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"Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... this, sort of...
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Analogue BeeperThere's been a discussion on foro.speccy.org about multichannel beeper stuff, and since I had the camera out and the scope set up, I set about demons…
... the circuit. This means that high frequencies can be turned into ... here.
Not a high quality wave - there is lots ... it is at the very high end of audible frequencies and ... -
T-Mobile Advert, Liverpool St. Station.You guys and gals must see this. Epic advert! [youtube]VQ3d3KigPQM#[/youtube] Best seen in high quality, go to the actual youtube page if needs be.
You guys and gals must see this. Epic advert!
[youtube]VQ3d3KigPQM#[/youtube]
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IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…
... busy trying to get hi-res colors in a 48K Spectrum ... -
Another idea: 3D models from your favourite Speccy games[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Take a look at this.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][URL]http://www.shapeways.com/[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] …
... near me at the Philips High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. They ... -
The Chuckie Egg playability factorYou all know the story of Chuckie Egg 2 and why it isn't as good as 1. The reason Chuckie Egg is brilliant is because your little dude runs around at…
... little dude runs around at high speed, can grab ladders as ... playability? I'm talking about high speed capers with intuitive controls ... -
err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
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The best ... beginning with "H"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "H", which do you think are the: [B]Best ga…
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Am I beinga a bastard filled with prejudice?I just looked at my mail, and had a message from face book, from a guy, an old class mate and friend from highschool, with whom I havent talked since…
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R.I.P. spectrum 48kRecently one of my 48k rubber key (issue 4) machine bit the dust the other day when I tried to power it on. When powering it on, it gave a weird 'bee…
... garbled) i.e. 192 Sinclair Res?arch r$...
The ULA ... -
Opinions of GunrunnerIt didn't get a great review in Crash, but scores 8.1 in Sinclair Infoseek, which is pretty high as it goes. I've had a try and it seems pretty avera…
It didn't get a great review in Crash, but scores 8.1 in Sinclair Infoseek, which is pretty high as it goes. I've had a try and it seems pretty average. Who likes it here then? -
Outlandish claims on Spectrum games adverts!I was flicking through The 'CRASH' Xmas special today (yes, I was on the loo at the time) from 1984/85 and it made me giggle some of the claims softw…
... screens of the most amazing high resolution graphics ever seen on ... -
Jet-Set Willy Editing Help!OK... I downloaded the Jet Set Willy editor from the internet. This has happened with both versions by the way. This is the Windows-based editor that…
... , It just froze... then a high-pitched buzzing happened and the ... -
The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …
... /> Gargoyle Games consistantly produced very high quality games, with the possible ... ' average game quality was very high indeed. -
NEC CPU - problem?I wonder if I should substitute a NEC CPU in a grey +2. Does anyone else had problems with NEC CPUs inside ZX Spectrum. Some time ago I had a Spectr…
... all 8 diodes going from high adress lines to the keyboard ... -
Massive Stock Clearance - Mostly New old stockHi!, Well the shop is now open (though not fully operational yet). I want to thin out all my games and through the month of March I will take AN…
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This was High Street Micro's (Crewe) old ... -
Freefootballonline.info etcThere was a report on this in BBC News 24, and I'm wondering how this nonsense works. Does it totally destroy your computer via ultra spyware? Has an…
... Sky's prices being so high that more people don't ... -
Chuckie Egg rules at retro computing mini-event in LondonOne of my pals put on a retro computer game event at a uni bar on Tuesday. We made sure the ZX Spectrum featured! Most of the games wouldn't load pro…
... kept top spot on the high score board all night heh ... -
Haunted House - how do you get that key?In Jonathan Cauldwell's "Haunted House", there's a key just outside the house (in the garden room to the left of the fountain) that I can't get. How …
... platforms, but both are too high off the ground. Jumping from ... -
Dynamite Dan/Rod BowkettI'm surprised no-one's mentioned this before, but in this month's Retro Gamer, there is the interview with Rod Bowkett. I was looking forward to this…
... reason for the game's high difficulty was because Bowkett himself ... -
PZX file support for ZX-BlockeditorDear readers, I'm working on the PZX format support for ZX-Blockeditor, as I discovered the advantage of having such a nice file format. It has a cl…
... TZX and vice versa
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Giving up on ebay.Gaaaahhh. Now I can't bloomin' sell anything, cuz I'm not allowed to put my postage over ?3.00. Ebum says that the particular category I've chosen …
... won't except postage that high. How shite is that? No ... -
Game of the decade?Hi all, As this decade is fast drawing to a close at an astonishing rate of one day per day, I'm hoping to do a major retrospective of 'the naughtie…
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Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …
... to mind where games got high scores because of flash graphics ... -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... ]y[/I] would be the coordinates for PLOT, and [I]a ... thought of using non-existing coordinates to determine different things. If ... -
Trying to help a ZX81 user[QUOTE=ZX81OAP at the ZX81 forum]I am looking for the name of a magazine that was mainly for computer projects. I started some improvements for the …
... /> magazine was printed too a high quality on gloss paper of ... -
SnakeManXL - Finish it?Rather a busy week in the real world unfortunately, but been coding a little more: 1-player version of "dot chase" - try to eat all the dots. QAOP (…
... need a front-end & high-score table adding, and a ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
A paper model of the new Freedom tower...So, here I was trying to show one of my kids how easy it was to come up with a paper model of the new [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/911…
... up with a 21 inch high tower. Everything is already on ...
