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  • Crash no. 98: the final issueFinally, after buying it off Ebay many years ago, I got round to reading Crash issue 98. I never could motivate myself to read the scans, and looking…

    ... touch with the speccy world.

    I ended up buying my ... was quite disappointed. The magazine was more like a pamphlet by then, with more ... had basically given up on trying to be a professional magazine as ...
    zx1 zx1 November 2010 Games
  • The Phone BoookGot our new telephone "directory" today. It's smaller than ever before. Remember when the telephone directory used to be the same size as the yellow …

    ... let the phone ring 8 times before picking up; the telesales ... people give up after 6 or ... thought a hacker like you would have hooked the phone line up to a ... server to screen your calls by a ...
    guesser guesser December 2010 Chit chat
  • Raided by the Customs and ExciseA friend of mine (in England) has been raided by the police and the Customs and Excise, for selling cigarettes that had come into the country without…

    ... been in the frame of mind to do something like that, any ... conditioned by the civilized society that they've grown up in. It is a ... in a way that is tolerated by the society model. There are a few ... rash decisions based on things like "they were picked on at ...
    sekrets sekrets December 2010 Chit chat
  • Raided by the Customs and ExciseA friend of mine (in England) has been raided by the police and the Customs and Excise, for selling cigarettes that had come into the country without…

    ... been in the frame of mind to do something like that, any ... conditioned by the civilized society that they've grown up in. It is a ... in a way that is tolerated by the society model. There are a few ... rash decisions based on things like "they were picked on at ...
    torot torot December 2010 Chit chat
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... code using iterator patterns and the like. This sort of thing ... right, etc up to the top of ram where the lookup table for ... . You can use the memory occupied by the 1,3,5,7 ... until the end of the program anyway, just like a global) and by reducing the number ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2010 Development
  • 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? …

    ... like a rewind function in the game, and I think it's achieved by ... (well, when the game is paused and the menu is up).

    Also, SGD allows you to view a ... screenshot, if the ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2011 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... space, code and the stack. Starting up such a program would be ... . Communication is via AT-like commands on the serial link.
    ... be loading up the 'system heap pointer' used by malloc with the tasks' ... R is never altered by the z80 and a few programs have ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Development
  • 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 …

    [QUOTE=dazsin;507552]Like I said, I'm not a 'newbie'.
    < ... rude of Alessandro to mention the [I]Search[/I] feature, ... forums do get a bit 'clogged up' with the same questions being ... /> But by the same token re-asking a question can bring up some very ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler January 2011 Games
  • Computer stupidityHumorous accounts from various tech support workers about computer problems customers encountered- [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url]

    ... records. The system we had was pretty shite, everything was like a full-DOS ... when he suddenly pipes up "That's the record I need". About ... suddenly picks up a marker pen and starts underlining words on the monitor!
    Vampyre Vampyre February 2011 Chit chat
  • 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.

    ... If you have the scenery made up of a small number of ... that looks like the block smoothly scrolling to the side. Once ... done by having a background pattern that moves left/right like a repeated ... animation. It's added in to the background ...
    joefish joefish March 2011 Games
  • Spectrum +3 Help pleaseI bought a +3 from a bootsale today, and when I got it back it didnt work (shock!) However after working out the +5V line on the PSU line was about …

    ... only for +3DOS partitions created by the +3e. However since this is ... be have this program wrapped up in a ROM with a config file on ... awesome... although, that's a bit down the road.

    ... very touched by your kindness =), although to be fair the wife ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 April 2011 Hardware
  • The Royal Weddingthought I might as well.. as Mel likes em so much ;) Kate's sister scrubbed up well and Miles fav Elton was there :lol:

    ... ;530405]He's the one paying for the wedding. Or rather ... operations delayed by months, as long as the Royal family ... million quid into the British economy? Sounds like a good investment to ... me.

    I thought Charles put up a ...
    beanz beanz April 2011 Chit chat
  • The Royal Weddingthought I might as well.. as Mel likes em so much ;) Kate's sister scrubbed up well and Miles fav Elton was there :lol:

    ... million quid into the British economy? Sounds like a good investment to ... me.

    I thought Charles put up a ... rent paid by the working class. He owns a lot of ... , food, cattle, whatever the 'lord' of the land demanded) to live ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…

    ... a TC2068 without the AY (and thus the joystick ports which were driven by the ... version of the original ROM. The upshot is you can add up to ... />
    Wasn't the bus buffers replaced by resistors like in ZX Spectrum ...
    Encarnado Encarnado May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Olympics 2012 , did you apply for tickets?I didn't bother.. as I knew it would be messed up.. and more than likely get sod all tickets. lots got none, while one bloke got ?11k's worth ? bet …

    ... ;B for the week.[/QUOTE]
    The booing thing sounds like a lot less ... to read up about it in order to get the most from ... " using the same route. I guess that's a made-up event to ... don't embarrass ourselves by being completely disorganised on the big day".
    ccowley ccowley June 2011 Chit chat
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... address. By allowing sections to occupy the same address ... up in numerical work. Most commonly you see stuff like ... last printf parameter looks like a multidimensional array access ... converting the Spectranet sources to the gnu assembler was like a breath ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2011 Development
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    ... modified by someone who came up with a version where the character moved a lot ... to mind when I see a topic like this one:

    the batarang? The guy is the evil one. We ... should have a power level or something, just like the bosses in ...
    zxbruno zxbruno July 2011 New game ideas
  • 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? …

    ... can be used to break up the text into clear chunks. ... like a rewind function in the game, and I think it's achieved by ... game not recognised" and the "Artifical Speed Up" option will remain set ... numbers are all made up by me on the spot for demonstration purposes ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2011 Emulators
  • Region locking PC games? Deus Ex: HR is to be region locked!One of the good things about PC games is that they aren't region locked, unlike [B]many[/B] console games (lots of consoles have great games that wil…

    ... annoyed/stressed by these points ? (Not having a go by the way, just ... bothered by things like this, just like I'm bothered by the fact that the ... know why youre getting wound up by it. Theres lots of ... debt byplan by the Bank of England with a view to a 70% ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2011 Chit chat
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... as a misfortune; to be caught twice looks like carelessness"< ... br />
    With regard to the C64 ... which flies in a horizontal line. The homing balls, energy ... they tend to get blinded by the backstory and the (admittedly good) music ...
    Turkwel Turkwel August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... see the dots is useful for things like working ... from 600dpi to something like 150dpi as I feel ... to try and wind up this post a bit

    like to see in the archive by the way :)

    Finally, here's a ... also smoothed out the red in the SEGA logos as ...
    richl richl September 2011 Support files
  • star wars[url]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/londons-bt-tower-become-giant-lightsaber-star-wars-142300324.html[/url] quite clever idea. (+?1 ;) )

    ... versions that we grew up with, and the Blu-Ray box ... versions, I prefer the original versions, just like with Blade Runner.
    by the changes, but I am a science fiction fan ... don't like the idea of 'updating' films. They are a product ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2011 Chit chat
  • Torres' missnever see football threads on here, but... [img]http://i.imgur.com/SSSud.gif[/img] ?50 million :-o:smile::-(:oops:

    ... /> Put these footballer poofters up against a rugby union team, and watch ... aren't hugging each other like a bunch of girls when they ... mercilessly hammered by the opposition - he then becomes a liability to the team. In ...
    Vampyre Vampyre September 2011 Chit chat
  • Missing company listing (link with Dinamic)I notice that the inlays+loading screens for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006409&loadpics=3"]La Guerra de las Vajillas[/UR…

    ... unnunmbered series entitled "100% by Dinamic" be created for Delfox ... a series by definition. ;)

    It looks more like a qualification used by ... Code Masters anyway, up to the fact ... see Zeus Software wrote the game...
    mheide mheide October 2011 Infoseek database
  • Anyone played the Terminator FPS game(s)?I don't mean the modernish (XBox/PS2) third person games, but the original DOS first person shooter? The subject came around to FPS games today, and …

    ... the game of the Superman Returns film on the XBox came up with a great ... , and your performance was measured by the damage and civilian deaths that ... , which really makes you feel like the Dark knight.


    ewgf ewgf October 2011 Chit chat
  • z88dk stdio fopenI'm trying to write a fcntl library, based on the p3.lib one. Looking at fopen(), it calls freopen_z88() which turns the mode string into mode and f…

    ... registers set up with parameters. IX will hold a pointer to a data ... a few bytes maintained by stdio followed by a number of bytes controlled by the driver; the ... should be like. Another idea is have the driver maintain a default value ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... not tiled the map yet, have you?
    In a brief ... with a simple RLE enconding will shrink the memory needed for the ... your character exits the current screen by the left, right, up or down). These ... .

    BTW: I like the idea of a 128K version too :)
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2012 New game ideas
  • (grey) +2 ear modI saw some references here and there about grey +2 machines which had an external ear connector built in, so you can use external audio devices for l…

    [QUOTE=guesser;607739]Yeah, I wasn't sure if you meant you'd cut the track and wired the socket up or just fed the audio in elsewhere.[/QUOTE]

    I forgive you, you were probably blinded by the wrath of a wrongly named +2B. :)
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay March 2012 Hardware
  • Youtube DumpI think there was a thread containing only Youtube vids before but I can't find it so here's a new one. To start, here's my current favourite Mighty …

    ... glory!

    (the acorn version looks like a Game Boy game... wonder ... ? maybe it was to old by the time BG showed up?)
    VanTammen VanTammen April 2012 Chit chat
  • Youtube DumpI think there was a thread containing only Youtube vids before but I can't find it so here's a new one. To start, here's my current favourite Mighty …

    ... glory!

    (the acorn version looks like a Game Boy game... wonder ... it was to old by the time BG showed up?)[/QUOTE]

    the original Gameboy? I plays like Kung Fu by Bug Byte ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2012 Chit chat
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