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Oh no, another name that game thread!Another game that just jumped into my head but can't remember what it was. Help! All I can remember is at the start you need to avoid a boulder that…
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Narrow-boat Simulator?Probably I should not be suggesting a game that I could never write, but I wasn't sure if this forum was just for floating game ideas. Picturing this…
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"FlikerFixer" for Spectrum? (GigaScreen)Hi. Yeeeeeaaaaaaars ago there was some device for Amiga500, called "flicker fixer" that was liquidate flickering on interlace (gigascreen). I was…
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New Game: Chopper DropAnnouncing my latest game; Chopper Drop. It?s a tough life being a chopper pilot. Day in, day out, you have to pick up crates and drop them onto the…
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LCD TVs (yes, again, but please contribute)I now the subject of LCD TVs comes up every few months, and those who know something about the subject must be tired of repeating the same advice, bu…
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Please can someone help me find out what this game was?First post so hello all. Been looking for a website like this for a while to revisit some of my classic Spectrum days. More to the point, I'm looking…
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Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…
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Dom Joly's Joystickwhat a pile of patronising ****e with ripped off joke from simpsons etc.. one to avoid on youtube.. hasn't got a clue about the subject ,except th…
what a pile of patronising ****e with ripped off joke from simpsons etc..
one to avoid on youtube..
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Hey Hey... 48k?There's been a few threads recently where people have actively sought to avoid 128k versions of games. And I have to ask: twenty years after the Spe…
... people have actively sought to avoid 128k versions of games. And ... -
Media player and hard drive?As other people on this forum have remarked, hard drives are now so cheap that they rival DVD-Rs as a medium for storing film and TV archives. And si…
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Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
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'rain' error on British Spectrums?Hi guyz. Is there any scheme of 'umbrella' modification for British Spectrums? I mean the mod to avoid 'raining' effect, visible on this video: […
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saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …
Here's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to be combined or merged into other programs. It's sort of a slow version of copy & paste. The two line ... -
Speccy 2010 UpdateI've made myself a to Speccy 2010. In addition to TurboSound (2xAY) it adds SounDrive and Covox support. Supported modes are SounDrive Mode 1, SounDr…
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FN nesting error?While playing with FN functions that call assembly, I've found something weird. Check out this code: [code]10 DEF FN f(a,b)=a+b 20 PRINT FN f(FN f(…
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SP1 and memoryWhile developing my program, I've run into memory related issues and haven't (yet) run into any advice over how SP1 uses memory. The examples all sb…
Definitive Replay Attendance List 2011There's not too long to go until Replay 2011 in Blackpool, so I thought I would make a separate thread to list WOS members who say they're going to t…
... for the event. Total jerk. Avoid)
Fikee (Double Dragon redux ...128k multicolour graphics...ok over the years I've been a fan of multicolour graphics on zx spectrum, an I clearly get that on a 48k the (8x1@2)multicolour limit stands at 18cha…
... the buffered 128k limit without flicker? As it only takes a ... , I don't want any flicker or more colours, I want ...What music format do you use to store music on your mobile phone?What music format do you use to store music on your mobile phone? I ask this, because some people are purists, and like their music at the highest p…
... highest possible bit rate, to avoid loss in quality at the ...Game IDHi guys, I've been waiting 24 hours for my account to be activated in the hope that someone can help. I'm trying to find a game that I had on my old…
... guards that you had to avoid) and then once you got ...Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
... text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when ...Rebelstar 2 - hints and tipsI'm somewhat depressed as my games console broke the first day of this holiday period and getting a replacement is not so easy and taking time. I wan…
Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…
... I thought I understood screen flicker issues, but I don't ...128k Heatsink Membrane ReplacementJust a quick question. Picked up a Heatsink 128k from fleabay, arrived today, but the top left set of numbers don't work (1-5) so i'm presuming this…
... a 128k Heatsink, and thus avoid forking out ?17 odd for ...eBay adviceHi WoS I know a few of you guys buy and sell on eBay a bit, so I wondered if you had any advice regards this complete tool who gave me my first nega…
... comms, awful condition of items, avoid avoid!" etc. Obviously this is dishonest ...space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…
... the number of loads and avoid having to repeat any load ...any linux guru ?i have following problem: (if you have experience with linux, ant and jenkins read bellow) as part of automatic tests i have to run installer/unins…
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can anyone help (please avoid blind shots - i spend last ...This &*%@ is really putting me off of eBay!!!Having serious issues getting a seller to send me an item. Have been extremelly patient, waiting two weeks and trying to arrange her postage for her…
... item as collection only to avoid this sort of thing happening ...SpecBAS 0.730 Now available!Well, I felt I should release SpecBAS as it is right now - my new son has been born (this one survived! \o/ ) and when he comes home I'll have very l…
Well, I felt I should release SpecBAS as it is right now - my new son has been born (this one survived! \o/ ) and when he comes home I'll have very little time to do any coding for a while...
So what's new for this one?
I added a ...
