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BASIC: Fast way of filling a string?Recently I decided to use string slicing to extract random numbers from a sequence in the one-liner Lottery picker: [quote] 20 RANDOMIZE : LET a$=""…
... to extract random numbers from a sequence in the one-liner Lottery picker ... f=1 TO 49: LET a$=a$+CHR$ (f): NEXT f: FOR ... b=1+INT (RND*LEN a$): PRINT AT g-1,8 ... +((f-1)*3);" "( TO (CODE a$(b) -
The Human ButtonThey always say the pictures are better on radio. Unfortunately, I missed the first 15 minutes or so of it (and it's not available on Listen Again f…
... I just listened to a programme called "The Human Button" ( ... to be the Prime Minister, in the bunker, when the decision came. ... It's not easy to describe the ... don't get a place in the bunker in the British system. This ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... br /> Added - Assembler - clicking a label in the code will take you to ... made to emulate a +2 by paging the editor ROM in inappropriately. (Jimmy ... tokenise properly if there's a space in the 2nd keyword - GO TO ... can no longer OUT in the z80 core, so a lot of USR ... -
I think I may have just spooked a potential burglar?Just went outside for a snout about 10 minutes ago, soon as I opened the door I heard a scrambling in the bushes on the other side of the ditch, foll…
... I opened the door I heard a scrambling in the bushes on the other side ... of the ditch, followed ... trying to jump over the neighbours fence. Then a minute or so ... -
Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…
... ever although it's really a pain in the A... and tiressom if you ... /> But I've never in my life liked or got submited to ... bullies, specially what I call the ... self centered bastards all my life, and boys isn't internet ... -
Using a tape drive for Spectrum +3Could I just use any tape drive? I only have a sony walkman, really. Could this work? Also, how would I load up it up on the +3? Do I just set the ta…
Could I just use any tape drive? I only have a sony walkman, really. Could this work? Also, how would I load up it up on the +3? Do I just set the tape going, not put a floppy in the drive and then press enter on the +3 loader?
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Game identification needed - 16K 3D riding a bike through the woods...As the title says, I remember this as a 16K game, driving a motorbike through the woods, you had to avoid the trees. Your point-of-view was over the …
As the title says, I remember this as a 16K game, driving a motorbike ... through the woods, you had to avoid the ... of-view was over the handlebars, with the trees coming at you ... like this on any of the websites. Anyone got any ideas ... -
When I'm dead......Where will all my gaming stuff go? I don't plan on pegging it anytime soon, but after a few family deaths, I've been thinking about writing a wil…
... trimmed my games down quite a bit in the last 10 years, getting ... 't intend to stop collecting the things I like. So, should ... to hopefully open a collection to the public one day, but unless I ... suddenly become a rich gittus ... -
There's Something In The SeaThere's something in the sea...... [url]http://www.somethinginthesea.com/[/url]
There's something in the sea......
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Loading screens, worth the wait?Inspired by a topic in the chit chat thread I thought I would have a poll about loading screens. What with the R tape loading error problems and ea…
... by a topic in the chit chat thread I thought I would have a ... poll about loading screens.
What with the R ... not having a loading screen on games and save the extra 1min ... -
Cooling (not for a PC) advice neededOwing to the fact that the Earth has aparently left it's old orbit, and is now about three feet from the sun, it's bloody hot here in England. Too ho…
... I'm told that a cooler releases water in the air, to cool ... naturally a little concerned - you don't want too much mosture in the ... air, not when you've got a PC in the same ... seen so far (in the Argos catalogue) each have a hose pipe, to ... -
Anyone else miss the variety of the 8-bits?When I was a kid in the early eighties, as I'm sure you all know there were a shed load of different micro's and consoles on the market. all were sig…
When I was a kid in the early eighties, as I ... micro's and consoles on the market. all were significantly ... after school and play the games/systems you couldn' ... get at home. Even the computer shop were really ... system.
The rich kid across the estate had an ... -
Great leaps forward... Timeline thoughtsHi guys What would you say were the great leaps forward in the life of the speccie. I was only in the scene for a few years (from 82-85) but in tha…
... the great leaps forward in the life of the speccie. I was only in the scene for a ... few years (from 82-85) but in that ... time, I would say the ones that I ... Horace (compared to the other clones of Pacman in 82 it was ... -
Looking for a movieThe "did NASA put a man on the moon?" thread reminds me an interesting film about all this stuff: Three astronauts are going to mars. Just before th…
... to leave the spaceship and go to a military base in a desert. There ... but they will simulate the landing in a stage in the base. The scenes of landing ... hide the truth. They escaped from the base and cross the desert in a dramatic ... -
Your top five lists...If you're bored, skiving off work, or just want to increase your post count, then feel free to post your top five lists of anything at all here. I am…
... :
1. Gromit (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, etc),
in the Library/Forrest of the Dead,
4. The Girl in the Fireplace,
a huge (in the early eighties) Walkman, with ... -
Will lightning strike twice?I dunno how many of you follow athletics but even those who don't it can't have escaped your notice that the new world super star of sports is Usain …
... in the Beijing Olympics for the 100m (9.69s) that was obliterated the other day in the ... could get a book running for what he may achieve in the 200m ... break it. I'm expecting a 19.4x time for him ... if he doesn't with a guy at work.
CJ in the USA (missing artist)The loading screen for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^CJ+in+the+USA$&pub=^Code+Masters+Ltd$&loadpics=3"]CJ in the USA[/URL…
The loading screen for [URL="http:// ... .org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^CJ+in+the+USA$&pub=^Code+Masters ... "]CJ in the USA[/URL] has the initials "SM & PJR" but not in the ...world of spectrum online with the 360thought i'd make a thread about this. i seem to have a bunch of wossers on my freinds list but apart from that we never really did anything, until n…
... to be fair its a pain in the arse writting messages out using ... just the joypad. and i don ... it, you will get ones in the future. (so don't think ... games we had, might have in the future, suggest games to play ...Wirless Networking in Windoughs question??I have two work laptops when I am at my place of work they are configured to pick up the wirless network with via our DHCP servers gives them an IP a…
... are configured to pick up the wirless network with via ... I must manually enter the DNS addresses for my ... ISP, then give the laptops IP addresses, and ... />
This is a pain in the arse so much that I ... one has XP sp3, and the other has Vista.
< ...Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... of the manual has a diagram showing where the machine stack is in the RAM ... a'
xor compares the chosen register to the A register and puts a 1 in the A ... the register to the a register bit by bit and leaves a 1 in the a register ...The ZX Spectrum 128 +2b/+3b Service Manualmissing? I just looked in documents and the link didn't work. the ammendment is there though. it's weird, in firefox it wouldn't work.. in IE it wou…
missing? I just looked in documents and the link didn't work. the ammendment is there though.
it's weird, in firefox it wouldn't work.. in IE it would.. maybe it shows a fault in the FTP log?!!? hmmCan't find this in the Archive.....I was starting to play through some old games when I came across this...I wondered if it maybe had an english name, but can't find any reference to i…
... any reference to it anywhere in the Archive...
[img]http ...Gigantic game of GalaxiansAt RetroEuskal 2009, there was a 3 day long game of stop-motion Galaxians played by 395 people... the stop motion video of this event has now been ma…
... RetroEuskal 2009, there was a 3 day long game of stop-motion ... Galaxians played by 395 people... the ... around to making a move in the game myself... perhaps in RE 2010 I ... 'll make the point ...All Defenda versions in the archive the same?Are all the Defenda versions in the archive the same? All from Interstella year 1986. But in the info I read that the first version from Interstella …
Are all the Defenda versions in the archive the same? All from Interstella year 1986. But in the info I read that the first version from Interstella is from 1984.
MickyHow the World Works Part 1, Togo Football1. On the 8th January the Togo team bus, en route to a match in the African Nation's Cup in a separatist area of Angola (Cabinda), is machine gunned …
... route to a match in the African Nation's Cup in a separatist area of ... . They hid under the seats in a bus covered in blood expecting to die ... . One of the goalkeepers has a ...Help wanted to finish That's the Spirit[img]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8269/spirit11.png[/img] I've reached what I think is the final screen of [I]That's the Spirit.[/I] I managed t…
... on the roof of the house by throwing the QL on the board ... to get closer to the archdevil on the right, I fall ... what seems to be a hole in the roof and die. I ... 've tried using the boots, but ... to be done with the double antenna/axe sort ...The Spectrum in the USIs the Spectrum known of or heard of in the US? (I know it was never released in the US, but I'm imagining someone might have heard of it via word-of…
Is the Spectrum known of or heard of in the US? (I know it was never released in the US, but I'm imagining someone might have heard of it via word-of-mouth) :)
If so, then which states are most familiar with the Speccy? :)Smiler 2: In the CityHi All, I've now completed my next game, "Smiler 2: In the City". It is available for download here:- [url]http://wonko.gotdns.org/sinclair/smile…
... my next game, "Smiler 2: In the City".
It is ... 'll probably upload it to the archive later.
Have ...Retro event - Manchester - 3-5th SeptemberThis one sounds a laugh, fair few regulars from RG... [url]http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20717[/url] Held in a pub in the cen…
This one sounds a laugh, fair few regulars from RG...
[url]http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20717[/url]
Held in a pub in the centre of Manchester. 3 day event - ?12.
Should be good.Leader Board - Famous Courses of the World[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013834]Leader Board - Famous Courses of the World Volume 1[/url] Side 1 is corrupt, one of th…
... , one of the holes for the course is amongst the speedlock blocks. ... 's a bug in the game. The drawing of the course gets stuck and the game ... freezes. Don't know if its down to a ... corrupt tzx or a bug in the original tape itself ...
