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InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
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TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
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XK SystemIn Your Spectrum issue 8 it mentions a hardware paging system called the XK system, this paged the top 32KB of memory. It allowed 4MB to be used and…
... extension that sat in the first 16KB of RAM. This let ... -
Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
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Retro Gamer issue two found in a charity shop!Just bought, for ?1 the cover disc to Retro Gamer Issue 2 - in a charity shop in Bedford. Did not even realise that it was THE retro gamer at first,…
... was THE retro gamer at first, until I saw the (c ... .
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Graphic Adventure CreatorHello all. I am wondering if using GAC is possible using an emulator. I have downloaded the file and can load it ok, but the first problem I have fou…
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Graphic Adventure CreatorHello all. I posted this on the emulation area but maybe this would be a better place to post. I am wondering if using GAC is possible using an emula…
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Help with Cascade 50Hi everyone, the thread relating to the "wonderful" Cascade 50 tape made me curious to revisit the old games. I've got both TAP and TZX files, (one f…
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Another dang 'Name That Game'! Ok, memory failing me, so... Bouncing ball game, but *overhead* view. A tennis ball I think, that you had to move left/right whilst the floor scrol…
... as I remember.
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BLINK can now be downloaded for freeIt's now been a year since my adventure game, BLINK, was released as the first ZXIF adventure game. To coincide with the release of ZXF magazine iss…
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Roms to TapeHi all. I can't find any info anywhere, does anyone know of a tool to convert roms to audio output for recording to tape so that I can test the games…
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Old Posts, Double Dragon remake, Lost picturesI assume we all here read old posts, I`ve been making my way through the devoplment ones last week, with the Misc ones also.. and now, finally I get…
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Tons of games for sale....I'm trying to get shot of my duplicate tapes, this is the first batch that I'm selling... Typically 10-12 items per lot, loads of classic Spectrum ga…
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What game would you like to play again for the first time?* JSW to find all of the rooms again * Knightlore to be astounded by the graphics
* JSW to find all of the rooms again
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Dave Perry InterviewI conducted this interview with Dave Perry, famous for games like Turtles, Trantor, Extreme and Dan Dare 3 to name but a few... Enjoy! Dave Perry wa…
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3) What was the first game you wrote and had ... published?
> First games published were actually in ... Probe and what was your first job for them?
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Czech/Slovakian games updateI would like to know when (if ever) games, which I sent via upload form in June and July, will be added into the WoS database and who is responsible …
... wouldn't be for the first time :(.
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Loading tape files in to a real spectrumHi I have just bought a real (rubber key) spectrum on Ebay. I would like if possible to load some of the games that I have downloaded to use on emu…
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need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
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LD A,(DE) ;taking first byte of sprite (mask)
LD (HL),A ;putting first byte in row to the ... row (all, that aren't first in a row
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Calculate screenaddressWho knows where the topic about the fastest screenaddressroutine is? I can't find it in a search.. The fastest routine was to load a large table of …
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The Pawn and Spin 5.04 - weird behaviourTwo TZX files from the TZX vault: The Pawn.tzx The Pawn v2.3.tzx (both are v 2.3 from the start text, but the first shows the title screen when lo…
... the start text, but the first shows the title screen when ... second jumps straight into the first text description)
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Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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Plea for help ! - Sopranos on E4Hi all Set my video for the first few episodes of the latest Sopranos series on E4 as i was away on my honeymoon. Came back and i just get a still …
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GSO Issue 8: Free PDF magGamestyle's Offline Magazine Tipped For Success August 29, 2004 Gamestyle Offline 8: The Retro Issue, the latest installment of Gamestyles highly r…
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RETRO GAMER ISSUE 7 now available to pre-order!Retro Gamer issue 7 will be available to buy from August 31st, and copies can now be pre-ordered from [url="http://www.retrogamer.net"]http://www.ret…
... -25th witnessed the UK's first multi-format retro event. In ... -
Great escape...Hi my friends, I download Spectaculator ver 6.25 and then grab the Great escape, but I had problems in playing the game... I just use the keyboard …
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Latinamerican Speccy Games?Hello all speccy fans! First of all, excuse my english. I'am a spanish native speaker, so I can write (speak) only a little bit of the language. But…
... all speccy fans!
First of all, excuse my english ...
