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1986 Best Loading Screen: from # to C.I'm nullifying [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53546/best-1986-loading-screen-to-b#latest"]this previous thread[/url] about th…
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Who stronger, Thorin or Gandalf? Theres only one way to decide! FIGHT!Back when I first played The Hobbit, I tried all sorts of ways to kill Gandalf or Thorin. I tried pushing them off the Misty Mountains. I tried but n…
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On the first day of christmas my Speccy gave to me....1 - Manic Miner's Banyan Tree 10 - Ten Stormlords leaping Any more suggestions? This is how the song goes: [code] Twelve drummers drummin…
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Ruminations about Life, Middle Age and Human Nature in General.So being forty. I've grown to admit that I am now middle aged. With it comes a perspective on life that I'd not appreciated in my younger years. I ca…
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Starting new discussions or tagging on to existing ones?I do a search for my (hypothetical) question, and find vaguely-related old discussion, but no exact answers. Do I tag my question onto the end of …
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Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
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Testing your codeOk, guys, again I here with question. How do you test your works? I understand how to test functions and procedures mathematically (for example, g…
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Problem with SpinIt's been 14 years since my last question, so maybe it's time for another... I wanted to download Spin, but WoS seems to put a password on downloads.…
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Kempston option spazzing outHi again I have a speccy 48k issue 6a. With it I have a Datel Kepston interface and a konix speedking joystick, all of them in my posession since…
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Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
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Less MIA: EnigmaHere is Enigma. Why has it been missing all these years? That's another enigma! http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009708 "Can you b…
... "When you've solved all five enigmas, return the cassette with ... we'll send you another five by return."
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Spectrum-inspired tax discToday, I needed to hand over some cash to the DVLA to keep my car on the road (legally) for another year, and so I can tell them to fix some potholes…
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Best way to mod a Spectrum 48K for Composite VideoIt seems that their are generally two ways to mod a 48K for composite video - just wiring the composite into the RF modulator over to the RCA jack vs…
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"ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
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Web dev trainingright, i know a few of you are into this sort of thing so i thought id ask here. just been on job sites looking at job vacancies and one came up for …
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Retro Gamer Forum Help NeededHi, I need a small favour from a fellow member of the Retro Gamer forums. I logged in yesterday to change my e-mail address. After saving th…
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XeldaI've decided to take on the Zelda tribute game and take over the Xelda title (because it's a great title name). Working with the MK2 Mojon twins gam…
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Need help from people with CRT TVs (50 Hz)I’m wrapping up the development of my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54152/new-game-a-yankee-in-iraq-2017-a-shoot-em-up"]gam…
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Are there any unreleased Spectrum games or prototypes in the hands of collectors?You know how some games for various machines were written but never released, and then a collector buys the developers' discs or whatever hardware, a…
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The Ultimate Guide to Games for the ZX Spectrum (2017 edition)Volume one of my new book, The Ultimate Guide to Games for the ZX Spectrum (2017 edition) is now available from Amazon. Volume two will be on there w…
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8bit ASCII for Slavic languagesWhat is the 8bit standard for Cyrillic characters? And what did people tend to do on the Speccy? The Russian games I've looked at are storing thi…
What is the 8bit standard for Cyrillic characters? And what did people tend to do on the Speccy?
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The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
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Import new WoS data from ZXDB?This thread is intended to discuss [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/883669/#Comment_883669"]my[/url] [url="https://www…
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He's back! Not sure why, or even if anyone will remember him, but he's back anyway.Yes, *he* is back. Unless you're British, over forty, and haven't gone senile, then you probably won't remember him, but he's back, nonetheless. T…
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I done an Arts!My new holiday picture-postcards at ZX Art. http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/j/joefish/ [img]http://zxart.ee/zxscreen/size:2/border:0/palette:pulsar…
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I live and learnThanks to Einar's ZXDB link I found under the Books folder and English sub directory a PDF file named 'The Century Computer Programming Course for Z…
... the Sum and Average of five numbers"
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It's the big seven oh for me today!Fortunately I never did agree with that famous line of The Who's 'My Generation'! Nevertheless after spending fifty plus years tearing up the tarmac …
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Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... the local flying field was five miles distant. It was unlikely ...