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Finally, got an HD tellyMy dad bought a new smart t.v and gave me his old HD 1080 Toshiba telly. Not got the HD Freeview box set up yet, need to buy an indoor ariel thingym…
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Margaret Thatcher diesRIP Maggie, finest PM of the post-war era. She was one of the reasons why the 80's were so great, and she gave Clive a knighthood.
[QUOTE=beanz;693286]They did know better, the prostitutes knew ... ;p.[/QUOTE]
true. they should have chosen the the ... working hard to become what they are and mantain this ... they think they can moan about the poor moaning? or because they're making ... -
Games written in White LightningI've just got my hands on the White Lightning package from Oasis (courtesy Bobs), and it seems to be a fairly powerful system with a comprehensive ma…
... =Arjun;698844]Er.. how much did they go for? I got mine ... . I misspoke like an airhead when I called it a bidding ... -
Project #1 : Speccy 128k+2 with diVide inside...Hi guys, I just have finished my Super Spectrum #1 The idea (I was thinking of that since 2007) was to fit an english grey +2 motherboard in a +2A…
... with the old PCBs, so they probably added dedicated lines to ... to be used. I guess they kept pin positions of the ... ]
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Project #1 : Speccy 128k+2 with diVide inside...Hi guys, I just have finished my Super Spectrum #1 The idea (I was thinking of that since 2007) was to fit an english grey +2 motherboard in a +2A…
... with the old PCBs, so they probably added dedicated lines to ... to be used. I guess they kept pin positions of the ... =memrah;700193]PS. When swapping motherboards between Amstrad Spectrums, do the ports ... -
128k Music TrackerCan someone point me in the right direction with this please. I need a straight forward idiots guide for creating music on the 128. I was looking for…
... made for people who own Spectrums 48K and bought AY interfaces ... some infos about TK models (did they have AY on-board, in ... -
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…
... any feature or specification they wish, same with Sony ... third XBox.
Did Microsoft say if the console ... not, then how are they going to enforce the ' ... ever goes online then they can't detect that ... consoles used to be, when all they could do was play ... -
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…
... up canned long before they hit the shelves, after ... ) aren't struggling, they're making money hand over fist.< ... will come a point when physical stores selling games ... the 80s and 90s when the industry was doing ... "indie" side-projects like they used to. The days ... -
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…
... like Sinclair , sega , CBM etc they pull out of the console ... door stop.
correct?[/QUOTE]
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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…
... don't think publishers will stop making games for it suddenly. Maybe ... who have asked "what about when I travel?" (armed forces especially ... -
Does a bad sequel/episode in a book/game/film/etc series kill the series for you?I meant to post this yesterday, but didn't get the time, but someone I was talking to said they used to love the Resident Evil series almost obsessiv…
... ] is *awful* (so bad that when you read it you think ... better sequel than that, why did they give such an anticipated opportunity ... order, the order they were written in), as they are both very ... .
* And when you've read the Hitch ... -
Youtube no more...Youtube has updated something. And is now demanding I upgrade my browser to a HTML5 version. And I need to install a new Adobe Flash player. Blood…
... poo, Firefox/Opera crashes non stop. IE8 has been fine ... And what were Microsoft thinking when they foisted their Flash knock-off ... Silverlight instead of HTML5 meaning they've written an application ... on anything not Microsoft - when had they used HTML 5 and ... -
Pot NoodleSo, whats your favourite (if any?) Mine has to be the Bombay Bad Boy, its actually quite hot!
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Man of Steel [SPOILERS GALORE]Has anyone seen it? just went to see it, on IMAX (my first IMAX experience) and WOW, just WOW! but probably tomorrow I'll be more adult and be able…
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I like the way they brought Superman to our times ... such a character can work when you try to make him ... suppose the point) is that they stop being "real" superheroes because real ... -
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…
... rob them and they drop their musical instrument and stop being annoying ... . You can also bump into them when moving ... fast with R and they stop bothering you ... -
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…
... in order to help me stop making quite so many mistakes! It ... people who knew there stuff when I was learning and it ... -
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…
... DivIDE, therefore will only run when USR 0 mode is set ... meant for general purpose, so they first load S. Labsky's ... load in Spectaculator 8 when Auto/Play stop is disabled, even with ... -
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…
... as before.[/QUOTE]
I did it (sorry for quoting myself ... load in Spectaculator 8 when Auto Play/Stop is disabled, even with ... -
Alchemest / Zip Zapdid Imagine bring out an Alchemist / Zip Zap compilation? both on one casette....
[QUOTE=leespoons;723646]When did Beau-Jolly take over marketing ... logo on...firestorm? by alternative..they just put their sticker over ... -
Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!
... would have decked the bloke when 'reality' asserted itself.
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display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
[QUOTE=slenkar;726974]did they use IM2 and a jump table to start drawing sprites ?[/QUOTE]
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LOOK at the size of my Rom/EmulatorOk, we have 16k, 48k, 128k, even a 256 odd k Rom/Emulator But I want more :p Is there anything out there now or been worked on to give more, as the…
... 'm asking if the spectrum did not stop in the 90's ... (and you could Emulate one. They emulated the Higgs boson, before ... -
LOOK at the size of my Rom/EmulatorOk, we have 16k, 48k, 128k, even a 256 odd k Rom/Emulator But I want more :p Is there anything out there now or been worked on to give more, as the…
... 'm asking if the spectrum did not stop in the 90's ... (and you could Emulate one. They emulated the Higgs boson, before ... they found it)[/QUOTE]
You ... -
LOOK at the size of my Rom/EmulatorOk, we have 16k, 48k, 128k, even a 256 odd k Rom/Emulator But I want more :p Is there anything out there now or been worked on to give more, as the…
... 'm asking if the spectrum did not stop in the 90's ... (and you could Emulate one. They emulated the Higgs boson, before ... they found it)[/QUOTE]
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Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…
... game (again imo) is that when I played it it was ... $ is great. How on earth did they manage to make that image ... -
Did C64 sell more units in UK than the Spectrum?Interesting [URL="http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/2297680/the-home-computing-era-from-conception-to-consumerisation?utm_source=taboola&utm_me…
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officially they don't , much like the ... UK at the time , when either sinclair / amstrad existed ... a CES show.. so did they launch at the same ... in germany, so maybe they appeared there earlier also ... atari and c64 though did have really steep initial ... -
Official - Birmingham is in the 3rd WorldA water main has decided to have a little lie down and left a large section of Brummie town without water. I thought is was my fault at first becaus…
we had "fun" when they were replacing all the Victorian ... etc.. are they old up there also, or did they fix em ?
Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... Why, one wonders then, did they even bother to make the ... release of the 2068. They chose the latter and ... the ROM unfinished but they left the ROMs socketed ... they could be replaced in future by the end-user when ... ROM, it looks like they were headed in the ...Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... 733905]Why, one wonders then, did they even bother to make the ... good BASIC editor was important. When Sinclair decided to sell the ... . Having extended the hardware they were planning to extend the ... Timex. It was only later when coders started to delve deeper ...
