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The unreleased Saboteur 3: Q&A with Mike RichardsonI notice that the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0026530"]Saboteur 3[/URL] page has been updated with an archive of graphics …
... anyone who's interested, he's a quick Q&A with Mike ... ladders and chased you) and other obstacles. I seem to remember ... of the lighthouse there was a large building (containing scientists and ... br />
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How to convert a .txt file (ASCII/PC) into a Tasword file?Short version: [B]How can I convert a .txt file (PC) into a Tasword file (ZX Spectrum)?[/B] Longer version: {Maybe I should first re-introduce mysel…
... of refurbished a couple of 48k's and a 128k. It ... entering commands (send out a BEEP, or draw ... human beings, and it's a pity that nothing like ... am interested in the other way round: [B] ... a .txt file into a Tasword file (Tasword preferably, or else any other ... -
What's a Trans Am rom worth?I got my hands on a complete Trans Am rom in good shape. Isn't this the most rare rom cartridge? Anyone has an idea what it's worth?
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Losing my mind. Please help me find a game!Hi all, lately I cannot get one old ZX Spectrum (either 16K or 48K) game out of my head (even dreaming about it every few months) and after googling…
... thought this would be a better and quicker way ... /> - It was like a 3rd person shooter (but with ... ).
- You started in a jail-like room.
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Interview with Bob Wakelin. elmundodelspectrum.comHere you have the interview with Bob Wakelin from [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] in its original format. Enjoy…
... to do – I think it’s a skill that has been pretty ... Wizkid with than Crumb-shaped characters. Who were your favorite artists ... only other covers I remember having problems with were a soccer game ... ’t in a pub or an arcade. I had other things I ... -
Looking for a musician [solved]Hi! My latest game is almost finished, but I don't seem to be able to find Mister Beep. (He's not even reachable by e-mail.) Even though it's a pre…
... to find Mister Beep. (He's not even reachable by e ... .)
Even though it's a pretty simple game this time ... using z88dk I only have a small amount of memory left ... with Mister Beep or some other music is appreciated.
Pivot, it's like Star Quake but with a twist[B]Pivot[/B] by Podbot is a very recent Flash/browser game which is a perfect idea for a ZX Spectrum game. [url]http://jayisgames.com/archives/2013/…
... Quake, Montezuma's Revenge etc. Except there's a twist, the ... player can rotate a single screen when standing in a ... corner of a platform.
... probably can't do a screen rotation animation. ... but it's a great game idea. :)Poor C64 speccy conversions[youtube]fNoqq9Vfc0g[/youtube] I ran across the above - and was struck by the graphics. At first I thought it was the speccy version, but then I rea…
... amstrad version - but a check show's that's hugely different graphically.< ... spectrum owners. I assume it's a conversion, and they didn' ... the native colour. It's definitely a bit slower than the ... the main characters was just awful.
Any other games ...Say a naughty word and Microsoft ban you!I thought this was a joke, but there's lots of people apparently going through it, some even posting about it on the official Xbox forums; [COLOR="b…
... thought this was a joke, but there's lots of people ... [COLOR="blue"]"
At least a dozen Xbox Live users have ... />
"[COLOR="Blue"]Just letting everyone know since I can't ... mon, that ****ing training level's a ****ing ******. Ah dinna ****ing ...Let's all have a look at each others...Quite a few musicians around this place...so I thought, let's have a thread to show of our main - or even all - instruments. I'll get the ball rolli…
... ...so I thought, let's have a thread to show of our ... ball rolling: -
It's a worn brown chocolate effect 2013 ... DLX WBC.
Seen a couple in the music shops ...middle management and working with friends...So as you guys probably remember for the past year I've been working as a scriptwriter. I've never been so happy with a job, or felt so fulfilled and…
... re-write, and since he's a big friend of mine, ... would usually have with any other writer.
... job was so demanding, and other crap like that. (And ... with my baby, not everyone is focused like you and ... i'll ever recommend a friend to a job.
What's the deal with hash tables, anyway?As there's nothing in the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/0-surc-contents.htm]Compendium[/url] about hash tables, and as I've …
... hashcode for a string of length 'n' characters is calculated by ... avoid the collisions - let's say table 19.
... I've included a version of Kweepa's routine for ... bas[/url]
Here's a TAP file with the ... ]
There's a shed load of vastly more ...Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…
... Mail to generate labels. Amongst other things it converts badly formatted ... , etc) and cross-references a few other bits of data like weights ... .
It's far ... whole thing is a bit Heath Robinson and no other bugger here ...My TV is dying....oh no's!So I'm thoroughly enjoying my return to Spectrum life at the moment. But something is becoming clear to me. Or to be more exact, clearly fuzzy to me.…
... dying. :(
It's a 14 inch Sony Trinitron and ... showing jumpy image tendency's. Re tuning the TV ... clear. It's the same on my other 8bit computers as ... I thought about getting a cheap-ish flat screen ... take the odd resolution's of 8bit computers? Thanks ...The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…
... the random interactions of the characters. Having ruminated on it for ... soon as possible as he's a totally random element and gets ... />
- If you do anything other than wait twice and move ... Mirkwood again - and who's hanging around the Waterfall EVERY ...Under development: COUSIN HORACE - with playable demoHi fellow Spec-chums, for the first time ever, I am publicly disclosing some details about a game I am currently working on. It is an epic adventure…
... me, cousin! Help!" It's UK Horace's voice. Another voice - ... Sleepyville, while taking a look at the helicopter's fuel level, ... have to interact with several other characters and use different objects while ... for Chapter 2 are: W-A-S-D-K keys, plus Sinclair ...Don't Cap My Benefits..I finally got around to watching this... it's my local council, so found it interesting moreso in that respect. people have multiple kids, and no fu…
... to watching this... it's my local council, so ... so irresponsible to force everyone else to pay for ... />
sure it's a devicive programme and the toffs ... get off your a** .. and yep other such large families ...
people getting ?800+ a week is taking the p***Spectrum-related musical entertainment![quote]This is a metal podcast. There will be no fluffy kittens. There will be no gender politics. There will be no straightedge dogma. No one will h…
... being utterly fed up with everyone and everything around me.
s anything particularly controversial this time ... thorcast.co.uk[/url]; that's a redirection URL, and although I ... would fit into the ten characters of a Spectrum file. I'm ...Is it possible to have a Single Drive on Betadisk as Drive Letter B (other than A)Hello, I?ve problems with getting two drives to work on my Betadisk v4 Interface: I?ve tried a second drive as slave drive but can?t get it to work…
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I?ve tried a second drive as slave drive ... well as Drive A:
On other tries both ... active when I do a CAT ( on A: ).
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While searching for a solution I have the following ... always assigns Drive Letter A: to a single drive ?
...It's a long shot, but...Are any of you proper Particle Physicists? I'm looking for a program, preferably for PC or usable via a web browser, where I can put in details of a…
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I'm looking for a program, preferably for PC or ... usable via a web browser, where I ... can put in details of a few particles and have ... as well as direction. A 2D planar version would be ... write something for this that's topologically close even if ...What's so great about FROZEN? [shpoilersh!]I mean, Disney can and have done a [I]lot[/I] better. I guess kids like it, because they'd lap up anything where they've been saturated with merchan…
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So it's got a song that starts well, but ... doing it 'cos it's a Disney film and they just ... />
"My sister's cast a spell of eternal winter!" - ... you hadn't noticed, everyone in the ruddy film is ... br />
"And here's a new sledge for you - with ...What five games that you've not played/briefly played would you want to take?I was thinking the other day about, how every so often on almost every gaming forum, you see a "What are you top ten favourite games?" style thread. …
... spoilers for any games, as other people might not have played ... was this or it's sequel, Doomdark's Revenge, but people tend ... played a Zelda game (yes, people like me exist!), but everyone says ... gotten anywhere with, as it's a realistic FPS. I don't ...Hiren's Boot CD (invaluable for when Windows is playing up)In case anyone isn't aware of [B]Hiren's Boot CD[/B] (which I should have listed in the Windows programs thread, come to think of it, even though it'…
... using it again (it's a real life saver as ... ).
It's a boot disc (like UBCD, which ... with malware/viruses or other problems, since you're ... to troubleshoot or fix a corrupt/infected Windows installation, ... to be throw a tantrum, it's just saved me ...The Elder Scrolls gamesA few days back, I discovered a great new game, called [B]The Elder Scrolls III: Skyrim[/B]. Actually, I discovered it when it first came out, three …
... a lot of time modding Morrowind (I mean adding mods that other ... chose Skryim, as everyone says that it's the most dumbed down ... thoughts on Skyrim or any other Elder Scrolls games? Which is ... other than Skyrim (and Morrowind, if you count a little playtime, and a ...PS3 game recommendations for a noobHowdy! Disclaimer: If you can't be bothered to read the whole post, just recommend some must-have PS3 games :) I've finally decided to enter the (a…
... in-tune with what's good, other than what I've ... br /> [B]Not[/B] really a fan of:
[LIST][*]Driving ... Arkham Asylum[/B] (heard a lot of good things, ... B] (some say it's a bit linear but have ... [*][B]Infamous[/B] (seems a bit different with interesting powers ...Deadpan Flook's selling Speccy games! (Shameless plug!)As promised elsewhere, here's a link to my new Ebay page! [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/deadpan666[/url] Which is actually my old Ebay page, only …
As promised elsewhere, here's a link to my new Ebay ... :D
Anyway, there's a few Speccy games for sale ... eye out! :)
There's other retro games, books and stuff ... deadpanflooksshopofstuff[/url]
Sold a few bits and pieces already ...Dan Dare 2 is a bad game ... or is it?I am a huge fan of Dan Dare 1 (one of the few games I can complete on Speccy) and I really like Dan Dare 3. I absolutely hate Dan Dare 2. It looks a…
I am a huge fan of Dan ... it very good scores, there's a cool sounding "play the ... the whole game is just a random dash thru (extremely) pretty ... corridors aimlessly trying to find a terminal (or whatever you ... game's good points / how to play it. Or does everyone ...SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…
... prefix in a string. As a result, there's only 128 of ... support - each character's pixel is a 4byte value (ARGB) ... a crash
FOR EACH with a string var and a range of characters ... Sprites wrap correctly when overlapping other sprites
Sprites no ...Need a little help with the "Real Tape" mode in ZX SpinI've got a game I'm making in AGD, and I'm trying to save it out to load into "Intro Maker". When I save it outwith Real Tape mode, I get the flashin…
... sounds like it's saving...unfortunately it's saving to ... having to hook up a tape-deck to my ... PC, save it onto a real tape, and somehow ... s mic socket (if it still works), transform it into a wav/other ... format, convert it into a tap?System Shock's ownership has been sorted out, and you can now buy a copy!Finally, System Shock is available again to purchase! If you go to: https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_enhanced_edition then you can buy one…
... 's not just a first class game, but it's also a ... 's standards, since it's a 1994 game (and so it's ... everything. And being a GOG release, there's no DRM, so ... buying System Shock. Let's make the sales figures ... will have a bit more imagination and a little less ...
