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How to play Alone in the Dark on the PC?I have all three Alone in the Dark games, and they all run fine, but I don't have the manuals, so can anyone tell me the control keys, please? I don'…
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Robocop tune in Ariston advertAnyone else remember that advert way back in the early 90s? It was for an Ariston washing machine (I think) and the tagline was "Ariston and on and o…
... remember that advert way back in the early 90s?
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.AY - how to create themI wonder - how would I go about creating an .AY file (music) from a game? I understand that once I have all the necessary pieces (the player, the mus…
... an OUT to a single port, the play routine was most ... PC register and present it in an easy to understand form ... -
BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... basic seems to position text in a different way than ... changes the figures for positions in plot (PLOT 100,100) ... to the figures in PRINT AT? So then ... can always have my text in the box
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couple of questions..im new here and i have a couple of ideas/questions.. First.. can anyone point me to some retro gaming/deving newsletters/magazines out there? and he…
... (the +2a has a tape port) that then would have loads ... some other poublisher did it (in the 80s) as tapes are ... -
Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…
... be:
Reading keyboard (by IN-port or by keyvalue)
Printing ... a value from a table in MC
When you ... make a lot of programs in MC. These routines don't ... h,a ; but keep it in ROM
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Vanishing favourites list in SpectaclatorHi lo. A few times now my favourites have vanished from spectaculator - and I found what does it - it's accidentally launching Spectaculator twice - …
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is it possible to get einstien expelled in the skool daze series?i know how to give einstien lines. hit the teacher with a catulput in such a way that einstien gets blamed. does he ever get expelled however?
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Selling off my old Speccy games...Hey! I've moved house and as such all old crap I don't use needs to be shifted etc etc etc blah blah blah I've got some games fully cased with inla…
... 3 have been scribbled on in biro - pesky child i was ... is an extra joystick port - that you stick in the back of ... -
Output through the Printer portIs It possible to use the +3 Printer port like the BBC user port, if so how?
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Letters In Spectrum MagazinesDid anyone here have any letters published in Spectrum magazines? Here's a list of the ones I sent up and had published 20 years ago: Magazine: Cr…
... here have any letters published in Spectrum magazines? Here's a ...
Title: Ins And Outs In Again?
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Equinox in-game music?Equinox on the speccy did not have any in-game music. So what music is in the ay.zip file on the game's [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infosee…
Equinox on the speccy did not have any in-game music. So what music is in the ay.zip file on the game's [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Equinox$&pub=^Mikro%2dGen+Ltd$"]Download page[/url]?
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PSPectrum for PSP v.01 releasedAmazing, nobody else has posted this yet! Yes, it's true, thanks to HexDump, I'm now playing Speccy games on my v1.5 PSP (it won't work on later fir…
... PSP came out (March here in the States). Apparently it was ... from scratch rather than a port of an existing emulator.
"The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" in 2006As you may know, Thalamus Books will be releasing "The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" in 2006. The book now appears on Amazon where you can pre-order an…
... Art of
Oliver Frey" in 2006. The book now appears ...Easter Eggs in Spectrum GamesAre there any easter eggs in Spectrum games (like the Morse Code bit in Rambo on the C64 - [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?…
Are there any easter eggs in Spectrum games (like the Morse Code bit in Rambo on the C64 - [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=10334&forum=2&19"]see here[/url])?
Necros.Spectrum in kit form?Was the Spectrum ever available in kit form (as was the case with the ZX80 and ZX81)? Or have any modern day kits ever been produced?
Was the Spectrum ever available in kit form (as was the case with the ZX80 and ZX81)?
Or have any modern day kits ever been produced?IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …
... had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. ... that the result of an IN without a key press ... initialise the defaultvalue of an IN in a variable, something like ... 1000
20 LET A=IN 32766 : REM or other ...
1010 LET A=IN 254 : REM ALL KEYS< ...Rollback in EmuZWin?I've heard that EmuZwin emulator has a feature that enables to go 2 seconds back in time( e.g. if something went wrong,when playing game) I am intere…
... to go 2 seconds back in time( e.g. if something ... TR-DOS and Pentagon (absent in Spin)3" floppy in pcI'm in need of some assistance. I have attached a 3" floppy to my pc using a cable as described at [url="http://newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/F…
I'm in need of some assistance. I ... also changed the drive setting in my BIOS, but I am ... of wisdom to help me in my pointless quest to get ... my pc?
Thanks in advance to any helpers.Update check in EmuZWin and other thoughts?Hello! I would like to have a update check(new version) in EmuZWin, with many new versions all the time it would be nice to have this function. ;) …
... a update check(new version) in EmuZWin, with many new versions ...SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed!Any other real Spectrum users in the USA?Hi, I bought a Spectrum +2a off e-bay (I collect old computers) and managed to make it run here in the US. I'm curious; is anybody else running an a…
Hi,
I bought a Spectrum +2a off e-bay (I collect old computers) and managed to make it run here in the US. I'm curious; is anybody else running an actual Spectrum (not an emulator) over here?[b]Testing Bold font in Thread title[/b]Oh uh...just testing something... ...if the thread title could be also in bold or italic...
Oh uh...just testing something...
...if the thread title could be also in bold or italic...problem with Mega-Sphere (Your Sinclair type-in)Does anyone recall the program [url="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/type-ins/yoursinc/megsphre.zip"]Mega-Sphere[/url] from Your Sinclair …
... ] from Your Sinclair Jan'87? In particular, do you recall: a ... over 200 type-in programs & routines published in Your Sinclair which ... is not available in a working version in the YS type ... work; the sphere gets stuck in the scenery as soon as ...3 missing Your Sinclair "write-in" programsIn this context a Your Sinclair "write-in" is a type-in program listing where YS made such a mess of printing it that it was unusable and, as they di…
... Your Sinclair "write-in" is a type-in program listing where YS ... correctly, readers had to write in to get the correct listing ... of over 200 listings published in Your Sinclair, only three come ... )
Does anyone recall writing in for any of these corrected ...British telecom game I think or what ever they were called in 80sI am looking for a game way back in mid 80s that was a walkthrough adventure collecting items and going through phone portals by dialling in numbers …
I am looking for a game way back in mid 80s that was a walkthrough adventure collecting items and going through phone portals by dialling in numbers any help???More reasons for publishers to deny distribution...Hi, I just bumped into this : [url="http://thebiggdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/creativity-is-unnecessary.html"]http://thebiggdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/cr…
... Creativity is Unnecessary
In talking to many people about ... ?Welltris?, a ?Tetris? clone in a well where the pieces ... can just do a straight port with updated graphics, like the ... the internet is like being in the special olympics, even ...Rest in PeaceRonnie Barker. May he find peace with you in Heaven. Fork 'andles!
Ronnie Barker.
May he find peace with you in Heaven.
Fork 'andles!Worst Collision Detection & Colour Clash in gamesSorry if this as been mentioned before but i did do a search ;) In a recent discussion with a friend we talked about probs with the older games such…
... do a search ;)
In a recent discussion with a ...
