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Can any .dll programmer help here, please?Long story short, I was given a laptop to fix, where randomly when a game was started (by double clicking it's icon) the game would not start, instea…
... process will sit frozen until a response is recieved.
... process actually acts as a mask for the games ... 'll try them one at a time to see what works.< ... File 1 should do nothing at all, just exit (or ... 2. File 2 should suspend a process called rundll32.exe . ... -
Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…
Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse:
[code]
// zcc +zx -vn -startup=1 -clib=sdcc_ix -SO3 --max-allocs-per-node200000 --reserve-regs-iy soduko.c -o soduko< ... -
Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
... drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's ... taking most of the time. I did a couple variations of the ... to scanline, handling one character at a time.
[img]https:// ... not significantly) faster. The char-at-a-time version is more pleasing to ... -
Searching for the perfect Spectrum emulator (Android)I'm searching for the best Spectrum emulator to run on my GPD XD, which runs Android. I've got several thousand TZXs on a flash card (I own all the o…
... which means that every time it starts I've got ... static path can be configured at a time, which is then used ... more often than a ZX81 on a wobbly table. The ... even load [i]Renegade[/i] at all.
Finally ... seem to come and go at random.
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Why don't the variables print where I told them too?I wrote the following program to experiment with creating sounds using 3 notes of BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or down one at a…
... up or down one at a time. It works fine but ... /> 90 IF INKEY$="a" THEN LET a=a+1
95 ... IF INKEY$="z" THEN LET a=a ...
116 PRINT "a is",a, AT 2,1
117 ... PRINT "b is",b,AT ... 118 PRINT "c is",c,AT 6,1
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Reliving your youthKeep finding myself in a distructive circle. In short form.... Decide to start playing spectrum games every few years. Starts off ok, then I ge…
Keep finding myself in a distructive circle.
... the cycle reapeats. After a few weeks I have more ... you can ever play in a lifetime, my head goes ... get hold of one game at a time and urgently trying to ... />
Help I need a straight jacket.... -
Cronosoft TERRAPINS Competition*** COMPETITION TIME *** As you may well know, Cronosoft is releasing Allan Turvey's excellent new AGD arcade game TERRAPINS on cassette in the ne…
... or email them to me at the Cronosoft.co.uk website ... bombs. These will temporarily disable a bug, rendering it harmless for ... bomb can be dropped at a time however.
A supply of three ... to avoid or trap. As time progresses however, they will evolve ... -
Crash High Res now done , great for your 4k tv or SmartphoneHi Guys, just and update to say I have now finished all the Crash magazines , issues 1-98 which are up on the internet archive . You can find them …
... to add.
Being at this resolution they look great ... to download is one issue at a time as over 100gb in total ... -
Spectrum vs C64 faked sales figuresOn ITV's 'the Chase' 29th January 2018, there has been another speccy reference. I missed it live so have just downloaded and checked it. The ques…
... . All to deceive their shareholders at the time. I think this is ... of folk that were there at the time. The guy who put ... : where so many people around at the time, including the creator of ... sold because it was available at a time when there were very few ... -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
... Denmark in the late 90s, a total of about 170 tapes ... . They contain a lot of stuff not on ... from must have been in a hacker group back then with ... like all of us are a busy man, I'll ... uploads once in a while, maybe doing one tape at a time, but please ... -
Another Spectrum is brought back to life.Hi Spec-chums. I have been having bit of busy afternoon with repairs today. I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and more intere…
... got sorting things out one at a time. I thought you all might ... powering up but producing a poor picture, a garbled mess and weird ... colors. The seller had fitted a replacement switch-mode Traco regulator ... got. Attempted comp mod with a wire all badly soldered, ... -
Stuck again! Please help meI'm in the process of making a little game, eventually it will become rather more sophisticated (I hope) but I am testing out routines one at a time.…
... the process of making a little game, eventually it ... testing out routines one at a time. What's driving me ... after its been printed in a new position. I tried " ... 20 PRINT "This is a simple game. All you have ... 90 PRINT AT r, c; "O"
100 INPUT a
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Games with no diagonalsHaving laid my hands on an ancient joystick that strictly accepts one direction input at a time (up or down or left or right) I began wondering about…
... strictly accepts one direction input at a time (up or down or left ... in such a way.
But I am at a loss here ... -
AGD 5 Sneak PreviewLet's be honest, AGD 4 was first released in 2013 and is long overdue an overhaul. Many users have migrated to the far superior MPAGD but not everyo…
... writing speculative code for a simple expression evaluator and before ... written a more sophisticated script compiler from scratch. At that ... be able to type at speed when coding because ... more "gardening gloves" one-key-at-a-time typing.
There ... -
Problem using with keys at same time Hi ! I'm having some problems in my laptop, Compaq Armada E500 PIII 600Mhz, with Windows 98, using three keys at same time. Example: Up, Left and …
... I think the Spectrum had a memory mapped keyboard scheme. ... PC archietecture is a bit different. There are a few special ... Only one scancode is latched at a time, so if another button is ... or depressed at the time the interrupt is already reading a scancode, one ... -
What game stopped you from venturing out to play with your matesFrom the topics on here it seems most of us are in our late 20's or 30s possibly 40s so most of us will have been playing spectrum games when we was …
... , I am 30. I bought a PS2 last week, and Grand ... for up to 12 hours at a time.
In 1995 the ... first game I played for a long time was Arnhem, on the ... -
ANN: Spectaculator 2.5 available for downloadHi. I've just released a new version of Spectaculator, available from [url="http://www.spectaculator.com/"]http://www.spectaculator.com/[/url]. Hopef…
... general the less you buffer at a time the more accurate you become ... them too. It seems unlikely at the moment though :( -
The DoubleThe Double was my favouritre Footy Manager game until I graduated to the PC. I've downloaded it from the site but it needs a code entered before I ca…
Management sims are generally more rewarding and interesting over long periods of time, when compared to playing something like Pac-Man for hours at a time. There's where their appeal is. -
Best Soccer Game Ever!What?s your favorite spectrum soccer game ever? For me, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer; Match Day;Trak Suite Manager;MultiPlayer Soccer Manager. C…
... to crash whenever I joined a European club though, doh. Football ... if a lil hard. 2PSL was also a classic, me and a friend ... it for about 10 hours at a time. In fact most of the ... -
Demo effectsRight, erm, first of all, since this post is about demos, it's possibly not right to post it in the Games forum, but it didn't seem right posting it …
... that will take less time than the time it takes to draw ... on the eight horizontal pixels at a time, in any given attribute square ... , would have been great, and a full colour, or limtited-but ... the Speccy 128 was rather a wasted opportunity.
Cheers ... -
Your SinclairHi! I see in the archive that, little by little, all the crash magazines are being scanned... Is there a similar project about Your Sinclair magazin…
... only putting them up a few issues at a time. If you want the ... 'll need to go looking at this topic:
[url ... -
Question on 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit...Hello, Sorry, this is probably a really dumb question(and something I should know by now :)). I tried doing some searches about this but came up only…
... it's a subjective issue. Some people say a processor's ... data on the bus at 8 bits at a time.
... op-codes. It had a larger memory address bus ... The 68000 series is also a weird bunch. The core ... .
Have a headache now? Frankly, I prefer ... -
Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…
... having recently read through a walkthrough I can see ... remember was something about a town that you had ... by aeroplane. There was a bit where you had ... inventory over a building site one bit at a time to stop ... . I think it was a Richard Shepard adventure, I ... -
Lunar Jetman = The Confusion 2k3I had a 128k Spectrum in my youth, now experimenting with a ZX emu on my Amiga I played some Jetpack and found out what an amazing game it was and th…
... somewhere in a game that was created at a time when they ... player to finish them, at least with the games ... created in a commercial field to meet a deadline corners ... are well designed have a gradual learning curve or ... out e.g. with time-limits on racing games.< ... -
no use uploadingA week ago I uploaded a game which wasn't on the archive. And what's the result? since then there's been no reply and nothing at all. I don't underst…
... if not thousends of files at a time. I went thro the tzx ... a problem with this because if I happen to have the time ... -
Making TZX files from tapesThought I should address this problem in a seperate thread. In a nutshell, I've been trying to convert my programs on tape to TZX files. So far no s…
... to sample the programs, one at a time, into WAVs. If the zipped ... 't irretrievably damaged, there's a reasonable chance I could make ... a reasonably authentic TZX out of ... />
Andy would probably be a better choice for this, but ... -
Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type
... Spirit by Activision, which was a just a crap version really.. in ... over the place 8 pixels at a time ;<
St. Dragon was ... -
Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…
... start when i snapped at Cyborg a while back when he ... , sorry this is the time i say it but it ... topic started by a newcomer SCREAMER who YELLS AT YOU for ... this isn't the first time)[/quote]
and ... note that I write this at a time when yours was the ... -
I compiled some ol' BASIC gamesI made them when I was 12-13. They are in Spanish, but most of them are self-explanatory. Please take your time and download'em from [url="http://us…
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Datel Snapshot II - Tape?Just noticed someone selling a Datel Snapshot II thingy, but there seems to be a tape with it, which the seller indicates must be loaded before using…
... the file with a hex editor and look at the addresses # ... XOR the byte at #21 with the bytes at #1d and ... #80, then poke the result at address #21. Finally, poke ... UltraEdit32, so I could have a go, but I suspect ... to implement two ROMS at a time on Spectaculator.
