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University ChallengeNearly two weeks ago Manchester University won the first University Challenge semi-final to get into the upcoming final against Pembroke College, Cam…
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Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …
Games with time travel mechanics?What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don't mean games where time travel is just part of the story (i.e. it's…
... ]), or where your one player character performs one set of actions ...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. …
... various coloured squares and (valid character set) characters scattered about. Leaving ...Laser Squad cheats and mods requestBefore anyone (or Grussu) says "Why would you spoil such a great game with cheats?", I'll just say "Because it's fun". :-P I'm feeling like doing a …
... the A.I. handles this character if he can't fire ...Mad Mix Game Pepsi ChallengeThe version released in UK, "Pepsi Challenge" is different than the Spanish one. The main character sprite is different, and there are (at least one)…
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The main character sprite is different, and there ...Something a bit like Jetpack Joyride in flavour?Jetpack Joyride is a fairly simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has one control. That control applies power to the jetpack as long …
... is destroyed but the main character is unharmed). The player can ... a bomb on the dead character (thus moving it further), making ... in or resurrecting the player character and continuing on as if ...Staffordshire Hoard - Someone FamiliarDoes anyone else see a similarity between the figure on a piece of the Staffordshire Hoard, and a certain Speccy Character? [IMG]http://1.bp.blogsp…
Does anyone else see a similarity between the figure on a piece of the Staffordshire Hoard, and a certain Speccy Character?
[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7j3LiBHJdbE/SxAyHYGxUyI/AAAAAAAAAW8/tEnulcBa8A4/s1600/inscription2.jpg[/IMG]Best player movementWhat games had the best main character movement and control? I'm thinking here of games where the programmer designed in something more advanced than…
... games had the best main character movement and control? I'm ...Pixel Nation & Writers wanted!Before I get to my main question I just wanted to talk about a project I've been involved with. I recently worked on a printed magazine for NES-Bit.c…
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[b]Confessions of a Girl Gamer [/b]- BAn excellent and ... of an actual real life girl gamer!
[b]Zelda Cartoon ...Turn UDG to Attrribute blocksI'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?
I'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?What if there was no memory or space limitation?What if there was no memory or space limitation? We've had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, topics where we discussed how good …
... better? How much better could character animations have been? I've ...Webcam at Abbey Road crossingIt's fun watching people doing the "Beatles walk" :D [url]http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing[/url] Like this girl doing the crossing while the other …
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Like this girl doing the crossing while the ...Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…
... blocks and shift them a character block at a time but ...RF output instabilityHello! Now i need help :) One of my rubber keys (48K) behaves a bit strangely on behave of RF TV output. When booted the picture is stable. Then i …
Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... (1 x 22 characters) one character to the left. Could someone ...ZX-Paintbrush version 2.2 releasedDear readers, Today I released ZX-Paintbrush 2.2 with many new features. I hope you'll like it. Please refer to ZX-Paintbrush's section of my homepa…
... and/or right of each character
[*]New tool "Shader" (for ...What's wrong with this code ?OK, working my way through Jonathan Cauldwells 'How To' tome and I can't get the following to run in either spin or basin. ( iused the assembler in b…
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ld a,32 ; SPACE character.
rst 16 ; display space ...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…
... the father of my little girl. She was conceived at a ...HexCheck 0.11 by LCD toolI'm actually using this (not so old) hexadecimal coder tool and [B]I wonder if there will be a next update[/B] as I noticed some little mistakes when…
... Microhobby magazine and skipped several character typos not used in hexadecimal ...OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.
* No direct ...name the ninja game[I]edit[/I]: [B]SOLVED[/B] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi, a friend of mine (amiga one, be indulge…
... , he says) involving a ninja character fighting enemies, always one by ...Got a date on thursday!I've been off the site for a while, decided to have a break but now i'm back. I've recently been chatting a girl online via a dating website, someone…
... 've recently been chatting a girl online via a dating website ...New Game: BerksManLink: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027713[/url] Originally written to demo Boriel's ZX Basic, and still needing most of th…
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Character movement, to limit colour clash ...SUPER INPUTA couple days ago I searched for an "INPUT string" routine that I could use in Assembly programs and supported multiple lines, but I found none. Thus…
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SHIFT-0 to delete ... previous character[/CODE]
It also ...ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.1 releasedDear readers and friends of ZX-Spectrum emulator stuff! Today I released the version 2.2.1 of ZX-Paintbrush with interesting new features and many b…
... grid and customizable Pixel and character grid colors
* Bugfixes of ...Cobra - movie references[I]Cobra[/I] was on a digital channel recently, and I was trying to spot all the movie references that Joffa worked in. If you can find any more, pl…
... had difficulty drawing a female character as the long puffball skirt ... partner's protection, Nielsen's character is smothering fries in ketchup ...searching for a gameI am trying to find a game, that I liked a lot, it was a side-scroller platformer, you had something like a viking, jumping from platform to platform…
... were two games with this character and theme.
Can you ...Lesser-known recurring charactersOk, so we all know about famous game characters on the speccy like Miner Willy, Henhouse Harry, Monty Mole, Magic Knight, Wally Week etc who appear i…
... 'd seen the main game character in other games. A bit ... around and I found the character was called Smiffy and the ... fairly unconnected and just a character that crops up again :grin ...
