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Why the name "8-bit computer"?The Spectrum was called an 8-bit computer, but what does that mean? For modern hardware and operating systems (32 or 64-bit) it seems to be the poss…
... for determining the N-bit size of a uP because sometimes ... higher N) they cripple the size of the data bus in order ... the N-bit size should be the size of operations and registers ... deliberately crippled external data bus size seriously impacted on performance ... -
Top Ten British Things Americans Don't Care AboutThis is A list of ten things that were/are huge in the UK, but (most) Americans don't care about (in no particular order): 1. ZX Spectrum 2. Footbal…
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Ebay bargains!I recntly picked up a real bargain on Ebay: a 128k spectrum with (it advertised) 60+ games/covertapes, but when I counted, there were 130! I haven't …
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Ebay bargains!I recntly picked up a real bargain on Ebay: a 128k spectrum with (it advertised) 60+ games/covertapes, but when I counted, there were 130! I haven't …
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Spin v0.61 & RZX playback.I can't seem to get RZX files to play correctly in Spin v0.61... Spin always crashes immediately with the error "Access violation at address 00403020…
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Spin v0.61 & RZX playback.I can't seem to get RZX files to play correctly in Spin v0.61... Spin always crashes immediately with the error "Access violation at address 00403020…
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Spin v0.61 & RZX playback.I can't seem to get RZX files to play correctly in Spin v0.61... Spin always crashes immediately with the error "Access violation at address 00403020…
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What WAS going to be bundled with Bandersnatch?Just saw a documentary about the death of Imagine ( [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986[/url] ) and apparently they wer…
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How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
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How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... two bytes -- the byte of mono pixel data and the ... by the way, does the size of the TV raster "plot" ... pixel is twice the height of the raster. This is ... />
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OT: Pb-free solder and iron tipsIs it just me, or do soldering iron tips wear out really fast with lead-free solder? Another 1mm tip just crumbled and it's only done two and a half …
... wearing away a small amount of the iron coating each time ... Multicore TCC! - about the size of a 2p coin and twice ... -
What Will WOS be like in 2050?Will it still have the majority of current posters? Will we still all be Speccy mad maniacs, or will the youngsters take it over and spoil it all. …
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Paris Hilton made me laughPlease tell I'm not the only person who laughed out loud at that picture of Paris Hilton crying in the police car as she got wheeled off to jail for …
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Paris Hilton made me laughPlease tell I'm not the only person who laughed out loud at that picture of Paris Hilton crying in the police car as she got wheeled off to jail for …
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After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…
... been built with a lot of space inside the case for ... passive cooling route and some of these have small from factors ... going to have the same size issues.
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Soldering surface-mount componentsWinston's latest posts about PCBs and joystick interfaces have reminded me of a question I'm really curious about. Basically: Soldering surface-mount…
... inevitably bridge a couple of pins, and desoldering braid ... are half the size of a grain of rice won't ... which kind of puts hand etching out of the question ... ?20 electric hotplate instead of a ?5000 reflow oven ... /> Here's the first page of their tutorial:
Cannon Bubble source releaseHello! We have just released the full source code (including artwork) for our latest game, Cannon Bubble. Download it here: [url]http://www.computer…
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DEATH ...Cannon Bubble source releaseHello! We have just released the full source code (including artwork) for our latest game, Cannon Bubble. Download it here: [url]http://www.computer…
... /chapter8pt27.html"]+3DOS[/URL] section of the +3 manual. The disk ... is reduced to its minimum size of 4 sectors (2K) at the ... top of bank 1.
DEATH ...After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…
Coolest robots.From the poll, what is the coolest SCI-FI robot you've seen?
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(Remember me? Of course, nobody remembers me. I ... Marvin, pick up that piece of paper Marvin, Marvin go and ... and fetch Zaphod! Brain the size of a planet, and they don ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... this first snippet of code contains pointers and different size data types ... is the name of the address of a block of memory holding 10 ... integers are two bytes in size.
Pointer subtraction ... to automatically fill in the size of the array for you.
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... a weeks worth of rain for plenty of sunshine ... e ... still like a bit of foreign quisine in my ... /> As for Ticks one of the little bastards latched onto ... right on the top of the Bermuda Triangle sorta ... br /> I've seen the size of those spiky proboscis things they ...Interface 1 electrolytic capacitorsInterface 1 has three 47μF electrolytic capacitors. Is it necesary to replace them with fresh ones? I always do this with old speccys but is it…
... don't forget that the size of a 50 year old electrolytic ... different to a modern component of the same value. It's ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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if ... zero then we do change colour of the character square ... screen with the help of another spectrum library function ... and returns the address of the corresponding attribute square, ...Whats your favourite one hit wonder?Mine is probably Jesse by Joshua Kadison. It's one of the first things I played live.
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The Wonderstuff "The size of a cow" I couldn't ... ignore the Wonderstuff because the size of a cow annoyed the piss ...Games on the "big" screenI don't know if any of you listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2, but I usually do and a part of his program around 5.45 is the business news where some t…
... ....you dont even notice the size of the screen anymore as you ... because it was too much of a pain to move furniture ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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Code size of linked modules is 1449 bytes ...Harry Potter And The Order Of The PhoenixSaw this earlier tonight and I must say I really enjoyed it. I haven't read any of the books (apart from the first one a good while ago) but I think …
... them and having seen the size of them I'm not surprised ...Converting .wma to .mp3Im using Winamp to convert an album from 128kbps .wma to 128kbps .mp3. Does this introduce much degradation in quality? Does it add hissing or anyt…
... reasonably small file size whilst retaining the quality of sound.[/QUOTE]
I get files of around 60-65% of the size of the original WAV ...
