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The First Game You WonWe all remember what game we first won. And chuffed we were at such an momentus achievement. So come on then, what game was it? Mine was (on the S…
... think for some reason it may have been Dizzy cos ... I didn't get through that until 88 or 89) But it ... had for years of it not so long ago ... to remind myself how bad it was hahaha!
... didn't, but it's amazing how much free time you really do have when ... -
Is this fair/legal?About a year ago, I bought a (512MB) mp3 player, and after a while it stopped playing music in one channel. I took it back to the shop, and they repl…
... that as I didn't send it in s I couldn't find the ... , they should still have mentioned it when I phoned them or they ... />
Anyway, I do like this player (it's a lot better ... bloke I'd leave it, provided the company do send me the ... -
Avian Flu?Any of you guys worried about the Avian flu? Over here in the States, the government has quietly released a warning pamphlet recommending that famili…
... the lightbulb. Why he didn't make it and make millions i will ... world!!
Where do I plug it? What's going to ... power it? Oh bugger.
Little ... a robot cat to keep it company when im at work. -
+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... anything we've got. It doesn't have a traditional controller, with ... (and even the CatWeasel can't do it all).
[QUOTE]I ... original DOS tools used to do it didn't store enough to give a ... a track. When the system tries to read from it, garbage is ... -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... sprite format.
Why do you store them in ... portions of the screen that didn't require it.
... draw list. You would do this, for example, if ... and make sure the sprites do not erase them.
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Has anyone ever owned, played on, or even seen an Amstrad GX4000I ask this question because the machine must have existed because Mean Machines from issue 1 until about 8 reviewed software for it until it flopped.…
... It's a relic from a few years ago when I ... emulation is wrong because it doesn't play very well. But ... 2 was available for it and not the old ... while back. Played on it a little. Was alright. ... original Tempest and this version didn't do anything for me either). ... -
Share your best practical jokesWhat is the best practical joke you've ever pulled? Mine: I used to work in a bookies in Belfast, and occasionally we would come across small corne…
... trojan by telling him it would self learn and ... others etc.
When I remotely opened his CD ... I was rumbled, was when I put up a ... />
Another was to do with a colleague that none ... superimposed on it. Needless to say, he didn't find it amusing in ... -
problems with preserving tapes, pls, helpthis question was here many, many times..but here it goes again: I?ve encountered probs with preserving my original tapes - I used to create tzx thr…
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when I press the start button ... , so I don?t know what is happening ... to do it. I get the same above problem when using ... t have a clue about dos commands and when I tried it ... didn't understand it, but because I didn't know how to select it ... -
Frogs jump into the finals....Not that much of a surprise I suppose, but I had thought it would've been harder for them. Thanks to Zidane, showing that age and skill wins over sho…
[QUOTE=psj3809]Its a shame when any game is decided by ... time in the 90s, but it didn't do his career much harm. I ... br />
So, all teams do it to some extent, meaning that ... financial troubles for their associations didn't really help matters. Anyway, ... -
OpenGL - how to install it and whatever?How do you actually install OpenGL, if it needs installing at all? I seem to remember for Quake 3, when it came out in 1999, that I had to install a …
... if it can't then fine; on the odd occasion when there is ... if it can't do something, then it can't do it. If Spin can't access OpenGL ... that works. And if Spin didn't work then, I'd use ... , but I can't easily find the cash. When the laptop dies ... -
what a sh*t dayhave no money. so went to the bank. 9 quid in my account bank wont let me draw out a fiver. walking back to work contimplating a night with out …
... login/password of where it was registered to ... long since been wiped when he was sacked ... persevere as god knows when I'll get ... !!
It pales into insignificance to the ... didn't do. If anyone's interested I'll explain further later on, it ... -
My bird is gonna kill me when I get home..I need an excuse before 5.00pm as to why I've just blown £600 bucks @ overclockers.co.uk on new PC parts. I'm supposed to be saving for a new ho…
i treated my computer like my women. i forced it to do things it didn't want to do, shouted at it when i couldn't turn it on, let my mates all have a go.
then it contracted a virus and died. its in my cellar now with the rest of them. -
My bird is gonna kill me when I get home..I need an excuse before 5.00pm as to why I've just blown £600 bucks @ overclockers.co.uk on new PC parts. I'm supposed to be saving for a new ho…
... forced it to do things it didn't want to do, shouted at it when i couldn't turn it ... a go.
then it contracted a virus and died ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... just how many people didn't want anything to do with one after ... a year after it's introduction. I didn't want it even at that ... kid called it that was selling it.
Back when the ZX80 ... modes and sound... and I do mean rewrite.
Many ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... many people didn't want anything to do with one ... after it's introduction. I didn't want it even ... when the kids with intellivisions got them and they didn't ... people bought the TS1000 when it became that cheap and ... trivial (I can do it in an emulator debugger ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... flaws but didn't sell well even though it was a ... ?
Sure it was aimed at introducing people ... did they get? If it didn't do what it was intended to for ... of code to do the same thing it takes almost ... sprite on the screen when a refresh takes place ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... did they get? If it didn't do what it was intended to for the ... a few years ahead of when it would have developed normally.
when the cost differential disappeared. Both ... time in early VLSI apps when it was important to have a ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... same flaws but I wouldn't expect it from different programmers.
When someone doesn't do a direct translation it may loose some ... anyone played it was that it was 3D. Arcades couldn't get ... systems from the day. I didn't think the Speccy was the ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... Sard I really didn't intend to aim it at you but at ... and I worded it poorly. All you have to do is look ... to get around it you have to do whatever you can to ... about which game to compare. When I pointed out Zaxxon on ... -
Oh no! Not again! (Serious PC probs)I was upadting my graphic drivers (NVIDIA MX440 GeForce 4) and my sound drivers (Realtek AC'97 for VIA (R) audio controller), but when installing the…
... all the files on it, reformatted the drive ... but I didn't install NVidia drivers cuz it told me ... />
But now when he connected his HDD back ... windows' now it doesn't. The PC doesn't do it when the HDD is ... not connected so it's ... -
Ideas for possible entries for CSSCGC 2006Has anybody got any good ideas for possible entries to the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2006? (CSSCGC 2006?) Here's a few of the ideas I'…
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... Speccy games, got found out (it wasnt him, he was lying ... br />
Wow. I wasn't aware of this thread. Mr ... credit for work you didn't do? Especially when you do such a piss-poor ... -
*** New Game *** Farmer Jack Now AvailableFARMER JACK IS NOW AVAILABLE ... ?2.99 + ?1.00 UK Postage (or a nice pack of cigars) I haven't updated the website yet though, as someone volunt…
... this isn't it. Fair enough that the reviewer didn't like it, but that ... mark way out of proportion when compared to what's in ... 's how all dig-dug / do games work but maybe my ... -
*** New Game *** Farmer Jack Now AvailableFARMER JACK IS NOW AVAILABLE ... ?2.99 + ?1.00 UK Postage (or a nice pack of cigars) I haven't updated the website yet though, as someone volunt…
... fair enough, as he didn't like it. But 39% suggests a ... here a lot. I do actually like games on other ... call a happy accident. It racks the excitement up as ... out a screen, because when you get down to just ... mis-direction that can occur when trying to turn corners, ... -
Totally unrelated to Speccies...But fun, nevertheless. [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Letters.rar[/url] Have a go, lemme know if there's any ways you can think of to…
... it stores the positions of the letters so that they reappear when ... they do.
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Didn't realise it ... saved the pos. Just took a look at it ... " animation ;-)
Didn't realise how complex (simple?) the ... -
Sherlock Holmes couldn't solve this...Right, you all know the drill; someone asks a question, then lots of people post responses, and sometimes, hopefully, amongst all of the "[COLOR=roya…
... who cares (I hardly do, after listening to so ... checked the ones I really didn't think could be right, ... and Kylie Minogue, but didn't find it. Annoyingly, not all of ... any of the other pages when I listed the songs ... for any given month. It would be easy to check ... -
Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca
I can't see how it failed miserably.
It seems to me, that ... fine up until recently, when Ramsoft didn't have enough time to devote ... , who will do all of the above mentioned, when there is no ... /> Edit: In fact, what I do think is that anarchy will ... -
Web hosting required for the .tzx vaultThe next tzx vault update cannot be issued as yet, because I cannot gain access to the retrogames server where the vault is currently hosted. I lost …
... - in public - for something he didn't do.
I hope this ... we think of it, it's HIS property to do whatever he ... but we shouldn't be forced to like it. When CD posts [url ... =http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t ... -
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... test it on breadboard to check I didn't fry it in ... my knees and clamped it on the bottom of ... all senses). What I do to remove the sticking bits ... the pin from being soldered when you remove the iron. ... that much when desoldering this way. It is when you solder ... -
Spectrum ResetHi All I have asked this before but in another thread as part of something else. I really cannot recall all this stuff from way back :[ When I ha…
... this. It didn't do anything other than provide a single button which when pressed ... -
Speccy regrets...One of my biggest regrets is disposing of all the Personal Computer News that I had - all of them from - issue 1 It wouldn't be bad at all if they…
... what you did or didn't do back then, you only reacted ... , job promotions e.t.c
So when your son (those ... the future. How fun it'll be when we're in our ... in someones yard and mistake it for an abacus style calculator ...
