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Confounded modern thingsIt appears the server instability has left a gap in the forums listing so I'll post this again. Given a complete lack of anything on the projects pa…
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Confounded modern thingsIt appears the server instability has left a gap in the forums listing so I'll post this again. Given a complete lack of anything on the projects pa…
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Movie ConversionsWho loves the classics "Batman the Movie", "Ghostbusters I and II", "Ninja Turtles", and "RoboCop 1 and 2"? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh so many memories!!! I'd…
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Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
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Does Dan Dare II have a loading picture?And I don't mean the still of the spaceship that you see on some sites. That's the title screen. I've loaded it up from a TZX file on this site, and …
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denied gamesI to am guilty of sending denied games by email to other spec chums who are new to the emu scene,spesh ultimate games as they are some of the best an…
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INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…
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Is there anything new to comeApart from doom. I personally don't think there has been anything all that innovative on the pc. Whereas the Speccy had handfuls of games in that c…
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Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …
... the David Eddings Belgariad/Mallorean books. They are a set of ... superb Fantasy books with about 7 or 8 ... -
Calling all coding munkeez...Having spent the last 8 years as a Windows application developer I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of Z80 speccy coding - something I missed out on …
"Where's the best place for tutorials?"
No idea really. My site has an walk-through of one piece of code. I've not yet uploaded new content however there will be more soon: -
Calling all coding munkeez...Having spent the last 8 years as a Windows application developer I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of Z80 speccy coding - something I missed out on …
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There aren't many books avlbl in the market and ... have any old stock of books. Or try e-bay or ... -
what made the spectrum.........what in your opinion made the zx spectrum's so popular in the 80's and why? [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] octave
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PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... information into the screen, the bitmap first, then the attribute data ... *screensize ; the size of the bitmap data
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Did you all take the exam???[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/testzx.cgi"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/testzx.cgi[/url]
I Did and died on my arse !!!! 32%, I'm sure my old school mate Rob would pass though. Do Sybex print any books on it ? -
Machine code loaderI was wondering how people wrote games. On the trail to this knowledge I discovered a machine code loader in basic, and also z80 assemblers. Which i…
Assemblers are better. There are lot of ZX books which tell you how to program using Assembly Language. Try them. There are also Assembly Language tutor programs available on the WOS archives. -
Missing in Copright List?Is there any list available covering all games that WOS have had to remove from the archive due to copyright issues (like the titles from Codemasters…
... the same way as burning books! Computer games can be destroyed ... them for preservational purposes. Unlike books, computer software deteriorate in just ... -
Missing in Copright List?Is there any list available covering all games that WOS have had to remove from the archive due to copyright issues (like the titles from Codemasters…
... the same way as burning books! "
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BMP2SCR utilityI can't get this to work. In the PDF instruction file, it says "After loading BMP2SCR" you will see the logo and a menu. Well I can see the logo, but…
... program by clicking the logo bitmap file (bmp) and this is ... -
Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
... for you to get some books on the subject; the
Books I'd recommend are:
books:
Programming the Z80 ... who own these (and more) books and are now
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Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
I have the following books for sale that should help:-< ... -
Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
I wonder if anyone else has any of these books for sale, or if Mike has any left.
Please email me [email="M.R.Duxbury@BTinternet.com"]M.R.Duxbury@BTinternet.com[/email] -
Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
I wonder if anyone you have any of those books you were selling left.
Please email me M.R.Duxbury@BTinternet.com
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Whatever happened to Oliver Frey?The best covers of the eighties mags were Crash and Zzap, by Ollie Frey. What does he do now? Is he living a reclusive lifestyle, babbling on about w…
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Whatever happened to Oliver Frey?The best covers of the eighties mags were Crash and Zzap, by Ollie Frey. What does he do now? Is he living a reclusive lifestyle, babbling on about w…
Interesting. The e-mail host address looks to be that of a company. So, it looks like Ollie is working for Thalamus Books or something. Any details regarding these dudes? -
Whatever happened to Oliver Frey?The best covers of the eighties mags were Crash and Zzap, by Ollie Frey. What does he do now? Is he living a reclusive lifestyle, babbling on about w…
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Saving machine code on EmulatorI have been dabbling with Chapter 26 of Stephen Vicker's "ZX Spectrum Manual". [url="http://www.madhippy.com/8-bit/sinclair/zxspecman/zxmanchap26.htm…
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Whatever happened to Oliver Frey?The best covers of the eighties mags were Crash and Zzap, by Ollie Frey. What does he do now? Is he living a reclusive lifestyle, babbling on about w…
Were the Frey's not the prime movers behind Thalamus Software (who produced Sanxion on the Spectrum and Delta on the C64 amongst others)? That might explain the Thalamus Books connection.
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what did people.................hi there, what did people use their spectrum for? (playing games, programming, graphics, music or just for fun) :) octave
yep. programming and games here too. I typed in a lot of games from books too. So, that was partly responsible for picking up many programming tricks. In fact, there was no real conscious effort on my part to learn programming - it just happened! :) -
Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…
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Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
... of those crappy Famous Five books where you chose what way ...
