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Spectrum Sound Effects in Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeRecently, I was watching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and there was a scene where it sounded as if a Speccy sound effect was being used very subtly …
... watching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and there was ... subtly in the background.
The scene is just after the moment ... when Kirk and his crew sling shot around the ... of Prey.
The experience momentarily renders them all ... -
New Spectrum User - Inveterate UpgraderI've been asking a few questions about my Speccy, which is the first I've owned despite my advancingh years. I was a C64 kid, but please don't hold …
... be made good, but even after a few sessions, it was ... after some advice on another forum I replaced the power controller with the ... break in the wire in the ridged flexible part. The composite mod was done ... -
I have returned! This time with no tape problems!Hello all. Some of you may remember me from about a month or so ago with this little spawn of satan... :lol: [IMG]http://www.ridgedpixel.co.uk/proj…
... which the speed would go all over the place...
after cleaning ... love the spectrum and want to eventually try coding for it. After ... simple to perform a composite mod on which i want to ... First plan is to perform the composite mod as neatly as possible ... -
Progress on my next NovelHello, WOS :) I have finally made progress on my next story - "[i]Rubeus Imperium[/i]" ("The Red Empire" ) - following the positive reception of my …
... his planet?s Government. After a failed revolution, he ... With the future of both planets in the balance after the Martian President ... and prevent an interplanetary war between Earth and Mars.< ... Earth, the three outcasts returned to their ship after their first ... -
The 2 little screws for a Spectrum +3 (disk drive side) pleaseI'm after the 2 little screws that go into the right-hand side of the +3 housing/case and hold the disk drive securely. I mis-laid mine back in 2009 …
... after the 2 little screws that go into the right-hand side of the ... +3 housing/case and hold the disk drive ... 2009 when I last changed the drive belt.
If ... . Or if anyone knows of the screw size/type and where ... -
RF Video noise on Grey +2's with Z70700 motherboardHi folks, As we know, some limited numbers of Z70700 Iss 1 boards exist (reported by Ben [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?…
... board, and after extensive probing of the ULA outputs I ... somewhere between it and the composite output which is ... performed the C31 mod to eliminate the audio carrier from the composite ... anywhere?
The differences in layout between this ... -
80's fashion the good the bad and the fugly.Ok so it seems it's 80s season on WOS so here's another 80's thread. Fashion in the 80s? Was is good, bad, fugly? I appreciate that all decades have…
... have stagnated just after the 00s. We live in the 21 century but ... last centuries dress conventions. Are the kids of today missing out ... ?
The thing I liked about 80s ... was not so much the geometric shapes, but the color. Clothes could ... -
How big is the program?I've got the following one line program (running in a 48K Spectrum emulator) [CODE]1 input n:let n=n-int(n/4)*4:print "1 i -1-i"(n*2+1 to n*2+2)[/CO…
I've got the following one line program (running ... in bytes, which I run after the program has executed
[event] The SUPER Retro Games Fair - Leeds Town Hall - 30th January[b]After the success of the Retro Games Fair we are going SUPER SIZED[/b] [url=http://retrogamesfair.com][img]http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/…
[b]After the success of the Retro Games Fair we are ... buy from the biggest and best sellers in the country. The perfect event ... XMAS!!
[b]THE DATE[/b]
Saturday 30th ... =41e2c7fb15][b]Check out the PHOTOS from the last event[/b][/url ...Problem with BC corrupting after DJNZJust for fun, I'm messing around trying to get the level maps from Lemmings to display on the screen with machine code. It's been ages since I did an…
... Obviously, the whole map isn't displayed at once, so after doing ... a line of the screen I have ... I expected on screen, after popping BC the DJNZ doesn't decrement ... here? Specifically I'm after the reason behind the DJNZ problem, but also ...I don't think I'm getting the $22AA Pixel-Add rom routineDear all, I'm misunderstanding how the PIXEL-ADD rom routine works. My code... [code]ld b,175 ld c,1 call $22AA ld (hl),a ret[/code] So…
... br /> I'm misunderstanding how the PIXEL-ADD rom routine works ... a pixel at the top of the screen and one ... a bit confused why the code places the pixel here: [ ... [/img]
After the call, I'm not using ... the Accumulator in the right way am ...[EVENT] The Super Retro Games Fair - 16th July Leeds[b]After the success of the last SUPER Retro Games Fair we are going coming back![/b] [url=http://retrogamesfair.com][img]http://i1339.photobucket…
[b]After the success of the last SUPER Retro ...
This is the biggest video game sales event ... />
[b]THE DATE[/b]
Saturday 16th ... 6pm
[b]THE VENUE[/b]
Leeds ... b]Check out the PHOTOS from the last event[/b ...Sinclair sold the website?Hi guys, recently I was interested in if Sir Clive is still producing electro vehicles (besides being involved in the VEGA). However, the former of…
... besides being involved in the VEGA). However, the former official website www ... bio-medial company. And the website www.sinclair-research.co ... ? Did Sir Clive sell the websites or did it get ... Retro-computers and was sold after the former partners split?
< ...The great maybe-not-as-north-as-before meet episode IV: A new north meetAfter the roaring success of the last meet we've been talking and we didn't want to wait a whole year for another one. We've been thinking of another…
After the roaring success of the last meet we've been ...The death of Rock n Roll and why rock died?I know most of you guys are more Punk & Techo oriented, I've always been more a Hard Rock / Grunge / Metal fan. While I work, I spend most of my …
... didn't go after the post grunge scene, the Nu Metal with ...
But after 2000 you had sort of the comeback of "that ... " rock , with bands like The Strokes, Jets, Franz Ferdinand, Artic ... Monkeys & the creation of "super bands" like ...New Game: "Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz"I am pleased to announce the release of a brand-new game for the ZX Spectrum 128: "[b]Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz[/b]". It is a multiple…
... a general knowledge of the subject. Then the Quiz gets progressively more ... -depth knowledge of the games that were created after the original trio.
the technical novelties introduced in the game.
The Readme included in the ...Weird dreams threadI remember some of the dreams I've had over the years. I wonder if I'm the only one who has strange dreams like this... Days ago: I was dreaming t…
I remember some of the dreams I've had over the years. I ... wonder if I'm the only one who has strange ... had dreams where credits rolled after the dream "ended", dreams where I ... , some involve stories during war or post war in present day. I ...Used games are killing the games industry and should be banned (wibble wibblI was on a forum for flash cartridges ('backup' devices that allow you to play digital images on a real console, so you can download a game and play …
... of the Wally Week games for the Spectrum, but were born after the Spectrum ... exists to allow the purchase and use of the intangible thing. ... apply to games (in the minds of the (few) gamers who ... 2, Metroid Prime, Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, Batman: Arkham City, ...What's your personal GOTY (Game of the Year) for 2017?Since the year is almost over, what is your personal game of the year? What with real life and everything, this is maybe the fourth or fifth year of …
... better graphics. On the minus side, the enemies are disappointing (they ... , such as the original Deus Ex with the fantastic mod GMDX, DOOM ... 2016 (an amazing modernisation of the ... Give Me Deus Ex", the superb mod for Deus Ex that ...Trying to repair my old 48kAbout 30 years ago I had a spectrum 48k, it had some troubles in the end, it was very unstable when it was cold, so I had to warm it up an hour befor…
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After replacing the crushed DC connector and doing a composite mod (to ... because of the composite mod ?) and the yucky keyboard still works, the only problem ... are done in the eighties, and have worked fine after that.
Spectrum 128k +2 Grey internal EAR modHi guys, I have done the EAR mod to my Spectrum +2 Grey as per this tutorial and want to load programs using the TZXDuino. http://retrocable.com/?p…
... br /> I have done the EAR mod to my Spectrum +2 Grey ... want to load programs using the TZXDuino.
http://retrocable ... as per the instructions, the audio on the center part of the lead, Ground ... on the main ...Looking for "25 Programs for the Sinclair ZX Microdrive" reprint licence.Hello everybody! I'm Salvatore Lasorella, president of Apulia Retrocomputing (www.apuliaretrocomputing.it), a little cultural association we found…
... e Caduta della Commodore", the official italian translation of ... Brian Bagnall book "On the Edge: the Spectacular rise and falling ... : Multi-User Games for the Spectrum" (http://www.worldofspectrum ... and Italian Speccy fans. After the reprint, we'll share ..."25 Programs for the Sinclair ZX Microdrive" book. Looking for the licence to reprint it.Hello everybody! I'm Salvatore Lasorella, president of Apulia Retrocomputing (www.apuliaretrocomputing.it), a little cultural association we found…
... e Caduta della Commodore", the official italian translation of ... Brian Bagnall book "On the Edge: the Spectacular rise and falling ... : Multi-User Games for the Spectrum" (http://www.worldofspectrum ... and Italian Speccy fans. After the reprint, we'll share ...Need the title of the Sinclair Basic manual to look for itI had a copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on! I need it to look up commands because some Basic programs I looked at all used the command MOD and…
... copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on ... I looked at all used the command MOD and I don't ... remember seeing that before. The only exception ...New mod! Timebomb Arcade EditionAfter the 30-years-overdue debugging of Maze Death Race and the colossal collaborative triumph of Donkey Kong Arcade, I've been nagging poor Pgyuri a…
After the 30-years-overdue debugging of Maze Death Race and the colossal ... it got all the colours wrong. The arcade game was ... weirder than that, because the flyer for Checkman actually shows ...
Oh yeah, here's the download (Z80 snapshot).
< ...Moritz The Striker for the 48k SpectrumDownload: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbb7n2ipv7ed4k1/Moritz%20The%20Striker%20-%2048k%20Release.zip?fbclid=IwAR2ZdaHdIFQEKGt5raugVaxeudTcQDJT-nQgSk…
... First he must retrieve the ball, dodge the card hungry marauding ... the back of the net.
On some of the levels the ... the game loaded.
After the menu has loaded please STOP the ... tape or halt the tape ...Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…
... menu remains constantly at the top of the screen when you ... of the things that annoys me the most about the new design ... just putting an ellipsis (…) after the text! But plain rectangles are ... which made the site feel more connected to the Speccy. The new site ...The ArkFrom Danko Radic... Hi. I'd like to finally release the game, an adventure The Ark that i developed during far, far 1986/87, using Spectrum alone …
... to finally release the game, an adventure The Ark that i ... never been released. The tape miraculously survived the war in Croatia in 90 ... 's, i recoverd it, transfered the ... to publush it for the first time, the honor would be mine ...80s and 90s commedians in the 21st centuary. Still funny?I was watching a rerun of 9 / 10 Cats Does Countdown on the internet. The guest from dictionary corner was Vic Reeves. He really was not funny, his b…
... Cats Does Countdown on the internet. The guest from dictionary corner ... he was getting. Apparently after the show he became was aware ... this, and upon watching the show back and consequently vowed ... phrase and Burnard just for the sheer shock factor.
...Built a ZX Spectrum that works, but can't get the upper RAM to work?Like the title says I finished my Spectrum 3B board, and it boots, but it doesn't see the upper 32k of RAM. When it boots, the lower 16k works f…
... verified all direct connections between the upper RAM and associated logic ... (on both the ULA and CPU), however, the voltage is way ... br />
Both before and after the swap, PRINT PEEK 23733 returns ... 75, 244, and 9. The results were the same as my working ...
