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Experience feelings of passionate love in dreams?!I had a dream this morning that I was the boyfriend (I think) of Liv Tyler. This is a little odd, because I have never really fancied her, even thoug…
... it is just a bastard trick that dreams sometimes play on ... -
Nasty 'Gotcha' for multicolour timingI thought I would be better developing my multicolour routine on the 48K first, being the slowest, so it would then be sure to work on the 128K varia…
... scheme.
The nasty trick is, if you perform two ... -
Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…
... vmem address table (using standard trick with two tables on 256 ... -
Halloween...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals? Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we liv…
...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals?
Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we live in a flat. As it's midweek it'll probably be quite a quiet affair. -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... 32 columns bicolor using a trick similar to BIFROST?, but I ... -
GEDit syntax highlighting for Boriel's ZX BasicHi! I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works w…
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SpecBAS 0.802 Released!Hi folks - It's that time again when I release the latest round of features and bugfixes to SpecBAS :) New for this version are ZONEs which act ver…
... be a Unicode issue
DEF PROC, when executed, didn't ... -
The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…
... chuck me down the trapdoor' trick again.. Except it only works ... -
Python script to scrape Amazon.com book reviewsI've been meaning to read the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks (roughly 40 books) and Sci-Fi Masterworks (roughly 100+ books) lists for a while now, but …
... /> import os
def scrape_amazon_book_ratings():
# read list ... line)
def fetch_page(target_url, filename):
... pc_file.close()
def main():
scrape_amazon_book_ratings()< ... -
Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…
... ] can) would be a handy trick, but again, not essential as ... -
Windows 8 re-activation nightmareI hope no one has to go through this... Replaced a dead Asus motherboard with a new one on a nice tower that came with Windows 8. Didn't notice it as…
... from scratch and using the trick of installing a clean 8 ... -
UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
... for using UDGs.
Trick 1:
[B]print chr ... -
Just seen X-Men: Days of Future Past and am a bit angry.As one of the things I'm wondering about all through the film is 'how come Professor X is still alive, after getting killed off in X-Men 3', and wait…
... it to be some clever trick of the time-travel story ... -
My Punk Radio showold thread seems to have vanished so heres a reminder for Def Chris :P my show starts at 2pm GMT on [url]www.rockindevilradio.com[/url] but i think …
old thread seems to have vanished so heres a reminder for Def Chris :P
my show starts at 2pm GMT on [url]www.rockindevilradio.com[/url] but i think im gonna start early :P about 1 ish -
Summer DnB mixnot posted a new mix for a while, here's one I did earlier blue peter styleee [IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/2ewft53.png[/IMG] stream/download: [url]…
... : [url]https://soundcloud.com/user2316397/def-chris-summer-dnb-mix-2014 ... -
PLOTTER - display file utilityI've been disassembling Gyron and needed something to help with working out where things were being put on the screen, so I wrote this program. I was…
... " error after some little while (FN h$(a) gets stuck in ... -
Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…
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def createCode(self):
self ... #3 - Disable Interupts
def disableInterupts(self):
self.doPrint ... #9 - Enable Interupts
def enableInterupts(self):
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1st interface in 30 years (update)Hi all, Just a wee update to my "1st ZX interface in 30 years" project. Main IC's: 82C55 three 8-bit port I/O (configured for 12 dig in, 12 dig out…
... not. There's a wee trick to use a couple of ... -
Docking in EliteI was going to post this to the "games featuring relevant bugs" thread, but after tinkering with Klive I'm more confused than before. As a kid I use…
... a Lenslok, but the same trick works on the Joystick Club ... -
'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…
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GRAPH -USER DEF GRAPHS
EXTEND MODE THEN ... -
Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…
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Fuse and DivIDEI'm struggling to get the divide option to work in fuse, I tick the box in options/peripherals/disk and then load insert a disk in media/ide/divide/m…
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am I missing a trick, using the windows port 1 ... -
New game "Ice Slider Z" by egotripAnyway, Ice Slider Z is a collect-em-up in which you attempt to collect 12 jewels on each screen. The trick is once you start moving, only brick wall…
... jewels on each screen. The trick is once you start moving ... -
Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
... ::= X1 "ghi" X2
X1 := "def"
X2 := "jkl"
so ... -
Spectrum+2 Tape Deck Buzz<p>I've been messing with a Iss3 0500 Spectrum +2. So far I've replaced the electrolytic capacitors, flipped the transistors, add…
... the motor wires do the trick or would I need to ... -
The text edition window shrinksJust when I thought that all my problems here were solved , another bug has popped up : When I begin writing a message , no matter if a new discussi…
... /> I have to use a trick to avoid this uncomfortable editing ... -
The Great Escape. I found an alternative escape route.I managed to figure out a way to escape without ever using the wirecutters. So if you've beaten the game a lot of times and would like to try somethi…
... pick-up-through-the-fence trick to escape with the wirecutters ...
