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SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... (mid to late '90's I think) I read that ... QUOTE]
That's very close, yes, but I ... m not emulating at all. This is, at it's most simple ... In actual fact, it's a re-implementation of the ... language, and totally incompatible at the machine code level. ... -
SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... ]That's very close, yes, but I'm not emulating at all ... . This is, at it's most simple spec ... x86. In actual fact, it's a re-implementation of the ... BASIC language, and totally incompatible at the machine code level. If ... -
Average PC Memory size increasing by 48K every half hourAs I'm absolutely sure everybody here is aware, Moore's law states that the number of transisters in a device will double on average every 2 years. …
... and assuming checkpoint based growth at one year intervals (42 ... then you are probably at a Speccy every 10 ... for your next purchase at a similar pricepoint. Good ... Perhaps I am really bad at Math(s) but I find [ ... growth at roughly the same timescales so Moore's law ... -
Back to the Future - You lucky devilsDon't know if you know this but the Back to the Future trilogy will be re-released in UK cinemas in October. Link [URL="http://www.back-to-the-futur…
Every now and then they have [I]Back To The Future[/I] nights at the Imax in London. I hope they do the same with these new remastered versions. :smile: -
Games that stood out because of playabilityThey might have had horrendous blinking graphics and non existent sound but some games just [B]oozed [/B]gameplay. I would like to nominate a few ga…
... (Skooldaze). If you look at Skooldaze's graphics then you see that ... can tell just by looking at it), is a very playable ... . Sort of like the PC's Mine Sweeper, but much better ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... computer, it looks like it's designed for a home. It ... 's small, and the box is also very stylish, look at commodore's ... or amstrad's boxes, they are ... , and check out rubber key's packaging, incredibly small, black. Maybe ... -
Crappy illnesses, aches and pains! A rant thread....Right, so...a couple of weeks ago I got this pain below my rib cage that was sore when pressure was applied to it, or sometimes just when I stood up.…
... why they think it's irrelevant. At least they could explain ... why they think it's not ... treatment to that consultant's own clinic at York's NHS hospital (can ... but the hospital outpatient care at many departments here seems really ... -
Couriers have stopped shipping to RussiaI've just been trying to get a quote for sending a +3 to Russian Federation. All the parcel sites I have tried have either removed Russia from the l…
... /> I just had a look at interlink's site
Russia is ... -
Horizon paint game ?Hi I cant seem to find it here... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009230[/url] Its that classic old game where you run abou…
... 10 of them tapes here :s)
Thro' the Wall ... />
hahahaha at psj's old mind playing tricks on ... -
Fairly recent Oli Frey article/interviewI was googling something related to Dan Dare which Oli is known to have drawn a few strips of, when I happened upon this article from August 2010. […
... of you may browse this at work - it shows ... so click on the link at your own discretion.
... can find more of those at Oli's official site.
... some Rockstar programmers read Oli's strip? Blimey![/QUOTE]
That's a bit too much gay ... -
Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... Joffrey, he was living at Tony's house for a while, and ... -
Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... Joffrey, he was living at Tony's house for a while, and ... -
Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
... want to look at. It's a sub for boriel's zx basic ... ; but it's basically assembly wrapped ... -
designing a computerHi everyone! I am designing a 4 bit computer and i need some advice, is this a good instruction set? [CODE] BINARY OPCODE DESCRIPTION 00000 nop…
... "bytes" (e.g. 8-bits) at a time
2) Your ... (0-F) - if you look at the Z80 instruction set you ... processor to accept a byte at a time (which it already ... was a pretty good at assembly code at Robin's age but by ... are all facinated by Robin's work here and want to ... -
Is this a ****ing windup or what???Seriously WTF is happening to my country??? [URL="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39265847/UK_Proposes_All_Paychecks_Go_to_the_State_First"]Is this serious??…
... got a lot of laughs at Addenbrooke's Hospital :) -
Is this a ****ing windup or what???Seriously WTF is happening to my country??? [URL="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39265847/UK_Proposes_All_Paychecks_Go_to_the_State_First"]Is this serious??…
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
Watched [b]Weekend At Bernie's[/b] for the first time ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... use INT anywhere because it's slow.
s still faster at it's slow MHz.< ... br /> The VZ also has a Z80 running at ... a similar speed to the Speccy. It's ... define variables as integers... at least the patched version ...what other hobbies do you have?I mean we are all here, because of retro gaming / spectrum etc.. but what other hobbies do you have? (inspired by another thread that mr cpczone wa…
... it alive, true showmanship at it's best. I was a semi ...SAM programmingHi Can anyone provide any example hello world or graphics/sprite printing style machine code routines for the SAM? I can't seem to find anything rem…
... I copied some of Obo's code, If I do the ... get my screen address starting at 0, and in mode 4 ... . (I want the screen at 0, a buffer at &6000 and ... , so is this staying at it's default which I assume is ...SAM programmingHi Can anyone provide any example hello world or graphics/sprite printing style machine code routines for the SAM? I can't seem to find anything rem…
... , so is this staying at it's default which I assume is ... to put whichever page(s) you want at addresses 0 or 32768 ...ZX Microdrive endlessly spinningHi, I've got 2 ZX Microdrives that behave very similarly, basically they seem to be receiving commands nicely, but no matter whether i LOAD SAVE or …
... tried to remove the five screws at the bottom but a ribbon ...Games you never knew how to playBack in my Speccy haydays as a spotty teenager, I had a few Spectrum titles in game collection I never knew to play, and still don't know to this day…
... one from a bargain bin at Lasky's (remember them?) for about ... it got a 'Crash Smash'. At first I was wowed by ...Sir Clive Sinclair did it again! (X-1)Surprise, surprise! Check this out! [url]http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk[/url] Cheers, Urs ------------------------------------------------------…
ccowley but the hovis ad is yorkshire ? someone here prolly knows better
don't mix the counties .. didn't ya see when that happened in phoenix nights? :lol:
it's a bit like ghostbusters.. and crossing the streams ..Mystery Missile Seen of California Cost[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11723438[/url] It weird that the official line in America is, we don't know what it is. What secret …
... up.
Shooting at ufo's maybe :S[/QUOTE]
They ...R3PLAY 'The Arcade, Retro & Video Gaming Expo' - Blackpool[url]http://www.r3play.info/[/url] The big one ! Big retro show in Blackpool on 6th/7th November, both Games TM/Retro Gamer are putting their names…
... 've been looking at the photo's over at RetroKingSimon's blog and imagining ...The Mire Mare intelligence testum... [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300495264543#ht_500wt_949[/url] let's see how many ebayers fall for this one.
... . I was expecting a reply at some point along the lines ... have to have a look at ebay's terms and conditions to ... looks like its been printed at home for a start and ...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…
... Compress Now" and wait.. It's sloowww..
3. After compression ... with it. Unmodified packer available at gasman's BitBuster page.
s original place.
... crash or may not work at all. Bug reports are ...Ewgf banned - how did I miss thatjust curious...
well looking at ewgf's last post its not hard to see who has been getting annoyed at him.
of course it might be a self ban.
yeah shame to see him go for whatever reason.
