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I've been using a Mac, I must say I'm dissapointed.I have been using an Apple Macintosh to do some video editing this week. I also trialed it on other simple tasks such as web browsing and Java apple…
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Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …
... be played against a computer or a real person on ... , the current version! But why does it take chess so ... theme, I didn't use the Win95 theme in ... ) Huh? Surely you would use a MIDI interface to hook up ... , you can use USB midi interfaces, but why kill the gameport ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... - why on earth didn't more and more software companies use these ... reason, if I fired up a game and it used the ... a problem, so like I say, why did a large majority of games use ... -
NMI : especially PitersHello Piters, here the link to your NMI-button. [url]http://members.tripod.com/~piters/nmibutto.htm[/url] I don't understand your reason to place …
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NMI : especially PitersHello Piters, here the link to your NMI-button. [url]http://members.tripod.com/~piters/nmibutto.htm[/url] I don't understand your reason to place …
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SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... a problem, so like I say, why did a large majority of games use ... density of bits on cassette (a relatively low quality recording mechanism ... likely to have problems loading a [i]pirate copy[/i] 'cos ... have had to have had a hypersaver program as well as ... -
Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…
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SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
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How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... every time I do a release. That's not ... 0.7.0, so why not try one of those ... old Spectrum. Yo do a big effort making fuse, ... 't have to pack a distro for every single ... that I am trying to use a new one, and the ... most "famous", easy to use and supported one is (as ... -
TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... your proposed block $1B a simplified version of $19 ... first tried to add a new block this is ... pulses (and also Luca proposed a similar scheme) - but was ... doing speedlocks in GDB, so why use this then ?
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TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
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TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
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... I sure can understand why people objected about using ... I guess you came a bit too late with ...Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... -Mr-Kizza-talks-from" (to use a polite euphemism), so that they ... legitimately buy the product), then why don't the manufacturers just ... ...
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14) Why don't they put Laurel ... last 50 years or more, why do they only ever repeat ...Q. on Dark Forces (SW game)Was there ever an editor made for this excellent game? I remember "hearing" about it on-line close to ten years ago but haven't seen anything rece…
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Wonder why not many more games use space-within-space ... if I remember correctly, with a Windows version too (WinDFuse?). It ... Valve... it's a puzzle game where you use a portal gun to ... achieve your objective in a room ...Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... -Mr-Kizza-talks-from" (to use a polite euphemism), so that they ... drugs.
[QUOTE]3) Why is it that sad songs ... legitimately buy the product), then why don't the manufacturers just ... game.
[QUOTE]12) Why has there been no thread ...can't find the new modulator design ?I remember seeing on someones site a new schematic for a modulaor that would fit in the modulator case of the old spectrum does anyone know the one …
Given that you can find one that is small enough, you can also use a modulator from an old VCR, or place the circuitry from a such into the original modulator's case . These only requires composite video and 5 V or 12 V operating voltage to run.Thinking aloudLooks like Im finally going to get some free time soon, so I started thinking about doing some speccy stuff again. Its been about 23 years since I h…
... nothing to stop you using a monitor). The 'specturm' would be ... flash, and you could use a second flash to transfer tape ... that is you wanted to use an physical tape you have ... can do a new 'speccy' then theres no reason why you cant ...48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... your power supply works. Use a multimeter to do that. ... made electronics usually has such a fuse. Check it.
a bad luck and transformer ... and measure voltage on a secondary transformer coil. There ... contain 4 diodes and a large capacitor. It's not ...48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... if your power supply works. Use a multimeter to do that. It ... power and measure voltage on a secondary transformer coil. There should ... to contain 4 diodes and a large capacitor. It's not difficult ... to find a failure in it.[/QUOTE ...Added a couple of Wikipedia pagesDoing so [i]does[/i] work -- sometimes. ;) Added [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_in_3D]Knot_in_3D[/url] and "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
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Why don't we put it ... ! I've been to it a couple of times.
use a similar feature to the lymen64 ...Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…
... obviously don't know why Sinclair actually chose to ... have been unreasonable to use a "spare" bit to ... and therefore we wonder why the bright wasn't ... was a big issue to the designer, why compromise ... There's other things (a timer, a tone generator,...) that ...The whole "Maddie" thing...Can you say "trial by media"? How about "media over-reaction"? Had "Maddie" been a poor, ugly, black child, this would never have been headline news…
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Why with a news story do TV channels ... have to have a bloke/lass outside the ... If there has been a murder they are outside ... beside him. Thus saving a fortune on satalite links, ... that money to better use, like destroying things like ...Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... either assemble by hand or use an assember - I liked ... m VERY sure you can use SPIN's built in ... addresses in memory I can use, but as an example, ... to assemble to, you'll use a label telling the assembler where ... of things, which is why Ms Baker's book is ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... to get function calls to use a leaner, faster calling convention ... zcpp replaces this with a call to sp1_MoveSpr*_callee instead ... I am truly baffled why it works for me and ... your desktop and try a fresh unzip into c: ... probably have to wait a day to hear what ...Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... SUB I meant when you use a routine defined in the ... the interpreter encounters a GO TO or a GO SUB the ... That's also the reason why initialisation should be done at ... not be read everytime a GO TO is used.< ... />
More statements in a line is also faster since ...Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... names are concerned thats why im using a 'variable dictionary' at the ... them. As such, rather than use "a" and "b" for "playerx" and ... "playery", use x and y instead.
The Fool's Workplace SurveyI thought I'd try and find out more about what my fellow WOS'ers are up to during their work hours, so I've compiled a simple survey. Overwrite my an…
... /> And folks, this is why you should use a proper ass vibrator rather ... than a root vegetable. They are ...New Opus Discovery tool addedFinally, after some years wait, a new [B]Opus Discovery[/B] tool, [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/OpusRead_v200.zip"][U]Opu…
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I only use it for a few hints, and that ... end stop. That's partly why I recommend selecting the 5 ... for modern drives. Otherwise I use a slightly slower stepping rate, which ... (replaced some corrupt files) and use/compare, not ideal, but maybe ...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…
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Because you chose a large computer. You can choose ... may have a computer with a larger enclosure than a Spectrum, but ... on NanoITX or PicoITX or use a laptop. Big desktop machines ... a small laptop, personally - that's why I have a 12in Powerbook, not a ...
