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Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... machine - what most people failed to realise of course that ... that most people fail to realise is that simply ... Ironically this really started to kick off at just ... many people were looking to these 16-bit wonders. ... were never designed to be able to keep up with ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... the first language I used to create an EXE, which for me ... " solutions).
And to add to my list above - MGS, Tenchu ... -
PrintingI know this is totally off topic, but I am in dire need of help, and all u guys on WOS have been of great help to me before. Everywhere I've asked so…
2000 is NT based - it's hardly surprising the 95/98/ME drivers failed to work.
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Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
... the "fun" was to defy ourselves, to push ourselves out of ... frustrated when you have to do more than jump ... from one platform to another, then do not ... it you were not confined to a single screen).
to create worlds beyond our wildest ... -
Is there anything new to comeApart from doom. I personally don't think there has been anything all that innovative on the pc. Whereas the Speccy had handfuls of games in that c…
... interface that might become cumbersome to navigate when you need split ... deo"... looks like they wanted to create just an atmospheric name rather ... -
Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …
... interactive fiction", as ADRIFT refers to it), but last night I ... adventure games, try going to [url="http://www.about. ... , which includes many links to adventure writing languages which you ... the language which was used to create the Infocom adventures for ... -
speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
... second to the Z80 chip to tell it to stop ... the Z80 refrences to talk to the hardware it ... loading produces bears little to the simple sinodual tones ... current induces an electromagnet to change direction. It's ... I've never attempted to create music on the 48K ... -
line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... /> The best way will be to copy the ROM routine and ... alter the call to the plottingroutine to a plotroutine that can ... needed. If you only want to plot, you can even skip ... from my copy but it failed to run.
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PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... pq that determine the adress to jump to. In decimal the address ... start of the adventure data to point to the routine (the manual ... execution. What you want to do is to go into basic, SAVE ... data through a compressor to create the 16k chunks to be loaded as ... -
ftp downloadingFTP-downloading... hmm.. After several attempts was obtained the message "...load will be continued after the input of password, which is concluded…
... cyber-censor software bars access to the home pages of Drs ... Hawking, amongst others ? but it failed to bar me from a porn ... -
spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…
... say between red and yellow to create orange and so on, ... been possible at least to do loading screens this ... on a little project to make speccy versions of ... counterparts I'm very happy to say. These screens may ... anyone who's curious to see examples of what ... -
new look forum :)hi there, I like the new look forum :) octave
Yep, all listed options are available and working.
I know the white letters next to the icons aren't readable, but I haven't had the time to create new icons yet (the text is part of the image, see...) -
Games that are more fun than they should beI've just been playing Gnasher, my fave pacman clone on the speccy. And it occurred to me, that i could easily play the arcade original pac-man on ma…
I`ve been playing Nightshade (Ultimate) just to create and find out how many active fires I can have on screen at the same time - I`m currently at 5. It`s a noisy game.
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The Spectrum In EuropeWhat are the differences between Speccys in Europe and the UK? ie would a British 48K work in France or Italy, and vice versa?
... that they collaborate with SinclairResearch to create 128k speccy.. well Im not ... on forward computers were translated to spanish..
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RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …
... C++ Builder I set PrintScale to Proportional. Nothing is ever squashed ... of actually using API calls to create the window. Anyhow, as ... platforms, it's probably best to support the latest couple of ... and there's lots more to be done. Your compatibility problems ... -
Top Five Footy GamesI thought I'd add a topical article to my site: [url="http://www.waddington.fslife.co.uk/lair_footy_five.htm"]http://www.waddington.fslife.co.uk/lai…
I think it's time to state that the best football ... hundreds of possibilities about how to create your actions and what can ... -
Game RemakesWhat games do you think need a PC remake? i nominate The Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still
... discovered my lack of ability to make Vitorc "Duck" very ... designed the levels AROUND this, to compensate...making the game challenging ... .
You have to remember, these remakes (both mine ... area, but it is possible to create a pretty decent game if ... -
TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... sound only and have nothing to do with whatever method ... for any particular protection system, to me at least, is ... that the only reason to create decoders is to facilitate flash loading as ... only of benefit for emulators to flashload blocks of data straight ... -
TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... for "tape wobble". Basically, to convert sound into data, you ... Block which has been engineered to represent synch pulses, and ... that the only reason to create decoders is to facilitate flash loading as ... about, is hopefully going to be able to do all this - you ... -
TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... "nature" things, like everything wanting to go chaotic.
- So ... error.
- when written to the cassette, additional noise may ... ]
Yep. So, if SPIN create's it's own TZX ... the TZX, then MakeTZX it to create a smaller version?
curious: how did 'they' make games?Now that ive found this forum i can ask all the questions I always thought about :) Im just curious, how did they (the software companies) make the …
... s and downloaded the code to a Spectrum. I remember ... bastardized version of OCP assembler to create his games. The most interesting ... Development System) which allowed programmers to code on a PC and ... dogs bollocks when it came to development systems. If anyone ...Recognize this (not so popular) speccy game?i am looking for this old spectrum game but i don't know its name... so here's a description: it's got gfx like small stickmen and you are the good g…
No ... definitely not the same person. I was just chuffed that for the first time I knew a game that I had to create a profile and post a reply.
Long time listener, first time caller sort of thing!! :)Some \"newbie\" questions about the Spectrum +2I bought a +2 last week. I had never owned any of the 128k Spectrums before, nor seen them in action. I have a couple of questions; 1) Do all 128k …
... that on tape deck connected to my 28/128.
Remeber only ever being able to load Carrier Command if I ... parents stereo, so I had to create a loading cable that stretched ... from my bedroom to my parents dining room (over ...cassette cover scans.Hi, You guys really helped me out last time....i hope you can maybe help here. I am looking for some sort of site where they have good resolution sc…
... /> Anyone else think a server to upload/download covers from would ... good enough with computers to know how to create a site for this ... , but i have loads of covers to ...which direction?................hi there, which direction do you think the computer games industry will go in the future as games become more realistic etc and what are your views o…
... 'll ride the 'realistic' horse to a point when people will ... have such a powerful hardware to exploit. I mean, with a ... they'll be able to create without resorting to "realistic" models.
Screen$ ScreensaverDoes anyone know where I can get a screensaver called "Screen$" that apparently simulates a Speccy loading?
... good in conjuction with bmp to scr to create your own speccy loading ...SwitchBlade from WOS has a problem ?I am not able to load this game neither with WinZ80 nor with ZXSpin. Something wrong, but where ? The version from TZX Vault is a demo or smth., it …
... . I think I did manage to eventually run it under RealSpec ... wrong. Spin and Spectaculator both failed to load. I suspect it must ...transferring from cassette to .tzx...I am new to zx spectrum formats - even though I grew up on Sinclair computers...however, I am very interested in learning how to transfer spectrum pr…
... something like Spectrum Tape Loader to create a sound file.
to produce a .tzx on the ... />
While you're trying to tzx up your own tapes ... check out the tzx vault to see if somebody has done ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... Thought. Their wish was to create a machine that would ... in sufficient computational abilities to be misused by civilians ... capabilites was initiated originaly to discourge users from purchasing ... ' pop music cassetes, likely to cause unfettered enjoyment.
...Possibly *weird* .WAV request?Hello there! WOS has sure moved on since I last visited back in '99. Looking great! :) Anyway, I'm in the middle of producing a little homage to ZX…
... use SPIN's tape browser to create WAV files from TZX files ... rip the parts you want to use using a WAV editor ...
