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Spectrum on the phone!I've been using ZXBoy Spectrum emulator on my Nokia 3660 cellphone for a while now and I must admit that I'm somewhat surprised how well it works. Bi…
... problems are controls. As the Nokia's controller recognizes ... well!
The emulator runs somewhat slower than ... and sound most of the time. The emulator is easy to ... bind the keys of the spectrum to the keys of the phone. ... in my pocket where ever I go! -
The old magicFirst post since registering - although did post occasionally, long ago... At the risk of getting philosophical... what has happened to the days whe…
... ago...
At the risk of getting philosophical... what ... tomorrow...?
The last time this happened was with HyperSports ... that effect on me. Where's it all gone? ... that?" or "One more go... just one... maybe two ... I was 14 at the time... -
Why I Hate PC WorldI detest PC World for the following reasons: 1. Repeatedly poor service. 2. Selling me a 1Gb SD memory card for ?60, when I could have bought it for…
... behind the counter then looks for the keys to the safe room where they ... he eventually DOES find the key, he disappears into the game room for ... disc and go home with the Timesplitters 2 disc (which, at the time, was ... -
Anyone know the name of this music demo?Back in the day I remember playing through the various games and programs on a magazine covertape and being amazed at a music demo. It began with …
... I remember playing through the various games and programs on ... was impressive to me at the time. It was probably a rock ... />
Not much to go on... but does anyone remember what demo ... -
what is the name of this game? If anyone can help me, i am looking for the name of a game I used to play on my spectravideo 318 maybe on other platforms as well You run around an…
... me, i am looking for the name of a game I ... get taken to another screen where you draw against him and ... before he does you. this gets progressively tougher as the stages go on. -
The Countdown Has Ended...Look at this. I've reached 2000 posts at last, and in a fraction of the time it took me to get to 1000. Let me review what has happened in that time.…
... in a fraction of the time it took me to get ... wishing that I could go back and do it ... . :)
What does the future hold, I wonder.
... course and hopefully go on to do the masters and get ... games to play and pass the time. :)
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When did Spectrum games "jump the shark"Sorry to use that hackneyed term, but there's no easier way of putting it. Basically, during the Spectrum's commercial life (roughly 1982-1992) when…
... generally where the writer suggested 1986 was where it all started to go pear ... or '89 would be around the time the innovation and interest started to ... wane. Around that time a lot of arcade-conversions ... -
Mayhem Accelerator - Prototype Complete [Sam CoupI am now pleased to announce that on the 8th June the prototype of the Mayhem Accelerator was finally completed. With work on the accelerator start…
... from scratch and carried on where I had left off as ... finished!
What does the Mayhem Accelerator offer? Speed! It? ... build one up to go through testing, then the Accelerator will be ... be available in 8 weeks time at the start of August.
2-player games common on the Speccy, rare on the PC, keyboard as the cause?Hello everyone Does the Spectrum have an edge over semi-modern (from the 90's) computers, when it comes down to keyboard input speed? I've always …
Hello everyone
Does the Spectrum have an edge over ... , supposedly superior platform. The spectrum seemed, most of the time, to have no ... fighting game where sometimes one player would interfere with the other, freezing ...Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …
... so, where can I find plans to do it?
Does the compact ... flash card directly wired to the buss work ... and with the+3e ROM? It looks like the least time consuming and ... but replacements that look like the originals?
I ...the worldthey point at small children and say "look at this little boy, what do you think he has" and answer "I don't know, I don't think it's dyslexia, I thi…
... cells.
What does the telly say? "The north west wind this ... R . . . Time to put sun-tan lotion on, peeps!"
The sensible ... want to go on the beach and have a lovely time so I ... />
And more: they watch the human race walking around doing ...Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
... near-future style world, and does it [B]very[/B] well ... mission, to liberate Liberty Island (where the Statue of Liberty is) from ... (considering the time of the game's release, and the specs. of the PC it ... of.
Sorry to go about this, but it was ..."The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body ... spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto ... to turn the stars on again."
"Go ahead," said ... take care of everything when the time comes so don't worry ...Sega Megadrive...what i think of the colection...So i went and done it, I got myself the Megadrive Colection for PS2... I know I should download it for free and play it on the pc, but I've tried it…
... a competition to the guys who where playing pc ... Shinobi! it was the first time ever I played it ... Castelvania (still my all time side scrolling adventure EVER ... go! and from what I've read further in the ... brought me back to the time where games seemed more about ...Crash Smashes doc'sTo celebrate the 25th year of the Speccy (and also inspired by Andrew Rollings book) i've gathered every Crash Smash scan and put them into several w…
... /footers as i didnt have the time.
I've also ... not great with Word) but does the trick. Tempted to put all ... the 'bible' myself !
If anyone knows any decent printers where ... to PDF it seems to go over the footers) and get something ...Time travel...Time travel is a very, very interesting concept. Surely everyone has dreamt of going back in time, to see how things used to be, or of going into the…
... . And depending on where you were on the Earth's surface, and ... through time) then who knows what would materialise, and from where and ... .
You could go back to the time John Lennon was murdered ...The whole "Maddie" thing...Can you say "trial by media"? How about "media over-reaction"? Had "Maddie" been a poor, ugly, black child, this would never have been headline news…
... never go missing.
Even the story about the UK ... that nothing much happened in the "Maddie" story - but ... that stop them filling the air-time with speculation together with ... />
Edit: And WTF does the "Maddie" story require a permanent ...Question about Crash Magazine (the last issue)...Where's Big Al?I was just reading throught the last issue of Crash, and came across something that had bothered me at the time, but which I'd completely forgotten a…
... that had bothered me at the time, but which I'd completely ... Al had joined the Staff Writing team. In the Editor's introduction ... to the last issue, ... I'm asking is...Does anybody know what the startling revelations about ...So long Toxic ! Absolutely OTT - Did you know theUN Flag has 33 sections, the scottish rite has 33 degrees. Not including 4 hidden ones ;) Only 75 people get to the 33rd at any one time in the uk,…
... people get to the 33rd at any one time in the uk, and ... is(aka baby bush does it all the time) it is top right ... of the bill = Moloc(Bohemia Grove ... ).
Ok, go for ...What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... turn, three weeks boot up time, but my mate had [B ... , more expense for something that does the same as your (few months ... then has to spend time learning to use the new software, when ... where they can be found? You go to fix their PCs, and the ...A warning for anyone considdering Virgin Media as an ISPAfer virgin clevery removed all the files on my web space I was unable to gain access to it via my client CuteFTP. I have attempted to contact them a…
... /> 11:40 and plus where are the files that got removed and ... ] 11:39 Before you go into the FTP you can just restart ... />
12:16 Ok it does not appear to like IE7 ... on the VirginMedia Broadband support pages, it would save you time.
Hilarious!Right, first of all, I am [B]NOT[/B] making an attack either on God (so don't cry blasphemy) or on all religious people (so don't see the topic as an…
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Anyway, if you go to:
[URL] ... I agree that being Christian does not inherently make someone good ... masturbates a high percentage of the time they are fantasizing about a ... then exit the house, and run into the street, where a Christian ...Freedom of the games software industry?Dan Houser, of Rockstar games, who worked on Grand Theft Auto 4 and other titles, was interviews and said of the software industry: "[I]It's really…
... make it up as we go along," he said as he ... stars?
Or does he mean the freedom for games designers ... men?
Or does he mean the freedom of programmers to ... to, to get the game bug free, providing the time they need can ...The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... slightly each time you died), the impressive (for the time) title tune, the rooms themselves ... , but, again like Riddick, the game does become distinctly unpleasant as a ... is the name of the underwater city where Bioshock is set), instead the masks ...Does the new Ghostbusters game need to be any good?In the next month or two there is going to be a new Ghostbusters game released which has been getting quite a bit of press time in the gaming journal…
... bit of press time in the gaming journals over the last few ... (insanely) a continuation of the Ghostbusters franchise is not deemed ... to actually thinking: does it matter if the game is crap ... Ackroyd would have taken the franchise to the big screen. This ...playing games online with an Xbox 360, well just the one game, call of duty - wawi play this all the time cos its ace. my internet speed isn't the fastest, and i can see where it falls down, like it will start to jerk the charac…
i play this all the time cos its ace.
the fastest, and i can see where it ... falls down, like it will start to jerk the ... fail miserably in all the matches. like my character ... at where the enemy was standing.
why does it ...The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... amazing thing about it at the time it was released was what ... new, except for the map designer, but it does everything very well ... it gels, but when it does it really grabs you.
where you actually feel for the characters in the game (again ...Cartridges vs. Discs vs. Digital downloadFollowing a discussion in another thread, I thought a poll about cratridge vs. disc vs. digital download might be interesting (well, compared to the …
... is for owners of the new PSP GO, which cannot use physical ... , the loading time is usually negligable, and in fact when it does occur ... media to hold and cherish, where's the interest?
Morrissey Hits The Decks![url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6427052/Morrissey-collapses-on-stage-during-concert.html[/url] [quote]The former Smiths fro…
... evening... probably," before performing The Smiths' 1983 hit This ... he came to the end of the song his ... booing, thinking 'here we go again'. He has a ... a statement at the time organisers said the star has been ... on the Later... With Jools Holland TV show, where he ...Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... fancy giving it a go and reporting back on ... cup of tea - by the time you've drunk it, ... br /> ;crash? if so, go to GAMEOVER.
;print ... BASIC at the end of the game.
The computer does most ... Choose a location in ROM where the are 256 random looking ...
