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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!) …
... made in 1980, the special effects were also quite good, which ... -
New To Group....Hi All, A quick introduction as this is my first post. I am a Scarborough, UK based chap who is quite heavily into retro computing, more specificall…
... image later if possible). The border is totally unaffected. If I ... -
What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
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Just watched Dark Star againI recently purchased a copy of the film [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)"]Dark Star[/URL] for ten euros and watched it again over …
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Roulette for T/S 2068Wrote a simple roulette game for my T/S 2068 years ago with some graphics and sound effects. Can anyone tell me how to save it so I can share it her…
Wrote a simple roulette game for my T/S 2068 years ago with some graphics and sound effects. Can anyone tell me how to save it so I can share it here? -
Faulty +2AHi! I have a +2A from a friend which is not working. I recently made a composite video output for it, using a small circuit from Sami Vehaama. When …
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Zynaps great qualitiesIm enjoying a bit of spare time, and been enjoying good 1987.1988 speccy arcade games.. the best era imho. Ive been playing [b]Marauder[/b] and have …
... old wine, its a sound effects works which amazes me. Problably ... -
Spectaculator - recommended recording levels when loading from cassette tape?Hi, I have connected a physical cassette recorder to Spectaculator in order to load my saved programs/games from yesteryear-mainly to see if it would…
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Electric Bingo seriesThe Electric Bingo series by Sinclair User are a series of Amidar-clones that are pretty much the same game with the second and third games modified.…
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I am a simple man....a layman if you will!...but I had a Spectrum when I was 12 years old that I loved more than was healthy! It gave me a love of computers which remains to this day and I …
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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 …
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Double buffering on SpectrumHey! I am new to Spectrum developing and I have a hard time to find some specific info or tutorials explaining the basics. I have already found simp…
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The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…
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Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
My first proper Tune.So, I made the drum track for the WOS Jam thread, and got so into it, that I ended up making a cover version of Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy.…
... , 3 pianos, 3 vocal, 1 effects carpety return type thing. I ...RAND USR that doesn't work in emulators and clonesEons ago, I "discovered" a strange RANDOMIZE USR. This is it: [b]RANDOMIZE USR 46578[/b] Using it on a genuine ZX Spectrum rubber key or Plus model,…
... waiting for a cassette signal (border changing from cyan to red ...ClicheThis one is a cheap cliche. It's called Cowboys. A Commando like shoot em up game where you have to return your bride, kidnapped and taken across the…
... desert. The Indian village. The border (the Rio Grande). Puerto Penasco ...Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…
... screen. It then draws a border around it but that is ... contains:
[CODE]100 BORDER 0:
PAPER 0:
rubber key Spectrum 48k problem :(when i plug the spectrum in all i get is a black screen with a red border and sometimes flashing blocks. the spectrum worked until about 20 mins ago…
Anyone interested in a ZS Scorpion 256 Turbo+?[url]http://zx.pk.ru/showthread.php?t=16169[/url] This guy is producing PCBs and I'd arrange a mass order for europe if there's enough interest. I'd…
... use sinclair/pentagon based raster effects [demos!] need to be adapted ...ZX Spectrum 48K clone and test resultsHi! This is my first post, so, first of all, I'd like to say hello to the whole community! I am Alessandro Dorigatti from Italy and I'm developing …
... on the left and right border; between the upper and lower ...K7zx hi speed loadingHi all As stated before i've been using a cassette adapter on my grey +2 to load mp3 tapes. I came across this software for windows which speed load…
... memory' screen and a blue border.
Have any of ...Spectrum +2A Clicking!Just bought a lot of 3 Spectrums on ebay: 2 +2's, which need some soldering work, and a +2A, which works fine, and loads everything up. All the mach…
... (it's just on the border, and doesn't interfere with ...Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
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2. Graphical effects like sun glare, realistic real ...New game: Dex[b]DEX - A painty-maze game for the 48K/128K Spectrum.[/b] [IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/ip5zeu.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/euqyv6.png[/IMG]…
... -style action!
Beepy sound effects!
Fancy jingles!
High ...Composite conversion problem *update*Ok, So i converted an Old Rubber key to Composite video & i got alot of interference on the screen. Especially when border was red. Loads of scratc…
... on the screen. Especially when border was red. Loads of
Fixing broken SpectrumsI've got 4 Spectrums and now they are ALL ill! My 128k toast rack, which I've had since new, now has flashy squares upon power up! I'm gutted the mo…
... 't recognise a tape, the border doesn't flash, just as ...youtube's new player?seems like youtube is using a new player to play vids in since about a week ago or something. looks slightly different, with a black border on the pl…
... slightly different, with a black border on the play/volume panel ...Microdrive ProblemHi everyone, I have just recently bought an Interface 1 and Microdrive off eBay. I plugged it all in and everything worked, however, it doesn't now …
... FORMAT is used, the screen border will flash for about 10 ...Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
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It has loading border stripes in multi colours, that ... can't just change the border colour for example, by typing ... :
BORDER 1
noooooooo noooooo, it ... ,1
will change the border colour from blue to some ...
