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Brown ChristmasHi festive frolickers. I have a sticky situation that might get stickier if I don't solve it. Basically due to the severe cold, I have no water in my…
... solve it. Basically due to the severe cold, I have no ... no toilet. I get round the problem of taking a pee ... a bottle and pouring it down the drain, but do you have ... as to what would be the best way to take a ... , but I've still got the problem of no water, so ... -
48K Strangeness...Hello hardware forum. I've not posted here before. Yay. :smile: A few days ago, I decided to fire up the 48K Speccy I got given to me for Christmas,…
... perfectly acceptable by the way, as his Speccy - the actual machine - ... soft resets), the Speccy made sound from the beeper (kinda ... funny lines down the left side of the screen, and once the enter ... />
This is the first time the machine had been used ... -
Anyone know how to......fix uPVC doors? It's basically in the top half there is a window and it seems to have dropped slightly or something...the plastic isn't flush aga…
... have dropped slightly or something...the plastic isn't flush ... draft blowing in under the window in the door.
... of water gathering inside the door under the sealed unit and ... the plastic on the inside it sploshes out and runs down the inside of the ... -
petrol / gas priceswith what is currently going on with fuel prices.. ?6 a gallon (I'm metric so means nothing to me) whe you started driving how much was petrol a lit…
... to before you stop using the car?
I mean ... I walk a lot at the moment, even though I do ... only use it to up / down the motorway 25-35 miles..
the mechanic was 1 hour bus ... ride.. in the car..15 minutes if that -
It's enough to make you cry.....I have just had the very sad task of pouring 50 pint bottles of cider down the sink. Due to a slight technical hitch (my fault entirely, which makes…
... 50 pint bottles of cider down the sink.
Due to ... it right. By the time it settled down there was about 2 ... " left in the bottle and ... to happen when I opened the first bottle.
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Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…
... key 1 and the sprite scrolls down the left side line ... by line l the way to the ... ie next line down as dictated by the screen table) ... ;press 1 and the sprite moves down a line
... inc (hl) ;character moving down, increase twice for next ... -
LED street lightsanyone else seen these? they have started putting them up in york. much brighter might as well not even turn the bedroom light off now. either g…
... as well not even turn the bedroom light off now.
the ****er.
its a ... .
the gf is complaining about driving down the road, as they ... -
Castle MorcanI've just been playing Castle Morcan a text adventure written in Quill which is on Adventure tape 1. But i'm stuck and cannot find any hints for this…
... hints for this game. The game seems quite easy ... except for the usual trouble of having ... to guess the correct way of telling the game what ... as the stronghold in the castle (about 50% in the game) ... or can I throw down the gauntlet and challange somebody ... -
Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
... it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being ... recent thread), where the disk version has the train robbery sub- ... /> Has screens to accompany the scrolling text that is displayed ... actually see a picture looking down the well). On tape you just ... -
Cover tapesHi. If anyone needs any covertapes then I've got all of the below that I want to get shot of fairly quickly so that my spare room is slightly less fu…
... I'd prefer to go down the route of least hassle.< ... br />
All the boxed ones should be in ... looking. Obviously some of the loose tapes aren't in ... nominal offers just for the time taken to post ... it! :) If someone wants the lot then I can probably ... -
CRASHing *out* of crapnessJust looking at the covertape wars of 1991, and I think I've found an explanation for the depamphletization of CRASH during that year. The YS and SU …
... found an explanation for the depamphletization of CRASH during ... ELSPA pressurising them to trim down the number of rereleased games ... the timing roughly coincides with YS and SU also trimming down ... had planned to go down the CRASH route of pampletizing itself ... -
Various games FS / Swap / Some freeAll, Just got a box of games and theres a few I had already. These are : Chequered Flag - Sinclair Daley Thompsons Supertest - Rerelease hit squad…
... Tronics (untested)
All the above load on at least ... otherwise its not worth the trip to the post office. Id rather ... take paypal, if you pay the commission.
I also ... (as long as Im going down the post office anyway) :
AnnoyedBin collection this morning (blue + brown) Brown bin (paper) is always first, done no problem. Blue (plastic bottles / cans) bin about an hour later…
... no damage to the wing or headlight (the scratch down the wing has been ... there ages thanks to cyclists on the ... think one of the following:
1. The bin fell ... off (again, what are the chances of that just catching ...Cosmos - A Personal Voyage:smile:I just finished watching the entire Cosmos DVD set my other half got me for Christmas. (She got me a Celestron 70AZ refractor telescope too!) …
... speaker who never 'dumbed down' the content of the show.
This ... programme made in 1980, the special effects were also quite ... which is surprising.
The series has energised my interest ... this weekend to look to the stars...
...Bloody BTI've just had my bill in from BT saying i'm over ?100 in debit, i've found out i had to pay for an engineer visit late last year when my phone line w…
... phone line went down. The engineer had to replace the BT box as ... the inside wires were damp ...Spectrum 128k +2Hi. Just recently brought my old spectrum down the attic, after powering up all I get on the screen is "1987" in all the combination of colours. I've…
... recently brought my old spectrum down the attic, after powering up ... all I get on the screen is "1987" in ... tried resetting and pressing all the keys, but I can' ... t get the menu screen to come up ... can point me in the correct direction? The unit hasn't ...manc athleticsjust turned on tv.. 110 m hurdles in the middle of manc in the street quite odd.. as it's in the actual town with shops etc surrounding it. all the…
... m hurdles in the middle of manc in the street
the actual town with shops etc ... scally shoplifting with security running down the street.. bet they'd be ...copy standDoes anybody still do copy typing? I've got a powered copy stand up for grabs. Has 2 AA batteries in the foot pedal or can be mains adapter powered…
... can be mains adapter powered. The black rubber cover can be ... taken off the contloller and it then looks ... the front or back of the controller the blue 'ruler' traverses up and down the ... you are copying.
The whole thing is mounted on ...Rambo (improved BUGFIX)An improved BUGFIX was provided for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004010"]Rambo[/URL], please replace the "known error…
... Rambo[/URL], please replace the "known errors" description as ... when you shot down the Russian gunship at the end. This ...
The following patch fixes the problem in the same number of ... LDIR[/CODE]
[*] The original release was incompatible with ...Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…
... decides to explore, and falls down the lavatory. Naturally you decide ... machines (you'll probably notice the particularly bad 'green beret' ... way out of the machines, through the rest of the arcade (naff ... if anybody takes up the idea, and the reason for stick- ...+2/+3 Sync problem on Commodore 1084sI have a strange issue, I got an RGB monitor cable from ebay for the +2/+3 to the Commodore 1084s (d-sub socket). It works fine on my Spectrum+ 128k …
... cable from ebay for the +2/+3 to the Commodore 1084s (d ... that internally to carry audio down the right pin) toastrack.
the 1084s set to analogue ttl ...Dungeon HacksMorning all! I've always been a fan of dungeon hacks. They don't particularly have to have much/any story. Just a mazey type dungeon, creatures to f…
... gain so you can smack down the tougher bad guys. Repeat until ... never really found much in the way of dungeon hacks on ... the spectrum. It's not devoid, ...I 've been burgledI been burgled... My toilet had come away from the floor in the bathroom. I ring the council to get them to send out a contractor to come and repair…
... come away from the floor in the bathroom. I ring the council to ... repair the toilet. The toilet they fixed, and today I just looked down the ... side of the bed wear I keep ... />
I spent the whole day searching the flat from head to ...Someone with a bit of a thing about clone games:I don't know if anyone knows who this is, but it's a blog post on arcade game clones and the development of licensing over the 8-bit era. I came acr…
... clones and the development of licensing over the 8-bit ... whilst trying to look up the extent of Harry S. ... a definite touch of the David Starkey to today' ... consider fitting bars to the windows and an extra ... dodgy scum up and down the country selling their own ...ScratchWell, my learned bunch of Spec-chums and ragamuffins... I am the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy S2, which I've had for about 2-3months now, however…
... ragamuffins...
I am the proud owner of a Samsung ... somehow I have recently scratched the screen...
It's ... -inch and a half down the long side of the top left corner ... running up through the "S" in Samsung to the ear speaker at ...Repairing a faulty 48K issue 2.I am investigating one of a pair of non-working issue 2 48K Spectrums that have been sitting in a cupboard untouched for quite a few years. I haven…
... won't narrow down
the problem much further ... is clear from the rear of the board that this ... like the one in the top picture
in the ... t fully tested the CPU nor the ROM because ... /> Measurements with an oscilloscope show the following:
...Nightime Adventures :)Last night I stumbled upon a bloke trying to tip an entire bag of cement down the outside toilet of a pub. He scarpered pretty quick across the car…
... entire bag of cement down the outside toilet of a ... He scarpered pretty quick across the car park when I saw ... him as he ran into the pub, landed, and ... eventually wrestled him to the floor and stood on ... him until the police arrived.
Mobile phone for basic internet use - suggestions?I've got a bog standard mobile after dropping my old one last year down the toilet (:D) but I now feel it's time to upgrade. I'd like to get one that…
... my old one last year down the toilet (:D) but I now ... a decent mobile that fits the bill without emptying my wallet ...PS3? Xbox 360? Which one?I need some help making a decision from some sound minded people, but then I thought I would ask you lot instead. I have decided it may be time to g…
... ?t really want to go down the PC route.
... I have been leaning towards the 360 because: 1. I ... probably already have most the games on MAME and ... to play online! 3. The controller is not as good ... what games ARE available for the PS3. There may be ...New game for Christmas - Streets of DoomWell, I hinted about this game in some posts, so it's now time to announce it officially. Finally I managed to make a sequel to my earlier game Skys…
... plays a bit similar to Dizzy but the story isn't fairytale ... at all.
This time the ... action hits the streets and there are ...
