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Message: 5634

Author: Igor Makovsky

Date: 01/03/2006

Subject: Re: RZX recording of ... "upgraded UMM" up in the files section.

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, dunny291073
wrote:

> Inserting rollback points into the game recording adds another 5kb
or
> 15kb to the recording size. The Recording that Philip ended with
> before compression was 26mb in size. With the rollback points
removed,
> it is a mere 254kb.
> That should indicate how much trouble he had
> getting through the game.

He's a real ZX HERO, but, that doesn't says anything. I can play UMM
without help of SAVE AS from start till somewhere next to "The ore
refinery"... From that time I sometimes loose lifes here or there.
But Philip Bee knows all QF's and that means that he was killed so
much time not because of QF's but because other things, like
guardians, for example...

> If you have access to the internet, you can use IRC. Many people who
> use Dialup accounts or pay for how many minutes of internet
connection
> they use do use IRC.

I do use LAN and pay for downloaded stuff, not time.

> If you're able, then you could try using mIRC to connect to
> irc.astrolink.org, port 6667, and "/join #speccy " where
the
> is the address of the spectrum's screen display memory in
> decimal.

... adress of the spectrum's screen memory in decimal... geee... =\
What if I don't seem to know it? Shall I guess it then?

 

 

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