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BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…
... used in the game to print the screens directly from the DATA statements ... At present OUT saves the screens as the encoded version with readable ... lines from BASIC programs; it can also save the variables ... well, which is the reason for the speckly line which ... -
yes it's guess the game again!Any thoughts peeps? "I'm looking for the name of a game that fits this description... Its a 3d-ish isometric speccy game, and the first stage usuall…
... isometric speccy game, and the first stage usually consisted ... of a piece from the game tetris. basically, the 2 platforms were ... flat, because everything (the platforms, the player rectangle..) was made ... from here to there...
any help locating the ... -
uMIA games from Your Sinclair Crap Games compoAs in the thread about Alexandru Simion, there are some other games from the Crap Games Compo (from the magazine Your Sinclair), which dont have entr…
... are some other games from the Crap Games Compo (from the magazine Your Sinclair ... Nick Coles
-The Garden Creator by P. Young ...
-The Castle of Quizzard Wizzard - No ... , but since some of the games appearing in this section ... -
What's the band/song?The video, from the late 70's/early 80's, featured a ginger lass singing, with 2 black male dancers, one on either side of her, and I think there's a…
The video, from the late 70's/early 80' ... filmed on HMS Belfast during the day; they're on a ... -
Cause of the financial breakdown?I've written down (dictated) from a video, what Lord James of Blackheath said on the 16th February 2012 in the House of Lords. Though you can probab…
... dollars. I have a letter from the Bank of Indonesia which says ... said to have come from the Riyadi account to the Federal Reserve Bank ... is from the general audit office of the Federal Reserve in Washington-the real ... -
Pip The Pipistrelle[color=red]*COMING SOON*[/color] Pip The Pipistrelle I am going to put all the game details,instructions and story here now and simply update this t…
... rises gently from the grass as it is warmed by the now rising ... /> Pip has fallen from the bat roost on the 60th floor,he is ... which may increase the width of the playing area. The tower has ... much chattering amongst the bats in the roost during the last week as ... -
Football Director - Staying on easy levelUsing Spin load the tzx file from the WOS archive. Wait for the game to load fully and the main menu appears. From the emulator's tools menu select p…
... load the tzx file from the WOS archive.
Wait for the game to ... load fully and the ... .
From the emulator's tools menu select poke memory.
Enter the address ... -
The smell of a brand new ZX SpectrumThis may be the weirdest question I've asked here... Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case to reveal your brand new…
... with particular smell emanating from the inside of the case.
They ... , I removed the rubber feet to remove the screws underneath. The moment I ... that this smell could come from the adhesive that Sinclair used to ... -
cat in the gardenno it's not a euphemism for something else.. I put the washing out early in the day only to find loads of feathers about, then went to where the s…
... br /> I put the washing out early in the day only to ... then went to where the sheds are and found ... cat that comes into the garden.. any idea's ... besides soaking the ***** how to get rid.. ... , get lion / tiger droppings from the zoo..
I ... -
uMIA games from Masters Games (Miguel Angel Montejo Raez)These games are MIA, according to his website: (there are even print outs from the Speccy printer that he still keeps, and that can be seen in the li…
... : (there are even print outs from the Speccy printer that he still ... can be seen in the link. Unfortunately the cassettes are lost!)
the author himself lost his copy ... -
Snapshots (SNA) -> Keeping the loading screen?I've seen quite a few Snapshots (SNA) that kind of hesitate on the loading screen prior to entering the game menu... I quite like this. Anyone know …
... kind of hesitate on the loading screen prior to ... entering the game menu... I quite ... ?
Clearly the tape needs to be all ... switching from the loading screen to the game menu and the SNA ... each game the BP must be in the ROM somewhere, ... -
Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …
... byte of RAM, I used POKE to set it to various ... subtracts one from it and writes the result back to the same location ... . We see the first read from the upper RAM location retrieved the decimal value ... t reveal the fault from BASIC. I can only assume the timing or ... -
Your 8-bit micro preferencesWell, I kinda love [U]all [/U]8-bit machines. Yup, I've not found one that I haven’t warmed to in one way of another, but obviously there are …
... graphics. Shame about the speed and the awkward monitor.
Flight Simulator, Virus
the same enjoyment can be achieved from the Acorn version... and that's the ... up from the very early 80s and the beast ... -
Things to ponderJust some questions that have tugged at my curiosity recently, and since I'm stuck here sorting out a laptop (gorgeous Saturday, tons of things I cou…
... the 3D is, the limitation of being inside the rectangle of the ... current exist for professional flight simulation trainers, but they ... br /> And what is the resolution of the (best quality, healthiest) human ... MAME) is very different from the PC and XBox 360 ... -
The Fury CreditsThe credits for The Fury by Martech, shown third screen from the title, reads the following currently not listed for whatever reason someone with enl…
... Martech, shown third screen from the title, reads the following currently not listed ... -
Help pleeease "Proving Emulator OpCode flags are correct"So I had a cunning plan... I wanted to write a test harness for Emulators that could "prove" that all opcode flags were correct. I wanted something m…
... PC program to accept the output from the RS232...
Wrote ... TO 255
190 POKE fAddr,F
200 ... br /> 210 POKE lAddr,F
220 POKE xAddr,F< ... 256 // 8000h
260 POKE aAddr,A
270 ... 280 POKE dAddr,D
290 NEXT D
The ... -
R.I.P. Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins)Don't know if many people will know who this guy is, but he's been around in my life since I was tiny.... He played the original [b]Barnabas Collins…
... [/b] in the American Horror Soap, [b]Dark Shadows[/b]....which ... had his last role in the film....
[url ... co.uk/ustv/news/a377320/dark-shadows-barnabas-collins-actor- ... first knew him from the covers of the novel adaptations of the series....
Any good Roguelikes on the Speccy?Apart from the obvious one. Is anyone considering making one...?
Apart from the obvious one.
Is anyone considering making one...?What Poke? MagazineHi, sorry I feel like i'm flaming the boards with my messages, but I'm posting as I find stuff. Feel free to tell me to shut it. Today I came across…
... clue sheets and stuff from the likes of Level 9, ... hand written letters from adventure gurus of the time.
... there be any interest from WOS if I ... Features.
The magazine opens with an explanation ... this A4 magazine format from an A5 handbook. This ...Getting absolutely no video from a 128+I'm trying to get a friend's toastrack 128 to show video and I'm not having any luck. I'm in the US, so I don't have access to any TVs that can take …
... a brief flash of the menu screen before it ... and doing the modification to remove the audio mix from the composite signal ... with no change.
I know that the ... can hear the keyclick noises in the menu screen. So the machine ...The Curse of the Larch : Text Adventure(c) 1988 & (c) 2012 You never really got on with your cousin. So when a party invite turns up on your doorstep you decide that it's maybe time to m…
... old, faded, dot matrix printouts from the PAW databases.
... hand written), Objects listing and the first two pages of Response ... am missing the rest of the response table, most of the flag ... forward to the 2012 release of [B]The Curse of the Larch[/ ...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 ... an audible noise coming from the microdrive when working. I ... load a program from the fourth cartridge (the spare one) but ... a short blink from the diode and the cartridge is pushed half ...Connecting the Toast rack to VGAHi, I've been trying to get my 128k toast rack to connect to my VGA screen for a while now with not much luck. I couldn't find a cable or adaptor to…
... that coupler and then the RCA into the RCA Jacks.
the TV Card and play from the TV Tuner software ... . (oh and I also tried going from the ... RF to the aerial socket on the TV card ...The Collapse of Free Radical DesignFor anyone interested in how and why Free Radical (the console games developer, made up partly of ex-Rare employees) managed to go from the brillianc…
... how and why Free Radical (the console games developer, made up ... Rare employees) managed to go from the brilliance of Timesplitters 2 and ... 3 (up there with the best of the best console first person ... shooters) to Haze (the very definition of a generic ...2 por 1: The Deep + The Muncher questionThe screenshot for The Muncher is this compilation is a different one from the one present in the entry of the game. In this case both are quite a fi…
The screenshot for The Muncher is this compilation is a different one from the one ... present in the entry of the game. In ... , but I have the doubt if in the archive there should be ...Retrogames in the Retroparty "Retromadrid"This next weekend, the biggest retroparty in Spain will be held in Madrid. Retroworks will be there offering its games in cassette and cartridges: (…
... will be available later in the virtual shop:
[url ... this adventure gameto play in the real machine.
Majikazo will ... released there for the first time. Its coming from the MSX. A very ... to wait for the pictures and videos of the event:
< ...Freax - The Art Album (Demoscene art book - Spectrum, C64, Amstrad, ST, Amiga...)I've got the following hardback book on sale on eBay as a Buy It Now listing. "FREAX - THE ART ALBUM", which is in excellent condition. (286 pages, …
... listing.
"FREAX - THE ART ALBUM", which is in ... 1600+ colour photos).
From the book's website:
the book is *heavy*).
... C64 disk covers and the infamous 'Cracker Comics' from the '80s by Hobbit ...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 …
... 20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't ... br />
The event's a bit different from most retro events ... also meet one of the people behind the great Prestel hack (remember ... up with some of the usual suspects from the forum (Joefish, Gasman, csmith ...I've gone to the dark side...and bought myself an Amstrad CPC464 :-o, feel dirty probably a similar feeling kerb crawlers get :-P mind you gonna get a scart adapter so I can use…
... adapter so I can use the monitor with some of my ... I attach it do you? The Amstrad models may not, just ... still hold a grudge against the Amstrad buy out!!Old folk?s home of the futureI was recently visiting a relative in a care home and noticed that the walls were covered in photographs and images from the 1940s and 50?s. I guess …
... covered in photographs and images from the 1940s and 50?s. ... this is to give the old folk memories of ... They were also playing music from the same era. It got ... sitting around singing songs from the 80?s. I hope ... retro computing displayed on the old folk?s home ...
