-
The Friday afternoon ritualWell, it's Friday and it's (nearly) 4pm, so it's time to head over to eBay and paw through the Spectrum game collection auctions!
... as there were only a few units to deploy and it was over ... br />
I got done about 1:45, was going to ... would be 2:45, then about a 40 minute ride in, so ... would be getting there about 3:13-3:30-ish ... />
I'm having a beer. And I'm quite enjoying it. -
Please explain Spectrum FPGA-clones to meI've been using the great ZXDS-emulator on the DS XL so far, which is great. But I kinda missed toying around with hardware. I've tried bidding on a …
... ]Show an engineer a resistor and a pencil with a wire on each ... tell you anything about what goes on in a physical sense.< ... like this (and with a few other elements besides) and you'll soon ... of conservation of energy arguments and a circuit model. Quite often ... -
Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
Inspired by a few inquiries made from me on a few occasions about the subject, I ... decided to write an entry about ... using while doing the blog, and what seem to be the ... mix, please do throw in a comment on the blog post ... -
Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
... by a few inquiries made from me on a few occasions about the ... subject, I decided to write an entry about ... while doing the blog, and what seem to be ... please do throw in a comment on the blog ... list! I've left a couple of comments on the ... -
Retroleum SMART Card InterfaceHi guys, Over the last few months I've been designing an interface board for the Spectrum 48 - seems to be all the rage :) It started off as simple …
... machines. They are working perfectly and make loading SNAs easy. I ... and has worked for most I have tried. We have had a few ... discussions about those that don't work and they seem ... with the MAX232 level shifters and some cables that Phil added ... -
New Game: Escape from Colony 8[I]I can't really tell what happened, when they first attacked our base or where they came from, but Colony 8 is lost. My only chance is to get to ha…
... confident, start writing a sprite routine and regain that 12k![/QUOTE ... draw when you want and never worry about syncing with the interrupts ... convenient to use - a few lines of code and you have sprites ... drivel like the above. Sorry about that :)
... -
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... part of a reasonable discussion. I've got a few criticisms about this device ... about it. There are aspects of it I don't like and ... -
Well Wossers...I have an announcementNo its not a Mongy Lard thread or some random drivle...well it could be :lol: Looking back over years of my threads on here Started with this - [u…
... and they are tolerated. You wear a colander and post a few politically incorrect photos and ... you have your identity taken from you and ... turned into a " No- ... and think that you are really bothered about ... -
Well Wossers...I have an announcementNo its not a Mongy Lard thread or some random drivle...well it could be :lol: Looking back over years of my threads on here Started with this - [u…
... and they are tolerated. You wear a colander and post a few politically incorrect photos and ... you have your identity taken from you and ... turned into a " No- ... and think that you are really bothered about ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
...
There were a few kids with BBCs and Electrons. Parents were middle ... ish class, and wanted an educational computer.
sound, but was that the skin ... games used skin coloured sprites, and displayed orange. Everything on ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
...
There were a few kids with BBCs and Electrons. Parents were middle ... ish class, and wanted an educational computer.
sound, but was that the skin ... games used skin coloured sprites, and displayed orange. Everything on ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... sadly a few years too late, and got eaten by the Megadrive and SNES ... 3 years before the Megadrive, and about 4 before the SNES. The ... off. Unfortunately slow, minimal and quite frankly awful marketing meant ... games on the system, and without some of those games ... -
Coping with life.Does anyone else find that in the modern world we live information overload is an overwhelming problem? I feel this right now. It's like I have so mu…
... to see how corrupt and vacuous the system is. ... become a hippy and live up a tree, it's all about attitude ... can. Little things really, and I never did buy ... smartphone I got a few days ago (?35 and out of necessity ... was muck about in the water having a good time. ... -
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... Spectrum games (and other 8 and 16 bit emulators), and (to me ... Escape - [B]and actually make us[/B] a developable / for learning ... empty ROM socket for Languages and Assemblers.
I ... people, I mean I got a few questions myself! Who are you people ... -
Ticks, the first command line Z80 emulatorThe project page is in Spanish: [url]http://retrolandia.net/foro/showthread.php?tid=43[/url] So I will expain a little. Ticks is an emulator that …
... ]Hey Antonio, I'm getting a load of errors when trying ... sure about the compiler warnings (there are quite a few in your log and ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... I just want to drive about too really, but it ... I picked out a few towns in between and followed the road ...
I've had a few tough moments, but if things ... own, which has happened a few times, just by chance! ... spent about 85% of the beta driving around and I ... -
Funny Incident's With Your Old School's/College Computers.Reading a few threads on the WoS forum's got me thinking of the old computer's that we used at my primary/secondary school, and the sometimes very fu…
... it home and used it and put it back, and no one but ... Masters a few model B's and one APPLE 2e and found a Speccy in a ... held the R key down and turned them all back on ... was very boring, and hated sound, colour and moving images, and had very little ... -
Posts too long.I've tried posting a few things about SpecBAS (there's been a lot of activity during the WOS downtime) and one of them was a post which contained a r…
... tried posting a few things about SpecBAS (there's been a lot of activity ... during the WOS downtime) and one ... them was a post which contained a rather large listing - and I get ... post is too long by about 5000 characters.
Not good ... -
My partial disenchantmente with PS4I've had a PS4 since christmas... My wife gave it to me. I loved the PS3, felt the machine still had a few good games to put out (contrary to PS2, t…
... feeling he likes it a bit and I think it's ... They've made a few changes to things and all of them for ... now blisteringly, balletically fast and you no longer spend any ... the front foot and it takes a hell of a time to ... any of that makes it sound like they made it ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... . It's taken me about a week but finally got it ... seriously at all, and it still has a few good spooky moments...
and 5.
Who was it that posted about RE6 ... after RE5's release saying that it'd be a ... -
Classic tv advertsDunno if this has been done before tbh, probably lol, anyway recently i have been reliving tv adverts on youtube that i remember from back in the day…
... stage school, appeared in a few adverts, mc donalds and birdseye.. she was ... psj as he told us about his custom bmx
Classic tv advertsDunno if this has been done before tbh, probably lol, anyway recently i have been reliving tv adverts on youtube that i remember from back in the day…
... stage school, appeared in a few adverts, mc donalds and birdseye.. she was ... psj as he told us about his custom bmx
< ... about that saddle" :)
There was a kid in our school and ... ad (Bill Webster from Corrie) and Brian Glover. The kid got ...1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... I had a walk-through of their bourgeois packages and set about playing ... was written - Gorbachev was just about to come to power, Reagan ... Falklands were only a few years behind us and the world was still ...what was the first messageboard you posted onanyone remember the first board they posted comments on with any degree of regularity? for me I'm pretty sure it was the audiogalaxy forums. under ea…
I posted on a few random places now and then having gone online around ... I started messing about with mods and getting into discussions about how you ... Particle Systems at a retro gaming event in Sheffield a few years back ...The best ZX Spectrum emulatorsIt's been suggested we add a sticky thread where people can recommend their favourite emulators. A couple of rules. 1. Don't just nomina…
... with, and I especially don’t want that to sound like ... of execution in a frame) and set breakpoints on a small set ... height of the instruction and stack lists and were therefore not ... s just used for a few autogenerated source files, and any Perl distribution ...My very first youtube videolol its vinyl so not a lot to look at, its possibly the weirdest record i own (just a 2 minute clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm9LFkDnIEc
yeah my mate who's got stacks of weird electronica/techno/breakbeat stuff on vinyl has quite a few discs that sound equally right (or wrong) on 33 as 45...
play it later on your show and have a vote on whats the right speed :)Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…
... AGD 4.6 snapshot and put out a series of event editor ... to select a control method and possibly a few more to redefine the keys. The ... between standard and double-height text.
JUMP has a parameter ...spectrum quizcan play it on ya phone if you download "quizup" the app.. or via ya browser.. just search for "zx spectrum" and it'll show up http://quizup.com/t…
... the words.. "color center and addicting" and for saying the word aluminium ... is playing rivals off here and fb that do know their ... .. there are a few questions that I'm sure will test a few on here ... 'll get zx1 to make a pizza and post it to ya ...Faulty Issue 1Hi all, thought I'd document my efforts in getting another speccy working. I've never done this before so please bear with me... I recently took a p…
... 'oh.
A few days later still (and hence my rather late ... bad ghosting and snow. Plug a membrane in and everything works, keys work and click ... so the beeper works, try a ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... an area with some crops and a water pump installed. Still got ... re talking about). A really good mission, that one, and it takes a while ... ll take you to a few more raiders, bots and the "boss". I ... but I have pumped a load into Agility and a bit into Perception ...
