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  • Weird crashing problemOK, got an odd (to me anyway!) problem. 16k Spectrum, appears to work fine, it starts up, go to load a game (Trans Am, Cookie, Jetpac etc), the game …

    ... hangs with a few coloured blocks. There's no tune at ...
    Jet5y Jet5y October 2015 Hardware
  • Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…

    ... templates for things like pushable blocks, energy/time bars and stuff ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2015 Development
  • 48k problemsHi all Just plugged in a 48k that I bought to find that the screen is jumbled with different colour pixel blocks. I removed the casing and noticed…

    ... jumbled with different colour pixel blocks. I removed the casing and ...
    jamiejoe jamiejoe October 2015 Hardware
  • Chompston Mazes in SpecBASAfter the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked out the link there about generating 2D Pacman style mazes. This one was quite good fun, …

    ... to ensure that no "rooms" (blocks of adjacent corridors) appear.
    Dunny Dunny October 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Is Blur (DoNotTrackMe) Overkill when using Adblock Plus + NoScriptIve used ABP and NoScript in Firefox ever since those annoying Crazyfrog ads where they played loud motorbike fart noises when you accidentally mouse…

    ... Do Not Track ME which blocks ad trackers. The problem is ...
    festershinetop festershinetop October 2015 Chit chat
  • Afera, a library for Abersoft ForthI've published a [url=http://programandala.net/en.program.afera.html]library for Abersoft Forth[/url]. It's called Afera. I wrote it some months ago…

    ... on Spectrum 128K.
    [*] Improved blocks handling.
    [*] Full screen mode ...
    programandala.net programandala.net December 2015 Development
  • Dead issue 3b with black and white barsHi all, I've been donated an issue 3b which has some nice black and white bars with a few flashing blocks. I've done a few RAM tests and could spo…

    ... bars with a few flashing blocks. I've done a few ...
    Jet5y Jet5y December 2015 Hardware
  • May the "How to do it" bullet pointing commence!"You Tube" does not cover everything ZX Spectrum realted There are now so many ways to use ZX Spectrum related stuff. And therefore therefore ther…

    ... /> 6) If a series of blocks appear to be created by ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2015 Games
  • Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …

    ... files, generating separate blocks.

    18307 blocks total
    ... .

    All blocks totals - 18307 files
    ... br />
    Type-0 blocks - 7106 files
    29309364 bytes ... br />
    Type-3 blocks - 10968 files
    126323048 bytes ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA January 2016 Development
  • Pokes needed for following games - any help? :-DHi speccynites,..I need a few special pokes if anyone can help so I can get these games longplayed on the real hardware, can any of you help??? The …

    ... poke which will stop you falling down the gaps,...it is ...
    ZEUS ZEUS January 2016 Games
  • Interview with the ninja from Bruce LeeGood evening and welcome to my interview with another villain from the ZX Spectrum gaming history. Many of you will be familiar with the little bad g…

    ... anything, well-timed jumping and falling does the trick in completing ...
    peteprodge peteprodge March 2016 Games
  • Issue 3b boarddiode ID5 and cap C47 are missing from my board will these have any effect on system powering up. I have checked the voltages on the 7508 and its …

    ... and -5 but still strange blocks when start up I am ...
    caver99 caver99 March 2016 Hardware
  • New Retro Virtual Machine v1.1.0Hello everyone, a new version of Retro Virtual Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXHnelI49A Change Log: Added the ZX Spectrum+ with s…

    ... available online.
    Fixed some blocks between threads, improved the stability ...
    jcgamestoy jcgamestoy March 2016 Emulators
  • Unfinished Game - K C Munchkin portIn the past I have done a couple of ports of games from the Phillips videopac to the ZX Spectrum using AGD. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/…

    ... . Now I hit two stumbling blocks :-

    1. I never ...
    gazj82 gazj82 April 2016 New game ideas
  • Faulty M1 or no?Hi all, OK, so I've got an issue 4B which was pretty much untouched and appears to work fine (starts up OK, loads games, 23732 and 23733 both retu…

    ... /> The Smartcard displays crazy coloured blocks (below), the Multiface 1 just ...
    Jet5y Jet5y May 2016 Hardware
  • Issue 4A, tests complete fine but get odd crashing problemHi all, I've got an issue 4A which has had all of its lower RAM replaced, TR4, TR5 as well as its CPU. It originally had quite high voltages (20-3…

    ... to jump through normally solid blocks, getting killed touching invisible objects ...
    Jet5y Jet5y May 2016 Hardware
  • Imagine Software (original)Was watching Commercial Breaks earlier (again) which shows the original Imagine practically falling apart. Does anyone know if the original office b…

    Was watching Commercial Breaks earlier (again) which shows the original Imagine practically falling apart.
    Does anyone know if the original office block they were based in is still standing? Just been wondering.
    zx1 zx1 July 2016 Chit chat
  • Tumblestone, a new type of match-three game[b]Tumblestone[/b] is a recent new type of match-three game that could very well be implemented on a Spectrum I think. You shoot blocks that are m…

    ... think.

    You shoot blocks that are moving down, but ... you can only shoot blocks at the front of the ...
    BdR BdR July 2016 New game ideas
  • New game: ZoomBloxHi everyone, this is my first post here, so first off I'd like to say hello to the Spectrum development community :) I've been developing on an…

    ... picked up alone), blue blocks (which make the ... level progres down) and wildcard blocks.

    ... permitting):[/b]
    - Additional blocks with different behaviour
    - ... A better ("weighted") blocks-generating randomizer
    - Improve ...
    Fabrizio Zavagli Fabrizio Zavagli August 2016 Development
  • Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…

    ... at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2016 Development
  • 2x2 tile to attribute blocksHow do you go about converting a 2x2 tile to 16 x 16 attributes? Heres an example of the tile data I'm wanting to enlarge. [code] defb 255, 25…

    How do you go about converting a 2x2 tile to 16 x 16 attributes?

    Heres an example of the tile data I'm wanting to enlarge.

    [code]
    defb 255, 255, 244, 155, 225, 9, 201, 1, 193, 37, 129, 37, 133, 1, 192, 131, 128
    ...
    daveysludge daveysludge September 2016 Development
  • +3e and disk geometry questionsI've bought a ZX-UNO and I want to use a mixt disk (IDEDOS+FAT) on it. That ZX-UNO has +2e DivMMC ROMs version 1.43 (the only version that works with…

    ... .
    [code] Cyls: Heads: Sectors: Blocks:
    ----- ------ -------- -------
    Linux: ... :
    [code] Cyls: Heads: Sectors: Blocks:
    ----- ------ -------- -------
    Linux: ...
    Zup Zup September 2016 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48+ 4S - Upper RAM issue, and now a self-created problem!I recently picked up a known-flaky spectrum off eBay, to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. It was labelled as 'keyboard duff, shows…

    ... and white, or sometimes coloured blocks on the screen.

    Paulcatchpole Paulcatchpole December 2016 Hardware
  • Iffy memories of a platform game...I'm trying to identify a game I played back in the day. All I can remember about it is that it was a flick-screen platformer, it had quite chunky gra…

    ... scenery (I think 2x2 pixel blocks), and one screen was a ...
    Payndz Payndz December 2016 Games
  • Goodbye Micro-MartI was a little surprised that no one else has mentioned this, but[b] Micro-Mart[/b] (a British weekly news-stand magazine) is closing down, and it's …

    ... , so sales have presumably been falling for years. Still, it was ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2016 Chit chat
  • CASTLE CAPERSThe Dream Fairies have been kidnapped by the evil mouse king and his horrible accolites Use your magic to make blocks or holes and go up and down t…

    ... /> Use your magic to make blocks or holes and go up ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore January 2017 Brand new software
  • How to write files from PC into a +3 disk image?I'm thinking about creating a utility that converts 48k snapshots into tap and dsk files. To do so, I've found that libspectrum allows me to read sna…

    ... read snapshots and copy/create blocks on tape, but I haven ...
    Zup Zup February 2017 Development
  • Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…

    ... his caravan. The door is falling off and I don't ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone February 2017 Hardware
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 27 February 2017Monday 27 February 2017 Happy New Year. And Valentine's Day. And - oh - you get the idea.. Things have been a tad busy in Real Life * Andy Ford …

    ... , A, Druid II: Enlightenment,
    Falling Down, G.I. Hero, Gauntlet ...
    hackersanon hackersanon February 2017 Announcements
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.6.3 and ZX-Blockeditor 2.4.2 publishedDear readers, as you see in the subject, two of my ZX-Modules applications have been updated today. The very special change, kindfully and very nice…

    ... , MSX header or KCS data blocks. This making a new inofficial ...
    clausjahn clausjahn March 2017 Software
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