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  • Saving machine code on EmulatorI have been dabbling with Chapter 26 of Stephen Vicker's "ZX Spectrum Manual". [url="http://www.madhippy.com/8-bit/sinclair/zxspecman/zxmanchap26.htm…

    ... away from my BASIC manual and I was wrong and this is not ... the program in a 'load and run' form:
    It will ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2002 Emulators
  • The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…

    ... was not coded by Graftgold and really sucked..

    Amstrad ... with a bit more colour and superb slowly.. almost on emulators ... were total crap on Amstrad, cool on C64 and theverybest on Speccy =)
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz May 2002 Games
  • new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …

    ... their BASIC expanded by a couple of extra commands (PLAY and SPECTRUM ... a 128k using the 48k BASIC option, and you'll be fine ... a tape in the 48k BASIC mode of a 128k model ... autoload to the 128k loader, and still display the UDGs wrongly ...
    Anonymous Anonymous September 2002 Emulators
  • Game RemakesWhat games do you think need a PC remake? i nominate The Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still

    ... /> i can do some BASIC programming and am used to game development ...
    mestor mestor October 2002 Games
  • which is the best pc remake of a spectrum game?which is the best remake of a spectrum game for the pc?

    ... my own silly little BASIC game and the competition closed at ... to keep those Rolos (and the Golden Wonder Nice' ... N'Spicey Nik Naks, and Grok T-Shirt) all ... read your development pages and I can completely sympathise ... on the Speccy "scene" and it would be great ...
    Chris Cowley Chris Cowley December 2002 Games
  • TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…

    ... allowed the BASIC program to remain in ROM and the ... for your program and your variables. Since BASIC code had to ...
    In the standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum machines ... work. Things like pure BASIC code and SCREEN$ data should work ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Horace Goes SkiingHi! I am selling an original copy of Horace Goes Skiing for the 16k/48k Speccy. If I don't have any offers within the next few days, I will put the i…

    ... could use some ebay sellers tricks and put @RARE@ in the title ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker January 2003 Sales
  • Multiface pokes just for you...Hi :) Way back when I was a young 'un I used to be banging away at my Multiface with Genie non-stop. Oh joy :) Made a packet advertising in YS selli…

    ... a bigger, better one!!!! and will make it easy ... it at some point and WONT forget about you ... Spin goto VIEW, then POKES AND TIPS and enter the pokes.
    ... br /> Then click POKE and repeat for all the ... thread.

    edit...and remember of course that WoS ...
    BadBeard BadBeard February 2003 Games
  • PokesOnly just got into emulators adn had a spectrum when I was too young to know about pokes. So I need help. Lets say I have a poke for a game and I a…

    ... to View->Pokes and Tips. Enter the address and value at the ... fields. Return to the game and unPause

    2) ... to Tools>Pokes and enter the address and desired value. Return ... to the "special editions" section and download the Pokes Wizard. This ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SID Spider PreviewHere's a small preview of what Sid Spider will look like with the updated graphics: [url="http://mondodizzy.members.easyspace.com/previewsid/preview…

    Yes, I also think so.. looks too much solid. looks like a wall.

    rest graphics are cool, those keys and the anims are cool and funny.. good job
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz February 2003 Games
  • AMERICAN SPECTRUM FANS?Hi all. I was wondering, who many Spectrum-fans could live in America... I have many addresses in my zx-base, but not many of them belong to Americ…

    ... owned a TS2068 and Timex shut down operations and TS2068 owners were ... their various forms and slowly started running reviews and ads for Spectrum ... soon acquired an Atari 520ST and after a year or ... a TS2068 emulator in GfA BASIC (compiled) and it ran quite well ...
    Sparky Sparky March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... of crash not long back and one article was about some ... he wrote the game in basic and used a compiler to make ... block you can write your BASIC program and compile it with RANDOMIZE ...
    Woody Woody April 2003 Games
  • cassette inlay scansPlease, all you who scan the inlays, is it much of a problem to take it out of the cassette case, unfold and scan the ENTIRE inlay? I know some peopl…

    ... lot of instructions for software and upload them straight to WOS ... of it incomplete, contains hints and tips, or even comes from a ... i always check the instructions and re-type them if needed ... whole thing in text format and have uploaded it, should be ...
    Paul Thompson Paul Thompson April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Distribution of the Spectrum in Europe.Ok, so we've noticed the lack of French posters (there might be readers we don't know about) here at WoS. We have people from UK of course, from Irel…

    ... specific countries, like France, and also did some looking ... -48 ( Similar to Moskva ) and Pentagon-128 ( Pentagons are similar ... , PC 8300, Power 8300, Basic 2000 and Basic 3000.

    ... ), which were the Spectrum + and Spectrum 128. Maybe some others ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I AM SO SICK OF THIS "them" vs. "us" GARBAGErecently on a friends guestbook i got into an argument with a guy from Russia who "runs" the slow ass loading codemasters.narod.ru ... ive known this…

    ... in it. ( $b are Basic programs and $c are Code ) then goto ... TrDos mode and press K for LIST and Enter. if you ... named "boot" just do RUN and enter. otherwise you'll have ... has a next to it" and hit enter.
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... always enjoyed brown love. The BASIC stunk. And it's true, some ... set of screens for example, and there's the music too ... much better in many games. And someone else pointed out the ...
    Spector Spector May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... yourselves. :)

    and better than what? :) after all ... Commodore version of Scuba Dive, and the Sinclair version.

    yea and Bruce lee was better and countless others i ... enjoyed brown love. The BASIC stunk. And it's true, some ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... lower price, and excellent (in comparison) BASIC. Seeing games ... like ATIC ATAC and ZZOOM! in ... great fast BASIC language and built in assembler, and the VIC ... however much hype and advertising and false comparisons the ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Worst game - sort ofAny suggestions for worst game - but not just worst game period - the worst game that has had a lot of work go into it and ought to have been good, b…

    ... were packed with some cool programming techniques and fun stuff.

    and other game on my emulator ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2003 Games
  • FifthDon't know if this is the right forum, but anyway... Anyone remember a Basic extension called "Fifth"? It was supposed to enhance game programming. R…

    Yes, I know that, thanks, but I was more interested in how to use it. Is there a site or something anywhere about different Basic extensions and their use?
    Btw, Is the Beta Basic newsletter available anywhere?
    Hex2bin Hex2bin June 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... the forums that were cool to me and helpful all this ... to the archives :D and maybe upload somethings not here ... B]v[/B]ery much and hope to continu[B]e ... now 8:50am. Best wishes and good luck to all, ... with your projects and personal lives. :cry:
    ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • *** CRONOSOFT *** help a little so it can Serve YOU betterSalud if you believe in what [url="http://www.cronosoft.co.uk/"]Cronosoft[/url] is doing and would like to help out a little bit, you could mention…

    ... and getting prepared to start learning spectra-forth and z80 assembler, blitz basic ... ( amiga ) and/or amos and/or jforth ... ( amiga ) and stos, C64 ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    Wow! Narc in speccy is technically cool! very smooth and alot of sprites.. only problem is that original coin op sucks.. I always thought why ocean did not made Robocop2 DataEast coinop with a engine like Narc.
    judasEZT judasEZT July 2003 Games
  • 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 …

    ... if there's no software?) and apparantly failed. If there are ... . They'd better be cool like Amstrad and allow emulators to use ...
    mheide mheide July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…

    ... of the disk's space and speed could have opened the ... had stuck with the Speccy and thrown on a disk drive ... . That would be really cool to see. And how about 'Tomb Raider ...
    Collie Collie July 2003 Games
  • Games you actually completedThis may have come up before but I am new to this forum so... Which Spectrum games did you actually complete? They were extremely hard by todays sta…

    ... lake shore! Bah!
    :cool: Fighter Pilot and Flight Simulation - I landed ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2003 Games
  • What's the matter with The Spectrum Adventurer?Some minutes ago I clicked in my Favourites menu on The Spectrum Adventurer ([url]http://www.thespectrumadventurer.com[/url]) and a "Windows Casino" …

    ... remember, it only hosted solutions and tips.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Frog hopper questionThe 3 Frog hopper (by Walltone) tapes on the WOS archive all share a very interesting problem: when you load the game up and press I for info, you ca…

    ... . dropping down to 48k BASIC etc) and I see what you mean ... some of my real speccies and see what I come up ... new TZX just to see and even better can load it ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2003 Games
  • Yet another name-the-gameThe game I'm looking for is a space simulation. All I know about it is one detail: when you die, the cockpit dissolves with an effect almost identica…

    No - indeed, Star Raiders 2 has a cool death effect (and the best Speccy explosions I've ever seen !), but it's not the one, sorry.
    GOC GOC August 2003 Games
  • Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…

    ... /> 2000AD used to print basic programs. And I'm sure there was ...
    Mikal Mikal August 2003 Games
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