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Fave adventure game from '84The best I've seen from that year was "Lords Of Midnight", however, I've only scratched the surface. So to give me an idea of other classics, tell me…
... , but I solved it eventually with only 1 hint I believe, if ... you have kill a barrowight with a bible! ;)
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ArcadiaIt's been bugging me for years - why does your ship in Arcadia wobble all over the place with a tendency to veer to one side? Was that intentional or…
You need to play it in an emulator (such as SPIN or Spectaculator) with the Fuller joystick attached. The game assumes that there is one, and the lack of one combined with floating bus behaviour produces that effect.
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Shocker: C64 to be relaunched!Just read this piece on PC Word: [url="http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0"]http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0[/url],aid,111556,00.asp Is that …
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Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... debugger and the same with Spin...
1. Bigger windows (can ... altering code there and then with minimal effort.
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Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type
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are the following (tzx) really missing ?On the list at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html"]www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html[/url] there are some existing items ages a…
... t 151% speed in line with Alkatraz 1/2
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"Game Over 1 part 1&2 english version ( ... .cgi?regexp=^Game+Over+1$&pub=^Dinamic+Software ... also have Game Over 1 part 1&2 spanish version ... />
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ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
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Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... time you can get away with using 'ret' on a Spectrum ... ' to terminate the ISR with an AMX mouse attached, it wouldn't ... -
et tu SAM Coupe...Today I put my SAM Coupe on the desk, searched 5 hours for a file conversion utility PC->SAM, and tried to unlock the secrets of SAM mode 4 screen :)…
Sure, better Lace mode and RGB is possible, but I start with MODE 4 quantization first, more modes follow later ;).
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Big Hello and football manager gameshi guy's this takes me back! just surfing around and i find this place... i remmember the times i had as a kid playing on my speccy. wish i still ha…
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Music / BonustracksHi all, Is there a reason for some of the low quality MP3s still in the above folder? If not, could someone please upload clearer versions of the f…
... joint stereo (or stereo) with lame 1.93 and later. This would ... -
Stoopid questions your girlfriend asksI can't be the only one here with a dopey partner. In her defence, she is quite young and only vaguely remembers the spectrum years. Here are the to…
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What's the best emulator......for running under Windows XP? I recently upgraded (grudgingly), aonly to find the emulators I had (Z80, Gleck, RealSpectrum) didn't work, or said …
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256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…
... Lancelot" and guess what happens with the title screen :(
with XOR = 1 and XOR = 0, and ... with AND/OR (blindly :p) as ... -
Multiface 128 and floppy drive questionHi, promise, my last question......... Been searching around for info, with no luck. With a multiface 128, can you attach a 3.5 inch floppy disk dri…
... it is not fully compatible with +D (I have both of ... network ports that can communicate with Interface 1.
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Multiface 128 and floppy drive questionHi, promise, my last question......... Been searching around for info, with no luck. With a multiface 128, can you attach a 3.5 inch floppy disk dri…
... and a drive with Drive Select (DS 0/1) switch or jumper ... not have it, but with the help of Hardware Book ... to cross the DS 0 with DS 1 signal, as all these ... PC drives are DS 1 currently (again: The crossed ... so it won't work with Disciple).
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Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... feel to begin with! :)
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Game from an ancient old calculatorOne for the mathematicians, this (possibly). Bear with me on this one... Many, many years ago, when I was a nipper, I had a Casio calculator which …
... been taken down and replaced with v1.1 - involving a lot of ... -
Retro Gamer issue 4It's now out (a few days early by my reckoning), with the news that it's now monthly!!! Pity the CD's a bag of shite though. [ This Message was edi…
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Best Speccy BargainsWhat was your best Speccy related bargain you've ever got? Mine was my first Speccy in 94/95. I was looking over my local car boot sale when I saw a…
1991, local bootfair. ZX Interface 1, Microdrive and 5 cartridges for ?10 ... -
CSW file reading DLLMy csw.dll file is used by Electrem Future but it could be used by any Windows program. Are any emulator authors interested in using it? Csw files …
... (which can be checked for with IsExceptionThrown) except Finished, GetInitialPolarity and ... .
It only works with V2.0 files although it ... be easily changed to work with V1.1 files. I would prefer ... -
SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... validity has to do with point (1), of course we have ... course, we are working with old media technology here, but ... what is going to happen with IPF.
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GP32 speccy emulators and other stuffI'm about to invest in a GP32 BLU as I have a long long long stay in hospital coming up and really want to know if anyone has one of these and can gi…
... got an Asus MyPal 620 with a 1 gig CF card. Got ... -
InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... bus. Presumably it does this with mode 0 and mode 2 ... it is also done with mode 1 to avoid extra logic.
How about sneaky things they invented to make you BUY the game?!...the dual of that other awesome thread. For instance, I found it annoying to go and search for a Spectrum game to buy, turn over the box to see th…
... lot recently, which they bundled with Cascade Cassette 50. I never ... got one with mine, but apparently most people ... made many a person part with their hard, saved cash to ... a poor compilation of games with only 1 titles worthy of evening ...MacFuse 0.7.0: performance and TR DOS problemsI can't praise Fuse enough for being such a comprehensive emulator that' still updated regularly. I'm grateful for all the new features in version 0.…
... back the demos at 100% with the default settings.
< ... can't handle 100% playback with graphics filters enabled without also ... screen update ratio to 1:3 or more with either version of ... screen allows 100% playback speed with a 1:1 screen update ratio.
Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
As far as No. 1 goes, what you need to ... bit between go: and restoreb: with something like:
[code ... replace all references to HL1 with HL3+1.
What you ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... of both worlds - Crisp and clear with vibrant colours like the Speccy ... , but with hi-res colour capability like ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... /> I mean, as said above, with only a 3.54 Mhz ... is stored as 256*192 with only 1 bit for each pixel ... each character square.
With a pixel per pixel, at ...
