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ZX Spectrum ULA core available at OpenCoresHi! On April, 23th, I opened a new project at the OpenCores website: [url]http://opencores.org/project,zx_ula,Overview[/url] Right now, it has a, h…
... , I opened a new project at the OpenCores website:
One of the input pins at the MAX3232 level shifter, connected ... to the RS232 pins, ... />
Besides the contents of the SVN repository, that can ... -
More troubles: The microdriveRecently bought a used Spectrum Expansion System incl IF1 and microdrive - in a really nice looking condition, along with the accompaniing software o…
... condition, the microdrive is giving me the headache. From the first moment ... a program from the fourth cartridge (the spare one) but ... />
Had a look at the Dataserve Retro's explanation of ... really carefully followed the procedure - cleaned the R/W head ... -
Imperica Horizons - The whole weekend :-)So now it's all over, I'll do a quick writeup... It all started for me at 5.20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't so easy now that Aer …
... hard to find, the British Film Institute at South Bank is quite ... for a few beers in the bar at the BFI. (They even had ... finally I got to look at the very first Your Sinclair - I ... escape me) - well worth the getting up at 5.20am on Saturday ... -
RCA distributor of the Activision games in France?As you can read in the right page, at the bottom left corner: [url]http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Tilt/tilt_numero017/TILT%20-%20n%B017%2…
As you can read in the right page, at the bottom left corner:
the magazine to flagged them as ... -
New Game! Phantomas in the museumToday May 18th, 2012 we celebrate the [b]International Museum Day 2012[/b] ([url=http://icom.museum/press-releases/press-release/article/launch-of-in…
... 18th, 2012 we celebrate the [b]International Museum Day 2012 ... Phantomas en el Museo" ("Phantomas at the museum")[/b] is our small ... works of art made by the Spanish contemporary artist Pablo Serrano ... been scatered all around the museum by the bad guys.
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Who's the Daddy?The following are all replies that Manchester women have written on Child Support Agency forms in the section for listing "father's details" or putti…
... men that I think were at the party if this helps.
at the same time.... well, I don ... was conceived at Euro-Disney; maybe it really is the Magic Kingdom ... TV rather than going to the party at 56 Miller St , mine ... -
New game: THE LOST TAPES OF SAMNew game: THE LOST [B]DISKS[/B] OF SAM Hi all With the blessing of Mr Dave "Moebius" Hughes I'm pleased as punch to present to you a new release fo…
... Hi all
With the blessing of Mr Dave "Moebius ... Guide Moby around the screen collecting the disks and avoiding the enemies. There ... quit back to the title screen during the game by ... then unpausing and pressing escape at the same time (hold escape ... -
Bringing light to the City Connection conversion...Reading the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39015"]Freddie Laker's Airline Capers[/URL]", it called my attention the co…
... ]Alessandro Grussu[/B] about the mysterious [URL="http://www. ...
At the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, during the first days ... snapshot one with the game and the other with the loading screen, ... , or else the game won't be playable at all.
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Bumpy and other french games released in the late 80sTaking a look at the entry for Bumpy, it says there that the game was released in France by Loriciels...Are there any evidences of that? The fact the…
... look at the entry for Bumpy, it says there that the game was ... of that? The fact the the game was converted for the Spectrum in Spain ... makes me think that the Spectrum version was never released ... br />
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The Zombie apocalypse begins..I'm sure you saw this story that happened last week but if you didn't. Naked guy on new LSD variant attacked and started eating a mans face off in d…
... daytime Miami ...while naked, growled at the cops and pulled strips of ... flesh off the guys face with his teeth ... -
Classic Arcadia 3 inlay missing but the game is available at the WoS shopUnfortunately, the shop is closed due to maintenance, so I cant check it further, but in that case we could get the inlay preserved :) Anybody has ac…
Unfortunately, the shop is closed due to ... that case we could get the inlay preserved :)
Anybody has ... acces to the shop?
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If The Spectrum Never Existed...Out of curiosity... Just say the Spectrum was never made, what computer would you have opted for as an alternative back in the early-mid 80s? BBC M…
... curiosity...
Just say the Spectrum was never made, what ... as an alternative back in the early-mid 80s?
I have fond memories of the BBC Micro from school, so ... -wise, I 've been looking at the '8-bit wars' on Youtube ... -
Batty - The Ultimate linkLatest Retro Gamer magazine. Mark Crane was a pseudonym for Mark Betteridge who worked at Ultimate. He wrote the scrolling Filmation II engine used …
... Mark Betteridge who worked at Ultimate. He wrote the scrolling Filmation II ... 'Batty'. Ocean were converting 'Arkanoid' at the time (!!) and we didn't ... few times over the years and everyone looks at me like I ... -
Car doors, Windows (Microsoft) incompatibilities, and other ponderablesJust some things I've been wondering about recently.. 1) Following the death of Eric Sykes (RIP), I downloaded and re-watched (the very funny) The P…
... had the old fashioned doors, the ones that hinged at the back of the car ... 's doorway, not the front as ... , one of the characters refers to her car's sun-roof as ... lonely he is, how he at the same time detests contact with ... -
I've been to the olympics todayBeen to the [strike]Ricoh[/strike] City of Coventry stadium today to watch a couple of games of ladies footie. The organisation from arriving at the…
... br />
The organisation from arriving at the train station was superb ... waiting for arriving trains. At the stadium the security wasn't too ... of buses waiting at the end of the session to get everybody ... again plenty of people at the station to sort out ... -
+3e without the romsHi there, I recently purchased a Divide 57c and its awesome with my spectrum+ however I have recently purchased a +2A and would like to use the +3e r…
... like to use the +3e roms along with the Divide, the only problem ... to burn the eproms... I have emailied garry lancaster at the email address ... on the +3e website to ... it can be used on the divide - mapped to ram ... -
The Planets, anyone successfully completed it?Been playing this for some time, got quite far too only to fail, time and time again so I decided to have a gander at the rzx, see if I can pick up s…
... decided to have a gander at the rzx, see if I can ... tips, trouble was after reading the txt file that came with ... -
The Spectrum bursts onto the E-Sports scene...The First European Tournament of Spectank was held at RetroEuskal in Bilbao just a few days ago :-) This is a game for the Speccy + Spectranet - I ac…
The First European Tournament of Spectank was held at RetroEuskal in ... This is a game for the Speccy + Spectranet - I actually ... camera for a couple of the games...
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The Second European Tournament of Spectank should be at the Spectrum 30 ... -
The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…
This came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum.
the reason behind the 257-table for IM ... (compared to the former). From the people that use the a real ... options).
Based upon the interest for new joystick interfaces ... -
Escape from City 17 (the film, and the game Half-Life 3)Talking about Valve in another thread brought to mind the brilliant Escape from City 17 fan made films, at: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ixF…
... been various rumours over the years, but the generally accepted view ... about the game. Most fans expect the game to take place at ... on and around the Borealis (the ship mentioned at the end of Half- ... (as rumoured) have abandoned the episode idea, and be instead ... -
Your favourite Spectrum [whatever] beginning with the letter 'A'[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/games/a.html[/url] [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/textadv/a.html[/url] Personally, I'm going to say: B…
... Weidersehen Monty or Amaurote, probably the latter.
... (looks dodgy now, but at the time it was staggering), Academy ...
Best thing about the modern gaming scene/industry, but ... />
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Plasma Ball inlay missing in the archive but...The game is available at the Preservation Team Shop, so maybe someone can buy it and scan it :D or maybe the own Tony could do it :) [url]http://www…
The game is available at the Preservation Team Shop, so maybe ... scan it :D or maybe the own Tony could do it ... -
in bed with the wifeRob kissed his wife, crawled into bed and fell asleep. All of a sudden, he woke up to find an elderly man dressed in a white robe standing at the foo…
... a white robe standing at the foot of his bed.< ... This is not your bedroom," the man replied, "I am St ... />
And in the next second, he found himself ...
"Oh that!" said the other hen. "That's only ... another egg on the ground.
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Splitting & Joining Files on the SpectrumHello there my fellow WoSers oh its a late question tonight since I am touched by the insomnia fairy - are there any programs / methods for splitti…
... since I am touched by the insomnia fairy -
are ... IDE HDD and at the moment I am using the FDD (708K) virtual ... disk.... I dont mind plugging at it as the ... end justifies the means.
Game character on the WoS homepageHi, I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-l…
Hi,
I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-left corner of the Spectrum.
Thanks in advance.The Doctor Who thread (2012 edition)Either I've missed the traditional Doctor Who thread this year, or no one's bothered to make any (and if not, why not?). Anyway, we're currently on s…
... 't feature aliens at all, as I think the last episode to ... didn't look at the Statue of Liberty angel at all, for a ... else in New York at all notice that the Statue of Liberty ... failed to capture anything at all of the 'real' Holmes or Watson ...Scrotty furtlers of the world unite!Hi all. As a child of the 80's myself (if you're one too and you don't recognise the username, shame on you!) I found my way here yesterday. Haven'…
... work yet, but am salivating at the thought of getting my hands ... ; Treasure Island (the one with the ship and all the islands to visit ... dodger in 3D) and all the rest.
First had ... time as also only discovered the existence of Retro Gamer magazine ...The great 128k ConversionWell, I am not sure if it is going to be great. Hopefully it will! This evening, I set about getting my Issue 6A Spectrum Plus working. I suspecte…
... up with the wrong polarity, back at some time in the 80s.
The eventual idea ... /> I don't have the correct heatsink at the moment, so a new ...The Hobbit, Empire, and an interviewHi all, I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine (we've run a huge feature on the film). I inte…
... in our university classes. The norm at the time was for games ... were also playing the game at the same time as the player was. So ... capabilities were very limited at the time, and the game would crash ... I've been amazed at the way the 80's scene has continued ...Does anyone have the Beta 128 schematics?Hi. I was just wondering if any of you had schematics for a standalone version of the Beta 128 interface? I've looked at the schematics of the Pent…
... the Beta 128 interface?
I've looked at the schematics of the ... Pentagon and the Scorpion, but ... not easy to isolate the Beta 128 part.
the Rom and the addressdecoding. If anyone has a table over the ports the ...
