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Best Speccy BargainsWhat was your best Speccy related bargain you've ever got? Mine was my first Speccy in 94/95. I was looking over my local car boot sale when I saw a…
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Redefinable joystick keysEr... difficult to describe in a subject line, but you'll see what I mean. :) Just about all Spectrum emulators allow you to map one of the joystick…
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Forgotten hardwareDuring the mid-eighties I became aware of a new hardware platform which I believe was released by Sinclair, it was obviously unsuccessful as I?ve not…
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Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
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Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
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Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
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Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
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Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
.......Hobbit, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Inspecter Flukeit, Adventure A Planet of Death.
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Spectrum Program On Vynal - ebayhiya perusing ebay and saw this - Pete Shelly - XL1 12" Vynal ( with spectum programs ) [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate…
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Dynamite Willy/ Jet Set DanI played Dynamite Dan years ago but I didn't really play it until recently. I think that this game is just a tarted up Jet Set Willy ripoff. It's go…
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Pixel setting / general speccy codingi just started doing some cross-coding with the [url="http://www.bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk/z80.html"]Z80 SNA assembler[/url] and an emulator, and this …
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EmuZWin 2.5.0.1Version 2.5 Release 1.0 (10-Jun-2004): a lot of changes and fixes in ??? Map Builder ??? GFX Editor ??? Loading & Saving ??? Sound & Video ?? Speed…
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Car boot PricesYesterday i went to a well known car boot sale up here in lancashire , i spotted a box of speccy games on a table , its ages since ive seen any at a …
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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
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Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
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Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... said the ideas (and improving on them), not the exact games ... . Evolution.
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Fun with games!Does anyone have nonstandard ways of playing any games? On Heathrow ATC, I found the first two exercises a bit easy, and the third just about imposs…
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Games UNDERated by magazinesYep, a slight twist on the previous topic. Which were the games you thought were underrated by mags, but were really much better in your opinion. …
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On 48k, can I copy 4k before next screen updateFollowing on from my thread at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=6423&forum=11"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/v…
... copy 4k from Backbuffer to Screen in under 1/50th, ... copy back to front screen with no tearing/flicker ... you were actually updating the screen in a chaotic fashion, ... byte at 16384 gets drawn on screen. If you wait out ... the bottom of the screen and you will have ... -
ZXF - printed version - would you be interested?[Copy of my post to CSS below] Evening all, Having recently bought a rather speedy new inkjet printer I find myself suddenly in a position where I …
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... shifting once and using everywhere on screen.
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
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FLIPPIN' ECK... Seen the RETRO GAMER 8 PREVIEW?Just strolled over to the Retro Gamer website - turns out that issue 8 coverdisc has a GRAFTGOLD special with 50 odd games on there. Uridium, Paradr…
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8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... CPC had 16 genuine colours on screen. The Spectrum did not.
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8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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On 2004-10-02 20: ... CPC had 16 genuine colours on screen. The Spectrum did not.< ... to how he does on the CPC in mid res ... I mean about sprite colouring on the Spectrum.
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