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2008 Lookback/2009 Lookforward ThreadSo, what have we done this year? On the YS site, I've added the Virtual News Stand (the clickable double-page magazine spreads you see dotted around…
So, what have we done this year?
On the YS site ... made a lot of progress on the Xmas Special (due out ... surprise).
On the Tipshop, Gerard's been working frantically as ... right now.
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grrr The Capacitor PlagueI'm getting fed up of The Capacitor Plague. If you don't know what this is, I'll tell you the result. Your computer stops working. Sometimes, it won'…
... know what this is, I'll tell you the result. Your ... or crashes randomly.
What's happened is the electrolytic capacitors ... . It causes the chips on your motherboard/cards to malfunction or ... datacentre in London, but it's showing the symptoms. My ... -
Favourite toilet... what's yours?Old thread from another site [url]http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=393728[/url] Not sure if it's been posted on here but I'm sure Speccy games …
... /> Not sure if it's been posted on here but I'm ... fair amount of bogs especially on the platformers, although my personal ... -
Playing 128k music with z88dk ?Hi, I'm amazed how easy seems to make things with z88dk to build spectrum asm programs. After my first approach I miss some way to play 128k music, s…
... are on your own to play music? And in that case, what's 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…
... Time to go on-line.
Tex's flat, was ...
A message flashed on Tex's screen. SEN5241 requests chat accept ... 'On what?'
'On you, mate. I can be your worst nightmare, or your fairy ... Prevention of terrorism son, that's all the crown court needs ... -
Computer or console: Which do you prefer for games?Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about this yesterday to a mate (a World of Warcraft addict) who doesn't like consoles, and neither I (who …
... I'd see what we all thought about it on here.
on your system. On the other hand, on a PC you ... the PC's troublesome nature is good or bad, depending on your point ... playing. I'm just curious what percentage of us prefer to ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, ... up who owns the copyright on what Sinclair ROMs:
* ZX80/ ... to ResiDOS
* Suggesting ON ERR support in ResiDOS
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Goldeneye: Source mod (for Half-Life 2) has been releasedThe topic title pretty much says it all, but anyway, the Goldeneye: Source mod (for Half-Life 2) has been released. This is a fan made rewrite of the…
... you need HL2 on your PC to run ... what I've read on the 'net it's extremely good indeed. From what ... s getting there.
Trouble is, you need Steam on your ... />
P.S. Goldeneye: Source is nothing at ... source code to Goldeneye on the N64, sadly ... -
A tax on violent games?[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/4968581/Tax-violent-video-games-tobeat-knife-crime-says-Damiola-Taylor…
... , peer presure, and so on, but it's easier to blame games ... .
They should concentrate on making knives harder to buy ... .
Oh, and he's on the sex offenders register for ... register does nothing.
What a fucking joke this country ... -
What's happened to Retro Gamer?Retro Gamer's website is just returning the imagine publishing logo, and other addresses such as the forums all 404. The magazine is still listed on…
Retro Gamer's website is just returning the imagine publishing logo, and other addresses such as the forums all 404.
The magazine is still listed on Imagine's main site and subscription pages, but anything specific to the magazine has gone. -
OnLive gameing service"Imagine playing a computer game without any hassles. Drivers, troubleshooting, installations, compatibility, performance--all thrown out the window.…
... on the game, and seconds later, you're playing. That's what ... undercut every existing console on the market.
... respects, OnLive is what you get when you ... You get Crysis on your HDTV at the highest ... 's hundreds of miles from your doorstep. It's ... -
Help! An IP problemMy mate is a member of a well known file sharing site whose name I won't say in case they randomly google for mentions of their name and match this p…
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"[I]Based on your download logs, your Premium Account [COLOR=Red ... you have downloaded on each day and from what IP-address.
s downloaded from different physical locations ... so into the second year's subscription, we get this ... -
Advice on cooling a PC needed.I am about to build what is gonna be my final PC but i want it to be a humdinger and need advice on keeping it cool as in the past i have built prett…
I am about to build what is gonna be my ... a humdinger and need advice on keeping it cool as ... you can download and have on your desktop telling you the heat ... they would keep a check on the cpu heat ?
... lot first rather than go on a specialised pc cooling ... -
Giving up on ebay.Gaaaahhh. Now I can't bloomin' sell anything, cuz I'm not allowed to put my postage over ?3.00. Ebum says that the particular category I've chosen …
... shite is that? No matter what I try, like Royal mail ... everything on at 99p or 1.99
So what's the ... -
Pc to real +2 loading issues Please Help!?!?This is causing me great headaches, please shine some light onto it. I had a black +2 128k as a kid, always argued that it was better than C64 with …
... car so you can use your ipod in a old car ... slighly different results, but errors on loading screens, or tape loading ... can choose, could this be what's doing it, does it need ... ...
What settings do I need the pc on?
Stalker on forums[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8040178.stm[/url] Very sad story, unbelievable what went on. Seemed like this guy was infatuated with this …
... Very sad story, unbelievable what went on. Seemed like this guy ... cyber onlookers witnessed Heiss's infatuation becoming ever more sinister ... ), had read Ms Witton's online journal. He looked ... at her photographs on social networking website Facebook ...Best Arnie filmWas watching Twins on tv today (i was bored!) and it got me thinking, what's your fave Arnie film? Terminator, Red Heat or Total recall? For me, it…
... on tv today (i was bored!) and it got me thinking, what's your ... a dumb film but it's still fun. He tended to ... boil after the mid 90's (didn't like End of ... or Collateral damage much).
What's the Wosser's fave Arnie film?Your views on...Red Moon[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006880]Red Moon[/url] This will be the first text adventure that I've chosen for this thread …
... mag.
Anyone played it? What's it like?
[url ...The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…
... Q/A/O/P/M on a 48K Speccy or Q ... need to use a PC's keyboard).
It should ... timing accordingly.
There's no title, options, speed-up ...What are you playing on your Nintendo DS?Me: Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure Great platform/puzzle amalgam Rhythm Paradise Amusing rhythm tapping game with great music Zelda: P…
... /> Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
It's a Zelda game. Nuff said ...The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …
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1) What's your favourite Science Fiction film? I ... not, be science fiction, depending on your views (for example, is the ... />
2) Your favourite Carry On film?
Me ...Who's this, what's he up to?[QUOTE]Police in Dargaville would like a word with an unknown man pictured sizing up the access to a banking machine. Security camera photos supplied…
... , as he wrote them down on his clipboard. Local police do ... the land of the Kiwi's !DOOM / Wolfenstein 3D / Citadel - on real ZX SpectrumHi there. I had enough hearing that Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Citadel are only for giantic/powerful Russian ZX clones, because I knew that the games…
... any nice experience but it's worth to wait, in ... 7 seconds because that's the time ZX waits ... t have to press STOP on your mp3 player, it will ... with your virtual body. ;) Looking UP/DOWN: W/S.
... after all (well, it's possible that hundreds of systems ...SpecEmu screen rollHi, Downloaded SpecEmu on the basis of your poll. The screen rolls (just like it did on my Mum's color portable circa 1985). I didn't want it to be T…
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Downloaded SpecEmu on the basis of your poll. The screen rolls ... (just like it did on my Mum's ... cured by a sound SLAP on the side of the telly ... to respond to that, somehow. What's the problem, please? Any ideas ...The longest loading game on any machine?Posting in another thread got me wondering, which game, on which home computer, took the longest time to load in? I seem to remember that on my mate'…
... got me wondering, which game, on which home computer, took the ... seem to remember that on my mate's Atari 8-bit, tape ... right.
But what game, on what machine, do you think was ... ? No doubt it was on tape, not on disc, whatever it was ...Web hosting - what's my best option?Hi guys, I need to set up a website. How do I go about getting it hosted and how much should I expect to pay? What programs do I need to upload the…
... expect to pay?
What programs do I need to ... site myself using Openoffice - it's not going to be anything ...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] …
... our member LCD was working on OCR tool to help with ... you here LCD? What's the status of your software? Could it be ...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 …
... the game (downloading and storing on your hard drive) is effectively free ... does occur it's not actually "loading", it's memory allocation ... time, but that's not downloading time, that's purchasing time, ... his other films bad, or what?
Anyway, which ...Ebay: what's going on?has anyone else noticed ebay is currently insisting Spectrum items are to be listed with free p&p? what do they expect, sale items sent without the e…
has anyone else noticed ebay is currently insisting Spectrum items are to be listed with free p&p? what do they expect, sale items sent without the envelope? :roll:What everybody reading at the minute?It's another "What's Everybody Reading" thread. Yay!!! :) Me: Greed by Andy McNab The Good Guy by Dean Koontz Or She Dies by Gregg Hurwitz Before T…
It's another "What's Everybody Reading" thread. Yay!!! :)
< ... hardback set of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the ... facsimile scan of volume one on my Ipod Touch 8gb at ... shop while I was waiting on my fish and chips. Pretty ...
