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My speccy sold it's soul to do this.Which 5 speccy moments defied logic and managed to impress you the most at the time? 1. The loader for Moonstrike. 2. The almost flawless R-Type con…
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OK. You wrote that once and I ... talk like that about the software house that brought us such little ... fact that those games costed you a paltry ?1.99 ... /> Our other listed, Superkid, was an Atlantis Software release.
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an idea that could be very very good...but also very very bad...Hello all! I've been having a chat with some of my friends round here that once loved the spectrum (well...2...as they're all heathens round here...)…
... technical types, from what i read you saying you would have no ... paging for compatibility with older software, more speed but be ... select, underclocking for older software. a larger modified ROM ... and monitor. harddrive as was mentioned. use of standard floppies ... -
Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... of those ways was to say what features i didn ... s point that for what it was not meant to ... ) 48k, which is what you seem to have in mind ... . what about multicolour on the Timex, for instance, which was? ... effect done with software.
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Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …
... would increase the new software production by a 1000%. ... enjoy the most support. What we have in z88dk already ... is what has been discussed in ... this one when Dunny was asked to add a ... [/quote]
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Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... go round to my mates house. It was a 45 minute walk ... earliest memory was playing Manic Minor at my mates house after ... for supplying the pork pies :) You will never be forgotten!
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Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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3. Worst Software House
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Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... how commercial duplication was done for real. So when you "lock" a ... the IPFlib was a simple API to the IPF files, you should ... don't care what is used to preserve software, as long as ... important, and if you can't ensure the software is authentic, then ... -
Big differences in review scoresI was looking at the reviews Zoids got earlier, and there was a big gap between what YS gave it and what the other mags gave it (personally I quite l…
... a favour from the software house for taking them out ... been 94 /95 I was with a group of ... was introduced to a guy called Gavin ( At least thats what ... my memory says his name was, could be ... years for them, and was openly honest of the fact ... -
Big differences in review scoresI was looking at the reviews Zoids got earlier, and there was a big gap between what YS gave it and what the other mags gave it (personally I quite l…
... a favour from the software house for taking them out ... been 94 /95 I was with a group of ... was introduced to a guy called Gavin ( At least thats what ... my memory says his name was, could be ... years for them, and was openly honest of the fact ... -
Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…
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PS: Did you update your posting? I was just about to ... write "it works if you swap the ... serious bug in the forum software: if you put more than one ... the first one, regardless of what you actually typed in them. A ... -
Formula One!Just found Formula One (CRL Group) which I used to play a LOT together with my dad! Great game! Anyone else who likes it? :)
You are thinking of the Spirit Software game which was later re-released by Mastertronic
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New vault updateWell, it's interesting to see how totally underwhelmed most people are about the new update! Or are they still busy downloading everything ;) The on…
... other information? Depending on what the information you need is, I might ... TZX Vault before, often. It was you and I that finished off ... />
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building a computerFor some reason having come of age (25 last feburary) I've begun to get the itch to build my on computer, i.e. from scratch, not plug together pc par…
... is quite 'easy' -- like writing software, you don't need to know ... to work. And, as you know software already, you're quite well prepared ... one time all circuit design was trying to fit these parts ... couple of hours looking at what MSI parts are available at ... -
making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…
... far from perfect, was a decently capable piece of software.
[/ ... piece of software that didn't look like it was coded in ... compiled the code was bloated and inefficient. It was a toy, ... game to a software house are long gone. If you write software with a ... -
Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... SU? Why don't you compare them to Your Sinclair ... tentative to state what you already think - that Crash was the Bible ... software houses. This is what you stated: "just stating what they did , which was ... deceived in any way. What you are saying is pure and ... -
commodore64just download a c64 emulator and find this interesting site [url="http://www.c64.com"]http://www.c64.com[/url], lots of games and screenshots, ..i re…
... best versions with this particular software house are Spectrum.
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was weak as hell and wasn ... (and [B]Space Harrier[/B] was nowhere near the mark as ... a conversion but i was impressed by what was in there...)
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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…
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In fact if you look at just the first ... a feature on a software house that released speccy games ... cyborg wrote:
You're all corporate bitches if ... Phantom - in that case you're just stupid - ... />
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Documentary on the fall of Imagine[url="http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi"]http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi[/url] (86MB)
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... is close to priceless, you can [I]see[/I] ... i seem to remember there was another programme following the ... young kids starting a software house (i'm reasonably sure ... crap name like Silly Software - does that ring ... -
Only two new posts in 2 days?What on earth is the Spectrum community coming to? Finally run out of things to talk about? Things are so bad, we may have to resurrect the old bea…
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CALL YOURSELF A SOFTWARE SHOP???
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Documentary on the fall of Imagine[url="http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi"]http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi[/url] (86MB)
... was about a man with approx 300 arcade machines in his house ... , garage (or more like an arcade) and was brilliant ... ) but I don`t know what it was...
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The Spectrum Oscars...Seeing as it's nearly Oscars time; I thought it would be fun to have one of our own. So get your votes in folks :) 1) Best spectrum game 2) Best gfx…
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Batman- TheCapedCrusader (what can I say, my taste ... JoffaSmith
5) Best software house (shouldn't of bothered really ... nina?
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TelecomsoftI run the Bird Sanctuary website at [url="http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk."]http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk.[/url] For those who haven't seen it before…
... one particular software house and completing a collection but why are you so ... bothered by these codes ? What will you do with ... an attack or dig at you just i'm genuinely interested ... -
Microdrive software Was any software ever released for microdrives? games, utils, etc..
... Emulator was designed to start from tape and microdrive. You can load ... from tape and microdrive. What ever medium you use, the selection can ... .
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I Want DENIED Gamessorry pressed enter to soon that should read I want denied games information Erm so what are the reason's for games being denied I know Thor/Odin a…
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Being legal was not the point. Being correct ... /> And I give you Exhibit A: Zenobi Software. They requested that their ... correct one! This goes against what you have been saying!
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I Want DENIED Gamessorry pressed enter to soon that should read I want denied games information Erm so what are the reason's for games being denied I know Thor/Odin a…
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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…
... have crappy macs. Sooooo what games did you smuggle in to school ... white picket fences outside your house and have white socks pulled ... only game you really put on your Beeb at school was Frak ... really did on the BBC was design Viewdata (Teletext) screens which ... -
Q on scanning books.Those of you with experience scanning books: What is the "best" way to scan them without making creases etc? I am wondering if a hand scanner is t…
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What software and what settings do you use when you scan books?
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JSW - Is this possible?There's an object in the Conservatory Roof which I reckon cannot be collected without losing a life. There's a snapshot taken in the Conservatory …
What I meant was: the pokes released by Software Projects - were they the first patch for a computer game released to the public, ie for them to patch themselves. As opposed to the software house releasing newer versions of a game.
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What's the maddest a Speccy game ever drove you????What's the maddest a game ever made you and what did you do about it?? I have plenty of memories of punching TV's, myself, sofa's etc. as, for exampl…
... insulting Firebird software house and shouting that if I ever was to meet ... Monty. How did they expect you to control him?
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