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  • Cutting out of Game AdvertsMe and my Bro used to have tones of smart game ads on our walls back in the day , Ocean,Quicksiver and Ultimate were and are favourites

    Ha, I thought I was the only one! I only ... used to back my school books (do you remember having to ... posts tho, the Ocean artwork was ace. I remember having Vindicator ...
    funkyg funkyg February 2005 Games
  • Cutting out of Game AdvertsMe and my Bro used to have tones of smart game ads on our walls back in the day , Ocean,Quicksiver and Ultimate were and are favourites

    ... covering of School books. LOL
    What was the point of that ... most of my old school books and they were covered in ... told to cover messy books.
    I was very messy.
    (Theres ...
    JimDiGrizLovesAngelina JimDiGrizLovesAngelina February 2005 Games
  • Input needed for RG article on 8 bit games that 'stank' Hi guys, I'm putting together a piece for Retro Gamer. It will feature 8 bit games 'that stank'. I'm after your input on which SPECTRUM, C64 and …

    ... as bad (and IIRC it was, when first published, an unlicensed ... -off of the James Bond books -- Cubby Broccoli's lawyers soon ... 20p at a Microfair, I was ripped off. ;)
    robert@fm robert@fm February 2005 Games
  • Input needed for RG article on 8 bit games that 'stank' Hi guys, I'm putting together a piece for Retro Gamer. It will feature 8 bit games 'that stank'. I'm after your input on which SPECTRUM, C64 and …

    ... as bad (and IIRC it was, when first published, an unlicensed ... -off of the James Bond books -- Cubby Broccoli's lawyers soon ... 20p at a Microfair, I was ripped off. ;)

    [/quote ... ]

    Urban Upstart was OK, programmed by none-other ...
    Dave_C Dave_C February 2005 Games
  • used RUBBER ;) or 128 any left?hello, I?m looking for these two miracles but alive! or any of them. (48 rubber / 128k) no need to be boxed, just the basic accesories to make it go…

    ... /> eerh...books? something about programming?

    [ This Message was edited by ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup March 2005 Wanted
  • What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …

    ... imagining each location as it was described...a constant unfolding picture ... it once and my imagination was never involved in playing it ... br />
    There?s always books to get the old grey ... Titmus!!"

    [ This Message was edited by: stupidget on 2005 ...
    stupidget stupidget April 2005 Games
  • What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …

    ... imagining each location as it was described...a constant unfolding picture ... it once and my imagination was never involved in playing it ... br />
    There?s always books to get the old grey ... Titmus!!"

    [ This Message was edited by: stupidget on 2005 ...
    Vampyre Vampyre April 2005 Games
  • What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …

    ... wrote:
    There?s always books to get the old grey ... that exist.

    There was one time recently where I ... to explain to someone who was really knowledgeable about video games ... what a text adventure was. I showed them Humbug by ...
    udgoverload udgoverload April 2005 Games
  • Good way to use old Speccy games - Fighting Fantasy OnlineDon't know if anyone on here used to like Fighting Fantasy books, but i noticed recently that in the 80s it looks like they put the books as text adv…

    Those books were brilliant when i was young, still remember the early ... so well. Sadly i sold books 1-20 on ebay 2 ... ago !

    The Sorcery books (Remember Khare cityport of traps ... school though those fighting fantasy books were huge, everyone had them ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2005 Games
  • Good way to use old Speccy games - Fighting Fantasy OnlineDon't know if anyone on here used to like Fighting Fantasy books, but i noticed recently that in the 80s it looks like they put the books as text adv…

    ... one point the top 3 books on the times childrens best ... sellers were all FF books"

    its funny, when ... this huge row of FF books i'd banned me mam ... from touching and she was like "wow i used to ...
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere April 2005 Games
  • Good way to use old Speccy games - Fighting Fantasy OnlineDon't know if anyone on here used to like Fighting Fantasy books, but i noticed recently that in the 80s it looks like they put the books as text adv…

    Here in Portugal, the FF books were published some years after ... instance, "WARLOCK OF FIRETOP MOUNTAIN" was only published in 1985 and ... " was never released.

    I used to read/play those books ... off later :(

    FF books bring back a lot of ...
    FranciscoVasco FranciscoVasco April 2005 Games
  • Zaphod has only one headIt's absolutely crap, really!!! I'm still going to see the new Hitch-Hiker's Guide film though. Necros.

    ... . My favourite bit was the Lintilla clones. :) That was just so strange ... . My least favourite was the tv series. Trillian as ... even attractive.

    The books and the game were almost ... radio show but the game was REALLY hard. It took me ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton April 2005 Chit chat
  • CronosoftI ordered a few Cronosoft games a short while ago and they arrived today. Although I've only played the games in question (Egghead III and Rough Just…

    ... think it's American? It was British as of 1992 when ... & at the time I was considering going back to studying ... an ODP all my old books have come back out. So ... In a way, ADJB was half right (or is that ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty April 2005 Games
  • ot: Anyone know anything about Star Wars role playing books?I picked up a bag load of Star Wars books today at a boot sale. Anyone know much about them? Value etc? pics ; [url="http://photobucket.com/albums/…

    ... 90s, and the 2nd edition was published in something like 1995 ... those look like 2nd edition books, and several of them are ... forum.

    [ This Message was edited by: udgoverload on 2005 ...
    udgoverload udgoverload April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Decent ScrambleAre there any decent Specy versions of scramble? All the near matches on WOS are fairly poor. I after something approaching the quality of the (shock…

    'Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange and pretend your laughing at it.'

    Hee Hee! I was watching Black Books earlier. :)

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton April 2005 Games
  • ot: Anyone know anything about Star Wars role playing books?I picked up a bag load of Star Wars books today at a boot sale. Anyone know much about them? Value etc? pics ; [url="http://photobucket.com/albums/…

    ... mopst was, i very nearly threw the 4 really tatty books away ...
    thx1138 thx1138 April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Star Wars TV SeriesWell it's going to happen apparently George Lucas has confirmed that there will be 2 TV series made ( BBC1 Teletext page 501 ) 1 a cartoon and anothe…

    ... really even count. Clone Wars was a decent cartoon actually but ... it was a cartoon.

    Forget the books as well ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2005 Chit chat
  • Q on Ebay.So ... I finally have an Ebay account and I won a bid on Monday ... should I be concerned that the seller hasn't contacted me since then? I have sen…

    ... identical, or very similar books? If it was heavier, it might cost ... postage rate, if you send books or printed matter, and not ... />


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    thx1138 thx1138 April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I should improve my EnglishI get on with written English, but spoken English is my Achilles heel! Yesterday I got the confirmation of this. I was waiting at the traffic lights…

    ... practise the language by reading books, web pages, posting in forums ... chance of practising spoken English was 10 years ago, when I ... was at high school and made ... .


    [ This Message was edited by: cascarria on 2005 ...
    cascarria cascarria April 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    ... H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv ... the TV series, but it was made all the better by ... the radio series, but the books are hugely entertaining.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    ... went last night, and it was excellent. My son (aged 11 ... good sense, the new Marvin was hilarious and much better than ... anticipated.

    Granted, there was a lot cut out of ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    ... the film too, like, it was he who said that Auther ... series, we've read the books inside out and back to ... front, even tried the comic books.

    It's a ...
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy May 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    Yep, first came the radio series, then the books, then the tv show. Of course from "Life The Universe and Everything" onwards, it was the books that came first.
    enzo1701 enzo1701 May 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    ... , I have never read the books or seen the TV series ... watching it last night )it was much better than many of ...


    [ This Message was edited by: swordheart on 2005 ...
    swordheart swordheart May 2005 Chit chat
  • "Hitchhikers Guide"i loooove H2G2, the new movie, the books, the radio show, the tv show (on BBC America), the toothbrush set, and the limited edition Zaphod kitchen si…

    ... he exlains that radio series, books, TV show and records have ... Deff was a revelation. Trillian was intelliegent and cute and Zaphod was ... by the Magrathean Factory Floor was brilliant acting. Finally, early ... the guide, the music was brilliant. Roll on the ...
    Mr Helpman Mr Helpman May 2005 Chit chat
  • School SpeccysLook, i know you guys had Spectrums in school (only fair, you guys had to wear uniforms, we didn't) I'm 15. We have crappy macs. Sooooo what games di…

    ... we just read dull books, about things like punch ... Some crappy database. I was already using D-base at ...

    There was also a Spectrum tucked away ...
    When I was a youngster I did sort ... />

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    thx1138 thx1138 May 2005 Games
  • Derren BrownLast Friday I got dragged to see Derren Brown live by the missus, as he was doing a show in Skegness. To be honest, I'd never seen the Channel 4 sho…

    ... far as the show and books go, know a lot about ... the show.

    There was one episode I found went ... whilst playing what he thought was a proper arcade shooter machine ...
    Collie Collie May 2005 Chit chat
  • Speccy Game Source CodeIs there a way to look at the tape files or convert the tape files to read the source code? Also, is there an archive of source code for various old…

    ... nice to see how Antescher was encoded.

    > How ... there are some good Z80 books by Games Programmers.

    Geoff Geoff May 2005 Games
  • What I'm reading...What I'm reading right now: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Stor…

    ... Stephen King is writing fantasy books, do you mean the Dark ... got deeply into it and was extremely disappointed yet strangely pleased ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2005 Chit chat
  • What I'm reading...What I'm reading right now: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Stor…

    ... lot of fun writing these books. On virtually every other page ... or places from his other books. He even turns up himself ... 2 books. I personally love that sort of thing and was always ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2005 Chit chat
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