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The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…
#31. Ultimate Horse Racing Simulator
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Retro GamerDoes anybody know when the next issue of Retro Gamer will be out? They told me to include an article about the Spectrum30 show in the News section an…
... is your cut off point as a retro magazine). And also the ... -
Echecs Le Turc - French release of Chess The Turk in ebay France<p>This is a uMIA, at least this french reléase:</p><p><br><a href="http://www.ebay.fr/itm/ECHECS-LE-TURC-OCP-jeux-pour-ZX-Spectrum-48k-vintage-/1712…
... where the mail service is expensive, the Price would be no more ... -
Floating Point Package Math48<br>I came across a neat little floating point package for the z80 and I'm adapting it now to work with z88dk and sdcc. There is an interesting…
... "inf", "infinity", "nan", "nan(...)", decimal floats as in "123.45 ... strings of zeroes after the decimal point or after the non-zero ... that reaches into the third decimal place or about the ... to show how inaccurate floating point computations can be even ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Hi Mark
I did not have much luck with digital meter which gave the following
Case to reg test : stayed on 1 did not change
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Basic BASIC help needed RNDHi all, I have recently re-discovered an old program I wrote in the early 90s which would do generate random lottery numbers. I know little now, an…
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Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
My mate remembers us once typing in a horse racing game, only when it ran the horses where split so the top half of the horse was a couple of blocks ahead of the bottom half. Put him right off
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Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…
... trying to look for 'mechanical horse racing music' on Google/YouTube when ... -
Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…
... . Derby Day has some random horse racing commentary playing when the horses ... -
Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…
... arcades here in Scarborough! The horse racing one is now 10p but ... kid, we found a broken horse racing machine that paid out the ... -
Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…
... arcades here in Scarborough! The horse racing one is now 10p but ... kid, we found a broken horse racing machine that paid out the ... got one of these derby horse racing machines at Swansea pier, along ... -
Arcade DERBY port....Pleeease ! [img]http://www.ukvac.com/forum/uploads/212/derby.jpg[/img] My spectrum did a fair job at recreating my trips to the seaside arcade …
... 's a version of actual horse racing, rather than the arcade game ... -
A game you want to love, but can't...but keep trying...but can't...but keep trying...ad infinitum!You know, one of those games where you think you might just be missing something. For me, this game is Tynesoft's Auf Wiedersehen Pet. I loved the te…
[quote="Morkin;895841"]I think Alex must be the 8-bit equivalent of the modern professional games..![/quote]
Until you realise he's put a decimal point instead of a comma. 1.5 really isn't that many games! :)) -
"ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... anyway) are:
- non-decimal number bases (binary and hexadecimal ... number no longer has a decimal point, usually because there is a ... very small decimal in the string that the ... /> - PI is stored to 7 decimal places. Trig functions work OK ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
I've not yet played it (will get to that in a sec) but I've purchased Doom via Steam for a tenner. Download size? 78GB - no, I've not forgotten to add a decimal point! 78GB!!!! That's virtually two bloody blu-rays... -
Fantasy Premier League 2017-18New season, new thread. Come at me bro's!
I didn't know it was horse racing! No wonder I've been doing so badly! -
Fantasy Premier League 2017-18New season, new thread. Come at me bro's!
Neeeeeiiiighhhhh, it's not crick...err horse racing... -
Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
John McCririck, racing pundit. RIP.
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Did a Trump really get "Blown Off" by the Danes?How did they do it ? It sounds quite technical . Please discuss
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Mighty Maths ProgramsIn a break from typing in listings from 37-year-old magazines, I had a sudden urge to write a maths-related program, as I do, occasionally. Some, suc…
... of accessible digits after the decimal point is reduced to 29, and ... the loss of that one decimal place - the golden ratio ... (although the digits after this point are different).
... be tough, losing floating-point arithmetic will be even worse ... -
Corona Virus,Is is me or is the BBC sensationalizing this corona virus too much and creating hysteria?
... 's are re-opening and horse racing will be under way again ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... generation, so from their point of view I was ... must have been especially expensive, only three N64 games ... random. N64 Magazine was the best N64 magazine I saw ... other hand, needed an expensive and fairly hard to ... they were outside the price range of me and ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... 830103.htm+%2B1982+%2B%22Time+Magazine%22+%2B%22person+of+the ... more expensive machines running CP/M (this *was* a selling point for ... t compete with the falling price of more powerfull machines. ... short time and because of price. Perhaps the keyboard and ... -
Sony does it again...Another reason to both detest Sony, and to avoid the PS3 - at least if you're in Great Britain :evil: According to: [URL]http://uk.gamespot.com/…
... was carving for a good racing game), and also there were ... it wasn't the most expensive system out there, and It ... any VC titles at this point, but it's good to ... right, and I mean right price/good value for the money ... -
XBox 360 prices to go up in Great BritainThose well know altruists Microsoft are once again showing how much they care for our little island: "[I]Retailers have told [URL="http://www.euro…
... 's kinda inevitable that the price of non-essential consumer electronics ... ]Ouch, that's still ridiculously expensive for a games console. Must ... man (very nice), and a racing game (very nice graphics, but ... would be a real plus point for people like me who ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
[QUOTE=Fizza;472405]The right price, the right performance, the right ... would have been a two horse race with the Atari & ... - until that point. The Atari 800 was even more expensive, and - as ... too expensive to make for Commodore to keep cutting the price. The ...
