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Fun accountancy question of the week!!!Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share my latest tax problem with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair. Read this and be thankful you aren't …
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Scarface and Grand Theft Auto smilaritiesI sat down and watched Scarface last night and noticed something surprising. Having played all of the Grand Theft Auto games on PS2 (GTA III, GTA Vi…
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Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …
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Black ... 't install all sorts of background jubidaas or gizmo things, just ... into a moving...er...movie background is great eye candy.
Western set puzzle gameCiao a tutti! When I was a child I played a game on my ZX Spectrum 48K which was basically a puzzle game in a western age. You had to use a boomeran…
... , with yellow sprites on black background, IIRC).
Thank you ...Try this in google mapsTake 60 seconds to do this: 1. go to [url]www.google.com[/url] 2. click on "maps" 3. click on "get directions" 4. type " New York " in the firs…
... "get directions"
7. scroll down to step no; 23The day after... (25year hardware woes)...so there we were, about to play some ROM-cartridge games on my grey +2... but it didn't seem to like the Ram Turbo interface, won't even boot, ju…
... still be playing in the background. Any thoughts?
Finally ...Why can't I use the keyboard?Playing some old Speccy games recently, there's a fair number that ask you to enter your name using the joystick (Trashman for example). Why not let …
... more bother to have to scroll through 26 different letters 8 ...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…
... presumably the extra code of SP1 and 2 cause extra bugs ...Cannon Bubble source releaseHello! We have just released the full source code (including artwork) for our latest game, Cannon Bubble. Download it here: [url]http://www.computer…
... game page at CEZ, and scroll down to the credits area ...Paul Owens loadershi I reckon Batman the movie ought to be listed as having the Paul Owens protection loader, as it has red/black loading colours, slightly faster tha…
... .org/mtzxman.htm#SLOCK[/url] (scroll down)
Rainbow Islands ...Retro Fighter shoot-em-up development updateHi all, Some of you might recall I was developing a little shoot-em-up with the working title of Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed …
... they dont fly through the background. A better explosion when you ... (ie. of your ship with background / baddies) using the poke in ...Collision detectionI understand the basic methods for testing for collisions but I have question about the trickier situation of testing for when shots hit the backgrou…
... for when shots hit the background. What's making this tricky ... zero then it must be background. This is very time consuming ...graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…
I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did artists draw loading screens etc, light pen?Can you look at my daughters laptop? Argggh!Why did I say yes? She just turned up with it. Fired it up, no anti virus running, running XP SP1, lots of message on the system tray saying 'Your c…
... anti virus running, running XP SP1, lots of message on the ...photo of my composite modI took a photo of the composite mod I built into the modulator box of my spectrum+ for a thread on c.s.s just thought people here might like to see h…
... my hairy knee in the background, I've run out of ...help with name of a gameI'm trying to remember the name of a game i got with my specturm +3 as part disc's that came with it The pack of games it came with also had gift fr…
... of social Security ) in the background
( have looked ...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…
... you were partway through the scroll bar whilst copy some files ... from that window, then the scroll bar returns to the top ...Do you think my graphics card is on its way out?Lately, I've been getting graphical errors, if I grab a window and move it round the screen really fast (Pic 1) or if using the internet the page wi…
... load ok, but the I scroll down same errors happen (Pic ...Bad quality tapeHi I have a cassette with Polish game which is MIA. I'd like to make a .tzx file of it, but the recording quality is low and maketzx fails to get an…
... . How could I remove the background noise to extract the pure ...Seeking loading screen for Egghead 5To celebrate his forthcoming 18th birthday, Egghead will be taking a Mediterranean cruise on his yacht with a few friends. As with most coming-of-ag…
... has been written and the background graphics and sprites are done ...Testing the Ram on a Toastrack 128KHi All My "new" 128K is misbehaving, all the demos I have loaded for it crash instantly, Ghostbusters 128K is playable but one of the background scr…
... playable but one of the background screens has a bar of ...Starglider NovellaDoes anyone have any info about the novella that was packaged with Starglider? According to Wiki: [I]It was packaged with a sci-fi novella by James…
... by James Follett, describing the background story of the game.[/I ...End of level - bosses and brawls - Other SystemsSpinning off from Jumping Stacks post about this in the Speccy games forum I figured why not post one for other systems in the chit chat and share a …
... impressive graphics, Menacing looks, The Background Music during the battle, How ... , the way it moves, the background, the music, it's attacks ...games likes you and ppl dislikes???Hi there, which games you think are good meanwhile magazines and ppl gaves them bad reviews?? to me Is speccy version of Salamander. Ok, its not a …
... smooth, it had inertia, multidirectional scroll, no slow-downs. graphics were ...Where's my magnifying glass???OK, speak up! Which one of you basts took my magnifying glass??? It used to be in Win3.11 but I can't seem to find it under WinXP ... it might have…
... with the mouse, perhaps the scroll wheel)
Help please ...splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
... for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've ... to generate valid ROMs using z88dk, placing global variables in RAM ...Shoot em up designerJust seen Jonathans site, years ago he started doing a Shoot em up Designer utility. Could be very good, i think if people are interested please ema…
.avi to DVDI used to use Nero 7 to write a few .avi files to DVD format on a DVD to use in a DVD player. But after upgrading to Nero 8 I cannot do this any mor…
... to the DVD with a background picture and maybe other things ...Name this 1986 budget game!Name this game! (My first thread of this kind, by the way!) :smile: This was a budget game, released in 1986 or a little earlier. It was some kind …
... gardens and mazes. The screen background was black and different colours ...Steep Way by Mastertronic ?Hello all. Anyone here knows if the game "Steep Way" was actually RELEASED by Mastertronic ? I have my doubts since the author is from Slovenia (he …
... or knows anything about its background (the game might of actually ...
