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The Fool's Workplace SurveyI thought I'd try and find out more about what my fellow WOS'ers are up to during their work hours, so I've compiled a simple survey. Overwrite my an…
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A magazine / print / design company.
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New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
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+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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Game ideaThinking of a game that could enter the Minigame compo I came to the following idea for a game, although it might not fit 1K or 4K: A mazed snake ga…
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Pentagon-1024 manufacturingI am finishing a trial assembly of 2 boards. Unfortunately getting components appears to be very time-consuming (it's difficult to obtain electronic …
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PCB transfer on the cheap?This will sound like a really dumb* idea, but maybe someone can help I want to etch a PCB by electrolysis using a salt solution. I know this techniq…
... I can transfer a PCB design from my computer to the ... have to painstakingly copy the design out into the etch resist ... -
Unreal Tournament 3Is anyone here looking forward to Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC/XBox 360/PS3? The original Unreal Tournament (1999) is probably my favourite PC game …
... being dumbed down?), the level design tends towards the "Wow, that ... ) wouldn't have had to design/write/test the new engine ... -
Anyone knows how ULAs were designed?Hi I just finished reading a very interesting article about [URL="http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-3.ars"]history…
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48K vs 128KWhat does everyne think is the best machine - the 48k or the 128k? Personally i prefer the 128K+2. It has more memory, built in tape deck (so no fid…
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Operation Thunderbolt - still considered any good?Work on 1989 continues. I loved 1988's Operation Wolf, and 1989's Cabal was a nice development of the concept. I'm now playing (and watching the RZX…
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50 yearsToday is the 50th anniversary of the first serious nuclear accident in the world, the fire at pile 1 at Windscale in Cumbria (now better known as Sel…
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Mb02+ideAs I wrote in the hardware forum there will be a small number of a redesigned MB02+IDE (nearly the original MB02+ including IDE interface also for CF…
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1. smaller design reduced weight - only 160 x ... fuse (no fuse in original design)
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How many different versions of the divIDE are there?So what gives with these interfaces? Some have thru ports, some have built in joystick interfaces - some are based upon one design, one is designed …
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Bubble Bobble vs Rainbow IslandsWhat do you think is the better game? I'm not talking specifically Speccy versions (both are fantastic conversions) or any of the others on various p…
... player together (through clever level design) to work as a team ... the other hand has the design so that even if you ... -
Lots of original release Speccy/C64 gamesLOADS of Spectrum (and C64) games are going on EBAY tonight - hopefully I can raise a bit of much needed cash! Nearly all of the games are the origi…
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Improved emulator page?I've noticed that the emulator page hasn't changed since I first visited a few years ago. Of course, it works fine but I was wondering if there was a…
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128 I/O portsIn The Spectrum Hardware Manual there is a small circuit on page 71/72 to allow 128 I/O ports by using IORQ+A7 to override IORQGE, so any I/O access …
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So who needs a 3.5 GHz dual core Core 2 Duo......when a 6MHz Z80 will do for a multi-user server? After hacking about more with the socket library - I had 4 simultaneous users on ALIAC-2 via eth…
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New Spectrum game available - Egghead 5Timed to coincide with Egghead's 18th birthday (although it fits in rather well with WoS's 12th as well), Egghead Round the Med. is now available to …
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Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
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Stunning engineeringIt was my girls lantern parade, I got out my old Zippo lighter, (haven't smoked for decades), fueled it up. Mighty surprised the fuel was still good.…
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Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…
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Got a job interview in 9 hours!Checked my e-mail yesterday (Tuesday) and there was an e-mail from a software company asking me if I was still in the market for a new job. I replie…
... of project management and software design
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Hardware fault - HELP!I bought a speccy 48K (rubber) on Ebay. I was delighted when it arrived. It was in PRISTINE condition, it looks brand new! However, the machine has a…
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2112 AD by ZeppelinZeppelin Games rerelease of 2112 AD also was in production. Review in Crash magazine N60, page 9. "...Zeppelin will rerelease a number of old Desig…
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Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…
... Head Over Heels - great game design along with 3D isometric routines ... the best arcade adventure game design on the Spectrum. Everything is ... -
The Elonex One a ?100 LaptopJust seen this, i am definitely interested in one of these cheap laptops but i don't like the physical design of this one, so i will be waitingto see…
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interesting russian gamesi start a new thread, as i don't know where to post it. here are some interesting ones i came across, perhaps i'll add more later, in every case i en…
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Decoding of speccy keyboardHello everyone. I face following problem with spectrum keys decoding and need some explanation. I know how to decode a single key press by reading po…
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As a fleeting point of interest...A fleeting point of interest to you all may be that I've just decided that after triple checking my PCB design for the Spectranet (Spectrum Ethernet …
... after triple checking my PCB design for the Spectranet (Spectrum Ethernet ...
