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  • lizardy characterexcuse my ignorance - i'd like to ask, who?s the lizardy character with a long neck at the WOS homepage :???:

    excuse my ignorance - i'd like to ask, who?s the lizardy character with a long neck at the WOS homepage :???:
    cichlasoma cichlasoma February 2007 Games
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... />
    org $8000 ; run in fast RAM

    di ; disable ... />
    ld hl,$0d2c ; prevent character set
    ld (hl),$17 ...
    chev chev March 2007 Emulators
  • Best player controlled character in a gameAs the title suggests , which is the best character you've played in a Speccy game A tough guy like Rambo or Cobra ? Maybe a Champagne Charlie lik…

    ... suggests , which is the best character you've played in a ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley September 2007 Games
  • Ian WeatherburnI read the tribute to Viktor Drozd with great interest coupled with sadness at his passing. Clearly few could match his passion for the Speccy and I …

    ... with a beach view, a fast car in the garage and ... eventually unpleasant deconstruction of his character.
    I think that this ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack September 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Slapfight - Hack the speed ?I really want to like this game but the ultra fast bullets just totally ruin it for me. Try as i might i just get wound up with those super fast nea…

    ... this game but the ultra fast bullets just totally ruin it ... wound up with those super fast near invisible bullets. Played the ... bullets are just as fast as the character) it would make the ...
    psj3809 psj3809 October 2007 Games
  • Too fast zx32Hi all, my sister has bought a new PC. I installed all software for her yesterday. But contemporary fast computers don't offer only pleasure. Our fa…

    ... for her yesterday. But contemporary fast computers don't offer only ... zx32, for example, runs so fast that it's unusable.
    Dynamite Dan Dynamite Dan December 2007 Emulators
  • Don't miss this message...[I](Quoted directly from [URL]http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/5845[/URL]) [/I] What a difference a sad event in someone's life makes. GEORGE CA…

    ... , laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up ... of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 December 2007 Chit chat
  • ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James BondTo celebrate "Two Double-Oh Seven" before it ends, I am delighted to announce the first gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.0),…

    ... based on the James Bond character created by Ian Fleming, and ... guardians (e.g. diagonal guardians, fast horizontal guardians, triggers and stoppers ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad December 2007 Games
  • Character designerHi Martijn can we have an infoseek entry for Chibur's character designer, please? [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300…

    ... infoseek entry for Chibur's character designer, please?

    [url ...
    ghbearman ghbearman February 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
  • smallest character?- games like Earth Defence where you basically control a cursor don't count, I'm talking about where your character is an actual sprite. any suggest…

    - games like Earth Defence where you basically control a cursor don't count, I'm talking about where your character is an actual sprite.

    any suggestions? who is the smallest of them all...
    def chris def chris April 2008 Games
  • FAST and SLOW .TAP loading in RESIDOSWhy is in RESIDOS this TAP file loaded always too slow ? (with lines in border area). Other TAP files on my drive is fast loaded, but loading this fi…

    Why is in RESIDOS this TAP file loaded always too slow ? (with lines in border area). Other TAP files on my drive is fast loaded, but loading this file is always slow.
    [url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/tapslow.zip[/url]

    VELESOFT
    velesoft velesoft May 2008 Development
  • Dump Sinclair character set to file?Hi guys, I'm working on a version of Manic Miner for the TI-99/4A. It's not a port, as I'm not looking at the original Z80 code, just re-creating th…

    ... like to use the Sinclair character set in the game. Can ... get a dump of the character set? Years ago, I could ... can't remember where the character set is in the ROM ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... etc. will be in native, fast Z80.

    I actually ... be pixel accurate rather than character square sized. I did see ... to be based on a character square location. If I intend ... chars being aligned to a character square.

    [*]More graphics ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…

    ... feather would fall just as fast as a ten ton weight ... travelling at 100mph? And how fast would something travel if it ... Life on Mars, the main character, Sam Tyler, wakes up in ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • catching eggs - old electronic gameas first I sholud mention I ?m not sure if this was the right forum to put... but well, it?s not chit-chat, it?s an oldskool game hit sooooo.... excu…

    ... to catch falling eggs - the character is wolf of infamous russian ... : A, B, C = slow- normal - fast

    I bet you ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2008 Games
  • Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…

    ... print on screen the wrong character and the only way to ... town and you could then fast travel there avoiding all the ...
    festershinetop festershinetop October 2008 Chit chat
  • Most charismatic ZX Spectrum character?So, that's it, what do you think is the most charismatic character in a zx specrum game? :-)

    So, that's it, what do you think is the most charismatic character in a zx specrum game?

    :-)
    Danae's Fan #1 Danae's Fan #1 January 2009 Games
  • Questions about possible pseudo-3D gamingSince the Spectrum is too slow for solid-3D gaming and 100&#37; wire-3D doesn't always look good, shouldn't there be a way to do something that at le…

    ... 3D games takes advantage of fast processor speeds and video cards ... of detail) and allow the character to move in all 8 ... , O-P would move the character and the map clockwise or ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2009 Development
  • How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …

    ... understanding is that the character set is accessed via memory ... bytes beyond that. Each character then (obviously) lies in ... address of each character within the character memory area and ... within inverted commas as 'numeric character code'? For example, 'H' ...
    Jagd Tiger Jagd Tiger February 2009 Development
  • Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…

    ...

    It seems so fast on Maze mania. I think ... a time, while the main character moves 1 char at a ...
    robpearmain robpearmain May 2009 Development
  • ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond [v1.1]I am delighted to announce the second gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.1), which is available as a free download from: [url]…

    ... based on the James Bond character created by Ian Fleming, and ... guardians (e.g. diagonal guardians, fast horizontal guardians, triggers and stoppers ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad May 2009 Games
  • The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…

    ... do such a fantastic job. Fast, colourful (makes mono shoot 'em ... ]
    Most Iconic Spectrum games character (the one you most associate ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2009 Games
  • Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…

    ... to make the render as fast as I can. Sadly, my ... ) which contains two bytes per character (character # and attribute) and the table ... /> djnz _b2a

    ; Next character screen address:
    pop de ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2009 Development
  • Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…

    ... our machine code at free, fast-running (over 32768) and memorable ... the paper colour of one character square to blue.
    - draw ... is slow down our blindingly fast machine code.
    Insert the ...
    bigjon bigjon November 2009 Development
  • The Grim Reaper is coming for your consoles...According to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8556874.stm[/URL] [COLOR=Blue][B]"A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional …

    ... moving your joypad and your character on screen moving in the ... TV. Even if that's fast enough for our slow human ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2010 Chit chat
  • Game w/ character moving inside a castleI'm looking for examples of games with a recurring theme and if I'm not mistaken there's no list or a way to search for them. A forum and Infoseek se…

    ... find all games where the character has to move around inside ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2010 Games
  • Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…

    ... become, at will, any Spectrum character. So he can change into ... the bike) and move really fast and jump over buses and ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2010 Chit chat
  • Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…

    ... abilities) of any Spectrum games character, so he can, for example ... motorbike) and so travel very fast and jump over things (buses ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2010 New game ideas
  • Character Printing routines - 27/32 lines?There are lots of extra character-per-line routines out there for 42,51,64 even 85 characters. Are there any that do 7/6 pixel rows - and do 27 or 3…

    There are lots of extra character-per-line routines out there ...
    Gedlion Gedlion November 2010 Development
  • Fuse too fast on karmic ubuntuI have tried various types of Fuse, including the .deb file from the Ubuntu site and binaries and source code, and the results are all the same when …

    ... />
    The emulation runs too fast and the sound is corrupted ...
    john999 john999 December 2010 Emulators
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