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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... and the reason why the second (monkey) boss is small and ... will be comparable.[/QUOTE]Virtually every one agrees that the Z80 ... up a few times and every single time someone explains why ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... in even frame and the second half on odd frame. IT ... details.
[QUOTE]Virtually every one agrees that the Z80 ... find tasks where one or second is clear winner
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Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
... two-week-old games in second-hand shops is a bad ... . Because: for every 'n'-week-old game in the second-hand shops ... a new full-price game every 'n' weeks.
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Check your spam-boxCos it may well be 75% empty. According to [url]http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html[/url], a ma…
... and GMail, but the major second-league players such as Runbox ... .), and they combine these in every possible way to form addresses ... -
Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
I just read every post in this thread and ... and I truly believe the second hand market is damaging to ... mean because there is a second hand market - I agree that ... consumers who are fuelling the second hand market when it is ... -
HelloI reckon the spectrum was shit The C64 was better So was the amstrad I would love to smash a spectrum to pieces and crap all over it Rubbish games…
... it for a second. I'm well aware that every tenth post ... -
BNP members list leaked online[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/bnp_loses_list/[/url] : oops : lol
... open for anyone), and the second was bias against non-trans ... not prepared to fully read every relevent thread, than how can ... -
The Youg ones - There's many people in it.After all these young ones quotes flying arround, I decided to watch an episode. I watched the one called [COLOR="Red"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE=…
... , that last less than a second. For example, you can see ... to the appropriate studio for every DVD/video sold? -
Ocarina Of Time - 10 years old!I can't believe that ten years have passed since I first played the greatest game ever published. C&VG have published their original review to celeb…
... (aged 10, 8 and 5) every weekend evening, 15 mins each ... have just gone inside the second major dungeon after 6months or ... -
ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... E,10 ; Only control volume every ten cycles.
LD ... DJNZ wait2 ; Wait for the second half of the duty cycle ... labl2 ; Do we play the second note yet?
XOR A ... JP NZ,labl5 ; Only use every ten cycles.
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VirtualBox...Anyone here use VirtualBox? I've tried installing it, but every version I've tried so far gives me the following message: "The software you are ins…
... ? I fire-up Virtual PC every now and then to play ... developed by Connectix -- probably the second best VM after VMWare back ... -
Has IT Crowd lost its mojo ?I been watching the new series and it aint as funny as the first two, its similar to Little Britain that was crap from series 3 onwards as well :(. I…
... character but he just ruins every scene he's in with ... . He spoilt every episode he was in in the second series and ... -
I got a daughter last night!Hello Spectrum friends! I just wanted to tell you that I got a little daughter last night and that I am very happy! We barely made it to the hospita…
... friendly words!
The second day went well too, the ... very deep - only to recover every once in a while for ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
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I still own my second Saturn back in England, and ... to come and see us every weekend, he'd always bring ... -
Just spotted some leechesYep, there they are: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7746174.stm[/url] Don't think the mom's trying TOO hard to find a job.
... . Don't think for a second that he's thick or ... and I've worked nearly every day since I left school ... -
Difference in emulator screen sizes and coloursSeeing as Greencard's gone out drinking... I've done a comparison between Spectaculator and ZXSpin. ZXSpin's full screen with border is taller than S…
... time in the 1/50 second time-slice at which the ... this takes 224 T states. Every half T state a pixel ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
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PD - Every weapon but one has a ... where no weapon has a second function. PD has many different ... so on.
Beats every games arsenal, ever.
Program able to make bootable dvd of system?Could someone recommend a good (and preferably free) program that would backup the entire system hdd with xp and all installed programs, and then be …
... or whatever. Plus doing so every few months kept Windows "fresh ... is installed but nothing else, second time after Windows and then ... can go back to the second image, and start again with ...New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
... the music in your mind. second, there is no "right" tool ... fancy one, it could export every channel to different DATA lines ...Wikipedia censorship[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_(band[/url]) Wikipedia has always boasted "Wikipedia is not censored". Sadly, as of Saturday 6th, and d…
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In any case, every Saturday night over here in ... I watch sitcoms on the second channel of public TV. Awesome ...Free Radical and Factor 5 go bust?Tragically, Free radical, who wrote [I]Timesplitters 1, 2[/I] and [I]3 (TS: Future Perfect), Second Sight[/I], and [I]Haze[/I], have gone bust. [I]Ti…
... [I]3 (TS: Future Perfect), Second Sight[/I], and [I]Haze ... very good, as was [I]Second Sight[/I], and [I]TS3 ... . A real shame on all counts.Free Radical and Factor 5 go bust?Tragically, Free radical, who wrote [I]Timesplitters 1, 2[/I] and [I]3 (TS: Future Perfect), Second Sight[/I], and [I]Haze[/I], have gone bust. [I]Ti…
... [I]3 (TS: Future Perfect), Second Sight[/I], and [I]Haze ... very good, as was [I]Second Sight[/I], and [I]TS3 ... even funny anymore. Especially since every offering has been somewhat sub ...ANNOUNCE: JSW64: Flash Manic MinerI am delighted to announce the gamma-release of [b][i]JSW64: Flash Manic Miner[/i][/b], which is available as a free download from [url]http://geocit…
... . Please try again.[/B]", but every other site works fine. When ...
Second edit: Typical! I finally get ...Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
... or 48K and then a second full RAM test by writing ... sets all the bits in every single memory location when you ... do that, or perhaps sets every fourth bit, or perhaps sets ...Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…
... I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels ... to save screen-grabs out every frame, and check how many ...Help designing a Jonathan Cauldwell game !Going to Byte Back retro show next March They've challenged the homebrew developer Jonathan Cauldwell to create a new Spectrum game in just one day …
... you get one point for every line you complete (the line ... instead of four. And for every line you delete that has ... is what happens in the second mode of Fuxsoft's Tetris ...Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…
It reads the keys every 50th of a second and updates the graphics (using a 'byte scan' technique) when it can. That's why it feels so smooth.Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…
[QUOTE=frobush;326474]It reads the keys every 50th of a second and updates the graphics (using a 'byte scan' technique) when it can. That's why it feels so smooth.[/QUOTE]
And why doesn't it feel as smooth when I'm playing it from the bed :-?Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
... calculations, but the pre-assembled second code block would be LDIR ... the above version and then every byte right up to $FFFF ...Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…
[QUOTE=frobush;326474]It reads the keys every 50th of a second and updates the graphics (using a 'byte scan' technique) when it can. [/QUOTE]
Now who's going to elaborate on this "byte scan" technique for the rest of us ignorant lot?
