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Yay (In a sarcastic, and sort of foreboding way), they're making a sequel to Bladerunner[quote="ewgf;52032"]In a parallel universe, one where directors understand what makes a classic film great, and the accounts and marketing department…
... makes a classic film great, and the accounts and marketing ... would be met with delight and high expectations.
and ancillary franchise rights to ... /> "....to produce [b]prequels and sequels[/b]" presumably being movie ... -
3D Starstrike review and a podcastSo today I have released my all new podcast and even though its early days it will get better as time goes on. Have a listen and if you want too comm…
... released my all new podcast and even though its early days ... time goes on. Have a listen and if you want too comment ... on things you liked and things you dont.
A focus on old TVs for 48k spectrums The old 48k Spectrum is becoming harder to use "display wise" in its original state. This thread is about retaining originality and not going down …
... is becoming harder to use "display wise" in its original state ... to a 48k Spectrum so that it provides an acceptable display?
a Ferguson and a Alba with a DVD player underneath ... to unite then with a 48k ZX Spectrum to get a good display?Rolling display from RGB port on a +2Hi gang, after many years I finally decided today to attempt connecting my +2 to my Japanese RGB monitor. Using just the composite video pin only …
... pin only ever got me a black and white picture so I ... connected R, G, B, ground and composite sync. Connecting vertical sync ... the usual colour inputs and separate horizontal and vertical input. Now, ... /> I had a Toobin PCB which runs at 24kHz, and the monitor ...New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
... I managed to make a few improvements and optimizations. I even ... the game’s description, a screenshot, and a download link.
< ... The game has three stages and a boss fight. Avoid the planes ... LPRINT routine with a plain PRINT statement to display the name ...Dun Darach text missing from WOS.I'm currently giving Dun Darach a bash. My aim is to get a nice solution for my web site and to try and do it without looking up solutions on-line. …
... currently giving Dun Darach a bash. My aim is ... get a nice solution for my web site and to try and ... up into the loft and got my copy of ... Darach out. And low and behold there was a tips sheet based ... in as a text file for anyone who wants a copy and maybe ...Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
... these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC ... same game with just different and usually less colors than the ... . Could you not then write a game that ran on both ... to make it all monochrome and without sound I assume ?bizarre error on a grey ZX Spectrum+2 - the long search for a small problemHi, I got a ZX Spectrum+2 that worked a bit but crashed while loading or running 128k games. I installed a 128k-test-ROM that told me about RAM fa…
... tested 2 interfaces (MB02+ and divIDE) and several programs (as also Boovie2 ... µF instead of 100µF and a internal resistance of 10 Ohm ... RS232 chip (now in a socket) and the computer worked under all ... part numbers in my long text here mention to an issue ...A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
... different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm ... here in VA) from a distance and you could hear them sort ... CRACK! (rifle) or BOOM! (shotgun) and a wee bit of echo afterward ... I could invent a microphone input to output waveform display to better ...New here? Looking for a solution to a problem with your coding? Read onThis observation is for the benefit of newcomers especially those learning to program. This site - World of Spectrum - is a resource of immense va…
... question I would like answered and in a way that makes sense ... , like me, you (a) don't have a printer and (b) couldn't ... at least cut and paste to Notepad (a simple text editor is less ... problem than a word processor ...Spectrum 48+ 4S - Upper RAM issue, and now a self-created problem!I recently picked up a known-flaky spectrum off eBay, to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. It was labelled as 'keyboard duff, shows…
... to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. ... so I replaced IC17 with a socket and 4164.
and showed RAMTOP a few bytes higher ... longer, with varying black and white, or sometimes ... a board from Don Superfo in the US, and ...Z88DK v1.99B ReleasedAt Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/z88dk/ It's been a year since the last release so it was time for another. This is another tran…
... to version 2.0 and hopefully we'll get ... computers that contains the tools and assembly language libraries necessary ... two C compilers supported (sccz80 and sdcc), two independent C ... an assembler/linker/librarian (z80asm), and a data compression tool (zx7).
ZX-Paintbrush and global palette and ula+ supportHello, I think I need some help for the palette issue of ZX-Paintbrush. I want to check whether the way I'm about to clear the palette handling i…
... working picture, and also for exports of graphic files like JPG ...
The following picture shows a changed global colour palette:
Is this a nice and useful feature???
a global palette to ZX-Spectrum ...Can I name a subroutine and then call it by name?No thats not really exactly the problem. I wrote 4 lines of Basic that draws an 8x8 square and then told it to check x,y and subtract 4 from x or y t…
... draws an 8x8 square and then told it to ... check x,y and subtract 4 from x ... an idea. I thought a short listing of plot, ... would be fast enough and half a character moves would eliminate ... OVER SQUARE. Tried various experiments and got weird results, nothing ...A TZX, a MIA and a previously unknown title from QLSThe Spanish website [url="http://trastero.speccy.org/"]El Trastero del Spectrum[/url] has a TZX of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cg…
... Trastero del Spectrum[/url] has a TZX of [url="http://www ... as MIA in the archive) and a completely unknown educational title[i ...I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…
... after all the sweat, swearing and tears. The bloody colour limitations ... translate the number to a letter and use a cursor move routine to ... at the moment, would be a large graphic game of Hangman. For ... to make that as a SCREEN file and move a character around it ...Help getting a speccy back into a modern office environment!I have a 48K rubber key mounted in a mdf holder (sprayed black to match) that also holds a 10" LCD screen in a neat little "workstation" type package…
... LCD screen by using a hideous and convoluted menu and input system. Everyone ... up with this method and wrote their own directories ... anticipate 2 fields only: name and number
... something? How would I search text/numbers etc.?
...im looking for a graphic (text ) adventure creator that u can put normal screen$ intoany ideas? id use a hdd disk system in an emulator so i could access 100's of screens.
any ideas? id use a hdd disk system in an emulator so i could access 100's of screens.Spectrum games from a parallel universe[b]Renegade IV - Restoration Of Justice[/b] (Imagine) Plenty of debate has raged on the subject of which is the best Renegade game, the original, or…
... coders a right pasting.
[b]Out Run - The Text ... Adventure[/b] (US Gold)
Continuing a practice of ... said for Out Run - The Text Adventure. Much of it consists ... of the arcade original and anyone with a staunch interest in adventure ...Most accurate display on emulatorWhich Windows emulator has the most accurate display. I am making a game and one of the tiles is not showing correctly on an real spectrum +2 machin…
... the most accurate display. I am making a game and one of ... I am running Spectaculator and have tried the windows version ... of Real Spectrum and cannot duplicate the feature.< ... "Mimic a TV screen", with and without Pixel Smoothing and TV scanlines ...Help with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…
... I also found that books and tutorials are not consistent... ... editor. All and good, but I have a few questions. ... add more complex graphics and possibly ways to manipulate ... easy way to 1. create a graphic -> 2. put ... sprites that I can display where I want on ...Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... help from a few more technical people here, and also Dataserve ... and the microdrive motor burst into action for a fraction of a second ... to-reel tape in a plastic shell), and neither does the Elcaset ... That's about an hour and a half of watching obsolete formats ...Games with help for deaf people?On another forum, there's a discussion about the lack of subtitles in some action games. But there are seemingly no game developers on that forum, an…
... a bloke who was deaf and a gamer, and like me he loved first and ... third person shooters, and ... you.
And in a Thief style game, then you ... display an arrow at the direction of the sound, with either text ...The ZX Spectrum and its derivatives used in a static , semi portable and portable way.Now on "portabilty" is there any where I will not be able to "go" with this (Now let me see!) Hmm ! Well semi portability should be totally OK as …
... drink . Here I saw a semi portable wireless screen system ... a very busy business environment , they were selling lots of meals , and ... interested in "semi portability" and eventually thought about using it ... just bung Spectaculator into a laptop and " bob's your ...Spectaculator TZX and TAP file association breakdown (the PC version of Spectaculator).Untill a few days ago I had not noticed this much since I first joined WOS .But it has recently "reared its head again" . What is this all about?Well…
... would save me opening up a paid for "photo" account ... my PDF software and I think a lot of people ... was trying to "pull a fast one". It was ... captured to look like a "Libre Office" text file . I ... to be text based stuff , Word Processors , email and PDF ...Hi again....been a while - and help!Hi All, Happy 2018. Hope everyone's OK. I've had a look around and can't find it - so either I'm imagining it(wouldn't be the first time) or ju…
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I've had a look around and can't find it ... memory.
There's a Speccy game that looked like ... the Beano(side view of a head with little people in ... was little computer people(and maybe it is and I'm just ...Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…
... When I put everything together, and hooked the Speccy up to ... I noticed a strange, wavy vertical pattern in the display bitmap area ... cable that I made, and it shows a perfect picture.)
... makes the pattern change a little, and it also extends somewhat ...The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…
... it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum ... anyone provide an example of a piece of code that definitely ... />
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ld a,($5b5c)
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ld a,%01001000
ld ($5800),a
pop af ...Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…
... draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and ... saved it as a .sna file for a 48k machine.
a static picture of the ... follow the instructions to display an image and not have the ... displays the UDG based image and thats that.
ZEsarUX-7.0Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX stable version :) This is ZEsarUX 7.0 There are a lot of new features added, more than ever! You can downl…
... and MMC
Added setting to add a watermark on the display ... Player, AY Registers and Waveform
Improved text mode drivers ( ... aalib, stdout, simpletext, curses): text settings are in different submenu ... to black&white text. Try TSConf with -- ...
