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Can anyone remember a film where a damaged ship can't countdown sequentialy during a self destruct?When I was a child, I'm sure I remember part of a film or maybe TV movie where a boy or maybe a teenager is in a spaceship. The ship has a intelligen…
... movie where a boy or maybe a teenager is in a spaceship. The ... ship has a intelligent ... damage, the numbers are not in a decreasing sequence. Instead they ... I think the computer had a female voice.
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Disassembly starting from a tape fileFollowing on from the Atic Atak redefining keys thread, I was wondering how you'd go about disassembling the code from scratch. The approach used in …
... scratch. The approach used in that mini project was to ... it's running and hack in a change from there, but ... same thing as I had in mind. That approach would ... code is in a TAP file, I guess a starting point ... tape. From there, work in ASM could commence from where ... -
Burning a ROM for a 128k +2 (Grey)Hi Guys, I would like to change the 128k +2 menus I have actually in French with English. The OS is in a 27C256 eprom. I do have a programmer and …
... with English. The OS is in a 27C256 eprom. I do have ... a programmer and a bunch of 27C256 and ... -
Connecting a 3" CF2 drive to a PC... or anything else, really!This one might well have been done to death - but in an eBay auction I've just won (and the stuff should be winging its way to me already, arriving b…
... done to death - but in an eBay auction I've ... the fact remains this is a Distribution Denied™ title and ... there are no downloads of a .dsk image.
in a +3) "and a special cable (link ... laptop comes in handy, armed as it is with a 3. ... -
Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... space for it; in the package was a microdrive, the ... morning[/i] when a package came in the post containing an ... it, there is a foam pad in place, so I ... didn't have a sponge pad in the mechanism at ... essentially reel-to-reel tape in a plastic shell), and neither ... -
I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…
... started out to write a simple cursor move program ... easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me ... one - later I put in a CLS to get rid of ... />
I tried putting in a PAUSE thinking that for some ... checked everything in case I'd made a silly mistake ... -
The Amazon Key, what a great idea!Nowadays, lots of people order things online, and get the items sent to their homes. And inevitably of course, sometimes the delivery driver will att…
... time.
And so, in a fit of brilliance, Amazon have ... Amazon Key[/b]. This is a great system whereby delivery drivers ... door, and leave the items in your house, awaiting your return ... of your own control to a faceless multi-billionaire company, and ... -
Can't get Java applets to work in any browser ? Not even IE 11 with Windows 8.1?My wife needs to fill out a questionnaire on a website and it's in Java! I have all the latest updates of JRE and JDK. From my IE settings it should…
... fill out a questionnaire on a website and it's in Java! I ... an applet then embed it in a simple HTML document it doesn ... can see have Java enabled in the browser any ideas ?? Questionnaire ... pretty important maybe there's a page that translates Java into ... -
Are you a detective.I wouldn't normally post something so off topic (oh ok I can sometimes), but this is something I have got to ask as it is driving me up the wall and …
... -series. I have a plot in my head and I ... around a teenage boy who was with a girl in the ... ) or the leading detective in the investigation. It all ... happened in leafy suburbs, 3 bed ... remember is someone worked in a tyre fitters shop and ... -
Ensure program runs in USR 0 mode?Is there some BASIC that can be used in a program to make sure the the program runs (even on 128k models) in 48k or USR 0 mode? I obviously then wan…
Is there some BASIC that can be used in a program to make sure the the program runs (even on 128k models) in 48k or USR 0 mode? I obviously then want to be able to run the rest of the program from the USR 0 mode. -
External links in new tabJust a quick suggestion. Would be nice if external (as in a different TLD) links opened in a [u]new[/u] tab rather than in the current one please.…
... external (as in a different TLD) links opened in a [u]new ... [/u] tab rather than in the ... the same TLD opening in the same window/tab ... a forum topic with a link to a mag page or a ... .
From a coding perspective although target blank ... -
1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... the difference in photographic quality achievable with a Brownie 127 ... of film shot in colour with a good SLR that ... aperture etc almost invariably results in a lot of mediocre snapshots whose ... scale. The difference in appearance between a black on white line ... -
how do i read the screen in sections. with or without the scroll command?heres what i have so far http://pasteall.org/pic/efccc10f2f796d382dabb21ad76c640a https://www.pastefile.com/V7demX i want to store the cat l…
heres what i have so far
http://pasteall.org/pic/efccc10f2f796d382dabb21ad76c640a
https://www.pastefile.com/V7demX
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Tutorial: Using UDGs in SpecBASSpecBAS is capable of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original Spectrum. Like most things though, the extended nature of SPecBAS's ab…
... of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original ... - we'll get to that in a short while.
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To redefine a character in SpecBAS, you POKE in a similar manner to ... we have that character in the variable a$. This function will ... -
Time travelling, inter-galactic communication with a BBC MicroJust listened to this podcast of the best story ever, to do with time travel and inter galactic communication. It happened around 1984, to a couple …
... happened around 1984, to a couple living in a cottage in Dodleston, near to ... messages left on it from a guy in the 16th century. Which ... 2109.
It's a great story.
Here ... the story, which was from a book entitled ,"The Vertical Plane ... -
Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…
... do with our Speccy's in a similar vein really.
... long to manually type in if required. A bit of assembly ... />
Listing in a codebox rather than a tape file for convenient ... lines" listing in the original Speccy manual in the appropriate mode ... -
Fixing a poorly Issue 3 - Odd faults.Here's one for you Spectrum fixers, I warn you it's a long one. I've spent a couple hours this evening doing several repairs on a rubber keyed Speccy…
... no. Upon connecting a working keyboard and entering in a few basic commands ... reset the Spectrum 4 times in a row it would hang up ... . So removed IC13, soldered in a socket, fitted a new IC. Again the ... seem as though there maybe a fracture in the board possibly or ... -
Tracking down a favourite Spectrum Adventure gameHello everyone - a new joiner here - looking to pick the collective Hive mind. I was an avid Spectrum gamer, and owned one of the very first 48K e…
... I only have a few scraps of memories. Thanks in advance!
a discovery in a room of "two robots ... being a long-rambling adventure, than eventually I lost interest in as ... wonderful community might afford me in my quest.
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SpecEmu.EXE rises error 0x80004001 when started in Remote Desktop Protocol sessionSpecEmu.EXE only brings error: --------------------------- SpecEmu --------------------------- Failed creating primary surface Error Code: 0…
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Is it a form of despondency or am I just now lazy?I know there are quite a lot of us 40 to 50 year oldies from the Spectrum era and I was wondering if anyone else felt this way? I seem to have the in…
... you lot (which kicks in a mental enthusiasm), but when ... get a little bit of time to sit in front ... surprising that that burns out a lot of enthusiasm.
a. Raw code -Starting a z80 project on the ... /> b. Modern coding - A PC editor for editing 8 ... -
ZY10, a tool to store and display some small bitmapped imagesZY10 Builder ============ Download at: https://www.sendspace.com/file/rncgbo ZY10 is a file format/tool to store some small images on the Spec…
... /> use it as a separate page in 128k models, if you ... so make your image in a drawing program like gimp< ... images.
* in BASIC:
POKE 49157, : ... />
* or in assembly:
ld a,
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Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
... how each of these compared in terms of performance. The ... Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and ... came to sprites, but in a game such as Elite, ... . The spectrum rom has a floating point calculator (RST ... , rather than the one in the rom , as the ... -
How are LAST-K and FLAGS set on a Real Spectrum?Hi, I'm writing a Spectrum emulator and I've got Horace and the Spiders working (with the wrong colours and no sound) but when I boot into ROM non…
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I'm writing a Spectrum emulator and I've ... Horace and the Spiders uses IN to read the keyboard ... that they're set in a real Spectrum by the ... br />
Regarding implementation in my emulator, I assumed that ... of the key is stored in LAST-K so, if ... -
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…
... never seems to happen twice in a row. Another annoyance is that ... the game even has an ending. The end sequence is pretty ... was made to add an ending.
Once you complete ... , any game that is released in a bugged form that is impossible ... -
Favourite BooksThis has probably been done before but i couldn't find a thread. Then again I didn't look very hard, I did look behind the sofa but all I found was s…
... favourite sci fi book. Great Ending.
[ ... Herbert
A great book and a great videogame.
a Mockingbird[/b] Harper Lee
Don't kill a mockingbird, read this instead ... /> [b]10. Three Men in a Boat[/b] Jerome K Jerome ... -
Any 'emulator + single game packaged in a ,exe file" utilities around?Morning all, I'd like to be able to create a single executable file that contains an emulator and a single game/utility that starts loading process …
... be able to create a single executable file that ... contains an emulator and a single game/utility that ... Basically, I've created a silly little utility that I ... without any faffing around; a .tap file using BASinC ... to uncover anything after a quick search so I ... -
A Little Fish Big Tale- An open AGDx-mini gameHi there i wanted to share this little game i made using AGDx-mini (an AGD based Game designer that allows to make 8x8 mini sprites, created by A…
... Turvey)
The game is in a szx format so anyone can ... will
it also as a Practice mode (you will not ... and review it in his facebook page,providing a link to it ... -
Baba is You, a simple but highly original new puzle gameBaba is You is a highly original new puzle game. You can get the original prototype game here: [url="https://hempuli.itch.io/baba-is-you"]Baba Is You…
Baba is You is a highly original new puzle game. ... the dynamic rules could be a bit tricky though.
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Tool that allows step thru BASIC prog/save in .txt formatHi folks, I'm looking for a tool that allows you to step through a BASIC program line-by-line. BASin won't work for me, I'm not sure why. It shows t…
... you to step through a BASIC program line-by- ... more. I've typed in a programme listing and it isn ... is there a too that will save a BASIC listing in .txt ... listing to the listing in the book I copied ... br /> Who'd a thunk that a simple snake programme would ... -
Line - a one line arcade gameHi, I have published Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC. Thanks to Einar Saukas for additional optimisations, suggestions, and fixes. …
... /> I have published Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC ...
