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  • Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…

    ... and depression and are absolutely basic to the solution of this ... alone in total privacy. Take cool brief showers.
    [/quote]
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…

    ... br />
    Amazingly cool, I've tried the following ...
    Alien8 - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xdc
    Amaurote ... Works
    Aquaplane - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
    Athena - ... 48k - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
    Automania - ...
    Fred Fred January 2008 Development
  • Oh look, more Spectrum reviews(x-post to CSS as part of general self-publicising) Part of the reason I've been more active (or at least less lurky) on CSS and here of late is tha…

    ... CPU load.[/QUOTE]

    Cool :) The files themselves are relatively ... of primitive and fairly static BASIC games after all, not a ...
    j00ce j00ce January 2008 Games
  • Need help with Sorcery.Hard game, crappy controls, awful steering, nonsensical method of movement. In room #9 (By The River) I come to a castlewall with a door but I can't…

    ... , but such a cool game for something written in Basic. One of ...
    Graz Graz January 2008 Games
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... the ONELINERS,
    the coding tricks they discovered and the quality ... />
    I hope the coding tricks we all discovered will continue ... may still be further oneliner tricks to be found.
    < ... had never been implemented in BASIC on a speccy before. That ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2008 Development
  • ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…

    ... could you run the BASIC program at a faster ... larger than 48K (or 128K) BASIC program?

    ... want to learn C++/Visual Basic/whatever.

    ... to write and run BASIC programs that are larger ...
    This would be a cool feature, let's hope that ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2008 Emulators
  • New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…

    ... have more fun with the BASIC part. The bulk of it ... . No interrupt nor any other tricks. The only more challenging part ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak February 2008 Development
  • BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…

    ... BASIC is a kludge, and you have to do nasty hardware tricks ... if you have two expansion boards with BASIC extensions ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Chit chat
  • Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…

    ... there, nonvolatile.[/QUOTE]

    Cool, that's similarish to the ... static RAM) and handle extended BASIC commands (these get added to ...
    glancaster glancaster March 2008 Hardware
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's reasonably fast ... into it to see what tricks you used?
    [quote]
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • 2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…

    ... ) and b) to do cunning tricks where you use different combinations ... simple splitter, one line of BASIC and a joystick is all ...
    gasman gasman April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128k extrasI had a 48k, no matter how much I hinted to my parents that I [i]really[/i] wanted a 128k they never got me one So what did I miss out on. I'm not …

    There was a cool program in the PD library which let you run two Spectrums. You pressed SYM SHIFT and SPACE and it swapped over to the 'other' machine.

    I never tried it with anything more complex than simple Basic programs though.
    alchresearch alchresearch May 2008 Games
  • True Spectrum laptop (no emulation)[url]http://user.tninet.se/~vjz762w/[/url] Hi All, I have build a speccy laptop, battery part is not ready yet.... I did it on 2 days, I will put s…

    ... /> it it would be really cool.[/QUOTE]

    Ok, A ... are a few CPLD design tricks that can be employed to ...
    csmith csmith May 2008 Hardware
  • ULA Book - Target Audience?This is probably of most intrerest to hardware chaps, but a greater community input would be good. I've been turning all my ULA analysis into a love…

    ... into RAM). Pretty good with BASIC (though I'm sure there ... - yet!). Know some of the tricks and pokes that can achieve ...
    gcallard gcallard May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... probably more tricks left in the box of "Sinclair BASIC" too.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2008 Development
  • The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …

    ... . But it was all the cool looking stuff I'd drawn ... I have is a few basic blocks and a sprite :(
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2008 Games
  • Q about Atari ST Emulators and anthoer Q about JoysticksEnough of this talk of this Comode Amiga... Phah!! I may have asked this before but can I stick my Atari ST disks in my PC and run them in an ST Emu…

    ... was the name) was cool, a basic Elite style game but when ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2008 Chit chat
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... /38 holds adres off Next basic line

    20 LET ... changes when you change the basic before the MC
    for ... /> [/QUOTE]

    This looks cool - though I'm not entirely ...
    emleymoor emleymoor July 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…

    ... and knew little about CBM BASIC. I did hope that it ... use it to enter CBM BASIC programs!

    After writing ... set allowed all sorts of tricks to be done (if only ... 50 MHz). You can type BASIC programs in on this emulator ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2008 Development
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... of all the Speccy-stretching tricks I've seen since 1993 ... simple POKEs into the short BASIC listing. It is possible to ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 10 top tricks for your Xbox 360You may or may not have already seen this one but I'm gonna post it b'cos they are quite good, really: [url]http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/cons…

    ... list of tricks like this being posted up is cool, but you ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2008 Chit chat
  • Browser comparison?Yes, I know, there have been a million threads recently about which is the best web browser, and everyone has their own favourites from the increasin…

    ... without it defaulting to a basic crappy layout.

    Love ... '1' it is pretty darn cool.

    I like the ...
    IN31 IN31 October 2008 Chit chat
  • Browser comparison?Yes, I know, there have been a million threads recently about which is the best web browser, and everyone has their own favourites from the increasin…

    ... without it defaulting to a basic crappy layout.

    Love ... '1' it is pretty darn cool.

    I like the ...
    polomint polomint October 2008 Chit chat
  • What do you use a Spectrum emulator for?I suspected most emulator users who expressed a preference were gamers.

    ... 8-bit DAC allowed some cool samples to be played and ... /> @thx1138 - If you like BBC BASIC then you should check out ... JGHarston's Z80 BBC BASIC (at [url]www.mdfs.net ... really want that original BBC BASIC feel with 6502 assembler and ...
    Jimmy Jimmy October 2008 Emulators
  • Forum Improvements[quote=Dunny;307892]Yebbut, I'm not interested in reporting any threads that are off topic, so long as they stay in the off topic area. What I would …

    ... refer to Tap files or basic code and have it emulated ... ][/INDENT]

    or a basic file:

    [INDENT][Spec48 ... />
    or maybe even enter basic directly to have it emulsted ... [I]that[/I] is a cool idea! I didn't see ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman October 2008 Chit chat
  • Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…

    ... get anything other than ROM basic missing from the server. Imagine ... knackered again but everything was cool. We hit out deadline but ...
    sparkes sparkes October 2008 Chit chat
  • ANN: Spectaculator 7Spectaculator 7 is now available! More information is available in the [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/news?ref=wos"]news section[/URL] on the web…

    ... to set hardware acceleration to basic, which however gives more work ... also disables EAX and other cool stuff.
    As of now ...
    Arm73 Arm73 October 2008 Emulators
  • A new Basic manualWith all the basic functions, tips and tricks, etc. What's the chance of someone (i.e. not me) writing a new Basic manual?

    [quote=chop983;311968]With all the basic functions, tips and tricks, etc.

    What's the chance of someone (i.e. not me) writing a new Basic manual?[/quote]
    Doubtful...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Two different versions of Bruce Lee?There's a possible MIA here, I think. I sat down at lunchtime to play a bit of Bruce Lee and discovered that the version I'd downloaded from WOS (th…

    ... .

    2. Enter Amstrad BASIC (in WinAPE32: with Num Lock ... Hill Mast" for some really cool sound-effects.

    15 ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2008 Games
  • What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…

    ... theme tune. The timer was cool because making any use of ... me to see what other tricks could be done with the ...
    SkoolKid SkoolKid November 2008 Games
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