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  • I've bought a Sony Minidisc deck in 2018 - For the Love of MinidiscsI've got a little HIFI obsession going at the moment, not only tape decks, but mini disk and vinyl. I recently brought a second Technics SL1200 becau…

    ... players y were never popular in the USA but have a cult ... end models that were sold in the USA go for between$ 500 ... a new belt was in order. I used the buy it now ... double thickness too. So the upgrade in build quality and thus longevity ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2018 Chit chat
  • Difference microdrives as used in the QL and stand-alone microdrivesI have several working QL motherboards, am in need of enclosures to make them real QL's, and have quite a few normal, stand-alone, microdrives - can …

    I have several working QL motherboards, am in need of enclosures to make them real QL's, and have quite a few normal, stand-alone, microdrives - can these be used somehow for the QL, or are they completely different?
    georgedb georgedb April 2019 Hardware
  • The unspoken question in 2001: A Space OddesseyFrom childhood I have watched this film probably more times than I can remember. As I got older it kind of appealed to me on a different level from…

    ... Odysseus.

    In the film more immediate events take ... also has regulatory functions in terms of the Discovery's operation. ... in HAL entering a "H moebius loop" (this was revealed in the ... sequel: 2010 The year we make contact ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2019 Chit chat
  • Flagrant Disregard For The Law In GamesPoor [b]Trashman[/b] has to dodge pavement cyclists, possible speeding cars and hit and run incidents as well as dogs that clearly are not being kept…

    ... . All of these would result in the police getting involved.

    in real life, would result in a visit from the police/council ...
    Nick Nick November 2019 Games
  • The cheating AI in old Street Fighter gamesHaving acquired a couple of decent controllers for my PC recently, I played a bunch of old fighting games on MAME today. Didn't get too far on any of…

    ... hardly played any of the games against the CPU in the last decade or ... so. Amongst them was the infamous ... . Not having played this in the arcades back in the 90s, I had no ... some of those games back in the 90s.
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG November 2019 Chit chat
  • Someone repairing ZX Spectrum in The Netherlands?Last december I bought a Spectrum 48k of an online marketplace. This week a new powersupply arrived (did not dare to try the old one) and a divMMC de…

    ... from SD cards.

    The Spectrum seems to work fine ... 't. When I push the red LED the Spectrum resets. Online I ... and desoldering/soldering. The first I can do (: The second is not ... me. Are there reliable adresses in Europe I can contact? Experience ...
    muppets4 muppets4 January 2020 Hardware
  • +2B: where's the tape signal gone?So, this is what I really came here for today... I've got two +2Bs, one with an issue 1 board and some extra soldered wires, and one with an issue…

    ... dodgy-looking fixes - so in the past, I've always ... , the sound coming from the Datacorder had mysteriously vanished. The border colours don ... , it just sits there in white-bordered silence. Nevertheless, ... to fling small objects in random directions with little ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2020 Hardware
  • Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…

    ... : The text colours are now way too soft. Game titles are in a ... . The jump to the top should be instant.

    • Left menu - In the ... red menu on the left, what are those ...
    Lee Bee Lee Bee June 2020 Updates
  • Are line numbers considered the first statement in the line?I'm trying to understand how BASIC variables are stored in memory using the BASIC Programming manual and am puzzled by the results of the control var…

    ... BASIC variables are stored in memory using the BASIC Programming manual ... am puzzled by the results of the control variable when ... is the statement number within the line according to the manual ... of is that the line number is considerred the first statement. ...
    LevelUp LevelUp July 2020 BASIC
  • How do you get the GRAPHICS cursor in 128 Basic?I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even …

    I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even tried print usr "p" after loading in the binary to make a character and that wouldn't work either.
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch October 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Return Of The Improvers: GALACTIC TROOPERAlert readers will be aware that myself and the super-talented Pgyuri are always on the lookout for historical Speccy wrongs to fix, from the unplaya…

    ... Maze Death Race to the wonky colours of [url=https://spectrumcomputing ... (and I use "we" in the sense that my contribution was ... bonus also enhanced the gameplay by tweaking the bizarro movement ... />
    Next up on the ramp was [url=https://spectrumcomputing ...
    Rev_Stuart_Campbell Rev_Stuart_Campbell October 2020 Games
  • Roger the PangolinI said how impressive Cosmic Payback looked in another thread, but this is to me is even more impressive given the Spectrum's limitations. Very smoot…

    ... how impressive Cosmic Payback looked in another thread, but this is ... is even more impressive given the Spectrum's limitations. Very smooth ... than 2 colours in an attribute square.

    Roger the Pangolin
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2020 Games
  • Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…

    ... the Spectrum with 80 columns ( 640x200 ) and no clear information on colours ... it have challenged the PC? The 286 of the era was a few ... see if it was possible in the Sinclair way of doing things ... it was Microsoft's vision in in the last 4 years of last ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk August 2021 Hardware
  • Missed opportunities in the 80'sAll the talk of the Loki got me thinking... What if someone had built an expansion box for the speccy that had the 3812 Yamaha music chip ( Adlib Sou…

    ... provide better games, all in a plug-in upgrade... A ready- ... have suddenly started outperforming the C64 of the era, but at ... Basically just reusing the RAM that came with the speccy and treating ...
    Might that have killed the idea of building new machines ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk September 2021 Hardware
  • Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…

    ... I've been talking about in other ( the z280 ) thread...
    ... when the LoKi was discussed, but 256x192x64 colours is 48K. On the ... z280, you can get the internal ... to handle the pages however you like, but in the 48K, there ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk October 2021 Hardware
  • Facebook groups and the people in them make me sometimes feel uneasy.I'm in a Facebook group (NOT the WOS one) on some random subject,and recently I noticed that a member of that group a pretty Chinese girl apparently…

    I'm in a Facebook group (NOT the WOS one) on some ... a pretty Chinese girl apparently in the USA that does not seem ... to show has started liking the posts of of my ... some way to get to the photos liked.

    ... thought I'd nip it in the bud to stop this ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2022 Chit chat
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... colours in 8 pixels.

    I would guess that the ULA accesses the ... the DRAM pins and then read the result. In page mode, you latch in the ... every pixel/attr pair the slow way, strobing in row and ... can't change the colours (or pixels) on the entire line. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Games
  • Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…

    ... clear
    ;"reset screen colours and clear screen"

    colours"
    curfornextvalue =k
    the colours"

    8
    ... the value of the attr"
    ;"in the current ink colour - due to the ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) October 2004 Emulators
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... />
    The location of the UDG set is stored in the same way ... color than the controlcharacter and read it with ATTR(y,x ... UDG A
    10 IF ATTR(Y,X) 56 THEN GOTO ... decimal. The end of the message is signified by the last character in the message ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... ,(hl) ; de = addr of spr attr
    inc hl
    ex ... copies the colours in clrBlock[] to the addresses specified in sprClrAddrp[] in order to colour the entire ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... attr info in different orders, eg the pixel info in column major order and the attr ... a set of possible colours for a specific sprite ... like it, then copy the colours to a screen$, and ... extract the xx,yy,zz colours from the screen$ independently and in row ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • ZXCF InterfaceI'm just trying to get an idea for the ZXCF interface, and to me, it looks a much cleaner design compared to divIDE (Of course, that's just my opinio…

    ... 8x8, and the timex of 2 colours per 8x1 block). The video circuit ... four colours fairly easily. Just interpret the two byte fetches done in the Timex ... hi-colour mode differently: rather than a pixel/attr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Hardware
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... need more RAM added, either in the cartridge slot (available) or ... 32x192 attr mode with 8(*2) colours (very similar to the MSX1 ... shares its memory with the z80 cpu in the z80's address ... interesting features that are unavailable in the 2068 but because its ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    [QUOTE=Paulo Kathanni]The higher the graphics modes, the less colours it displays on TS2068 ... pixels.

    In the 256x192 pixel 32x192 attr mode, there is no ... and background colour.

    In the highest resolution mode, 512x192, there ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Games
  • Fixing Attribute Clash via emulationI'm sorry if this has been posted already, but is there a possibility to fix attribute clash via emulation? I'm not talking about RealSpec or any of …

    ... very simply providing, in addition to the usual Spectrum mode, ... the MSX1's mode 2) and the dual screen mode as seen in the ... -free four colours per pixel like on the Amstrad. Additional ... the latter, eg. The MSX1's most popular mode is the 256x192 32x192 attr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... ;

    case 0x14:
    attr = *(++s);
    break;

    in "disp".

    The next line colours the character square ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... in the paper bits only ("& 0x38"). The array "gfx_playerColour[]" contains all players' colours in ... = zx_saddr2aaddr(u->screen); // get attr address for this char from ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... default the transparent colour, which means the sprite will not alter colours on ... on the player's colour so the next bit of code colours the sprite ... the information in a "struct sp1_cs" is the attribute mask (attr_mask) and attribute (attr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... pixels, use these masks and colours; if it's rotated right ... , attr) pairs. Then you'll get the INK-only, PAPER-only sprite colours ... two bytes in the second DEFB line. Something happened to the attr in the second DEFB ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Conversion tool - bmp/gif to screen$Hihi Not sure if this is exactly the right place to ask, I don't see a software forum Is there a tool to convert a bmp or gif file to a screen$ sui…

    ... resolution
    Pixel/attr layout
    on screen colours (and palette choices ... if you can change the colours)
    ALL the colours in RGB values

    Thats the beauty of TommyGun its ...
    Kiwi Kiwi June 2008 Development
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