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Is it just me or.....Hi Everyone I haven't been on here for a while, so this might have been discussed to death already, apologies if it has but... Is it just me, or wa…
... Spectrum I have owned a Sega Master System, Nintendo ... Amiga CD32, a Playstation 1, and now a Wii. Although ... memory. I remember having a [failed] attempt to ... come from a generation that grew up with a Spectrum and ... />
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Bug fixing woesGaahhhh! I've spent an afternoon off work agonizing over why my routine didn't work. It's something I'd already restarted so didn't want to wipe th…
... again.
After a couple of hours pacing about ... the low byte in a 16 bit table that straddled a high byte boundary!! ... As long as the table ... starts at an address with an empty low byte ... -
Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... utter disbelief it fired up first time and tuned ... working so after a bit of reading up here I figured ... proceeded to open it up to chop a few millimetres of ... when I opened her up to see this strange ... and then makes a low beep (like a groaning noise!) and ... -
4164 refreshHi, I remember pondering the mystery of how 4164's seem to get properly refreshed when used as video memory, and half the answer has just popped up i…
... the answer has just popped up in something else i was ... ) Cycle refresh and one needing a 256 (8 bit) cycle refresh.
a 4116 would successfully refresh most ... the VBLANK period is still a bit of a mystery. -
Empire "Mega" PatchI've been posting [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001619"]Empire[/URL] related bits and pieces [URL="http://www.worldofspectr…
... s time to wrap everything up into a single [maintainable] patch/ ... br /> [LIST]
[*]Adds a feature to pause the mission ... /> [*]Adds instant use of a "gravity drive" from the galaxy ... 1 TO 1E9: READ A: IF A>=0 AND A0 ... and then you'll end up in the map of the ... -
Famous Spectrum Users.....I suspect that Labour Leader Ed Milliband was a Speccy user. Look who came 34th in the high score table for Fantasys ' the pyramid' from your spectr…
... Ed Milliband was a Speccy user.
Look who came 34th ... in the high score table for Fantasys ... like he might have ben a dirty 'pirate' as well as ... -
The short blocks loaded in Jet Pac(Hope this have not been previously discussed. If so, my apologies) Is there any reason why Jet Pac loads three short blocks after the main block? I…
... game starts (well, there is a hidden surprise)
The ... labeled with "2" is a single byte written to 23728 (the NMI ... /> So, the fixed loader should look something like: LOAD ""CODE 245772 ... -
How will we view today's technology tomorowMost of you here are fans of vintage computing technology, and many of you are fans of old technology full stop. I was thinking the other day about …
... frig up a battery to power up your old device.
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kissy noise?????so im sat on the reception at work covering for the receptionist and this feller who work in another department walks past, i kinda nod and go back …
... i hear a kissy noise
i look up and he ... is sort of giving me a half smile ... i know he is a bit of a perv with the ladies ... that he was blowing me a kiss.
also ... or something, so maybe its a greeting where they come from ... -
Testing Z80 op codesHappy new year all! I'm currently testing my Z80 emulator (hand written from scratch in C#) and I've possibly now gone insane, testing is taking hug…
... as I'm not using look up tables like most emulators appear ... level)? The thought of writing a massive assembly test project to ... -
storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…
... if they had been set up for a DEF FN statement, so ... +",":
DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+1):
DEF FN ... FN h(v)=INT (v/256):
REM INSTALL MACHINE ... a,b: POKE a+1,c: POKE d,e
REM Shift up ... -
I'm a Plumb. RE- Spy Vs. Spy FreebeeI'm a plumb. To the personage who I have plumbbed I am REALLY REALLY sorry. Whilst sorting out today I found a box I parceled up ages to send off …
... out today I found a box I parceled up ages to send ... !
It was a copy of Spy Vs. Spy ... ( Beyond Big Box ) and a ConCom interface. And it was ... a while ago.
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Once again.... I is a plonker and I is sorry. -
Redesign Pong for a hundred grand![url]http://www.atari.com/pongdeveloperchallenge[/url] [quote]Following the success of Atari?s recent indie-developed mobile titles, including Aster…
... opens the door for up-and-coming developers to ... classic Pong? for a chance to win up to $100,000 ... Atari brand, along with a publishing agreement and full launch ... ?s your time to remake a classic![/quote]
a bash! But I can' ... -
BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…
I'm created a new save, but it can ... , to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44 ... KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin 0.7 ... 88.2 KHz to make a perfect wav file for this ... 44,1 KHz, in 256 bytes have up to 1.500 INs ... -
Time WreckHey all. I rediscovered [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005284"]Time Wreck[/URL] again recently. I played a mate's "back up" …
... . I played a mate's "back up" of this ... looks quite interesting, maybe a bit like Dragonia or Valhalla ... American motorcycle cop holding a gun-thing. Our 'fight ... box which shows a few things that look like mountains, ... now 'drop' and 'pick up'. How do I use ... -
R.I.P. Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins)Don't know if many people will know who this guy is, but he's been around in my life since I was tiny.... He played the original [b]Barnabas Collins…
... has just been turned into a movie by [b]Tim Burton ... /> These things filled a shelf in my cupboard growing up, and when ... first things I did was look up the program...managed to find ... it may be going for a comedy remake like Starsky and ... -
Modulator oddness - previous owner's mod?Hello, just bought a rubber key 48k Issue 3 I'm trying to fix up. I'm wanting to do a composite video out mod ( n00b at this) but the "spare" hole in…
... a rubber key 48k Issue 3 I'm trying to fix up ... . I'm wanting to do a composite video ... already used up by this odd wire, I guess a previous ... it there? Never seen a standard spectrum look like this. Can ... was someone had already done a video mod in some ... -
This weeks great Sinclair Hardware SaleOK, this lot is being listed on flea bay on Sunday if nobody here wants to make me a reasonable offer. For those people who don't have English as a …
... here wants to make me a reasonable offer.
For ... don't have English as a first language or are just ... sure what to offer then look up some historic prices on Ebay ... -
Spectrum Emulator that supports low resolutions and runs smoothlyHello to All, I have been trying to find a spectrum emulator that will work well through my CRT TV (using RGB to Scart) Most emulators seem to supp…
... have been trying to find a spectrum emulator that will work ... , PAL should be 320 with 256 high, not 240
I have found a few emulators that support full ... basically does not look authentic like a spectrum should look anyway
Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
... my prototype up.
I am writing my own byte copy ... premise is to copy a file byte for byte from one device to ... :" while the exact number of byte were copied, the file was ... a mess and with an unexpected ...Tesla Museum FundraiserIts allready passed its goal with 39 days to go [url]http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum?c=home[/url] Heres the copypasta from the page Nikola Te…
... kicked humanity into a second industrial revolution, up until recently he ... and very recently went up for sale. And right ... from New York State of up to $850k. This ... another offer on the table from someone who wants ... the full amount and end up with $1.7 million ...merging bytesPicturing three bytes with their bits identified by letters to make the visualisation easier, what's the best way to perform this transformation? [co…
... br /> [code]
|Byte 1||Byte 2|
old value abcdefghijklmnop ... ABCDEFGH
|Byte 1||Byte 2|
new value ... can start anywhere in Byte 1, identified by A.
... 0-7 in A. What I came up with as an ...Name the game againHi! This place was recommended to me by pelago, I'm not sure if he is a regular. I remember playing a game like Mappy on the Spectrum but can't find…
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I remember playing a game like Mappy on the ... different platforms, you played a thief trying to collect ... to catch you, there was a spy, police, nurse(?). Also ... . There was a question mark power up too that made ... off or made everyone look like the spy. I ...RPGs?Hi, I was looking through the Archive at all the RPG-classified games. It is quite grim. The best one seems to be The Bard's Tale. I really want to…
... ONLY ONCE, reaching a huge bastard of a Dragon who killed ... is that you need to look up the spell nonsense-names ... There seemed to be quite a lot of over-head, almost ... one where you play a dot in a giant map screen ... safe to say was a big problem with spectrum ...New Game : Dead By DawnMy brother has finally decided to finish off a game he's been working on for years....[b]Dead By Dawn![/b] [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CU4VJsYlLd…
... So now you can enjoy a late Halloween-type present! Here ... />
[quote]30 years ago, a man unleashed something into this ... been forever fused together into a disturbing game what I ... : Look up
L : Look down
R : Stand up
F : Crouch
A ...A 128 Routine to Put Tokens in StringsI was writing a DEF FN on the +128k and decided that I'd had enough of not being able to put function tokens in strings without a great palaver and s…
... tokens in strings without a great palaver and so ... F, for AND use UDG A, etc. If two different ... la=256*PEEK (a+1)+PEEK (a+2): LET ll=FN p(a+ ... RESTORE 9990:
LET ae=a+4+ll: LET n$=" "( ... ):
DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+1)
[/code]how much for a decent spectrum set upRight, say I thought "oh, wish I'd kept my speccy stuff" and decided that I'd like to get a Spectrum 48k, printer, tape deck, interfaces, microdrive(…
... I'd like to get a Spectrum 48k, printer, tape deck ... , interfaces, microdrive(s) etc and a decent selection of games that ...Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…
... have a 2K block of data that defines 256 ... 8x8 UDGs. We then have a 768 byte character ... map with one byte per ... can add an attribute byte to each UDG, or ... a time, or the first byte of all 256 chars, then the second byte ...The unreleased Saboteur 3: Q&A with Mike RichardsonI notice that the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0026530"]Saboteur 3[/URL] page has been updated with an archive of graphics …
... 1987). A design was drawn up and Mike created a bunch ... of sprites and even some mocked-up ... games, they went up and down ladders and ... the lighthouse there was a large building (containing ... .). You could climb up the drain pipes and ...So who's re-set up their Spectrum recently?I put my Spectrum away around 1992. I had it out still when I was using my Amiga but by the time I'd progressed on to a PC and a SNES the Spectrum wa…
... progressed on to a PC and a SNES the Spectrum ... circle and have a +2 permanently set up under the TV ... with a tape recorder needing to be set up and ... an emulator (I worry a little about using real hardware ... computer shop). Though having a DIVIDE I can now pull ...
