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Great Giana SistersI read that the GGS was considered a Mario-infringement, and therefore it didn't come out on the Speccy, but why was it OK to publish it on ye olde C…
History is what the majority of people believe happened eh?
... It was on sale at the time of the Nintendo lawsuit. However, there were ... delays with the Spectrum version which meant that ... is that GGS is one of the games that's supposed to ... -
Remake WIZBALL on the SpeccySeeing as all my graphics are available why not re-make it to include all the stuff that wasn't used? I made graphics for the Ying and Yang wiz and t…
... flat out that the magazines were totally under the thumb of the software houses ... .
The really cheeky ... that way eventually. But at the time of the 'Unclear User' incident I'd ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... has a version from the section of the end of Crossroads (not the crap Britney Spears ... [/YOUTUBE]
Steve Vai - the master of the space age guitar. -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
[QUOTE=STeaM;388452]I believe it has a version from the section of the end of Crossroads (not the crap Britney Spears thing).
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some Thrust clone?Hi, somebody knows of a Thrust clone on speccy?? or a game alike?? thanks
... that wasn't around at the time of the original thread, but would have ... -
Blimey, we thought security cameras were bad...Have you seen the news, or if you missed it read here: [url]http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/what-the-tsas-new-bo.html[/url] Apart from the moral i…
[QUOTE=ZnorXman;392248]Sounds like an excuse to me...[/QUOTE]
And it's the wrong time of the month... -
Blimey, we thought security cameras were bad...Have you seen the news, or if you missed it read here: [url]http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/what-the-tsas-new-bo.html[/url] Apart from the moral i…
[QUOTE=karingal;392249]And it's the wrong time of the month...[/QUOTE]
Why ... are you in the form of a werewolf?
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More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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you only need lots of colours and fancy graphics for ... were not important at the time - just look at the monochrome ZX81 which ... was still selling well at the time of the Spectrums release. 64 colours on ... at once is nearly pushing the 16-bit era (but not ... -
X-Com on STEAMJust got my self the Lucas arts adventur game pack as well as monkey Island (Well I had them on SCUMM, but for some reason all the games bugged event…
... mean you couldn't get the games working via DOSBOX ?!?! odd ... /> DOSBOX! nos SCUMM (at this time of the night it's hard to ... great, but curiously (maybe was the ROM...) X-com never really ... 10? I rather not have the trouble!).
and since ... -
The Official Christmas 2009 ThreadThis is rediculous. With only 387 Days to Christmas 2009, today on TV I witnessed the first Advert. Park Hampers were advertising their 2009 Xmas…
[QUOTE=NickH;403774]...this Saturday! That's also Tree Day for me, I think. Can't wait...[/QUOTE]
sweet, the only time of the year you can circle progs to watch without looking sad. -
To bobs, andrew rollings, psj etchi folks, yes I'm a bit hyper today, don't know why. I apologise to you bobs for getting your thread closed, I'll try not to do that again. :-o sor…
... can see the two other points of view, both of the non- ... the biggest social holiday and the best time of the years), and for the ... power and wealth for the leaders of the religion. Why is ... , like the Duke of Edinbugh, who is President of the World Wildlife ... -
LG phone projector.Just saw it on TV. Impressive! So it's an add-on doohickie for your [LG only?] phone which allows you to project your movies/pics on walls/surfaces…
... that was only the first five minutes of the movie! The rest of it was ... a heaping, steaming pile of anus ... im agreeing with znorxman,its the beggining of the end!. -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... at all. A lot of work went into the original +2 and ... a lot of stick in the press (and the playground!) around the time of the Sinclair acquisition ... ...
I guess the improvements of Amstrad's models were less ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... lot of stick in the press (and the playground!) around the time of the Sinclair ... their Speccies would show the poor build quality associated ... .[/QUOTE]
The Amstrad-made Spectrums had a ... robustness, exceeded only by the Timex clones. They missed ... -
various gamesok, I've got a fair few doubles of games.. if you interested PM me, I just want what I paid for them and the postage, or you could collect if local. …
... cassette games from the shop the postage would still ... an envelope.. off the top of my head the postage ALONE was ... the only person in the universe allowed to sell doubles of ... tapes they have... sarcasm, this time of the ... -
memory chips spectrum +Hi with regards to memory chips the ones in there are tms4116 in the lower memory.there is some on ebay MCM4116BP20 can i mix these with tms ones or …
... faster than the speed rating as the speed is a function of the material ... />
Does anybody know the 'actual' access time of the lower RAM that is ... required for the processor or ULA ... -
memory chips spectrum +Hi with regards to memory chips the ones in there are tms4116 in the lower memory.there is some on ebay MCM4116BP20 can i mix these with tms ones or …
... br /> Does anybody know the 'actual' access time of the lower RAM that is ... required for the processor or ...
No idea about the ULA, but the fastest Z80 memory read ... is the M1 cycle instruction fetch, ... -
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…
got halo at the weekend, what an awful game, ... years.
whats with the littel aliens running around, i ... /> still though this was at the time of the n64 and goldeneye still looks ... comapred to the flat land scapes and rubbish enemies of halo. not ... -
Name the arcade gameI recently came to think of a game I played in the arcades, presumably in the late 80's. It was never converted to the Spectrum so I guess this part …
... player stick style. I mean the original [URL="http://en. ... made it to the UK, but I have the later analogue ( ... that could emulate it. By the time of the dual shock controller though, ... support for the original analogue mode was dropped ... -
Thoughts about 1990Just dipping my toe into 1990 research (I know I said I'd be taking a sabbatical, but it seems to be slowly, surely, drawing me in), and wondering ho…
From a personal perspective I sort of left in 1987 with the perchase of an Amstrad PCW, then in 1990 I got my first PC. So I missed most of the end. -
Mass storage - why backup battery?I wasn't sure to post this under "hardware" or "development", but here goes: There are these mass storage devices for ZX Spectrum, and on many desig…
... makes sense: simplfy the hardware (into Flash EPROM ... re-code the interesting parts of the software to work ... with that simplified hardware. Not worth the ... exist also at life time of the spectrum. For me ... use it from time to time and I like ... -
Fan woes.And I heard a load sound in the night – as if something had fallen over, but I turned my computer off in the morning, and because it was open, …
... removal of dust and the management and tidying of cables ? which were at the time of the ... mishap not touching the ... -
Show some love for crap scifi movies.I love scifi and i love some truly awful sci fi films but what are your favourite crap scifi films. Ill start the proceedings with "the last starfig…
... ;428930]Wasn't it one of Channel 4's first late ... any characters, but I remember the bad guy was a big ... dude who fired lasers out of the end of his fingers/glove...wish I ... -
Show some love for crap scifi movies.I love scifi and i love some truly awful sci fi films but what are your favourite crap scifi films. Ill start the proceedings with "the last starfig…
... any characters, but I remember the bad guy was a big ... dude who fired lasers out of the end of his fingers/glove...wish I ... have major roles in any of the sci-fi movies he was ... 's been in a load of shite sci-fi and action ... -
Show some love for crap scifi movies.I love scifi and i love some truly awful sci fi films but what are your favourite crap scifi films. Ill start the proceedings with "the last starfig…
... any characters, but I remember the bad guy was a big ... dude who fired lasers out of the end of his fingers/glove...wish I ... not thinking of an episode of red dwarf are you. With the simulants?. -
Show some love for crap scifi movies.I love scifi and i love some truly awful sci fi films but what are your favourite crap scifi films. Ill start the proceedings with "the last starfig…
... any characters, but I remember the bad guy was a big ... dude who fired lasers out of the end of his fingers/glove...wish I ... />
That'd be one of the ones I mentioned... 'Humanoid.' His ... should've seen that at the cinema! It's funny how ... -
Thoughts about 1990Just dipping my toe into 1990 research (I know I said I'd be taking a sabbatical, but it seems to be slowly, surely, drawing me in), and wondering ho…
... depressing. The year starts with the SAM launch and the arrival of hand-held ... and Commodore games consoles and the death of the Speccy +3 whilst full ... a bit more gloss to the beginning of the end of the Speccy?[/QUOTE]
Audio Output Filtering in EmulatorsI am messing around with various beeper-related code at the moment and have a question related to the audio output from emulators... I've written s…
... precise. The RC time constant can be calculated from the rise time of the square wave ... response and the ... /> I gather that the sound output of the current crop of emulators are close ...Who would you like to see in 10 and 11 Downing Street...?Okay, so the general election has been called and we've had the final PMQs and things are really kicking off now. Counting in the possibility of a Co…
... he was also learning the skills of his trade from a ... as I was 16 at the time, and decided to go ... , freeze council tax for the life time of the parliament, take millionaires out ... of inheritiance tax whilst making ? ...The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... s time onwards there were two factions of Daleks; the original ... to be magical. By the time of the Seventh Doctor, he almost ... still changes according to the needs of the story.
the creation of the human race, all totally contradictory. The ...
