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Expanded Profiles - Brief BiosExpanding on the post about Crimewatch style profiles, why not make a biography style profile. And I'll be the first... NAME: Patrick J.K. Furlong A…
... of you guys have a hell of a lot of Spectrums ... begin to feel quite like a nerd. :mad:
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Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... us to type, and to look at code then... no harm ... recodings of Karnov at a mates house backed up with Iron Maiden ... -
ZX Spectrum +3 won't turn onHello We've got a ZX Sinclair Spectrum +3, which has recently been dragged out of the loft and we are trying to get it back into active service. Th…
... test the power supply.
Look up the pinouts (prob. here on ... WOS) and use a multimeter set on DC (to ... -
Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …
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> certain ... at 60689 and, although only a very large BASIC program would ... and home-brewed programs write a random value at this location ... printer is attached) then a random 256-byte page of memory will be ... -
List of best selling games?Does anyone know of such a list for spectrum games?
... know sites where you can look up an artists chart placing for ... /> Yeah i meant its only a list tho, like ultimate games ... -
need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
Using a shifted byte table makes a lot of sense. I had always been stumped about how to do large sprites. Even for small sprites preshifting them uses a lot of memory.
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What does SPIN have?I have been asking this question since somebody answered another I had made that RealSpectrum was a brilliant emulator. It is in fact. But... I see e…
... one would think this is a trivial function to implement.< ... t even light up, your only indication is a small line ... t centered properly.
5 - A questionable decision regarding the functionality ... manually move the cursor to look 'up' and 'down', the program ... -
3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... Coupe) had lived in a commercial way nowadays - then ... where I could have a world moving about and ... any graphical out into a Blitz$ string and play ... br />
Basic is a comfort blanket, everything you say ... I agree with... I look up to MC coders, probably ... -
Best emulatorHowdy. New kid alert. What's the best (and/or easiest) emulator? Running Windows XP, 1.8 Athlon, 256mb Opinions and guidance welcomed Cheers guys!
... an emulator wishes to provide a 256 colour emulation "feature" then I ... as nobody is claiming that 256 colour emulation is integral to ... updated emulator which comes with 256 colour emulation as well as ... them. They don't take up too much hard disk space ... -
Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... to keep the sample rate up so that the Spectrum's ... to think ahead a bit and come up with a compression scheme to ... make samples tenable. You might look ... of sampled sound effects using a simple noise generator (through the ... -
commodore64just download a c64 emulator and find this interesting site [url="http://www.c64.com"]http://www.c64.com[/url], lots of games and screenshots, ..i re…
... of the previous version of a game ( or film ) ... not about making a good game ( or film ... br /> In Elite's case, look at [B]Airwolf[/B] and ... just being a helicopter in a scrolling shoot-em-up. Granted, ... it's not a ... -
Trying to track down Speccy game authors for RGHi, I hope some of you read and enjoyed my Konix feature (and video) in Retro Gamer issue 8! For my next few articles, I'm looking at featuring abs…
... in! If you've got a favourite Speccy game/series of ... Beret, Hyper Sports). Here's a headstart:
[url="http ... some background on his exploits, look up a thread about "Sqij" (within the ... of the industry would be a nice foil if an interview ... -
Bill GatesI'd just like to wish Bill Gates a really enjoyable 49th birthday, what do you buy the guy who has absolutely everything?? A ZX Spectrum!!!
... had a higher circulation.
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Look at ... people callng him a troll and bouncing up and down, ... on winding other people up. He had people [ ... the end about beating up Bill Gates by putting ... supplement. Hopefully the follow up they'll do they ... -
Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…
I remember a program in Your Spectrum/Your ... in and saved is in a compressed format. It could compress ... a treat (got it saved as a tzx now). Will have to look up ... -
Target Renegade Remake DemoHi, I'm in the progress of making a remake of Target Renegade, I am working with Dean Swain (from the Target Renegade:Remix project) to recreate the …
... weapons at the moment, though a new version of the BOR ... project by another team). A 256 colour version would look nice, but I ... wouldn't want it to look like the c64 version!
Changes to Retro Gamer magazine.For those of you who have heard of the UK-based magazine Retro Gamer, we are currently planning some changes. Here are the rough ideas that we have …
... lack of coverage of up-to-date developments was ... Yes, that's a fantastic idea! A new feature like ... comments like that are a bit OTT. Its good ... on, its not exactly a huge amount. Cost of ... a graphic to fill up the magazine a bit more. Hopefully the 'new look ...OT: All hail the new princess!So Prince Charles is going to re-marry. I can't turn on the news without somebody making an analysis, insight or offering some plain bloody nonsens…
... supposed to look up to, on how to live a proper respectful ...
8. Call modern architecture a monsterous carbunkle.
9. Comb ... tampon.
13. Marry a horse called Camilla Parker Dobbin ... looking, more useful, and a damn sight less dated. With ...Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... had a little mooch and came up with an 8 byte fix ... (It was 1 byte off ... having the room to make a ... 1 byte fix) even though the ... Spoilers[/url], load it up, then assemble above into any ...Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
... wrote:
The man is a fool.
and he will ... Mr. McKenna should look up the phrase "Opened a can of worms", don ...(OT?) Windows colour cycling?Is it possible, in a Windows program, to get colour-cycling by the "proper" method?? That is, by changing the bitmap/window palette and having the sy…
Yes, you have to have a 256 colour display though (obviously) as ... colours.
Bit of a dated technique these days though ... for PALETTEENTRY PC_RESERVED to turn up a bunch of info on how ...Programming Z80 by Rodnay ZaksThis book is like rocking horse shit and very rarely on eBay. Seem to recall that someone had a PDF for download but can I hellas find it - any idea…
If you look down about 20 entries in this forum you will find a thread called "Heads Up: Programming the Z80 by Rodnay Zaks". You should find the links your after there.Ebay Rules can u have 2 ID'sI have just found out that 1 particular ebay buyer ( he bought a spectrum +3 from me ) also has another ebay ID which he uses to sell. Now I ain't ac…
... as long as you register a different credit card you can ... to push it up a bit !
Just look through the history ... to push them up.
I'm normally a bit suspicious ...Dr Who Waaahooooo Ooooooo OoooooooooThis is the first programme i've been excited about in many years, all we need now is Star Wars the series. [ This Message was edited by: swordhe…
... on BBC -it gives a good idea (look for Big Ben). However ... early on where they blow up a building. Considering that the building ... is still standing on a Cardiff High Street, the effect ... . Davies - the new logo does look ****ing great on screen.Starquake.Hi everyone I've just recently added Starquake to the HARP Database, if anyone should be interested in showing their skills in that game. For those…
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Start a game and look at the table. $A391 will be ... side
of a block of 8 rooms...< ... of this one and look at the table. $A390 now holds ... /> read $A390 FC 7F. Have a look.
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...I Want DENIED Gamessorry pressed enter to soon that should read I want denied games information Erm so what are the reason's for games being denied I know Thor/Odin a…
... a reason - they own the copyright & it's up ... context.
We are a community which preserves history ... be locked in a museum to look at and think ... denied distribution, someone comes up with somewhere they exist ... mean I have to shut up about it. Never will ...Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... copyright section needs a rewrite then. It's a little contradictory ... ?
If a Gamestage CD came up on eBay with all ... copyright NOT you.
Look the bickering is on both ... you barged in here flaging up Activisions denial that WoS should ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... /> When BASin intercepts a keypress, it looks up what you pressed. If ... converts it to the two-byte control codes we all know ...Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... "Gremlina" is known to be a pseudonym/sock-puppet of GameStage ... can't be arsed to look up. Don't believe any positive ... here when he doesnt. take a look [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... "Gremlina" is known to be a pseudonym/sock-puppet of GameStage ... can't be arsed to look up. Don't believe any positive ... here when he doesnt. take a look [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...
