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How the World Works Part 1, Togo Football1. On the 8th January the Togo team bus, en route to a match in the African Nation's Cup in a separatist area of Angola (Cabinda), is machine gunned …
... bus covered in blood expecting to die. One of the ... tournament, blame Togo for choosing to drive rather than fly/drive ... the tournament for two years. 'Adding Insult to Injury'.
Imagine ... are reported on right down to the meta-tarsil.
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Essential Re-Releases for the SpeccyAs a follow-on from the previous thread 'converting modern games to speccy'; I think that the Spec needs a remake of Dragons Lair. If you have never …
... previous thread 'converting modern games to speccy'; I think that the ... believe that the best platform to port from for the Sepctrum ... few rough Speccy mock up screens to compare with. They don't ... -
LDIR timings in contended RAM?The 48K Spectrum technical reference page ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm"]here[/URL]) describes the detailed ti…
... states before it can write to (DE).
Adding 4T to the duration of a ...
Using LDIR to scroll the full screen in ... 128K machine) involves blitting close to 7000 bytes.
I almost forgot to ask: What precisely does "[ ... -
Jet Bike Simulator - Merv?Merv also appears on the loading screens to Grand Prix Simulator and 3D Starfighter and Mervin James is credited for both so it would make sense to s…
Merv also appears on the loading screens to Grand Prix Simulator and 3D Starfighter and Mervin James is credited for both so it would make sense to suggest the James also worked on Jet Bike Simulator as well. -
Your development hell.Got any games on the go that have been on the back-burner for a while? Please share your screen grabs / videos! Here's a lil vid of a few of my game…
... -Fly Zone")
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Herbert the Turbot - The silent movie...As promised a while ago, the last ever work-in-progress build of Herbert the Turbot is now available from [URL="http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/extras/he…
... while.
I wanted to write a maze game where ... are (I think) 256 unique screens to the game, and I'm ... long it will take Pavero to map, especially with the twist ... -
Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
... Beast +3[/B]
Has screens to accompany the scrolling text that ... -
Bride of Frankenstein mapAs part of the debugging for Bride of Frankenstein I was intending to compile a screen-shot map, as the painted map in SU has some incorrect connecti…
... castle).
Due to the unconventional orientation of the ... 's a small selection of screens to illustrate the problem.
... line up without overlapping the screens.
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Elite mods[URL="http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/z80/index.htm"]Ian Bell's Elite page[/URL] distributes a package with "Russian hacker Spectrum Elite varia…
... another Elite editor, I suggest adding both to WoS.
I ... suppose it would be easy to obtain his approval for distributing ... -
Greetings all overheat problemsfirstly hello everybody and thanks for adding me to the forum dont know if ill be much use here but i hope so the problem i have or should i say a…
... hello everybody and thanks for adding me to the forum
dont ... it gets warmer performance goes to pot
ie as in ... can throw any light as to the cause/rectification of these ... -
Display half a screenWorking in 128 Basic and saving screens to memory via - SAVE! "image" SCREEN$ . Is it possible to display just the top half (or the bottom half) of t…
Working in 128 Basic and saving screens to memory via - SAVE! "image" SCREEN$ . Is it possible to display just the top half (or the bottom half) of the screen ? (leaving the bottom half of the previous screen visible). Thanks in advance. -
Should I sell a boxed ZX128 as original as possible?Normally I add stereo audio to all 128K ZX Spectrums I get my hands on. At this moment I have a couple boxed heatsink models waiting to be offered o…
... I add stereo audio to all 128K ZX Spectrums ... couple boxed heatsink models waiting to be offered on eBay, ... would like the set to be as original as ... this capacitor adds sound to the video signal before it ... Sinclair's way of adding sound to the antenna output, but ... -
New recoloured game - After The War 1 :)As suggested and requested by some people I tried my skills with adding colour to this well known Spanish beatemup. And well... I did it :) I can sa…
... tried my skills with adding colour to this well known Spanish ... scroll so I had to disable it and make ... it move by 8 pixels to avoid clash.
to choose from the game ... But the sprite may seem to disappear there. The second ... -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until ... -
IX register woes - or is SPIN buggy?Or am I missing something? I'm trying to use the IX reg to acess a table containing an x and y coord. My code below just doesnt seem to work proper…
... below just doesnt seem to work properly, causing my ... assembler as it doesnt seem to like the instruction
adding one to the first data member ... /> ld ix,shptbl ;point to ship table
ld ... br /> cp 241 ;compare to far right
jp ... -
New colors / switchable color palette with regular ULA ?Hello. This may be an ignorant question but I just thought about it today and wanted to post it here to get some opinions. OK, so, today, while goin…
... -yellow amplitude. Thus I came to the conclusion that by setting ... those variable resistors to non-factory values, one could ... it be possible to make a simple addition to the video circuitry ... can't imagine this adding much to the overall cost of the ... -
Terry The Turtle-Yellow,Cyan and Red.I am 16 days late with this as i wanted to release it on my birthday on the 1st,so instead as it is father`s day i wish to dedicate this game to my o…
... Teleporters and areas.
Tribute screens to other video games.
... screen border.(although night time screens have black borders and ... the Yellow version and some screens may have an extra ... enemy or faster moving ones,screens may have new features ... -
display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... bits right to receive the HL carry, or adding 8 to H ... (if using BASIC).
To move down ... rows add 32 to L.
To move down the ... segments add 8 to H.
To move down the ... for each segment independently to the maximum pixline length ... -
Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…
... br /> Yesterday, I was introduced to the [url=https://en.wikipedia ... the ability to shift to the left, and adding 3 to a number ... ld b,0 ;Flag to not print leading zeros
to store BCD representacion (616 ... -
'My First Project' (AGD platformer)Hey folks (hope this is the right place to put this :confused:) I'm having my first proper go at a game (after a few aborted attempted) using Jonat…
... this is the right place to put this :confused:)
screens to show progress. I have ... game mechanics are still to be implemented but it ... few screens (I hope th animated gifs work) to show ... ).
All subject to change...
I ... -
Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
... down the screen by simply adding 32 to the reference point of ... /> inc d ;Inc d to add 256 to de
ld a ... it
jr mloop ;Back to mloop again
field3 ... /> [/CODE]
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Gasman live in concert at Revision - videosThis Easter weekend was the Revision demoparty in Saarbr?cken - the largest pure demoscene event of the year, held over 4 days with close to 1000 vis…
... of the other acts having to cancel, I was unexpectedly ... (Well, the actual suggestion was to have an illegal rave in ... planning, other people started... adding stuff to it. First an extra power ... is inches away from crashing to the ground, but miraculously ... -
One Less MIA - Mathematics (1985) Charles Letts & CoJust received this today and both tapes appear to be in perfect working order. I know this isn't exactly the most exciting find of all time but it's …
... today and both tapes appear to be in perfect working order ... list, eh? :)
According to the booklet that comes with ... I'll probably get round to uploading the TZXes soon-ish ... any collectors are interested in adding this to their collection then please ... -
Hot plugable edge connector?Could the spectrum's edge connector have been made hot plugable without adding much to the manifacturing costs? I was thinking along the lines of a…
... been made hot plugable without adding much to the manifacturing costs?
adding an extra key slot at ... that power would be applied to the interface before any signals ... it would have been enough to prevent many of the accidentally ... -
ADG questionCan some one help me please. Using AGD 4.3, if I want to do a game with say 20 levels all vertical how to I make it so that when my man falls from t…
... 4.3, if I want to do a game with say ... 20 levels all vertical how to I make it so that ... the top of screen 8. screens are setup in a grid ... by AGD, I need my screens to work in number order not ... -
Uridium possible with more colour??Having seen the MSX version of Uridium mentioned in another thread I wondered if the Spectrum could produce anything similiar, and had a go at a mock…
... of a couple of screens to see how it might ... clash would be difficult to avoid with other sprites, ... model, (it appears to have some limitations in ... the spectrum) but seems to have hardware sprites which ... are not subject to that.
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Game loads in emulators but not in real SpectrumA case was reported to me in another thread:<br>http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50520/new-sh-t-game-time-video-renegade-iii#latest<b…
A case was reported to me in another thread:
... I hacked Renegade 3 by adding colour to the game. I used ... kind soul would be willing to have a look and help ... -
Spectrum +2 (grey): Mod- and operation- related advices needed.Dear Sirs and Ladies, Please welcome a newbie to the “World of Spectrum” (both to the forum and, well, metaphorically). I’ve recently purchased a…
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Please welcome a newbie to the “World of Spectrum” (both ... is dead).
To make the thing usable I ... 3. Tombstoned C31 (to stop it adding sound to the composite) and connected ... it’s now-upper pin to ... -
A NEW 128K platform-game: "Mysterious Dimensions"We have made with Hellboj a new arcade-platform game for ZX Spectrum 128K: "Mysterious Dimensions". [img]http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/Mysterio…
... , which gives in total 44 screens to overcome).
It ... -
New loading screen for GunfighterNew loading screen: [img]http://www.reallyquick.co.uk/sebasic/gf1.gif[/img] Old loading screen: [img]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair…
... www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/g/gif/Gunfighter.gif ... one of these replacement loading screens, but I don't ... the required skill or patience to match the usual standards ... the real artists choosing loading screens to replace.
A ...
