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Tinkering with DMASo, some afternoon tinkering... [img]http://photo.alioth.net/tmp/dma_small.jpg[/img] The purpose of this all is to see what's possible using the Xi…
... etc - the whole thing with changing the upper 8 bits of ... -
4K GamingWhen the new Nvidea 970 and 980 cards came out I decided it was time to upgrade my gaming PC. I decided to go for a 4K setup to try and future proof …
... so I won't bother changing. Also I tried setting what ... -
Smokin... more 48k woesHi, it looks like I've converted another Spectrum 48K+ into a smoke machine. I'd been rebuilding an Opus Discovery unit and everything looked good. …
... than normal screen with the characters showing a bright "shadow" to ... -
spammers offering jobs nowWith a subject of "Job in your location" and a message starting "International company is looking for a new employee of Administrative Assistant team…
... may notice that removing the characters of the sender's name ... -
Detecting flash mode inversionsIs is possible to detect with certainty when flashing characters change from normal to inverted and vice-versa?
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Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…
... the users input for restricted characters and ignores them.
characters like the asterix "*" and other ... an expression of the limited characters - e.g. [B]LET l ... -
I broke my 48k Speccy!!!!Hey guys, I am looking for some advice, I hope you can point me in the right direction. So, I went about replacing all the capacitors on my issue 4…
... picture quality was poor hence changing the caps.
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48K keyboard problemI have a strange issue with an issue 2 48k spectrum. Hopefully you guys can point me in the right direction in finding the fault. For some reason t…
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Diamond DiggerA collaboration between Dave Pierce 'davepierce07' & Jim Grimwood 'Battle Bunny'. [center][url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/dd-…
... for loading with TXT2Emu. Any characters appearing in the form "{XX ... -
Land of Mire Mare 1.06Luca has made some modifications to the presentation, graphics and gameplay RELEASE HISTORY v.1.06 - Massive update, including new menu, fixes and …
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mapping avalonAvalon is sposed to be good but it needs mapping. I realize there are maps available but that is cheating. There are never doors at the bottom of th…
... ' of the game is always changing direction.
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10 line contest (until April 8)The ABBUC people in Germany are hosting the fourth BASIC 10 liners contest this spring. No machine code including calling ROM routines directly, cert…
... , certain limitations on number of characters per line, otherwise it is ... -
SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…
... UDGs - Previously, UDGs were two characters in size; CHR$(1) followed ... now matches at least no characters instead of one
... use Alt-Gr for some characters (such as Portuguese)
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Trailblazer Cheat ModeThere's a [URL="http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/info.pl?wosid=0000657"]familiar cheat mode[/URL] in Trailblazer... It's a bit convoluted to get…
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Match Day - Maximum number of goals (?) and a bug compilationGreetings. I'm willing to share some stuff about old Ritman's classic Match Day, so let's get on with it. :smile: PART 1 ------ I was curious abo…
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…
... huge graphics/"sprites" for the characters look like nothing I have ...The grass is always greener...I have been a ZX Spectrum User since I owned one in my teens when they first came out in the early 80s. Not that I use it every day, but I get a fit …
... are those dreaded screen control characters. The printers of the time ...Posts too long.I've tried posting a few things about SpecBAS (there's been a lot of activity during the WOS downtime) and one of them was a post which contained a r…
... too long by about 5000 characters.
Not good.
D ...ZX Spectrum and the Beano?<p>Or Dandy or Beezer of Whizzer & Chips for that matter.</p><p>Does anyone know if the Speccy, or any game characters made appearances in 1980's…
Or Dandy or Beezer of Whizzer & Chips for that matter.Does anyone know if the Speccy, or any game characters made appearances in 1980's comics?Superhero gamesHi all,<br><br>I'm going to be giving a talk on how comic book superheroes (Batman, Spiderman, etc.) have been represented in 8-bit games. Would you …
Can't log inI cannot get logged in with my original A/C. Password-reset emails are arriving but after changing the p/w I still can't log in ('permission de…
I cannot get logged in with my original A/C. Password-reset emails are arriving but after changing the p/w I still can't log in ('permission denied' or 'please try again'). Can you sort this? Thanks chaps.Issues trying to read latest postsWhen the new forum appeared, I could see latest unread posts because the thread titles were written on bold characters. After a few days that feature…
... titles were written on bold characters. After a few days that ...ZERO Emulator - BugsI have been using Zero emulator to experiment a few routines in assembly, since it has a somewhat usable debugger. However I believe I found a few b…
I have been using Zero emulator to experiment a few routines in assembly, since it has a somewhat usable debugger.
However I believe I found a few bugs, some in "zero" application, and some on emulation itself.
The following example ...The text edition window shrinksJust when I thought that all my problems here were solved , another bug has popped up : When I begin writing a message , no matter if a new discussi…
... at a time . Additionally , the characters seen in this line are ...Fuse - HelpAs some of you might have guessed already, I'm kind of doing a rampage on a lot of emulators, to test things out, and find the most suitable for deve…
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Examples:
Changing screen size and or layout ...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…
Spectrum reimagined box artWe all know that the Sinclair Spectrum packaging was somewhat disappointing at times compared to the more snazzy and attention grabbing rivals back i…
... -1990 and how those games/characters would be splashed across the ...My experience with a ZX Spectrum clone called Elwro 800 JuniorAfter a long break in using this forum (modellrailroading is my main hobby) I'm back and want to tell something about an interesting ZX Spectrum clon…
... ended up with failure. After changing capacitors nothing has changed and ...Where does the ULA+ store its palettes?The ULA+ palates are saved as TAP files, what is the exact address of the colour tables and how are they configured? Can you change the colour val…
... of a baddie will keep changing but the actual attribute value ...'Bulb Blowout' basic type inHere's something I've just dug out. I pretended to have written this in 1985 but I didn't at all. I added some bits in, changed the characters names …
... some bits in, changed the characters names to school mates' and ...
