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don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... available for Windows Vista beta 1, released in July, and ... you're doing something a bit more complicated? Well, lucky ... 's give Microsoft a bit of credit for the ... horrid update to a wonderful bit of software, an ugly ... of course a TV guide can go left and right ... -
Amstrad CTM644 Monitor... with a twist.Would anyone be interested in an Amstrad CTM644 colour monitor? It's usually for an Amstrad CPC6128, but I've also made a little cable that accepts …
... . The wire is a little bit shorter but at least you ... it came up to 10.1 kg without any packing materials ... to take that as a guide, rather than an exact figure ... -
Games that look a bit like Manic MinerI'm looking for any platform games where the challenge is set up like Manic Miner - no own route exploring, no scrolling screens, no need to map, ju…
... /> Wanted Monty Mole
Egghead 1
Chuckie Egg
Solomon ...
Rodland
A bit of playability would be a ... -
L@@K ! Issue 1 of Crash !Selling Issue 1 of Crash Magazine.... [URL]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290128485526[/URL] Front covers getting a bit tat…
Selling Issue 1 of Crash Magazine....
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Front covers getting a bit tatty, smells 'old' but a ... -
8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... fastest of phones, getting about 1/10th on most), but have ... done either as 8-bit or 16-bit, with conversions where required ... obviously be left as 16-bit, but what about the others ... ? Will more 8-bit operations be performed than 16 ... -
GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…
... reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here ... br /> for %%a in (%1) do tzx2wav -f 48000 -c1 ... wav" & if not errorlevel 1 move "%%~na.*" "%3_%4") ... " & if not errorlevel 1 move "%%~na.*" "%3_%4")< ... br /> if not exist %1 goto end
goto encode ... -
Adventures in Programmable Logic, Part 1So I have a couple of Xilinx CPLDs, and I've downloaded the Xilinx programmable logic IDE (WebKit ISE, they call it). All 1.2 gigabytes of it. Plus S…
... ISE, they call it). All 1.2 gigabytes of it. Plus ... high enable (which seems a bit unusual) as well as active ... -
Spectrum ethernet... step 1.1Yeah, a tenth of a step :-) Here's the W5100 board up and WORKING: [url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/w5100-online.jpg[/url] This is called the "Get Th…
... work. It was a bit depressing really - I had ... plane underneath. After fiddling a bit, suddenly...
... ... xtal and the adjacent 1.8 volt supply traces ... the ground plane a bit, and deleted the ground ... with the board a bit. The other thing it ... -
The World of Spectrum Caption Competition #1Hey Spec-Chums! It's the World of Spectrum Caption Competition! Just what was Poof #1 thinking when he was staring at David Walliams? [url]http://…
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Just what was Poof #1 thinking when he was staring ... vintage, yet still rocking, 8-bit computer that was quite popular ... -
Z-80 Reference GuideI'm after a copy of: ******************************************** [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000433[/URL] Z-80 Reference…
... [/URL]
Z-80 Reference Guide
Melbourne House
Alan ... firm bindings. ASML has a bit of sun fading on the ... -
Bizarre stuff in Interface 1's shadow ROMAccording to the Complete Shadow ROM disassembly, the function that exits back to the BASIC interpreter after interpreting IF1 commands is this: [co…
... ]
0018 CHKSYNTAX BIT 7,(FLAGS) Test bit 7 of FLAGS.
But...but...but - BIT 7, (FLAGS) is not a ... Z80 instruction. You can only BIT a memory address via HL ... />
Anyone with an Interface 1 disassemble this and say what ... -
Interface 1 emulation issuesFor Virtual Spectrum v3.0 I am implementing virtual Interface 1 and Interface 2 options! The I/F2 ROM option works already, and I have got the I/F1 s…
... I am implementing virtual Interface 1 and Interface 2 options! ... CLS# works and CAT 1 gives 'microdrive not present ... tab is broken then bit 0 of port 239 ... emulator?
Interface 1 emulation on Spin in 128K ... commands work (try CAT 1). If I switch to ... -
16-Bit Binary MathsHi, I'm trying to figure a few things out regarding 16-bit maths (SBC HL, ss in particular). regHL is an UInt16 (unsigned 16-bit integer) in my emu…
... byte3
' 0 0 1
' 1 1 0
// ... byte2 byte3
' 0 1 1
' 1 0 0
... the sign bit is 0 otherwise it is 1)
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Pyskool 0.0.1Hello all Just a quick note to inform you all of the release of Pyskool version 0.0.1. What is Pyskool? Well, [I]eventually[/I] it will be a reimple…
... of Pyskool version 0.0.1. What is Pyskool? Well, [I ... . And if you're a bit of an artist, you can ... -
Football Director 2Hi all, I would like to share some tips on this. I have used this on emulator. The 128k + 3 version is the best of the FD2 because you have the 20,…
... broadcast receipts.
1) Try and sign players below ... money is 1/3 try swapping players with a bit of ... lgs4 than lg1, as a guide lg4 - 400, 800, 1400, ... , 2800 for players of 1-5. wages per week can ... use as follows:
1- over 100
2 - ... -
Lets liven things up a bit eh!!!WOS has been a bit down in the dumps of late. :( So what better way to liven it up than with a [B][FONT="Arial Black"][color="#eedd33"]CHEEZY DISCO!…
WOS has been a bit down in the dumps of ... .soundsinmotion.org/images/Disco-02[1].gif[/IMG][img]http://farm3 ... -
Yay. Found an issue 1!I've had a Speccy sitting about the house for a while, unused as it only ran as a 16k (a sticker seal on the casing suggested either a 48k upgrade or…
... repair).
After reading a bit about various models I got ... out it's an Issue 1 16k (with the little ULA ... -
The 8-bit book...Filed under miscellaneous because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it... It's almost the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :) Anyway, I've finally p…
... because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it ... the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :)
Anyway, I ... -
My duplicate Spectrum games & mags now on EBayThe first lot is of 39 games: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=190297482827[/url] 01. DRAGONTORC …
... FLIGHT SIMULATION - Sinclair - Inlay a bit battered.
16. HORACE GOES ... br /> 38. BACKPACKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE PART 1 - Fantasy - Includes code ... SINCLAIR (9 EDITIONS)
Issue 1 - January '86
Issue ... will have to wait a bit until I get back, ... -
Post your best SCRs - Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1 and beyondI've been playing around with Image to ZX Spec's encoding algorithms and I've achieved a "half colour" floyd steinberg mode, that it, the image is pa…
... .
Compared to version 1.0 modes the new colour ... worked with (including some poor 1.0 results) in a short ... fitness functions might be a bit difficult to determine without some ... -
Image to ZX Spec 1.0.4 ReleasedImage to ZX Spec 1.0.4 has been released and finally has Ordered Dithers. You can get it at the usual place: [URL="http://silentdevelopment.blogspot…
Image to ZX Spec 1.0.4 has been released ... hopefully on WOS pretty soon (1.0 was the last version ... I've only just released 1.0.3 a week or ... the moment I'm a bit burnt out on Image to ... -
Gamebase Amiga 1.6 - Help neededAny one use Gamebase frontend, with Gamebase Amiga 1.6 ? So far I managed to extract all the parts into a folder called 'GamebaseAmiga', and have in…
... Gamebase frontend, with Gamebase Amiga 1.6 ?
So far ... />
Anyone got a idiots guide on how to set it ... -
which one bit of hardware would people want re-made?I'm just curious in the sense of I see interface 1's go for a fair bit on ebay and also multiface units etc.. so whats the one thing that you don't …
I'm just curious in the sense of I see interface 1's go for a fair bit on ebay and also multiface units etc..
so whats the one thing that you don't own or do but is your prized speccy add on? -
YS #1 scan errorsThe scanning for YS #1 has got a bit jumbled up. Firstly, to keep the file & page numbers in synch, files 1,2,3,4-11 should be numbered 1,1b,1c,2-9. …
The scanning for YS #1 has got a bit jumbled up. Firstly, to ... ; page numbers in synch, files 1,2,3,4-11 should ... be numbered 1,1b,1c,2-9. After ... -
Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…
... this way, being a bit difficult to select the desired ... fast test: PAUSE 50 lasting 1 second, as it should, ... 01h here. That is, bit D2 at address 4312h was ... high.
A single bit!! There were no more differences ... ROM (it's version 4.1), I can see that ... -
Interface 1 Issue 2 Bug FixesI've had a bit of spare time today and implemented Geoff's [URL="http://www.drumfu.com/if1_2p.zip"]bug fixes[/URL] as detailed in his [URL="http://ww…
I've had a bit of spare time today and ... assemble with Tasm 3.0.1, and a binary that should ... bother? well - with a little bit more work this can be ... -
Instructions I have scannedI've been busy scanning instruction manuals that are missing from the WOS archive. So far I've done: Arcadia (Ocean) - Instructions (Scans).zip Bat…
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Fighter Bomber (Activision) - Operations Guide (Scans).zip
Fighter Bomber ... (Activision) - Quick Reference Guide.zip
First Steps with ... do, but I'm a bit bored of scanning now :)
1 meg, so need to FTP ... -
Frank Sidebottom for No.1 !! Only have until 1.30pm Saturday !!I've only just noticed that the "Make Frank No.1" group have been aiming to make him No.1 in the charts this week! Apparently they need as many peopl…
... that the "Make Frank No.1" group have been aiming to ... make him No.1 in the charts this week ... as possible to download before 1.30pm on Saturday (today probably ...
and [url]http://bit.ly/bGwBgX[/url] for Itunes ... -
Phase 1 - Games for saleHello everyone, I've finally started a long overdue clearout - various reasons, lack of space, new arrival on the way etc... So, heres the first lis…
... ;J
ZX Spectrum+ User Guide Companion Cassette - Sinclair/Goldstar
bit tatty though!)
Beaky and ... -
Storing two 4 bit values in one byteHi Folks, Another little tip to share although I suspect this one will be known to a lot of you out there. ;-) I wanted the ability to store two 4 …
... store two 4 bit numbers (values 0-15) in 1 byte. Whilst ...
