They Stole a Million for ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum
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They Stole a Million
Online version of They Stole a Million for ZX Spectrum. They Stole a Million is a strategy game about planning robberies, made in 1986 by the British studio Tigress Marketing and published under the 39 Steps label of Ariolasoft. The player is the boss: you hire a crew of specialists in locks, explosives and getaway driving, buy the plans of the chosen building, and then write out the whole job on a map down to the last few seconds. During the raid itself you wait outside with a walkie-talkie, directing your people remotely and watching for police. It was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, with music by Ben Daglish. 8 years later the Austrian studio neo Software remade it as The Clue!.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Online emulated version of They Stole a Million was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal
home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as
the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81.
The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and
built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM.
Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display.
Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application,
from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.