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YS3 - The Things You Might Have MissedFor those of you who don't subscribe to our RSS feeds, here's what you might have missed in the [URL="http://www.ys3.org/"]world's finest Sinclair-re…
... RSS feeds, here's what you might have missed in the ... ]
For those of you who don't know what ... .ys3.org/"]YS3[/URL] is, it's the unofficial second sequel ... .co.uk/"]Your Sinclair[/URL]. It's been around for quite ... a while now. How did you miss it? Tch. -
The game that made you a SpecchumFollowing a similar thread, that's the question:Which game made you think 'it's time to buy a ZX Spectrum' ? Games like [I]Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac or …
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Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…
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I just started a Manic Miner remake using ... , but I'd thought it best to start with the ... would also like to make it easy to slot in ... animation? I did say it was a long shot......
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What game font did you like?Carrying over the slight venture into game fonts when it was mentioned how some games didn't have their own font in the "What was the first Spectrum …
... into game fonts when it was mentioned how some ... the first Spectrum game you bought.", it got me thinking of ... was always nice as it somehow added to the ... how some companies, be it Arcade or Speccy game ... font that would allow you to immediately identify a ... -
XP - Service pack 3I'm not usually one to stray from the path of sticking to Speccy-related topics, but I'm making an exception for this... I *tried* to install SP3 th…
... other people (who've now started swearing at MS on their ... , despite you telling it to the first time - it politely tells you that it couldn ... tickity-boo! It then just went and re-started my machine - no ... -
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…
... . Evolution says that we started out simple, and over ... ex-gays are. He started crying saying something along ...
"[I]You got it backwards.
Creationism is ... />
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GRIM REAPER - When you die, will you post a message from the grave?I'm thinking of writing my will soon. It occurred to me, I move in a lot of online circles, as THX1138, but not many people know Mark Brown, tbh - …
... my will soon.
It occurred to me, I move ... /> [b]So should you die suddenly, do you want it posted on your ... ?[/b]
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Retro... anythingI suppose this question can be used in relation to Speccies, or C64s, Atari 2600s or any old computer. But it got me thinking after watching some of …
... or any old computer. But it got me thinking after watching ... littered the track and I started to wonder about repairs and ... object of passion breaks and you repair it by going to a ... old wood - but when does it stop being the antique that ... -
Did you ever had a motion sickness when playing a 3d game?Do you know it, you start to play a 3d game and after a while you feel dizzy and about to puke. If you haven't heard about it it's described here un…
Do you know it, you start to play a 3d ... .
If you haven't heard about it it's described here ... short while ago. It's really annoying. You want to play a ... game, but you can't.
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What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
And where were you when you saw it for the first time?
< ... . I was amazed. Back then it WAS like controlling a cartoon ... the inlay, SMELT the inlay (you know, those Ultimate inlays STILL ... as mind blowing at KL it still looked great, the bouncing ... -
Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…
... =2000437[/url]
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Spectrum bot?I remember spending 1 hour or so in front of my Spectrum, experimenting with a BASIC program which attempted to learn things based on my input. The p…
... some of the bots you encounter on IRC channels ... If you spent enough time 'talking' to it, you started believing it could understand you ( ... seriously!!).
-When the program was used the first time it ... .
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The Wire - ZX Spectrum breaks the caseI've been watching The Wire box-sets over the last few months and just finished series 5. If you haven't watched it, then get started, it's the best …
... 5. If you haven't watched it, then get started, it's the best ... wanted to tell you is that every time you hear the wire ... -
The Chuckie Egg playability factorYou all know the story of Chuckie Egg 2 and why it isn't as good as 1. The reason Chuckie Egg is brilliant is because your little dude runs around at…
... putting you off, but soon gets much harder. It also gives you hope ... , in that you can manage to ... after a couple of days you call it quits.
The ... to get started on and gives you a chance, but it's immediately ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
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Just post what you're playing, on what platform ... and, if you like, what you make of it so far...< ... [/b]= Brilliant fun if you can get decent folks to ... but quite annoying if you get 5 year old ... - PS2 [/b]= Just started it, but it seems pretty cool
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it's my gran's birthday tomorrowshe's 87. Ive got her a present, but I hadn't got a card, so I figured I'd better get a card. didnt have much time, rushed into Smiths, saw a 'humour…
... say when you're getting older, you start to ...
and when you open it, it says (in really small ... /> [B]Happy Birthday. Hope you like this musical card[/B ...
what do you reckon I should do, abandon ... card idea or go with it anyway?
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SP7 Tape to +3 Disk Gone off E-Bay (Did you buy it coz it's MIA !)Somebody just bought off of e-bay this evening... SP7 Tape To +3 Disk Utility (Released by Kobrasoft) ... Ending bid was ?19 ! + ?2.20 P&P This is…
... person who bought it is going to preserve it for the WOS ... -
Some DVD and film questions1. You know how some DVDs are region free (either because they are released that way, or because they are copies of region protected DVDs that have h…
... DVDs and can tell you who directed/starred in ... to get it out (yes, I know you're supposed ... characters, and it was great. If you went to see ... be like before the film started. It gave their character (in ... too stupid to learn, you decide ;)) I presumably miss ... -
What do you want from Spectrum 2.0?Hopefully most people here are aware of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url], my site for reviews and non-anonymous voting on Spectrum game…
... because I believe in "you get what you give", any votes will ... follows:
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[*]You get one point for every ... />
Two ideas to get you started:
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[*] ... site
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When do you think video games no longer needed imagaination?I'm not sure if I can phrase this question coherently, hence the pre-amble. What I am getting at is - when I was a kid I'd play a game, take Chequere…
... whilst I liked the game it did leave a fair bit ... />
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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…
... to get you started writing machine code.
Anyone fancy giving it a ... tea - by the time you've drunk it, you be able to program ... ignores it but it's there for our benefit.
You can ... Your score was 0"? Congratulations - you have coded your first machine ... -
which one of you won all them game competitions?c'mon fess up which of you won it.. I notice there was a porsche 924 as a prize for gyron.. alas I'm not eligable , it finished nov. 6 1985 :( oth…
c'mon fess up which of you won it..
I notice there was a porsche 924 as a prize for gyron.. alas I'm not eligable , it finished nov. 6 1985 :(
others I recall, was Eureaka? and errm didn't Splat have one?!?! -
Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
... NEVER actualy worked out what you were supposed to do). The ... though I've never seen it running and there are NO ... you? Did you buy anything back then and now, wonder WHY you bought it ... -
How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…
... but never got round to it apart from the real basics ... graphics, but that was about it, i couldnt work out what ... etc
and how do you learn all the specifics of ... pore over for years till you memorise it?
yours
SkoolKit 1.0A new release of the Skool Disassemblies is available. This time, besides the traditional [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/"]online version[/ur…
... SkoolKit? Well, you could think of it as one (or ... the best option for you (and it's also a much ... get started is included; see skoolkit.html once you've ... SkoolKit for distribution, and it hasn't been long since ... doesn't work for you, or you spot something wrong ...My ZX magazine stuff - anyone want it? (free)I've got some magazine clippings and other stuff I'm going to bin. But if you want it, you can send me a stamped self addressed envelope and I'll pos…
... to bin. But if you want it, you can send me a stamped ... envelope and I'll post it to you. Send me a private ... message if you're keen.
MAGAZINE ...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 …
... be very good, then it just started to feel like they ... compassionate, the younger sister you never had, to being ... leave them to it. Just google and you'll find ... won't describe it, in case you want to watch the ... from any season) if you watch it as an adult, but ...How do you work the snapshot feature?Just wondering can you save\snapshot these games? and if so can someone explain to me how you do it. Just found this site 2 days ago by the way, tak…
Just wondering can you save\snapshot these games? and ... someone explain to me how you do it.
Just found ...trying to find an old gameHi I'm trying to find an old spectrum game that was out somtime between 1982 and 86 That I once owned til my house got broken into and all my stuff w…
... nicked .
It was set in ww2 and you had to select ... jobs like sapper, engineer etc you started in a forest and had ... this game and what was it called
cheers for any ...Free Basic coding book for kids if you want itI bought it in a charity shop yonks ago out of nostalgia, a lack of ability to let some retro rot in a charity shop and it was super cheap. Anyway, …
... in a charity shop and it was super cheap.
... myself to just recycle it (and I don't ... shop anyway).
It's 'First Computer Library - Computer ... Microchips!
Anyway, it's free if anyone wants ... anyone wants to scan it for posterity I'll ...
