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Help with mystery game programmer...Hi, I wanted to try to revive an old C.S.S post from 2004, where I was trying to track down the name of a very exploited Spectrum games programmer. …
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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 …
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The emulation runs too fast and the sound is corrupted ...+3 disks (writing errors)is there any way to check a disk for bad sectors? i seem to get I/O errors of one type or another when writing to disks. the thing is the disks forma…
... one type or another when writing to disks. the thing is ...BASin - Wow!Hi Folks, I know I have said this before but I have to take my hat off to Dunny (Paul) and the other folks who were involved in writing BASin. It r…
... folks who were involved in writing BASin.
It really ... speed it up using REM FAST/SLOW.
So I ...Doctor Who Christmas Special (2010)Have I missed the traditional thread about Doctor Who, or was everyone too full of Chrimble brandy to start such a thread? Or maybe you were all so s…
... had been Russell T. Davis writing it then it would have ... nailed the Doctor's complex character to perfection. And I have ... of how fantastic Moffat's writing and Smith's performance are ...Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…
... is just focusing on the character movement, left right and jump ...Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... (Not to metion PaulF re-writing three major pieces of software ... I had read earlier that character break up on screen is ...How the spectrum generates the video from ramHi everyon, I know that most people here allready know this but i think i found out how the spectrum acctually dispalys stuff and why the LD x, (HL)…
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writing to the video memory, beautiful ... you write your data hence writing stuff to display. No need ...Grey +2 Red "Spectrum +2" writingIve had a fair amount of grey spectrums pass through my hands the last few months and i still havnt seen one thats the same as my old battered grey, …
... , being that mine has red writing where all others have silver ...Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... horror at the ZX Spectrum character set in the screenshot*...yeah ... that use the ZX Spectrum character set.
[edit: I ...enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
... can be used to create fast games like Cobra or FireFly ...SpecBAS 0.646 now available.Yay! Here's another round of bugfixes and additions to the Program. Not so much of the extract coding features, but more back-to-basics this time: […
... FPOKE command - both for reading/writing floating point values (bytes in ... in strings - represented by the # character:
10 LET a ...Kiwi OS for z80 computerHi everyone, Nearly made my z80 computer with 2K ROM 32K RAM. It has an OS im still writing called Kiwi (apple, blackberry, you get the idea ;D) he…
... has an OS im still writing called Kiwi (apple, blackberry, ...
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;> A IS NUMBER ...Stuck - problems writing dsk images back to 3" disks.Im having some trouble writing DSK images back to 3" disks using a speccy +3. I am using: CPCDiskXP to write DSK images to 3.5 disks, DU54 on the s…
Im having some trouble writing DSK images back to 3" ...z88dk + File Handling ProblemHello my fellow WoS'ers I thought I would ask here as I am having a bit of trouble with a very simple C program that I wrote for the spectrum using…
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I have even tried writing a file, alas the same ...Z80 DOS Sorry this computer is too fast!I?ve tried the free Z80 Emulator v4.00 (DOS Version) downloaded from Gerton Lunters Homepage on my Intel Core2 Quad Q60 running at 2,40 GHz an it ju…
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Can ...Memories of Adventure Game Writing - Interview with Craig Davies1st in this 4 part feature is now up. [URL="http://jdanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/memories-of-adventure-game-writing.html"]Memories of Adventure Gam…
1st in this 4 part feature is now up.
[URL="http://jdanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/10/memories-of-adventure-game-writing.html"]Memories of Adventure Game Writing[/URL]
Part 2 will be up on Friday.fav spectrum charactermy fav spectrum character is called dizzy
my fav spectrum character is called dizzyFast Lane - Never released game from AnacondaAccording to "The games that time forgot", there was a game in early stages (Mock screens) recovered from the Anaconda development disks, called Fast…
... the Anaconda development disks, called Fast Lane.
Its a ...Collection Worth Saving?Hi, I've recently been reunited with my childhood collection of spectrum items - a boxed +2, original and a couple of Cheetah joysticks, loads of mag…
... Crazy Compilation Shackled, Thunderceptor, Sidearms, Fast n Furious, Mission Elevator, Desolator ... Price
The Professional (Adventure Writing System) Full Price No instructions ...Pip The Pipistrelle[color=red]*COMING SOON*[/color] Pip The Pipistrelle I am going to put all the game details,instructions and story here now and simply update this t…
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The main character Pip is injured and limps ...Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
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Programming a character was as simple as giving ... as a ?character change?. There was one character (I don ... The interface used for character actions was the same ... I was tired of writing and testing Assembler and ...28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…
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Looking at the 18-character wide 8x1 multicolour code, it ... , the code below does 28-character wide multicolour, for eight attribute ... the PUSHes deal with two character columns each. One way in ...Games with time travel mechanics?What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don't mean games where time travel is just part of the story (i.e. it's…
... ]), or where your one player character performs one set of actions ... time (either directly or by fast-forwarding/rewinding through the game ...Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …
... various coloured squares and (valid character set) characters scattered about. Leaving ... a whole afternoon that looped writing and reading values to this ... , from high to low, writing the decimal value 2 to ... subtracting one from it and writing it back. Then a test ...OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.
* No direct ... yet. I'm thinking about writing one that will use the ...Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :)
The one ...L Break Into Program, 0:1 BlogThis is very much a work-in-progress but it's got a load of Z80 code I'm in the progress of writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (…
... in the progress of writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (line ...Retro Fusion Issue 3 - Jonathan Cauldwell writing us a game!Jonathan Cauldwell is writing an exclusive ZX Spectrum game for Retro Fusion Issue 3. The game is coming along nicely and I am pleased to present a n…
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