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Zx Spectrum peritel helpPublished also on Spanish forum link: [url]http://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4179&p=46000#p46000[/url] where a similar case was examined. G…
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Pagan influences in speccy gamesPossibly due to its Englishness, the Spectrum seems to have quite a fair share of games that have pagan influence. Obviously the sword n sorcery tol…
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80's fashion the good the bad and the fugly.Ok so it seems it's 80s season on WOS so here's another 80's thread. Fashion in the 80s? Was is good, bad, fugly? I appreciate that all decades have…
... the geometric shapes, but the color. Clothes could and would cheer ... -
Driver-less cars (yay or nay?)I was reading on the BBC News website more about driver-less cars: "[COLOR="Blue"][B]Changes to road regulations and car maintenance checks will b…
... cars:
"[COLOR="Blue"][B]Changes to road ... unveiled for the first time.[/COLOR]"
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Vote the Best Game of 2014! [MULTIPLE CHOICE]You can read the title of the thread, can't you. Remember, it's a [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]MULTIPLE CHOICE[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] poll, vote how many g…
... /> Remember, it's a [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]MULTIPLE CHOICE ... [/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] poll, vote how many ... /> edit:
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Stuff the Spectrum wasn't really supposed to be able to doHello :) Today I was rearranging my bookshelves and I ended up spending almost an hour, looking at the old Sinclair User magazines I have held on to…
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Can't edit me profile...<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">When ever I try to edit my profile to change my gender from "Unspecif…
When ever I try to edit my profile to change my gender from "Unspecified" to "Male", I get an error message:-
The email you entered is in use by another member.Hardly the most important issue in the world, I'll grant you, but an issue all the same... ... -
3 weeks in paradise in game music<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 14.399998664856px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi, a…
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ZX-Spectrum at MobyGames<span style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 14.399998664856px; background-color: rgb(25…
We still don't know when Speccy games from the last few years will be stored at WoS. I think we need a better solution, until the reworked WoS site becomes fully operational.I just found out that MobyGames (world's largest online database of released games ... -
Bought a car? You might soon not actually own it.<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;">Quote "<span style="font-fa…
Quote "It's official: John Deer and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.
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ZX Basic StoryOk so here's another mundane idea. Let's make a story, like the three word story but you are only allow to used the words letters or symbols provided…
Ok so here's another mundane idea. Let's make a story, like the three word story but you are only allow to used the words letters or symbols provided on the ZX Spectrum. So for example the following words would be allowed: 1 Cat Out For a Poke, but none ... -
Renegade 2 and Renegade 3 modsAs promised...<br><br>People who used to read WOS temporary forum should know these ones perfectly but maybe somebody else missed it so I'm reuploadi…
As promised...
People who used to read WOS temporary forum should know these ones perfectly but maybe somebody else missed it so I'm reuploading them.
While WOS was down I made some serious work on Renegade series. The result are ... -
Batman: Arkham Knight - or 'Screw the consumer' volume 2,375<div>If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game …
If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game you buy, you won't get everything that's available unless you're rich enough (and a bit lacking in brain cells) ... -
WOS forum browsing in handheld devicesGlad to see WOS forum back up once more.<br><br>I enjoy the simplicity of the new look, but I feel there's something missing to it, some color or som…
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Z-Exemplar - Retro inspired shoot em up blasts towards Android and iOS<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-0qKuOYA-Q/VW3AQztlOuI/AAAAAAAA…
Suminell Studios has announced the development of a ZX Spectrum styled shoot em up in a similar style to R-Type, Gradius and Nemesis for both Android and iOS based devices!
https://shar.es/12WeKh
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New version (v0.31) of ZX DiagnosticsHi all,<br><br>Just wanted to let people know that I've released a new version of the Spectrum Diagnostics into the wild.<br><br>These were originall…
Hi all,
Just wanted to let people know that I've released a new version of the Spectrum Diagnostics into the wild.
These were originally authored by Winston, I've expanded and enhanced them to include 128/+2/+2A/+3 testing as well ... -
Commodore The Amiga years<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: rg…
Just discovered that Brian Bagnall will use Kickstarter to release the most avaited book (almost for me) Commodore: The Amiga Years.The campaign will start on 15 Jun 2015 as announced on Facebookhttps://www.facebook...4051909?fref=nf -
Gunfright Disassembly<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt;">Here is my disassembly of Gunfright originally published by Ultimate Pl…
Here is my disassembly of Gunfright originally published by Ultimate Play The Game in 1986.Gunfright Disassembly for ZX SpectrumAgain, I used @clausjahn's ZX Preview (run in OS X using Wine) to create the various disassembly files.Regards,Derek. -
New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
- EXPLORER -ZX Spectrum 48K/128K© 1989/2015 Luca Bordoni
PREFACE*******In far 1981, EXPLORER was a clone of my favourite game, Scramble. Once I've seen an alternate vertical-scrolling version in a TV show, I always wondered its title (internet was ... -
Grundy Newbrain<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Hi</span></font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 1…
Hi
I have a Grundy Newbrain Model AD (Display) that I would like to sell. It got the annoying Capacitor problem, that means it needs some time to start up if it hasn't been used in a while, but people who have a little experience in fixing computers ... -
Apple Bans Games And Apps Featuring The Confederate FlagQuote:<div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; ba…
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"Apple has now joined a host of merchants in removing the Confederate flag from its platform – in its case, the iTunes App Store. Several app developers are now reporting that their Civil War games, which featured imagery of the flag as part ... -
15 augustus 2015 | Sinclair Takeover 2015 | Maarssen - The Netherlands<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">I'am pleased to tell you we will be having another "Sinclair Takeover…
I'am pleased to tell you we will be having another "Sinclair Takeover" in Maarssen (NL) his year! I think it was quite an success last year!
I have created a facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/1461800887469627/
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Tau Day<br>By popular demand (well, demand of one, which is highly popular in the sorts of things I do :D ), here is a small celebration of tau day, June 28…
By popular demand (well, demand of one, which is highly popular in the sorts of things I do :D ), here is a small celebration of tau day, June 28. For those unfamiliar with it, Tau Day competes with Pi Day (March 14) for your attentions.
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Newbie Hardware QuestionsI just recently aquired my first Spectrum, a +2, and I'm in the process of getting acquainted with it. Being a newbie I had some questions, which …
... did get a lot of color bleeding and have to ... absolutely terrible with rendering the color, producing a god awful dithering ... pattern wherever there was color. The composite to HDMI did ... but is there any other color/luminance controls on the board ... -
TV Pal, odd and even framesI have been researching, but haven't found any real interesting information on this subject, so far. What I mean is, since TV PAL signal is interl…
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Best modern (small) sprites for the Speccy?What are the best game sprites created for the Speccy in the last 15 years? A month ago I released [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/dis…
... pixels wide) designed with light color against darker background[/b]. Also ... -
Were there other graphic modes for the ZX Spectrum?I've read that there was a "hi-color" mode that allowed the color clash to be 8x1 instead of 8x8. Maybe I have the name of that mode wrong. I'm…
... was a "hi-color" mode that allowed the color clash to be ... changing the address of the color attribute table each scanline. But ... the traditional 256x192 (with 8x8 color attributes), were there any other ... -
ZX Spectrum Sprite chipHi everyone. As I said some time ago, I wanted to make a 'virtual' Sprite chip for the ZX spectrum, on my ZEsarUX emulator. The idea is to make so…
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Afera, a library for Abersoft ForthI've published a [url=http://programandala.net/en.program.afera.html]library for Abersoft Forth[/url]. It's called Afera. I wrote it some months ago…
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3x64 colorsWhile working on the [url="https://github.com/jarikomppa/img2spec"]image spectrumizer[/url] I googled about different "trick modes" people have done …
... anyone doing this obvious 3x64 color mode thingy: don't swap ... one of the three 64-color palettes. The palettes come from ... bright+bright 8 x 8 color combinations.





