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Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…
... so all subsequent games had to be developed on a ... was quick to load but 20K or so of source ... al had to be loaded in from the other side of the tape ... that soon teaches you to write accurate code pretty ... and manually typed back in to LERM...
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BBC SciFi article...The article amused me so thought I'd share.. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24518305[/url] [QUOTE]Despite claims to the contrary, Red Plan…
... PCs. Just use a Spectranet to get the Speccy on any ... even be on the other side of the planet thanks to this "internet" thingy ... .
The irony of that ...BBC SciFi article...The article amused me so thought I'd share.. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24518305[/url] [QUOTE]Despite claims to the contrary, Red Plan…
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The other end of my ...Am I being over-sensitive here...?I'd just like a general consensus on this. The wife thinks I should just ignore it, but she suffers from a lack of empathy so I'm not taking her wor…
... depend upon pressure from the other side of his family. At face value ... have had a particular point of view that precluded you from ... it comes to godparents etc.
A friendship of 35 years ...Anyone in the UK got bad wind?I've been hearing about the storm comming over from the Atlantic and am wondering if anyone's got it real bad or a doing ok.
... /> 90 mph winds isle of wight.. it's very windy ... but it's supposed to kick in between 4- ... unicycling.. although another member of WOS owns one, a ... other side of the island. It didn't seem that bad to ... The kids playhouse moved to the bottom of the garden, that ...Apple //e emulator?Does anybody have any pointers for decent Apple //e emulators (preferably that will compile under Unix rather than Windows)? An Apple ][ emulator wi…
... but I really wanted to get back to the //e rather than ... ~400 mile round trip to fetch the system) I ... didn't really get to grips with it beyond ... I'd rather like to understand more about it.
of the other side of the 5.25" disks so I could use the other side ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... overly broadly, in other words he's sort of right that ground ... time or other. Basically, if you think of the outputs of a typical ... to oscillate that you don't want oscillating. Chips on the other side of ... the board aren't going to see this ...Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... overly broadly, in other words he's sort of right that ground ... time or other. Basically, if you think of the outputs of a typical ... to oscillate that you don't want oscillating. Chips on the other side of ... the board aren't going to see this ...Arkanoid Vaus movement issues?After watching Lawnboyspost1975 playing some Arkanoid on Youtube I thought I'd give a whirl as it looked fun on the Speccy. I got an image of it (TA…
... Arkanoid paddle is designed to move more quickly ... further away to the left or right of you. ... takes a bit of getting used to, but it can ... to grips with it. You can collect falling things on the other side of ... the screen and then nip back in time to ...Spectrum +2A PSUI picked up a black +2A without a power supply. Looking on eBay the PSUs seem quite rare. The schematics for the PSU show +/-12 and 5v, would it be …
... symbol extended out the other side of the common terminal to a handle/rocker ... loaded and snaps to either one pole or the other for an ... /> There's a whole load of other notation for when the switch ... direction but has to be held in the other (ON)/OFF/ON ...Retro shops in London areaAnyone know of any that sell speccy/amiga/c64 stuff?
RGB , retro game base is the only one that comes to mind..
never been , other side of londonIF1bis StabilityI just thought I would start a different thread relating to the IF1bis, and leave the copyrighters to it elsewhere...:-P I've had mine for a few mon…
... to be suffering from a rather high incidence of these issues relative to other ... hardware of similar complexity, ... 's some hard-to-track-down other issue at play. ... they on the same side of the board as the ...IF1bis StabilityI just thought I would start a different thread relating to the IF1bis, and leave the copyrighters to it elsewhere...:-P I've had mine for a few mon…
... to be suffering from a rather high incidence of these issues relative to other ... hardware of similar complexity, ... 's some hard-to-track-down other issue at play. ... they on the same side of the board as the ...1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... a tie in licence of the famous cartoon. Never ... takes lot of time to reach an exit to the other side of the screen ... you actually have to drag it to the prison, in ... 'll be able to run away again, of course.
1 ... ? Try it, I want to know your opinion.
...WOS slowdownPeople, what's going on? I wasn't able to load WOS yesterday at all. Today I got somehow into forums but opening any thread was too much. Is it som…
The other side of the coin is the fact that so many people are interested in the humble speccy!!! I, for one, think that this is something to be really pleased about.
Long live the Speccy :-)DLT trial, not guilty...[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges[/url] find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow coro…
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the other side of the coin is that in ... was apparently accusing them of lying in order to make money/sell ... accuser and the prosecution have to prove their case beyond reasonable ... , what most cases of this nature come down to. This will be ...Is ESXDOS flexible enough to incorporate e.g. Spectranet commands?I was just discussing the idea with someone about the wish some people have to be able to combine interfaces such as DivIDE (Plus) / DivMMC EnJOY! wi…
... of it has been ported to the zx81 but there are also other ... spectranet firmware is more tied to the spectranet paging architecture than ... the spectranet is pretty wedded to the paging model and ... and hardware rather than the other side of the API in the land ...Depressions back!I know I keep saddling you all with my depression stories, but seen as so many of use here have been or are being touched by it, I thought it accepta…
... ), financial issues (not having enough to buy milk and break for ... , grandparents which are on the other side of the world), worrying about money ... but still have two cars to pay off), health problems, wife ... also decided nothing was going to knock me down. I just ...Pointless achievement achieved[url]http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/12/it-took-8-years-but-someone-just-broke-one-million-gamerscore-on-xbox-live/[/url]
... a short while and tried to interact with him, but nothing ... you need to get to the other side of the rubble to the north of him and ... give him back a music box to ...Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
... two Spectranets to demo it though.
The other side of it ... rendering to write to RAM directly rather than to have to set ... up a data transfer of ... what the other machine wrote. Even a handful of bytes in ...Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
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The other side of it is it would probably ... game rendering to write to RAM directly rather than to have to set up ... a data transfer of ... still have the issue of having to draw twice as much ...Edge Connector InformationHi Everyone, Hope I'm posting in the correct forum. I've recently been playing with an Arduino and got to thinking it would be fab if I could do so…
... chosen to distinguish your chosen I/O address from other common ... one output line that corresponds to the right address line settings ... the data bus settings to some sort of latch, then trigger ... the decoder chip. On the other side of the latch, there you can ...How to run games from mp3 player to a real 48K machine?Hi! I would like to test the homebrew games that was "released" in 2013. As far as I know there haven't been made any real tapes for these games so …
... the reliability of your conversion, but you want to connect to the Speccy ... from the Spectrum and the other side of the cable into the mp3 ... player instead of the cassette player, correct me ... it's the only way to transfer signals from mp3 into ...Joystick Interfaces on +2AJust found out that my DK'Tronics joystick interface doesn't want to play with my +2A (black). The Kempston port works OK, but not the Sinclair port…
... to drop out or find an alternative.
The other side of ... 'universal compatability' is this interface would need to supply ... have input buffering for other machines. Again, more components ... work, even if the other six half-rows just ...Postcards From SpectrumLand.What are the most beautiful, memorable or intesting places you ever visited? In a Spectrum game, I mean? Well, if you're playing a game and see some…
... I always liked, tucked off to the side of the map, with one ... pad all in easy distance of each other.
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Theres only a couple of islands with all three features.Video on single transistor composite video modification for 48K SpectrumsI made a video on the single transistor composite video mod, using an Issue two Spectrum although it applies to all issues. Much better than the sing…
... ohm resistor connected to the emitter, and the other side of that resistor is ... connected to the composite video ... circuit does have one other desirable function; that of short circuit protection ...Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…
... pieces of wire and a switch to disable the "upper" 32k of RAM ... . Take a piece of wire ... the other end to a switch. Then wire the other side of the to switch to +5V ... br /> to see what the first byte of the "upper" 32k of RAM ...Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…
... pieces of wire and a switch to disable the "upper" 32k of RAM ... . Take a piece of wire ... the other end to a switch. Then wire the other side of the to switch to +5V ... br /> to see what the first byte of the "upper" 32k of RAM ...Loading. Please Wait.So, I'm currently extremely busy with a myriad of projects - some Spectrum related, some not, some secretive. However, I thought I'd just pop in to g…
... ? (mind you it's sposed to have an off license as ... at the end of the drive on t'other side of the Bridge :razz ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
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Yeah, I got to it last night fairly easily ... wee bit of exploring and made it to the top of the tower ... a lizard boss on the other side of it but I didn't ... way back down and tried to sneak attack the big ... I didn't have to go far to pick up the souls ...
