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Parents!! - Can't Live with them.....I have my parents to stay at the moment. It really makes me realize why teens go though a period of resenting their parents ideologies. As a kid…
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It's like life has gone full circle. My ... to f*cking Walmart every day (my mother), where the ... them for the a day out) to rub salt in to the ... been trained pavolvian style to a life of servitude, and will ... to tell her that in my family everyone helps ... -
The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
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A must read for everyone who is interested in ... Spectrum which are stored in a ROM chip, to ... /> “I think Real Life (tm) got in the way at the ... br /> In July the boards arrived, and within a day the first ... how ESXDOS came to life.
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ANN: Tipshop updated Friday, 30 October 2015Friday 30 October 2015 Lots of new POKEs, tips for a SAM game and a rather belated compilation of RZX Archive updates * Andy Ford provided new P…
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Opus Discovery - a Christmas taleBack in the day, when the ZX ruled the home computer market here in the UK, it suffered from 1 obvious problem: it lacked a fast mass media save/load…
... in the day, when the ZX ruled the home computer market here in ... led Spectrum +2, and in particular a game called GliderRider. I had ... Ebay. It arrived this very day, and do you know what ... . I am as happy as a nerd in a retro pile of computers ... -
Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
... hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much hot air ... it written by him in the Software Projects office ... />
Matthew has said in an interview he dabbled with ... two weeks to make in the accompanying article ... could knock this out in a day or two? Some people ... -
What was this type-in space shooter gameI'm fairly certain this game was a type-in, probably from Your Computer. A moonscape would draw itself in green across the screen, and some silos …
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A moonscape would draw itself in green across the ... some silos coloured in at the bottom. A single UFO would ... /> I loved this back in the day. It looked something like this ... -
Which peripheral listened on port $9f from back in 1984 (Chuckie Egg related)Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it to the correct one if so. I've been looking through the Chuckie Egg c…
... an OUT ($9F),A instruction in the middle of the ... trigger points in the game which result in a call to ... $9ceb to prep a new ... the current level after losing a life)
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Forum Section Titles in Bold and a New Posts Button.At the moment the forum feels like a wall of text with little visual 'signposting'. I think the forum section titles should be in a bold font. It w…
... forum section titles should be in a bold font. It would ... just make things a little clearer on screen ... and make the forum a little easier to navigate ... certainly didn't show a thread in which I had ... only 2 days ago posted in...
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Hi-res graphics mode in the ZX81?Hi all, I am starting to discover this interesting machine :) I have a question for those experts in the ZX81: The Hi-res mode was an option availab…
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I have a question for those experts in the ZX81: The ... was an option available back in the day in the 80s or wa ... of enhancement that was added in this Homebrew era?
Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
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Anyone got a speedier way to do this ...HACK PACK - A YANKEE IN IRAQ24 minutes in the making, 60 seconds to hack. I'm not really sure this counts as a hack. 34892,x lives 34946,x bombs
24 minutes in the making, 60 seconds to hack. I'm not really sure this counts as a hack.
34892,x lives
34946,x bombsNew here? Looking for a solution to a problem with your coding? Read onThis observation is for the benefit of newcomers especially those learning to program. This site - World of Spectrum - is a resource of immense va…
... in Mandarin for all the meaning they had to me. Then a day ... I would like answered and in a way that makes sense to ... depriving yourself of a wealth of pure gold in terms of information ... with filenames that make sense in a series of suitably labelled folders ...ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 27 February 2017Monday 27 February 2017 Happy New Year. And Valentine's Day. And - oh - you get the idea.. Things have been a tad busy in Real Life * Andy Ford …
... New Year. And Valentine's Day. And - oh - you ... idea.. Things have been a tad busy in Real Life
... and Steeplejack and tips for Day In The Life, A.
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Cracking Day Out - Starring EggHead, A, Druid II: Enlightenment, ...A videoaventure in 16K - Cartridge for IF2Hello all, After an intermitent work I am near of reléase my new game: a videoaventure (exploration game) in 16K ROM carttridge. Your objetive is…
... my new game: a videoaventure (exploration game) in 16K ROM carttridge.
a spaceship base.
[img ... the result is a complete game 48K like in a 16K native cartridge ... 1 April at Retropixel event in Malaga (Spain).How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
... logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and ... from the current PLOT position a line up 20 then left ... next character it reads in the string a$ is a number or char ... get confused or "r100u10". Thanks in advance :)Help me remember a type-in listing?When I was a kid I got a book of Spectrum type-in listings from the library. I only typed in one of them as far as I can remember. I'm pretty s…
... was a kid I got a book of Spectrum type-in ... was to 'jump' a car over holes in the road.
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The road was a ... jump when a hole appeared in the road.
In practice, ... /> While the car was in the air, the points ...Uploading a Type-in TAP fileHi, Not sure where/how to progress this. I've been playing with Emulation for awhile and thumbing threw old mags on archive.org. This site, WOS,…
... it's helped me experience a number of type-ins from ... put all the hard work in!
Anyway, I couldn ... -ins I wanted to try in the archive. Namely "Diamond Draughts ... />
tldr; I now have a .tap file from ZXSPin of ...Conflict likely in Korea?Is anyone getting nervous yet about the escalation of threats coming out of North Korea and counter-threats from their perceived enemies? It's har…
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I was a teenager in the 80s, so remember the ... docu-dramas 'Threads', 'The Day After' and Frankie's ' ... some rogue nation, say in the Middle East, getting ... use targeted terrorism as a vehicle. But North Korea ...Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…
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E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start from ... truncate those Bytes which come in the Tape-File from Byte ... /> Is there a way in Spectrum BASIC (even with a POKE) to suppress ...Controllers... I'M A CONTROL FREAK!...to paraphrase the Volvo advert from about 20 years ago, for some variant of the 850/V70, if I remember rightly. Anyway, I wonder if it's possib…
... Kempston's interface back in the day and being utterly frustrated ...
I have a PS1 and a PS2 in the roof, neither of ... forum has successfully rewired a Playstation Dual Shock controller ...
Maybe a step further back in time is a better idea; I ...Got Myself a 128K “Toast Rack”! (Plus a simple audio fix guide.)I got myself a 128K Spectrum off of eBay the other day. It’s in pretty good nick, but the membrane went the way of the dodo sometime during shipping …
... a 128K Spectrum off of eBay the other day. It’s in ... sometime during shipping (a crack in the wider ribbon cable ... The seller offered a refund, so a new membrane is ... levels roughly the same. In case anybody’s interested, ...
(The +2 in the image is not mine ...ZX Spectrum Livestream Gaming This Sunday 6.30pm (GMT)Hi all, just announcing a new livestream (EP.12) this sunday at 6.30pm (GMT) on my retro gaming channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZEUSDAZ This e…
Hi all, just announcing a new livestream (EP.12) this ... Goes Skiing, Flying Shark, Day in The Life (Clive Sinclair), Tetris 2.
a taster :-D
https://www ...I've made it, the big five oh!I don't normally make a big thing about this sort of thing, but I've hit the big mile stone of my life and wanted to shout it out... I'M FIFTY. …
I don't normally make a big thing about this ... big mile stone of my life and wanted to shout it ... years away for me and a few thinking 'old fart'! ... Most of us here are in their 40s to 50s, so ...
So onwards, a day off, out in the sun... Its just ...Fixing a poorly Issue 3 - Odd faults.Here's one for you Spectrum fixers, I warn you it's a long one. I've spent a couple hours this evening doing several repairs on a rubber keyed Speccy…
... get any signs of life from it at all. ... Upon connecting a working keyboard and entering in a few basic ... the Spectrum 4 times in a row it would hang ... removed IC13, soldered in a socket, fitted a new IC. Again ... though there maybe a fracture in the board possibly ...Tracking down a favourite Spectrum Adventure gameHello everyone - a new joiner here - looking to pick the collective Hive mind. I was an avid Spectrum gamer, and owned one of the very first 48K e…
... of us I suspect, life started more gently with ... Text-based adventure game, set in Space / client worlds
life I think. Think there ... game, and featured a discovery in a room of "two ... wonderful community might afford me in my quest.
< ...what components normally get taken out if you plug+unplug a joystick interface in with the power onwhat components normally get taken out if you plug+unplug a joystick interface in with the power on? i remember doing this a few times when i had …
... if you plug+unplug a joystick interface in with the power on ... ?
i remember doing this a ... few times when i had a speccy in the 80 ...Whatever Happened to The Type Fantastic?"Tomorrow's almost over, Today went by so fast, That's the only thing to look forward to - the past." Over the best part of this year the contri…
... . Usually people have 24 hours in a day to get things done, but ... only got as many hours in a day as your meds are working ... " of my house. Not in itself a bad idea, but I failed ... , tomorrow is another day ...
"There are rules in life! We cannot ...Another Spectrum is brought back to life.Hi Spec-chums. I have been having bit of busy afternoon with repairs today. I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and more intere…
... I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and ... was because it was in quite a state of repair. Not ... the ULA ic. Pictures in the auction showed the board ... were a bit of damage to a few pads. I soldered in a ... I don't own a 16k in my collection. I'm ...The Generality of how to Preserve Software "in the round" . Software sellers are now citing their use of "air tight " boxes etc - so we know that an effort is now being made to preserve . But these (often "R…
... long the software has "lived in this luxury"
... special treatment cannot act as a restorative . In the example I am ... for each specific case . In Museums they have graduates specially ... available in the airtight box . Today " the tune of the day" ...Amiga chit chat (sorry but it never really was a commode designed machine)I wish there was a forum like this for the Amiga, perhaps there is but I tried a few and they mostly seem pretty moribund and lots of the links at Am…
... dead. Yesterday I spent a day trying out the games included ... - and barely struggled by in Basic, it was always hopeless ... graphics capability that attracted me in the first place. However ... images that had got scrambled in transmission and needed massaging ...
