can still clear the game after 20 years plus
lol

http://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/download.php

 

Was a quality game in it's day - remember Arthur Scargills hairspray lol...

 

Jet-Set Willy

Entrance to Hades, The orangery, etc

 

ha ha quality game.........gonna buy one

 

jet set willy was cool

 

My dad's still got a boxed spectrum in his cupboard.

 

i dont even watn to play it, i makes me sad about all the playability lost in todays games

a game like that, less than 300K, has MORE playability than a 300 meg game on a PC

thats why i wont play the 3d shit on the pc.

80's 8 bit days RULE!!!!!!!

 

Those were the days

load ''jet set willy"

 

You can download every game ever produced and magazines, etc on torrent and then get an emulator, hours of fun

 

man u are a GOD


anyone got one of these still, my 1st console (atari 2600)



and MY 1ST EVER COMPUTER



1K (yes ONE k) of mem

 

And please............

DONT get me started on AMIGA chip tunes and the demo scene, or its another 5am finish for me

 

we had a ZX80 on loan before we got the ZX81. Before both of those though we had one of these-



Not the exact model but almost, we had the Pet CBM 3008

 

didnt the ZX80 have 512 BYTES of ram

 

i thought i was the daddy because i had the 16K ram pack plugged in
but if you nudged the machine it would break contact and crash the program.

i can still hear that scre-eeeee-eeee-eecchy loading noise in mmy head 25 years later

 

thats my day off fooked 2moro then

I've still got my Atari 2600, ZX Specturm (same as the one in Tiffs pic) and a proper old skool grandstand (the 2 sticks)

in 20 odd years of playing Manic Miner I could never complete it

 

manic miner the bloody tune used to drive u mad i used to kick the fook out of my computer over that bleeding game

 

I used a 555 timer with a pulse width modulated output onto the "wait" pin of the processor to slow my Spectrum ZX down so that on the tricky bits of games i could twiddle a variable resistor to slow it down and thus give me the effect of superhuman game play.

None of my mates when i was 11 could work out why i had SO much better scores than them on all the games PMSL

 

Anyone remember Chucky Egg?

Was one of my fave Spectrum games, also loved Manic Miner.

Wish I'd have done what Chip said above - sounds like a cool trick!

Si

 

I submitted it for my second year technology project at secondary school and the teacher was a proper old skool carpenter who had been forced to use a BBC micro as part of this "new fangled" computing thing they were now having to cover and i swear he had no idea at all what i had done and was just stood there as this 12 year old kid was explaining to him about toggling the wait state pin on the CPU and i may as well have been talking in latin

 

We has someone like you in our Computer Studies class as well Chip....


He wasnt the most popular in the class.......

I wonder why......


But Chuckie Egg, Manic Miner, Jet Pac, Lunar Jet Man, Attic-Attac... there was some quality programming out there then.

I remember when I was at Middle School, back in about 1980 when the ZX80 came out and our Maths teacher had one..... and then it was high school and the Commodore PET and the 380Z.....

And all the poor kids who had ZX81's and Spectrums hated all the rich kids with BBC's

And if you had a Dragon 64 everyone was just waiting for it to melt and burn your house down.

And who is Geoff Minter and what was that thing with the Mutant Camels


Oh happy days

 

I used to have all the dizzy games on my pc but I cant find them anymore (lost em with a hdd failure) as the place i got em from before got sued and had to take them down

 

the tape load times then a error @ the end

the games school daze ...ant attack..... Chuckie Egg..

Jet Pac, searching for the trailer that was never there in the program

atari ..dig dug