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  • any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…

    ... 't a very "good" game which has been popular for centuries ... or Lord of Chaos, which are much more technical games but aren't ... towers, trees, slime or fire) which affects the game. At the ...
    jamielemon jamielemon March 2008 Games
  • Crash or Sinclair User?I was a Crash man myself. I've created a little tribute to [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/Crash-Magazine"]Crash Magazine[/URL] if anyone fancies a lo…

    ... in the end - a much more tolerable character. It was even ... the drain and all three magazines were more or less about big screenshots ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2010 Games
  • 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…

    ... s exit, a couple of magazines were still being published (not glossy ... a very large user base which few other computer models ... probably passed 6 months or more earlier by the TS1000 ... support. 3rd party suppliers wanted technical information and Timex was slow ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • La Abadia Del Crimea - The definitive pollOn a scale of 1 to 10, vote on the score you think LADC deserves. Try and be honest at it while you can. ;) EDIT: This poll is effective for 2 week…

    ... ;379319]Did the spanish magazines gave scores to the difficulty ... /> There were several spanish magazines, Microhobby was the spectrum based more successyful ( ... damn!! how spells!!) erm. the non technical ratings which include were ...
    judasEZT judasEZT August 2009 Games
  • Which game was more wasting time ?Actually, a lot of games were wasting time but I remember some that I played a lot without never see the end ...; for exemple: 1. Underwulde 2. Arc …

    Actually, a lot of games were wasting time but I remember ... . Atic Atac

    and more, and more, and more...
    FGuerreri FGuerreri June 2002 Games
  • Italian 'pirate' magazines.Hi, this emerged in another thread. We in Italy used to get plenty of cassettes which were regularly sold, and which all featured 'pirated games', wi…

    ... plenty of cassettes which were regularly sold, and which all featured 'pirated ... cracked and all. Multiload games were typically 'trimmed' to a ... or something. Examples of such 'magazines' were 'Load'n'Run', 'Special ... , and some of the magazines. Let me know if ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi June 2002 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 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…

    ... without informing you which files were and weren't copied ... />
    * Modern computer magazines. They cost a fortune, are ... and old magazines, and Crash, Your Spectrum etc, were *definately* ... with new ones. Which means more landfill, more expense for something ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2007 Chit chat
  • So which 8-bitter was biggest in which country?ewgf's topic "Be honest now..." got me thinking about this. As we got people from most European countries here and also a few abroad, tell us which 8…

    ... a few abroad, tell us which 8-bit computer was the ... like C16 and Plus 4 were more well-known. Quite depressing really ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The good old days (what do you honestly miss)?I was reading a post on Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better than older games, and even though that's just his opinion (…

    ... is that now we have more channels, which means that on the ... plus side there's much more chance ... as the best 8-bit magazines were, their success was at least ... from the magazines, we'd get much more and much more immediate feedback ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2011 Chit chat
  • Interview with Steve Wetherill (Odin)Hi you all!!! Here is the interview done to STEVE WETHERILL (Nodes of Yesod, Robin of The Wood, Arc of Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at […

    ... tried to figure out the technical tricks needed to make ... fans of the Ultimate games, which were considered state of the art ... images to the screen, which gives a more pleasing result. Later, ... - often porting games was more expensive than developing them). When ...
    jmvbok jmvbok August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • clones more successful than the originals?were there any clone/copy/rip-off versions of speccy games that either outsold or were more popular generally than the originals they were based on? …

    were there any clone/copy/rip-off versions of speccy games that either outsold or were more popular generally than the originals they were based on?

    there's a similar topic on the cracked site today which got me wondering
    def chris def chris October 2012 Games
  • RA 130: The Bitmap Brothers[img]http://retroasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/130.png[/img] The Bitmap Brothers were UK gaming’s first Rockstars. They appeared in our co…

    ... were UK gaming’s first Rockstars. They appeared in our computer magazines ... looking more suited to the cover ... bit era and the games which dominated not only our ... huge 222 page companion book which goes into even deeper detail ...
    Swainy Swainy November 2015 Announcements
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... a game has an "objective" technical value or a very fluid ... games don't have and which should be counted while ... /> the rankings of their reviews were not identical... I repeat, if ... down" or similars. So: which approach is more "fecking ridiculous"?
    < ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel August 2003 Games
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... game has an "objective" technical value or a very fluid ... the rankings of their reviews were not identical[/quote]
    < ... been saying. the ratings were not the same because ...

    [quote]So: which approach is more "fecking ridiculous"? [/quote]
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... /> I understood that you were writing about subjectiveness, and it ... has an "objective" technical value or a very ... the rankings of their reviews were not identical[/quote]
    ... />
    [quote]So: which approach is more "fecking ridiculous"? [/quote]
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel August 2003 Games
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... /> I understood that you were writing about subjectiveness, and it ... has an "objective" technical value or a very ... the rankings of their reviews were not identical[/quote]
    ... />
    [quote]So: which approach is more "fecking ridiculous"? [/quote]
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... ?s questions from my non-technical point of view :
    ... Spectrum games many of which already have more colourful versions on ... even those that were actually converted into more colorful version most ... myself, but since we were asking ourselves on the new ...
    Arm73 Arm73 January 2004 Emulators
  • Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …

    ... recorder and a colour TV were more than enough for us to ... 20-year old British computer magazines from the cupboard and compare ... accusations based upon "logical" conclusions which have the same consistency as ... ), I think there is nothing more to be said.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2004 Games
  • Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …

    ... know about 128K versions, which games had more colourful grafix than their ... graphics on the spectrum were mostly missing for technical reasons rather than ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... C64 the week they were released and was only ... Except you did trust reviews, which are the same thing but ... ? Reviews were more likely to be biased by the magazines taking advertising ... , karingal wrote:
    There were never many playable previews, compared ...
    TMR TMR July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... be much point in magazines doing reviews then would ... Except you did trust reviews, which are the same thing but ... Reviews were more likely to be biased by the magazines taking advertising ... karingal wrote:
    There were never many playable previews, compared ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2005 Games
  • ZX Shed Issue 1[url="http://www.sinclair-heaven.net/sinclair_magazines/zx_shed/Issue_1.pdf"]http://www.sinclair-heaven.net/sinclair_magazines/zx_shed/Issue_1.pdf[/u…

    ... in this community that demands more and more technical excellence. Hell, I've ... makes the text almost unreadable... Which is a trade-off against ... lack of coverage of the more technical aspects is a little ... the subject, and type-ins were great fun and do give ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2005 ZX Shed
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... be very slightly blurred which means reading more than a page is ... of typing in programs from magazines then still persists with me ... />
    I'm not sure which hyperlinks were non-clickable?

    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... as are most of the technical bits of the game, ... font. If it's more readable then we can ... /> I'm not sure which hyperlinks were non-clickable?
    [/ ... So if issue two gets more response then there will ... That will also appeal more in the general remakes ...
    ADJB ADJB December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What does Sir Clive do nowadays ?I have searched the net a lot, but can't find much about Sir Clive's present whereabouts. The Sincair Research-pages still offer the same products a…

    ... in a questionnaire which is nothing more than a souped ... pages were far less common in later Speccy magazines than ... were commercial Speccy games written by teenagers in their bedrooms which ... the faceless corporate franchises which dominated the console world. ...
    udgoverload udgoverload February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ever felt conned?Have you ever read a review for a speccy game and the reviewer gives it a glowing review and you trust him and go out and buy the game only to find i…

    ... and Fist II Megagames? They were both weak, and Crash saw ... them. I think all the magazines were guilty of getting it wrong ... of games got judged more on their technical merits and first impressions ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • 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…

    ... (10%). But IBM, which has dominated the mainframe computer ... Instruments, Commodore and Atari which had had machines out ... ZX81 were sold by mail order through hobbyist electronic magazines and ... [quote]
    Even if it were more compatible with the speccy then ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • *** 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…

    ... of Ping Pong and Cobra were well accompanied.[/quote]
    more than that, it ... hope you do some more tunes in future.[/QUOTE ... The Gem Machine too, which hopefully will all be ... shaping up to be more "technical" and covering some "real ...
    Lee_dC Lee_dC September 2006 Games
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... of time to check magazines, catalogues and adverts.
    were never reviewed (SPOT covers 6150 titles, which includes ... ZX81 games) and "only" 31 magazines were mostly indexed (we have more ... show, many, many more that were unheard of before.
    mheide mheide September 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …

    ... point I'm making and which you are interpreting incorrectly is ... spectrum version at all costs', which honestly, this thread reads *a ... . I did notice the bullets were more chunky in the Spectrum version ... the original, it is a technical miracle indeed and in no ...
    Fizza Fizza January 2007 Games
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