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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... replied to with these type of insults, along with 'blocky ... a superior machine! Hardware scrolling, multiple colours, better keyboard, blah blah ... is superior on the basis of better BASIC (and I can't ... stress this point enough - many of us ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... a look and two of my personal top three ... 10 IMO! 1 out of 3 ain't bad for a ... C64 and obsessing about blockiness of multicolour mode (despite it ... , I think you'll find that nearly everyone (and ... as well (at the risk of sounding presumptious).
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... 10 IMO! 1 out of 3 ain't bad for a ... seriously, I think you'll find that nearly everyone (and ... a Rottweiller to let go of your leg would it? ... as well (at the risk of sounding presumptious).[/quote]
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Cloning Microdrive Sectors?Hi everybody, I made a posting in the MIA/STP/SDP forum a while back about attempting to preserve the very well protected Microdrive cartridge "LERM…
... have spent quite a bit of time examining the MicroMate cartridge ... 60200,3550
A BASIC menu file "r" is also ... /> There are also 2 copies of 3 hidden files ? these files are ... the .MDR format support any of the sectors 1-254 as ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
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and another one:
[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=4348&forum=2"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=4348&forum=2[/url]
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Which assembler to useHello again, another question. As I just started fiddling with assembler I used whatever tools were in front of me. In this case, the built-in assem…
... good but I can't find any instructions on how to ... )
Shift 1 : Find error
Shift 3 : Page down
Shift ... A
ret ; back to basic
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Best 80's Horror FilmOkay - idea totally inspired from another thread that got me thinking - What were the BEST 80's horror films? the ones that are forgotten today but w…
... halloween 3 too :)
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z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... "y" coordinate which is a multiple of eight, but the coloured tiles ... clipping rectangle for each one of them. Would this speed up ... much memory? (I'm using 3 enemies per screen).
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... "y" coordinate which is a multiple of eight, but the coloured tiles ... much memory? (I'm using 3 enemies per screen).
[/ ... requires a deeper understanding of the mechanics of splib:
... ll notice that one of the characteristics of a sprite char ...Lerm MicroMate - SDPHi All, I'm having a go at preserving a microdrive version of Lerm MicroMate. I?ve got a few problems, though, as the software has been unbelievably…
... to dump an Kobrahsoft +3 disk using a 3" drive hooked up ... something else with the help of Simon Own but that gives ... />
So off to find the said +3 utility in order to ...PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
... version and the least amount of ammo I've had is ... 3 bullets for the Punisher. Once ... to disc 2 you will find plenty of it,I finished the ... game with a huge amount of spare ammo and extra cash ... gun would do in House of the Dead game !!!JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... then 150 levels (to score of 3.400.000 pts). Playing under ... ' which is most restrictive mode of playing (no slowdowns, no pauses ... pages, you'll find FANTASTIC recordings for many of your fav games ...Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
... ? The game has a lot of variables that need to be ... , like money, tools, etc.
(+3 BASIC)JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... then 150 levels (to score of 3.400.000 pts). Playing under ... which is most restrictive mode of playing (no slowdowns, no ... pages, you'll find FANTASTIC recordings for many of your fav games ... a place to download recordings of speccy games being completed. Period ...JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... then 150 levels (to score of 3.400.000 pts). Playing under ... which is most restrictive mode of playing (no slowdowns, no ... pages, you'll find FANTASTIC recordings for many of your fav games ... a place to download recordings of speccy games being completed. Period ...SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…
... I wouldnt put your +3 out of the game quite yet. ... />
Then try a 3.5" floppy drive on the ... floppy cable. If you find one of the old cables that accomodate ... cable needed for the +3 external drive. Keep in ... flow chart in the +3 service manual. Give the ...SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…
... work, how about going into +3 BASIC and trying CAT "A:" (I ... think, I don't use +3 stuff much) instead?
of what's on the disc ... loader, and do the instructions of these discs say that you ...Slightly OT, but gotta ask: Which 128 would you buy?Guys, I'm interested in getting a 128 Speccy. Problem is, I never had one close to try, and I ignore which advantages has one model compared with the…
I am the proud owner of a +3 Speccy.
Pros:
find
- Only takes 3" disks
of a disk drive, and you ...Slightly OT, but gotta ask: Which 128 would you buy?Guys, I'm interested in getting a 128 Speccy. Problem is, I never had one close to try, and I ignore which advantages has one model compared with the…
... /> I am the proud owner of a +3 Speccy.
Pros ... are not easy to find
- Only takes 3" disks
of a disk drive, and you ... boards - all my issue 2 +3 boards do not have the ... d go for a +3 with a 3.5" floppy drive on ...(Somewhat OT) Circular regression analysisI'd like to be able to regenerate the "Tunnel" image from [I]Jumbly[/I] (that's why this post is only "somewhat" off-topic), but to do so I need to b…
... time. After a bit of head scratching, here's ...
Given a whole bunch of points (x1,y1) , (x2, ... c.
To find the best fit in least ... implement) is a solution of 3 simultaneous equations which shouldn't ... a,b) will the centre of the circle and r=sqrt ...total eclipse remake.myself and the ovine boyo's are currently doing a remake of total eclipse , the old freescape game. its early days yet but here's a few w.i.p shots …
... /> Looking forward to many hours of gameplay on this one.
of the mummys playing Pacman made ... have to try and find the first 3.
Once again ...total eclipse remake.myself and the ovine boyo's are currently doing a remake of total eclipse , the old freescape game. its early days yet but here's a few w.i.p shots …
... /> Looking forward to many hours of gameplay on this one.
of the mummys playing Pacman made ... have to try and find the first 3.
Once again ...PC advice reqd!I have a Asus K7 mobo, Athlon64 XP 2.8GHz, 128MB RAM, Samsung DVD/CD Writer combo, and a 250W SMPS. I'm thinking of buying a Nvidia 6600GT 128MB AGP…
... to pay a premium to find one of them. Looks like I ... since then. Far cry, doom 3, quake 4 and half life ...3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... never been able to find ROMs of them. I do/or ... have a NES rom of the Kunio that was ... called Double Dragon 4 (both of which are crap). There ... the people who made Renegade 3 should've used Kunio ... or River City Ransom instead of that time travelling unplayable ...Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …
... a very crude example of a basic homing missile (well.. ... drawbacks to such a basic approach. The most obvious ... used (it misses by 3 or 4 pixels at most ... concerned about the lack of accuracy you can always ... rate when going up, because of gravity)
...loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…
... *almost* complete version of the game to work ... luck with a couple of other basic games though... R ... run though some kind of error correction or cleanup ... Sold A Million" version of JSW too - since i ... +3 tape drive could restore even more of my basic programs ...Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
... when using SE Basic. There is quite a bit of software that ... approach to any future versions of SE Basic that I work on ... to say out of all the basic languages, the spectrum basic is the ... 10 lines later only to find out that he has made ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
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It can handle sprites of any width/height (assuming you ... properly). Rotation operations are of course restricted to square graphics ... will function exactly as for multiple UDGs - you can create ... bytes? ie, row of 3 sprite bytes, row of 3 mask bytes etc, ...
