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problems tuning in a new +2Got a new +2 today from eBay, as the last one I 'won' turned out to be a 48k+ that didn't work. Anyway, I've connected it up to 2 TVs, by the Aerial…
... HD TV, the other a portable TV from about 1990 ... clear it's the computer, with a little colour, and I can ... HDTV, it comes through on CHannel 36.
I can' ... I have is related to Channel 5, as I recall ... started broadcasting, as it interferred with them. I don;t ... -
Problem with PRINT #stream on +128kWorking on a +128k, I want to choose whether all report output goes to screen or printer, so I use PRINT #stream where stream = 2 or 3 for screen or …
Working on a +128k, I want to choose whether all report ... . If I type in a simple statement like:
... /> either as a direct command, or with a line number and ... call the print subroutine with GOSUB 1719, it will ... fail (when stream=3) with "8 End of file" ... -
New stereo audio board for fitting on AY chip - interested?Hi, I developed a small board that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX Spectrums: [IMG]http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/stereo_audio.j…
... I developed a small board that fits on the AY chip inside ... sound, without distortion, and with a good volume.
It ... 25 of these, complete with wires and components.
... I will use a minijack socket that can ... 4 wires and make a hole for the socket ... -
New AY-RIDERS album: "ATARIDERS". ;)Hi, _________________________ AY-RIDERS: "ATARIDERS" EP album. (C) 2010 by AY-RIDERS. DOWNLOAD: [url]http://ay-riders.speccy.cz/007.htm[/url] This…
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Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …
... much like Bioshock crossed with Half-Life 2 with a bit of Halo ... these bugs have been fixed with a patch - my 360 hasn't ... . Or would be, except you choose the ending by one action ... fantastic), and the ability to choose how to upgrade your weapons ... -
Is there a way to play Arcadia in Spectaculator with an Xbox 360 gamepad?Arcadia is still one of my favourite Spectrum games (it was back in '84, too), and the keyboard controls are alright-ish, but I would love to finally…
... finally get to play it with a proper controller. I've had ... a bit mess around in the ... , but I haven't found a way to use the sticks ... -
What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... to load it from a +3 and a +3e, so I ... really straightforward: from BASIC a POKE 23388,16+n is performed ... main block is loaded, a POKE 23388,16 is performed to ... shows up and I can choose controls and start game, ... method to completly load a 128K game (which could ... -
Need help with a DOS commandI've searched for hours in a row and I've been searching for a couple days now, but I can't find a way to log on to a local machine using DOS. This i…
... I've been searching for a couple days now, but ... using DOS. This is a specific situation where the welcome ... (even though it's a fresh/clean copy of explorer ... be able to logon as a user, using DOS. Tried ... did replace user and password with the correct ones.
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how can we hack a .sna for infinite lives?recently, i were trying to edit .sna from Chuckie Egg on a hex editor, with the information from [url]http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/info.pl?na…
... from Chuckie Egg on a hex editor, with the information from ... name=Chuckie%20Egg&publisher=A%60n%60F%20Software[/url] , ... is to edit the .sna with a hex editor (like khexedit), ... it? i'm struggling a lot on using the ... have yet any way to poke the ram, or manage ... -
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... udg+8: READ v: POKE a,v: NEXT a:
DATA 65,36 ... ):
LET s$=a$:
POKE defadd,0: POKE defadd+1,0
LET a$=s$:
POKE defadd,0: POKE defadd+1,0 ... space to define a$ as starting at 16384 with a length of 6912 ... -
Huby - new two channel beeper music engineAnother new beeper music engine. This one is very simple, similar to Music Box or Music Studio - just two channels of tone and one drum sound which r…
... replaces note on the first channel. Main feature of the engine ... , you should use XM tracker with a custom converter tool.
Name of a Speccy homebrew with a ball and gravity and stuffAnyone remember what this is called? It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something.
Anyone remember what this is called?
It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something.A great end to the ZX81 30th Anniversary Year2011 has been a really good year for the ZX81 and its 30th anniversary. We have seen new games: - A collection of 1K games with hi-res graphics - Bo…
2011 has been a really good year for the ... new games:
- A collection of 1K games with hi-res graphics ... well received and has resolved a number of problems for the ... to use AY sound with the ZX81, as well as a joystick port ...Cheetah stuff (a keyboard)I never knew that Cheetah (aside from selling the SpecDrum) also sold other music related stuff for the Speccy. They also sold a MIDI interface and a…
... also sold a MIDI interface and a keyboard to go with it.< ... Zaragoza from Britain on Wednesday with the Amstrad MIDI interface ( ... the various features of the AY chip, make envelopes, create ... attention on the conductive bits with a Brillo pad or something similar ...A Thread with not much Speccyness about it..Sorry this not only non-speccy related but is also somewhat C64 related:o But hey this is the chit forum is it not? Anyway, I already posted this q…
... an ITX motherboard inside a C64 and using the ... , which was successful although a bit rough, didn't ... I had a quick Google but didn't come up with much ... people have been concerned with the physical height of ... I could have done this with a Speccy I would have ...AY-interface for ZX81 (at last ;) )Hi, it exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX. [url]http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Brand_New_Sinclair_ZX81_MrX_A…
... exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX ... PT3 format files) into a directory on the ZXpand ... , and then run a short program to select ... Tracker II for Windows. A good tutorial for using ... remind You that AY sound (with the same standard ...Help needed with a loop counterVariable W counts to 12 then calls a subroutine to move a character, it then resets to zero and starts again. For every 2 moves of that character I …
... to 12 then calls a subroutine to move a character, it then ... dont want to faff about with other variable counters.
Did you ever cheat to win in a competition?I just remembered this because of a post over at [URL="http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/best-cpc-games/45/"]CPCWiki[/URL]. I never personally cheat…
... I never personally cheated in a game to win something, ... the game and found a poke so he could slam ... Software.
A while later he was invited ... the game ...probably in a much more stressful manner. ... So I went over there with him - the first time ...Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…
... want to play two-channel music without having to ... I know...) for each channel. From all the currently available ... to play my two-channel tune and at the ... same way as notes, but with a high number. 1,255, ... in one channel if a note in another channel is still ...Anatomy of a bad M1No, not the motorway (although at times the tarmac M1 goes about as well as this one...) But the bad M1 problem that seems to occur most with issue …
... in particular being tested, with the scope probe connected directly ... to the edge connector, with the scope channel set to DC so ... br />
In summary, a Z80 with a bad M1 is probably caused ... by a disconnect somewhere on ...Hep needed with a bit of code...I've written a bit of code to make a character move across the screen, but the counter stops at 29 when the 3 lines to delete the characters trail ar…
... the counter which pokes 63298 with the horizontal co-ord when ... z, rpg
ld a,(63289) ; ????
cp 31 ; This ...
ret
space: ld a, 2
call 5633
prb: ld a,(63289)
ld (63298 ),a
call space ...A new ZX spectrum cloneOver the past 12 months i have been developing a new spectrum clone as a hobby project to waste my spare time on. It is still not fully complete yet …
... ZX spectrum 128K compatible hardware with 48K display timings
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Stereo AY sound output mixed with beeper to SCART ... spectrum, spectrum with 2x4 attribute grid, spectrum with 8x1 attribute grid ... tested the current system with a lot of games including ...Problems with stereo kit for AYSomeone has bought a stereo kit from me to add to his 128K ZX Spectrum. Problem however is that one of the channels is a less loud than the other tw…
Someone has bought a stereo kit from me to ... one of the channels is a less loud than the other ... two.
I sent him a second kit, but it gave ... /> I suspect the AY chip to have a problem, but the strange ... it still be the AY chip having a problem?
Lot ...Games that could be better off with a 7MHz CPUI've just reviewed Kung Fu Master for the Spectrum, as I remember it as a very poor conversion from the arcade. Then it just ocurred to me to raise t…
... as I remember it as a very poor conversion from the ... suddently the game turned into a (more) playable one.
... existing game that, without or with minor modifications, could take ... advatange of a supoosed 7MHz Spectrum? (advatange ...ZX +2 Grey with quiet ULA soundHi all. I come here for advice before messing up with the main boards and end up killing them for good. I got this grey ZX +2 with a very low ULA a…
... advice before messing up with the main boards and ... this grey ZX +2 with a very low ULA audio. ... 0.5% of the AY sound. AY sound is fine.
The ULA was checked OK with ...
(Forgive if this is a double post due to technical ...Interview with Clive Townsend (Saboteur)Here you have at [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]www.elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] this exclusive interview with Clive Townsend. Don?t forget…
... work on websites, but with a few game projects running in ... later that I started training with a real Bujinkan Ninjutsu group. ... a scrolling version, then a side-view platformer with a 3D engine, then finally a ... will allow you to choose the style of gameplay ...Problem with Page 7I've been experimenting with running code in page 7 (+3) from BASIC and I seemed to have got it sorted out but then it all went wrong. Firstly, I tr…
I've been experimenting with running code in page 7 (+ ... 65371: READ p: POKE a,p: NEXT a:
POKE 23388,16+0: STOP ... /> FOR a=0 TO 139: POKE 65368+a,PEEK (16384+a): NEXT a:
POKE 23388 ... all crash on the first POKE.
Can someone ...3D Construction Kit came with a game?As per this youtube video: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1ByDCk938[/url] It looks like so :) Should it then be included as a game in the a…
As per this youtube video:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1ByDCk938[/url]
It looks like so :)
Should it then be included as a game in the archive, authored with its main program, 3D Construction Kit?Childhood moments with my SpeccyHey everyone. The other day I randomly came across a tumblr page called "Me and My ZX Spectrum" ([url]http://meandmyzxspectrum.tumblr.com[/url]) …
... people (when they were kids) with their ZX Spectrums. Looking at ... we bought our first TV with a SCART input. Everything looked so ... dial, hidden behind a little door. I had channel button 12 pressed ... . That evening he came home with; Shaolin's Road and Bazooka ...Adding a pause key to ArkanoidHaving rediscovered the simple pleasure of playing 1980s games on genuine 1980s hardware, I've also remembered that emulation can provide a feature m…
... RAM), then load the game with a breakpoint on 0x8000, its entry ... 0xFCB1: the three bytes to poke in are 0xC3, 0xB1 and ... an early version of Speedlock with no countdown timer; the reason ... thing in the 1980s, armed with only a Multiface.
-Stephen
