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Bipboi Beta 2007.12Ok, this will be the final beta for a while, so I can add more levels etc. But, I have tried to respond to all comments. Some liked the origional k…
... the two styles each level is a good idea. An extra cloud ... for the stars to come nearer. The collision detection is a little tight ... deliberate? My only concern is that it is easy to glance one of the enemies ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... br /> You can easily write a structured program in Sinclair BASIC ... I dislike the way that keywords are in lower ... Pascal programs hard to read, and even harder to debug.
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... primarily picked as a language which is supposed to be easy to learn and vertisile ... Forth is quite a sound language, it's quite unfortunate that it's ... this wonderful ability of bringing that language to light.[/FONT]
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... randomly shuffling characters in a string...) that any sensible language would have ... is always a week before. Finding Easter sunday is a nightmare - there is a PHP function that ... /> The advantage of PHP is that it is easy to learn the basics - anything more ... -
MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
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Volume is the main bugbear yes. Not ... power either - the solution is a 7W amplifier kit bought from ... titles load only sometimes. That's easy to cure too, increase the ... and all is usually fine. That siad, sometimes you have to raise ... -
state of education.what does everyone think about the state of education today. (please no posts about how short girls skirts are getting.)
... the maths higher paper is maybe a tad easy, but then again ... is a little different. My advice to people who say GCSEs are now easy is to ... tell them to sit the papers ... t believe it's a subject that lends itself to this sort of ... -
Saddam - should he swing?The bastard probably deserves it, but would hanging him be good for the soldiers on the ground in Iraq? I'd hate to see the number of suicide bomber…
... should be used to send a message out loud and clear ... in a violent manner is supposed to convey a message? Zero tolerance to what? ... Zero tolerance to ... sure you know what that would mean for some ... -
Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…
... .org/books.html"]here[/URL] is a nice list of Spectrum related ... [/URL] which has a few books for you to read. That site is "constantly" being ... understanding if some things on that site don't work right ... -
When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... be true unless ... read on. Go over to Digital World or unlockers ... what you want to see. Pixelation on a digital feed is *almost* ... on those screens, but that is nothing to do with the digital broadcast ... burn it directly to a DVD for use in a home player ... -
Which next gen. console will you be getting?I'll be going for the Wii myself. Mainly because of the unique quality games for it, eg the Zelda franchise. The innovative controller, cheap price…
... be true but its a stigma that Nintendo seems to have been lumped ... average age of a gamer is 32 or something like that.
Everyone I know wants a ... Sports is used to advertise the console as it's an easy way ... -
Which next gen. console will you be getting?I'll be going for the Wii myself. Mainly because of the unique quality games for it, eg the Zelda franchise. The innovative controller, cheap price…
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Which next gen. console will you be getting?I'll be going for the Wii myself. Mainly because of the unique quality games for it, eg the Zelda franchise. The innovative controller, cheap price…
... 454K figure is for a *game*, not a console, if you care to read back ... . I think anyone would agree that a ... game selling over 450,000 units in one week is ... out of 600,000 units is impressive then fair enough. Many ... -
USB Flash DriveHi all, Does anyone know if it possible to build a USB interface where one can connect a USB Flash Drive to? These are also called "Memory Sticks" i…
... know that a hardware design works when there's no software to test ... is trivial (I don't want to underestimate designers work, but it is easy to ... make by manufacturers datasheet).
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Nooooo my speccy died!??!!Hi! I am quite sad. :( Tonight I got a kempston interface so I rushed home to try it on my spectrum+ The edge connector of the interface was narrower…
... the CPU to go. Usually, it's RAM that goes aswell ... is why most people I knew in the day that ... present, then it's a PSU problem and easy to fix.
... move on quickly to the next. Which is, voltages ok? ... then the ROM. If that fails then check/change the ... -
Average loading times for Spectrum games?When you hear people talking about the Spectrum or other cassette-based computers nowadays, a lot of them claim the games took 15, 30 or even 45 minu…
... sp?) the loading time as a term of endearment.
... 2-10 minutes. It is easy to look back retrospectively and ... you are often at a loose end or ... a phone call or finishing making your tea was enough so that ... when you returned to your 14'' ... -
Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... The address bus is to use to select a memory address in memory ... register L to that location, and one access to #8001 to write the ... when *writing* to a device - it is possible to *output* a 16 bit value ... bus to select the device, then have the device read the ... -
Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…
... suppose game makers have to think of the message they are putting ... out there. i saw something in a mag a ... while ago, with a chap saying that german ... a way that is a little off putting, as it is making them out to ... -
"chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])
... you have a linear "framebuffer" which is easy to render to, consisting of ... pixels, or JR/JP to a short routine which fills ... Rasterize:
ld h,a ; A holds current videoram line< ... there are various approaches that differ in pixel format, ... -
TZX revision 1.20 finalSince everybody seems to agree with the last propositions, the specification for the TZX file format revision 1.20 now becomes final and you can find…
... missing the point. Mikie is claiming that it is easy to write a 0x19 implementation. I ... 'm saying that he has yet to ... back to the point that that 0x19 specification is overly complicated, which makes writing a ... -
Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... was better, but again that is mainly due to a limitation caused by colour ... 'm not even referring to the C64, please read![/b] lol I ... ;167011]But I am! Please read! :P[/quote]
[/ ... . I've just read that the Amstrad version is a lot slower than the ... -
Speccy on the NintendoDS - help neededI was reading about speccy emulation for the DS and I even downloaded the two existing emulators, but I have no idea where to start. I don't know wha…
... kind of equipment or software is needed to read/write cartridges or what ... and would like to give DSpec (v0.2b) a go. However, I ... answer), but despite the fact that one answer might start with ... ' and another potentially starts with a number, I still can't ... -
I/O contention model questionHi everyone, Sorry for my poor english. Together with a friend we are working on ZX Spectrum 48k implemented in FPGA. We have found bug in the Spect…
... same I'm thinking about that is
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum ... are at TW cycle. ULA is about to read from memory. It doesn ... content for a while.
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I/O contention model questionHi everyone, Sorry for my poor english. Together with a friend we are working on ZX Spectrum 48k implemented in FPGA. We have found bug in the Spect…
... that this is the right way..
So if the cpu is acting a read ... clock cycles to set the address to the video ... at TW cycle. ULA is about to read from memory. It ... cpu has the time to finish the operation (2 ... the result to the cpu, it need the bus to read vram ... -
RealSpec screen$ saves?????Yeah ok, so how do I get RealSpec to save out a screen$ is the scr format? It's a good emulator, no doubt about it, but I just can't find an option …
... s too hard to convert (on a Speccy that is, not a PC)[/quote]
The .scr format is quite easy ... memory chunks to file. In you have one that does, simply ... tell it to save the 6912 ... -
I've just had an email from Mr Blairexplaning why I am wrong to oppose the ID cards, he hasn't convinced me. Anybody else had a reply from one of the government market research partiti…
... made clear that congestion is a major problem to which there is no easy answer. One ... to have a system that works. A system that respects our privacy as individuals. A system that is ... a scheme that is not yet technologically feasible, I have an alternative to ... -
Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated. However, I have been asked to have …
... a very simple input and output mechanism.
I think that ... VB6.0
to facilitate input from the keyboard ... ,
and to Print to the the screen.
to be easy to read (for novices) and use only one or a maximum ... -
I'm a dad again!!!Hi Everyone - Last night I became the proud dad of another baby girl! Amy was born at 8.31 and weighed 8 pound 5 ounces. Both mom and daughter are…
... the corner when all *that* was going on!!! Not ... and I'm praying that continues when they both ... I'm so glad to say that I missed Amy's ... Ellie is so quick and easy, to change a new born is challenging to say ... the feeling that Amy will be easier to cope with ... -
Spectrum Emulator for Vista Gadget SidebarHi Does anyone know if this exists yet? or are there any plans for one? maybe not even an emulator... an RZX player would be quite cool... anyway …
... would be possible to use it as a Vista Sidebar.
a gadget in c# yet only ... to it =)
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I've read that stardock is ... Stardock also has developed a technology that allows users to create gadgets in ... -
Sam Revival Back Issue Bonanza!As a special offer throughout March, i'm giving 25% off back issues of Sam Revival magazine. So if you are looking to fill in gaps in your collection…
A sampler issue of Sam Revival is online to read at [url]http://www.quazar ... got a selection of pages from the first 10 issues to give ... the magazine. (But please not that the prices on the back ... 'll have to make a new sample issue up shortly to show some ... -
Hand-building TZX filesDoes anybody know of a utility which, given a text-file of blocks of data, can build the matching TZX-file? I know it's easy enough to join existing…
... ;175771]I know it's easy enough to join existing TZX files ... to strip the file-headers from that TZX automatically, rather than through a ... handle a tap file instead, there is a command line util that is able to strip ...
