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Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
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your local speccy shop-what was it like?hello well mine was in a market stall(7 ft wide*16 ft long)the shop itself was in spennymoor.as soon as you stepped in there was 2 shelves of speccy…
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Custom Speccys and the like.hiya all I've been tinkering with building a Super spectrum for some time now. The whole process had changed and grown and ended up nothing like wha…
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Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
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Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
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More ultimate?tranz am = How do you feckin' know where the cups will be, only found 1 once and cant work head nor tail out of the radars ...how many cups do you ne…
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256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…
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Gunfright Map EditorFor all of you that want to alter things and be the proud owner of the ultimate bulldozer and start with a whole new wasteland then you now have the …
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Requires a TZX of Gunfright and working brain cells.
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Speccy Flash Mobbing....I got realy fed up with PC world the other day, and I and sure that many other computer users have as well at some point. So I think its time...time…
Yup, great idea, even though I have no transport or a mobile phone.
Flash mob at the gates of Ultimate with Spectrums in hand and ask for Mire Mare.
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I never had this as a lad...I have only just found out recently that I can no longer load games on my spectrum, thanks to BT building a mobile phone mast 100 yards away from my …
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Can anyone remember this game ?Hi, I'm desperately trying to find the name a game for the ZX Spectrum. It was set in a kind of underground base, with a top down perspective. You …
That would be Rescue by Mastertronic. An excellent game that required a lot of skill and perfect timing.
Mat
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Jet Set Willy RZX!Had to post this one - DarenP, the maintainer of the RZX Archive ([url]http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/[/url]) has been testing a new SPIN release with R…
... 2004-08-01 23:19, MatGubbins wrote:
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Name (of) the gameExcuse this post. If it sounds odd then blame the 8th can of Stella I'm currently on. Have you ever though about the name behind a game? The words …
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Elite owe me...Way back in the 80s sometime, I was reading Crash (as you do) and came across an advert by Elite for Frank Bruno's Boxing and International Basketbal…
... 2004-10-14 23:19, MatGubbins wrote:
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You want to read this. Oh yes you do.1) Go to [url="http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro9.shtml"]http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro9.shtml[/url] 2) Read to the very bott…
... 2004-10-22 22:38, MatGubbins wrote:
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Floppy Storage TipFloppy Storage Tip - Now we are ?throwing away? the VHS cassettes, save the boxes as you can store 14 floppies in it. Thanks to Quazar for my ?FREE?…
... 2004-12-02 23:38, MatGubbins wrote:
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Floppy Storage TipFloppy Storage Tip - Now we are ?throwing away? the VHS cassettes, save the boxes as you can store 14 floppies in it. Thanks to Quazar for my ?FREE?…
... 2004-12-02 23:38, MatGubbins wrote:
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How to play 3-D MS games Blade Eagle and Maze Hunter in 2-D ?I looked at a few cheat sites; perhaps they don't consider it cheating to play 3-D Master System games in 2-D. How do I play these games without the…
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idea*watches everybody run to the hills*. was just thinking about the "the world is populated by twonks " thing, and i am starting to think it would mak…
... 2005-01-10 16:12, MatGubbins wrote:
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Renegade III Myfirst controversial Topic, and it`s honestly... HONESTLY not inviting/promoting arguments... but I`ve been soohooked on the renegade gamessince `8…
... 2005-01-11 00:42, MatGubbins wrote:
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Nightshade vs GunfrightWhich do you prefer? I've got a feeling the majority will say Gunfright, but remember that Nightshade came first and is more influential. Without Nig…
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Nightshade vs GunfrightWhich do you prefer? I've got a feeling the majority will say Gunfright, but remember that Nightshade came first and is more influential. Without Nig…
... 2005-03-06 23:50, MatGubbins wrote:
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WoS homepage.Yo ... I have a quick question: At home I only get the 128k Speccy on the WoS homepage while at work I get 48k and 128k random ... why do I not get …
... 2005-04-01 01:07, MatGubbins wrote:
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gremlin graphics related[url="http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20608"]http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20608[/url] 2nd p…
It seems as if the stress and pressure of a new job is finally getting to our poor Mel.
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Favourite thing to eat with a cup of teaMy favourite thing to eat with a cup of tea is a Crunchie. All that honeycomb and chocolate melting when you take a warm drink of tea...hmmm! My se…
... 2005-04-19 23:40, MatGubbins wrote:
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Favourite thing to eat with a cup of teaMy favourite thing to eat with a cup of tea is a Crunchie. All that honeycomb and chocolate melting when you take a warm drink of tea...hmmm! My se…
... 2005-04-19 23:40, MatGubbins wrote:
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Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... 2005-05-07 18:34, MatGubbins wrote:
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Ebay help pleaseI'm about to register on Ebay but before I do has anyone got any suggestions or advice. Please, any input very appreciated.
... 2005-05-26 01:17, MatGubbins wrote:
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