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The Great Escape. I found an alternative escape route.I managed to figure out a way to escape without ever using the wirecutters. So if you've beaten the game a lot of times and would like to try somethi…
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The ability to grab an object through the fence is ... probably not an intended feature but more of ... -
Question of contentionI'm not desperate to go digging through technical descriptions in depth, but one thing bugs me about the Speccy's video contention model - and that's…
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Bizarre ZX Spectrum faults (also possibly relevant to Spectranet compatibility problems).I'm attempting to repair an issue 4A 48K ZX Spectrum and am encountering some very strange problems. For my own records I've given this computer the …
... . I'd say that on average, this display defect happens very ... the original ICs replaced, including an alternate set of 4116s or ... is fitted.
In an attempt to discover more about ... synchronisation problem I have used an oscilloscope to monitor the 5 ... -
What joysticks work on an Atari 2600 'woody'?Quite a while ago the missus and me decided to get an Atari 2600 'woody' off ebay. Got a great one for £40 (they now go for up to £100!!!) with a bo…
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Unable to download an Emulator.Hello everyone, I am trying to download an emulator (Speccy) so that I may program/play games. When I click the link the download link I am tak…
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Swainy builds an arcade cabNot Spectrum related but let's face it, we all wanted an arcade machine back in the day. This video follows my progress in building an arcade bar…
Not Spectrum related but let's face it, we all wanted an arcade machine back in the day.
This video follows my progress in building an arcade bar top machine using an old PC.
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Anybody have an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive on Pre-Order?I have the Vive pre-ordered, but annoyingly by the time I had enough saved and I ordered it I was too late for the April wave of shipments, so it sho…
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Sinclair Research Limited - An Alternate Reality.So, we all know that Sinclair Research went down the tubes because of a lack of focus on the core product, computers. We know that Clive wasted it on…
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Am i becoming an alcoholic?I've noticed over the last 6 months or so my alcohol consumption has been creeping up. I have calculated that for the past month i have been drinkin…
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Detecting TR-DOS w/o relying on system variablesOK, I know it's much easier to do this simply by checking whether the BASIC program area has moved or some specific pattern in the sysvars etc (somet…
... ... not neat. And there's an additional dependency on something completely ... ROM
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Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…
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try into an empire.
Competent ... palace. What else could distinguish an emperor from all the
ity based on the average of the human players.
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Death Wish 3... does it have an end?Does anyone know if Death Wish 3 has an end? Or is it just an endless loop of killing bosses and thugs untill you get killed? Can anyone confirm if …
Does anyone know if Death Wish 3 has an end? Or is it just an endless loop of killing bosses and thugs untill you get killed?
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There's a games cafe in Glasgow got an R-Type cab.Just saw someone tweet a photo of it, tweeted back to ask what the hi-score is, still just the factory setting hi-scores on it, so I'm going to pop i…
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Need some help repairing an issue 3 spectrumI am looking for some help repairing an issue 3 speccy, here's what I tried so far. The speccy is not booting up correctly, when using the diagnos…
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An odd floating point error. Avoid!While working on the revival of my old game ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992…
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thinking on creating an arcade... somethingHi to all For a while i have been thinking on creating an Arcade Cabinet, but the cost, time and space necessary place it in hold. Recently whi…
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Turning an autofire switch into a buttonDear WOS, I have a slightly dumb question, but I think it needs asking: Can I turn an on/off autofire switch (which I salvaged from a dissected Ch…
... needs asking: Can I turn an on/off autofire switch (which ... = AF off)? Although I have an idea how it might have ... -
New features for an emulatorHi. I know this has been asked before, but only to know if there are new opinions... What features do you expect to be on an emulator (that they …
Hi.
I know this has been asked before, but only to know if there are new opinions...
What features do you expect to be on an emulator (that they don't exist yet)?
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Remake an existing game compo...For some reason I was inspired to post this because of the "[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16271/miss-wos-competition#latest"…
... game) - that could do with an update - and do it within ... it's suitable for taking an old game and making a ... stuff.
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How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
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You could draw an entire column by simply finding ... ). This way you could quickly calculate the column (col -
"ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... , who was something of an Apple devotee (it was ... years ago could write an RPN calculator program, why ...
I am not an advanced programmer by any means ... the "ZX80 Brain" was an appropriate name. For the ... about making an "inverse" key (so I can calculate ASN, ... -
The HL Register Pair Naming. An Observation.This isn’t really a question or a tip. Just an observation about the naming convention of the registers in the Z80 CPU. It seems that every register …
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ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…
... ]) modified slightly to only create an offset that covers the Spectrum ...
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A game from an other machine.if someone interesting, this is a game I created in 1989. this is the basic source, maybe somebody can convert to specy. An image: http://www.ep128.…
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An appeal to preserve InfoseekID compatibility!Instead of worrying about competition from other Spectrum sites, Martijn always supported them. He actively worked together with other sites to help …
... almost 27,000 items, assigning an InfoseekID number to each one ... files that didn't have an InfoseekID yet. Of course all ... version, I will also provide an updated list of all new ... -
What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…
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Flood Fill IssueHi Folks, Came across the following Flood Fill routine by John Metcalf: [code]; scanline fill by John Metcalf ; call with d=x-coord, e=y-coo…
... hl 60006 E5
; calculate bit position of pixel
ret 60059 C9
; calculate the pixel address and whether ... and save the coordinates of an adjacent row
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How do I [blah-de-blah] while using an emulated diskette in a +3?I'm using ZXSpin 0.7, emulating a +3 and I've been trying out random games that come on diskettes. I've had issues with saving/loading snapshots corr…
... a multipart game off of an emulated diskette.
2) Play ...
