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  1. Re:Spiritual games by julesh · · Score: 1 · on How Do I Create a Spiritual Game Successor?

    I am still trying to picture a spiritual game.

    Do you steer a character up into the mountains to assume the Lotus position and meditate on the oneness of the world?

    You've played The Secret of Levitation then?

  2. Re:Don't destroy the magazines by LordSnooty · · Score: 1 · on Digitizing Old Magazines?

    Your Sinclair Rock And Roll Years proves that it's good when SOMEONE keeps copies of magazines (fortunately the Spectrum scene is pretty much completely scanned in, by hand I presume) link

  3. More Movies by ThomasW · · Score: 0 · on Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel

    So when are the going to make a film of The Boggit?

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theboggit.htm

  4. Your Sinclair Rock and Roll Years by Attaturk · · Score: 1 · on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

    Any nostalgic Speccy user absolutely needs to check out these videos:

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/index.htm

    Call me soft, and old, but they brought tears to my eyes. =)

  5. Re:And, as we all know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

    You guys *really* want to watch this:

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/

    Yep, whoring my own projects, but don't they look pretty?

  6. Re:Judge the argument, not the person by Dachannien · · Score: 1 · on Harvard Phd Vs. About.com over Gaming

    Any game that involves shooting a simalcrum of an actual creature must perforce be similiar in violence levels to Pac-Man (where the monsters eat the protagonist) and Dig Dug (where the protagonist inflates the monsters until they explode).

    The operative word here, I'm guessing, is "shooting".

    What Dr. Thompson needs to remember is that guns don't kill centipedes - garden gnomes, or whatever the hell that thing actually is, kill centipedes.

  7. Re:And for the Sinclair owners... by squaretorus · · Score: 1 · on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines

    YS was the paper GOD in the good old days of wondering how Ocean would handle the next movie licence... oh the games were crap, but the magazine had some balls! The covers were chronic and often looked like they were hand drawn by 3 year olds with cheap coloured pencils like this indy cover. And the continual "Marry me, Ed" comments were amusing. Honest"!

  8. And for the Sinclair owners... by Hambone.dk · · Score: 5, Informative · on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines

    The two top mags were Crash and Your Sinclair, both of which are pretty much completely available online.

  9. Re:Haha by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 1 · on Games Are Porn in Utah

    Where have you been for the last 20 years?

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/samfox.htm

  10. Too many keys by stephend · · Score: 1 · on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys

    Fifty three keys is still too many. I read of a Swedish keyboard with only two keys:

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/hurdieho.htm

  11. Oldest FPS. Do some research guys! :) by Ch_Omega · · Score: 1 · on Review: Serious Sam II

    Hovertank 3D by ID was the first 3D FPS on PC, according to ID software themselves. Both the Catacomb 3D(which came out before Wolf3D) and Wolfenstein 3D engines evolved from the Hovertank 3D raycasting-engine. However, the game Darkside on C64 and other platforms came out in 1988, and allthough it could hardly be called fast-paced, it featured a first-person perspective and movement in a (in some ways more advanced than Wolf3D)3D world.

  12. Re:Perhaps I'm missing something... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 1 · on Are Video Game Patents Next?

    Wasn't Driller on the Spectrum the first true 3d first person game that you could actually walk around and look where you wanted (instead of maze type fixed position pseudo 3d games)?

    It beat wolfenstein and doom hands down in technical ability.

  13. DIY Documentaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Future of Student Films
    Sure you could do your own films, but there are very many subjects that haven't been covered well in made-for-TV documentaries, so there's the opportunity to do it on the Web.

    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/

    For instance, here's a work-in-progress documentary about the Sinclair machines and their games.

    Currently 15 mins worth of footage is available to download. It was all generated using custom-written Perl scripts using NetPbm, VirtualDub and TMPGEnc.

    (Next chapter due out by the end of the year)

  14. I loved 'Your Sinclair'... by Denyer · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sinclair And Clones Computer Show
    ...still have a pile of decaying copies somewhere. Crap games corner, loads of software on the cover tapes, Linda Barker being the girl everyone wanted as their best mate, Julian Gollop's "Chaos"...

    Some of the magazine's original content is archived here: The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years. Go easy on the server, people.

    More info about Chaos (one of the most addictive eight-player games ever) here: The battle of the wizards.

    It's almost as if the last fifteen years never happened.

  15. And the new YS can be found... by posternutbaguk · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sinclair And Clones Computer Show

    Bundled with this month's RetroGamer magazine, for those of you in the U.K.

    More information and a review can be found at http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ys94_review.htm/

  16. Re:Transition by marcus-e · · Score: 1 · on High Speed Travelator

    Am I the only one thinking of the old 8-bit game Shockway Rider right now?

  17. They seem to specialize in this by arvindn · · Score: 5, Interesting · on World of Spectrum gets a Visit from the IDSA
    Read here how they have been bullying the-underdogs.org.

    The IDSA wants all emulators to be banned. More on this here.

    More bullying by IDSA and Cox.

    I'm guessing the IDSA is a games-only version of the BSA.

  18. Your Sinclair by stephend · · Score: 2 · on Classic Computer Magazine Archive

    Those of you in the UK might appreciate this nostalgia trip: Your Sinclair Rock 'n' Roll Years.

  19. Re:Driller by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games?

    Yeah but the construction kit was called "The 3D construction kit" check! and it rocked :)

  20. Driller by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games?

    Ah you forget Driller and the Freescape environment.......

  21. Re:Oh god, the nostalgia really got me... by PRAEst76 · · Score: 1 · on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years

    You really need them as PDF? Otherwise it's surprising how many are available online. I don't know much about the console mags & C64 mags because I was a Speccy / Amiga owner, but I know many mags are archived online by enthusiasts (often WITH covertapes, posters, silly 3D pullouts etc).

    A few I know of:
    http://www.zzap64.co.uk/
    http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/
    http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm
    http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/crash/
    http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/
    http://www.btinternet.com/~amigapower/

    Mercy Dash is currently unemployed at http://www.grenville-evans.co.uk/mercy.htm

    LONG LIVE THE PAST!!!

  22. Your Sinclair! by squaretorus · · Score: 2 · on Ultima Revived

    YS! Hurrah! Quick google turned up the Your Sinclair Rock and Roll Years - great website!

    You can go through all the back issues online!

    Did anyone else not buy the issue of YS that had a semi naked chick on the front.

    I've still got a stack of these in the loft! I should eBay them!

  23. Your Sinclair! by squaretorus · · Score: 2 · on Ultima Revived

    YS! Hurrah! Quick google turned up the Your Sinclair Rock and Roll Years - great website!

    You can go through all the back issues online!

    Did anyone else not buy the issue of YS that had a semi naked chick on the front.

    I've still got a stack of these in the loft! I should eBay them!