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Alan Turing to appear on new £50 noteGreat when a giant of science & technology is honored this way: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announc…
... /2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement
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ZEsarUX 8.0 stableHi! I've uploaded a new FINAL stable ZEsarUX version, 8.0 :) You can download it, as always, from the url: https://github.com/chernandezba/z…
... supports Daad, Paws, Quill and Gac
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SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
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how do i make a character rotate in very small degrees?so i would take the letter a and rotate it degree by degree until it has gone round 360 degrees. only 8x8 pixels is necessary. machine code or basic …
so i would take the letter a and rotate it degree by degree until it has gone round 360 degrees. only 8x8 pixels is necessary. machine code or basic examples would be most welcome. also i would like it to be able to do this on the fly, so you can see it ... -
SpecBAS 0.971 now available!https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6gXsz43xir_eV9JbWhUZ1Rxc0k Fixes a few occasional crashes and sorts out a few bugs in the editor. Also allows …
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Astroclone vs MarsportBoth reviewed in Crash issue 22. Marsport got a whopping 95%, Astroclone a lowly 88%. But the two games are very similar. Scrolling action adventures…
... . Astroclone involved literally waving your character's arms around until your ... -
Horace IP owner issues multiple copyright strikes to Octav1us for use of Horace characterI couldn't see this mentioned anywhere else on this site, so I wondered if others had seen this:- https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/dix…
I couldn't see this mentioned anywhere else on this site, so I wondered if others had seen this:-
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Need help in finding people that worked at beam software or sinclair in the 80'sIt is related to this https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57276/horace-ip-owner-issues-multiple-copyright-strikes-to-octav1us-for-use-o…
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What are the "lost" Ultimate arcade games?I've always been really curious to know what Ultimate did before they were Ultimate, and I've been having a little dig around. We know for sure t…
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ZEsarUX 8.1 Beta 2Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX 8.1 Beta 2 version! You can download it from https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases/tag/8.1-161220…
... to disable looking for alternate character sets from sysvar 23606/7 ... -
ZEsarUX 8.1 stableHi! I've uploaded a new ZEsarUX 8.1 stable version. Go to the github released webpage to download it: https://github.com/chernandezba/zesaru…
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Infoseek ScreenshotsHello, I see that screenshots on the individual game pages were already fixed. However, it seems that the Infoseek listings still point it to the …
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A couple of random questions......because, why not? (1) USR0 mode on the +3/+2A/B I know of its existence, I know how it's used, and I have some games that require it to work o…
... , space, T, and a dummy character)
Then, POKE 16431,201 ... required to change the last character into an unprintable one which ... -
"Congraturation, you suC5ess"?(Maybe I've posted this before, or something like it, but I used the Advanced Search and didn't find what I was looking for, so here we go...) Jus…
... ]"That says much for the character of Sir Clive. It is ... -
Mighty Music ProgramsI'd like to think I'm reasonably proficient (after all of 32 years) in the 128K Spectrum's PLAY command. However, this program is absolutely nothi…
... - so even though the two character sets together take up only ... this package of the two character sets held separately as 768 ... graphics into more and more character sets, but I figured this ... is enough for now. Character set "C3" would probably involve ... -
Help with CHR$ codes 0 to 5Hi, I'm looking a piece of code in a listing similar to: Let a$ = CHR$ 0 Let b$ = CHR$ 1 Let c$ = CHR$ 2 Let d$ = CHR$ 3 Let e$ = CHR$ 4 Let f…
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Save 48k SNA from 128k Z80 snapshot?I have been doing RZX recordings of text-based adventure games. In the case of games made with GAC (Graphic Adventure Creator), where a map and solut…
... case of games made with GAC (Graphic Adventure Creator), where a ... hit a problem with two GAC games: "The Manor Murder Case ... 128k RAM (I'm sure GAC never does). -
why am i getting b integer out of range in this code?ive tried running this in spin but thats what i get [code]main org 40000; ; We want a black screen. ld a,71 ; white ink (7) on black paper (0…
... ,22 ; control code for AT character.
rst 16
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this code wont give me a random starfieldim using a peice of code that ive copied from a book, ignore most of it as it is redundant. for some reason i get a strange random starfield instead …
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GAC DisassemblyWas not sure where to post it, as its not quite what you'd expect: http://www.moteprime.org/article.php?id=62 Not sure if its been posted befor…
Was not sure where to post it, as its not quite what you'd expect:
http://www.moteprime.org/article.php?id=62
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Zynaps scrolling - anyone ever reverse enginnered this?Zynaps has IMO some impressive scrolling - it utilises 18 character rows of the display file, so quite a large active play area, and scrolls 2 pixels…
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How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... 300, where we print a character to the right. If you ... -
The Social DilemmaHas anyone watched the NetFlix documentary 'The Social Dillemma'? It pretty much told me what I already know about how these tech giants are able…
... the likes of 'Which Friends Character are you', I have always ... -
V - Visitors (Ocean, 1986)Do you remember [b]from old days, was there Donovan's (hero that we control in "V") invulnerability[/b] or not? Is this a "feature" or it's a bug..…
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How do you get the GRAPHICS cursor in 128 Basic?I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even …
I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even tried print usr "p" after loading in the binary to make a character and that wouldn't work either. -
Is it me or is the +2 manual nowhere as good as the original?I think it's probably as much to do with my ageing brain as the bloody manual for the Spectrum +2 from Amstrad but the explanations don't make as muc…
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Anyone else tried Elvenar?I just signed up for my wife's sake because she was into Skyrim and really enjoys games like this. Me, I gave it 5 frustrating minutes and handed it …
I just signed up for my wife's sake because she was into Skyrim and really enjoys games like this. Me, I gave it 5 frustrating minutes and handed it over for her to suss out. We'll probably share the same character - an elf called Seeker Llewelyn. -
Dr. Jim's personal Sinclair showcaseThere were some Spectrum-related webpages that I hosted some of my own stuff on, and it's about time it had an extensive rehash. So, over the last we…
... at some stage.
- Some character sets and UDGs I've ... of them (the Mighty Musical Character Set) can be found on ... -
Tricks to make mirror image of a graphic?I've been working on a sprite routine for lots of sprites and animations. I'm only storing right facing graphics, and converting them to left facing.…
... doing it. It draws a character square sprite in the bottom ...
