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Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…
... to rely on one of these instead of his rather more ... Is that "modern replacement" one of those Tynemouth Software boards that ... turned the Z80 file of The Adventures Of Sid Spider (which ... tried to load it from +3 BASIC.
Both Ninjajar! ... -
Clever, yes. Useful? Not so sure. Re: LOAD ""CODE gamesI was always curious about how the (few) games that require that you type LOAD ""CODE, rather than the usual LOAD "" worked, but only just now decide…
... was an early day version of software protection, it also ... into one package without multiple bits of loading' simpleness.[/quote]
of a BASIC loader (obfuscated in the ... [/i], for example, consists of three segments: the loader, ... -
Detecting +3 / +2AWhat's a simple but reliable way to detect if code is running on a +2A/+3? My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking for the …
... think I did fall foul of it once though trying ... , then found the +2A/+3 performance dropped off a cliff ... T-states (plus any multiple of 8 you need to make ... , first guess, a repetition of a pattern like this might ... do the trick of tripping up a +2A..?< ... -
Nintendo SwitchSo, £280 with no game. Ouch! That might have just killed any chance it had to succeed. Still the new Zelda game looks good and the new Mario ga…
... any other game on any of my consoles, so even though ... as it adds a heck of a lot to the game ... shrines you have to find when those 3 pointy things appear and ... " trial back at the shrine of ressurection and its another damn ... -
Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... I could have two loads of Basic with the first loading the ... these in the second load of Basic by using the LOAD command ... multiple loads
I forgot how limited the memory of Spectrum Basic ... -
My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
... The Country Dark - Death Of Kay Kent (4:20)
Of Stone (3:40)
42. Henry ... 48. The Kings Of Outer Space - monkey arm (3:08)
... show - I cant find my mind (3:16)
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79. Sultans Of Jungle - Stampede (2:00)< ... -
Afghan Attack (TXT adventure) - clues/vocabulary/solution?Try to play it last night, amazed how unfriendly it is! Just found in Crash-Archive (Review) that you need to type "JUMP OUT" to leave heli... it s…
... some info and fire power, of course TAKE BOXES (as "boxes ... some hope... when I find more then 3 minutes for Speccy nostalgia ... -
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…
... ://www.dropbox.com/s/ha7jq4m7skgvoym/Find%20the%20Link%20-%20Call%20the ... />
[b]Full Title:[/b] Find the Link - Call the Misfit ... then on a tape collection of 3-4 90 minutes Maxwell tapes ... -
printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
... is a part of (wonderful) Z88DK which you can find here - https ... bit different language (C instead of BASIC) - it is a great oportunity ... probably write a routine in BASIC that would do it, but ... not exactly a strong point of Sinclair Basic, it would be painfully ... -
PGD Based GamesAs I've had this a couple of months now (I do have SEUD too but could not really do what I wanted with it, but that's likely my fault) , I was wonder…
... similar to along the lines of there's JSWED, so easy ... that just slightly easier I find...[/quote]
There is ... uses a more advanced version of the BASIC-inspired scripting language used ... bars and moving platforms. Best of all, once you've created ... -
Text file to BASICHi, Is there anything available for Windows or Linux which lets me enter BASIC in a text file and convert to a .TAP file. I seem to recall somethi…
I think he means for BASIC.
In ... the emulation but with Sinclair BASIC syntax checking.
find it can't always ... call it from the BASIC program you're editing. ... memory from one RUN of the BASIC program to the next ... -
Text file to BASICHi, Is there anything available for Windows or Linux which lets me enter BASIC in a text file and convert to a .TAP file. I seem to recall somethi…
... "]I think he means for BASIC.
In ... the emulation but with Sinclair BASIC syntax checking.
find it can't always ... then call it from the BASIC program you're editing. ... memory from one RUN of the BASIC program to the ... -
Bit of fun - one change onlyI also posted this on another marque's forum (for their products) to see. Its just a bit of fun really. OK, if you could of made one change to a S…
... its appeal may of been limited. It may of been something dare ... suggests to me it would of been a 5.25" ... Acorn years etc) it would of been SASA (pre-SCSI thing ... going to say get rid of the BASIC, but that would have ... 1/4 or a 3.5 drives. Of course that would have ... -
ZXBaremulator v3.1 releasedHi, A new version of my ZX Spectrum bare-metal emulator has been released with new features. You can download from [url=http://zxmini.speccy.or…
... sure . I need to find a decent 3 amp power supply with ... the plug) . My first one of these Pis had to be ... people say that a lot of extra power is needed (ie ... 3amp) to support some of this new Pi's capabilities ... am not sure why some of my SD cards are also ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
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3) line 10 of your BASIC program has an error ... .
if you fix these 3 ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
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Typing USR0 in +3 BASIC will restart the machine from ... ROM 3, but will retain the ability ... , too. You’ll need to find out the version you have ... a PRINT PEEK 19 in +3 BASIC. Version 4.0 returns 167 ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... , too. You’ll need to find out the version you have ... a PRINT PEEK 19 in +3 BASIC. Version 4.0 returns 167 ... got as a way to find any unknown ROM versions, but ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... lovely looking waveform from the 3 AY pins :)
In ... by PLAYing a note from +3 basic.. nothing.
I didn ... could it be possible one of the ceramic caps is b0rked ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... and calculate their checksums from +3 BASIC, as well.
It ... . Here’s a good source of their binary images: http://www ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... The plus 3 is the only one of mine that doesn ... we start eliminating parts of the circuit. At this ... ” command from +3 BASIC or the piece of code I posted ... earlier from 48K BASIC.
BASIC code onto “tape” and ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... ” command from +3 BASIC or the piece of code I posted ... earlier from 48K BASIC.
of TR5.
... you could save the 48K BASIC code onto “tape” and ... />
The base of TR5 was high after removing ... -
Dun Darach : A beautiful way to waste the cold dark evenings.Well, I've 'Dun' it again. I've spent loads of my time pulling apart another game ready for remaking / modding etc. [url="http://www.luny.co.uk/inde…
... ..I know the stunted sensibility of my alien upbringing often only ... feminazis myself. Defending a minority of...3.5 billion. Oh the patriarchy ... Ladyos. Down with that sort of thing. Put on the red ... messy and my wife would find out and.. ;)
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Has anyone checked out AMOS2I just watched this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-QOu8EAWY It looks promising but when I went to the guys site http://amos2.net …
... /> I'm sure you can find one out there if you ... used to emulation and some of the difficulties which can arise ... , there again is another level of learning.
The problem ... I have found with many of the BASIC dialects (especially on the ... -
Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…
... get the right version of FUZE basic : they sell different ... the PC version of this "FUZE" basic it only worked ... a Pi ONE ). And of course there are the ... + models as well (well , of course there are!)
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Ad LunamHi folks, here is my latest effort: [b]Ad Lunam,[/b] a simulation/management game created with [url="http://zxbasic.net"]ZX-Basic[/url] inspired t…
... versus a payload of the latter of 5. The boosters ... respectively. In later revisions of the manual I should ... rather used [i]HiSoft BASIC[/i], for things like ... i] can take advantage of ZX-Basic, which has its ... Incidentally, you made me find another bug in the ... -
Special mono tape recorders for Micro owners of the early 1980s So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them out from the normal mono tape recorders ? I cannot really remember- but I have …
... then.
3. Only really the special 'data ... a great deal of notice of the counter to ... a compilation tape to find out where you were, ... bits. Switch cleaner would of probably helped I guess. ... , assuming you can find one of the appropriate or nearest ... -
Usage of HDF Manager in ZX Spin - And: Creation of small +3 HDF-imagesHi, can someone explain me the usage of "HDF Manager" in ZX Spin (available under Tools / Options / Files / Hard Disks - it´s greyed out here by m…
... properly when the number of cylinders is a multiple of 256. Also Spin ... -utils/1.4.3/fuse-utils-1.4.3-win32.zip/download ... smaller version (128 MB size) of the Workbench 2.1 HDF ... -
Special mono tape recorders for Micro owners of the early 1980s So what were the KEY FEATURES of these machines that separated them out from the normal mono tape recorders ? I cannot really remember- but I have …
... digging, well kind of. Slightly boring bit of a post here now ... [b]***[/b] I think some of the tape circuitry in particular ... actually not that easy to find a service (service not "owner ... DIN along with a pair of 3.5mm sockets for ear/mic ... -
Disks (3 and 3.5 inch)Does anyone have boxes of new (old) stock 3inch and 3.5inch diskettes that they are willing to part with? Or a place I can buy them at non-crazy pri…
... than DSHD (PC type) of 3.5 , 3"'s have always been a ... I've noted unless you find a dreadful cheaply made one ... not longer, not the majority of them at least. -
Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... has a great picture of the best type of adapter plug . Now ... find one of those?
This gives a good overview of the basic ...
