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From Pong to Playstation - meeting in HollandTomorrow there is a meeting in Holland themed "From Pong to Playstation". It is hosted by the C64 group of the HCC. I will be there to show Sinclair.…
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Using a QLI have the opportunity to pick up a QL in distress, having never even set eyes on one before I am not sure how much fun there is to be had with them.…
... the opportunity to pick up a QL in distress, having never even ... the PSU is just a transformer with a couple of taps giving ... -
dvd player for a laptopIf I want to upgrade my laptop with a dvd burner, then is it just a case of walking into a computer shop and buying one, or does it depend on the br…
... to upgrade my laptop with a dvd burner, then is it ... just a case of walking into a computer shop and ... I've never dealt with a laptop in this way. -
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…
... for this a while back. There was a story in the ... drawing them out of a hat in batches of 6). Apparently ... he won a few grand ... to implement this program in that language. Now that ... Z80 assembler too. Another project in Z80! :D
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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$=""…
... to extract random numbers from a sequence in the one-liner Lottery ... f=1 TO 49: LET a$=a$+CHR$ (f): NEXT f: FOR ... b=1+INT (RND*LEN a$): PRINT AT g-1,8 ... +((f-1)*3);" "( TO (CODE a$(b) -
Help Identify a Kid's Book I Read Many Years AgoI'm not sure why but the memory of reading it just popped into my head today and I'm curious about it now. It was about a young London girl called Pe…
... Penelope who spends a summer in an old house somewhere in Wales. While ... in a tree house in the middle of a forest, but not a tree house in ... the branches and foliage formed a roof.
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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…
Just went outside for a snout about 10 minutes ago, ... opened the door I heard a scrambling in the bushes on the ... over the neighbours fence. Then a minute or so later heard ... know they could've had a concealed weapon of some kind ... -
Sintech-Shop in UK openedHello Spectrum-friends, our Sintech-shop made now the first step into UK market. We would welcome anybody to just have a look in our shop and write y…
... anybody to just have a look in our shop and write ...
We have already still a To-Do-List or things ... .
Just have a look: [url]www.sintech-shop ... wrong, although the shop in UK is running by an ... for us that all shops in UK, Czech Republic and ... -
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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I need a bit of (speccy-related) help with my web-comic...I've posted before that I do fancy stuff for landmark episodes of my comic...well, I've reached episode 199, and for No. 200, I've drawn it as a .scr…
... a .bmp in photoshop, then converted it from a .scr, into a .tap, then a ... I wrote a basic header, and saved that in front of ... if anyone could have a look at the mp3 ... you'll be getting a sneaky peek at the episode ... unleash it on the public in a week's time. If ... -
Uncomfortable (or just bizarre) moments in gamesJust about to have an hour on San Andreas and for some reason I got thinking about that loopy mexican chick you get stuck with when you're out in the…
... in the sticks. Anyway a few more ropey situations from a ... somebody who is obviously a nonce in one of the ... rope scenes with Barry in Resident Evil, so terrible ...
There was a bug in Virtua Cop on the Saturn ... but there was a spot where a hostage would pop ... -
Glitch in Chuckie Egg.OK, I discovered this entirely by accident a long time ago, but there's a glitch in Chuckie Egg that lets you run straight through one of the birds. …
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A PC console?Are there any console style PCs available? What I mean is, you can pretty much use a PC as a console, if you add a joypad(s), a TV card, and if you l…
... a PC as a console, if you add a joypad(s), a ... especially if it has a built in trackball, for mouse ... for game control. Add in a silent cooling system, ... maybe house the lot in a smaller case (though this ... small keyboards with built in trackballs are available.
Saving game in ZX SpinHello. I am trying to save a game in Spin but the program tells me I am using an ambiguous file type. How do you do it?
Hello.
I am trying to save a game in Spin but the program tells me I am using an ambiguous file type.
How do you do it?Game/s based in the Back to Skool themeImagine a much bigger school, or a new game with boys and girls again but bigger maps, or make the game even bigger by adding two streets, his house,…
... 's looking for him, a tree in the house where he and ... could be a new super game, or a start of a new series ... games.
On a side note, a PC utility to create ... more than what was allowed in Back to Skool and Skool ...Before insanity sets in...I'm trying to locate a game, now I'm a bit sketchy on the details...but... It was a type in adventure BUT it had an animation type bit in the top wi…
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It was a type in adventure BUT it had an ... animation type bit in the top window. If ... with an animated representation in the top window...that ... br />
There was a lot "Filigree" and "ornate" ... have been either set in a castle or underground vaults ...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…
... m told that a cooler releases water in the air, ... to cool things down, so I'm naturally a ... little concerned - you don't want too much mosture in ... when you've got a PC in the same room. ... annually (what does annually mean in this context?).
MIA in ebay - fatboy!!I have just spotted a MIA in ebay, and the seller is a well known person (retronutter is fatboy here). [url]http://cgi.ebay.es/ZX-SPECTRUM-48K-128K-…
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Hope It ends up in good hands!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…
... spaceship and go to a military base in a desert. There, they are ... they will simulate the landing in a stage in the base. The scenes ... atmosphere. All the country is in deep mourning.
... base and cross the desert in a dramatic escape.
...Trying to find a game ***Trying to locate the source of a game I played early on, 1983 or maybe before. Here's the twist, its a type in, not a commercial release. It was a …
... to locate the source of a game I played early on ... 's the twist, its a type in, not a commercial release.
It was a very basic version ... "Spong" and the wall was a Barrier.
Turn based ...Knot in 3D - how?Dear all, Does anyone know the basic concept behind the programming of Knot in 3D? How much usable ram did the speccy have - was it 32768 bytes? If…
... (above) is similar to a picture in bitmap format (each pixel counted ... ), then a more efficient way would ... be to record it in a similar ... way to a GIF format (so ..."The Wicker Woman": In DevelopmentI've started making the game, so I thought I'd move posts from the "New Games Ideas" forum to here. I've got my head around using PAW's processes and…
... options, and I've typed in all the locations I'm ... of the options all of a sudden, as it keeps ... coming up with a "Load Overlay?" screen, no ... of PAW that already contains a game in the .sna called "DAWN ... from scratch and type in all 70 locations again.Meeting in Boxmeer, HollandI had a meeting in Holland planned this year, the date is now fixed 24 october 2009 from 10:00 to 18:00 (can be opened sooner) Where: Wijkaccommod…
I had a meeting in Holland planned this ... Trafficlights left, you enter a 30 Km zone.
... trafficlights left.
then as in Boxmeer-A77
a 30 Km zone.
... br /> Follow the railways in northern direction. When you ...rebuilding a speccy - original hardware, emulation or cloneI have some spare speccy parts and cases etc and I've been thinking of bastardising a spectrum. I'm undecided as to using original hardware, clone or…
... to use.
In all the ideas I want ... as it has a decent keyboard and a built in tape deck and ... compatability. I want to put in a CF card as well but ... ports and still stick it in the +2a case? I ... need to upscale the picture in some way as well seeing ...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…
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At home I have a standard router and wifi hub ... .
This is a pain in the arse so much that ... laptops at home. Is there a way to automate this process ...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…
... 256. There's a list in Appendix A of the Spectrum Manual ... to the A register and puts a 1 in the A register for ... keyboard space to b
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cp 191< ... by bit and leaves a 1 in the a register for each ... keyboard space to b
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cp 191< ...Pigs in the wild ... changing DNA?I remember a few years back reading about regular pigs escaping into the wild and then "changing" ... according to the article they essentially becom…
... was that there is a change in their DNA that takes ... like once they're out in the wilderness their hairs ... exactly if there is a real change in their DNA or ... it was "dormant" DNA kicking in ... but I'd be ... interested in re-reading the (scientific) ...Trying to repair a 128K (heatsink)I've bought another ZX Spectrum 128K (heatsink model), but unfortunately the last owner did not tell me it did not work.... Because this Speccy also…
... a 7404 in house.
The other, working, Spectrum has a 74S04, and in ... other Spectrums a 74HCU04 is used ... also read a 74LS04 does not work in this circuit (in another topic ...Was Shadrach Dingle in Sinclair User?I've just been going through my old issues of Sinclair user. Their was a section in Sinclair user dedicated to adventure games that was presented by…
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Their was a section in Sinclair user dedicated to adventure ... games that was presented by a ... Greatbelly'. He instantly has a striking resembelance to Shadrach Dingle ... their are other pictures in the mag that look ...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 ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001271"]A Day in the Life[/URL]
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