaching ... have to go through the business of throwing another barrel through the trap door ... and making your way back to the waterfall ... -
Some more 419 fun fresh from the spam folderErm from Eva Desmond apparently? [quote]Hello My name is Eve Desmond, I saw your profile today through the help of chamber of commerce in ouagadoug…
... , I saw your profile today through the help of chamber of commerce ...
THE NATIONAL DAILIES.
THE WINNERS WAS SELECTED THROUGH ELECTRONIC BALLOTING ... apply after all "The winners was selected through electronic ballot system" so ...
