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Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…
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Consolidating forum categoriesI posted this elsewhere, but it should probably go here: [quote="Rorthron;857978"]As an aside, can we consolidate the various topics on New WoS in…
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DEVELOPMENT
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Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... a copy of the sample design by Motorola. Tandy and Dragon ... made minor changes to the design, but they certainly didn't ... the BASIC/OS. There were multiple machines (5+?) based on that design ... -
what are the differences between the 48K spectrum and the spectrum+ ?^^^^^ see above ^^^^^
... I achieved decent speed typing basic programs.
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Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... to do your graphics from BASIC, you could do worse than ... [/b] graphics engine. You can design loads of pre-coloured UDGs ... -charade-graphics- engine-for-sinclair-basic/p1"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... -graphics-
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Recreated ZX Spectrum Release date?!?Hi All, I ordered a Recreated ZX Spectrum from Amazon. The release date has since changed to 26th April (3rd time it changed). In the meantime, El…
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Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.
... Portugal) to that Spanish 128K design was unforgivable. I nearly bought ... Coleman;882311"]- Speed of the BASIC - seemed so slow compared with ... BBC BASIC[/quote]
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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 …
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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
[b]Space Fright[/b] [Data Design Systems]
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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 …
... in keeping with the original design concept for the Discovery . The ... Emulation" ( a homage to "Beyond Basic" with an entirely different use ...
