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Jonathan CreekI meant to post about the Jonathan Creek episode from a few weeks ago, but never got around to it, and since no one else did (as far as I know) then …
... except for one - Time Waits For Norman, where the mystery was boring and ... go to the extreme length of making the girl look guilty of murdering the ... girl, then let the other one go to prison? Why ... for the change in sidekicks*, but the first episode does a good ... -
What time of day does the new Ubuntu usually come out?Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is meant to be out today, which is perfect timing as I'll be building my new rendering beast sometime today too. It's a bit geeky, …
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is meant to be out today, which is perfect timing as I'll be building my new rendering beast sometime today too.
It's a bit geeky, I know, but does anyone know what time of day new Ubuntu releases are usually made available? -
Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... a reference to the program "Happy Days", where the Fonz jumped a ... season five or six, the one where Chandler and Monica got ... so. Though it did go downhill after season two. ... all lonely enough to have the time to do it, so ... we do not want the story to go (I won't ... -
Jetpac to the futureHi all, just to inform people i am only a few weeks away from finishing a game i started around christmas time it runs on pc not speccy. A sort of re…
... the back to the future movies. marty is travelling where he goes in the ... things he needs for his time machine which is powered ... of classic spectrum games cos the time machine malfunctions if a game ... levels to go. Anyway I am gonna make the game downloadable ... -
Digital rot - the modern DRM scourge[B]A place for History[/B] I love WOS. Completely love it. It is completely crazy in its scale and is the best of its kind. I love that games have s…
... time capsule that can be discovered to reignite the joy of the ... to see software that does not come on physical ... by companies that will go under in the next 5 years, ... at a fixed point in time, but will never be ... back. If we take the time to look back we will ... -
The scale of commercial Spectrum piracyFollowing on from the excellent thread featuring material from the ITN archive, I found this: [url]http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1984/07/03…
Following on from the excellent thread featuring material from the ITN archive, ... -off copies in the music and VHS chain at the time, but I ... /BASF jobbies for ?1 a go.
Was this ... you ever take any action? Does anyone still have any professionally ... -
Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
... calling up the menu does tend to make you hate the whole watch ... ruining the effectiveness of the dark parts in the original Doom games, where it ... person game, except that at the time you get your last power ... this otherwise great game can go from easy to rock ... -
A little program to set the time...Hi Folks, OK, I have amended the program so you now have four routines/functions you can use in your own programs: TIME: GET - Reads the current va…
... and SS
TIME: DISPLAY - Prints the current time on the screen as HH ... 9025: REM TIME: GET
135 GO SUB 9425: REM TIME: INPUT
140 GO SUB 9225: REM TIME: SET< ... br /> 145 GO SUB 9625: REM TIME: DISPLAY
Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... move it please do it does have a sort of hardware ... 30 year old (dodgy at the time) electronics is something to be ... stuff. I did the same with the IF1 and the RAM turbo and ... to get a ROM cart go see Paul Farrows website [url ...Fao dmboozefreekIf you've been following the news recently, you know that even Mr. DMBooze Freek's horoscope says he's cocky. However, you might not know that DMBooz…
... natural communities.
The last time I heard DMBooze ramble on ... I reel in disbelief. Does he really believe such birdbrained ... facilities, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.
< ... of DMBooze's from the get-go. I strive to be ...Charity collectors on the highstreet. A pest...Do you notice these charity collectors on the highstreet? Im not on about charities going out and collecting donations by themselves, but the fact th…
... like to look around the town. The bloody charity collectors are ... give up her free time by actually supporting a ... the money go straight to the charity, and not go to some cretin who does ... not directly support the ...Bill S.978The American government is considering a new bill (law): "[COLOR="Blue"]It [this law] would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material a f…
... . The penalty could include up to five years of prison-time. ... videos on YouTube. However, the bill does not directly address this.[2 ... things like homemade film parodies (where a group of friends act ... .
To oppose the bill, go to:
[url ...Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... . Sometimes its hard to let go of old habits, of old ... />
The main computer and the monitor:
The monitor isn't ... send information to that port where the printer is on.
So ... it loads stuff, it seems ? the time the tape is running but you ...Cause of the financial breakdown?I've written down (dictated) from a video, what Lord James of Blackheath said on the 16th February 2012 in the House of Lords. Though you can probab…
... to look to where this came from and the history of this ... created and where it has come from for a long time.
does the Federal Bank of New York ... to use the funds on the overnight European MTN trading market where they ...Pip The Pipistrelle[color=red]*COMING SOON*[/color] Pip The Pipistrelle I am going to put all the game details,instructions and story here now and simply update this t…
... ask questions as you play..where does that lead too?,how do ... true [i]most[/i] of the time.
Some bats that leave ... .uk/Pip-the-pipistrelle/time-to-reflect.gif[/img]
Time to reflect ... is one of the ...Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... aware of any others at the time. The main company I was aware ... a completely different industry at the time.
[I]?Alfred ... create the best Adventure ever. But where did the idea of adapting The ... computer in your room? Does anyone play games at home ...Good free games (for any machine)?Like everyone here (I imagine), I've got too many games vying for my too limited free time, and the backlog isn't helped by my spending so much of my…
... , Chess.
[B]Go[/B] (GNU version) ([url]http ... br /> freeware version of Go, a Japanese game that is ... I've yet to find the time to try (it's ... a great game where you have to deduce the state of a ... or moral basis. But the site does list free games too, ...Anyone recognise this time-travel story/book?Need your expert assistance chaps - I'm trying to identify a book (or possibly short story) for my mother-in-law, and have few details to work with. …
... travel through time to go to specific instances and events. Once the effect ... to this story!).
Does anyone have a clue?
the time-travel stories on Wikipaedia link ...Another deadly accurate best games listSince it's getting on for five minutes now since a "Best ever games" list divided us up, heres [URL="http://www.g4tv.com/top-100/"]G4's Top 100 video…
... /> 68. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
67. Minecraft
the time, I really doubt they get ... far as gameplay or innovation go (Bioshock does have amazing graphics that ... be in the top ten, along with UT. And where's Mr ...A Miscellany of Dangerous TipsHere's a selection of ideas for using some of the more obscure system variables which I've found handy on occasion. They can be very convenient if us…
... ; ie. in the form "GO SUB FN a(a$,a,...)" where the FN just ... DEFADD appropriately at some time beforehand. As the DEFADD area is searched ... conniption at this point.) This does have a practical use for ... (May)
* How much space does a number take? (May)
Circumspect - A Spectrum Emulator for learningThis is a project that I have been playing around with for a while. It must be said, I tend to have problems getting things finished where hobbies a…
... have problems getting things finished where hobbies are concerned :roll: - ... whether I would have the time, ability or the inclination to do ... I decided to have a go. (This is how circumspect ... to it.
Does the world need another Spectrum Emulator ...Games with time travel in themOn another forum the topic came up about time travel related video games, and it is disappointing how few games involve something as interesting as t…
... forward and backwards in time (i.e. go from 2013 to say ... own free will when to go to, it's all pre ... with Half-Life 2, where you go between the present and fifty or ... where it details what sort of time travel/manipulation the game contains, so the ...BMP2SCR_EXP where does it save the screens you convert?Hello people, Im trying to do a screen with this great utility but after saving it I cant find it in my computer, and I also cant find any option to…
Hello people,
Im trying to do a screen with this great utility but after saving it I cant find it in my computer, and I also cant find any option to set the location where I want to save...
Any help?
Thanks!What's the deal with hash tables, anyway?As there's nothing in the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/0-surc-contents.htm]Compendium[/url] about hash tables, and as I've …
... is what an associative array does, by means of a ... , as the time taken to compute the hash function each time will probably ... be "hashcode MOD hashtablesize", where hashcode for a string of ... no collisions. It also does a timing comparison between selecting ...Repton ManiaHi all, I am the creator, and look after, the Repton Resource Page ([url]www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk[/url]). For the site, I have written a freely …
... .g. Z80).
For the time being, I'd thought I ... 've got the data I was interested in), please, go ahead.
does not "get in the way" of any ... offset column is where the data resides within the actual ZX Spectrum when ...What five games that you've not played/briefly played would you want to take?I was thinking the other day about, how every so often on almost every gaming forum, you see a "What are you top ten favourite games?" style thread. …
... few of those threads myself, where you list which games you ... 've not completed the main quest - every time I go exploring I find ... others. In fact most of the time I intended to spend playing ... "Favourite games" lists, but it does seem to have a real ...z80 assembly helpEver since I was a child I wanted to program my zx81 then my zx spectrum + 2. However, it was such a mystical beast and I only ever used BASIC not kn…
... never get there as every time I read something I understood ... line.
ld a,(xcoord) ; where is it now?
cp ... we have this why does the first line load the accumulator with a ... would go a long way to helping my learning in the dark ...The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
... (duh)
CHDIR: GO TO *"dirname"
CHDRIVE: GO TO *"h2:"
the way at the time, and then the DivIDE was out ... Spectrum showed up in 2009 where esxDOS beta v0.7.3 ... interface based on the (at the time) state of the FPGA DivMMC prototype.”[/ ...New Game - Save the Trees!Hi! My second game is a little puzzle game. Link: http://www.fanzix.hu/stteng.htm You spend your mostly eventless days as the chief gardener o…
... pride is the state-of-the-art city park, where the last of the buharian ... think of them most of the time – are very sensitive plants. Many ... the educated professionals have come to the same conclusion: the trees cannot go without the ...Wow, time has gone *FAST*!!!! Indiana Jones related, too.It's just been announced that they're making a new Indiana Jones film, and what caught my attention was that the announcement said that the last film…
... my attention was that the announcement said that the last film had ... said five at the most. Time really does seem to go faster, the older you ...
