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Are SATA drives reliable now ?I am thinking of getting a SATA hard drive the one in the link actually the 320GB one [url]http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1728[/url] It wil…
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Datacorder "on strike" on my 128k +2AHi, I have a problem with the built-in datacorder on my +2A : The sound became "noisy" with cracks... Giving the tape recorder a little hit was the…
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Mysteries of Electricity QuizA little fun quiz that I know the answers to, but may lead to some head scratching and disbelief, but there's easy experiments than can be performed …
Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …
... things: Its at least as fast as XP! Now theres a ...Sega Megadrive...what i think of the colection...So i went and done it, I got myself the Megadrive Colection for PS2... I know I should download it for free and play it on the pc, but I've tried it…
... side scrolling adventure! it's fast paced, the charecter looks cool ...180 (ccs)Looking through TZX Vault I've noticed that they have listed 180 by CCS (written by John Hunt). I can't seem to find this anywhere on Wos. I've searc…
... (it's different from A-Maze, also from K'Soft)Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery.
Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong?
I'm compiling this program in dev c++, but it doesn't seem to want to come out of the line ...Triffid Software Research games.So far, it seems that only the AD&D character generator is listed, and none of the MIA adventures. The Secret River (Runemagic 1) The Wizard's Cita…
... the AD&D character generator is listed, and none of ...ONELINER : Finger TwisterFINGER TWISTER Do you all know TWISTER, that crazy game where you had to place your left foot on yellow, your right hand on green etc. etc. Well, n…
... /> as points to your score. Fast reaction will
therefore score ...games with human speech in themFast Food Jonah Barrington's Squash Meteor Strike Amaurote (?) any more...list 'em up.
Fast Food
Jonah Barrington's Squash
Meteor Strike
Amaurote (?)
any more...list 'em up.Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... memory, and since the maze it's just walls and ... bytes, and print the maze by reading the bits from ... X X" when printing the maze. But there are two ... a routine that printed the maze using POINT, PLOT and PEEK ... m array and print the maze by reading the binary ...New Discussion Group? Sinclair Machine Code/AssemblyHello, What do people think about whether we should have a new discussion group relating to machine code for Z80? We have a Sinclair Basic discussi…
one laptop per child projectI was looking at this mainly as a result of a word war between intel and others. I had heard about the project of course but this time decided to ha…
... it would be still a fast enough machine.
So ...Correction required, pleaseCodemaster's game Fast Food has this for its screen shot [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/f/FastFood.gif[/url] Hehe.
Codemaster's game Fast Food has this for its screen shot
[url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/f/FastFood.gif[/url]
Hehe.ANN: Tipshop updated Tuesday, 29 May 2007Tuesday 29 May 2007 May's update in May. Spook, eh?! * Ladderman AKA Colin Attle sent in new maps for Galactic Gunners , Ku-Ku , Punk Star , Shark …
OT: Pb-free solder and iron tipsIs it just me, or do soldering iron tips wear out really fast with lead-free solder? Another 1mm tip just crumbled and it's only done two and a half …
Is it just me, or do soldering iron tips wear out really fast with lead-free solder? Another 1mm tip just crumbled and it's only done two and a half PCBs worth of soldering... anyone else having the same thing happen to them?Why I Hate PES online...first time I tried PES online (PES5) I was really excited with the idea of playing with somebody else that was not in my close group of friends... a…
... game, and there they go, fast as lightining choosing Brasil, there ... slow while they play so fast they can score goals with ...Blatant duplicationI got my first +2 around 1986 second hand bundled with the Sinclair Research game pack that included Oh Mummy! Disco Dan and Crazy Golf... One of th…
... by Mr Micro. A simple maze based game with no really ... Mummy! worked better as a maze based game and was great ... it has the same graphics, maze layout and even the same ...Speccy games I bought todayBeen helping out at the Village Day in Ashtead, Surrey today. Was looking around the stalls when I noticed a small box containing 13 Speccy games. So…
... before!)
- Wizard Willy
- Fast Food
- Boulderdash 4 with ...New Cronosoft Games...Just a quick mention about the new Cronosoft titles, STRANDED 2.5 and QUANTUM GARDENING for the Speccy... These games should be available very soon…
... 'll have to get in fast as soon as they become ...8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... what started off as a fast implementation). PC and SP can ...+3 broken driveHi, I bought a +3 from E-bay, but the drive doesn't work :( I am not so familiar with Speccys, I know how to program them, but this is the first I'…
... Amstrad, written in assembler, includes generator and solver and monkies).Fast internet connection ?[quote]75-year-old Sibritt L?thberg from Karlstad Sweden just got her first computer, but it didn't take her long to download all the necessary patch…
[quote]75-year-old Sibritt L?thberg from Karlstad Sweden just got her first computer, but it didn't take her long to download all the necessary patches.
Swedish news site The Local reports that L?thberg's home has been tricked-out with a ...Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
... jump key, or a simple maze game, or Cybernoid-style controls ...B: drive dont workHi all, I went to Maplin today got myself a DIY lead the one with the proper 34 way edge connector for the Spectrum+3 other end 34 way to floppy driv…
... and stays on but flickers fast.
Also when I ...Game ideaThinking of a game that could enter the Minigame compo I came to the following idea for a game, although it might not fit 1K or 4K: A mazed snake ga…
... a Pacman look-a-like maze. When eating the dots the ...explosion sound effect how?Anyone have any tips on programming an explosion sound effect using 128 sound chip? I know that you use the white noise generator, but how exactly? …
Anyone have any tips on programming an explosion sound effect using 128 sound chip?
I know that you use the white noise generator, but how exactly?
So far all I can come up with is a helicopter effect. :confused:House that Jack BuiltRe-reading some old threads on here about the Thor/Odin lines and the problems with Paul Mckenna etc it prompted me to dig out my old copies of House…
... ? I've been around the maze, been to space, collected all ...Enhanced EmulationHi Hmm this is quite difficult since I lack a great deal of knowledge and terminology about computing hardware but here goes; Are there any emulato…
... they move and load as fast as another computing platform (but ...Name these games...Game 1: I remember playing a game by Mastertronic where you were a little round robot. You had to plant stuff and fix things around a large flick s…
... ship and go into a maze of corridors and shoot robots ...