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Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... at humour) placed seemingly at random. N64 Magazine was the best ... -
A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but . . . how do you create random stars? Some help would be greatly appreciated?
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Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the way to go.[/QUOTE]
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15 years of comp.sys.sinclair!On 13th December 1993, thanks to the efforts of Arnt Gulbrandsen, comp.sys.sinclair sparked into life, taking the reins of the primordial soup of the…
... ] and picking a month at random and having a swift browse ... -
New for 2009 - mc onelinersI found the limit of one line and one screen's worth of program really useful in (re-)learning BASIC, so I've decided to carry the format over into m…
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ld (hl),a
;random road left or right
ld hl,14000 ;source of random bytes in ROM
ld ... -
Subbuteo for nintendo DS???So let me see if I get this straight... first hasbro buys subbuteo. Then they end the subbuteo production because they think that the game damages t…
... classic plastic players, you get random carboard fotos of players in ... -
err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... on the floor in seemingly random piles. Four months on, less ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... Spectrum SE compatibility to the Harlequin
* Contributed routines from SE ... -
Dale Winton's heartbreak quizDale Winton was doing that quiz show thing tonight on BBC1 where contestants go into the red area and are selected randomly to play the quiz and they…
... 't get selected by the random selector thingy and thus didn ... that:
(1) The random selector thingy that selects people ... the quiz really is truly random.
(2) Life's ... -
SRAM replacement for lower 16KSome time ago I wondered if it were possible to replace the lower 16K RAM of a 16K/48K Spectrum with a single SRAM chip. You know, those pesky 4116 D…
... connections may appear shuffled at random, but this is OK, and ... -
Scumdog Millionaire.Very clever film. What bugs me is that it utilises the global popularity of the quiz show "Who Whants To Be A Millionaire" to familiarise its audien…
... have 3 'LIFE-LINES' left - 'Random', 'Flip A Coin' and 'Say ... -
CDS Software?Trying to catalogue everything I have, and I came across CDS Software Ltd - The Complete Home Entertainment Centre, two tapes, Side A - D. Very rando…
Trying to catalogue everything I have, and I came across CDS Software Ltd - The Complete Home Entertainment Centre, two tapes, Side A - D. Very random looking, not had a chance to load it up yet, but anyone come across this one before? -
issue 2 board c34 getting hotHi All, Can anyone help with c34 getting hot very quickly? I`ve got an issue 2 board, there is no `buzz` from coil. yet the spectrum initalises to co…
... sometimes the computer starts typing random keys on its own, when ... -
issue 6a faultyHi All I got issue 6a pcb from ebay with status faulty pcb had bad voltages when I power up I changed tr4 ztx650 and all voltages got back on ic6 I h…
... +peek 23733*256 get back random numbers after every restart like ... -
Couple of questions...Howdy, 1. Is there a decent way to get a random number in BASIC/MC? I've been using LET a=INT(RND*2)+1 but the numbers tend to stay at 1 or 2 most …
... decent way to get a random number in BASIC/MC? I ... -
A PC console?Are there any console style PCs available? What I mean is, you can pretty much use a PC as a console, if you add a joypad(s), a TV card, and if you l…
... ; choose a graphics card at random nowadays and it's got ... -
NEW: SCREEN$ 1.9dWell, after the stunningly enthusiastic reception to 1.9c, I toddled off and fixed a few bugs and issues which arose after people had tested it. Hen…
... the ability to use a random method of gaining 48k mode ... -
SnakeManXL - Finish it?Rather a busy week in the real world unfortunately, but been coding a little more: 1-player version of "dot chase" - try to eat all the dots. QAOP (…
... single flag is added at random to a level, and once ... -
Last Sunset for Lattica - I've Escaped Into Hidden Secret BitsWell I spoke recently about this game in the thread about game crashes. When I used to play this game on the 48k the game would crash and make up ra…
... would crash and make up random mazes.
Well today ... -
Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…
... because the paths are so random and unstructured, it makes you ... -
What is your preferred search engine?It feels like a wave of overwhelming negativity sweeping the world with all these deaths and semi-deaths so here's a switch. What is your homepage a…
... latest version has a daily random question on the page which ... -
Browser Stop Buttons.Why do they even bother putting these on browsers these days they never seem to work when you press them. In fact I would say that these days the res…
Why do they even bother putting these on browsers these days they never seem to work when you press them. In fact I would say that these days the results of pressing it seem almost random. -
Web Server QuestionI did an exercise at a local school where they had to download a executable Java file from a standard web server. 27 pupils were instructed to acces…
... download page I used a random number generator to pick a ... -
I am going to defeat ROGUE....Right - the time has come to beat the classic dungeon-crawler game ROGUE. Still an out-and-out classic in my mind, despite the low-res (no-res?) gra…
... of the items found purely random, or is there a way ... -
Trying to find a game ***Trying to locate the source of a game I played early on, 1983 or maybe before. Here's the twist, its a type in, not a commercial release. It was a …
... (5) robots were called "gulpers", random static mines were called "Spong ... -
Writing internet servers in ZX BASICNew Spectranet news! I have just finished adding the code to allow listening sockets to be used from BASIC. A simple example: [code] 10 %listen #4,…
... /> to see a list of random numbers appear on the screen ... -
General question about electronics I guess... (128k +2a)[Short question] When I very slightly put my finger on top IC15 on my +2A the TV picture becomes crazy and the spectrum acts if it just resets I don…
... to some weird states (no random squares)
sometimes it boots ... -
FarscapeApart from seeing a few random episodes on tv years ago, I never got to see this show and I always wanted to. So, when I discovered the price had fin…
Apart from seeing a few random episodes on tv years ago, ...
