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Game name help desperately needed!Hello there everyone! I apologise in advance for what will no doubt be the world?s vaguest message, but having recently downloaded a ZX Spectrum emu…
... , I think it was a turn-based game. Basically you are ... as well before leaping back off to yours, but I?m ... -
20% off my next ebay itemI got an email from ebay saying I will get 20% off my next purchase ( if I use Paypal) up to the value of ?20.00. Has anyone else had one. [ This M…
I got an email from ebay saying I will get 20% off my next purchase ( if I use Paypal) up to the value of ?20.00. Has anyone else had one.
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GAH!! I AM PISSED OFFfucking cunts............just been banned off a regular forum ive been on for the past few months, for the second time in 2 nights the mods just wo…
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Getting Files Off The Tape And On to My New ComputerDoes anyone know how I would go about getting old programs off the tapes and putting the .TAP (or other file types) on to a new computer system? Ass…
... go about getting old programs off the tapes and putting the ... to get the extracted file off of an internet archive, but ... to get my old programs off the tapes and on to ... -
Most off the wall, whacked out game.whats the most off the wall, whacked out speccy game. Brian Bloodaxe zips into my mind for its pythonesque attributes.
whats the most off the wall, whacked out speccy game.
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Michael JacksonI'm bored, and pissed off with the hot weather, so I thought I'd start a new trial for Michael Jackson. I accuse Michael Jackson of the following c…
I'm bored, and pissed off with the hot weather, so ... />
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divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... people.
1. ROM paging
If your Spectrum ... over the BASIC ROM the paging is unaffected by divIDE but ... is a way of switching off this paging.
2. 128K ... sits in 0x8000-0xBFFF by paging that bank in at 0xC000 ... -
Off-topicAproximately how long does a topic take to get 'off-topic'
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Spin & .pok filesAs the title suggests, will a future version of Spin be compatible with .pok files? I currently use Spectaculator & Spin and am creating .pok files a…
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Groucho - pissed off and funny with itEven when Groucho Marx was pissed off with his bosses he was still funnier than most people on the planet [url="http://www.theage.com.au/news/film/b…
... when Groucho Marx was pissed off with his bosses he was ... -
ROM paging questionAssuming the Spectrum 128 memory map and port addresses, but two custom ROMs in place of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient way …
... ROM-1, which means the paging code needs to skip those ... /> The RAM part of the paging routine should live at 23296 ... -
Off-lineI've been off line for a while (since late November, new baby, moving house, Christmas) so what have I missed
I've been off line for a while (since late November, new baby, moving house, Christmas)
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Games you wish you'd finished but never did.Has anyone got a speccy game they really wish they'd finished, but never did/could, or just never got round to it. Here's a few of mine: Airborne R…
... have to go somewhere and turn it off).
Why oh ... -
Anybody read books off Project Gutenberg?At the minute I'm reading: [url]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159.txt[/url] The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells on the laptop and Palm.…
At the minute I'm reading:
[url]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159.txt[/url]
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
on the laptop and Palm. :)
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What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …
... though and eventually had to turn it off because the computer was ... -
Have I got a spy-ware problem?I'm having a slight problem that I think may be down to Spy-ware. I have run an up to date Spy-Bot S&D scan and a complete virus scan (run in safe mo…
... and again when I turn my machine off, I get a "program ... -
Oh no! Not again! (Serious PC probs)I was upadting my graphic drivers (NVIDIA MX440 GeForce 4) and my sound drivers (Realtek AC'97 for VIA (R) audio controller), but when installing the…
... WinXP) :(
Oh, and turned off System Restore a few days ... , and I kinda forgot to turn it back on :oops:
Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... 't allow you to turn auto-aim off (Halo, Half-Life 2 ...Well, I'm off to ThailandWell, that's it. I'm off to Thailand in the morning.... Was looking forward to it but with a the cr@p happening at heathrow methinks it will be a nig…
Well, that's it. I'm off to Thailand in the morning.... Was looking forward to it but with a the cr@p happening at heathrow methinks it will be a nightmare
Still, it's two weeks off work!
L8r Peeps!John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... training course intended to turn me into a mainframe ... programmers. I duly went off to Imagine for an interview ... from, we bought an off-the-shelf limited company ... pick up where Imagine left off. The rest of us ...
I went straight off to see David Ward at ...Can you name it?I'm looking for something on the speccy but I ain't sure what it actually is. Could be a game but I dunno. Here comes a very vague description.... T…
... /> the one when you first turn on a speccy 128k (white ... memory might be a little off.
Any help would be ...Harry's Hoard?Was [i]Henry's Hoard[/i] actually licenced in any way by Software Projects, or was it a Harry-Price-style rip-off? Incidentally, since it's based on…
... a Harry-Price-style rip-off?
Incidentally, since it ... ) work. But some (e.g. turn on WRITETYPER) don't, so ...embedding images in wos forumswhy is [IMG] code is off on WOS? I know binaries are no-no in usenet, but forums are more colorful and informative, even creative with images. I'm r…
why is [IMG] code is off on WOS? I know binaries ... there a special cause to turn images off on WOS?My Dell TFT Monitor deadMy Dell E171FPB monitor is dead... it wont turn on... even the LED wont come on.... I've checked the usual...cable and fuse.... I am trying to dism…
... monitor is dead... it wont turn on... even the LED wont ... the screws.... taken the stand off....but I can only open ... />
a sad, p!ssed off and desperate... Andrew :(my laptop is a useless spazhi all, me again. it has taken me a week to post this as some one else had a similar post and i didn't want to look like i was copying. anyhoo. my …
... . i cant turn the ctrl-alt-delete log in off for various ...Tape wear offI have quite a nice collection of Sinclair games on tapes I?m wondering if these tapes wear off and get damaged by time ? Then i?m not talking about …
I have quite a nice collection of Sinclair games on tapes
I?m wondering if these tapes wear off and get damaged by time ?
Then i?m not talking about usage, just keeping them in storage.
JonLinking FPS games to rampages - your country's take on this?Some of you may remember the news from a few weeks ago, where a high school boy went on a rampage in a school in Germany, intent of doing in classmat…
... I do not want to turn this topic into a discussion ... failed to make global news? Off-hand, I can't think ...What is This Game?First off I'd like to say hello and thanks, I'm a long time reader but first time poster, its great to have such easy access to all of these memories…
First off I'd like to say ... - you had the option to turn left or right at points ..."The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... -wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning ... />
It was Adell's turn to be contrary. "Maybe we ... I. "Ask him how to turn the stars on again."
