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  • 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…

    ... a great story and interesting characters. Such a very, very ... you actually feel for the characters in the game (again, ... of the NPCs (non-playable characters) was very good indeed, and ... everyone I know has multiple characters and computer controlled pets, that ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2009 Chit chat
  • Very basicI found the wos site a few months ago when searching for solutions to my broken spectrum, that i had dug out of storage and was learning basic on. Si…

    ... the many lively discussions and characters that are here.

    1980-20.. 1980-20.. September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Hermitage adventure problemH'okay. Here I am trying to find some salt to perform a Satanic ritual and there's none to be found anywhere when you need it. It's always the case. …

    ... you at the current position. Typing READ PAPER gives what's ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2009 Games
  • God Save The PunkThere is a Spanish game called "God Save The Punk" which is classified as MIA: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017754[/url] …

    ... scanned newspaper. It just needs typing in.

    Judging by ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Mark your collectionSo, I was up in the loft yesterday going through my stash of ZX Spectrum stuff (as well as other retro gaming goodness) and I thought that it was abo…

    ... lazy but the thought of typing all the games in Excel ... fire up Excel and start typing.
    redballoon redballoon September 2009 Infoseek database
  • Cartridges vs. Discs vs. Digital downloadFollowing a discussion in another thread, I thought a poll about cratridge vs. disc vs. digital download might be interesting (well, compared to the …

    ... I'm supposed to be typing up now, for tomorrow).
    ewgf ewgf September 2009 Chit chat
  • Which game characters did you "fantasize" over when you were a kid?Well..... Which character did you think "phhwooor" and wish to be real!!!! lol Game Over bird on poster, Vixen (well she was a page 3 model), Maria…

    Well.....

    Which character did you think "phhwooor" and wish to be real!!!! lol

    Game Over bird on poster, Vixen (well she was a page 3 model), Maria Whittaker in Barbarian (ok she's real!) lol...

    Sam Fox Poker???
    ...
    DATACORDER DATACORDER October 2009 Games
  • Dreadful "Pun" namesFor some reason the speccy seemed to get a lot of these. Off the top of my head, characters - all the I-Ball ones, TerryBall, LoverBall etc Also KLP…

    For some reason the speccy seemed to get a lot of these. Off the top of my head, characters - all the I-Ball ones, TerryBall, LoverBall etc
    Also KLP-2 from Quazatron and MT-ED from Claptrap, sorry KatTap.
    jdanddiet jdanddiet November 2009 Games
  • Your views on: Play It Again Sam...... just curious to see what people think really. I've been toying with the idea of making a text adventure in [I]PAW[/I] (it'd be my first), and I t…

    ... way I've already got characters and something of a plot ...
    GreenCard GreenCard November 2009 Games
  • Notes on HeroquestWell, had a strange urge to play this game recently and had a pretty fun time with it. Here are some of my thoughts: - To begin with, the biggest t…

    ... , the biggest threat to your characters is a random monster appearing ...
    Lebowsk1 Lebowsk1 November 2009 Games
  • Stargate:UniverseSo, who has been watching this? It's a slow start so far but I can see the potential there. The interaction of the characters is getting better, lo…

    ... there. The interaction of the characters is getting better, lots of ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman November 2009 Chit chat
  • World of Sofas??? Damned you Google!For ages now, while at work (due to a restricted system), if I want to go to WoS, I go into Google and start typing "world of s" in, and the first su…

    ... go into Google and start typing "world of s" in, and ...
    The Starglider The Starglider November 2009 Chit chat
  • POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…

    ... (but in assembler) where more characters alterable? Or was it case ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers November 2009 Games
  • Steve Furber InterviewSteve Furber MBE has a great one hour interview on [url]www.computinghistory.org.uk[/url] the first ten minutes of which are here [youtube]WV_2H3SwL…

    ... of the five main Acorn characters in 'Micro Men'.
    Geoff Geoff November 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…

    ... flexible tool. Here the main characters are decided upon, and the ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games Britannia - The Joystick Generation BBC4Anyone catch this last night? I missed it, but am watching it now on iPlayer: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00phmrs/Games_Britannia_Joys…

    ... years of the 90s introduced characters like Lara Croft to a ...
    Daren Daren December 2009 Chit chat
  • Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…

    ... , with a little practice, command typing was possible. I suspected an ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix December 2009 Hardware
  • Spot 4.0The SPOT+SPEX Spectrum magazine index at [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/spot-on/default.htm]SPOT*On[/url] has been updated. The foll…

    ... increased from 80 to 120 characters; single-line truncated comments will ... the first 18 alpha-numeric characters from FGNAME, up-shifted, excluding ... letters and replaced other special characters with the equivalent word (eg ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2010 Announcements
  • Tape loading question...I'm getting back into BASIC after some 20 odd years away from it and i've started saving stuff to tape. How do I go about making a loaded program aut…

    I'm getting back into BASIC after some 20 odd years away from it and i've started saving stuff to tape. How do I go about making a loaded program auto run other than just typing LOAD "" : RUN .
    Glenn Glenn January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …

    ... cursors and simple UDG game characters without being limited to character ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help me find out what game it isGreetings Spectrum fans! I kindly ask for help with finding a Speccy game by it's description - I've played this game many years ago and completely …

    ... /> It also started with displaying characters with subtitles like "our hero ...
    saur saur January 2010 Games
  • Building a WoS FAQ - contributions and thoughts please!Hi there, as you may have read in [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28168]a nearby thread recently[/url], Martijn has boug…

    ... lose use of my two typing fingers, or something :)

    Danforth Danforth January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Remake of ALIEN underway. Ideas wanted. :)Okay, so there's a new competition over at Retro Remakes and the idea is to make a '[URL="http://retroremakes.com/forum/index.php/topic,1355.msg26832…

    ... human players with 3-4 characters each, and one player who ... much time, I'll make characters turn 90 degrees instead of ...
    Sokurah Sokurah January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …

    ... entered is too long (20455 characters). Please shorten it to 16384 ... characters long."

    I've ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2010 Chit chat
  • Personal Software magazineHere's a list of the type-ins for the issues of the Personal Software magazine already in the WOS archive. (Note: Some listings may have previously …

    ... ,Guy Morgan
    46-47,Characters,David Mold
    48-49 ...
    c1541 c1541 February 2010 Support files
  • Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…

    ... PRINT "PRODUCE YOUR TEXT BY TYPING"
    1710 PRINT ""
    1720 ...
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Gaming Epiphany?!?!?Not sure if this has been asked before, but, here goes. I was wondering which games people had played on what ever system and thought 'WOW now that?…

    ... the idea of switching between characters and sheer size

    stupidget stupidget February 2010 Chit chat
  • iPhone word substitution idiocyThe iPhone has an automatic correction feature for the divvy of thumb among us and I've noticed a few nonsenses so far, although I'm sure there are o…

    ... /bizarre/white supremacist.
    Oddly, typing wnat will suggest any of ...
    Vertigo Vertigo February 2010 Chit chat
  • All the icons in one game...You know the way sega and nintendo brings together all their characters from time to time - like the olympic sonic mario malarkey... Well, has anyon…

    You know the way sega and nintendo brings together all their characters from time to time - like the olympic sonic mario malarkey...

    Well, has anyone ever programmed a game with Horace, Willy and Jetman. That'd be the candy!:-)
    mickmog mickmog February 2010 Games
  • A Team vs WoS.If somebody was crazy enough to make a moden film version of th A Team wich members of wos would you pick to play the lead characters. My choices wo…

    ... pick to play the lead characters.

    My choices would ...
    1980-20.. 1980-20.. March 2010 Chit chat
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