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The top game, WoS 16th March 2007This needs to be recorded for posterity. Today, the best Sepctrum game ever. as listed by this. the ultimate Spectrum archive, is Pub Crawl 2, a 1985…
... Something to celebrate before the precious Elite protection society get ... case of a game mislabeled in the archive as the screenshot ... Crawl 2 is the one on top of the Spectrum pile scoring ... a perfect 10.
I wonder if the ... -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... WoS and the game saving power of emulation I ... of the games on this list.
The 14 games in the poll are the ... 14 that are rated in the top ... poll for fans of the genre and will ... your absolute favourite - the one Isometric game ... -
News of the World's 50 Most Shocking Pictures of the Year 2007Click on the link close to the top of this page for the pics: [url]http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3012_50_most_shocking_pics_of_2007.shtml[/url] S…
WoS - The wonderful World of SpectrumI've just been browsing the WOS [I]Site Awards[/I] and my initial thoughts are that it is quite outdated. On the contrary however, WoS is no longer …
... outdated.
On the contrary however, WoS is no ... a position to prove itself. The [I]Retro Gamer Collection ... are fortunate in that one of the web's best retro sites ... the machine.[/quote]
One of the best retro sites. That's top of the ...A paper model of the new Freedom tower...So, here I was trying to show one of my kids how easy it was to come up with a paper model of the new [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/911…
... up with a paper model of the new [URL="http://www.usatoday ... 8 isosceles triangles coming out of the base and ending with another ... rotated 45 degrees compared to the base position. :-o
[ ... advice? :-? If the top base was the same size as the bottom one it ...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…
... (PC / PS2)[/B] - A first class game, which merges relevant RPG ... can almost taste the (short) history and the suffering of the place, as you ... first class game. I'd have liked to have named The Orange ...game of the year awardsHave there ever been game of the year awards? If not, what are your top 3 for every year from 82 to the here, and indeed, the now!
Have there ever been game of the year awards? If not, what are your top 3 for every year from 82 to the here, and indeed, the now!C64 Tapes..last roll of the diceI know this is for Spectrum stuff but I have been trying to sell these for sometime and it would be a major shame to throw them out even being C64. l…
... dump them into the bin.
List of games below ... Player Super League
Defenders Of The Earth
Theatre Europe ...
Risk
The Real Ghostbusters
Commodore Format ... Streak, Predator 2 (Demo), Top Duck, Elvira (Demo)
...Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... chop a few millimetres of the membrane connectors to see ... to various parts of the innards. The pics are quite ... via at the bottom of the CPU and, following the trace on ... the machines build date? Is that the 8215 on the top of the modulator (15th week of ...The name of the game - HELPHey I remember playing a game in Spectrum that I loved but can't recall the name. It was a bird that moved left, right, up, down, and in each cenario…
... loved but can't recall the name. It was a bird ... . There was a way in the cenario and a way out ... was a rhinoceros on top of a hill and the food/symbol was ... believe the game is dated from the begginings of spectrum, considering the graphics.
My wife walked into the middle of the EDL march in NewcastleMy wife walked out of the train station in Newcastle City Centre to be met with coppers wrestling radgees to the ground, and had no idea what was goi…
My wife walked out of the train station in Newcastle City ... pretty serious.
To top it off there's a ... Newcastle Unites marched against the neo nazis. The news says there was ... little incident, but the missus says the streets were strewn with ...Clearing 22 lines of the screenHow do I go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 area untouched? I have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant…
... go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 ... routine to reset the attributes, but cant delete the 16384 display data ... reverting to PRINTING 22 lines of 32 spaces?Anyone Interested in All the Different Models of Kempston Joystick Interfaces?I've been acquiring some flat-type Kempston Joystick interfaces to adapt to K-55 (yes, spoiling our cultural heritage), but along the way I've picked…
... with the port on the top of the case (like DK'Tronics) instead of on the front ... it's of interest to anyone? Or am I the only one ... obsessing over the history of the authentic Kempston interface? (Even amongst the ...Floored of the Rings (A Micro Adventurer puzzle)A Sunday puzzle: [url="https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/MicroAdventurer/Issue17/Pages/MicroAdventurer1700042.jpg"]Floored of the Ring…
... br />
The idea is to reach the top of any N circle ... in 13 steps from the bottom ... and each of the 13 letters in the first half of the alphabet can ... of the three circles at the far end of the room.
Which of the ...Zelda: Breath of the Wild.I thought I'd make this it's own thread as it was appearing in bother the Switch and "currently playing" threads, that way everything can go into the…
... /> I beat the first of the Divine Beats last night (the Elephant thing) and ... out and was in awe of the puzzles that Nintendo had come ... just entered the very top right area of the map and activated the tower, but ... I know where a second of the beasts are, so I ...The Wonder of being CHEAP and EARLY The Speccy was not actually the first of course , but it was FIRST near as dammit and this created opportunities. Yes those micros and PCs that …
... not actually the first of course , but it was FIRST ... ends" that being very near the top of the queue presented . Once market dominance ...Games of the Decade 2010-2019Just realised that we've not had our usual GOTD discussion (has it really been 10 years since the last one?!) so thought would get the ball rolling. …
... thought would get the ball rolling. Here's my top five:
3. The Last of Us
4. Witcher 3 ... Hunt
5. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Other notables ... Knight
The Walking Dead
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Songs of the Spetcrrum's Heydays: 1982So I thought I'd start a series of threads, that will be created each week where we look at and discuss music from a given year when the ZX Spectrum …
... a given year when the ZX Spectrum was still ... popular with the masses. I would like ... (but not in a top hits of the 80s album type way), ... />
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls - A tune I think ... about two years ahead of its time.
...Shadow of the UnicornI've written a program to run Shadow of the Unicorn on a +2A/+3. Is there anywhere it can be put to be available to anyone wanting to play the game?…
... a program to run Shadow of the Unicorn on a +2A/+3 ... to anyone wanting to play the game? It is not quite ... I need instructions to set the flags register to 0. It ... works but I want the program to work its best ... with any rom. At the least I can post it ...The name of the gameDoes anyone knows the name of the following game: You have to take your girlfriend to a show, but someone as trashed your bike and splitted all the …
Does anyone knows the name of the following game:
You ... your bike and splitted all the parts across town.
You have to fight for the motorcycle parts
You ... need a spanner.
The game was all in black ...ID and Chaos, two of the strangest games for the speccyID was a sort of artificial intelligence program. A mixture between a.i. and an adventure. Cant remember who has produced this game. You had to find …
... had to find out the names of the historical figures, the ID had adapted ... in Germany, because one of the persons the ID adapted was Hitler. Another ... of chesslike figures. With luck, you could get an golden dragon, the ...Making the most of the microDoes anyone know what ever happened to Ian Mcnought-Davis? He presented the 'Making the most of the micro' and 'Micro live' programes on the BBC. The…
... Mcnought-Davis? He presented the 'Making the most of the micro' and 'Micro live ... ' programes on the BBC. They were ...Fist PC: Remake of 'The Way of the Exploding Fist' The first demo of the remake is near, take a look at these screenshots of the game in action: [url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot1.gif"]scr…
The first demo of the remake is near, take a look at these screenshots of the game in action:
[url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot1.gif"]screenshot 1[/url]
[url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot2.gif"]screenshot 2[/url]Loading Lord of the RingsHi I've got a new copy of the Lord of the Rings adventure game. it loads as far as completing the load screen graphics, but wont load any further. Th…
... 've got a new copy of the Lord of the Rings
adventure game ... loads as far as completing the load
screen graphics, but ... wont load any further.
The next load header seems to ... /> then continues - but the speccy obv. misses the header.
I've ...The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... even in the Spectrum emulation scene, defend the point of view of the very few ... clear how deprieving the Spectrum emulation community of the delight of playing and freely ... distributing the old classics on the, [ ...Name of the game againWhats the name of the game where youre in a castle and every so often you turn into a werewolf and you have to drop things into a cauldron? Also,what…
Whats the name of the game where youre in a castle and every so often you turn into a werewolf and you have to drop things into a cauldron?
Also,whats the name of the game where you manage a football team?Defenders of the EarthI've got the Hi-Tech and Enigma Variation version of Defenders of the Earth. When I try to get them to play in Spectaculator 4 I load the first tape …
I've got the Hi-Tech and Enigma Variation version of Defenders of the Earth. When I try to get them to play in Spectaculator 4 I load the first tape image but how do I get it to read Tape 2????
TIAahem!.. could I have a minute of everyones time please :)ok... here's the thing. I'm looking into sourcing some spare IC's for the whole range of Spectrums - mainly memory, as that's probably the weakest l…
... spare IC's for the whole range of Spectrums - mainly memory, ... as that's probably the weakest ... finding / repair 'center' (hint - top of the house ;) ) - what I'm toying ... with is giving it the capability to provide a ...The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut (From Mars)"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut (From Mars)" This was first released by The Shaw Brothers under the slightly more sensible name of…
"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut ( ... versions of the game are MIA.
"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant ... Mat Beal (of the Fish spectrum zine) under the title of "Fish ... 4 games on the compilation. Two of the other three were ...Relative price of the spectrum As Im sure you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its price.I was reading the other day that the 48K Spectrum cost ?175 - …
... you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its ... price.I was reading the other day that the ... out in 1982. Being the zany kind of guy that I am ... anyone from outside of the UK remember how much the speccy cost on ...
