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  • Spindizzy questionHi I have in front of me a tape by Advanced Computer Entertainment, July 1988, which contains Spindizzy (CBM, Speccy, Amstrad versions) and since thi…

    ... games" for the Spectrum and Blue Max for the C64.
    < ... had Impossible Mission for the Spectrum, Amstrad, C64 and BBC.
    ... mentioned, had Spindizzy for the Spectrum, Amstrad and C64.

    the Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, Amiga and ST ...
    StuBruise StuBruise March 2008 Infoseek database
  • Missing girl foundGreat news about that kid Shannon Matthews [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm[/url] Must admit i really really thou…

    Why did the uncle change his name?
    NickH NickH April 2008 Chit chat
  • Missing girl foundGreat news about that kid Shannon Matthews [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm[/url] Must admit i really really thou…

    [QUOTE=NickH;260718]Why did the uncle change his name?[/QUOTE]< ... have changed it when she did, or had it changed by ... sure if thats the case though or why he would change his ...
    mile mile April 2008 Chit chat
  • Missing girl foundGreat news about that kid Shannon Matthews [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm[/url] Must admit i really really thou…

    [QUOTE=NickH;260718]Why did the uncle change his name?[/QUOTE]

    I'm sure we'll all find out soon enough.
    GreenCard GreenCard April 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    [QUOTE=BloodBaz;265555]LOL - That's a beaut![/QUOTE]

    why did the fly fly?

    because the spider spider.
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack April 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    ... Stack;265556]why did the fly fly?

    because the spider spider.[/ ... ]

    I got the other ones ([SIZE="2"][I ... did not make as much sense ... what was it exactly the spider did ... do get the fly flying?
    ZnorXman ZnorXman April 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why Did The Monkey Get Lost?

    < ...
    def chris def chris May 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    [QUOTE=def chris;265700]Why Did The Monkey Get Lost?

    ...
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2008 Chit chat
  • BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…

    ... Pet).[/QUOTE]

    Did the Spectrum have any killer pokes??
    ... program somthing like the following just for the hell of it ... other interesting side effects. The last one I tried sent ... From that point on the spectrum I tried the above code on would ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk May 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why did the lion get lost?

    Because Jungle is massive!
    Daren Daren May 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    [QUOTE=def chris;265700]Why Did The Monkey Get Lost?

    ... you should be banned from the forum for this attempted 'joke ...
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2008 Chit chat
  • Cassette 50 question(!)Hi Thanks Gerard & Martijn for cataloguing this. The title "Frogger" appears to be very similar to a type-in from Your Computer in about 1983 (thoug…

    ... ;272922]Well, here's the magazine listing (Spectrum Cross)

    ... is a step in the right direction towards resolving ... just seen this page... why was the spectrum ASCII value printed out as ... part of the listing? ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz July 2008 Infoseek database
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why did the chicken cross the road?

    Because it ... wanted McNuggets. Then it crossed the road into it's parents ... eating shit like this in the first place.

    I ... things you find all over the world basically.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2008 Chit chat
  • Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…

    ... ;306376]It peels right to the core of things, eh :grin ... mashing!

    Incidentally, why did the spud cross the road?

    Because ... , that was really meant for the corny jokes thread :oops: )
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why did the groigan dance?
    Winston Winston October 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    [QUOTE=Winston;307746]Why did the groigan dance?[/QUOTE]

    Because the thargoids are entertainingly ignorant.
    ZnorXman ZnorXman October 2008 Chit chat
  • Forum Improvements[quote=Dunny;307892]Yebbut, I'm not interested in reporting any threads that are off topic, so long as they stay in the off topic area. What I would …

    ... blind users did the spectrum have and does this forum have? The Spectrum was not ... for WOS only the work would far outweigh the benifits.
    ======< ... . In a similar vein to the [youtube], [img] commands I ... and have it emulated within the forum like in WOSes ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2008 Chit chat
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why did the farmer ask to be kicked in the nuts??



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    He wanted to add a couple of achers to his farm.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2008 Chit chat
  • US Elections: It's going to be McCain/Palin, isn't it?Surely the Palin gimmick won't win McCain the election? But it's looking that way :(

    ... the US seem to want, too). When asked "Why not just get the ... uranium off the Russians?" the Iranian engineer ... may have had. Why did the French have to broker the peace agreement with ...
    Winston Winston November 2008 Chit chat
  • Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son going cheapI just bought from HMV The Complete Rising Damp - &#163;15.00 The Complete Steptoe And Son - &#163;35.00 The other day i nearly bought the steptoe …

    Why did the idiots at the BBC wipe all these classic comedies (and other good stuff like early Dr Who, the Avengers and loads of Top of the Pops etc)? Are they completely stupid?
    zx1 zx1 November 2008 Chit chat
  • Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son going cheapI just bought from HMV The Complete Rising Damp - &#163;15.00 The Complete Steptoe And Son - &#163;35.00 The other day i nearly bought the steptoe …

    [quote=zx1;315533]Why did the idiots at the BBC wipe all these ... fortune for them, why didn't the BBC auction them off ... (with Gary the "illegal immigrant", and others) the BBC aparently rented ... the car back, for ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2008 Chit chat
  • Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son going cheapI just bought from HMV The Complete Rising Damp - &#163;15.00 The Complete Steptoe And Son - &#163;35.00 The other day i nearly bought the steptoe …

    [QUOTE=zx1;315533]Why did the idiots at the BBC wipe all these classic ... />
    In todays money the cost of the tapes used to record ... not cheap then.

    The video recording and playback machines ... also cost a bomb. The Leeds and Mamchester arms of ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2008 Chit chat
  • Roy Of The RoversHey all, I'm an avid forum reader but first post! I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a map available for Roy of the Rovers? I loved this ga…

    I used to have the Spectrum and C64 versions and both came with a map in with the instructions. Don't have them any more, sadly.
    Jmk Jmk November 2008 Support files
  • What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…

    ... Speccy emulator on the PC and I then discovered the "Spectrum 1.7 ... files.

    Not only did the Spectrum get me into computers, but ... I could play ZX Spectrum games on the move with a GP2X ... or DS Lite.

    The Spectrum certainly has a lot to ...
    Refrenz Refrenz November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IBM Floppy Disk Drive for Spectrum +3If I connect one up, will I be able to download roms and write them to a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format di…

    ... natively on my Spectrum +3? What format did the spectrum disks need to ... .

    Secondly, most Spectrum games are in tape format ... they tend to be 3" Spectrum format disks. Note thats 3 ... . These were the disks used by the Spectrum +3, the format is rarely ...
    Phu Phu January 2009 Hardware
  • IBM Floppy Disk Drive for Spectrum +3If I connect one up, will I be able to download roms and write them to a floppy with my PC, then play them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format di…

    ... them natively on my Spectrum +3? What format did the spectrum disks need to ... />
    Look for a zx spectrum/CPC464 to PC floppy connection ... . (+3 and CPC shares the very same shugart disk interface ... 3.5" floppy link from the left menu)

    ...
    Arda Arda January 2009 Hardware
  • Corny Joke Thread No1 (had enough of sick jokes)[SIZE="4"][B]Q:[/B] How did Bob Marley like his doughnuts?[/SIZE] [SIZE="4"][B]A:[/B]Wi Jam in!![/SIZE]

    Why did the baker have brown hands?

    Because he needed (kneaded) a poo!!

    :roll:
    GreenCard GreenCard March 2009 Chit chat
  • The turkish RamboFollowing with cult movies threads, here we have a turkish movie, [B]Korkusu[/B]z, made in 1986 that it seems to be a Rambo ripp off. :lol: [youtub…

    ... why did the rockets pop off the end of the launcher like a spud gun, why did ... left them lying all over the place for him to keep ... a cut or burn to the left eyebrow ever been so ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2009 Chit chat
  • The 8-bit book...Filed under miscellaneous because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it... It's almost the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :) Anyway, I've finally p…

    ... an definitive guide to the landmark games of the 8 bit era ... have seen some repetition from the Spectrum and C64 books it would be ... historians namely:
    What were the 200 most influential games of ... era and what would be the most authentic hardware to try ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 8-bit book...Filed under miscellaneous because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it... It's almost the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :) Anyway, I've finally p…

    ... have seen some repetition from the Spectrum and C64 books it would be ... namely:
    What were the 200 most influential games of ... avoiding covering Spectrum and C64 games that we covered in the first ... repeated coverage of games from the previous two books, I' ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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