retro zx spectrum games
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Spectrum emulator for your pc. 
Check the graphics out I remember thinking this was the bollox 
http://www.spectaculator.com/
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Check the graphics out I remember thinking this was the bollox http://www.spectaculator.com/
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From: Workington Cumbria
Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
Look what i found in my draw 
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
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Originally Posted by sean forsyth
Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
Look what i found in my draw
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...219526372&rd=1
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who remembers buying a game then finding out it wasnt that good so you would put it in your dads twin deck tape player in the hifi , copying it and then taking it back saying it wouldnt load so you would swap it for another game. or was that just me lol.
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fook thats a old one, my old man had that, used a seperate cassette recorder to load the tapes, i was only about 5 at the time 
i thought ya was talking about the +3 with the disc drive and chase HQ
i thought ya was talking about the +3 with the disc drive and chase HQ
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From: WARWICK
Originally Posted by sean forsyth
who remembers buying a game then finding out it wasnt that good so you would put it in your dads twin deck tape player in the hifi , copying it and then taking it back saying it wouldnt load so you would swap it for another game. or was that just me lol.
Press "High speed dubbing" to get it copied quicker
OR
What about copying a load of games onto a c60 or c90. Then having to keep pressing fast forward then play to find where the next game started
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Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
What about copying a load of games onto a c60 or c90. Then having to keep pressing fast forward then play to find where the next game started
then came along C15's and made life a little easier 
Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
Look what i found in my draw
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
left on them
GAMER THING 
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From: Workington Cumbria
Originally Posted by badcompany
Originally Posted by TIFF-C20WTH
Look what i found in my draw
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
Remember loading a game for 10 minutes then just before it finished you got
"R-tape loading error"
left on them
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Winter Games and Daily Thomsons Decathlon 
[A] & [S] key destroyers **edit** or was it [A] [W] [S] [F] 
and the need for new keyboard the plactic 1 that came after the doorstep!
And who can forget Through the Wall? the original game!
[A] & [S] key destroyers **edit** or was it [A] [W] [S] [F] and the need for new keyboard the plactic 1 that came after the doorstep!
And who can forget Through the Wall? the original game!
Originally Posted by b19bal
who had the olllllllllllldddddddddddddd atari with the wood effect sides before then hit the yuppie tims and when all black plastic
good okd tank attack and the classic, pac man
good okd tank attack and the classic, pac man
mate was tripping when we where playing it
said it was EVIL THING and cut all the wires
while we where in the back kitchen
WE DANCED ON HIS HEAD 4 bout half a hour
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I remember thinking this was the bollox
Good old (Sir) Clive Sinclair
A true genius, even if he perhaps took some of his products to market a little early Spectrum would have been THE choice for computers in schools too, but it got pipped by the inferior BBC B purely due to the keyboard (nick named 'dead flesh' lol). The only good thing about the BBC was Elite
Online emulator: http://twinbee.org/hob/
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and that 32k rom pack use to throw out as much heat as the oven did cooking the sunday roast!!!!......
God knows what radiation that thing use to chuck out........ eeerrrrrr i wonder if thats why ive got no kids............ (shooting blanks?!?)
oh no, i forgot, its because im bug ugly...........
God knows what radiation that thing use to chuck out........ eeerrrrrr i wonder if thats why ive got no kids............ (shooting blanks?!?)
oh no, i forgot, its because im bug ugly...........