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  • Pictures of your ZX Spectrum collectionsI love seeing other people's collections of stuff. Be great to see your shelves or boxes full of games so we can have a nose at it too. I find it he…

    ... Mythos. The inlay scan in the WoS archive is from this very box. :)< ... =jdanddiet;622111]Oooh Alien big box :smile:[/QUOTE]

    the 80's. Is the big box version rare?< ... it on the tree, but it was pretty obvious what was inside the paper. ...
    Dave_C Dave_C April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…

    ... ;639785]go US apparently the uk box set of series 1 ... long as it's the same as what I've seen ... br />
    I got the uncut version of BBC's ... recorded 'em off the telly, which was a much better version ... . I'll put those discs in the box ...
    Graz Graz July 2012 Chit chat
  • Favourite children's booksHowdy folks. I was getting mugged down memory lane again the other day when I came across some old kids books on a web search. Thought I'd find out w…

    ... hearing Pandora's Box and all the descriptions of the the horrible creatures coming ... in the heart with a giant sword.

    ...and the one that was in the ... talking mountain that was allergic to cups of tea? What? :lol:
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2012 Chit chat
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... of dialogue in the box at the bottom.[/B] What happens if the character needs ... a ledge in the top-left corner of the room when ... I ask. Captioning on the screens was supposed to be indicative ... of an important area the player ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC February 2013 New game ideas
  • sheds and storing retro gear?right, currently, my house is full of retro gear BUT theres loads more stored in the missuses mums garage after mi dad died, missus is just hasseli…

    [QUOTE=mel the bell;697307]all sounds ****in complicated lol[/QUOTE]

    in / sun damage or heat/cold/heat then you see what it ... em up.. put something else in the box like pellets or bubble wrap ... mint c128 that because it was wrapped so well looked as ...
    fog fog April 2013 Chit chat
  • At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…

    ... the stuff, sorted out the amiga stuff, was 3 mice and 2 joypads in the box ... which may work with it, not sure, the disc ... phone charger type, no idea what thats for yet

    mel the bell mel the bell July 2013 Chit chat
  • need some WinXP disk recovery adviceMy desktop PC gave a "SMART failure predicted" error on drive C: during startup the other day. It's still working, although occasionally it takes a l…

    ... in the box failed to complete the copy due to locked files. Fortunately there was ... present. I'll see what happens tomorrow. The drive copy from a ... , otherwise the registry on C: won't match with what's been ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2013 Chit chat
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... manipulation.

    This was the first (partial) successfull routine with ... br />
    Result: not quite what I wanted...

    [ ... a great tool to have in the box. no more pure linear code ... I master more of the skillz... at the moment I am ...
    wibble wibble September 2013 Development
  • Significant machines by yearI'd roughly divide Spectrum's hardware history into four periods: Sinclair (1980 to 1985), Amstrad (1986 to 1988 ), Russian (1989 to 1996) and Homebr…

    ... of progression, just in terms of what was significant. The ZX97 is a ZX81 ... factor was the fact that you could get programming results out of the box ... .[/quote]I'll grant you, having all the keywords printed on the ...
    chev chev October 2013 Hardware
  • Speccy Christmas MemoriesGiven the time of year, I was getting a bit nostalgic for Christmases past - and in particular for the ones that really meant something - when I was …

    ... I guess I just liked the artwork. So I played ... Ghostbusters' and 'Gift From The Gods' so I copied them ... 't really work out what to do with it, ... in mint condition, over the years, in the box still, but flogged it in the ... mid 90s at a car boot when I was ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones December 2013 Chit chat
  • New Game:Killer BeesI have ported one of my favourite games for the Phillips G7000 to the ZX Spectrum. Killer Bees, I spent hours playing this as a kid. The original g…

    ... usually was using all the graphical elements.

    I forget what all was in the ... BIOS (which was called "the executive"). I do ... days. I probably have a box of PROMs with some game ...
    BobHarris BobHarris February 2014 Brand new software
  • Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…

    ... It was one of the mail order ones, in original mail order box, ... label on it, cover the box in tape and posted it. ... it was boxed and that was what I was after (the box)

    the ... tosser had covered it in ...
    ASH-II ASH-II March 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • World Cup 2014 - BrazilContinuing on from the Euro cup and world cup threads: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12433[/url] [url]http://www.worl…

    ... knows what each other is going to do. That was just ... a scramble for the goal. Look ... generous crosses and back-passing in the box to better placed players. Ryanair ... the front with the legroom, but the rest of them?

    How was ...
    joefish joefish June 2014 Chit chat
  • World Cup 2014 - BrazilContinuing on from the Euro cup and world cup threads: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12433[/url] [url]http://www.worl…

    ... knows what each other is going to do. That was just ... a scramble for the goal. Look ... generous crosses and back-passing in the box to better placed players. Ryanair ... the front with the legroom, but the rest of them?

    How was ...
    leespoons leespoons June 2014 Chit chat
  • Xbox OneI'm seriously considering picking up an Xbox One, possibly this weekend, but that all depends on what money I have and the mood I'm in to be honest! …

    I was in the Argos clearence place at the weekend and they were doing ... Xbones with the Kinect (no games just the console, the green box thingie) @ ? ... games consoles so it was ?296 on the day. If you ... knocking out the Wii U bundles (Lego and Mario from what I ...
    ADJB ADJB June 2014 Chit chat
  • Xbox OneI'm seriously considering picking up an Xbox One, possibly this weekend, but that all depends on what money I have and the mood I'm in to be honest! …

    ... QUOTE=ADJB;776403]I was in the Argos clearence place at the weekend and they ... Xbones with the Kinect (no games just the console, the green box thingie) @ ? ... out the Wii U bundles (Lego and Mario from what I ... those anywhere near me from what I know. One of our ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob June 2014 Chit chat
  • Childhood games you made up yourselfI'm not sure why, but I was thinking of some childhood games that me and my friends made up when we were about 9 or 10 (so it was during my speccy er…

    ... would buy a box of matches from the newsagent on his ... out of the water but I was terrified of what I was going to ... to my mum who was in the middle of doing the laundry. This meant ... playing with matches, tresspasing on the railway or falling in the river. :lol:
    Basher Basher August 2014 Chit chat
  • Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…

    ... Collection" in pristine condition I only have the tape now. The poster ... went on my wall and was ... Christmas in a cupboard at my parents and thought what the hell ... I don't know what happened to the box and instructions but they ...
    saberman saberman August 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What do you get in the box ?Is there anywhere that lists or has pictures of what you should get in the box ? eg. Silicon Dreams - nice big box, novella & playguide, Rainbird hin…

    ... pictures of what you should get in the box ?[/QUOTE]

    The short answer ... to the box when the game was sold on. With Beyond games the problem was not ... ones where the box wasn't squashed to buggery, as the packaging was such ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2014 Games
  • A dangerous 6th key?Or even 7th for that matter. What's the general consensus on action games that require more keys than QAOP-Spc*? Which key do you choose for that d…

    ... could cope with. The SNES was about optimum. Then the PlayStation came along ... the whole thing.[/QUOTE]



    I know what ... until you had a player in the box , then use your skill ... -touch to curl the ball into the box onto the head of your ...
    paranoid marvin paranoid marvin November 2014 Games
  • 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…

    ... />
    That's kind of what I mean. A NG++++ playthrough ... /> I meant more the usage of the Bottomless Box. It was so unwieldy it ... person summoning me which was in the tower before the Iron Keep. So that ...
    Vampyre Vampyre February 2015 Chit chat
  • 1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.

    ... full-size programs that came in the box. It was expensive, but you got ... akin to the BladeRunner game for the PC in the mid-90s. The story ... your ability to actually find what you missed which leads to ... at the beginning of the game (with no clue that is what is ...
    Zoep Zoep August 2015 Games
  • Missing in ActionThe more I go in my loft the more I find "Missing in Action" files . Trouble is I am new to this. I have done the tzx's for them but cannot upload th…

    ... now very different from what is was "back in the day" : I have only ... for the name of my old Speccy Wearsaver box but it was not ... as it was a separate box rather than going underneath the Speccy . But ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio August 2015 MIA/STP/SDP
  • games that only you seemed to playi was....and still am , a big fan of the automata games...groucho, pimania , new wheels john etc. also the game called 'the biz' i remember playing …

    ... dont get what the 'fury' was all about. If you had the best car ... other screen which was the 'fury'. If you stayed in that screen for ... point apart from quickly clicking in the box to exit.

    With ... me off the first time I did it as I was having ...
    Grunaki Grunaki March 2016 Games
  • Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …

    What happened to ATRAM after its realease.

    The box says "The first in a ... games . No more followed though the game was released by ERBE . It ... most pleased with the Brian Clough game which was a reasonable price ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio April 2016 Hardware
  • Recreated ZX Spectrum - something positive for a changeI've spend the last couple of hours mashing rubber keys and playing various Spectrum classics on a 42" TV, wirelessly. Despite the bad press that …

    ... ago. There was a note in the box which said the device was now supplied unlocked ... able to make sense of what was happening. I would guess that ... backspace. SymbolShift mostly gives you what you want (SymZ gives a ...
    thricenightly thricenightly August 2016 Hardware
  • Great Christmas gift to ourselves !I found this today ! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YV4X5BM/ref=pe_2729761_161320941_em_1p_2_ti I want one, or two !

    ... I will just leave it in the box after all !

    To ... guessed that the picture was just a mock-up of what to expect ... , I have seen things like this in the past ... and know that they are usually fairly primitive, the ...
    grey key grey key November 2016 Chit chat
  • Spectrum stuff online "buying skills". Are real skills needed for low cost Speccy items? Firstly , there are some pretty fundamental requirements that are probably too basic to mention , like buying the right software at the right pri…

    ... power to stick to what you ordered in the first place

    in the normal way with Amazon and was in the middle of ... one in" from another supplier . The price on the invoice inside the box appeared to ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…

    ... what you mean about one being in "the box" if nothing else if it was ... pin "round" sockets were still in use back then ?

    was actually thinking about that the other day when ... ones for my Speccy in the early 90's as Greenweld ...
    spider spider January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …

    ... my brains on the journey home, this is what I can ... going to be coming in the TV schedule in the next three - four ... discussed what could be done, then he mocked up the screenshot ... of the box. That was done before a single line of code was written. The box ...
    Swanny Swanny May 2017 MIA/STP/SDP
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