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how to be a complete bastardi use to play this when i was a kid and loved it but now i aint gotta clue whats going on and the slit screen with the 2 veiws must be the worst idea…
I love it too. It's the Young Ones game that should have been. Don't like the official one, although I haven't played it that much.
Never finished it (HTBACB) though.
Necros. -
New Cronosoft game release - MEGAPLEXJust a case of getting the website updated to take account of the new release...! MEGAPLEX, by Triumph Game Labs, is a new 128K only Speccy releas…
... much looking at Adobe website, which says Dreamweaver is standard, but ... to professional which is Dreamweaver.[/quote]
Each to their own. At ... -
Music on game cassettes?I was rather amazed at how professional the music included with Everyone's A Wally sounded: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoqq9Vfc0g[/url] I…
IIRC it was only the more eccentric titles which did those, although there was the arcade soundtrack phase with 720 Degrees and OutRun.
Which I really should have mentioned in the 1987 chapter. Hmm. -
A question for the Web developers amongst usI am embarking on creating a new web site that utilises Java web start and applets... Although I am accomplished at HTML and programming I have neve…
... change 'site map' to 'menu'. Have a margin between the menu ... ? People will see it and should know that it's a ... are several menus, in which case they should have different titles. Just my ... different note, please don't have a marquee on your page ... -
Firefox (new thoughts)Maybe more people would use Firefox if there was a version for the Speccy! [code] 10 PRINT AT 2, 2; "Press F for Firefox or I for M$IE" 20 LET K$=IN…
... QUOTE=DEATH]Do you have any other questions regarding ... intellect means that you should be able to work things ... was a teenager. He should have had those rough edges knocked off ... of course - if I had even one tenth of ... AY has, I'd have been beaten black and blue ... -
Best build game?Which Build game do you think was the best? The Build engine was the game engine used for a fair few first person shooters in the mid/late '90s, th…
... wanta some Wang?"
I have a vague feeling that the ... freeware (for example Tribes), or have had their source code freely released, but ... still need their data files to run (lots ... -
Question about .scl files in SpectaculatorHi. I've downloaded a few .scl files and tried to run them with Spectaculator, but for some reason some of them go to a 'A>' prompt after loading the…
... -DOS disk format, which you won't have had anything to do with ... -
Battle of Games 6: Shoot em Ups 1Greetings to all :D Welcome to the first battle of games dedicated to Shoot Em Ups. First because I'm pretty sure everybody will speak of some game I…
It really should have had zynaps in there , a speccy classic , i voted for moon cresta , a cracking arcade conversion , never been to keen on r type , even in the arcades. -
Issue 4Anyone wanting to submit anything for Issue 4 has about a week left. We are aiming for another xmas day release.. Crap jokes, articles, reviews, pr…
... and some of us have had their brain set to "Away From Earth"
But with the help of good friends I was reeled in.
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Fruit Machine (DK'Tronics)The [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/f/FruitMachine.tzx.zip]TZX file[/url] of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi…
... a new flag, it maybe should have had an updated flag, as the ... little or no publicity, we have no idea if an earlier ... -
Classics that still need RZXingLooking through Andrew's excellent book, I noticed that there are a few classics that still need to be RZX'd. If anyone is bored and looking for som…
[QUOTE=NickH;182947]This week, should all go well.
... Within 48 hours, should all go *very* well.
should have received their first plain-text email ... -
BBC Radio Wales, Wed 8-10pmThere's going to be a segment on the Speccy 25th anniversary in the second hour. With me. Live. Erk.
... all the way through. I have a great face for radio ... .
I hope you had a stiff drink afterwards to ... />
Andrew
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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…
... in fact exist. Experiments have been carried out using a ... />
Seriously? Do you have any links? And what happens ... the equation women would have got their rights much sooner as ... level headed suffragists wouldn't have had their rational arguments set back ... -
Windows XP advice neededI've just bought a laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 2 pre-installed. I've never used SP2 before, as I've never needed the Service Packs, and I was…
... my point was that Windows should have had such an obvious feature as ... Directory", then an option box should come up for you to ... know, but something so obvious should have been part of Windows in ... -
Windows XP advice neededI've just bought a laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 2 pre-installed. I've never used SP2 before, as I've never needed the Service Packs, and I was…
... my point was that Windows should have had such an obvious feature as ... Directory", then an option box should come up for you to ... know, but something so obvious should have been part of Windows in ... more tricky as I only have one machine, but Im hopeful ... -
Orange Intro Sinclair book + Subliminal Message = ???I've had [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000512"]this book[/URL] for over 20 years now ... and I just noticed* less than 5 mi…
... /> Piccadilly Square and Times Square have had their 'Coca Cola' signs but the ... -
Orange Intro Sinclair book + Subliminal Message = ???I've had [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000512"]this book[/URL] for over 20 years now ... and I just noticed* less than 5 mi…
... /> Piccadilly Square and Times Square have had their 'Coca Cola' signs but the ... -
Chubb!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!! All these padlocks clicking off all around! Someone must have shares in Chubb :p
Did you know that the Wives of the Freemason's have formed their own group.
Theyr'e called the Masonettes :lol: -
Chubb!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!! All these padlocks clicking off all around! Someone must have shares in Chubb :p
... Wives of the Freemason's have formed their own group.
Theyr ... -
Chubb!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!! All these padlocks clicking off all around! Someone must have shares in Chubb :p
[quote=Scottie_uk;226091]Did you know that the Wives of the Freemason's have formed their own group.
Theyr'e called the Masonettes :lol:[/quote]
Didn't they have a hit in 1983 with Heartache Avenue? -
Mall shootersSo there was another Mall shooting over here yesterday. Another 'pained' teen shot up the mall and killed 8(?) peeps. Bring back the cane I say..the…
... fairly small target area you have to hit.
Also ... the perp is going to have to aim-shoot-aim-shoot ... time reloading. By which time, hopefully people have had a chance to take ... say how much ammo he had or how many rounds he ... -
Mall shootersSo there was another Mall shooting over here yesterday. Another 'pained' teen shot up the mall and killed 8(?) peeps. Bring back the cane I say..the…
... + people on it and you have a semi automatic weapon it ... to show up in which time you should have plenty of time to ... -
Moving houseTomorrow I'm moving house (hopefully). I say hopefully, because there's still a chance that the money from one of the parties in the chain may not b…
... go to another job! They should have had a bigger van to do ... and I doubt it would have stopped him anyway, he still ... would have buggered off after a week ... -
Why hate the C64?Well, why? I've never understood the bitter rivalry between C64 and Spectrum fans - both computers had their strengths and weaknesses. Both had goo…
... 8-bit computer; they all had their own unique features unlike the soulless ... -
Why hate the C64?Well, why? I've never understood the bitter rivalry between C64 and Spectrum fans - both computers had their strengths and weaknesses. Both had goo…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;243555]they all had their own unique features unlike the soulless ... . At least the CPC version had an awesome menu theme. -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... /> Ta[/QUOTE]
You should have had two from me - Full Throttle ... -
Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…
... usually each programmer would have his own library of routines. ... each programmer would probably have had his own mini-library of ... another programmer shouldn’t have had to waste his time ... br /> Yeah obviously there would have had to be different libraries for ... -
Games with completely unsuitable speech samplesOK, so there may not be many on the Speccy, but I put far too much time than it deserved into a N64 game called Chopper Attack (fnar!) also known in …
... . I'm sure other people have got their own personal 'favourite' lines of ... -
runescapedoes anyone play this, ive just created a character and done the tutorial. i haven't got a clue what im supposed to be doing?
... will be meeting some in-game heffer and moving to Arizona ... will dress like your in-game characters and have rings fashioned like your ... favorite in-game +dex rings.
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
... , one person beavering away at their source code, possibly even in ... small number of software houses had their own dedicated in-house programming teams ...
