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Ultimate Play the Game BookHi, Some of you may be aware that I'm in the process of writing a book about Ultimate Play the Game. Everything is going well, but there are two iss…
... aware that I'm in the process of writing a book about Ultimate ... /> 1) I need a title for the book. The annoying thing is, I ... one. Can you? A mention in the book for the best name.
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Timing... in the CSS faqI was looking at the CSS faq for something completely unrelated and noticed: [quote] Then the 192 screen+border lines are displayed, followed by 56 …
... , on a real Spectrum, the frequency of the interrupt varies slightly as the Spectrum ... unknown,[/b] but placing a cooler onto the ULA has been observed ... notable over a long enough period of time. Preventing the ULA from ... -
Channels and streamsSo I've put some thought into channels and streams, and read the dead (and presumably rotting corpse) of the CSS FAQ which contains some information …
... , address etc.). If this works, it creates a new channel and automatically ... to output the character in the A register. This, however, would be a spectacularly inefficient ... way to use a ... -
Do you know this game (a dog in a kimono)?Hi, everyone! I'm looking for the game I used to play on my Spectrum, but I don't know the name. All I can remember, it was a platform game, the gr…
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I'm looking for the game I used to play ... , but I don't know the name. All I can remember ... , it was a platform game, the graphics was black and ... white and you were a dog wearing a ... -
help making a gameive decided to make a game for the speccy but i have no idea where to start. i think i'd like to make a text adventure, i saw the 'build your own' pr…
ive decided to make a game for the speccy but i have no ... like to make a text adventure, i saw the 'build your own ... ' prog on the lists. is this the best ... it, just a a point in the right direction, whether its to a valuable resource ... -
Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... got the idea for this a while back. There was a story in the paper ... , then drawing them out of a hat in batches of 6). Apparently ... numbersleft=49
105 REM a is the number hat (array) from ... which we pick the numbers
110 DIM a(49)
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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 ... -
z88dk Help neededI'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification t…
... from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine ... but when I make the ... badly need a small sample of just putting a sprite in the screen with ... -
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 ... -
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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What Speccy game(s) did you hate back in the day but enjoy nowI always hated Matchday 2. But I finally gave it the time of day this last week and decided it's actually pretty good...once you get past the 'big he…
... . But I finally gave it the time of day this last ... good...once you get past the 'big head' graphics.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Need help with EngliskI am translating a webpage from slovak to english, but I am not sure if I'm doing it right. Please read the following text (it's just part of the who…
... with mental disorders. It works on the basis of self-help, ... that contact us need orientation in the situation of illness, but there ... groups or pairs that made a sessions in the city, or they meet ... each other in privacy.
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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 ... -
Windows 7Because of the postal strike my copy of Win 7 Pro has turned up today, 3 days before its released. I've built a new machine to put it on as I intend…
... it works.
Shuttle SP35P2 chassis
Q6600 for the VT ... overclockers)
The machine was a pain in the ass as I originally ... got a Q8200 then ... could put the chip in I had taken out of the gaming ... -
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.
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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?!!? hmm -
Can'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...
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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.
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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 ... -
Sinclair C5 appearances in Spectrum gamesI wonder if someone can give me a hand in finding commercial or type-in games in which the C5 is shown. These are the ones I've found so far: [URL="…
... give me a hand in finding commercial or type-in games in which the C5 ... is shown. These are the ones ... org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001271"]A Day in the Life[/URL]
[URL ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006595"]The Ludoids[/URL]
[URL ...
