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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
[QUOTE=JamesD]As for no one at the time being ... to place objects anywhere and display them all correctly. Ant Attack ... lines broken and there's no flaw in the 3D calculation ... -
Issue 1 minor snaggetteJust discovered this forum and greedily downloaded issue 1 (issue 2 downloading as I speak). Looks great, but I have a slight problem in that some of…
... again with "error -128" for no apparent reason, and insisting that ... up the whole screen with no quick and easy way to ... the size of the page display. I hate Adobe sofware!! :evil ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... bytes no. If there's color on the bottom of the display ... modes part way down the display through software they would have ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... it to give an inaccurate display???[/QUOTE]
Well that ... funny turboloads etc had absolutely NO frequencies whatsoever above 16Khz. Tapes ... audio standards of the time, no-one in music really needed ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... manual here and I have no idea if it's graphics ... 's kinda like the Speccy display only you select forground and ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... by telling which sprite to display... one write to memory.[/QUOTE ... vice versa)
The display is discretized so you can ... cycles in software there is no technical advantage to having the ... that if your cpu to display size reaches the magic ratio ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... vice versa)
The display is discretized so you can ... cycles in software there is no technical advantage to having the ... that if your cpu to display size reaches the magic ratio ... x,y to screenbuffer offset, no copying and masking either. This ... -
zx game book: last call!!!If anyone has any more errors or typos to report in 1984 (or any other chapters) please add them to this thread by Wednesday... Other than that, it'…
... , it appears that there is no space between "spectrumoutings".
< ... Goes Skiing, paragraph 4(ish), no space between "moreso". These ... to a "raster (pixel-based) display". Is "raster" the name ... of the display or have you mistyped "faster ... -
Using a +3 power supply to power a CPC.Hi there, I'm going to try and power a CPC6128 using a +3 power supply. The +3 supplies 12V DC 0.2A and 5V DC 2A, the CPC6128 needs 12V DC 0.4A and …
... reversed, the minus 12v will display plus 12v.
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What effect would you most like to seeJust wondering, what with the fact that it seems to be 1983 all over again and more and more new games coming out, what feature, thing or special eff…
... - so no doubt theres some similarity in there somewhere. (display lines and ... -
These sounded great...Torstum's post about a hypthetical new micro-computer (on this forum) reminded me of something, but rather than post in that thread, I thought I'd ma…
... time. But surely if the display is clear enough, and the ... , then there might well be no eye strain?
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Will we see a return of the microcomputer?The glory days of the 80's are definitely in the distant, revered past, but I notice that computer makers are marketing more and more ultraportable l…
... lacking small devices with good display and good keyboard. Psion series5 ... a great machine, just have no follower at all. Smartphones are ... -
TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
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But there's no reason at all why the ... 8 pixels) to generate the display that Timex didn't cover ... it involves twice as much display memory which means games have ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... /> 1. The usual 6k spectrum display
2. A double buffered ... as Timex did: two 6k display buffers in the 16k-32k ... the Speccy?[/QUOTE]
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... it from the factory with no mods.
[quote]The ... /> 1. The usual 6k spectrum display
2. A double buffered ... as Timex did: two 6k display buffers in the 16k-32k ... sales too.
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... 256x192 with four colours and no colour clash - using the full ... 256x192 four-colour clash free display. Choosing four colours out of ... -
*** New Game *** Farmer Jack Now AvailableFARMER JACK IS NOW AVAILABLE ... ?2.99 + ?1.00 UK Postage (or a nice pack of cigars) I haven't updated the website yet though, as someone volunt…
... by your rights, he has no less right to review retro ... a headache.
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External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
... to do something similar.....for no reason other than to idle ... of one Speccy,
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Spectrum Screen Memory MapWhat's the advantage (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation? 6144 bytes divided into 3 blocks, 2048 bytes long. if you want t…
... true - the organization of the display is clearly character oriented. My ... said is both yes and no :) We could move left/right ... the other hand, the character display would be slower as we ... -
+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
... many can cause the second display file in page 7 to ... /> ret
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If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
... just look weird on the display that uses bright black.
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Timex 2048I am curently living in Poland and purchased from a polish auction site a boxed Timex 2048. The picture is just perfect at that is from the modula…
... at least, but next to no software was released that used ... and extra 6K for the display file, then need to have ... -
VB Emulator UpgradeHas anyone upgraded the VB 6.0 open source of either VBspec or VB81 to the free VB Express 2005 Edition? [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr…
[QUOTE=JamesD]I recently tried out a free copy of the express edition and when I tried loading source for an older VB program it required major changes to get it to work.[/QUOTE]
Hi,
The guided tour provided the following dialog:
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Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?
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No definitely not. The ULA fetches two bytes to display each ... -
Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?
... Anonymous]No definitely not. The ULA fetches two bytes to display each ... like the moody, blue section - no rainbow effects, but great nonetheless ... section is impressive, but still no examples of a simple static ... -
Which next gen. console will you be getting?I'll be going for the Wii myself. Mainly because of the unique quality games for it, eg the Zelda franchise. The innovative controller, cheap price…
... Wii version will be also display in 16:9 ratio as ... Wii console". There will be no fairy in the gamecube version ... -
PES6 360 horror.right... there is a way to freeze the game online which means that one of you has to quit at the expense of a 3-0 loss. now i dont know how to make …
... Konamis behalf nonetheless.
No team editting. I couldn't ... disbelief is missing.
No saving of replays.
display although some of the players ... LIVE game going. Very good, no lag at all. Got whupped ... -
can i connect a +2a to an amstrad colour monitor?can i connect a +2a to an amstrad cmt 464 colour monitor? how ? th output is different , and it even has jacks for power!:evil:
done the cable, display is far better than scart , with no noise at all ,and great colours!
