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25 years of gamesWith the anniversary fast approaching I wanted to start some discussions about the last 25 years of the Spectrum firstly of course comes game Which…
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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 …
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Competition Pro 5000 Joystic.As promised here is a short(ish) review of the joystick. (I have taken the afternoon off work in the hope that it would be here when I got in and it…
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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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Problem with my speccy 48+My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all?
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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 …
kempston mouse gamesHi velesoft, I've just been on your site trying some of these out. There are certainly some spectrum games that could have benefitted greatly from …
... the mouse to generate new pixel coordinates? I ask because I ... but if it were using pixel coordinates I think the game ...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 ...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…
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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.Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... I'm playing Jet Set Pixel, 3D Pixelchase and Target Pixelcade ...Happy birthday FontsHelvetica which is the secondary font for WOS is fifty years old this year whereas Arial, the primary font at WOS is 25 years old. That's the same a…
... -case font which is one pixel slimmer than the 1979 ZX80 ...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 ...Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... character across the screen one pixel at the time. I do ...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.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 ...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…
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- Boulderdash 4 with ...Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... to suggest that you store pixel data in a [B]HexString ...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 ...Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
... the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in ... the Y address of each pixel row.
But are ... y co-ord of a pixel row efficiently? It would be ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... vertical stripy, like every other pixel is being coloured bright green ...concerning soviet graphicsis there any game using a similar tricky technique how to let colorful objects move fluently with no color clash as soviet? (the colorful tops of bui…
... above do move in 8-pixel steps, but lower floors of ...
