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So who needs a 3.5 GHz dual core Core 2 Duo......when a 6MHz Z80 will do for a multi-user server? After hacking about more with the socket library - I had 4 simultaneous users on ALIAC-2 via eth…
... - but this showed that you could write a C program that compiled ... , too :-)
But... in the road to a working Spectrum ethernet board, these ... then all the little bits of client code that needs to live in ROM ... -
A retro-spec-tive, music of 07So now the new year's in... this is a sample of the music that has accompanied the long sleepless nights, slaving over a hot soldering iron while bre…
... the new year's in... this is a sample of the music that has accompanied the ... ll only leave the files up for a little while. (All the music can ... d like the rest of the albums)
Browse to [url] ... of those that take a few listenings to "get". William D ... -
A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
... gives a crap a colour, check ya gameplay pal"
In the dining ... room/canteen at school there was this kid in my ... a big thumbs up to all the other wossers out there!, cause without you this ... -
help to find the name of gamehello. help to find the name of game. played in 1990 on some of Spectrum. 2D arcade, kind from above (like a Dyna Blaster). it is needed to hurry a m…
... a Dyna Blaster). it is needed to hurry a manikin on levels, something to ... memorized - there were teleports between the floors of building and yet ... is possible it was to walk in basement. all that remembered... beforehand thank ... -
Putative guide to CSSCGC 2009Can I start by saying kudos to Digital Prawn! His tireless promotion of this year's CSSCGC is practically certain to make it the best one ever. Ass…
... had to submit a crap game before you were allowed to download the existing ... one shit in total, but each shit would have the effect of ... it.)
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How to rotate an imageI'm working on an idea for a game and to test it I want to draw some graphics on the screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters…
... and all the possible rotations. What I want to do is to store the a set ... to apply some maths to the original data to get the new data settings. Doing this ... is a doddle but any good ideas on how to approach this in Z80 ... -
Memory paging in 128 KB - 64KB RAM possible?I have found a quote in Spectrum 3 manual (available at WOS) -------------------- In the +3, we have crammed in more than twice the amount of memory…
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is hidden from the processor by the hardware using a process ... starting a program to "disconnect" the ROM memory completely and to write to the lowest ... -
yet another jerk of a teacher...Remember I told you guys some time ago about me going back to college, and how a teacher had flunked me because I was friends with some other teacher…
... seems like my trouble at this Back to Skool haven't finished ... to go to all the important classes, has 15 avarage (out of 20) in both the ... aks what the had happen, and the secretary in charge showed me a paper ... -
ARRRGH! Forgotten how to use the Z88!The shame of it! I've decided to have a mess around with the Z88, was going to install the latest 4.2 OS and I've forgotten how it works! Ok, maybe …
... decided to have a mess around with the Z88, was going to install the latest ... and all that gubbins, but the RS232 transfer. I've got the link ... cable, done some tests in TERMINAL on the Z88 and HYPERTRM on ... -
Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... to explain)) dope is smoked openly in the garden, all the good rats drink in there, the ... out on a Friday night, the protaganists halt proceedings, to apologise profusely to the non ... in six weeks time.
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St. Kilda[quote]The predominant theme of life on St Kilda was isolation. When Martin Martin visited the islands in 1697,[13] the only means of making the jour…
... was next to impossible in autumn and winter. In all seasons, waves up to 12 ... low. Sands attached a message to a lifebuoy salvaged from the Peti Dubrovacki and threw ... on this idea, fashioned a piece of wood into the shape of a boat ... -
my stupid moment of the day...My sister usually sends me all sort of crap e-mails, the ones with pps with bunnies and babies and telling how life is wonderfull, and all the jokes …
... wonderfull, and all the jokes that you've heard a thousand times before ... getting tire of all this ____________" if you want to send crap why ... family (my brother-in-law is sort of the black sheep just ... day). so I made a reply to all and now just created sort ... -
Decompiling a TAP file and remaking a game in FlashHello everyone! I posted this, in part, under another username (a while back) but I don't have access to that account anymore so I started another h…
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I posted this, in part, under another username (a while back) but ... of the Legend TAP file itself. Is there a way to see the source ... code of the games from here ... -
A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a "dual ... succesfully ported to this kind of MSX-Spectrum hybrid, usually in a matter of ... few hours.
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I'm a freak!I've been short sighted for 20 years. My vision has stayed exactly the same at -2.25 in both eyes since I was 16. This morning, I woke up (as you d…
... contact lenses in. I would have expected to be able to see clearly ... screen, and all light was hurting. It was a struggle to keep my ... by asking me to read the chart. At this point, the first letter on ... t read anything. This happened 3 times in 1/2 hour.
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the ... (especially in comparison to the Amstrad)
Is there any difference in the accuracy ... of collision detection? are sprites better for this sort ...The Press Are Rather UnderhandedI was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but I'll let you judge for yourselves. The News of the World has a story on it's site going on a…
I was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but ... someone in her position, who has all the opportunity in the world to coin ... a loser druggie boyfriend, it's pretty obvious to me that this ... dude talking to her through the intercom ...Some questions to pass the time1. What is the best 8 bit machine? I don't mean software range wise, as we all know that the Spectrum has the best games software (well, the people …
... we all know that the Spectrum has the best games software (well, the people ... 64KB of ROM? The 48K Spectrum managed to fit a whole operating system ... haven't had the time to download and try the ones I don ... lists that were formerly missing in action, or at least I ...Help to run Abu Simbel in a +2A SpectrumI bought this game some weeks ago, but the version is the old one. When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to switch the keyboard issue to 48Kissue.…
... bought this game some weeks ago, but the version is the old one ... . When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to switch the ... keyboard issue to 48Kissue. But ... 't do that in my +2A to make the game works (it ...[Need an Editor] Rodnay Zaks' Programming the Z80I'm submitting to WoS this book (as available on [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000292[/url] - English Version - 2nd Edition)…
... to do some treatment on the book database PDF files. In short, create all ... a couple of folks [B]that know this book well[/B] to review the ... even caught a mistake. I'd rather only submit this particular book ...Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…
... Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power ... it makes it more important to me all these years later. What ... I still can't find in a magazine, anyone know? I thought ... from 1983 to 1985.
This was one of the things I ...A question to the english native speakersI am German and I like to know the following: I have an amout of A. And if I say: A is increased sevenfold do I have A=A+7*A or do I have A=7*A. I…
... am German and I like to know the following:
I ... A=A+7*A or do I have A=7*A.
I found: the ... sevenfold data then I get the eightfold.
But [url]www ... get the sevenfold as the result.
In German language there is a similar ...Nutters on the internet[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7843907.stm[/url] What is it still to this day why a young girl would meet up with an old 49 year old…
... /> What is it still to this day why a young girl would meet ... she would run a mile. Despite all the warning to kids about chatrooms ... like this.
Back in my day if i was in a park ... chatrooms etc, stunned this girl went off with this man. Perhaps ...How to know the year linked to a serial number?Hello are there available online registers for finding out the year linked to a serial number? For example: could you tell me the year of this one?…
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are there available online registers for finding out the year linked to a serial number?
For example: could you tell me the year of this one? 009-779380 thanksDATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the ... to print the memory to screen (Graph mode will allow me to see it in ... want to be able to call print on a memory location range in a for ... loop). Can someone point out how this ...re-name a speccy game (for the lol's)Daley Thompson's 'De-Caff'-a-lon same as the original but you have to ingest copious amounts of de-caffinated coffee in order to achieve decent resu…
Daley Thompson's 'De-Caff'-a-lon
same as the original but you have to ingest copious amounts of de-caffinated coffee in order to achieve decent results.
this thread either will or won't take off. I leave it to you guys...Someone knows a tool to convert mappy files?Hi, I'm new in the scene. I've been doing some stuff with z88dk (great tool). Now the question, I use mappy to create a map, and how can I get this m…
Hi, I'm new in the scene. I've been doing some stuff with z88dk (great tool).
Now the question, I use mappy to create a map, and how can I get this map to work with z88dk librarys?
thxAttn: XBox users (original XBox, not the 360)On the original XBox, game patches were sometimes issued, to fix problems with the games, or to add new in-game levels, or whatever. The patches were…
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The following is a list of all the content included in this pack:
Conflict Desert Storm 2: Back to Baghdad (content supplied by: Harcroft ...Volunteers for a Speccy news twitter stream?It bothers me a bit that with the slowdown of activity on raww.org, there's no regularly-updated English-language source of Speccy news on the intern…
... your usual routine at all); there's a ready-made communication channel ... to have 100 people on the list doing nothing at all :-) ) And as a ... Twitter to benefit from this. It's just a way to get the information together in ...Spectrum PLAY > MIDI-out > PC Midi-IN > Play?Now that I know that the Spectrum isn't prepared to handle MIDI-in data I would like to experiment with MIDI-out. But since I don't have a keyboard a…
... like to find a way to trick the Spectrum into sending the MIDI data to the PC ... advantage of all the available channels like it's described in the manual. I ... 've never heard of anyone trying this before ...
