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PS3 vs Wii[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9136575504838642038[/url]
... my book, that's round 1 to the Wii. In the long run ... and there looks like some killer apps coming out soon.
The ... bit more horsepower. And for all the supposed gimmickyness of the Wii controller I ... -
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... , I do highly rate that machine and also the Speccy which in it ... the goodies that never made it to the C64 generally made it to the that ... to play the classics and also the goodies still coming out for it and I'd ... -
Target Renegade - dead easy!Got to the fifth level on my second go.
... into another and take out two then that adds extra stuff to the gameplay ... for you.
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From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... it about the games and the C64 was very well positioned for that.
and the absolutely worst disk system out there (the slowest *AND* the most expensive ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... those role playing books i would get out of the library, you know ... east, that sort of thing. I wrote them in Basic and they ... on i got 'the Quill' and wrote some adventures with that. I sent ... free with Your Sinclair and started writing with that but never got ... -
Mr. and Mrs. PacmanNot strictly Sinclair related... but I'm a very happy chappy today... I just got a Mr. and Mrs. Pacman pinball machine for my games room... Yay! I'…
... , but it isn't out yet (and knowing how these things go ... download them for MAME for free. It's the thought that counts though, and it ... retrogamer, it's got the yellow and white plugs for the TV (instead of ... -
TrampsOne thing that annoys the hell out of me is tramps -- you can't escape the bastards, hanging around everywhere and reckoning they've got a God-given …
... , I hate leaving the house and getting asked for a cigerette without fail ... asking us for cigarettes (or a light) when we're out especially ... in Venice and Amy & I on a rare night out saw ... girls no older than 11/12 begging for cigarettes ... -
Mr. and Mrs. PacmanNot strictly Sinclair related... but I'm a very happy chappy today... I just got a Mr. and Mrs. Pacman pinball machine for my games room... Yay! I'…
... but it isn't out yet (and knowing how these things go ... download them for MAME for free. It's the thought that counts though, and it ... retrogamer, it's got the yellow and white plugs for the TV (instead of ... i have no nostalgic feelings for the atari 2600 since i ... -
World of abusive drunks - share your abusive drunk stories. :)One time when I was getting the bus home from town, two really drunk women got on and started singing really obnoxiously loudly. Then, considering th…
... if she passed out i wouldn't and would just take some ... physically restrain her from climbing out. (she had a nice body ... an hour of her reassuring that i wouldn't get into ... />
anypoo, she apologised in the morning. and i limped for a week. -
Just a Little List of Collectors,please feel free to dismiss or spit distain in any manner you need to :) Biggest Collector of individua(non dupes)l ZX Software Tetley 9000 ish and…
... =NickH;168259]You're hanging out with the wrong sort of women ... was the one with all the money (and no that was not the reason I wanted ... the money to provide for our two girls, pay the bills and have some for ... -
I/O contention model questionHi everyone, Sorry for my poor english. Together with a friend we are working on ZX Spectrum 48k implemented in FPGA. We have found bug in the Spect…
... The data is put out early so that it can stabilize on the bus and ... sense". For example, it doesn't make sense that the ULA causes ... contention for non-existent ULA ... ports in the $4000-$ ... -
The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…
... /> I guess for the Windows market you could release something that "could run ... wanted, some open source libraries that you could recompile between platforms ... ), and as someone pointed out on the thread, what is 150 adjusted for inflation ... -
.SCR formatDoes anybody know the specs of the SCR format and how easy it would be to convert a SCR file into a proper SCREEN$? What I want to do is convert a S…
As far as I remember the layout is exactly the same as a screen$for the Spectrum. 6912 bytes. 6144 bytes for the display and 768 bytes for the attributes. -
USB Hardrive enclosures.I have invested in a USB hardrive enclosure and a 40Gb laptop hard-drive as my USB stick was bulging at the seems. Now these devices power and run t…
... the bottom right of the screen.
As for pulling the USB lead out ... without warning, the drive heads will ... contain that driver and the card would work. Rebuilding wont magically invent drivers for ... -
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... 29 years old and I currently reside in the dark depths of ... , Chaos, Quazatron and Back to Skool. Hung on through the great Amiga ... . One of the first things I got up and running on it ... that I mind... but I still take the ol' emulator files out for a ... -
The best magazineHere it is folks, the battle of the titans. Which was the best magazine for us Spec-chums? As I'm not entirely unbiased, let's have a poll :)
I liked the idea of type-ins for programs that were just a couple ... lose the lot. I thought that the tape based magazines like Spectrum Compting and 16 ... /48 were a better format for ... -
Speccy related injuriesI apologise if this has arisen before but. Following on from Def Chris' name the game post in the games forum, about Daley Thompsons Supertest. Cu…
That sounds suspicously like a nasty ... my tongue out for some unknown reason when playing driving/steering games, and lean ... gave me a shock and I bit the end of my tongue ... -
TommyGun competitors?[url]http://www.rainbowide.com/[/url] Has anyone seen/used this IDE before? The only other IDE I know that comes close to TommyGun is BASin as it ha…
... window gets in the way of even trying the thing out. How about ... a time limit instead of something that ... removes it from the project and doesn't even ask. That means you ... all files in the project open in a tab for them to ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... fun to check em both out, and two sets of new syntax ... , double, else, enum, extern, float, for, goto, if, int, long, register ... you've got the usual */-+ and some bit manipulation operators that will be ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... problem is when the editor redisplays a screen that is stored in ... blocks betwen the upper and lower lifts for gameplay features etc. The solution is ... out without bugs).
Below is my proposed reorganisation of the ... -
Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... switch out the NMOS and TTL chips for CMOS)
Memory - replace the ROM ... counter to scan RAM is out of the question! One of Atmel ... />
As for the keyboard, use the membranes and mats that rwap sells and it'll ... -
Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
... very impressive things with the Blitz command in ... the BASIC is great! That's where I started out - mainly using the GRAB and ... PUT functions for ... my BASIC tinkering on the +2 in the years before.
Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
... - the BASIC is great! That's where I started out - mainly using the GRAB and ... PUT functions for sprites ... ;175716]Yes, the Basic is simply amazing...(ramble ;))... although that manic miner ...Inspired games[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/basedon.html[/url] I'm sure there's bound to be far more (especially in the "coin-op" section) than are currentl…
... 's also a The Valley from a Chezron issue that required this ... a freelance programmer, and they were unaware that it wasn't an ... for breach of copyright, whereupon they withdrew the game and settled out of court (the ...The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... having two hands on the ball.) And heaven forbid that a player should ... keeper that is largely a joke, officials have been overprotecting goalkeepers for the ... have been laughed off the pitch and booted out of the club.
I ...TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... what the red lines up and down the screen are. I get that value ... it's half initialised and bombed out for some reason. It's not bad ... 16K machine) and that's it. That said, I bet the fecker will work ...TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... what the red lines up and down the screen are. I get that value ... it's half initialised and bombed out for some reason. It's not bad ... 16K machine) and that's it. That said, I bet the fecker will work ... , try checking for ripple in the power lines. That's a big ...Yay! Format!In case no one else bothers: Cheers Mort. Oh oh which smilie do I choose? :roll: Defo my favourite.
... again for the support and check out [url]www.zzap64.co.uk[/url] for the ZZap64 ...Yay! Format!In case no one else bothers: Cheers Mort. Oh oh which smilie do I choose? :roll: Defo my favourite.
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Thanks again for the support and check out [URL="http://www.zzap64 ... "]www.zzap64.co.uk[/URL] for the ZZap64 scans (sshhh 64 mag ... the UK.
Let me know which ones you are missing, and ... I'll see if I can get the peeps back ...Online poker?Anyone know of a good online Texas Hold'em site with low stakes that's usable from a Linux box? I (probably very foolishly) think I have (ahem) l33t…
... item (probably about the above) said that he kept tabs on ... the other players (only ... nothing sinister) to look out for the heavy drinking Yank players, ... night US time and loked out for / targetted the drunks and made an undisclosed ...
