-
The origin of Dr. Maddo TZX...The origin of the original release of [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001479"]Dr. Maddo (US GOLD)[/URL] is unknown. No maga…
The origin of the original release of [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... any of our slovenian mates translate the review to english (the available ... find more information about the origin of this game as it ... a very r@re piece of the very important (and not r ... -
Robin of the WoodIs there any way of knowing where the Ent/bishop is going to be? Or is it just pot luck? After about 40 minutes of running about with only 2 bags of …
Is there any way of knowing where the Ent/bishop is going to be? Or is it just pot luck? After about 40 minutes of running about with only 2 bags of gold to show for it, it get's a bit annoying. -
Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan AdditionThe Codemasters game [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan was originally going to be known as Stryker in th…
... COLOR=#000000]Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan was originally going ... be known as Stryker in the Crypts of Chaos.
... one of the first, if not the only game to make use of the ... Amstrad Plus's enhanced facilities on tape instead of ... -
The end of the road for the CD is nearWell, it seems that cds are now definately on the road out. There was a report last week that Mercury will stop pressing cd's at the end of next yea…
... cds are now definately on the road out. There was a ... stop pressing cd's at the end of next year.
It ... (look at HMV's sales, the same is going for DVDs ... as i like to have the music in my hands ... cds).
The writing has been on the wall for the cd for ... -
A New Day, Another List of Games for saleIn the beginning there were some lists of games, then there were some more. Then it got silly and they kept coming.... Sorry, being a numpty today. …
... Manager 2 ? Addictive
Footballer of the Year 2 ? Gremlin
Four ...
Guadalcanal ? Activision
Guerrilla War ? Imagine
Gunslinger ? U.S ... Attack ? Martech
Hercules Slayer of the Damned ? Gremlin
High Steel ... -
To The Center Of The Earth (AKA) Romanians, please help![URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023420&loadpics=3"]To the Center of Earth[/URL] I am not sure but I believe the name of this…
... =0023420&loadpics=3"]To the Center of Earth[/URL]
the name of this game is actually ... -
The Making of 'Ant Attack!'This short film by Anthony Caulfield and Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic game ANT ATTACK released in 1983. [youtube]…
... and Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic game ... /> There is an interview with the developer Sandy White, who remembers ... .
Filmed at the at the Fusion 08 event in Leamington ... -
Canny use of the 'r' register?Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=583188#post583188"]crunch sound thread[/URL] has made me th…
Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ] has made me think about the r register.
...
As it cycles irrespective of whether interupts enabled so presumably ... (though much much faster by the looks of it).
I ... -
The rescue of a coil.The problem at hand was a known defect transformer from the switching convertor inside a Spectrum. Both windings are not interrupted and not intercon…
... the point where the enamel melts and the copper makes contact with the copper of the ... next turn. As the outside of the coil is cooled at the air, the ... meltdown is on the inner ... -
For Sale - Anyone tired of this yet?Aother list. As usual let me know if wanting anything, from the list that is, though other requests are maybe considered? Just rambling now. I dreame…
... br /> Vectorball ? Mastertronic
Valley of the Dead ? Pocket Money Software
War Machine - Players
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ? Puffin ... /> Waxworks - Digital Fantasia
Way of the Exploding Fist ? Melbourne House
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 ... 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.
What is the name of this game?An adventure game, split in 2 halves vertically. I can't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science Fictional nature. Perhap…
... 't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science ... think it appeared on one of the 'Your Sinclair' cassettes.
The Legend of Red Dragon MIA GameI think the author of the game still appears here in the WoS forums every now and then, so I would like to know if there was a cover designed for thi…
I think the author of the game still appears here in the WoS forums every ... that I once saw the cover in the Cronosoft old page, but ... me, maybe you can finish the game :pWhich week in '82 did full blown production of the Spectrum start?Hi Probably a long shot but does anybody have any hard evidence as to exactly which week in 1982 that full blown production of Issue 1's started? I…
... blown production of Issue 1's started? I know that the machine ... was announced to the world on April ... I would have imagined that the production run would have started ...Ship of the line[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006971[/url] Nothing important really, had not noticed it before today. A look at the basic …
... at the basic (it is all basic) shows an excess of 23613 ... =0 pokes, 40 of those pokes in ... in just a few K of basic. Only looked at V1 ...Help me remember the name of this text adventure game?Memory is hazy, I vaguely recall the following.. It was a text adventure game. Each prompt, was preceded by WHAT NEXT [i]name[/i]? If a command wa…
... is hazy, I vaguely recall the following..
... raised or dropped as the game went along, and ... some limited combat, with the odd graphic thrown in.< ... it a lot, some of the obstacles and hazards included;< ... to be avoided, and the route was blocked by ...Release of the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1Thanks to work by Daniele Terdina and Jiri Dolezal, we have now released the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1. This is a set of 10 commercial games fo…
... />
This is a set of 10 commercial games for you ... this will help distil the comments that the QL was only ever ... hopefully help promote the QL itself.
The games included ... H Robertson Consultants
The Lost Pharaoh by Stefan Kuhne ...The smell of a brand new ZX SpectrumThis may be the weirdest question I've asked here... Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case to reveal your brand new…
... />
Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case ... with particular smell emanating from the inside of the case.
They ... to remove the screws underneath. The moment I took off one of the rubber ...Increasing the number of UDGs...Hi Folks, I know by default the Spectrum can have 21 UDGs (48K) and 19 (128K) and that the address of the bit patterns is pointed to by the UDG syst…
... /> I know by default the Spectrum can have 21 UDGs ... (128K) and that the address of the bit patterns is pointed ... to by the UDG ... it possible to increase the number of UDGs? I can ... br /> Something tells me the answer to this is going ...Question about some of the Shaw Brothers gamesMartijn, I have a doubt: Some of these games appeared in magazine covertapes, but in the archive they appear too as if they were originally released …
... Some of these games appeared in magazine covertapes, but in the archive ... Reading this post written by the Shaws, they talk about their ... these titles they only mention the magazine as publisher...it ... were only released by the magazines, and the other ones, for ...New Game: THE LOST TAPES OF ALBIONOkay here's my present for the Speccies 30th birthday: [B] [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Lost+Tapes+of+Albion%2c+The$&pu…
... .cgi?regexp=^Lost+Tapes+of+Albion%2c+The$&pub=^Stonechat+Productions ... />
It's a rework of the StampQuest/EFMB idea but there ... . Can go off the top/bottom and sides of the screen.
the use of ALBION in the name, I didn ...Prisoner Of the Village - Spoof Software*sighs* hundreds of tapes, but looks like i did em 15 years ago, meh. But DID find one for the MIA list!, uploaded to WOS, enjoy! And happy birthday…
*sighs* hundreds of tapes, but looks like i did em 15 years ago, meh.
But DID find one for the MIA list!, uploaded to WOS, enjoy! And happy birthday speccy!"I, Of The Mask" inlayI thought I'd rescan and clean up the inlay. The one in the WOS archive is a bit grimy: [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b357/mlucifersam/Retro…
... and clean up the inlay. The one in the WOS archive is ... a decent piece of art for the game which was ... used on the magazine adverts and it ... the back on the inlay and (IMO) an inferior piece of ... art was used on the front.
...The Collapse of Free Radical DesignFor anyone interested in how and why Free Radical (the console games developer, made up partly of ex-Rare employees) managed to go from the brillianc…
... the best of the best console first person shooters) to Haze (the very definition of ... a generic, uninspired, and by-the-numbers FPS ... .biz/articles/2012-04-26-the-collapse-of-free-radical-design[/url]RCA distributor of the Activision games in France?As you can read in the right page, at the bottom left corner: [url]http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Tilt/tilt_numero017/TILT%20-%20n%B017%2…
... can read in the right page, at the bottom left corner:
of seeing which Activision games appear in the magazine to ...Eurogamer report on Horizons, a celebration of the ZX Spectrum[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url] Gasman gets a mention for his live performance of a speccy vers…
... .net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url]
of a speccy version of "Never Gonna Give ... for when he takes to the stand to explain how he ...Simple explanation of interrupts (in the context of Z80/Speccy)I wondered if somebody on here could explain in simple terms how interrupts work on the Speccy and where interrupts are source from. Are they a natur…
... terms how interrupts work on the Speccy and where interrupts are ... Are they a natural feature of the Z80, or are they instigated ... via the ULA? Are Speccy interrupts per ... about non-maskable-interrupts in the case of resetting a spectrum.
Scan of two type-in books from Interface PublicationsFor those who may be interested, I thought I'd just point out two book scans on a mainly Commoodre based site that have Spectrum listings in them. T…
... Return
The Siege of Doune Castle
Third World War
Laserfight ... in the OK Space ... ]
with conversion of all of the listings to the Spectrum by Clive Gifford ...The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…
... happens to be low, the current state of the joystick port will show ... up on the data bus, messing ... with no support for one of the two major choices on joystick ...The Top 25 Modern PC GamesIn the thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40451[/url] , Ivanzx asks do you prefer modern or 'classic' era Spectrum g…
... Modern PC Games", a list of the best (in their opinion) ... Total War: Shogun 2
9. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings< ... have no interest in many of the other games.
... the all powering sense of lonlieness was only ever broken by the attacks of the ...
