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  • Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…

    ... Led Zeppelin appeared on the background at a certain point.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2002 Games
  • What game is this?Sorry to drop this topic on you peeps again. I was looking at one of these "Speccy games CDs" in the shops and on the back there were a bunch of scr…

    It may not have been "heads collected" but it did involve heads in some way. I seem to remember the main sprite was white and humanoid. The background was forest/jungly stuff, like Sabre Wulf or Curse of Sherwood.
    Zagreb Zagreb August 2002 Games
  • tzx gamesHow can i run a tzx on my real spectrum?Is there a way i can copy a tzx to tape so i can load it in the normal way or can i load it from my hard driv…

    ... theres other programs in the background. If i were you before ... you have less chance of background programs like Antivirus software, or ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2002 Games
  • Name the Game No 653542627242!Another name the game, this time I'm fairly certain that: It was released on Budget, It was a third person perspective game (looking from behind the…

    ... also black. On a green background. You looked at the rider ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2002 Games
  • How to print with colour using DiscipleHi! I was wondering if there is any way of printing in colour using the Disciple. I am using an Epson Stylus 600 Printer with one of my +2s and I wo…

    Rudy Biesma has written a routine to print in
    color. Although it's a large routine (with buffer up to 2K) it can do the job.

    It analyses the ATTR-file and then prints the wanted colors.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…

    ... one small minor gripe: The background made it hard to read ... or maybe even change the background.

    Keep up the ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2002 Games
  • Jumping Jack RemakeHi all, Im new here, however I recently wrote a remake of Jumping Jack, basically its a work in progress so any feedback and improvement ideas would …

    I would make the main character a bit more visible.. I will make it bigger.. I want say legs more fat, and arms..

    and maybe a background less visible..

    sorry man, my english itsnt wonderfull. =}

    JumpingJack rulez!!
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz September 2002 Announcements
  • Transferring From Emulator Back To SpectrumI have windows xp and a soundblaster live card... what is the best way to transfer from an emulator file to cassette because everytime i've tried it …

    ... hear a 'hiss' in the background if no CD audio is ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2002 Emulators
  • Transferring From Emulator Back To SpectrumI have windows xp and a soundblaster live card... what is the best way to transfer from an emulator file to cassette because everytime i've tried it …

    ... hear a 'hiss' in the background if no CD audio is ...
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2002 Emulators
  • which Arkanoid is better??taaaannn..!! world freezes beware so transcendental debate.. Arkanoid or Arkanoid II its in your hand.. [ This Message was edited by: Javier Alc…

    Hmmmmmmmmm,

    Arkanoid 2 is probably the better game, but the whole "background" thing annoyed me, to tell the truth. I'll plump for Arkanoid 1.
    Zagreb Zagreb October 2002 Games
  • 'Vulcan' and 'Desert Rats'Hi people. My e-mail is [email="danielthorlby@hotmail.com"]danielthorlby@hotmail.com[/email] I was wondering if anyone here has ever been really into…

    ... the 2nd half is historical background).

    I don't ...
    thx1138 thx1138 November 2002 Games
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    ... /> then there's the PRINTER BUFFER!!!
    Then system variables as ... is occupied by the printer buffer in 48K mode, and by ... . I wonder where the printer buffer was in 128K mode.
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    The 128k Print buffer would obviously be in the paged memory somewhere. The +3 I know uses page 7 as a scratchpad for +3 DOS.

    Either this answers my question - I want to use all the RAM for M/C anyway.
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    There is no Printer Buffer at all on the ... doesn't use the Printer Buffer but a bug in ... original ROM caused the printer buffer to be cleared at ... most obvious place for the buffer is after the system ... idea of a transient printer buffer in the 'Sea Change' ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    ... which, IIRC, uses the printer buffer area to do things that ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • which is the best pc remake of a spectrum game?which is the best remake of a spectrum game for the pc?

    ... ). The site had a black background, with a list of all ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2002 Games
  • ZX Spin 0.4 available for Download.Standard Cut-n-Paste from the CSS post: If all goes well, I'll upload it to WOS on monday. ----------------------------------------- Okay, it's th…

    ... box then appears in the background. It says:

    Access ...
    Anonymous Anonymous December 2002 Emulators
  • New Spectrum Game Released - Egghead 3Just to announce that I have finally completed the third outing for the little fellow, Egghead In Space. Anyone wishing to download a 48k version of…

    Hey, this is a smart platformer/arcade adventure. Could do with more sound fx or a background tune though.


    Nice work!

    [ This Message was edited by: Refrenz on 2002-12-08 05:25 ]
    Refrenz Refrenz December 2002 Games
  • A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?

    ... to the lack of any background visuals...*grinds teeth*
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie December 2002 Games
  • How often do you visit this forum?I was just wondering how often do you come here to read the forum... I'm my case, I'm a regular visitor, almost everyday. Well from monday to friday …

    Every weekday a couple of times. Often my browser is just active in the background and I hit refresh once an hour or so.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan December 2002 Games
  • Arcade gamesAny thoughts on what are the best speccy versions of classic arcade games? I think 3D Tank Duel is probably the best speccy version of Battlezone, P…

    Street Fighter 2 wasnt a very playable game. You had to load each character individually and the background (unless you played in the clouds).
    HKM was a much better looking game
    madmekon madmekon January 2003 Games
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... suggest the best solution for background music would be to find ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • NEW FANTASY TEXT-ADVENTURE?Are there still any freaks of the genre? Is there any point to make an English version of our new text-adventure game? (It would be a lot of work, s…

    Of course! Extremely interested! Wot kinda game is it? Ny chance of knowing the plot/background of the game?

    In either case, I'm sure many of us would love to see yet ANOTHER speccy game in this day and age! So just do it mate!
    Arjun Arjun January 2003 Games
  • What was the best thing you ever did using a Speccy?I've not used a real Speccy for much good stuff, but it ended up being a prop in a college film me and some friends made in 1997 - it doubled as a mu…

    ... the bubblebus game Starquake as background noise for a school play ...
    Sard Sard January 2003 Games
  • MakeTZX DMA Buffer Overrun ?Okay folks, Does anyone know why I get DMA Buffer Overruns when using MakeTZX. Could it be anything to do with my SB Enironment string or anything …

    ... every now and then these buffer underruns start bugging me. Just ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MakeTZX DMA Buffer Overrun ?Okay folks, Does anyone know why I get DMA Buffer Overruns when using MakeTZX. Could it be anything to do with my SB Enironment string or anything …

    ... samples are just lost (DMA Buffer Overrun)... not Overrun, not Underrun ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... my basic program as a background music.

    finally, now ...
    Arda Arda February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…

    ... ship for example and the background, which is yellow and white ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…

    Amigo, about your idea of "removing" the background whenever there's a color clash (I mean, the idea you're talking about): did you check out Karnov? Might do what you have in mind, sort of. I seem to remember they "used" color clash in a kind of nice way.
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…

    ... graphic in the background with ink, the inks background vanishes and only ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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