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current / forthcoming Cronosoft releasesCurrent and forthcoming Cronosoft releases: SPECTRUM: ZXS1 EGGHEAD IN SPACE ?1.99 (available now) ZXS2 DEAD OR ALIVE …
... off and it really should have been finished a while ago. ... and pretty much have to do the last 50 levels ... so left to go. plus more graphics, sorting out ... music. David, who started the project, is busy at ... many levels that is the most frustrating especially with ... -
Index register questionDoes anyone know whether the DD / FD prefix works on the ex de,hl instruction, ie. modifying it to ex de,ix or ex de,iy. Derek
... an internal flip-flop in the Z80 which determines which register ... IX and IY. (This is what lets EX DE,HL be ... information will be in the FAQ sometime soon... (and really should have been already). -
Tears of nostalgiaI have to say, playing games again like Fued, Head over Heels, Where time stood still, arkanoid 2, heavy on the magick (list could go on forever), ma…
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One of them it should have been, but I think it was ...
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What emulator you ... using?
I should have said before ... if you get the Tzx files from the archive on ... -
Highscore database?Have been playing Splitting Images all weekend and got 135,000 something, completing Marilyn Monroe. So a thought struck me - what about an online hi…
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Have been playing Splitting Images all weekend ... . So a thought struck me - what about an online highscore database ... games which would feature in the database should have digitally signed snapshots, and ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... is the one people think is worst, everyone's happy!
Plus ... it might cut down on the number of annoyingly ... of winning the "best game" prize, if you know what I mean ... :)
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Star Wars Trilogy DVDAmy got me this online while I was in Venice and it arrived yesterday. I've looked through bits of it, but have mainly watched the Special Features …
... real missed opportunity. Yes, the 'original' trilogy should have been included (remastered but otherwise ... left alone), as should deleted scenes ... (not just 1 per film plus a bonus disc), and I ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... take the Spectrum on directly. Companies survive by selling people what they ... software library to that of the Plus 4 and Atari Bit range ... /> Your point was that the CPC must have been taken seriously because it ... -
What's wrong with YS94...Hello, I'm Steve Anderson. You might remember me from such magazines as Your Sinclair and, um, that's it. I was the one who wrote a platform game in …
... plus other things influenced me with the later YS issues, like all the ... uneven, because the publisher controlled the purse strings. The general audience was ... freelance.
Duncan MacDonald should have been contactable through David MacCandless or ... -
If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…
... that they couldn't have been incorporated into the 128k Spectrums. I can ... Spectrums). But the Timex modes already existed, so should have been very cheap to ... implement. I still lose sleep over this - what ... -
A 10/10 from EdgeSorry to be totally un-Speccy related but a 10/10 in Edge magazine is a bit spesh!! (and I know a few of you are looking foward to playing this game)…
... HL 2 has been looking good for the past few months ...
I quite agree with what you've heard Arjun. Edge ... it's untrue, but with the odd exception (Doom, GTA3, ... an excellent guide to the quality of a game ... , but they say it should have been 10 now) so when ... -
Why wasn't there a Madness game?Am I the only person who thinks there should have been a Spectrum game based around the band Madness? It just seems so perfect, really 1980s, really…
... We used to think there should be a Madness game, ... should have been 'Madness'
just seemed to 'fit'
weee.... what ... might have been...
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Why wasn't there a Madness game?Am I the only person who thinks there should have been a Spectrum game based around the band Madness? It just seems so perfect, really 1980s, really…
... should have been 'Madness'
just seemed to 'fit'
weee.... what ... might have been...
[/quote]< ... Madness' game would not have sold outside the U.K. :)
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Why wasn't there a Madness game?Am I the only person who thinks there should have been a Spectrum game based around the band Madness? It just seems so perfect, really 1980s, really…
... should have been 'Madness'
just seemed to 'fit'
weee.... what ... might have been...
[/quote]< ... Madness' game would not have sold outside the U.K. :)
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Over palitronHello,I search some information of palitron, this is a game for amstrad cpc 464,I search maps, cheats, etc...excuseme, my english is very bad:)
... surely then he should have been able to look for the game Palitron in ... the archive ?
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1. He should ... the game at sinclair infoseek, coz probably he doesn't now what ... it is.
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Dunny - prob with spin?Somebody on retro gamers forum has a problem [url="http://livepublishing.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=1176025331&f=921104174&m=356104408"]http://liv…
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I'm the one who's having problems ... loading the games. I've tried ... very much all the games on the CD and none ... /> [/quote]
You should have been able to load at least ... about you run through what you're doing step by ... -
Renegade III Myfirst controversial Topic, and it`s honestly... HONESTLY not inviting/promoting arguments... but I`ve been soohooked on the renegade gamessince `8…
... Not to mention the fact that the Spectrum version (and ... I] the Spectrum game that [I]Double Dragon[/I] should have been - ... and sadly was not.
Then what came as the ... unplayable mess that eschewed the traditional, and successful, urban ... -
Dr Who Waaahooooo Ooooooo OoooooooooThis is the first programme i've been excited about in many years, all we need now is Star Wars the series. [ This Message was edited by: swordhe…
... Ace (Sophie Aldred) should have been. I've heard the term "British Buffy" banded ... advert for Halifax there too. What I can't figure out ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... fine, but then we have the fact that there are ... the second time that the same arguments have been bandied about...
But WHAT ... playground punchup... it`s what`s gonna happen, if ... wonderful commands and structure, plus better graphics handling... -
Looking for rare TZX blocksBy rare I mean out of the hundreds of TZX I have non of the following blocks exist. I need to test my loading/handling/saving code. Are there any TZX…
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Depends what we want the format to be. If ... is, IMO, the worst of both worlds.
What can we ... . I [I]think[/I] this should be needed only once in ... , while I may have been around the Spectrum scene when the TZX format was ... -
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…
... Snapshot.
What I like about the Retro-Softs approach is ... how Paul McKennas approach should have been. We all saw what happened there. With ... wish you good luck with the venture, though my only concern ... -
Z88DK + SPLIB2 question.I downloaded the compiler, installed it following the instructions (found at the SPLIB2 website), updated it using the fixed files (stdlib.h and the …
... main(). An updated version should have been part of the zip file you got ... you should be okay. There's no harm in grabbing what's ... in cvs, but I don't believe that's the ... />
The only updates to this file since 1.5 have been addition ... -
Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…
... the Bin Laden game, CGC should be stopped. Chaosmonger and others have been ... sick thread that should have been killed long ago ... the racists, FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is exactly what ... I predicted would happen, the moron ... -
N64 shooters?I loved my N64 buti did not have many shooters for it. Was their any shooters on it? Any that we did not get but came out in Japan? Thank for the …
... the revolution and it's controller, so I decided that I should ... futher debate (because that's what we're all here about ... be saying so what? Well, you almost have to see the video to ... to do this with the standard controller have been found) For a "mock ... -
Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
... the contents of the screen. These hex dumps should show what was onscreen when the ... program was saved.
What ... file), you'll see the 0x76 characters have been turned into 0xEC. In ... -
Public Domain SoftwareFAO Andy Barker. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Screen+Compressor$&pub=^Mikropol$"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infosee…
... , such as Lerm, have already been marked in the database as Alchemist's ... you (or Andy) still have the paperwork for the permits?
unquote ... , should have been more clear; I probably misread your original message anyway. What I ... -
ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'indepentant'. IMO ... - The first part of the above quote is more or less what I ... someone pointing out that the original may have been offensive.
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ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... in issue 3 and on the flipside what would you not like ... go far enough. What was overblown when it should have been more concise.
the editoral team.
Whilst ... give you what you want to read and give the community a ... -
ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... in issue 3 and on the flipside what would you not like ... go far enough. What was overblown when it should have been more concise.
the editoral team.
Whilst ... give you what you want to read and give the community a ... -
ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... in issue 3 and on the flipside what would you not like ... go far enough. What was overblown when it should have been more concise.
the editoral team.
Whilst ... give you what you want to read and give the community a ... -
Amaurote 128kHi Was amaurote 128k version (Tape) ever released on its own (not in a compilation) or maybe side b of the single tape version? Here What I found s…
... . Amaurote loaded the 48K or 128K version, depending on what you loaded ... up, and Zub should have been the same, but ... there was a mistake at the duplicators ...
