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Small Machine Code Routines Which Maybe UsefulAs part of creating Flynn's Adventure in Bombland I created a lot of little routines to do all sorts of things. A lot of these I created based on inp…
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Extract files from TDR file?I want to extract a file(s) from a trd file under dos/windows. I found some utilities that convert to trd and to extract from other formats but I co…
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Help with random numbers......Hi all, wonder if anyone can help me... sort of a novice here ... I have been trying to write a simple ish basic program to compare random sets of n…
... been trying to write a simple ish basic program to compare random ... command ,but that doesnt seem to work... if you run ... little (poorly written routine) to print out the results of ... NEXT N
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130 REM ... br /> 150 FOR F=C1 TO C1+5
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Preserving an old tape...Sometime next week (or so) I will receive a old cassette tape - containing a Spectrum game - in a bad condition (at least aesthetically) which I must…
... least aesthetically) which I must convert to a digital format (tap,sna ... whatever) in order to preserve it (and upload it ... to WOS as well :) ).
... What is the best way to do it?
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Problems with a gray ZX Spectrum +2Hello. First of all, thank you for receiving me on this forum. I'll try to help everybody as well as I can Said that, I want to do two questions abo…
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Said that, I want to do two questions about my ... in series to lower the 1.2Vpp signal to a 1Vpp PAL ... well connecting the video to the video input on ... module with it disabled (to reduce noise produced by the ...
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Flexibase SoftwareHi folks, [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Flexibase+Software$[/url] David Wornham kindly sent me some disks to dump for…
... /> Basically the idea is to create fully working MGTs, have ... 't have sophisticated BASIC syntax to load screens into ... . I probably need to make these snapshots again ... should be able to extract the basic from the Z80 ... and save it to the MDR to ... -
Ocean?s never-released games for the SpectrumI was having a look at the Ocean?s softography and I came across many interesting games, specially in the early 90s which were not published for the …
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loading images (SCR) - from tapeHello, i would like to understand how to put an image and loaded from tape. I was able to use on "Pee Cee" a converter software that did a JPG -> SC…
... , i would like to understand how to put an image and ... line to do a TAP file, then convert
to WAV ...
but i would like to understand how it can be ... know there are some programs to draw, let's imagine ... then what? Save it to other tape? And then what ... -
Future PinballHas anyone here got any experience with this thing? It's a fancy 3D pinball simulator with many original tables as well as remakes of proper tables. …
... usual!) I can get basic tables to work (ones like Mr Burns ... get the more complicated ones to load. They all freeze during ... they just don't seem to want to load (tables like Addams ... -
Biturbo 2 turbo loader now available for general useAfter tinkering with its code, extracted from a TZX of one of the infamous Italian S.I.P.E. "tape magazines" which published hacked games for the Spe…
... so that it returns to the following BASIC command by calling ... wrote 'BTvalues', a simple BASIC utility, to help you in the process ... br /> [*]write a simple BASIC program to load, first of all, ... file, which you must append to your BASIC program file.
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SpectranetHi all, I just bought a spectranet card and have a couple of questions I hope someone can answer for me. I have played around with it on both a +3 …
... one occasion I forgot to remove the jumper when ... same place. It seemed to lose data after reading ... then wrote a small basic program to just read the file ... anything I can try to find out what caused ... there any diagnostic tools available to help?
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What do this modification ?Hi All, I get from ebay black 2a, I open to clean case and show ... this [IMG]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/2a.jpg[/IMG] what do this modification ? …
+2 issue oneI can't remember seeing this model board before, so here we go: [IMG]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/20130605_153957.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http…
... crashed two days ago due to bloody memory corruption, and so ... ... Why does it always have to be the most important machine ... these hits....
I forgot to lower the compression ratio in the ...SpecBAS 0.780 releasedHi all - Back again with a new SpecBAS release! It's all been about arrays this time around, and to add to those lovely associative arrays from las…
... time around, and to add to those lovely associative arrays ... When Nine Tiles ported Dartmouth BASIC over to the Speccy, they left ...
BIN from Sinclair BASIC makes an entrance. Pointless (use ... the % symbol to denote binary) but included for ...SD card as a tape playerSince discovering WOS I've been amazed at the talent and inginuity of everyone who has developed new hardware and software. I only wish I could under…
... The problem was how to load programs without a ...
The answer had to be something modern, cheap and ... you want without having to fast forward/rewind and ... downsides are WinTZX converting to MP3 isnt great. It ... of volume. So, I convert to WAV and then use an ...eBay 128K Spectrum RGB cables overheat the Spectrum!?Hi everybody, For a long time I've wondered why Spectrum 128K Toastracks were overheating when using my Retro Computer Shack RGB SCART cable. Today …
... blanking signal, it's down to nearer 1.7V.
... if your TV allows you to select RGB/Composite, you ... can still switch to RGB. If you want ... to wire it up to a 5V supply, using a resistor to lower it to ... It's definitely more convenient to do it the way those ...Spectranet firmware updateA new firmware version is available (R569) This has two updates: - a fix from Guesser for an issue when loading snapshots. - a fix to the BASIC stre…
... snapshots.
- a fix to the BASIC streams to avoid problems with carriage ...STP: Query about Dizzy prince of yolkfolk and MakeTZXI'm trying to create a TZX from my copy of Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk using MakeTZX 2.31 (not sure why I'm not using 2.33), but I can't seem to get…
... can't seem to get the basic loader to register correctly.
BASIC header (blocks 1 & 3) seem to want to ... such, and both seem to be 1 byte too ... sides of the tape seem to show this behaviour.
... rathole myself into trying to work out why, is ...Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…
... been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher ... address bus is used to select which half line ... set the high byte to FF so the resistors ... I wrote a small basic loop to print the result of ... up be slowly doing damage to my spectrum through contention ...How were game loading screens composed back in the day?I've often wondered while waiting for loading screen to materialise line by line how these were actually made prior to saving them as code or screen$…
... while waiting for loading screen to materialise line by line how ... these were actually made prior to saving them as code or ... run a BASIC program to draw lines and plot points to make a ...Luca Bordoni Lost Treasures....For some reason today I came across Luca Bordoni's name. That ringed a bell so went and checked it out. Luca was the author of one of the most ambiti…
... the most ambitious and fun BASIC projects : "Jungle King" which came ... those days i tried to learn BASIC, just to write a "Jungle King ... : he managed to recreate the whole game in BASIC (to me really a ... /> they are all written in BASIC and some of them are ...Refactoring the ULAplus HDL descriptionFor the ZXUnio project, I'm refactoring the Verilog code I wrote two years ago to describe the ULA and the ULAplus devices. When I've taken this code…
... able to lower the working frequency fown to this value allows me to ... yellow), what modules were added to support Timex modes (light ... modules have been added to support ULAplus for both ... /Timex/ULAplus datapath schematic (click to enlarge)
[url ...Interface 1bis updateSupport for connecting a standard PC keyboard to the interface?s PS/2 socket, in place of a mouse, has been added. The external keyboard?s output is …
... connecting a standard PC keyboard to the interface?s PS/ ... facility is mainly useful for BASIC programming, as most games do ... a ?tokenizer?, allowing 48k BASIC keywords to be entered by typing their ... only as many as required to avoid ambiguity, while holding the ...Question for xbox 360 ownersI know there's quite a few 360 owners here, I owned one when they first came out, swapped it for a PS3 and never looked back. I got my girls one lat…
... year but they now want to play Minecraft online with ... trailing a 10m LAN cable to my hub simply isn' ... of breaking something she'll convert to a 100% chance ;-)
... I don't want to do that as it's ... just something else for her to break!
Cheers ...Word Wizards - Scrabble type thingOk - I love word games n love the fantasy genre - so I woke up today thinking about mixing the two... I really can't do it myself... I have very lit…
... and cannot find a suitable basic game to hack.... so....
Take turns- Join letters together to form words (letters must be ... next to each other -like in bookworm ... are spells and are used to attack.
Rather than ...Stereo sound board on toastrackI've got one of bverstee's stereo sound board for my +2A and it is absolutely brilliant - I'm wanting to fit one to my toastrack as well as the sound…
... I'm wanting to fit one to my toastrack as well ... sound is now leaving something to be desired!
to the case of my +2 to mount the ... modulator (easy enough to put back to standard) and mount ... one there (again easy enough to reverse).
...New Tool: HCDisk2Hi, I bring to your attention a new tool that I wrote: HCDisk2. HCDisk2 is a command line tool able to transfer files stored on several file system …
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- +3 BASIC (CPM based)
- Betadisk ... PC:
- converts Spectrum BASIC programs to BASIC source code
- ... converts Spectrum SCREEN$ files to ... CPM disks, browse your old BASIC programs, etc)
- ...JHCon 2014Hello, not sure if this is the right category but JHCon 2014 will take place[B] from 28. to 30.11.[/B] at usual place - gymnasium in Jindrichuv Hrad…
... br /> --- add a proper Basic loader to run it with LOAD "" ... megademo (in BASIC, surprisingly)
--- type a BASIC program and save ... is allowed. POKE to modify your own BASIC program is also ... br /> --- add a proper Basic loader to run it with LOAD "" ...
