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a question about a TZX version...In recent TZX vault update, there's a [B]'review copy' [/B]TZX file for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005243"]Throne of Fir…
... recent TZX vault update, there's a [B]'review copy' [/B]TZX ... .zip[/URL]
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MS-CID = Ondrej Mihula ?On the in-game screen for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011688&loadpics=3"]EDIT SAMPLER[/URL] I notice one could contact [U…
... -CID[/URL] ... or maybe it's a group-name as I notice ... screen but in WoS it's 1990. (OK, inlay says 1990 ... notice there seems to be a difference between CID and MS ... /showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/e/gif/EditSampler.gif[/img] -
The Speccy Tour - How to improve it and encourage participation?[This will be posted on the HARP board as well, to encourage debate.] The Speccy Tour is, as many of you know, [U]the[/U] worldwide championship for…
... , especially "active" ones - i.e. those who actually submit one ... jubilee edition - so that's a lot of time available, even ... Therefore I believe, after some e-mail exchange with Alex, that ... Lebowsk1 effect" as well - i.e. that capable players who have ... -
Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …
... you'll overwise miss. It's a first person shooter for the ... 360 games ever. It's basically just a first person shooter, with ... is a shooter not a problem solving game, so that's a minor flaw ... good. It's very enjoyable, it's long, has a good story which ... -
new pc, not postingnever had this before.. but the bleep codes are saying there is an issue with the graphics card. it's a gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 and the gfx card is a …
... s a gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 and the gfx card is a PCI-E ... board? as they are PCI-E slots
the ... ..
it's been a nightmare really as the case ... woeful for it and made a lot of problems.
... I did rehouse it in a different slot etc
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Help - recommendations for a portable PCFor a year or so now I've been meaning to buy a Pandora hand-held ( [url]http://www.openpandora.org/[/url] ) when they became available, and have wai…
... whereas the Pandora being a Linux based machine is ... currently available for Windows in a usable state.
a notebook PC with analogue sticks ... answers, I know it's a messy subject and I'd ... better off posting on a dedicated board, but I ... -
What first person shooter games (PC or console) have both a map maker and bots?I was just wondering if there are any other games that have a map maker (or level editor, whatever you want to call it), and also have bots that can …
... : Future Perfect as it's also known) yesterday, and ... is a factor in it's limitations, but it's a fact ... Unreal Tournament games offer a map maker and full ... themselves, of course. Making a map in Timesplitters takes ... any of it's sequels, however, takes a lot of ... -
apparently it's a 128[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/spectrun-zx128-/180633597104?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2a0e99f4b0[/url] where's the toast rack and red writing …
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/spectrun-zx128-/180633597104?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2a0e99f4b0[/url]
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Need help with a DOS commandI've searched for hours in a row and I've been searching for a couple days now, but I can't find a way to log on to a local machine using DOS. This i…
... I've been searching for a couple days now, but ... using DOS. This is a specific situation where the welcome ... doesn't (even though it's a fresh/clean copy of explorer ... accounts using DOS, but that's not what I need. ... be able to logon as a user, using DOS. Tried ... -
Ches motorcycle companion dies[quote]Alberto Granado ? Che Guevara?s motorcycling companion and childhood friend ? has died in Havana, aged 88. In 1951, the pair spent eight mont…
... quote]Alberto Granado ? Che Guevara?s motorcycling companion and childhood
... South America
on a Norton 500, a journey credited with inspiring ... own Ian Mutch, but it's a close run thing..[/quote]
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Zetr0's Catchup Time (hardware / software)Hello there my fellow ZX'ers I have been soaking myself into the "world of spectrum" and more I do, the more I realize I have to play catchup.... a …
... in Z80 ASM, so now's a good time to really learn ... on Spectrum's[/B]
Now, I have a DivIDE and ... using other ROM's?.
Now, I have a +2A(recently ... ) and +3, both are now running +3e ROM's ... -
Elite Press ReleasePRESS RELEASE Noon, 16th March 2011 ? Lichfield, Staffs, United Kingdom Elite? Announce ZX Spectrum Game Software Market Worth In Excess of US$150…
... of those goals and it?s a pleasure to be able to ... Smith will, deservedly, be a beneficiary of the more orderly ... include:
- iDaptive (i.e. user-definable, game-specific joystick ... Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British computer game programmer. He ... -
T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... B]Sound[/B]: The T/S 2068 has four "voices," three ... the BEEP command, along with a weak speaker.
S 2068 has four display modes ... 62 characters on a line, and a pixel resolution ... br />
It's a real shame Timex closed shop ... -
Composite modding a TK-83Hi everybody, Perhaps you can help me. I've just modded my Jupiter Ace 4000 to composite video and it worked a treat, so I thought I'd try one of my…
... though it was a bit more of a headache because of ... , and the characters are a bit distorty. I'm ... full, at normal settings it's much much darker.
... .htm[/url] - using a BC547C with a 75R resistor (tried with ... Edit2: Yes, it's a TK-85, not a TK-83. The '83 ... -
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
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How can the LET s$=a$ (the bit that does the ... DIM s$(6912): DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+ ... : READ v: POKE a,v: NEXT a:
DATA 65 ... FN h(udg):
LET s$=a$:
POKE defadd,0: ... h(udg):
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Can we all agree on a TV comedy we liked?Since there's a thread to see if we can agree on liking a specific Spectrum game, I thought I'd make a thread to see if we all liked any particular t…
... there's a thread to see if we can agree on liking a ... television comedy. For this, let's disregard later (or earlier) seasons ... :
Monty Python's Flying Circus,
Blackadder (didn ... 'like' selection),
Hancock's Half Hour,
Steptoe and ... -
Best extras with a speccy text adventure?I'm considering using Graphic Adventure Creator to make a game for the comp.sys.sinclair crap game competition 2011 and might make a few extras to go…
... Graphic Adventure Creator to make a game for the comp.sys ... to go with it (e.g. a fake newspaper supplement etc).
I was looking for a bit of inspiration, so I ... The Hobbit sometimes came with a copy of the novel, but ... -
DMEX - A great Windows programI think I've mentioned this before, but there's a great, free Windows utility called DMEX: [url]http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,80899/desc…
... mentioned this before, but there's a great, free Windows utility called ... :
[B]DMEX is a small utility that resides in ... the tray area and adds a wide range of additional functionality ... -
spellbound 48k on a amstrad 128 machine?just curious if it works.. I tried under emulation after someone commenting the tape I sold em didn't work... 48k / + / toastrack work fine.. but on…
... .. but on the amstrad 128's inc. +3 it messes up ... , my emulator (spectaular) or it's a known problem ?
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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…
... the most experienced assessors (that's a fairly new role) there, and ... job.
It's not a swanning around, social club type ... job either, it's hard work at a level of skill and ... starts to sound a bit hollow, as that's what I'm ... -
If a +3 disk game doesn't loadIf you have a +3 disk game that doesn't load, what are the ways to try to get that game to load i.e. on a tape you'd have volume control, tone, ritua…
If you have a +3 disk game that doesn' ... that game to load i.e. on a tape you'd have ... , etc
What would cause a disk not to load - corrupted ... -
Recommend a SIM card reader.Hi there, hello and such! I'm looking into getting a card reader for the SIM card in my phone. I did check some online but there seems to be quite …
... /> I'm looking into getting a card reader for the SIM ... (the *.nth file(s)). It's a crappy phone with a 3G SIM card ... I'm looking into dropping a game (or two) on there ... -
ZX Soundbooster (AY volume increase on a grey+2)Having dug out my grey+2 and run it through scart I've just noticed (to my horror) how low the ay is in comparison to beeper (+3 has ay and beeper at…
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anyhoo
Had a little search through the forums ... and found KeepGood's ZX Soundbooster but the link ... download is dead. Supposedly it's a mod to boost the ay ... rf).
Anyone got a copy or advice, or even ... -
Carrier Command: Gaea MissionGreat news for Starglider, Dunny, Winston & other Carrier Command lovers! CC is being brought to modern machines, and is being previewed at tomorrow'…
... is being previewed at tomorrow's E3 show:
[ ... br />
We should have a Spectrum E3, you know. Jonathan ... Prawn, Patrick (Zeropolis), Boozy, Ubhres Productions, etc, can all preview their ... for Utter Tripe (yes, it's a great game, but you can ... -
Name of a Speccy homebrew with a ball and gravity and stuffAnyone remember what this is called? It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something.
Anyone remember what this is called?
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Another commercial game's source code is released - Arx Fatalis[B]Arx Fatalis[/B] has had it's source code released! It's a RPG, so it's not really my sort of game, and it's available on the XBox 1 and PC anyway,…
... has had it's source code released! It's a RPG, so it ... 's not really my ... as IT'S ANOTHER COMMERCIAL GAME THAT'S NOW OPEN ... controlled by AI, not a human), allow more players ... at all, and it's still a very rare occurrence, which ... -
New games no one's mentioned yet...Just discovered a few new games in the "What's new?" section that haven't been announced on the forums yet... 1. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.or…
Just discovered a few new games in the "What's new?" section that ... .cgi?screen=screens/in-game/a/AahkuAlRescate.gif[/img]
This is a Tetris clone....
[img ... /> This is my favourite! It's a funky little puzzler, where you ... -
Post a good, fairly unknown songEveryone post a good song that most people probably haven't heard of. I'll go first, this is [I]Winter[/I] by [I]Joshua Radin[/I] - I first heard thi…
Everyone post a good song that most people ... espisode of Scrubs, and it's a gorgeous song, not at all ... as Youtube window, but it's not working, so the link ... -
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…
... incidences of passing through a location in a structure with up ... vertices. I know that there's a whole area of mathematics on ... that information quickly. Obviously a simple array keyed on all ... structure; say there's around 1500 for a structure with 500 ...
