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I almost hesitate to post this...... knowing what Mel is like, but who got a Wii then? :) I got one on launch day in the US, (lucky time at Toys'R'Us, turning up five minutes after …
... me of the promo's for the Grandstand and Atari woody ... />
I miss pong on my Grandstand. Wonder which landfill it ... hear the sfx in my head. Must get a beer. Well the pong ... -
Housing Estates, a postmans view.1. Your gate must be closed at all times. Always. On Saturdays it is preferable if you also lock it / bolt it shut at the bottom. It shall be deemed …
Thx1138, that's the best forum post I've read in ages, thank you! :-)
Just one question... why do people ask you for rubber bands? It's never even come into my head to ask a postman for rubber bands... -
Christmas should be biannualDiscuss... I skipped and ignored Christmas last year as I really wasn't in the mood for it, and this year I'm well into the Christmas swing of thing…
... good for me. Might save me a few hundred quid on my sons ... to bring out some games for it as well...[/QUOTE]
t have 2 buy presents for a 9 year old ... girl, a 3 year old ... -
New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini
A few mins to go and I'm gonna head out for a ... fag in a minute.
My ... res is to get my ... I've been keeping a log over the last ... issues per month is my resolution, I reckon that ... -
Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... which includes a VAX emulator, has been around for a few years ... MicroVAX 4000 for sale for *US$1600* and not a particularly good ... - and that isn't uncommon (my MicroVAX 3800, with a full load of ... be able to emulate a Z80 for cross development (albeit rather ... -
5 albums (only) that you could only have for the rest of your lifeamebix - arise (fucking awesome heavy as fuck, paranoid anarcho nihilist punk) leftfield - leftism (perfect mix of dub and dance) snuff - snuff said …
World of abusive drunks - share your abusive drunk stories. :)One time when I was getting the bus home from town, two really drunk women got on and started singing really obnoxiously loudly. Then, considering th…
... moring, and there was a knock on my door (i lived in ... she passed out i wouldn't and would just take some ... her reassuring that i wouldn't get into bother, i did ... hurt my foot and shoulder. then she remebered a mate who didn't ... the morning. and i limped for a week.Spectrum NOT DEAD PROJECT SPECTRUM XXICommodore is back! MSX is back! Amiga is back! And Spectrum?? Why Not Dont Cry with Nostalgie for Spectrum! Help us To do this dream true! The SPECTR…
... memory protection but doesn't the z80 have a supervisor mode?
For example runs on the CPC ... br />
However, there was a Z80 based operating system back ... hardware for that though, so you couldn't run it on something like a ...don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... drivers can't be used, so you'll need a 64- ... aren't supported at all, which can be an issue for ... InstallShield). Older DOS apps won't run either, but you ... there's anything you can't do without.
... be on XP as my main setup for a while yet...
...Can't remember the title of a great spectrum gameHi there Need help! I am desperately trying to identify a Spectrum game (circa 1990) that I absolutely loved, but can't remember the name of... It…
Yes! Rod-land!
Thanks a million, this has been doing my head in for weeks.
Great game, just off to have a go now.
Cheers!Games etc. for sale on ebayHi The usual "stuff for sale on ebay" post I'm afraid; [url]http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZsnoozey[/url] Thanks
... when I was away for a week or so. Many illegal ... items went up for sale by "me" which ... in complaints against "me". My account was suspended. I ... heard absolutely nothing. And my account is still suspended ... br /> So, and I can't put this more bluntly, eBay ...Nes...having grown up with the spectrum, NES was sort of a myth to me, something we would just hear about in American movies and somewhat of a super system…
I wasn't really a fan of either the NES ... played around with ones my friends had for a bit (including that ridiculous ...Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... Atmega certainly won't lack I/O pins for a ULA replacement - ... about 2 quid off Farnell for a 16MHz chip. They can also ... memory (in parallel, with a full 16 bit address and ... you've still got quite a few I/O lines ... yet, but it's on my list of things to do.Linux - Whats the best distro?I don't need to go down the Vista path.. So I've built a Linux machine with some scrap PC parts. AMD 2700+ , 2gig RAM, MSI mATX KM4AM motherboard, C…
... =swordheart;175846]I haven't been online with linux ... ihasn't there been any virus's been written for ... a good idea to have a firewall in place. I don't use my ... Linux boxes for ... that - it's a lot ...toasted soeccysHello, ive jsut bought a pair of speccys on ebay (one 16k issue 2 & a prob 48k issue 3) unfortunaly the genius who sold them tried to see if the wor…
... RAM might fry with my *bright idea*... What about ... the daughterboard (DB for short) is a nice idea, though ... I don't know if ... won't work as expected.
[*]My own idea for a test ... DB would be one with a ROM ...TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... . Sat down at my desk and took a week fixing what I could ... the bits off it for scrap, discovered a leg from one of ... refuses to initialise. Won't take a 32K RAM expansion and everything ... I'll say "I don't have a feckin scope". So he ...Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.
... errors. Ran continuously for a WEEK, still no errors (just a nice warm ikkle ... ) the program outlined above won't find anything wrong
< ... suspect dodgy memory and can't pin it down.
< ... here is an answer beyond my humble capacity to understand...
Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
Just a pitty I couldn?t get my hands on all this nice books when I was young :(.
HexDump.Crisis ! Naval officers caught in Iran..?!?15 naval officers have been caught by Iranian soldiers in foreign waters. 14 male and one female officer have been captured... Guess which one was …
... head scarf??[/QUOTE]
because she has been held captive for a week ... or so. i don't think the geneva ... convention makes allowences for hair straightners ... i'm sure she doesn't want her bad hair day ...i want to buy my first speccy(UK)[B][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Hi all been told this is the best website forum to ask so i want to get in the next few months rather a specturm 48k or 128k…
... =natxcross;183102]Barton Hill, for my sins. Where you to? ... (And as for not hearing of me, ... -spotters, another plug for the finest webzine to ... of course, you lose a little of that compatibility ... my old stamping ground. Just been back for a week, can't ...i want to buy my first speccy(UK)[B][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Hi all been told this is the best website forum to ask so i want to get in the next few months rather a specturm 48k or 128k…
... Hill was my old stamping ground. Just been back for a week, can't believe ... like one giant building site for a little while now! Barton Hill ... 's going for a more modern, well, prison look ... /> As for surnames, I'm the only Cross in my family. And ...Old PC Games - What were your classics?I've been fiddling around with DOSBox V 0.70 the past couple of days, and have been playing some old games I used to love, including: Stonekeep Term…
... this for the Speccy but couldn't get it published, so did a PC ...TIPP31 transistor questionYesterday I had the time to try and repair a 4S issue 48k spectrum I had. First of all I replaced all the electrolytic capacitors. The tr4 transistor…
... looks like a normal temperature for an operating transistor isn't it?
The machine worked fine for 8 hours in a row (all night ... DID tell you that transistor couldn't be right.....
... If you have a transistor really running at your ...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…
For some reason I couldn't edit my post, but if anyone codes this you've got to put "some code/ideas (c) Kevin Edwards" in it. :)Happy Thingybob Shaun of Bebbington.And many more so, and may they all end up on Fridays! Because that's like a free-floating excuse for a three day bash, and an excellent Monday hango…
... Burfday
I won't be drinking I arsed up ... to my missus that involves me not being allowed to drink for a week ... /> Happy Burfday
Have a Gudden.Happy Thingybob Shaun of Bebbington.And many more so, and may they all end up on Fridays! Because that's like a free-floating excuse for a three day bash, and an excellent Monday hango…
[quote=dm_boozefreek;187764]... I won't be drinking I arsed up ... to my missus that involves me not being allowed to drink for a week ...Just been reading an old issue of crashIssue 51 as you are asking. The problem is I got to page 114 - the subscription page and I have an urge to write out a cheque and subscribe. Help!
Whenever I read through my old Speccy magazines, I always ... in them.... like even after a year or more when the ... /> I don't get an urge to subscribe to a dead mag ... though. I might take my pet goldfish for a walk, but I'm ...Just been reading an old issue of crashIssue 51 as you are asking. The problem is I got to page 114 - the subscription page and I have an urge to write out a cheque and subscribe. Help!
... ]Whenever I read through my old Speccy magazines, I ... I don't get an urge to subscribe to a dead mag ... . I might take my pet goldfish for a walk, but I' ... guy on the planet with a Spectrum.
... new games. My cheque book was quite busy for many months.Quit Yo Jibber Jabber!Crazy Fool! Maaaaan I haven't laughed that hard in ages :lol:
... MS? [/strike] Then a few weeks back I saw ... religious channels with only a couple of gold chains ... up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to ... pay attention."
"As a ... got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and ...Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!I bought a Nintendo Wii today along with Zelda : Twilight Princess. I just spent the last half hour playing it. It's cool. :D Necros.
... It's like Elite (a game I never got into ... was playing with a cousin though, who wasn't into RPGs ... addicted to Oblivion) so couldn't follow my own path like I ... , plus he was stuck as a vampire.
... gamers felt Oblivion was a bit of a step back from ...
