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forestville
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anything about the spectrum computers and it's games and hardware add ons, what speccy(s) did you have or still own and our fave games for the 8 bit favorite
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retrobrad
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favourite spectrum game - Jet Set Willy!
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Auf Wiedersehen Monty or Rockstar ate my Hamster both great games
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: |
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what was Auf Wiedersehen Monty about?
i've never heard of that game... |
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Gmintyfresh
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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what was Auf Wiedersehen Monty about?
i've never heard of that game... |
I was a Monty the Mole game basically it's a flick screen platformer a bit like Jet Set Willy. Play a mole travelling around Europe trying to get enough money to buy your own greek island, it very funny and has enjoyable puzzles. The size of the game is impressive too, and it all fit on one of those little casettes!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a great game!
ill have to check on ebay for it, id love to give it a go! |
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:56 am Post subject: |
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hey thanks for the link!
now we cant all bid on it! though... |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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It's all yours mate!
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retrobrad
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:17 am Post subject: |
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I went to buy that ebay auction, but i think my mates got one i can grab off him!
ps that guy on ebay has 5 of them! 95p each is a bargain (but then postage to australia gets a bit expensive  |
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Gmintyfresh
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That's the great thing about casette based games they are so easy to copy.
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yeah thats true. can you even buy blank tapes these days? |
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Gmintyfresh
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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You can from a Hi-FI shop in the UK called Richer Sounds, they specialise in separates and AV equipment. Also a catalogue shop called Argos, but It?s definitely becoming more difficult on the high street, BASF recently stopped making them I think they?re one of the biggest world producers
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retrobrad
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yeah its funny, i copy amiga floppys, i copy games to cd's, im even experimenting with making a homebrew cart for various systems (master system, nes etc... and copying games to them, but i cant remember the last time i copied a tape game....
does anyone remember if you could copy a speccy tape in a high dub speed tape recorder?
we used to have one YEARS ago and i (think) i can remember using it to copy c64 tapes. |
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Yes I can't remember the last time I even used a cassette play to be honest. I don't know about Speccy games but using highspeed dub to copy Amstrad games didn't work at all - the copies always crashed or even failed to register altogether
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