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trying to find some games - need helpHello First of all a big thank you for this great site, it brings back a lot of memories - even if some of them were very frustrating ( due to diffi…
... buttom and there was a ball which had to go up ... and do not let the ball thru. And i also remember ... -
2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…
... the hidden words? Does such routine need to check A$ character ... -
Tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool...Im tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool, found at: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/midi2ay-0.1.zip[/url] Im not a v…
... trying to understand why the routine crashes after the music stops ... like to add a short routine to stop the playing and ... output (just prior the "finrsi" routine)... The Problem is, I don ... can put after this key routine to get it to return ... -
Volunteers for a Speccy news twitter stream?It bothers me a bit that with the slowdown of activity on raww.org, there's no regularly-updated English-language source of Speccy news on the intern…
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What was the name of that game?Hi there, This is my first thread of any kind! I hope it brings me beginners luck. I?m after a game I used to play and was very fond of, but you'v…
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Dreadful "Pun" namesFor some reason the speccy seemed to get a lot of these. Off the top of my head, characters - all the I-Ball ones, TerryBall, LoverBall etc Also KLP…
For some reason the speccy seemed to get a lot of these. Off the top of my head, characters - all the I-Ball ones, TerryBall, LoverBall etc
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Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... ' (in our case a BASIC routine) is 'ret'.
Click on ... 'djnz fillscreen'
Because our routine will continue from the loop ... keypress to 'brake')
;wait routine
ld bc,$1fff ;max ... bc ;save score
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Notes on HeroquestWell, had a strange urge to play this game recently and had a pretty fun time with it. Here are some of my thoughts: - To begin with, the biggest t…
... of Wrath, Genie), next comes Ball of Flame which is an ... ), and long shots with flame ball/crossbow down the long straight ... -
some debugger in emulators that is able to brakpoint when a mem address is accessed ?Is there a debugger (disassembler) available in some emulator that is able to stop (breakpoint) when a particular memory address is accessed ? For e…
... other words, to see what routine is responsible for that memory ... -
ZX81 software interupts?One of the ZX81's main improvements over the ZX80 was the NMI, allowing for SLOW mode and therefore animated graphics/games. But I read SLOW mode ra…
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Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
... to write in Basic, a routine that can choose at random ... -
Z80 'EXX' ConfusionI was working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run out of registers, resorted to sticking one of the values into a memory location a…
... working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run ... .
I got the routine working, but then wondered if ... , but ran into trouble. My routine would run and apparently do ... -
left 4 dead 2or as i am calling it, 'the unnofficial 40 quid DLC to left 4 dead'. as sequels go, adding some extra weapons and baddies hardly it's not up there w…
... /> valve have really dropped the ball on this one. just shows ... -
Need help with interrupts againI'm fighting to understand how interrupts code handling works I'm trying to set my simple own interrupt routine, as I don't want to be dependent on …
... set my simple own interrupt routine, as I don't want ... variables normally and Basic interrupt routine overwrites this memory.
routine does nothing, just returns.
Name that game: loading routineName that game but with a twist. I remember loading a game and it had a strange loading (protection?) scheme. It played normal when loading up initia…
Name that game but with a twist.
I remember loading a game and it had a strange loading (protection?) scheme. It played normal when loading up initially, then it went to a black/red or blue border. Before the leader tone for the loading of the screen ...Wired shit on ebay [post your findings here !]Okay, thought i would start a new thread on the forum for us all to have a chuckle on the shit that seems to appear on ebay. If anybody finds any odd…
... strange find to get the ball rolling...
This one ...Should P.M.R. be removed/added from/to listings?@Martijn: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26598"]I recall our conversation(read: thread) a bit back where you defined w…
... /infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Eunuch%27s+Ball%2c+The$&pub=^The ...About wireframe 3d animationAre there any demos or games that have very long 3d animation sequences? Some games have short, repeating animations and I only know of a demo (somet…
... or complex and the drawing routine was faster than the ROM ... using a separate machine code routine? I'm thinking of Sprite ...Dan O'Bannon (1946-2009) RIP[img]http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/bb.jpg?w=655&h=436[/img] [quote]Dan O'Bannon, the sci-fi and horror screenwriter behind some of th…
... Star Beast screenplay set the ball rolling, and he brought many ...Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…
... while executing the standard keyboard routine? It doesn't seem posible ...some games for sale[URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270514833669"]180 and Sweevo's World[/URL] [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V…
Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... include a small machine code routine that would load a BASIC ... high RAM, and then a routine in BASIC (yeah, I'm ... using another small m.c. routine to save the modified BASIC ...Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …
... /> Can someone code a small routine that can print a character ... movement.
If such routine already exists, please point me ... />
I'm assuming such routine would limit x to 248 ...Screen to vector?I've found old topics covering this subject and even spoke to Geoff about this, but still want to ask a few questions. I've been playing with vector…
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I'm assuming such routine, either in BASIC or m ...JetSet Willy - Mirrored UniverseHello All, Thought you guys might be interested in what I've been doing the last week or so. Using the following documentation: [list] [*][url=htt…
... run a z80 map reversal routine before running the game.
The routine performs a rewrite of the ...Star Wars scroll/crawl/title effectI may have seen this type of scroll on a Speccy game before, but I've never seen it as a type-in or part of a cover tape. Does anyone know how to do …
... find a ready-to-use routine? I tried infoseek and the ...Virtua Fighter for PS3Yesterday I was in a store and noticed Virtua Fighter is really cheap (20? compared to most of PS3 games that go around 50? or 60?). I haven't play…
IDE emulation and delaysA few months ago I was told that IDE emulation, while perfectly usable, isn't accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on real hardware. On some e…
... a multiple sector read (the routine requests 256 sectors at a ...
