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New Game: Behind Closed Doors SevenNow available from Zenobi Software... yet another conversion to 8-bit formats of one of John Wilson's new Adventuron games... this time it's Behind C…
... Zenobi Software... yet another conversion to 8-bit formats of one ... games, it's fairly easy to complete but a lot of ... and learning about what's happened to the Balrog since the last ... -
What ever happened to Lister?Those oldies on here will remember those days...ufoc and that guy with the fake t shirt. Also who was that guy that looked like Richard Stilgoe? Is h…
Those oldies on here will remember those days...ufoc and that guy with the fake t shirt. Also who was that guy that looked like Richard Stilgoe? Is he still here? -
eBay selling troubles.I seem to be having bit of a crap experience with eBay as of late. I've been trying to sell my scooter as I've brought a bigger bike. So thought I'd …
... One that just so happened to have opened an account the ... same winning bidder decided to cancel the order, with ... absolutely nothing about this to prevent it or punish ... crazy this time due to a low feedback bidder ... people find time just to waste it doing this. ... -
NOMAD data formatApropos of a discussion in the WoS Facebook group, I wondered how easy it would be to work out how the map and graphics are held in N.O.M.A.D. Just i…
... how easy it would be to work out how the map ... . Just in case anybody happened to want to write an editor for it ... -
A Family Man's Lament of Wifes, Family, Mother In Laws and New Cars.So after working tirelessly in the USA since my wife asked me to emigrate in 2013 our family has grown and the car I brought when we came (a Subaru F…
... Subaru Forester) was too small to haul and unreliable, for the ... nice peaceful and spacious place to live and allowing my wife ... our cars sometimes owing to our proximity to the forest and the ... and the same thing happened to it owing to the Cheerios that seemed ... -
new web sitewow how bad is it to navigate the archive with this new front end the old was was soooo much easier, click archive, click (games, utils, +3disks etc…
wow how bad is it to navigate the archive with ... it just drops you in to some strange thing that ... are all bunched together what happened to listed by letter?
... wos i will be keeping to the old one on . ... it was so much easier to find utils, games and even ... -
MykePJust wondering... it's been three years since MykeP posted here. Does anyone know what happened to him - did he leave, or... was it something worse? …
... here. Does anyone know what happened to him - did he leave, or ... -
Keyboard shorting out on RF modulator.OK, this is the mos unusual fault I've diagnosed this year. A keyboard with a new membrane was failing sometimes, and preventing the computer from go…
... multimeter from the termination to the wear, and with ... got continuity. So due to a slight bend in the ... this keyboard failed due to wearing through the plastic ... 't look very worn to an ocular inspection, but ... issue for refurbs if it happened to me, so I thought ... -
Formula 1 - Is it Crap?Now don't get me wrong. I say that question not cause I hate motor racing. In fact I am a tiny bit petrol head. I go to stock car racing occasionally…
... bit petrol head. I go to stock car racing occasionally, ... It was not bad 10 to 20 years ago when Alain ... in his days. I happened to watch some of it on ... , and it's gotten to be dreadfully boring in my ... . the tech has gone crazy to the point blandness.
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spec chums should be friendsafter reading all the replies about cyborg i tried to post a reply but the thread was closed so i will post a new one...i thought cyborg (and alot of…
... exchange of views from time to time? I particularly liked ... here.
What happened AFTER Arjun's posting, however ... to follow it up with Hotmail, and by chance the trail happened to ... lead back to our fellow Speccian, ... -
PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... and the "Sn" functions seemed to be the only ones that ...
BTW, I had tried to crack the keys for this ... them. This time, I just happened to try "C5", for a ... or intuition, but I decided to try all the "letter + ... So, no need for me to keep looking out for this ... -
Movie ConversionsWho loves the classics "Batman the Movie", "Ghostbusters I and II", "Ninja Turtles", and "RoboCop 1 and 2"? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh so many memories!!! I'd…
... talent was wasted in order to cash in from Hollywood, ... that actually do get converted to games today are usually "strategically ... Harry Potter game which just happened to finish in time for the ... kept the platforms levels close to the Speccy-version, but the ... -
What is the best method for submitting .TZXsI think I've finally got me tape deck and sampler along with maketzx working, so I can TZXs all me old speccy stuff. If I come across a game/util/et…
... emailed some tapes (about 10) to Martijn two years ago, waited ... (4) which was still uresolved to him on 3 Aug 2001 ... were lost or something (never happened to me with any other mails ... -
PLEASE HELP MEI just got my ZX Spectrum out of its box after being in the loft for a number of years and tried to play a few games but when I turned it on and tune…
... the CPU is 'blown'. That happened to me about 5 times in ... same happens when you try to load a game?
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Where are you from / who are you / do you still use the real SpectrumJust three questions to see how divers the Spectrumworld is and how many users are still around. If you want to stay anonymous, just answer the last …
... !), i can't remember what happened to it but knowing me i ... -
Speccy Ringtones for your mobile :)Hi guys Im sure i cant be the first person to think of this, but with the aid of a few software packages, I spent this weekend converting some class…
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mercenary: what did u think?mercenary was a fantastic game and i just started playing it again, it wasn't everyones cup of tea though, it had fast graphics (thx to the small scr…
... quite interesting the other day to find that Paul Woakes (who ... /> I thought it quite interesting to know Paul Woakes worked there ... />
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The 20th AnniversaryOkay, it's April 2002, and I'm sure the Spectrum was released in the UK around this time. But does anyone know the exact date? When would the 20th An…
... Not likely... there's nowhere to find 'em, no car ... , which they often refer to amusingly as 'the regular ... they're basically forcing us to buy a PlayStation 2, ... then"... I had to point out that the ... I suppose is just as happened to our beloved Speccy.
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speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... games; you can see what happened to adventures, which could have been ... off of sprite-based adventures to go for a crappy 3D ... is totally meaningless, if not to attract people who wouldn't ... etc. etc., they can manage to make it appealing. There's ... -
What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
... the game were very nice to see but I finished the ... just one day!! also this happened to me with AfterTheWar.. =( -
ULTIMATE SUCK!!I wonder what reaction there will be to this? I just wonder if there are any other ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as much enjoyment ou…
... I'll repeatedly press fire to simulate the swashbuckling move ... of a sword to get past the baddies". ... comment, I went back to it, happened to hold the fire button down ... so bloddy stupid! Something similar happened with "Dan Dare", when I ... -
Someone knows the name of this game ?I remember an old game of kung-fu where in the first 3 or 4 screen you played against another man and after you played with two kung-fu men. I rememb…
... be turned on for listening to italian babbling I don't ... go around and introduce me to people saying that I was ... with. The best that ever happened to me, I once showed an ... episode to a Spanish friend of mine ... -
How to play without POKEsI have a Speccy story, hope you will like it. It's about 13 years back. I was sitting in our living room and playing Dynamite Dan (part 1) on rubber…
... of think happened to me a few times. I used to play games ... not exactly sure how this happened but it was interesting sometimes ... -
Game RemakesWhat games do you think need a PC remake? i nominate The Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still
3d death chase....i had a early beta version of a pc remake but since then it seems to have got no further...anyone know what has happened to this? -
new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
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I am beginning to piece together a little bit ... now...I have decided to go with Spin, and ... the computer state down to a z80, so you ... no way of knowing what happened to them all.)
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What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
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What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... of my bad memories related to the Speccy (and ZX81 too ... -in-progress. This must have happened to me about a gazillion times ... -
What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... suffered waiting for Mr Repairman to fix it. (Over a week ... !).
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That happened to me about 3 times in ... mail order companies that used to fix the Spectrum / Commodore etc ... before sending the Spectrum off to be fixed - we got someone ... -
GTA: Vice City - features a C-64The Spectrum was snubbed across the U.K today, when the streets of Britain echoed to the sounds of GTA: Vice City being loaded for the first time int…
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Spectrum Web BrowserI recall a while back that someone was developing internet software for the Spectrum for use with one of those old Prism modems. Did this ever come …
... modems. Did this ever come to fruition? Is it even possible ... /> I don't know what happened to the project you mentioned. I ...
