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Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…
... line of desparete clones, adding barely anything to a tired genre.
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Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
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to manually update the Archive Info ... zilch) so I'll have to spend some time learning about ... too! The bit about adding Archive Info to TZX's that is ... -
DSK-images...How do I load Dsk-images? I am using the ZX32-emulator and I get this: "program: DEFAULT" "disk can?t boot / No tape loaded"
... options page. Reset and boot to +3 menu. open the disk file ... times I've mistakenly tried to load a C64 DSK file ... -
BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…
... automatically insert ':' in order to minimise the number of line ... any program. Hence when exporting to BASIC you could have each statement ... generate a line numbered minimal BASIC program - which may or ... d fill 9999 lines of BASIC without first running out of ... -
Favourite Spectrum game musicDoesn't have to be 128k music either... Anyway mine is the 2nd track on Xenon.
... say that the Oliver Twins' music was probably the best, ... I really liked the 128K music to Starglider too. Of course, if ... you want to discuss 48K music, then nothing beats Chronos ... - I would have loved to have ... -
Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
... in page 3 sometimes seem to copy their coordinates from another ... there any software/hardware command to disable +3 DOS, without shutting ... the program breaks up with BASIC from line 1. It does ... and it is not designed to return to BASIC.
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Favourite Spectrum game musicDoesn't have to be 128k music either... Anyway mine is the 2nd track on Xenon.
Personally, I loved the music to Fairlight (1 and 2) and brian bloodaxe (-8 -
'Own' or 'Designed' Bundles of pirated gamesI found few messages under "Your local Speccy shop..." which triggered my memories... to 1st tape I got, the best tape..., to my pirates... (just to …
I made a series of about 20 discs for the SAM Coup? of Speccy games, and on each one I'd put a stupid BASIC menu with different things going on on it. I think I spent longer on the menus than I did on "backing up" the games, hahaha. :) -
Question about sabre wulfBeing new on here i dont know if its already been talked about or not, but i was just looking on rares site and came across the forthcoming section, …
... Spectrum version, even down to the menu page and the very dark ... /> I can't remember how to unlock the game (it's ... long, long time), but go to
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ZX Spectrum Image AppletHi folks. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the 'ZX Spectrum Image Applet' that they could possibly mail me? I've read that this applet can take …
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I'd like to change the BGM however. Does ... in circulation? A tool to convert .BEEP music to 1 channel MIDI would ...Help me find this futuristic race gameI remembered this game when I was playing Zig Zag. In the game you're looking at a some sort of mesh of roads from the top. Many levels have their …
... /> Random fact: I love the music to that game.
[ This ...Insanely difficult gamesOK, folks, so we know Speccy games were difficult in general. But have you ever played some games which were totally unfair from your point of view ?…
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To this day, I refuse to believe that *anyone ... br />
Anyone who wants to disprove my theory, send me ... has to be made *before* Jon Needle gets as far as adding ... RZX appending to Spectaculator.
...Anyone NOT have any problems loading?Loading was always a problem. I often thought I must be the only sad sack trying for the umpteenth time to load in Nonterraqueous. Must have loaded i…
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yeah i always remember i once bought some dodgy cassettes from pound stretcher i think....about 25 for ?1 or something stupid :p and i couldnt even get music to save on em never mind games lolwav dumpis there a speccy emu anywhere that u can automaticly save the music on a game to wav. also is it illegal to use the music off a speccy game on your …
You can use this emulator to record Speccy music to WAV files although there ...i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... even have to look up a table to read that ...
If you want to see something from a PRINT ... actually useful you have to load BC. The last ... garuntee it would even return to BASIC.
(Actually ... in DATA statements is harder to debug.
[ ...My speccy sold it's soul to do this.Which 5 speccy moments defied logic and managed to impress you the most at the time? 1. The loader for Moonstrike. 2. The almost flawless R-Type con…
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1) The Intro to 'Trantor-the last stromtrooper' literally ... on the floor!
2) Music to Chronos (and a few other ... game (ant-attack etc.) but to me it was a Defining ...emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …
Simple!! Just delete both the " and enter the command STOP (ctrl A) and voila! back to BASIC.
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[ This Message was edited by: karingal on 2004-02-05 12:57 ]Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…
... which are good enough to create most simple BASIC games.
I ... C, and thus will turn to BASIC to learn to program.
I'm ... /> Nothing wrong with BASIC, I learnt programming basic first, and then moved ... other languages.
And to tell you the truth one ...Top games music.I suppose this one's been mentioned before but having got hold of some music demos (48 and 128) I've compiled this little list of top tunes (In my op…
I always liked the music to 3 Weeks In Paradise. It's a Spectrum version of the main music used by Disney in Fantasia, but is obviously far superior both in terms of visuals and sound quality.Speccy modems and telnetDid anyone use a modem for the Spectrum back in the heyday of the British service telnet? I wish I had known a bit more about it at the time, that wo…
... have to load it every time you wanted to connect. Like constantly adding ... TCP/IP to a Windows ... would also need PPP to connect to the ISP/Server etc ... only leaves you with 124K to browse with!!!!
...The 5 games you thought you should like or should be better at playingThe games i think i should really get into or should be better at but cant cos im crap at em / just dont like em are :- 1) All flight sims (really r…
I tend to dislike anything that is mainstream music, so I know that ... is superficial music for the surface, music to listen without having to understand what ... it says and not to think ...Speccy modems and telnetDid anyone use a modem for the Spectrum back in the heyday of the British service telnet? I wish I had known a bit more about it at the time, that wo…
... 1997. The author said something to the effect of "I left ... before I had a chance to test it but here is ... of tcp/ip, which was music to my ears.
I ...Pentagram Title MusicMorning all, I've enjoyed reading the many posts here over the past few months, and thought it was about time I signed-up and posted a few messages …
Can't really tell it myself. Sounds like baroque music to me however.whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... POKEs used in Commodore BASIC directly translate into machine ... to give up in fustration. Your argument is that because Sinclair BASIC ... is so good, people won't need to move on to ... Most people were quite happy to stick to BASIC, since it fulfilled their ...Dizzy Y: now available in English[url="http://speccy.t35.com/"]http://speccy.t35.com/[/url] You may also download a new, corrected version of Dizzy X Journey To Russia. Mirror site…
... I must again arrange it to Basic loader for universal disk version ...Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…
... 't have a number next to them are the games I ... 't have your number next to Tranz Am (or Pssst!) Cos ... :
Naturally, unless I happen to own the original on cassette ... "]Speccy Spoilers[/url] today, adding eight games to the list. But only ...TZX to MDRHow can I simply convert my TZX files into MDR files, because the original tapes were backup copies of microdrive cartridges. Is there anyone with a …
... length they have, then go to BASIC, do a CLEAR and load ... /save them manually to the MDR. Same with BASIC progs.
BASIC+M/C 'copier' that does ...New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
... format would be ideal to exchange data between different ... cybernoid ' with the 128k music to play in emuzwin and the ... could be even funnier to somebody to just redesign his ... Lots of kudos to Vlad and to the guys behind spec256 ... it's up to us to make a good use ...UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N
... Speccy 48 BASIC cookbook is where I will have to start.
to BASIC on the Spectrum.
Why Hex in place of Denary?Ok - most MC books / tutorials advocate the use of hex instead of denary. But the Speccy doesn't actually have a Hex converter so you need to write …
... point at which it returns to BASIC. So PRINT USR 30000 ... address 30004. 117 translates to an opcode LD (HL), ... you are not trying to look into location 30004 in ... not return 117. The routine to do that is:
... is the address you want to PEEK
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