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Glitches, tricks, and sequence breaking in Spectrum games?Me banging on about[b] Deus Ex[/b], skip it if you don't like the game. I've just found out that it's possible to complete the original Deus Ex (b…
Me banging on about[b] Deus Ex[/b], skip it if you don't like the game.
I've just found out that it's possible to complete the original Deus Ex (best PC gamer ever, IMHO) without killing Anna! This is important as in Deus Ex, you can, if you ... -
Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …
... changes:
[code]BORDER Black (0)
FLASH Off ... 4557d to zero so the BORDER would be black.
2 ... 20941d to zero so the BORDER would be black.
2 ... INK on white PAPER/BORDER. However, if the BORDER colour is changed ... -
NEW RELEASE: "Willy's New Mansion" Special EditionOn the twelfth anniversary of the [url="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/manicminerandjetsetwilly/conversations/messages/4593"]release[/url] of my…
... (the status bar) and the border is the same;
border effects, various kinds of messages ... -room, Swooshing Arrow & Flashing Border / Status Bar effect, Intermittent Fire ... -
Contended memory article on WikipediaYeah, apparently there's one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_Contended_Memory [quote] However, the ULA must wait for a Z80 read or wr…
... updated during the blanking and border time when video data was ... -
ZX Spectrum 48k tape loading issueHi guys I have refreshed a ZX spectrum 48k with a new keyboard layer and front case. The machine will power up and seems to work good. Unfortunate…
... a black and white checkered border on screen and no loading ... -
Bubble Bobble remake!After playing Pietro Brothers and marvelling at the colors with the Nirvana+, I think the prime candidate to be remade to me Bubble Bobble. While ver…
... lacked the lots of secret tricks and items too. I do ... -
TK90X can't read tapesHi there, I was recently gifted a TK90X which seems to be mostly working and has been modded for composite already. Video displays fine and since I…
... get the usual red-cyan border flashing when inputting audio. Whenever ... I get a solid cyan border. Therefore it appears as if ... -
Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
... ,0;"Start =";st: BORDER 2: RETURN
9998 BORDER 7: GO SUB ... #0;" Time=";time;" secs":
BORDER 7: RETURN
9999 LET ... -
where is border/ink, etc stored in rom?hi, i just wondered where these were stored in rom and how i change these?
hi, i just wondered where these were stored in rom and how i change these? -
Dk'tronics and other similar "add on" Speccy keyboards . What can be done with them and when?. The underlying assumption I am making here is that people who have them will want to "hang on" to them and may also want to get them working . But …
... . Are there any more "easy tricks" that can be picked up ... -
Using a Mayflash MD USB Adapter with Spectaculator on Windows 10Using a Mayflash MD USB Adapter with Spectaculator on Windows 10 First, plug the Mayflash MD USB Adapter into a USB port and let Windows do it's t…
... . The fire button changes the border colour to red when pressed ... -
Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…
... variation.
The flashing border and the screech on the ... -
Need help from people with CRT TVs (50 Hz)I’m wrapping up the development of my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54152/new-game-a-yankee-in-iraq-2017-a-shoot-em-up"]gam…
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A videoaventure in 16K - Cartridge for IF2Hello all, After an intermitent work I am near of reléase my new game: a videoaventure (exploration game) in 16K ROM carttridge. Your objetive is…
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The code has no "tricks" (compression), and the result is ... -
Help with loading problems.I have a few games that have either started or have always had a problem loading. The main problem seems to be that they start to load ( the sound is…
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New ZEsarUX 5.0Hi! ZEsarUX 5.0 is out! :) You can download it from the URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/ Finally I have succeded emulating Si…
... on ZX80/81/ACE, with border disabled and realvideo mode (was ... when Jupiter Ace machine and border disabled
Updated Z88 OZ ... -
I done an Arts!My new holiday picture-postcards at ZX Art. http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/j/joefish/ [img]http://zxart.ee/zxscreen/size:2/border:0/palette:pulsar…
... ://zxart.ee/zxscreen/size:2/border:0/palette:pulsar/mode:mix ... ://zxart.ee/zxscreen/size:2/border:0/palette:pulsar/mode:mix ... -
Key repeat weirdness with EI & IYI finally (after 35 years!) decided to write something a) for 48k speccy b) in z80 assembler. It's been over 20 years since I've written anything in …
... a macro that changes the border color so because of that ... -
Very tricky guess the game from description.I found this game on WoS a few year's ago. For some perverse reason I'd like to play it again, if only to work out what to do. -Not well known. …
... /> -Platform game, possibly green game border
-Clunky, bugged and crap ... -
Hi,Hi, I just wanted to say hello and look forward to exchanging memories of old school gaming and hopefully learning new tricks to play the old games. …
Hi, I just wanted to say hello and look forward to exchanging memories of old school gaming and hopefully learning new tricks to play the old games.
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Chess games with demo ?With scrabble, I occasionally (the Sinclair Psion version as that seems nice enough) and its colourful, occasionally set it to play itself with a fe…
... but memory must be playing tricks on me as it only ... -
TV programs that jumped the shark (then fell off a cliff)[b]Can one of the mods move this to the chit-chat forum, please? Sorry, I posted it whilst fixing another PC and my tiny brain can't cope with two th…
... 's job is to create tricks for professional magicians (real world ... mean, the sort who do tricks on stage, the program is ... a geek who loved magic tricks and had his dream job ... of creating magic tricks for a living. But in ... -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Not sure where to post this. This is a plea to people with the actual hardware, naturally. Could you run this little program (both TAP and WAV fil…
... a thin strip of blue border around it? What happens if ... -
Best and worst loading coloursWas just thinking the other day about this, what are the worst / best loading colours that have been seen ? :) Apart from loaders with either mult…
... with either multi 'rainbow' type border or games with 3 colours ... -
Need help from people with a 48K/128K/+2 (not +2A/+3)Scared ya, didn’t I? Well, this one is very simple and not as involved as [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55142/need-help-fro…
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New Renegade loading screen by Ricardo RodriguezWhat a corker! [img]http://zxart.ee/zxscreen/border:0/palette:pulsar/mode:mix/type:standard/id:193385/[/img] TZXs updated with this new screen ar…
What a corker!
[img]http://zxart.ee/zxscreen/border:0/palette:pulsar/mode:mix/type:standard/id:193385/[/img]
TZXs updated with this new screen are [url="http://www.drumfu.com/Renegade_Ricardo_Rodriguez.zip"]here[/url] -
A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…
... ;set ATTR_P
xor a ;BORDER = 0
call 8859 ;inside ... ROM routine BORDER ($2294)
call 3503 ;clear ... -
48k Issue 6a Very sick indeed.Hi Guys. I have a 48k Issue 6a board that shows a white screen with grey border. The white screen has three black squares spaced equally on the le…
... a white screen with grey border. The white screen has three ...
