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  • The new xbox...I hope the launch of the new xbox (6pm BST today!!) blows the dismal PS4 launch into orbit!! I'm not sure if I'm getting excited or not. I still rem…

    ... QUOTE=Arjun;702695]Based on what evidence? So far Sony ... s radically different from what MS has done, I ... s what I care about, not all of the TV ... so important. THAT is what I based my (admittedly ... little difference between the two. PS3 should have been quite a bit ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2013 Chit chat
  • Wanted: Crystal Kingdom DizzyI want to buy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy for ZX. I can offer 50 pounds.

    Did you know there are 4 versions of this game? A preproduction copy, retail, what should have been the retail and a completely revamped version.
    BiNMaN BiNMaN May 2013 Wanted
  • Wanted: Crystal Kingdom DizzyI want to buy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy for ZX. I can offer 50 pounds.

    [QUOTE=BiNMaN;703319]Did you know there are 4 versions of this game? A preproduction copy, retail, what should have been the retail and a completely revamped version.[/QUOTE]
    whats the differences between each one?
    djgarf djgarf May 2013 Wanted
  • Wanted: Crystal Kingdom DizzyI want to buy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy for ZX. I can offer 50 pounds.

    ... some of the game text, what should have been has a lot of the reverse engineered ... replace some of the colours in the tiles as the c64 gfx were ... done first but the maps ... were built on the speccy so needed ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN May 2013 Wanted
  • Wanted: Crystal Kingdom DizzyI want to buy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy for ZX. I can offer 50 pounds.

    ... game? A preproduction copy, retail, what should have been the retail and a completely revamped ... can't help thinking that the retail version that we had ... />
    Mind you, compared with the usual style of 'walk over ...
    zub zub May 2013 Wanted
  • Digital SLR'sLooking for a bit of guidance here. Following a nice little tax rebate I am looking at getting a digital SLR camera. For years I used 35mm Canon SLR…

    ... DSLR then you should seriously consider the 5D Mark III.< ... with sensor noise and the suchlike. I have been shooting at gigs ... plus Photoshop's Remove Noise features you can overcome the ... http://www.luminous-landscape.com"]The Luminous Landscape[/URL] and ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2013 Chit chat
  • Kung Fu MasterAnyone else feel we was shafted with this arcade port ? Even the speed of the game is highly annoying and i wish there was some kind of hack to kill…

    ... about the game is the loading screen!

    The whole ... that's what creates the gameplay, so that should have been the focus but ... as usual it got the US ... Hopefully it can be given the Double Dragon / Outrun Europa ...
    manonfire manonfire June 2013 Games
  • Kung Fu MasterAnyone else feel we was shafted with this arcade port ? Even the speed of the game is highly annoying and i wish there was some kind of hack to kill…

    ... think on how simple the game is and what the spectrum has done ... it should have been better than this pile of poo.

    The music ... nothing to do with the arcade version the gfx are all wrong ... in both animation and just the look of them.

    morcar morcar June 2013 Games
  • The new xbox...I hope the launch of the new xbox (6pm BST today!!) blows the dismal PS4 launch into orbit!! I'm not sure if I'm getting excited or not. I still rem…

    ... , the physical media and the right to play (the 'contract') have been seen ... I think morally you should have the right to sell a game ... QUOTE=ewgf;704750]
    And what will happen with wills, bequeathalls ... days then transfer the games over? And what if some ...
    AndyC AndyC June 2013 Chit chat
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... mode (witchspace every jump). The key may have been F. [/quote]

    the base and nothing will come out no matter what. Now ... ]

    Almost immediately you should see a ship emerge and ...
    Bandit Bandit July 2013 Infoseek database
  • Do you like the Star Wars original/prequel trilogiesI typed a fair bit here, but I was called away and someone had reset it (my own fault for not locking the PC) the gist is, how do we all feel the Sta…

    ... have been killed off in the first film. It should have been Anakin killing him in the ... it has been said that most of what made the original trilogy so ... 're right about the original trilogy being very flawed (what film (or ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2013 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    [QUOTE=Daren;718383]A lot better than the main GTA IV game, imo. [/QUOTE]

    It definitely is...feels like what GTAIV's main game should have been!
    deadpan666 deadpan666 August 2013 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... is...feels like what GTAIV's main game should have been![/QUOTE]

    the main game, The Lost and the Damned was a ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2013 Chit chat
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... the screen after loading was complete. The second one reset the Spectrum during the ... of the video RAM. I think it was trying to load what should have been ... attributes into the pixmap, then it smeared ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!

    ... ;724010][spoiler]Yep! Went to what looks like CJs house, saw ... a Balla sat on the porch, he had a go ... I didn't see at the time) shot me to bits ... should have been an achievement for getting chased out of grove street in the ...
    mile mile September 2013 Chit chat
  • Presenting the Steamxbox!Valve have announced the prototype specifications for their new console, the Steambox. Actually, ignore the 'prototype' bit, as if you know anything …

    ... offer a streaming service like the the failed onlive service.Only ... only really work if you have a lot of paying customers ... (curiously it seems this is what Sony are counting on with ... playing games.

    The SteamBox should've been a ?20 dongle that ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2013 Chit chat
  • ANN: Atic Atac ... now on Windows 8....Ladies and Gentlemen and those of you undecided :) Atic Atac is now in the Windows 8 Store, (WinPho version was released a couple weeks ago). [URL=…

    ... ", for Atic Atac they have not done so what are they hiding ... /> Worse still Elite have done the inverse and removed the Copyright and TM ... games are all over the internet some have been there for many years ... me I can't (and should not) speak for MS & ...
    Korinel Korinel October 2013 Games
  • New game: PYROMANIA-TRIED BY FIREWell this has been already annouced by R-tape. I posted this just to help people making the 2013 game list [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/foru…

    ... goes lev 7 should have been the last one, but then the fire "snakes" were ... too cool, so they coulnd't have been ... nothing less than the last screen
    the other way but well what can I do ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore October 2013 Brand new software
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... curses don't stack after the patch, presumably that applies ... . I was cursed in the depths not got to blighttown ... in the first patch two years ago! I've been playing ... was 1/8 of what it should have been. I was a one ... and I had to defeat The Depths boss to get ...
    Vampyre Vampyre November 2013 Chit chat
  • Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…

    ... not homogeneous. Again, customization should have been in the metal layers as well.
    what it cost to develop.
    have been very expensive in the 1980s and CP/M ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…

    ... strings. Most of these should have been free functions (i.e. ... the streams interface which is inherently object oriented, you have no idea what ... probably allow overloading of the mathematical operators too. Maybe ... don't have to use function pointers all the time. ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter December 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • +2 QuestionsI picked up a +2 today on eBay. I've only seen one about 25 years ago so i dont know a lot about them. It boots and the seller can type stuff in so …

    ... exactly what I have on my +3 but to get the audio ... of the pillars to screw the cases together have been snapped. So the case ... these and they should be fine.

    The tape deck ... />
    What problems should I look for with the tape mechanism?
    rune rune December 2013 Hardware
  • Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…

    ... to 0V / ground, the 7812 regulator chip should current limit and survive ... (assuming the transformer winding for ... much and what damage may have been done, but the PSU may have been damaged and ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2013 Hardware
  • SNES versus Megadrive (yet again...)One of the most debated things on the Internet is which is best between the [B]Super Nintendo[/B] and the [B]Megadrive[/B] (we've even covered it on …

    [QUOTE=thomas3120;740041]What are your thoughts on Double ... 't set the buttons correctly. A problem which could have been avoided if ... should have been a pretty flawless conversion, but it wasn't.

    The ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2013 Chit chat
  • is this a forum for new games ideas as in really new gamesWhat I mean is Nebulous was a new game concept, [cylindrical scrolling?] and I am having difficulty coming up with new concepts. Seems my brain just …

    ... result probably won't be what the original poster was expecting. You ... completely lost interest in the scene. (There have been a couple of ideas ... />
    Personally I think the thread should be based far more around ...
    bobs bobs December 2013 New game ideas
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... has run and the bulk of the variables have been declared. Per 100 ... following on the line. I haven't worked out what as yet ... , written in ASM that the INPUT assembler should have been able to assemble - if ... like this, but to see what is going on perhaps?:[B ...
    dmsmith dmsmith January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • 1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.

    ... Ruecroft[/COLOR]
    Ok, this should have been the first game of a trilogy ... you have to search and "store" the various strange animals populating the ... you must pay attention to what you've already picked up ... , and what you're going to pick ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel January 2014 Games
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    Fantastic work Ralf! Looks so much better and so much more like what it should have been in the first place!

    Well done mate, great progress :-)
    manonfire manonfire January 2014 Games
  • Why are multicolour engines only able to be made now?Now I'm no programmer, but, how come multicolour engines are only being created/designed now? I know there were Rainbow Graphics used in games in the…

    ... screen mode like ULA Plus would have been fantastic, as well as ... text mode would have been nice (splitting the display file into ... side by side. The result mightn't have been terribly legible on ... the two attribute bytes select [i]which[/i] four colours should ...
    John Elliott John Elliott February 2014 Brand new software
  • PlusDlite problems with 128K modelsLast year I developed the PlusDlite, and already shipped out a couple of them. Only recently I discovered some problems with 128K models. I remember…

    [QUOTE=smogit;750883]The fixer board was for the +3/+2A only ... [/QUOTE]

    Yes, that's what ... I meant, so not for the toastrack (I should have been more ... one topic describing problems with the original PlusD/toastrack combi:< ...
    bverstee bverstee February 2014 Hardware
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