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Im making my first spectrum gameHi everyone, I am making my first game on the speccy :-P I started yesterday and I had designed it on paper first (more like a book of ideas). Its a…
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I am making my first game on the ... to mention, the ship is in the form of a loan ... -
Former maker of Sinclair add-ons in the U.SIn my continuing efforts to find people from the Timex-Sinclair past I found two gentleman who were, at some point, the owners of Byte- Back. This …
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advertised in the Sync magazine. My company ... .
Contact David Leech in Batesburg, SC. He is the ...
wasn't even "standardized" making printer connection a real pain ... br /> post on your site (in its entirety with introductory page ... -
Reading Kempston MouseI have been looking at Velesoft's design for the Kempston Mouse interface and am puzzled over the description for reading port 64223 (the Kempston mo…
... reading port 64223 (the Kempston mouse port).
... Velesoft's page says:
mouse buttons port 64223/15071:
D4- \
D5- \ 4bit mouse
D6- / wheel counter
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I want to see if a file exists. in CIs this what they call a lockfile? I'm trying to write some software that translates from one language to another (as some of you probably know, I …
... does computations on the sentence in file A, and writes the ... the verb, looking up words in a wordlist, stuff like that ... I making sense?
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K-Mouse and PC Keyboard InterfacesWe have now arranged for some K-Mouse Turbo interfaces and PC Keyboard Intefaces to be built. [B]The K-Mouse Turbo interface [/B] provides 3 useful …
... compatible with the Kempston Mouse standard. Programs written to ... left and right hand mouse buttons, in order to emulate the ... Russian Kempston Mouse interface, or ... DivIDE / DivIDE Plus
* Kempston Mouse Turbo
* ZX-MMC+
Euro sign in TZX info blocksI grabbed the TZX info block for Invasion of the Zombie Monsters from Infoseek and noticed that the Price field has the HTML style € string for …
... 1 for the text fields in TZX files[1], which doesn ... used in many TZX Vault files).
I was making some ... was likely to be put in place? I would think that ... the text before acrimony set in. I was hoping that we ...Has anything ever been discovered since companies officially stopped making games?Ive rarely posted on here but I know there have been a lot of games made since a lot of companies stopped making games for the speccy in the early 90…
... of companies stopped making games for the speccy in the early 90s ... crack that with A day in paradise I think it was ... with a Speccy that companies in the height of the computer ... didn't know about in the 80s?
Also ...Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
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- Universally hated one, this; in Goldeneye,when you press pause ... point).
- Making the save points in Turok 2 so far ... times when your allies are in danger.
- The alleged " ... types are just better in 2D than in 3D, and Worms it ...XBox 1 hacker to testify in courtThis might be of some interest to some of us: "[COLOR=Blue]Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the designer of the Chumby ( [COLOR=Red][URL]http://www.chumby.…
... the scheduled Nov. 30 trial in Los Angeles won?t include ... it through a window, no making it into a bomb, etc ... bypassed, Microsoft put that protection in place, knowing full well that ... (bypassing the console's built in protection). Alright, so this potentially ...making a tzx in win7?as it says most programs dont seem to want to run in gui? - any recommendations on what i am doing wrong!
as it says most programs dont seem to want to run in gui? - any recommendations on what i am doing wrong!CRASH mouse matsOli Frey's site is now selling CRASH-based mouse mats. The designs are: CRASH 28 - Sam Fox/Star Strike (SFW!) CRASH 8 - Spectrum diver CRASH 4 - "Wh…
... is now selling CRASH-based mouse mats. The designs are:
mouse mat is usually in landscape, whereas the illustrations are in portrait ...?Masters of Yore making new retro games?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33293"]RedBalloon's thread got me thinking.[/URL] What if teams from the 80s were to get…
... together and make a "comeback" making games. Which groups or individuals ... the individual authors/companies continued in the biz, venturing on their ...True 3D in PC gaming?What ever happened to Nvidia's (I think it was them) claims that they would be making true 3D possible using their drivers and suitable glasses? I'm …
... that they would be making true 3D possible using their ... reason to see this in action, but it's ... from calculations that show where in 3D space everything is, ... and then display the results in a '3D' montage (albeit ... less detail on screen in exchange for true 3D.< ...New music program in developmentAs I suppose it was mentioned from yesterday when I actualised my blog, I'm actually in the making of another music arrangement for Zx Spectrum 128k,…
... blog, I'm actually in the making of another music arrangement for ... informed from time to time, in my blog and here.
Do you wish they'd stop making games?Probably the stupidest topic ever posted on WOS, but here goes... Today I was talking to a bloke about gaming, and it reminded me of something I rea…
... half wish they'd stop making games, so I could ... industry makes more money in one year than I' ... computer games obsolete, but in a way I did slightly ... see a revival of interest in the Speccy too!
... sadly only use this increase in power to generate better ...Support of other SCREEN$ formats in ZX-PaintbrushDear readers, I've already implemented a nearly complete ULAPlus support in my developing version of ZX-Paintbrush. Works fine so far. But I asked m…
... a nearly complete ULAPlus support in my developing version of ZX ... 256x192 pixels and 32x192 attributes, making 6144+6144 bytes (I already ... bytes for ULAPlus support, making 6144+6144+64 bytes
Thanks in advance for your suggestionsCustom mouse mat...Hi Folks, I was thinking of getting a custom mouse mat made with a photo of the ZX Spectrum 128K (my personal favourite). However, the mouse mat si…
... thinking of getting a custom mouse mat made with a photo ... (my personal favourite). However, the mouse mat site states that the ... enough resolution and will result in poor print quality. Does anyone ...The Making of Karyssia Queen of DiamondsAs an aside/boxout for the Incentive feature I had published in RG a few months ago I was going to do a bit about this game. However, I secured a go…
... Incentive feature I had published in RG a few months ago ... decided to give it a making-of of its own.
making-of-karyssia-queen-of-diamonds ... ://jdanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/07/making-of-karyssia-queen-of-diamonds ...AMX Mouse ManualHi all, I recently acquired the AMX Mouse Manual for the Spectrum as part of an eBay bundle. I did have a look for it in the instructions area of th…
... /> I recently acquired the AMX Mouse Manual for the Spectrum as ... have a look for it in the instructions area of this ...Where to sell my old speccy hardware/software/mags?Hi folks, I'm having a clearout and need to make space so I want to sell all my old speccy gear. I have no idea what any of it is worth or where the…
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a lightpen
a mouse
a multiface +3 (boxed ... be the adapter for the mouse come to think of it ... Sinclair binder (with a crease in)
A few programming books ... lot in bulk or whether that'd end up with me making ...The Making of 'Ant Attack!'This short film by Anthony Caulfield and Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic game ANT ATTACK released in 1983. [youtube]…
... Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic ... game ANT ATTACK released in 1983.
[youtube]RdrgBwSH9W8 ... the Fusion 08 event in Leamington Spa in 2008, he describes his ...Downloading pirate stuff in Switzerland is legal if you don't distribute it!?!?!"[COLOR="Blue"]The government of Switzerland has issued a statement declaring that it will not take action to alter [B]current copyright laws allowin…
... industry has been complaining in Switzerland ? as in the US and ... [B]The situation in Switzerland is somewhat unique, in that current copyright ... governments to sway their decisions in the favour of said ... funny lot, what with their making it illegal to slam your ...making a low end 8 bit machineI am getting an old style pc desktop case which i am going to put my own pc in but the machine already in it is a Pentium 3 cpu (dunno what the speed…
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I was thinking about making it auto boot into some ...Future LooterWell, finally, here's the release thread of Future Looter :) [img]http://mister_beep.republika.pl/future_looter.gif[/img] [img]http://mister_beep.re…
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The Federation is in danger as the few managers there ... to protect the mines and making its citizens to mine them ... />
Most of the elements in the game are self-explanatory ... you a life. :p Available in rooms where you can "mess ...Trying to remember name of an old animated movie making utilityMy nostalgic mind suddenly remembered hours of making terrible animated movies using a utility I believe I sent away for from an advert in a magazine…
... suddenly remembered hours of making terrible animated movies using ... away for from an advert in a magazine... so probably ... think it was written in basic and allowed you to ... around and have them speak in text to make a ... s name had 'movie' in the title, but I ...Is the PlusD board design available (in Eagle format)?Someone knows if the PlusD board design is available in Eagle format? I'm thinking of producing PlusD light interfaces: want to leave out the parall…
... PlusD board design is available in Eagle format?
I ... 'm doubting between putting in the effort of making it cheaper with ...Unofficial or inspired games in InfoseekWhen looking for games from a determined company, the unofficial or inspired games also appear in the search, making it appear a bit odd... Would it…
... inspired games also appear in the search, making it appear a bit ... , these unofficial games wouldnt appear in the results?
Thanks ...Website about the Italian Camel Trophy game (in Italian, English and Portuguese)This website hosts a detailed behind-the-scenes recollection about the making of the first Italian mass-produced Spectrum game, an arcade/simulation …
... -the-scenes recollection about the making of the first Italian mass ... about the Camel Trophy published in 1985. It was very popular ... going to open a thread in the MIA/STP/SDP forum ...Something a bit like Jetpack Joyride in flavour?Jetpack Joyride is a fairly simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has one control. That control applies power to the jetpack as long …
... simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has ... can be either traded in for more coins (50 ... per star) or spent in a one-armed bandit ... it further), making the next attempt start 750m in or resurrecting ... What they all have in common is the absurdly ...Nomen Rosae type-in author and remarks[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017824[/url] The real name of the author of this adventure game (a type-in program published …
... this adventure game (a type-in program published at Microhobby magazine ... come to translate Mike Oldfield in Latin language. Inside the game ... is only one person in charge of the making of this title.
