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So which 8-bitter was biggest in which country?ewgf's topic "Be honest now..." got me thinking about this. As we got people from most European countries here and also a few abroad, tell us which 8…
... US, but it's a big country and there were areas ... because it erased their Smart Basic tape.
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Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... sprite design, and ask some basic questions about what limits are ... talking but you have very big (and unreal) expectations about ... maps. This could make a big difference to masking data!
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Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... would you consider then the basic unit for 'building' sprites?... It ... saying about lines being the basic units of a sprite, and ... sprites here are generally quite big...
Ideally, what I ... of building sprites from a basic unit, and a routine that ... -
Spectrum v Amstrad CPC rangeAmstrad seemed to be a rather late starter in the 8 bit micro computer race. I never really saw one outside a shop, only a few people at school had o…
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New game out now: Final Fantasy ZXEver since I played the games on the SNES, I thought that it should be possible to make a strapped-down version for the Speccy. Just minus any super …
... .zip]Download[/url]), a crappy BASIC demo I made (in German ... Fantasy influence. Well, a crappy BASIC demo it is but the ... FF myself. The game is big, but with good compression there ... -
Who would you like to see in 10 and 11 Downing Street...?Okay, so the general election has been called and we've had the final PMQs and things are really kicking off now. Counting in the possibility of a Co…
... I was a kid my big sister used to do something ... is rightly regarded as a basic 'living'. A business that is ... will be failing at that basic level - if it can't ... -
ZX BASIC (Boriel's Compiler) - LibrariesWell, we have a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to na_th_an's fourspriter being retooled for the job. It's not general pur…
... entry (He had such a big head that if he were ... full source code in ZX Basic. And it is profusely documented ... -
Whi different result with Spectrum +3 ?The followed code 10 FOR n=23296 TO 23299 20 READ a: POKE n,a 30 NEXT n 40 DATA 1,127,106,201 50 PRINT USR 23296 causes that the spectrum 48k show…
... will not work with 128K Basic as they overwrite the printer ... fixed to work on 128K Basic but then you have the ... .
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Which assembler do you recommend to a (complete) newbie?OK, I am re-dusting my assembler books and want to re-dig into the Wonderful World of Assembly. Just wondering which assembler to go with. I reme…
... , I started with TASM (very basic and lacked important things like ... with z88dk which has the big advantage (for larger projects) of ... -
ZXS Initial pre-release releaseI have been beavering away today on my new, and what's more, free webshite. As well as releasing some of my unrelated development efforts, I have rel…
... function. I'm not a big fan of high level languages ... encourage shoddy programming habbits. Having BASIC in the title is also ... -
Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... , 78 down" Like I said, Big K magazine had one, but ... it a library for ZX Basic, which means actually as a ... -
Sevenup problemCan Sevenup import pictures bigger than Spectrum screen (256x192 pixels)? The version I tried didn't told me directly that it isn't possible but the…
... todo list. You can save big pictures in rxs or bin ... your needs. It targets Boriels BASIC Compiler, but will also export ... -
Hypothetically....If you were putting together a "Spectrum +4" what presently available hardware would you include. My criteria would be total comparability (or as ne…
... see no reason why a basic reprap design can't be ... is interchangeable on the same basic table bed design to give ... note - There is a very big bias in the last statement ... -
Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... to work as a ZX Basic subroutine :)
Big K magazine.
... this works as a basic call-able subroutine in ... Boriel's ZX BASIC compiler:
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World Cup Online?I really want to watch the world cup live. Being in the US the proper way to do that would be to get cable TV and a sports channel. I would do that…
... home country's) have poor basic technical football skills. I am ... cover and hence, frequently, the big hump out of defence is ... players would interest the really big clubs outside the premiership (Gerrard ... -
Any ex-pats on here?Basically, I want out of the UK. I don't hate the place or anything like that, I'm just a little tired of it all. I've also always promised myself …
... was working for a very big, American based, multi-national oil ... on the condition that our basic wages were paid into Chinese ... -
Anyone used their Spectrum for mathematics/physics projectsI am currently doing an A level in Mathematics with ICS. It has me thinking and I would be interested to know if anyone has used their Sinclair Spect…
... some dummy computing determinant of big matrixes on higschool.
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Game rarity field in the ArchiveDoes WOS have this field or some info somewhere for game rarity? If not is it possible to add one that people can vote on (obviously discounting any …
... media format can make a big difference (esp. +3 disks) but ... /> I would say that your basic argument for a rarity scale ... -
Crash or Sinclair User?I was a Crash man myself. I've created a little tribute to [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/Crash-Magazine"]Crash Magazine[/URL] if anyone fancies a lo…
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Thats one big reason why i'm a ... a very simple understanding of basic maths and logic operations.
Matt Smith as Doctor Who?Now that Matt Smith's first series (or season) as the Doctor has ended, how do you rate him? Do you think he's done a good job, is suitable for the p…
... was the point in the big reunion in Stolen Earth/Journeys ... understanding of science fiction is basic at best, and he's ...PrintingHey all, I have a question regarding printing - I'm using my speccy to create some images and text for a book and I want to print them directly (I co…
... is not so big problem. My driver for BASIC have 1220 bytes ...How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).
... for chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) and ... 't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where I ...How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).
... for chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) and ... 't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where I ...DivIDE Plus FeedbackFinally had a chance to try out the DivIDE Plus since I got a CF card working (thanks to Rich) I put on a load of TAP and Z80 files I had onto it (I…
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- Is very big problem load ART STUDIO from ... possibility use command line in basic....DivIDE Plus FeedbackFinally had a chance to try out the DivIDE Plus since I got a CF card working (thanks to Rich) I put on a load of TAP and Z80 files I had onto it (I…
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You can ...OCR'd magazine scansHi all, I've been working on OCR'ing some magazine scans over the last few weeks, and combining the images together into a searchable, indexed PDF f…
... be those with lots of BASIC listings, so anyone can also ... . Talking about Your Computer, the big size of the magazine in ... can be a burden, a big weight of resulting files and ...Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... his editor for Cybernoid in basic. Everything is pre-calculated from ... on it, like getting the big gun from Exolon into the ...Developing on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)Ok, so I decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, but keep XP as a bootable partition just in case I err mess up Ubuntu, :) I also have XP VM in Virt…
... host OS). For example, SE Basic is a viable alternative to ... BASIC editor. It's not as versatile, but it's a big ...
