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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
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Imagine Software (original)Was watching Commercial Breaks earlier (again) which shows the original Imagine practically falling apart. Does anyone know if the original office b…
I asked Simon Butler who's first job in ... am though"
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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
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ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…
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Simon Butler (ex Imagine/Ocean) interview[img]http://retroasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RA_152.png[/img] Steve Erickson is joined by the legendary pixel pusher Simon Butler in a n…
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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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It's a Pixel THING - recent retrogaming Youtube channelHi, guys! I've recently started my own YouTube channel "[B]It's a Pixel THING[/B]" where I do weekly videos about retrogaming (Spectrum, Amiga, DOS)…
... ://www.youtube.com/user/ThePixelTHING"]SIMON BUTLER's take on TOTAL RECALL ... -
Cut down re-released games?There are at least 2 Amiga games which were cut down when re-released on budget category. Project X Special Edition has the final level and outro rem…
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SQIJ - the worst Spectrum game gets a new version.Well, I wasn't going to say anything until it was finished, but a remake of SQIJ was suggested (for fun) today over at the Next forums, so I had to m…
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SQIJ - the worst Spectrum game gets a new version.Well, I wasn't going to say anything until it was finished, but a remake of SQIJ was suggested (for fun) today over at the Next forums, so I had to m…
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1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…
... Dusko Dimitrijevic, Dragoljub Andjelkovic and Simon Butler
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1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…
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1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…
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1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…
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Believe it or not, an academic paper about Graphic Adventure CreatorFor anyone willing to suffer through academic writing, my paper about analysis and auto-solving of Graphic Adventure Creator (Spectrum) games is publ…
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printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
... screen byte, ORing it with the new value, and writing it back ... (de), a ; write UDG pixel byte to screen
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Bandersnatch referencesList here what you spotted :) I'll start. Date the episode is set - Imagine went bust. "Expansion - Imagine!" - either Imagine expanding so qu…
... available over here, but Stefan Butler most likely a reference to ... Mark Butler, one of the founders of ... . Of course, there's also Simon Butler (aka "Tandemar" if you remember ... -
1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
[b]Kendo Warrior[/b] [Byte Back]
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When did Cassettes Go Paperless?I noticed that my "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" Cassette tape is paperless. In other words , the tape cassette itself does not have any paper inla…
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Have you ever been given a credit for "co-writing" a published ZX Spectrum program and not known it?Well back in the day, (when I was actually working) I thought up an idea (which is quite unusual for me) and somehow I was put in touch with a "pro…
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I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
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Frost Byte - Game OverVoting time folks go [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Frost+Byte$&pub=^Mikro%2dGen+Ltd$"]here[/url] vote and return to post …
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Byte magazinesHi folks, Does anyone have any copies of Byte from 1977 - 1984 I could borrow? - scans would be made for all to use. I'm after the aricles on FORTH…
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Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... ram and then write it back in upside down. This works ... . If I could read each byte as binary I could have ... an 8 byte buffer to store the 0 ... quickly it has all come back.
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Sam Revival Back Issue Bonanza!As a special offer throughout March, i'm giving 25% off back issues of Sam Revival magazine. So if you are looking to fill in gaps in your collection…
... , i'm giving 25% off back issues of Sam Revival magazine ... /> * Mode 1 Contention explained by Simon Owen
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Fuse for Mac OS X 0.10.0 ReleasedA new version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project and shortly here on WoS: [url]http://sourceforge.net/proje…
... work (Gergely Szasz; thanks to Simon Owen for expert technical advice ... control port causes that byte to be written back to the port ... to unHALT (Philip Kendall; thanks, Simon Owen).
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Back to BASIC[U][B]Archaeology guide to programs compiled used MCODERII.d[/B][/U] After various people have been talking about "Frank'n'stein" I decided to finis…
... which makes converting the code back to BASIC much easier.
byte header preamble). The first non ...
