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Which joystick interface is best?Hi i just bought spectrum 48k and i must buy joystick intf, but on epay i can't find kempston, so i must choose between: -Protek intf -Interface 2 -…
Hi i just bought spectrum 48k and i must buy joystick intf, but on epay i can't find kempston, so i must choose between:
-Protek intf
-Interface 2
-DK Tronics intf
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Screen$ command, ROM routineHi All, Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR command)? Any comments on how well it works or the spee…
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Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... that character break up on screen is nearly always ULA related ... cleaned it and did my best with the RAM turbo as ... -
Iphone/Ipod touch gaming threadThought i would start a thread for this little gadget. I havent been this excited since the Speccy years. Never was keen on an Iphone, dont want a …
... file.
Now the best bit ! The games....
screen for games its brilliant. I ... after seeing one of these. Best bit of kit i've ... -
Rubber Key ZX Spectrum - White ScreenA customer has just telephoned me about a rubber key 48K ZX Spectrum which he has purchased second hand. It produces just a white screen on the tele…
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Speccy 128 Shadow screen.How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software? I ask because I am looking at putting 128k of memory in the 48k setup I have been bu…
How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software?< ... -
Strange DivIDE ScreenI've just got an SD card adaptor for my DivIDE and it does something strange. On startup, I can see the DivIDE logo and it registers the adaptor, bu…
... normally empty areas of the screen are covered in an odd ... from the bytes in the screen memory. I can load a ... bit of corruption to the screen.
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Gigascreen - programming guideDoes anyone know of a programming guide for the 128K gigascreen screen mode, specifically a persistence colours table, some code (pref. C level or BA…
Does anyone know of a programming guide for the 128K gigascreen screen mode, specifically a persistence colours table, some code (pref. C level or BASIC) to display them and best practice for timing? -
Possible Speccy artist (Name the LOAD SCREEN$)Hello, all.. This is a bit of an obscure one. Someone I located has said that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he can't remember the name.…
... that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he ... ..
He described the SCREEN$ as:
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Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
Which do you prefer?
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Zx Spectrum 48k+ black screenHi A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV. I don't have sound of the console. Where c…
Hi
A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV.
I don't have sound of the console.
Where can I start searching for the problem?
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One device to rule them allJust writing to discuss my requirements for a 'perfect' smart-phone. [LIST] [*]Android OS 2.3+ (so that I can customize every aspect of it, 2.3 supp…
... my fingers obscuring the damn screen. Additionally, I'd also have ... currently has by far the best set of games compared to ... -
What's the best software for copying (film) DVDs?I know this question comes up every few months, but the best software changes every so often, especially when the latest DVD protection emerges, so w…
... every few months, but the best software changes every so often ... emerges, so what's the best software currently available for copying ... -
The best music player for Windows?Up until now, I've been double clicking on .mp3/.wma files in Windows Explorer to play them in WinAMP (or block selecting with SHIFT and then right c…
... nothing that hogs the whole screen and can't be minimized ... -
Screen burn questionDoes anyone know how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching the snooker on my LCD Panasonic tv for the last 3 hours, when i changed the chann…
... how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching ... the snooker table on the screen (as snooker fans will know ... -
Best games, and fast loading?I'm getting my long-awaited Spectrum 48+ in the mail tomorrow, and I want to know what are some of the best games for it. I know about games like Jet…
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How do 3D earphones work?Something I've wondered before is how 3D headphones work. Has anyone ever tried them? To be exact, it's not the earphones that are 3D, it's the littl…
... 's no cut off (the screen's borders, for films) the ... ultimately all sound is at best stereo to us humans, but ... -
A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…
... and graphics for every screen, but each screen has different animated traps ... here, although they appear to best effect when the animation can ... -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... character sprite to the screen takes three cycles of ... />
What's the best way you reckon such a ... if throwing over a screen buffer version instead, which ... Could also break the screen buffer into 2x1 blocks ... limit, thus using a screen 28 bytes across. I ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling ... the 128 to do the screen buffering with page-swapping.
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Nightshade - best game ever - programmer needed for nightsahde iiI thought Nightshade by Ultimate was the best Spectrum game of all time - I don't know anybody else who feels this way - it had a mystique about it. …
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Screen Viewer: Speccy View 4SpeccyView (v4.0) Here is my new zx spectrum screen viewer, result of this weekend's work. Features: Loads: -Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw …
... /> Features:
Loads:
-Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw .scr ... )
-Sna File (Shows screen buffer of ram image, 48k ... match border colour to the screen,
-Loading and header ... emulator
Hotkeys
Save screen to Scr, Png, Bmp, Jpg ... -
Best chess game?Thought I'd ask which Spectrum chess program plays the best game? Never had chess on the speccy myself. Used to play a chess cartridge on the vic-2…
... Spectrum chess program plays the best game?
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Best of Sinclair Programs - broken linksIn the magazine archive, I'm unable to view any pages from the two Best of Sinclair Programs issues, I get a 'Not a Directory' error as soon as I cli…
... any pages from the two Best of Sinclair Programs issues, I ... are OK.
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Personal comments in instructionsSomething that I do not feel is right, is personal comments in instruction files. Surely the purpose of instruction files is to preserve the origina…
... agree it's not the best game ever, but my feelings ... the cover and the loading screen
as well as appearing ... 44): 3/10
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The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…
... has some of the best games ever", so now ... N64 altogether, or at best just made a few half ... get some of the best games of all time, ... N64 has arguably the best first person shooters and 3D ... gaming popular, with split screen Goldeneye. Goldeneye also introduced ... -
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread ( ... of the solution. Load a SCREEN$/SCR file when prompted, then ... press "j", the screen will erase and then will ... /> 35 PRINT #0;"load a SCREEN$ then press ""j"""
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Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…
... among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save ... !'ed a screen into memory before hand). How ... program listing and save the screen(s) in memory to one ... -
Trantor loading screen?Hi, I just uploaded to ZX-ART an [URL="http://zx.maros.pri.ee/eng/games/t/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate"…
... -the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate" loading screen[/URL] for "Trantor: The ... />
I recovered this screen from a hacked version of ... 80's, but the screen style and signature seem to ... designer as the "official" screen instead of the hackers themselves ...
