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The best Chess, Tetris, Poker, Monopoly etc games?I was going to create two topics, one asking which was the best Chess game for the Spectrum, and one asking which was the best Tetris game, but then …
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Personally, the only two Chess games I ... to be Stephen Hawking to remember the key combinations) - relying on the great graphics to ... didn't like the look of the 128K version by ... -
The latest Darling fad?So apparently Code Masters are going to make a small fraction of their old 8/16-bit catalogue available as free downloads for the Wii to promote thei…
So apparently Code Masters are going to make a small fraction of ... available as free downloads for the Wii to promote their current-gen ... -freebies[/url]). But the article seems to hint at the possibility of also ... up on their website for the 8/16-bit machines. I ... -
Windows - SafestyleI love getting older, having to buy things like new windows, oh great ! Anyway had one company round just for a rough quote (2,200), my missus rang …
... saying they think its too high and they can offer me ... was getting ready on the phone to moan about the way they run ... a few quotes but probably going with a local company (someones ... hours later hes basically begging to get the work and 'amazingly' his ... -
Hilarious!Right, first of all, I am [B]NOT[/B] making an attack either on God (so don't cry blasphemy) or on all religious people (so don't see the topic as an…
... when one masturbates a high percentage of the time they are fantasizing ... /> ATHIEST KID: Afterwards, I'm going to go smoke pot with my ... see the impact of transfered sin to material objects. The more sin, the heavier ... -
One's speccy is unwell, can anybody help?Hi chaps! This would be my first post here, so hello to all :smile: I've got a 128+ heatsink speccy that seems to have a display issue whereby after…
... for longer it gets worse to the point where it randomly resets ... /> Would this have anything to do with the ula getting a bit too ... hot or maybe some of the ram going ... tv using the rgb port, and prior to the machine starting to act up ... -
I/O on the Speccy - ideas/help wanted!I'd like an interface for the Spectrum that can control and monitor other items. I have a task in mind that would require: A: 4xbinary inputs (as in…
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I can handle the transistor / relay circuits I need ... I would like to have control using the IN and OUT ... each. I want to use four micro switches to act as stop or ... positional reference to the assembly driven by the motors attached to the outputs.
Science Explained (Finally)!We believe that all the main physics principles can be explained away by the existence of tiny gnomes. Electricity: Inside cables there are hundreds…
... are hundreds of tiny gnomes 'high-fiving' each other and running ... to the human eye) ropes to the ground. These ropes attach to unseen hooks allowing the ... have covered the basics of gnome theory we are going to discuss and ...Games that are way too hard ... on the EASIEST settingToday I dug up my MAME emulator and played a few oldies. Amongst those was "Side Arms" (Japanese Version; dunno if and how it differs from the wester…
... checked the dip switches and was flabbergasted - the difficulty level switch was set to the ... didn't bother to set it to the highest level to compare. How many ... credits was the punter supposed to ...Olympics - blimey...Computer-generated fireworks, pre-recorded fireworks, little girls miming to songs because the original singer wasn't pretty enough, and now pre-trai…
Computer-generated fireworks, pre-recorded fireworks, little girls miming to songs because the original ... trained celebrating fan actors to fill the stadiums in the early events.
going to book a seat to watch the early qualifying rounds for the more ...Looking for a remake of Jet Set WillyHello! Last sunday I checked the list of Best Games on [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html[/url] and verified that the game Jet Set Wi…
... *sucks* having to restart the game from the very beginning when ... to play it, but sadly the video plays at an insanely high ... speed (more than 1000 frames per second, I believe) going from the ... first frame to the last one in ...Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
... a little advice on the best way to store the game map.
going to be any fancy graphics for the map, just ... position, enemies and the items to collect.
The map walls aren't ... how should the scrolling play area map be stored/generated for best ...The Press Are Rather UnderhandedI was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but I'll let you judge for yourselves. The News of the World has a story on it's site going on a…
I was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but I'll ... /> The News of the World has a story on it's site going ... /> Click on the video halfway down the page here to get the full 3 ... the opportunity in the world to coin it and decides to piss it down the ...The quality of Ootub vids (short rant with a question)[RANT] Why, oh, why is it that the quality of uytobe videos go down so drastically after ULing? You don't have to answer it ... I already know the a…
... have to answer it ... I already know the answer for the most ... space to offer, blahblahblah ;-)
The View in High Quality ... order for the end result to be at least the same quality ... I just hate the fuzzyness and the outoffocus-smoothing they apply ...Shadow of the Beast, Help!!Anybody can help me? I am playing lately Shadow of the Beast (by the way, excellent game), but I am kind of stuck at one point. Just before fighting…
... are like lizzar heads going out from the ground and ceiling. When ... its impossible to reach the final castle since you have to go through ... any way to know or to dogde those lizzar-heads near the second ...Why do the likes of CodeMasters and others, deny their games to the rest of us ?Hi, first post :) What I'd like to know (and probably many others), is why do people like CodeMasters (among others), refuse to release their back c…
... possibly be the reason for not allowing old speccy games to be ... manufacturers (if that's the right word to use) are more than ... they actually think people are going to pay about a tenner for ... respect from Speccy fans for the 'non-allowment' of their games ...[Discussion] Planned corrections to: The Complete Spectrum ROM DisassemblyOk, folks. Since I'm not obtaining replies from those involved in the previous effort to transcribe The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, I'm going …
... the previous effort to transcribe The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, I'm going to take the ... /> I' going to upload the corrected PDF ... to the accompanying txt file this Tuesday, the 30th. I'm going to also email the ... the label C-ARC-GE1 should be on address ...Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... I guess I'm going to be a pain for ... looking at the memory viewer to inspect the stack contents ... 's what the operating system is going to use after I ... RET?
2. In any case the ... aren't being printed to the emulator screen. Instead ...So who noticed the British national anthem...So who also noticed that Aretha Franklin was singing to the British National Anthem during Obama's inauguration? I was half expecting Obama to announ…
... that Aretha Franklin was singing to the British National Anthem during Obama ... expecting Obama to announce he was going to hand the country over to Her Royal ... Britannic Majesty :-)
OK, different words, but the ...err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... -Tech'. Retro-Tech was going to be the first vintage computer shop outside ... coffee, then he was going to get down to some serious work. Being ... tried all of them at high speed till they found one ... you one thing, you are going to co-operate'
'And if ...Aliens vs. Predator has been released for the XBox!!!Aliens vs. Predator, the superb PC first person shooter (the first AvP, not the inferior AvP 2) has been released for the XBox! You need to download…
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You need to download the XBox program (from the usual places, or ... version of Aliens Vs Predator to the Xbox. Fox Interactive / Rebellion have ... /> There's a thread about the port going at:
[URL]http ...The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …
... house? The obvious answer to many would seem to be Ultimate: Play the Game ... Games consistantly produced very high quality games, with the possible exception of ... you feel had overall the best average quality to their games. And ...The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... ) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit only ... by the flares (if ... credit to the designers of the game, as that's what they were going ...Does the new Ghostbusters game need to be any good?In the next month or two there is going to be a new Ghostbusters game released which has been getting quite a bit of press time in the gaming journal…
In the next month or two there is going to be a new Ghostbusters ... , it adds a bit more to the expectancy! It seems that (insanely ... for one will play to the end just to see how Ramis and ... Ackroyd would have taken the franchise to the big screen. This game ...You thought the g20 cop push video was isolated?there seems to be another video now circulating [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23PGWd46MM[/url] A new video shows unprovoked assault from a l…
... the Forward Intelligence Team - their job is to intimidate people against going ... on protests. The other ... officers present move to ... information, please post to the Indymedia page with this ...Game of the decade?Hi all, As this decade is fast drawing to a close at an astonishing rate of one day per day, I'm hoping to do a major retrospective of 'the naughtie…
... to do a major retrospective of 'the naughties' for my retro mart column ... , namely as to what you feel are the absolute best ... />
My personal high lights (in no particular order ... Justice, Higgledy Piggledy, GameX - The Game Exchange, splATTR, and BeTiled ...Brush with the local constabularyRemember this thread spec-chums [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20575[/url] Well, just before the Manchester Utd Vs Bar…
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I was going to get me and the ... mrs somethin to eat, so I ... drove to our local ... 'm going now..", toss pot replied with "Please, pull around the corner ...The Real Retromaniacs - new website now up and running!Hi everyone. As some of you may have been aware by the link in my sig, The Real Retromaniacs is now officially up and running! You can get to it her…
... a look. The next '8 Bit Wars' vid is going to be about ... feedback is much appreciated. To register and get to the forums, just click ... on 'Community' from the home ... page blog, or go directly to the link here [url]http:// ...Attn: XBox users (original XBox, not the 360)On the original XBox, game patches were sometimes issued, to fix problems with the games, or to add new in-game levels, or whatever. The patches were…
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Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds (content supplied by ... Maps - new multiplayer maps: Mountain High and Troubled Waters. 3977 blocks ...world of spectrum online with the 360thought i'd make a thread about this. i seem to have a bunch of wossers on my freinds list but apart from that we never really did anything, until n…
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when there is a game going ... on, and you get an invite don't feel obliged to ... />
it seems to me that the easiest way to get these games ... work if we start to plan things down to the detail, like arranging ...ULA Hacks?During some of my madder experiments back in the 80's I discovered some interesting ULA hacks such as being able to read the raster position through …
... back in the 80's I discovered some interesting ULA hacks ... such as being able to read the raster position ... ever able to use them commercially because I knew that the ULA kept ... changing and I would never be able to ...
