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Audio level on a grey +2Hi all, I received yesterday my "new" Spectrum 128+2 grey. It's a french one (without modulator, and with specific roms : message in french). First …
... what I was asking for, and don't laugh : Yesterday I ... (Sacred Armour of Antiriad - in 48k mode), and the sound was
all ... I tried before (Duet and Cauldron), in which the sound level must ... (sold with the Speccy, here in France, where Speccy have no ... -
+3 hardware without a fixer boardJust thinking about plugging random hardware into a +3 (from something mentioned on another thread), and I wondered... I know some hardware won't wor…
... test it out because my 48k+ isn't working. Obviously I ... to just hook it up in case it toasts something.
in 48K BASIC mode, as the enhanced printer ... port is only available in +3 BASIC mode. The manual does ... -
+3 hardware without a fixer boardJust thinking about plugging random hardware into a +3 (from something mentioned on another thread), and I wondered... I know some hardware won't wor…
... the ZX Printer will work in 48K BASIC mode, as the enhanced printer ... port is only available in +3 BASIC mode. The manual does ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... . Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C variables ... bytes in Sinclair basic and some math libraries in Spectrum C implementations. Strings in basic consist ... difference between local and global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie ... -
About the Cronosoft GamesHello everybody, I just want to comment one thing that happens with the Cronosoft Games. I Load them on my Spectrum+2A and I have seen that most of t…
I just loaded Farmer Jack in 48k mode and the game crashed when I was playing my first go, it stopped moving and strange colour blocks appeared in the screen. -
About the Cronosoft GamesHello everybody, I just want to comment one thing that happens with the Cronosoft Games. I Load them on my Spectrum+2A and I have seen that most of t…
... ]I just loaded Farmer Jack in 48k mode and the game crashed when ... , it stopped moving and strange colour blocks appeared in the screen.[/QUOTE ... -
A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …
... 's area 65200 that crashes in the basic and compiled programs.
[/QUOTE ... you executing a CLEAR xxxx in the basic loader to make space ... ? I believe that causes Spectrum basic to relocate the stack, but ... -
Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
... 30 I havea some wine in me and stressing over a talk ... Bastard
Indiana Jones and teh Temple of Doom
Three Weeks in Paradise (48 and 128K versions)
Toobin'
Also as included some and not others above, have completed ... -
Microdrive wont LOAD - Help PleaseI have many Microdrive cartridges containing Original Programs and Backups. I have tried to read and load from any number of the cartridges all seem…
... Pennell revealed the differences in Your Spectrum
and also in the second version ... -
Microdrive wont LOAD - Help PleaseI have many Microdrive cartridges containing Original Programs and Backups. I have tried to read and load from any number of the cartridges all seem…
... Andrew Pennell revealed the differences in Your Spectrum and also in the second version ... -
Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... saving isn't offered in Pure Basic and I do not know much ... area to convert, and this also work in animation conversion mode. It ... an option to drag and drop it in the Project window. The ... - series of small images) and store them in a buffer for later ... -
+2A, are they all this incompatible?My +2A does not seem to be faulty but the number of games that don't run on it are silly. Scooby Doo(Elite), Crazy Cars , Turbo Outrun, Vindicator(im…
... br /> (Only paperboy and bombjack were real problems back ... 's, V1.02 128k memory tester ROM be ... /B and +3 machines or just on 128k heatsink/+2 ... the Amstrad logo (in both 48 and 128k mode).
Some ... other games loaded and played ... -
ZX Computing magazineThis is a new one on me, but seems to have had a fair run during ~1986/7. What are people's memories of it?
... 1982 - June 1987 and in my opinion was probably ... was a regular contributor and each mag must have ... or 4 coding articles in both Basic and MC. The standard ... remember and another about writing adventure games in MC.< ... br />
Oh and I didn't even mention ... -
ZX Computing magazineThis is a new one on me, but seems to have had a fair run during ~1986/7. What are people's memories of it?
... 1982 - June 1987 and in my opinion was probably ... was a regular contributor and each mag must have ... or 4 coding articles in both Basic and MC. The standard ... remember and another about writing adventure games in MC.< ... br />
Oh and I didn't even mention ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
The latest optimizations discussed here (and a couple new ones) finally ... perfect maze generator originally described in #404. Here's the new ... -
Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…
... works if you're running in 48K BASIC mode on a +3?[/QUOTE ... on 48K BASIC on the +3. (The error handling has a problem in ... it somewhere, but it's the same on a real 48K ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... looking at the VIC BASIC code in QAOP. I should ... caused by me still thinking in "Sinclair BASIC" terms.
works fine in Sinclair BASIC and executes zero iterations with no ... it causes "NEXT without FOR" in VIC BASIC.
Slowly ... -
Sequel to Earth Shaker released (beta)Hi everyone, 18 years later, I have released a beta of a sequel to my spectrum game 'Earth Shaker'. It is called 'World Shaker', is written in a ret…
... ', is written in a retro style (in Blitz Basic) and runs in Windows.[/quote]
and try it, but I doubt ... Earthshaker is a fantastic game, and one of my favourites, so ... so much for writing it, and it's great to see ... -
Bouncing BallsPfrrt, I am back from lunch, playing the first raw version of BOUNCING BALLS It is very addictive! As stated here [URL]http://www.worldofspectru…
... squares of the differences in the x and y co-ordinates and compare with ... done with 8-bit arithmetic, and the squaring can be done ... -
Bouncing BallsPfrrt, I am back from lunch, playing the first raw version of BOUNCING BALLS It is very addictive! As stated here [URL]http://www.worldofspectru…
... squares of the differences in the x and y co-ordinates and compare with ... done with 8-bit arithmetic, and the squaring can be done ... you by naming a contester in my CGC game "MiniGameCompo simulator ... -
Bouncing BallsPfrrt, I am back from lunch, playing the first raw version of BOUNCING BALLS It is very addictive! As stated here [URL]http://www.worldofspectru…
... squares of the differences in the x and y co-ordinates and compare with ... done with 8-bit arithmetic, and the squaring can be done ... -
favourite in-game musicwhat's peoples favourite in-game speccy tunes? Midnight resistance is the clear winner for me, followed by Robocop, Bionic Commando, Moon Strike, Tar…
Not ingame but the 48K beeper and 128k chiptune for Thantos was one of my favs..very haunting. -
favourite in-game musicwhat's peoples favourite in-game speccy tunes? Midnight resistance is the clear winner for me, followed by Robocop, Bionic Commando, Moon Strike, Tar…
... ;309353]Not ingame but the 48K beeper and 128k chiptune for Thantos was ... ]
The first one and the last two are my ... -
Sequel to Earth Shaker released (beta)Hi everyone, 18 years later, I have released a beta of a sequel to my spectrum game 'Earth Shaker'. It is called 'World Shaker', is written in a ret…
... Shaker', is written in a retro style (in Blitz Basic) and runs in Windows.
and I am working on a ... of object, a screen designer, and a film mechanism that lets ... . It's a bit clunky in places but I decided to ... -
The ZX printer buffer in +3 modeI have a few programs on .DSK images that were transferred from Timex disks, but some of them have code starting at 23296. Most of the time the code …
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Route48 is one, and there are others. I don ... /> 48DISK Puts the computer in 48k
mode and retains FULL USE
and route48 etc is on the ... on 3.5" floppies, and simply copies files from user ... -
TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …
... Z80 incorporates m/code routines and there are no explicit - LOAD ... of the USR calls from BASIC. In the simplest case, where there ... not have explicit CODE LOADs in the BASIC and where the original listing ... available, that it's safer and easier to leave them as ... -
Program for showing Basic listnings in gamesCan somebody tell me the name and where to find an utility to show the BASIC-listning in Adventure games - or for any other Spectrum-program for that…
... all Adventure Programs are written in BASIC only.
Mostly only the ... lot of Astronomy programs in Sinclair-Basic and in GW-Basic.
I started my ... Spectrum Interrest in 1982 with a ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... ZX81 was my first machine and I loved it. It was ... I learnt to program in both BASIC and Machine Code on that little ... a few games for it and some of them were ... only ever used twice and then put back in its box. The ... have yet to see one in as good condition come ... -
The Life Of The ZX81I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning? What if the Spectrum had come out in late ?84 or even 1985? Would the ZX81 have had a longe…
... ZX81 was my first machine and I loved it. It was ... . I learnt to program in both BASIC and Machine Code on that little ... a few games for it and some of them were quite ... -
Defender of the crownI have checked recently the Spectrum version of this well known, great game and the Spectrum version is strange. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
... Crown[/I] was featured in Crash, and I really hoped that it ... from the Desert[/I] in Laser Basic and a lil bit of m ...
