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Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…
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[FONT="Fixedsys"]DATA "ASHGSDKF","SDFSDF","ASDSDF"[/FONT] etc ... guru could recommend a better way to achieve the same functionality? I ... B]the simplest[/B] possible way to implement a'la vector font ... PRINT "1 = RIGHT WAY UP, READING L TO R"
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hdfmonkey - a Swiss Army Knife for HDF disk imagesThis is a spin-off from my recent experiments on ESXDOS. If you want to play with the DivIDE (or other Speccy hard disk interfaces) under emulation, …
... in much the same way that TZXs and DSKs ... box, with no good way to get at the individual files ... around for copying them to and from physical disks, ... if you're trying to develop software for something ... tap file that you want to copy to the /games/ directory of ... -
new member would like advice about MIAi have only joined today and i would like to know of a modern way of uploading data from cassette to pc or mac and then converting to tzx for MIA pre…
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Easy way to print text in machine code?Please? It sounds so simple, but I've never done it. At the moment I'm grabbing the start address for each letter then printing them out one at a t…
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*.dsk, SamDisk, win2000 problemsI am trying to copy 3" diskette to *.dsk with samdisk. But *every* time I start it, samdisk says "driver installed, please restart windows". Also g…
I am trying to copy 3" diskette to *.dsk with samdisk.
But * ... I understood correctly its trying to get the capacity. (3" is ... not there) Is there a way to prevent this?
Can I load directly from tape to emulator?I've been trying to preserve [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0024371"]this MIA[/URL]. I've recorded it to WAV using audacity. …
I've been trying to preserve [URL="http://www. ... br /> I've recorded it to WAV using audacity. Then tried ... wondering if there was a way to play the tape and load ... first time I've tried to preserve a tape, so I ... I didn't manage to find out how to load a tape ...How to read +3BASIC program in PC ?Is it possible to see the +3BASIC file content in the pc with some editor ?. I used a HEX editor and i saw that the program is there but converted to…
Is it possible to see the +3BASIC file content ... but converted to bytecode.
My idea is to copy the basic ... source to a file to be used in ...How to make a comp video cable for +2 greySorry to bog, maybe the clue is just laiden on another thread but.... I have just obtained a 128 +2 grey, fully working BUT the aerial signal is bad…
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begin to think to the RGB DIN socket. ... br /> an "RGB socket to SCART plug" cable with ... is the
best way to obtain a quite good image ... UHF signal" composite cable, to be used on a ... 3) Is truly needed to worry about to the "video transistors ...A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
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There's a way to squeeze out another byte or ...Sprinter 2000 does not boot...Hi there. I connected the Sprinter 2000 HDD to my PC to backup all files, but now it does not boot anymore. I wanted to repair the boot record using …
... the Sprinter 2000 HDD to my PC to backup all files, but ... boot anymore.
I wanted to repair the boot record using ... it should be possible to copy all files to a HD Disc from ... is 3.00 by the way.
I have not used ...Nokia 6230My wife has had my old Nokia 6230 for a few years no and its finally given up the ghost. It will not turn on. I've even swapped its battery for the o…
... is worthless, but she needs to get the numbers out of ... internal memory. Is there a way to get the data out?Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... routine makes it harder to copy the new programm on ... routine. I would have to hack through the whole ... It is sometimes easy to hack them, but just ... world who convert the programms to their disk system.
... is already complicated enough to make a disk magazine ...TZX Utils for the Mac?Hi All After a long absence I'm wanting to preserve original tapes again. I ditched PCs when I stopped preserving tapes, and I'm now Mac based. I d…
... long absence I'm wanting to preserve original tapes again. I ... ?
Is there any way of making a TZX using ... a lot, to correct speed loading errors or to copy and paste blocks ... together to generate a workable ...The Sadness of my Decaying Speccies.I've been avidly collecting ZX Spectrums since the late 90's and whilst at the time of the late 90's and early millennium my Spectrums and associated…
... microdrives are degrading at the fastest rate ever.
... developed ram faults probably due to other aging components putting ... Microdrives and they seem only to retain data for a week or ... over and break themselves far to easily. :(
I ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... realized there is no easy way to transfer games into a cartridge ... creating snapshots and transferring the data into cartridge, but we'll ... bytes for register data and executer code, it needs to be hold ... guess there is no generic way to convert all 48k games into ...Simple & Portible means to boost PC Soundcard Line Out?Hi Guys, My older computers were very good at driving a real spectrum's ear socket via their Line Out or Headphone socket. My new Dell's sound card…
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What is the easiest way to provide a simple but reliable ...Copying from divIDE+/Tape to +3 DiskCan it be done? Im about to place an order for some 3" disks and wanted to put my favourite games on them, but im having a hard time trying to figure…
... it be done? Im about to place an order for some ... 3" disks and wanted to put my favourite games on ... a hard time trying to figure out how to copy from CFlash or ... aid of a multiface 3) to disk. Is there a utility ...Important news regarding Retrogamer No.83!From the Retrogamer website...... "Due to circumstances outside of our control it in looking increasingly unlikely that the areas including Birmingh…
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"Due to circumstances outside of our control ... and Northampton are unlikely to be getting the current ... you still want to secure a copy of the magazine ... then your best bet is to ... shop is the best way to ensure that you don ...Retrogamer 83"Due to circumstances outside of our control it in looking increasingly unlikely that the areas including Birmingham, Wednesbury and Northampton are …
... and Northampton are unlikely to be getting the current issue ... if you still want to secure a copy of the magazine then ... your best bet is to ... the shop is the best way to ensure that you don' ... in case people go to the shops and wonder ...Getting ones own site on to the search engines?So ... long thread-title but it basically says it all. What's the best free way to get ones site to the search engines? I've googled around and got…
... 's the best free way to get ones site to the search engines ... is what's the best way to "attract" search-engine crawlers/spiders ... 's the best way to get crawlers/spiders to index specific sections of ... )?
And, is there some way to get specific parts of the ...Saving a snapshot to disk?Do any of the emulators have a snapshot to disk option, so I can save to a disk image? I want to convert the image to real 3.5" floppy. I would just …
... the emulators have a snapshot to disk option, so I can ... save to a disk image? I want ... to convert the image to real 3.5" floppy ... floppy...
Is there any way to do this without the multiface?Some muppet from the Green Party just asked me to sign a petition.......Knock on door. Tarquin Ponsonby-Smythe fresh out of oxbridge is canvassing to get people to sign a petition to lower speed limits in my neighbourhood…
... canvassing to get people to sign a petition to lower ...
I declined, and offered to explain why.
... 20mph limit would serve to inconvenience me, whilst making ... no difference to the boy racers who ... at 6am on my way to work, a 20mph limit ...Gatwick to HeathrowAs an oversite, my cheap flight to the USA had me going out at heathrow but comming back at Gatport Airwick. So now I have to figure out a cheap, qu…
... an oversite, my cheap flight to the USA had me going ... cheap, quick and easy way to get from Gatwick to Heathrow (where my ...It's enough to make you cry.....I have just had the very sad task of pouring 50 pint bottles of cider down the sink. Due to a slight technical hitch (my fault entirely, which makes…
... the sink.
Due to a slight technical hitch (my ... on an F1 podium. No way to put it right. By the ... I didn't expect that to happen when I opened the ... corners.
Just going to go for a little cry ...Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…
... 'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with ... (I prefer to do it in a way I can devise ... line by line l the way to the bottom.
... move the 'screen' pointer to address 19360 or anything below ... /> point defw bits ;graphics data
bits defb 0,60 ...Your favourite Jonathan Cauldwell game?Seeing as Jonathan Cauldwell has just released his 603,823,965th Spectrum game, the really rather fantastic and very wrongly named [I]Utter Tripe[/I]…
... the most popular. Having to choose just one favourite ... narrowing my choice down to [I]Batteries Not Precluded ... but can't remember how to spell it), [I] ...
Edit: Took me ages to copy and paste the names into ... into Infoseek, by the way). I didn't include ...Recursive 4-way floodfillHi guys) Shortly, I wanna find out whether there's a way to some object. Perhaps some of you have already encountered such an issue which is relativ…
... out whether there's a way to some object. Perhaps some of ...Converting rzx to avi xvid. How ?I've been searching the forums to try and find a way of converting rzx files to avi xvid. Does anybody know an easy way to do this, and can they prov…
... searching the forums to try and find a way of converting ... rzx files to avi xvid. ... Does anybody know an easy way to do this, and can they ... on how to do it? I want to reload my ... any in depth info how to do it.
...Bang! Bang! You're dead!Does anyone here have a copy of this album by Guns n Roses in MP3 format? I have the vinyl but no way to get it onto MP3! Had it a few years now, s…
Does anyone here have a copy of this album by Guns ... have the vinyl but no way to get it onto MP3!
Need help with a DOS commandI've searched for hours in a row and I've been searching for a couple days now, but I can't find a way to log on to a local machine using DOS. This i…
... can't find a way to log on to a local machine using ... for now I still need to launch some very proprietary ... it's a fresh/clean copy of explorer.exe).
< ... full of articles on how to manipulate xp user accounts ... . I just need to be able to logon as a user ...
