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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... with electronics or the inner workings of the Spectrum but surely ... obviously a limit to the speed of the original Z80 as ... ; like a Spectrum equivalent of the Commodore 65. Something that ... how the talented developers are squeezing every bit out of the original ... -
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 …
... /> The way you carry the leg of the R below the rest of the writing and the style of the tail ... on the G with the ... -
Best game of the Decade. The winner is...Gamefaqs.com have given the results of the Best Game of the Decade, and the winner is... Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Which seems a bit strange …
... RE4 I mean of course, and RE5 on the 360), I ... to be getting a loan of the Wii version from my ... he could have a little bit more of the same.
... way whilst blasting the shit out of 2 or 3 ... the PS2, but with total control of a crosshair instead of ... -
Z88DK tapfile creation questionHere's another question. The game I've just started working on (Sid Spanners 3), I'm concatenating the following tap files together, to make a big ta…
... bin2tap to just make the code file bit out of the binary but I ... />
However z88dk does produce the raw binary image so you ... pretty sure there is another of the same name that did roughly ... />
Edit: aha, metalbrain has the source on his webpage: [url ... -
yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…
... with planning to store the stack pointer on the stack, I'm ... scheduling periodic tasks, much like the CPC firmware does. Programs altering ... , neither are those dependent on the R register. -
guides and tips on converting multi loaders to diskhi all is their any sites with info about converting the various multi loading tape games over to disk using plus d interface? any pointers or info w…
... remember the speedlock stuff using the R register to decrypt itself. The debuggers in the day ... usually did not emulate the R register ... -
Make an album coverForum game idea shamelessly ripped-off from the [url=http://www.inktankforums.com/showthread.php?t=3218]InkTank Forum[/url] (where it was probably ri…
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big_plums productions present the newest Supergroup in town: [url ... /Memory_of_the_World_Register_%E2%80%93_Europe_and_North_America]Memory of the World Register - Europe and North America ... -
ZX Adidas TrainersWhat are they?
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Actually the ZX series of trainers were a range ... , the colour stripe has the same ordering, a mocking of the R key ... lettering is seen on the back, and the stripes use the ... same type of rubber as the ... -
Where any games programmed in C?Were any Spectrum games written in C on a secondary computer that could compile Z80 code?
... recall which ones. The same for other 8-bit systems of the time - C ... />
Among modern games, most of Mojon Twins games were written ... -
can we all agree on a game we liked?reading some of the console mega threads, and from my own personal experience it seems that ones mans treasure is another mans poop stain. so can we…
... recently came into possession of a Pandora. The best thing about that ... ok, but it's a bit run-of-the-mill, and certainly doesn ... 't stand up against the real classic ... was very much ignored by the majority of fans for good reason ... -
can we all agree on a game we liked?reading some of the console mega threads, and from my own personal experience it seems that ones mans treasure is another mans poop stain. so can we…
... recently came into possession of a Pandora. The best thing about that ... ok, but it's a bit run-of-the-mill, and certainly doesn ... 't stand up against the real classic ... was very much ignored by the majority of fans for good reason ... -
can we all agree on a game we liked?reading some of the console mega threads, and from my own personal experience it seems that ones mans treasure is another mans poop stain. so can we…
... s a bit run-of-the-mill,[QUOTE]
Run of the mill? ... modes, the ability to defined the health and accuracy of the enemies as ... to the gameplay, the ability to shoot the gun out of the hands of an ... , and of course neither of them have any of the things I ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... n[/I] over the parallel port, that bit 5 of port 2 is ... the printer busy line, and bit 15 of the address ... bus when reading from port 10 controls the ... working out how any given bit of hardware works. We should perhaps ... -
Your favorite Joystick (fnar!)Following on from another thread.... What was your favorite Joystick? Was it cheap and nasty or almost indestrcuatable? Did it have autofire? Your …
... at the base of my thumb. Always thought it was a bit unnatural ... to hold the ... it broke, first the trigger fire button then the joystick itself. ... to always being a bit jealous of the original Kempston that my ... -
Star Wars Revisitedgot this at the weekend, anyone else seen it? Quite impressed with the editing this bloke has done to it, Empire is due out this july (hopefully). I…
... add to the atmosphere of Cloud City, add a bit more of the snow beast ... and improved the FX a ... a friend of mine complaining about the cleaning up of the chroma-key ... I've got an edit of The Phantom Menace which condences it ... -
Star Wars Revisitedgot this at the weekend, anyone else seen it? Quite impressed with the editing this bloke has done to it, Empire is due out this july (hopefully). I…
... add to the atmosphere of Cloud City, add a bit more of the snow beast ... and improved the FX a little ... , especially the blue- ... DVDs where you get the original release of each film as ... -
File Hosting / Sharing.So my broadband provider has archived my webspace, because its over its bandwidth. I've only got a few images and a few WAV files up. In anycase you …
... this... Can anyone tell the difference between wav and mp3 ... had a good listen to the 2 but quite honestly ... tons of space though.[/QUOTE]
I can hear the ... also depends on the bit-rate of the MP3 ... the higher the bit-rate the harder it gets ... -
CrusoeI'm making slow progress in mapping & debugging this game, having to restart several times due to various unfortunate events. The latest was getting …
... t get stung then eating the honey should restore Crusoe' ... /> [spoiler]There's a bit more of the clue; it finishes "ye ... 's 26 boxes; so the 25th must have two locks ... is on the island in the next map segment East of the stockade.[/ ... back home to finish the game. -
Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... this routine and the called KEYBOARD subroutine use the IY register
; ... /> ; disable interrupts to make use of the IY register.
;; MASK- ...
PUSH HL ; the IY register unfortunately.
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Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... this routine and the called KEYBOARD subroutine use the IY register
; to ... /> ; disable interrupts to make use of the IY register.
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Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... zxbruno;546586]I really like the ones posted by Joefish. :)[/ ... Gradius / Salamander - maybe a bit more of the arcade one snuck in here ... rather than the crap Speccy ... Wheelie.
Then the bottom ones are supposed to ... -
Zybex and Speed Ace (missing author + info)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005889&loadpics=3"]Zybex[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=001…
Close, but no soup for you. :grin:
Brian Jobling did the Atari 8-bit versions of the 2 games (note the paragraph at the top of the instructions file), which is confirmed by Atarimania. -
Most difficult Spectrum game/sIs there a certain Spectrum game (or more than one) which you found difficult/impossible to complete? I always used to find Chuckie Egg 2 extremely …
... , although, as you said, if the game was not so hard ... so I could see a bit more of the game without tearing my ... it had been a little bit more forgiving (certainly early on ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... decode the ports, in broadly the same way the actual hardware ... does, in your implementations of the ... IN and OUT instructions. If bit 0 of the port ... reads, just decode the ports for the hardware you are ... -
RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... 1 its the channel #4 which has to SET bit 2 from ... PFlag by itself, on reading the line, before executing the ... 2 its the Basic-interpreter which will set bit 3 of the same PFlag ... that it should set bit 3 instead of 2 in this case ... -
Ultimate Play the Game collectionHere is my humble collection of a few Ultimate titles: [url]http://www.krystalfjord.dk/images/1.jpg[/url] I'm especially proud of my "Collected Wor…
they are around the ?20-26 mark on a ... .. dunno
I list the single titles , some for ?3 ... , jetman , psst ... but the purists will go for the single versions I ... to get of their stuff though , I'd like the other 7 of the 10 ... -
Emulators that export to aviI know ZXSpin does it. Except it doesn't for me. Windows 7 maybe doesn't like it as it seems to get confused and say that another program is using …
I wibbled on a bit over in the R-type thread about the stuff I use...
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which zx-spectrum games uses 1bit sound samples?hi! I'm looking for zx-spectrum games using 1bit sound samples. Compairing with msx, which has far less games available than zx-spectrum, there are f…
... 've fixed the name of the uploaded file so the link should ... I'm doing a bit tweaking of the code; the version used with ... the new version which uses byte-rotates, bit-mask and OUT, instead of bit ... -tests and conditional OUTs will run the inner- ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... understand why FPS have become the core of the gamming business, give me ... or Heavy Rain any day of the week against Black Ops or ... Crysis 1 (2 is a bit run of the mill). I'll add ...
