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Football Director 2Apologies for mentioning football management... I just thought I'd mention a couple of oddities with this title... I originally purchased this cass…
... just thought I'd mention a couple of oddities with ... cassette when it came out. Within a day it was back in ... but this time there was a difference - it was the ... used the ramdisk, so a different version had to be ... appears to be a perfect match to a TAP file I ... -
NickH/YSRnRY Bit Torrent server going down on SundayDue to my Win98SE attracting the wrong kind of spyware, I'm having to do a complete reinstall of my main machine (bye-bye Windows...), and thought I …
... , I'm having to do a complete reinstall of my main ... , CGExpo).
So, just a word of warning to all ... of Sunday, if not then within a few days.
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Trig questionI'm trying to write a function that describes a 2D circle in 3D space - that's not important, just a bit of background! I've almost done it, but the…
I'm trying to write a function that describes a 2D circle in 3D ... - that's not important, just a bit of background!
A = ........
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WoS Database Machine Type wrongI've noticed that certain games quote 48k and/or 128k incorrectly. Examples I've just found today: Rambo 3: WoS quotes 128k but it works fine in 48k…
... and 128k only works on a +2A/+3!
A better system would be a list of the ... br /> But it would require a lot of work to test ... least 3 times! Would a function similar to voting be possible ... ? Each game would have a ? next to each machine ... -
Looking for game (Don't know its name)Hi all I'm looking for a game I remember I had on the spekky. Can not remember the name but perhaps a little discription will jot someones memory. …
... the name but perhaps a little discription will jot ... had to ride around within a time limit and find tokens ... you had to enter a little race. One other ... sure it was named after a character who advertised chrisps, ... br /> I know it is a long shot but someone may ... -
my dodgy speccys.hi people, i was wondering if i could engage some opinions / thoughts / ideas of anyone, regarding my current "fixing up" of my speccys, since you s…
... at least one into a truely functioning speccy for ... . - very battered - missing a RWD button on the tape ... tape player slows to a halt within a second or two.< ... this site[/url] seems a bbit pricey - considering it ... />
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WoS MEET: SATURDAY 27 MAYHello. Is everyone ok for The Green Man on Great Portland Street? (map: [url]http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=528855&y=182185&z=1&sv=528855,1…
... City, Circle, Metropolitan lines) and within a five minute walk of Regents ... -
MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... Spectrum was designed to fall within a much cruder set of ... minidisc, thus putting them through a SECOND compression algorithm (ATRAC). ... or headphone jack of a PC is a totally inappropriate way ...
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Emulator for viewing variables dataI am looking for a windows emulator, this emulator can view variables data used in game (tap,sna,z80...). It knew edit variables data. I dont remembe…
I am looking for a windows emulator, this emulator can ... think in the menu was a function like View debug with items ... -
Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
Say you want to use a variable value of 0 ... to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would ... Spectrum BASIC variables, i.e a and b, like so:
LET a = b
... / PI
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Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... is an update to a screen on a seperate thread converts the ... guarantee the physical location of a "screen" address in memory, or ... wanted to use a screen they have to call a function on it ... tell them to ( preferably when a vsync happens ).
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what's with hotmail?That's it. I've probably had enough -- out of the last four days, half the time hotmail has been unreachable to me. It's not just in high demand ho…
... either; it seems to be a periodic thing that happens every ... so but is normally resolved within a day. Since I have no ... home, this is turning into a right pain in the ass ... />
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CRASHing into crapness, Part 2Following on from [url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_frm/thread/5541add8fe6b5218/e629555e12c5f3e8?lnk=st&q=crashing+into+…
... 's decision to turn into a pamplet and the demise of ...
MOVIE
All within a short amount of time, and ... what was by all accounts a *small* publisher. Can you say ... -
I have joined the Dark SideGone and bought a PS3 that is. Even after all of the posts I made about not getting one as they were so expensive I succumbed and sold my 360 (and o…
... the checkerboard started happening a few minutes after ... give 3 red lights within the ring of light ... br /> So probably around a hundred quid to fix something ... coffers. So I did within a couple of days! Took ... and be watching it within seconds. Fantastic, the ... -
Possible great ideaHello there everybody, I have been toying with the idea of doing a project here with the help of the gurus on the forum. The idea is to start the de…
... one game is complete, a new game can be ... and everybody must understand a concept before we move ... to use inline assembler within a C project it would ... hard to understand as a couple of projects have ... possible, as online documentation. A WIKI could also be ... -
Blitz Basic questionHello my saucy lil code-kippers... I'm crap at making games. Sorry but I am, but it doesn't stop me from trying. Oh, actually, it has! You see,…
... stuck on a game I started making a year or ... is the laser bolt from a keyboard controlled spaceship, and ... slides from left to right within a band of about 50 ... silly old me is making a meal of it. Does ... the equation, or is there a simple method for saying, ' ... -
+3 broken driveHi, I bought a +3 from E-bay, but the drive doesn't work :( I am not so familiar with Speccys, I know how to program them, but this is the first I'…
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I bought a +3 from E-bay, but ... and the motor runs for a bit then stops.
... can anybody point me to a webpage which describes how to ... fit a 3.5" disc drive internally within a +3?
a sudoku game for Spectrum and ... -
Any "Capture The Flag" games?There used to be a really good DOS game called Capture The Flag which featured two teams of players starting in a land area split in two. The object …
There used to be a really good DOS game called ... teams of players starting in a land area split in two ... as squares of it are within a certain line of sight.
I've Been ClampedParked my car on my lunch hour to run into the shop and top my phone up with credit...the shop was yards away.... I was only around a minute........…
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I was only around a minute........
Came out ... crushed if you cant pay within a certain time..."
I ... LOL....
His face was a picture when I came round ... see the sign it was a little shitty one that looked ...VegetariansIn another thread, [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20624[/URL] vegetarianism is mentioned, so I thought I'd ask some …
... occur to me about being a vegetarian.
1) ... all stopped eating meat then within a generation (maybe two) that ... then I might well become a veggie (though of course ... vegetarianism is certainly not a definite sign of moralty, look ...How long can I stay sober?Following on from the that 'I'm an alcholholic thread'... I got very drunk on Tuesday night with my neighbour due to us celebrating his impending ba…
... fine and went to visit a manufacturers site. As the ... /> When driving home I got within a mile of my house and ... pulled into a layby and threw up everywhere ... . This may not seem a big thing but I normally ... .5-2 bottles of wine a night.
Can ...Saving out data in emulatorsI've been reading Raymond Chandler recently and it's made me want to go back and play "The Big Sleaze", the excellent Fergus McNeil text adventure wh…
... saving-out of data from within a program and if it does ... ago I used to use a Speccy emulator on Amiga that ... but I've not found a modern PC-based emulator that ..."Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... decoded, it would be a handy CPU-time-saver to ... can be read back within a few tens of thousands of ... practical use (except for a rather nasty form of anti ... 4-bit code by a special order factory mask ... are programmed to recognise only a 0000 code.[/quote]
...Biggest gaming disappointmentsThe biggest let down I can remember was Matthew Smith's type-in Andre's Night Off. Surely there would be some magic in those few lines of code you ty…
... though - there had to be a good ending right? Doh!
Within a year it was in the ...Batman crashes on MobileZXDear all, I'm one of the authors of MobileZX ([url]https://sourceforge.net/projects/mobilezx/[/url]) and find that Batman crashes within a few secon…
... ]) and find that Batman crashes within a few seconds. Does anyone know ...Retr0 Trader forums and Retr0 BrightHello there my fellow forum chummies, I had a search around and noticed that either of these projects have not been mentioned before. [url]http://w…
... chummies,
I had a search around and noticed that ... [/url]
Here is a friendly Trading site that has ... why and a formula that can reverse these effects within a few hours ...Hurray for the French (Scientology related)Scientology (which is NOT a religion, as it doesn't refer to a god, it's just a cult) is on trial in France, unlike in England where we let anyone in…
... Granted it's only a trial about fraud within a scientology office, not ... actually a trial about Scientology ... itself, but it's a start.
... honestly deny. And in a sane, incorrupt world it ...Text Adventure Dizzy questionsWork on this game is going through the mapping stages and I have a few questions. As the readers know, it will be based on Treasure Island Dizzy but…
... mapping stages and I have a few questions.
As ... should be avaliable for download within a few weeks, this will be ...I'm an idiotAfter 15 days off the smokes I've folded and bought a pack of smokes, I smoked one it was like my first smoke, kinda hurt my throat but felt fucking …
... I've folded and bought a pack of smokes, I smoked ... it's going to be a psycho hard battle to stay ... want to come back home, within a day or 2 of hitting ... 'll have hooked up with a load of my auld muckers ... , I'll be high as a kite, and smoking weed and ...ANNOUNCE: Andrew Broad's new website, MM/JSW software reissuedNow that GeoCities is supposed to have closed, I am delighted to announce my new website, the Spectrum-section of which is at: [url]http://abroad.sqw…
... right now I'm facing a major crisis that could either ... [/url] since September 2007, but a gamma-release is long overdue ... , it usually comes back up within a couple of minutes.
