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The Top 25 Modern PC GamesIn the thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40451[/url] , Ivanzx asks do you prefer modern or 'classic' era Spectrum g…
... you going through the many pages to see the complete list ... the complete list on one page for you to look through ... ), here's the games they ... -water city), where the all powering sense of ... ever broken by the attacks of the random inhabitants ( ... -
Adding TAP loading to the +3e ROMHello my fellow WoSers I have decided that I want to make my project official so I can share its development with you all as well as get some help i…
... set in - my hope is the WoS synergy will be enough ... one and only project for the Spectrum this year and it ... I keep bugging guesser all the time ;)
I have ... currently teaching myself Z80 ASM through the use of PASMO and z88dk ... -
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett StoryThe Beeb (I wonder who christened it that?) are showing a biopic about Kenny Everett next Wednesday on BBC4 at 9pm. I read about this ages ago but ha…
... Tch!
Here's the blurb:
[url]http ... Cupid Stunt and Quentin Pose, the story of pioneering radio DJ ... star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both ... and professional fulfilment, as seen through the decade-and-a-half prism ... -
recovering the stack after an errorMy normal error handler starts with the stack as reset by LD SP,(ERR_SP) in $0053 ERROR_2, sets up some stuff and returns to BASIC via a "JP C,$1e73 …
... error handler starts with the stack as reset by LD ... , resolve the error and continue scanning the line with the next expression ... , I search back through the stack to find the error code, restore ... $0058 and my routine the stack history gets overwritten by ... -
The Hobbit, Empire, and an interviewHi all, I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine (we've run a huge feature on the film). I inte…
... or story for the adventure. I remember going through the book and deciding ... on the locations, characters, actions ... too powerful. Perhaps that comes through to the players, in some way ... -
The Wii started with the Spectrum :DI came across this game, which is MIA but it was reviewed in a magazine, which basically consists in a couple of guns and a target with a sensitive b…
... which is connected to the Spectrum, which is, through the necessary software, displaying ... it ever comes out of the MIA!
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Mark of the NinjaHello, for any Saboteur fans out there, I'd recommend to check this game. It looks like the sequel of the Saboteur which I have imagined for years a…
... game. It looks like the sequel of the Saboteur which I have ... far. It's got sneaking through the vents, stealth kills, hiding bodies ... too excited about is the art style of the characters (close ups ... : I don't mean that the graphics or cutscenes themselves are ... -
The Great Escape disassemblyHi, Over the past few months I've been steadily chipping away at reverse engineering Denton Designs' classic 48K title, The Great Escape. I'm now a…
... m now a good 60% through the disassembly using SkoolKit, and have ... the beginnings of a reimplementation in ... C.
The current code is on GitHub ... [url]https://github.com/dpt/The-Great-Escape[/url]
Does a bad sequel/episode in a book/game/film/etc series kill the series for you?I meant to post this yesterday, but didn't get the time, but someone I was talking to said they used to love the Resident Evil series almost obsessiv…
... was great aside from the main happening), the Royal Family is now ... me feel worse about the previous two. The final Hunger games book ... I would re-read the final books. The later Conan Doyle ... and if you've suffered through the Hellraiser films IV onwards then ...The Spectrum Resuscitation ThreadKicking off this thread as a place where people who are fixing/restoring Spectrums (or indeed any other piece of related hardware) can show off their…
... had obviously been through the wars, as 6 of the 4116's were ... 32768' returned 93, so consulting the service manual:
[URL ... was revealed as the culprit, and duly replaced. The machine then initialised ...Larry The Lander II-Cosmic Carnage[size=4]LARRY THE LANDER II ? COSMIC CARNAGE[/size] By Steve `Jammajup` Dixon 2013 Purple Unicorn Software [u]The Story[/u] Deep in space Larry rec…
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1. Fight through the blockade of enemy ships to ... /> 3. Fight through the remaining ships in the blockade to intercept ... wandering asteroids and converting the energy but fortunately for ... Larry the EEC converts the energy from any ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... easly. pretty much the whole of the popular assembly/machine ... />
I went through the first few chapters and like ... avoided the 010001 gotcha..
Thinking it through, If ... impacting the reset of the routine... enough of the postulating...< ...Went scrambling in the Lake District.No not that sort of Scrambling :), What I mean is like a gentle form of free climbing, not very dangerous, but some physical effort needed. [quote]S…
... weather. The rake starts beneath the East Buttress at the precipice' ... climbs west across the face of the crag. The rake follows ... all the steeper parts of the ascent".[3] The summit ... is a short walk from the top exit of the ...Abnormal Load on the M4Saw this today, got in front of it just before it hit the road, I got to Wales and did stuff and got back, and saw it trundling along causing a huge …
... /> Timings can not be guaranteedbut the expected schedule is:
* ... 7pm, travelling through the roadwork road closure on the A34 and laying ... is also closed due to the roadworks
* Saturday ... 9am, leaving the M4 at Tormarton for the A46 and arriving ...Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…
... rendering, a map/screen like the above mock-up...?
... low wall. If the sprite in the pic moved up ... slightly to his right, through the doorway, would start to ... could be an back exit to the house (or one in ... map in memory indicating the individual tiles to be ...MISTER BEEP - the NEW ZX48 album 2014 "Chromospheric Flares"Hi mates. So. Here it is. Something like 2 years after the previous one - here is my new ZX Spectrum album "Chromospheric Flares". [img]http://mi…
... ://soundcloud.com/mister_beep/mister-beep-through-the-heavy[/url][/b]
[b ... ).
Tracklist:
01. Through the heavy fire
02. Neutrinos ... of ZX SPECTRUM (jack) through ULA chip - the 1-bit transducer.
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 …
... than a simple search through the data for the key.
So ... program shows the modified hash function and the application of the modifier table ... and done automatically; only the specification of the hash functions themselves require ...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…
... this, I go through the whole trolls and getting the sword & rope ... is the most chaotic IMO.
I tend to go through ... Mirkwood in order to get captured by the Wood ... to go through Mirkwood again - and who's hanging around the Waterfall ...Willy The Wasp 48KHeres a crude Kokotoni Wilf type affair, collect all the phials to build up your venom then track down the commissioner and sting him. Collect fruit…
... Wilf type affair, collect all the phials to build up your ... venom then track down the commissioner and sting him.
the torch to find your way through the dark rooms ...Albert the wolf: A "make your own platform" open-AGD gameSo here it is you can find it within the usual dropbox folder (there is also a rzx to see how the game works..sort of.. and a TAP for the real hard…
... pick the one you like the most
The dog or the bats ... start the game from the AGD main menu; "enter" to exit to the AGD ... to do with the graphics of the explosions
the other makes your ...Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…
... being picked up. The tape sound plays through the speaker, the machine beeps and ... the ULA, which is the IOREQ. Next came the input - pin 28 of the ... of the ULA's pin (by which time it's gone through ...Problem Reading the KeyboardHi Folks, I'm working my way through Toni Baker's rather good book and thought I'd write some code to scan the keyboard and store the results so tha…
... memory area
;3 - Loop through the keyboard segments
;3.1 ...
;3 Loop through the keyboard segments
LD HL ... />
;3 - tail of looping through the keyboard segments
DJNZ _keySegmentLoop ...Buy the Pope's hatIts easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter the kingdom of Heaven. So, to improve your chances of eternal life, …
... for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than ... a rich man enter the kingdom of Heaven. So, to ... spending your life savings on the pope's hat:
The History Of Mastertronic[img]http://assets.podomatic.net/ts/f5/e8/ad/thereallocomaniac56245/285%3E_9980356.jpg?1412318825[/img] Welcome to episode 98 of the UK’s No.1…
... on tape) and Paul (the drisk) chat through the history of budget game ... key games, milestones in the companies history and have some ... http://retroasylum.com/ep-98-the-history-of-mastertronic/[/url]< ... and to Phil Hockaday for the EXCELLENT cover artwork!
...The Friday afternoon ritualWell, it's Friday and it's (nearly) 4pm, so it's time to head over to eBay and paw through the Spectrum game collection auctions!
Well, it's Friday and it's (nearly) 4pm, so it's time to head over to eBay and paw through the Spectrum game collection auctions!Looking for the New Spectrum Games website/blog pageI've just had a hard drive pack in, and fortunately most of the stuff on it was backed up anyway, but it had some emulators/roms on there, including …
... in, and fortunately most of the stuff on it was backed ... /roms on there, including the Spectrum, and the last full Spectrum backup ... , I'll have to go through the forums page by page, looking ... find that thread (why is the WOS search engine so good ...Bizarre story of the day[url]http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/sport/through-the-turnstile/promoters-pull-a-fast-one-with-fake-caniggia-in-argentina-v-brazil-masters-game-1.…
[url]http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/sport/through-the-turnstile/promoters-pull-a-fast-one-with-fake-caniggia-in-argentina-v-brazil-masters-game-1.702260[/url]Speccy Game on PS4 shocker!Well, not exactly! I've just found a game called [b]Rock Boshers DX[/b] on the PlayStation store and it's every bit a Speccy Game! It's even got a Sp…
... Boshers DX[/b] on the PlayStation store and it ... of getting the keys and getting to the exit. It plays ... a proper release back in the day too!
< ... played much yet, just the first 3 levels ( ... which was unlocked by sitting through the full loading process :-)
Cooking toastrack... the dreaded smellI powered up my Spectrum 128 (heatsink model) yesterday only to see what looked like an out-of-tune picture on the television. I'm using a scart adap…
... I became aware of the familiar burning electronics smell that ... is the harbinger of vintage computing ... />
Plugged into the Spectrum at the time was a Ram ... have drawn too much power through the expansion port?
...CRLs "DISCOVERY"[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/GrazPatti/DSCF0036_zpsd8df0d1c.jpg[/IMG] I?m not really familiar with the game, ooh, maybe a vague recol…
... to be the high-score table from which you CANNOT exit from ... , or it runs a demo of the game, with the ... ship zooming through space. If that?s the case ... of one of the minigames, then back to flying through the next level ...
