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  • Dan Dare 2 questionThis question is for those who actually owned at one time the game and still (vaguely) remember its instructions (which are not on WoS :( ). Can you …

    ... lose energy at the start every time when the mekon hovers around ... between your own scooter and the baddies. It has some great ... level two. Remember the big craft that slides down the screen? Brill programming ...
    Spector Spector August 2003 Games
  • Classic Gaming Expo UK - 2004Just got this email - the C5 grand prix sounds amazing! Alex The Sinclair Lair [url="http://www.waddington.fslife.co.uk"]www.waddington.fslife.co.uk…

    This sounds quite ambitious, the first ANNUAL classic games expo. ... may be a long drive down the M1, but I quite fancy ... this. It evokes memories of the last time I went anywhere ... London, sometime around the late 80's for the PCW show as ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WOS Archive website thoughts.I had a flash of brilliance earlier, as recorded by the wonderful IRC... [snip] [18:14] &lt;DarkHalf|nap> anyway [18:14] &lt;DarkHalf|nap> bck to w…

    ... /> Perhaps too many cooks spoil the broth ?

    ... sending me one for the SDP project if you ... just take longer without the donations that's all ... ZX Spin/Speculator go down the pan. We need these ... (not that I can for the preservation projects).

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What was your favourite Speccy magazine?What was your favourite Speccy magazine and why? [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2003-08-21 12:37 ]

    ... the new magazine - games in the retro section with the crash smash logo , the ... (morphed into retro) and the covers resembling the ollie frey works of ... , no competition , its the same all the way down the issues , the reviews , the previews , charts ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • bug in spectaculator? Hi Jon, While testing the AMX mouse emulation in Spectaculator I noticed that the mouse buttons don't work. My program reads port $df to detect mo…

    ... can return a button in the "down" state when it is infact ... 10 successive times. If the button is "down" for all 10 reads ... , it's really down ;)

    The Kempston joystick (port $1f ... .

    In Spectaculator, the mouse has a higher priority ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle August 2003 Emulators
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... KnightLore but i do appreciate the amazing graphics and that its ... if everyone put insane votes down the whole thing would turn into ... about some people going over the top !
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2003 Games
  • bug in spectaculator? Hi Jon, While testing the AMX mouse emulation in Spectaculator I noticed that the mouse buttons don't work. My program reads port $df to detect mo…

    ... didn't bother to debounce the mouse buttons?
    [/quote]
    [/quote]

    In the UK, the AMX mouse was a 3 ... -buttoned affair ;)

    The three mouse buttons are assigned ... .
    If a button is down, the corresponding bit should be 0 ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle August 2003 Emulators
  • General info about MCoder 3Hi all. I've recently downloaded MCoder 3 'cause I read somewhere that it was the best choice to compile your already made BASIC programs, which I h…

    ... I managed to track down the link on Usenet for you ... hope you enjoy this, the author is a damn good ... "I am the author of the HiSoft BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum ... compiler, I have taken the
    time to scan ... correct my copy of the manual for HiSoft BASIC ...
    caffeinekid caffeinekid August 2003 Development
  • MIA's not on list Mk2Here's a few titles which I picked up recently that don't appear on Infoseek. Have they been TZX'd recently or are they really MIA without a listing?…

    ... my most wanted list for the Spectrum, I?ve only ... of a review of the ZX81 version which I ...
    If you follow the link from the vaults main page, you ... ?ll see the inlay scans I?ve done ... as and when I track down the tapes.

    Incidentally, ...
    Gilby Gilby September 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • WhirlwindUsed to have a game called whirlwind many many moons ago, it was a 1.99 game and it was dreadful, so much so I was determined to complete it and got …

    ... from that year could match the crappy graphics :)

    ... No.1 Page 70. The text for the game reads like this ... alien forces. Rush quickly down the tunnel avoiding the deadly spikes and score ... a bonus before entering the next frightening tract of ...
    Frankie Frankie September 2003 Games
  • Planetfall (Argus Press)I just got this from the car boot this morning. A TAP is available but I don't think you have it in TZX, at least not in the archive. Is this still…

    Thanks for the reply Andrew, I will get onto it as soon as I can track down the speccy tape lead thats around here somewhere! LOL
    caffeinekid caffeinekid September 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • BASin Release 9a availableJust a quick not to say that an updated (ie, bug fixed) BASin is available. A list of what's new for release 9: Fixed a bug in the line tokeniser th…

    Oops - a small bugette crept in that slowed down the faster editor routines.

    Anyone that's downloaded the new BASin prior to 13:00 GMT please re-download and reinstall. Sorry for any inconvenience :)

    D.
    Dunny Dunny September 2003 Development
  • BASin Release 9a availableJust a quick not to say that an updated (ie, bug fixed) BASin is available. A list of what's new for release 9: Fixed a bug in the line tokeniser th…

    ... UDG editor for the Spectrum twenty years down the line and ... make an impression deserves a medal.
    However the ... Just watching the machine stack busy with the Interrupt Service ... /> Then, in the system variables, the 30 bytes at MEMBOT ...
    Geoff Geoff September 2003 Development
  • Corruption (Rainbird)This Magnetic Scrolls adventure is marked MIA by Infoseek but the .dsk always used to be on WOS - I downloaded it years ago from here. Now the .dsk …

    ... , check out the progress on the SDP project, especially the Adventures section.... next ... 't use going by the guidelines I laid down. The guidelines were simply ... for authenticity becuase the sources were ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…

    ... preparation for new features down the road. There are a ... supports:

    + The 256x192 pixel, 32x24 colour resolution ... of the Spectrum
    The 256x192 pixel, 32x192 ... assembly language examples; the library comes with over ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Norwich Speccy & SAM show - Are any of you lot going?I don't know if you caught a sight of the advert in the 'ADVERTS' section, about the Speccy/Sam show in Norwich on 1st November? I'll be going mysel…

    I'll be heading down the A47 in a bit then.< ... /> To keep the boredom levels at bay zooming down the long & winding ... /> I'll need to see the evidence of course for judging ...
    BadBeard BadBeard September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Debut programmersDoes anybody know of any really big hit speccy games that were just programmed by some unknown amateur programmer and sent unsolicited to software ho…

    ... Hewson and he was flown down). The author of "One man and ... who was recruited on the basis of the one game he sent ... Speccy programmers who got into the industry this way. Those were ... the days of garage programming and ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2003 Games
  • Sad news for ZXSargent48kDue to a jail sentence, ZXSargent48k has instructed me, James Whelan, to delete all of ZXSargent48k's messages. She does not want any memory of her r…

    If i ever had the misfortune of being "sent down", the last thing on my mind would be to get one of my mates to delete some old threads on a Spectrum forum? Or is it me?
    sully sully September 2003 Games
  • Sad news for ZXSargent48kDue to a jail sentence, ZXSargent48k has instructed me, James Whelan, to delete all of ZXSargent48k's messages. She does not want any memory of her r…

    ... GOC as he runs screaming down the street)
    GOC GOC September 2003 Games
  • info on T.V. leadsWell, having recovered my Speccy from the depths of hell, I gotta hook it upto my T.V. and see if it still works. The problem is that I seem to have …

    RF leads eh? Thanks for your offer thx...unfortunately I happen to be some distace off from the fair boundaries of England. I think a trip down the street to the electronics shop would prove to be cheaper! ;)
    Arjun Arjun September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nether Earth controversyIf anyone was wondering, that was me who gave Forum-favourite Nether Earth a 7 out of 10 score. And at least one point was for the nice graphics and …

    ... 3/10 and gone plummeting down the rankings. Anyone care to admit ... doing the dirty deed?

    And ... criticising someones right to give the game 3/10 - I ... case of someone reading the thread, downloading the game, playing it for ...
    Malc74 Malc74 October 2003 Games
  • Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…

    ... to have reflective tiles in the engine? For example, in ... moonbase, if the floors had a reflective surface ... instead of the black mettalic touch (very ... looked. Would it have slowed down the engine considerably?

    ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2003 Games
  • Anybody got any news on the Double Dragon remake?????

    ... managed to scale down the sprites a bit so the game can run ... able to tell the difference to the size of the sprites than before ... so you can see the new size of the sprites:

    Swainy Swainy October 2003 Games
  • Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…

    Thanx Beard. (especially for the "No High Score Code" bit - ... it would render the online high score table useless ... cheat. In any of the menus Hold down the following keys together: CHEAT ... /> Yes, it was there all the time... and this one disables ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2003 Games
  • Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…

    ... br /> Thanx Beard. (especially for the "No High Score Code" bit ... - it would render the online high score table useless ... cheat. In any of the menus Hold down the following keys together: CHEAT ... /> Yes, it was there all the time... and this one disables ...
    BadBeard BadBeard October 2003 Games
  • C64's SID music on ZX - the demo is HERE!!I'm proud to announce, that two great persons from Central Europe - Poke & Omega - have made something really important for Spectrum world. Now ZX …

    Makes me wonder why I bother to write manuals ;)


    If Spectaculator is currently emulating the Spectrum 128 or +2, or +3, you can hold down the control key when opening an audio cassette file to auto load in usr0 mode.
    Jon Needle Jon Needle October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • About buying Spectrum system for gaming. What kind of package?Hi, I've always been a C64 fan. No do not get me wrong, Spectrum was so rare here compared to Commodore. Lately I've been looking for Spectrum to pl…

    ... 11-18 20:49, mel the bell wrote:
    "Commode ... mistake or a dig at the commodore 64?

    the machine better... ;). And ... you UK peeps also use the name.

    ... don't want to put down the Commode (not much, at ...
    Yanek Yanek November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WOS and it's futureI just got into a good old fashioned argument with some guy on another forum about WOS. Basically I recommended this site for games, and this guy cam…

    ... blind eye to the problem (the illegal aspect) is not the solution" (approx ... quote). hence the question.

    down the archive).
    Arjun Arjun December 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Dreaming of gamesEver dreamed of playing a game? I used to dream about Dan Dare a lot. Finally I finished it and was able to get some rest at night :D

    mmm sounds like you had post-neurologial stress syndrome.dan dare blotting out the pain of a rather stressful occasion in your life...now me i had dreams about the girl from down the road..alas i never got to finnish her or start on her*L*
    spandamania spandamania December 2003 Games
  • Dreaming of gamesEver dreamed of playing a game? I used to dream about Dan Dare a lot. Finally I finished it and was able to get some rest at night :D

    ... syndrome.dan dare blotting out the pain of a rather stressful ... i had dreams about the girl from down the road..alas i never ...
    FranciscoVasco FranciscoVasco December 2003 Games
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