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Games were you where a Master!trough out times, there have been a few games where I was simply beter than any one else...in some of them just in a level... In Spectrum I think It…
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In Spectrum I think ... I could nearly give a lap advantage to the ... Belgium (it was indeed a long and boring summer I ... ever had any use in real life...but I ... -
a short story I read when I was youngI remember when I was starting to learn english, my teacher had a book that she brought from england filled with weird short stories and questions ab…
... english, my teacher had a book that she brought ... short story was about a man, in australia (I think) ... who was a librarian or something ... similar, and would get a huge water deposit, move ... i remember something about a guy visiting him from ... -
Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
... proprietary kernel module... a bit of a WTF - you ... made a better cable driver that runs entirely in user ... socket, and put the spare in. Ouch.
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It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44).
And this ... executions of 0x0000 without a reset result in no trap).
- 0x0008 ... that's normally illegal in BASIC into a program.
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a year of WOSfSo what exciting things do you think deserve a mention, in a year of WOSf. the site going down, and members being scattered across the world wide we…
... things do you think deserve a mention, in a year of WOSf.
in search of retro talk.
a hard core porn site
Upside down in gamesSiouxsie has seen part of Mario Galaxy where the gravity changes (you're in a tube thing like those daft pens with the ball bearing maze all the way …
... the gravity changes (you're in a tube thing like those daft ... that they're ripping off a level in Sonic & Knuckles where ... Sonic's in space and parts of the ... are chucked upside down (not a screen flip). Preferrably earlier than ...AWARI - in the archiveBe nice to me, I'm don't understand the techincal gubbins. and rarely venture outside of the chit chat forums. But, in my hope to find a MIA in my …
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Did you have a morning paper round?The comic thread got me thinking about the little 3 or 4 frame cartoons you used to get on the back of newspapers. When I was a kid, I had a paperou…
... When I was a kid, I had a paperound in the morning, and ... in those days all ... of the tabloid newspapers had a ... delivery, then went back in the evening and did ... Oh, and I worked in my dads shop at weekends ...Sailors Fighting In The Dance HallI downloaded Life On Mars (the series, not the song :)) sometime last year but never got around to watching it until now. I just finished watching th…
... was convinced Sam was unconscious in a hospital in the present day until ...Z80 from a ZX81 in a Spectrum?Can I put a Z80 from a ZX81 into a Spectrum 48K? It should work even if they both are clocked differently (3.25MHz vs. 3.5MHz AFAIK), right? Thanks,…
Can I put a Z80 from a ZX81 into a Spectrum 48K? It should work even if they both are clocked differently (3.25MHz vs. 3.5MHz AFAIK), right?
Thanks,
ThomasThese suicides in Wales[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7252732.stm[/url] Police say that there is no link between them all. 17 suicides in a year (youngsters), all i…
... all. 17 suicides in a year (youngsters), all in a small area but police ... do not see a link? I ... think if I were a policeman in that area I might just ...a bully now that I'm 27...last year, with this new thing of the Bologna process, I came back to college to get my master degree. Unfortunatelly, the new rules also made me r…
... /> so far it has been a walk in the park, I know ... of the familly business, but in my first 2 years out ... me on Cinema History, a subject that I know and ... each, first time ever a teacher ever nagged about it ... ... now I'm expected a long process of re-evaluations ...A special necktie...So my gf wants me to put a necktie in our wedding... and she DOES know I HATE neckties, and that I haven't put one in my entire life. Oh yes, she'll …
... gf wants me to put a necktie in our wedding... and she ... I haven't put one in my entire life. Oh yes ... , she'll have a little surprise with the necktie ... anybody knows where to find a black necktie with the Spectrum ...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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In the +3, we have crammed ... 65536 bytes, there are in fact 131072 bytes of ... making 196608 bytes (192K) in all! All this
a process called
...Games where the main characters speak English with a foreign accentI wonder if there are some Speccy games where the main characters speak English with an accent. Well, we shouldn't really hear them speak as in moder…
... really hear them speak as in modern PC and console ... For example,some black people in the USA pronounce 'dis' ... there any examples of it in ZX Spectrum games? As ... exaples os such kind of a speech in PC game "Wayne's ... World" (it's a MS-DOS ...hey everybody, it's a name that game!this game just flashed in to my mind! I remember it being hard game, you where a guy in some sort of a jungle, naked (or at least on your underweare …
... game, you where a guy in some sort of a jungle, naked ( ... and goblins) It was a platformer also, and I ... remeber that somwhere in the game there was this ... (i think the armour was in the screen shoot as weel ... but I could never get in to the armour... (not ...A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …
... ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when ... I will write an announce in the Announcements sections).
a thread in [URL="http://www. ... /> The compiler tools is a cross-compiler environment similar to ... It's entirely written in python language (so it ...Get a life[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7322347.stm[/url] This John blokes a bleedin nutter. Theres bands i really like and some other celebs but …
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This John blokes a bleedin nutter. Theres bands i ... celebs but i wouldnt jack in my job for 6 months ... supporting instead of acting like a little 5 year old . Embarassing ... 'proud' he even got a mention in the summing up !
Racy type-in fold out questionHi all, I was the proud owner of a ZX81 (I remember buying it on Saturday 20th Feb 1982 at around 3pm with my Mum at WHSmiths!) then for Christmas th…
... a started buying this type-in magazine which was a fold-out featuring a ... game in zillions ... of hex numbers to be typed in and ...Trying to add a play lead to my +2(grey)I know this has been discussed at length and rediscussed again but I'm still not sure how to do it! I just want to add a line in so that I can turbo …
... just want to add a line in so that I can ... for normal speed data (a bit slow for 128 snapshots ... !
There is a 5 wire cable block on ... />
Wires connect to it in the following order from top ... need this info but just in case!
my motherboard ...What resistance should primary of a mains toroidal transformer measure?Not speccy related but still hardware. I am fixing a dual audio mixer at work. When you plug it in it blows the mains fuse straight away. Opening u…
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I am fixing a dual audio mixer at work ... . When you plug it in it blows the mains fuse ... />
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Have ordered a couple in so not got a good spare to ...looking for a gamehello i remember playing a game where i controlled a man in an astronaut suite and in one of the levels there were pistons going up and down and i ha…
... remember playing a game where i controlled a man in an astronaut suite ... and in one of ... say about it...(it was a long time ago)
I saw a book signing yesterday.I like Terry Pratchett, but I'm not a fanatic. I read his novels, as and when I get around to them, in order for the most part. not too fussed when …
... , but I'm not a fanatic. I read his ... get around to them, in order for the most part ... there was a bored looking woman sitting at a desk in the corner ... .
I looked again, she had a ... pen in her hand, and there was a sign " ...BAH!! fuggin diddlin chuffin bloody nora twat a diddlin bugger fuggi doodly woopy..............daddli i hate it when you................ lose a bloody cd :( just sorted mi cd racks out, i knew i had a space in my reggae section, whe…
... when you................
lose a bloody cd :(
just ... out, i knew i had a space in my reggae section, where ... a space wasnt (cos i have ...Trying to remember a gameHi All, Firstly, there was more than one game on this tape, but I'm not sure if that's because it was a compilation, or just that the person I'd acq…
... s because it was a compilation, or just that ... but mention the others in case it clicks for ... game, which you were a fella in a (kind of) maze. ... /> And finally, another was a Space Trading kind of game ... , full colour) menu at a spaceport -- unfortunately, I can ...The madness of the GeorgiansWhatever the rights and wrongs of the matter (which I don't really know), I think the Georgean leadership has been guilty of gross incompetence if th…
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Did they think in their wildest most delusional dreams ... to war with Russia over a breakaway Georgian republic which the ... they somehow think helping out in Iraq obligated the USA to risk ... really hollow Bush having a go at the Russians after Iraq, too.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…
... I can remember, it was a platform game, the graphics was ... white and you were a dog wearing a kimono or something that ... looked like a kimono and you should kill ...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'd like to make a text adventure, i saw the ... my hand through it, just a a point in the right direction, whether ... its to a valuable resource or just ...Looks like im looking for a new job :(background currently been in my job 4 years next april, in that time ive gone from complete noobie to senior operator. ive learnt most there is to le…
... , i learnt every process in about a month. i did ok ... was brought in as an extra makes a bee line ... over a year on it), hes been in the drill room a ... spent over a year in there) in fact i was sent in there ... hmmmmmm
so in effect ive been shafted and ...
