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How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…
... superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape recorder upsidedown and ... until the tape stopped and turning it back on with a ... -
ScanlinesHere's an excerpt from the FAQ: [quote] Now for the timings of each line itself: define a screen line to start with 256 screen pixels, then border, …
... 256 screen pixels, then border, then horizontal retrace, and ... then border again. All this takes ... an ATTR byte). The border is 48 pixels wide ... 24 T states of right border, 48 T states of ... 24 T states of left border.
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128k and BRIGHT?Just loaded up Arcadia (nice game, BTW). I have side by side a 128k and 48k Speccies and both are connected to the same tape player. So, I loaded the…
... of Arcadia is screen with BORDER 7 : PAPER 7 : BRIGHT 1 ... . So, the border is darker white and the ... the 128k both paper and border were the same colour. The ...Highway Encounter and Spin.I downloaded a TZX of Highway Encounter from the TZX vault. When I try and load the game up in Spin (the version with rollback),I get a black screen,…
... black screen, with a yellow border and a spectrum loading noise ...Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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call 8859 ; set permanent border colour
call initIM2 ...Name the game(s)Another thread reminded of this compilation that had one of the most addictive games ever that had me and my brother playing for ages. I'm sure the …
... white background and a green border.
The thing that ...Queries about loading schemesAccording to the review of Wizard's Lair in Crash issue 14: [quote]Wizard's Lair has an unusual fast loader, which makes the border flash in wide ban…
... fast loader, which makes the border flash in wide bands rather ...BASin problemsDunny, I seem to have some problems with BASin under WindowsXP. BASically (sorry.ahem), if I maximise the screen it crashes giving me an access voila…
... , however, by dragging the window border.
Secondly, and this ...Interface 1 problemsI'm new to the forum but can anyone help with a problem I have recently gained? My Interface 1 has gone up the spout and now interferes with my Spec…
... black page with a white border and it refuses to boot ...The worst spectrum add on?I once had a light pen for my Spectrum that was really bad. I cannot remember what company made it. It was supposed to 'draw' by holding it directl…
... would shoot off towards the border and you would need to ...Mastertronic Revisited(Apologies if this has been brought up before, but I don't remember reading about it) While browsing the hideously overpriced shelves of PC World, I…
... , priced at just ?9.99. Turning it over, what should I ...Speccy colours got me confuddled.Ok ... I have zx32 v1.03.97.1213 and ZXSpin v.041 Love them both dearly. Zx32 is handy for mapmaking because it gets rid of the border. Spin c…
... it gets rid of the border. Spin can play RZX and ...Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisI can't seem to get this game to load either in Spin or with the online speccy emulator by clicking on the link from WOS - it goes through a series o…
I can't seem to get this game to load either in Spin or with the online speccy emulator by clicking on the link from WOS - it goes through a series of scene setting pics, then just goes to a stripey border and nothing else happens.
Can anyone help?OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…
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I'm not turning traitor [he hastily added, before ...OT: Microsoft Telephone HelpWell, As you may know ,I`ve got a problem with windows XP pro and Media Player 10. Just to recap Media player will not build a library from the wma f…
... over the problem again. [now turning into a grumpy man, as ...Campion - The Spreadsheet MIA?I`m currently working on the the Campion Speadsheet manual and turning into a pdf doc. This program had versions for the Spectrum & Sam Coupe, I hav…
About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…
... ROM functions like PRINT, INK, BORDER, CLS, etc.?
Thanks ...Now it's workingHello again and again, Today I received the membrane. And i turned the speccy on and worked a bit. I wrote some commands, used CLEAR 65535 command to…
... blue and red covered the border. It went like that. I ...Spin 505 and Rainbow Islands.tzxI have tried a few games including Rainbow Islands and when it tries to load an island the border goes hay wire and the scratchy sound comes blaring …
... to load an island the border goes hay wire and the ...All Or Nothing - with speech!Does anyone know how to get [url="http://www.excellentcontent.com/emuzone/ez117.htm"]All Or Nothing[/url] working correctly with speech, in any Specc…
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Just turning on the Currah speech emulation ...BT Broadband and FTP sitesHi all I was wondering if anybody can help me out. I have been trying to get access to some of the files on the WoS FTP directory (ZXF issue 10 speci…
... McAfee Firewall. I have tried turning McAfee off, but no joy ...SPIN: Crashing / Screenshot questionsI've recently downlaoded Spin, and I've found it quite unstable on my PC (Windows 98, Celeron 800, S3 Savage 3D graphics card), often crashing in fai…
... does not crop the screen border, even when the display is ... another emulator which can produce border-less screenshots? Cropping them is ... to differentiate between the black border and the balck edges of ...Who's looking forward to Big Brother starting on Friday?Apparently the house this year has see-through walls, to reduce any chance of privacy the housemates might have. The producers just keep turning the…
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The producers just keep turning the screws on this show ...Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…
Cinderella man - Land of the deadWho's seen Cinderella man and what'd you think? I thought it was damn good and the fight sequences beat the heck out of Rocky. The angles and editing…
... is Romero hasn't been turning out very good films lately ...Polyphonics and Ringtones...Im bored, so Im just askin, so if youre bored you could reply... ...you dont have to if you dont wanna ;) so... What ringtones do you have on yo…
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Pink Floyd - (On The) Turning Away
music from D ...ive just had an ideaprolly the worst idea ever, prolly been thought of before, prolly thought no way would that work has anybody thought of doing a manic miner adventur…
... game we all love and turning it into a text adventure ...Help with +3 in comaHi everyone Had a spectrum +3 under the bed for some time and when replacing its drive i accidentally connected the 5v and the gnd of the led. Now…
... the screen black and the border white without going to the ...
