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Various Speccy Bits - microdrives +D and Sam Coupe StuffI have been a long time speccy fan and have amassed a massive collection of the many years. About a year ago I decided to build an online shop to buy…
I have been a long time speccy fan and have amassed a massive collection ... and loose computers, and various interfaces and drives.
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Katamari Damacy Everywhere!If you use Google Chrome, and copy and paste the following text into the location bar on any website and hit enter, you can roll a ball around and pi…
... use Google Chrome, and copy and paste the following text into the location ... enter, you can roll a ball around and pick bits of the ... style! Give it a bash...
The text to copy....
True 3D in PC gaming?What ever happened to Nvidia's (I think it was them) claims that they would be making true 3D possible using their drivers and suitable glasses? I'm …
... ? Presumably the lack of a successful, prominent (and affordable) 3D system means ... slightly different viewpoints, and then display the results in a '3D' montage (albeit ... way that when I watch a black and white film I forget ...Jet Set Willy and the Speedlock loaderHi everybody, I'm building a Manic Miner/JSW tribute site (yes, another one) and I was missing my original copy of Jet Set Willy. It's buried in my …
... a Manic Miner/JSW tribute site (yes, another one) and ... I shall get another. Lo and behold, eBay lot #130491383240 ... s 99p. I place a bid and win it for 99p. ... enough, I record it and make a TZX of it. I ... in, rather than printing and beeping like the original did ...a few games[url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/rhodesvibes/m.html?[/url] few bits for sale, inc. some ultimate games + quazatron.. not 99p start, because I only listed…
... I only listed em for a day and I do combine postage ...T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
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Display Mode ...Hacking a Joystick InterfaceI have a DK'Tronics twin-port joystick interface that does Kempston and Sinclair 0-6 keys. I know it has only 14 lines connecting it to the edge con…
... have a DK'Tronics twin-port joystick interface that does Kempston and ... unpicked them by hand and grafted it onto a DivIDE board. I ... lines, there'll be a +5V and Gnd and the rest (7?) will ...Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…
... synched to the current speccy display and the sound buffer. Dunny?
a speccy display area that would be ... display is built by scanning the current byte run on a scanline and ...Why didn't you want a NES?I'm trying to work out why consoles didn't make much of an impact in the UK in the 80s. At school in the late 80s, I knew one person who had a NES, …
... knew one person who had a NES, and two others who had ... a Master System. Everyone else had ... an 8-bit computer. And ... when the 90s rolled around, most people upgraded to a 16 ...ZX SPIN (P and newer) issue.Why, oh, why doesn't Spin work ... (Let's just leave it at that, shall we. -Ed) Anywho ... I extracted it (P and later S) into a folder and then mov…
... it (P and later S) into a folder and then moved ... that folder elsewhere (WinXP). And SPIN ... I had extracted it and then it worked like ... didn't pop up with a special "install" window ... br /> Also ... I love SPIN and wish for it to work ...New drive belt on a +2.. er.. problem!Hi again, still working on my +2s.. I replaced the belts and it's good, it's working. However, now, the drive is very noisy, erratic and slow. I've…
... 2s.. I replaced the belts and it's good, it's ... drive is very noisy, erratic and slow.
I ... against the main spindle, and looks like it's meant ... way as it's got a spring and everything. Because of the ... ?
Attached is a piccy of the pin in ...just won a bang and olufsen tellywanted a decent tube telly for me retro gear seeing as some lcd's don't like me speccies very much (+2a/b/3) just won a 26" avant beovision blah bla…
wanted a decent tube telly for me ... /3)
just won a 26" avant beovision blah blah ... tv on a swivel, which I'm happy ... about but only bidded on a whim
pick up ... could have done a buy it now on a divide
SpecBAS 0.646 now available.Yay! Here's another round of bugfixes and additions to the Program. Not so much of the extract coding features, but more back-to-basics this time: […
... set a mark with CTRL-SHIFT-Fn (F1 - F10), and then jump ... comes next in a DATA sequence as a string and put it ... string).
The FPEEK function and FPOKE command - both for reading ... loading graphics into a graphic bank was pretty hit and miss.
...RGB to S-Video and Composite Adapterif I produced a dongle that generated composite and s-video from the RGB socket on +3 and Black +2 spectrums would anyone be interested? I'm thinkin…
if I produced a dongle that generated composite and s-video from ... output connectors, Composite, S-video and a speaker jack.
This ... TV (RF, Composite, S-video and RGB)
< ... your speccy. I have built a circuit, and it works, but it ...Huge compilation - 7(ish) tapes?I'm trying to remember the name of a speccy compilation that had about 100 games and (I think) was on about 7 or 8 tapes. My mate bought it from a m…
... mate bought it from a market and I'm pretty sure it ... do remember is a Jekkyl and Hyde game (not the text adventure) where ... you had to ride a ... bicycle round a maze ...Interface 1 - a proper fix?Hi everybody, Over the last few days I've been looking at Interface 1's again. I keep coming up against the "spins forever" problem, i.e. writing to…
... hold down "break" and then move the microdrive ... ll work fine loading and saving. Even though the ... the contacts helps quite a bit, but still some ... make such a difference, and the fact that a slight amount ... the formatting never ends) and reading doesn't (CAT ...I didn't even get a job interview.I have been at the Citizens Advice Bureau for 2 years now. I'm one of the most experienced assessors (that's a fairly new role) there, and out of tho…
... (that's a fairly new role) there, and out of those ... team, and am now slowly and painstakingly learning to be a Money ... , asked me to be a volunteer, and included an application form. < ... at evening classes, A - level English, GCSE Astronomy, and I have buckled ...Need the name of a comicI wonder if someone can help with something thats been bugging me....... I remember a comic that i read in the mid - late 80's that contained mainly …
... bugging me.......
I remember a comic that i read in ... fi/horror stories, i read a whole load that my cousin ... the name of the comic and its annoying me! (It's ... of the track' about a runner and another was called 'No one ...External HD for PC and MacSomeone here will know the answer to this. I need to format several external (USB) Hard Drives of about 350GB each so they can be read on both a PC …
... can be read on both a PC and a Mac.
Google ... may or may not be a problem in this instance.
and most reliable way?
Last Sunset for LatticaHere's a [b]rough first draft[/b] of the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/lattica.gif]Lattica map[/url], just to demonstrate th…
... to all the screens and the game can be ... code later, and I've just bought a copy of the ... a wall on the adjacent tile will temporarily display that tile and ... striped edges flash continuously and it was doing my head ... 't want to suffer a bilious attack every time ...1p's and 2p's...why are they still in circulation? just beyond pointless now take up too much space, cashiers fumbling around to give exact change is long...they on…
... ...they only get stored in a jar, and sorting them out into ...Remembering a kids TV show.What was that TV show that was shown in the late 1970's to early 1980's that was animated and featured a boy and girl who lived by a port. I remembe…
What was that TV show that was shown in the late 1970's to early 1980's that was animated and featured a boy and girl who lived by a port.
I remember the theme tune featuring primarily a guitar and the opening credits to contain sea shells.Just Got Spectrum +2 grey model off ebay a few problemsFinally decided to get a real Spectrum after catching up on a load of games on emulators I missed in my earlier years due to having a C64 and Atari 8…
... years due to having a C64 and Atari 8-bit.< ... which occasionally changed to a screen of large horizontal ... After trying to get a decent picture and stable setup the ... system refused to output a ... even worth worrying about and would i be better ...The RatsI was reading a magazine review of another game in the WOS archive and came across [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004039"]Th…
... ?id=0004039"]The Rats[/URL], a graphic adventure based on the James ... checked another couple of reviews and they seem favourable. It looks ... for unique adventures and variation in the gameplay) and choices to sacrifice ...Operator ANDHi I'm trying to write some very simple game in ZX Basic, but I guess I've forgot most of it because I can't understand why simple IF....THEN sequen…
... /> 10 let a=1
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100 IF a=0 AND SCREEN$ (1 ...
I thought that AND operator requires both conditions to ... /> 100 IF SCREEN$ (1,1)=" " AND a=0 THEN LET Y=Y ... -1
and now it's behaving like ...Can you help me find a video on YouTube I saw a while back?A couple of years ago - I think - I saw a videoperformance on YouTube and I'd like to watch it again...if I can find it, that is. It was a woman and…
... - I saw a videoperformance on YouTube and I'd like ...
It was a woman and she was alone on stage ... keyboards. While playing and singing live she would ... sample herself and incorporate those samples into ... more layers of instruments and voices. It was ...Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
... code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well ... $(a,4)/16)
LET a$=(("D" AND h)+("DP" AND z$(a, ... o)=CHR$ 10)+STR$ ((CODE z$(a ... +CODE z$(a,6)*256+CODE z$(a,5)))[/CODE ... />
Does anyone see a way to speed it up ...Weird 'semi-crash' I used to be able to make the 48k speccy do.I've always wondered about this (but I seem unable to recreate it at the moment). I used to be able to get the Speccy to display some weird screen o…
... get the Speccy to display some weird screen of ... shift or symbol shift and pressed another key (I ... display a screen of garbage that started with "LE DFN" and ... It would scroll a couple of times and then say '4 ... in BASIC', you pressed a key and it was gone.
Assembler question about collisions and arranging dataSay you have a game with a playercharacter and some items on the screen - pretty normal for most games, and now you need to check if the player has r…
Say you have a game with a playercharacter and some items on the ... - pretty normal for most games, and now you need to check ... just running through a table of all items and doing a boxcollision check ... between each item's X&Y coords and ...traversing a multi-vertices graph structureWell, I'm on redesigning the route evaluation routine in my Fighting Fantasy utility, as the current method has some intractable bugs in it. The part…
... track of each access to a location and from which location it ... was accessed and be able to retrieve that ... -connections actually exist, and I can build a list of those in ... form pp:cc:a, sorting on pp:cc, and doing a binary search ...
