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Anyone managed to get a Spectrum emulator working on an Ouya?After messing around with a Raspberry Pi for a while, I gave up and bought an Ouya specifically as an emulation machine. It works great for almost a…
... gave up and bought an Ouya specifically as an emulation machine.
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Anyone else got an Nvidia Shield?This thing is fantastic for emulators! I don't think they're available in the UK, but it would be worth importing one. It's basically an Android ta…
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Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... or a background colour, and an attribute (containing a 4 bit ... arrangement makes the routine to calculate the screen address from the ... -
An old projectHello!! I want to show you an old project that Mcneil and me were developing some time ago. I think that we cant finish it by the moment but here i…
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Noob repairs of an S2 and S6AI received two Spectrums a Series 2 and a Series 6A both of which are not working. I don't know anything about electronics so thought my lad and I wo…
... each and resurrect them as an little project. Following [URL="http ... though.
Each has an issue and would love some ... -
Been reading The Holy Qur'an ...... just to see what all the fuss was about. I've got the Wordsworth edition, translated into English by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, authorised by the Islami…
... where the Bible actually gives an explicit number), but it seems ... -
How to close an HTML Input elementAs I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been work…
As I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been working with hasn't, to put it politely, been the cleanest code base I've seen. But this:
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Soundex routineIn an idle 5 minutes I wrote a short routine to calculate Soundex codes using the algorithm described here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounde…
In an idle 5 minutes I wrote a short routine to calculate Soundex ... -
Hardware for running games from an SD card/hard drive/etc?Someone asked on another forum ([url]http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=2413.0[/url]) "[I]Does anyone know if there are any flashcarts created f…
... don't know (I'm an emulation user, Speccy-wise) can ... -
An Atari ST calendar for 2015Unlike we are mostly ZX Spectrum followers, me too, I've recently marketed a 2015 calendar celebrating 30th Anniversary of the Atari ST home computer…
... my site. If anybody wants an English version, I'll be ... -
Using an EPROM in a 48K SpectrumThere are plenty of guides as to how to do this floating around, however I didn't like the fact that you can't then plug in the standard 27128 ROM ch…
... -of-a-zx-spectrum-with-an-eprom/"]here[/URL], which seems ... -
Saving a video clip from an emulatorLooking for an Emulator that allows one to save a video clip of a game demo in action but with good compression, to an AVI file or something.
Looking for an Emulator that allows one to save a video clip of a game demo in action but with good compression, to an AVI file or something. -
Archon: C64 / ZX SpectrumArchon the board/strategy game [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000243[/url] is regarded as an all time top 10 classic on the…
Archon
the board/strategy game
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000243[/url]
is regarded as an all time top 10 classic on the C64 and an above average game on the Spectrum.
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Looking for an old covertape game... isometric yellow spiders?<p>Hi all....</p><p>Been looking for an old game I used to play as a kid - I'm sure it came on a covertape, and it was an isometric game with a futur…
Hi all....Been looking for an old game I used to ... a covertape, and it was an isometric game with a futuristic ... -
I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
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For the environment an incredibly basic editor, shell and ... see myself writing more than an assembler for its programs (not ... -
Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…
... was very playable but pretty average graphically for the time for ... least a sample screen of an eerie monochrome level, complete with ... -
BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic program ... similar the code was between an old 1982 Basic listing and ... time will be to take an old Speccy game I wrote ... -
Resurrection of long established Spectrum magHello, for those who don´t know me: I took over the Spectrum-User-Club in Germany back in 1994 and released since that time a regular Spectrum magaz…
... everyone who is interested in an English magazin. The current prices ... Euro
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Could use some help improving some controls.Back when Dingo was released many people said they had problems controlling it, so I've decided to improve the controls on it, so you no longer need …
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The first 3 lines calculate where you are. The next ... player will move horizontally to an intersection and freeze. It won ... -
Retro Asylum 123: It's An Oddworld[img]http://retroasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/123_final.png[/img] Episode 123 is part 1 of our special interview with Lorne Lanning, gami…
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Spectrum USB KeyboardI know you can buy these but how do you make one . What I am thinking of be similar to the type described in Issue 1352 of Micro Mart at page 45 .The…
... custom USB pcb . Is this an Arduino variant or the Leonardo ... the parts for one ? Can "Average Joe" with some financial Assistance ... -
Avviso per gli appassionati di Spectrum italiani - An announcement for all Italian Spectrum fans[b]AVVISO PER GLI APPASSIONATI DI SPECTRUM ITALIANI[/b] Sono stato contattato dal dott. David Levy, uno dei fondatori della Retro Computers Ltd - …
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[b]AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL ITALIAN SPECTRUM ... so that it can reach an audience as wide as possible ... -
Subtract 4 from an addressThis is a novice Z80 question really: I'm trying to vertical scroll my back buffer, but I'm not sure of the quickest way to apply an offset and mo…
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Stupid thing that happened on my way homeFirst, a bit of backstory.. I live in Winnipeg, and it's running out of money. Some of the things that the city has done to try and get themsel…
... of these zones, with the average 'regular' ticket being about $200 ... around me and side-swipes an SUV that was in the ... -
An interface for real-time image enhancement?Far away from a hardware development guy, I was wondering if it would possible for an interface (such as Spectra) to include real-time frame processi…
... if it would possible for an interface (such as Spectra) to ... [/i] the current graphics in an automated way that today's ... -
Was there ever an N64 based Spectrum emulator?I was discussing the N64 with a work colleague earlier, and the subject of N64 homebrew (and how there is so little of it) came up, and it started me…
... Island, Maniac Mansion, etc) and an early build of a SNES ... -
Chompston Mazes in SpecBASAfter the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked out the link there about generating 2D Pacman style mazes. This one was quite good fun, …
... about it here to get an idea of how it works ...
