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Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
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Biggest Game World?We all know that Elite was considered to be huge with it's 2000-odd star systems, and that Explorer was... well, crap with it's billions of locations…
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Speccy games with bad EnglishI'm looking for something on the lines of, "All your Base are belong to us," ideally from an early Space Invaders sort of game 1983-85. I know I've …
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storing machine code in BASICApart from putting m/c above RAMTOP, which means that it has to be POKEd or LOADed separately after the BASIC program; or putting it in a REM, which …
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SPOT+SPEX Magazine Index UpdatedThe SPOT+SPEX Spectrum magazine index at [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/spot-on/default.htm]SPOT*On[/url] (now rather grandly - and …
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Football Director ZXDS save helpI'm playing football director on ZXDS. At the end of the season the the game crashes after the auto save. How do i stop the game crashing so i can ca…
I'm playing football director on ZXDS. At the end of the season the the game crashes after the auto save. How do i stop the game crashing so i can carry on playing? -
48K Speccy Repair Log.Some people may know my love for writing up my repairs of arcade PCBs on various forums so thought I would do the same for this little fella. Had th…
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Bizarre 80s computer magazine coversI've just come across this on a local retro website - the title of this magazine translates to "Computers, Programmed for Entertainment". I have neve…
Another......help me find a game thread I'm afriad. It's a spaceship sim thing. I remember that in one of the lower corners there were 3 indicators that used…
... which caused the graphics to stop momentarily on each noise, then ...Cheating at Football DirectorHow can i break into the program without it crashing? I thought i'd the stop the level automatically increasing but it crashes everytime i press brea…
How can i break into the program without it crashing? I thought i'd the stop the level automatically increasing but it crashes everytime i press break!designing a computerHi everyone! I am designing a 4 bit computer and i need some advice, is this a good instruction set? [CODE] BINARY OPCODE DESCRIPTION 00000 nop…
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01111 stop stop progam
10000 display display ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
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270 REM Calculate Time ... ;"Duration : ";ft-st
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240 REM Calculate Time ...PC trouble (again!)My PC is in a bit of a state at the moment. It all started about a week ago. For a long while now, the fan on my graphics card has made a loud whirin…
... and it just won't stop. it got to the point ...Protecting intellectual property (Software) in the UK.Lets say that hypothetically I was to write a killer app and begin selling it online, and I did not want competitors and or the open source community…
... from a website could I stop someone else coming along and ...Broken +3I have noticed that some members on this forum prefer to repair Spectrums instead of just buying another one from ebay. I would like mine fixed at so…
... causing the flashing screen to stop, the border may turn blue ...+2a doesn't load anymorea machine i got on ebay a couple months back, always had the odd game that wouldn't load, but now it seems to have stopped working alltogether. soun…
... start, then the border stripes stop showing. Nothing at all loads ...General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
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9010 ...INSTR function...Hi Folks, Another little program that people might find useful: [CODE]100 DIM i(4) 110 LET a$="This is some sample text" 120 LET b$="text" 130 GO S…
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9000 REM INSTR ROUTINE ...Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …
... it should be fast, non-stop action. And they removed the ...PC Graphics card incompatibility issueHey all, ive had a mates PC in for repair, well, upgrade. Against my judgement he's gone and bought a PCI card (Geforce 8400GS 512mb), even though th…
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4 I cant disable the onboard video because as ...games that are great despite their obvious flaws...I think 'WONDERBOY' is a great game on the spec, used to play it non stop, but... the scrolling is abysmal. slows down and speeds back up at random w…
... , used to play it non stop, but... the scrolling is abysmal ...Assembly Programming for IDIOTSOk are there any websites guides for what opcodes do in a z80 or books... but for really really thick people like me :-) Something along the lines …
... the processor your program would stop running, so how does it ...XBox 1 hacker to testify in courtThis might be of some interest to some of us: "[COLOR=Blue]Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the designer of the Chumby ( [COLOR=Red][URL]http://www.chumby.…
... that and for wanting to stop it. But that doesn't ... Microsoft allowed by law to stop you doing this? It's ...Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
Hi everyone,
How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet?
When you kill something, do you just stop displaying it?
thanksAny MCODE programmers fancy a challenge?Hi Folks, I have been using the Micro-Print utility in the archive and found it to be really good. It is the one that provides 32, 36, 42, 51, 64 a…
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310 REM MicroPrint Routine ...Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... law could do nothing to stop him! What a racket! And ...Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…
... law could do nothing to stop him! What a racket! And ...DIVIDE PLUS - ZX bus protectorI make new ZX BUS PROTECTOR for use with DIVIDE PLUS interface. This is very small "convertor" for connection to new ZX BUS connector. PCB contain on…
... disconnect = external device can't disable ZX rom (only DIVIDE PLUS ...
