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So much bull peddled on the web, considered harmfulI am referring to a youtube video but more specifically its commenters who all seem to believe a cure for cancer has been suppressed. I find it sad t…
... , and slightly corrupt, but the peoples opinions/ideas here take ... filling us with bullshyte on behalf of the mega rich, but then ... of all the chemicals the FDA is deliberately allowing in the food ... this kind of nonsense thing on the internet is going to turn ... -
is there something special about the left hand column on the screenSo.... I've noticed that when I move my player round when it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5,1;"X" etc that the controls rev…
... use a border for the playing area....but on this occasion I ... teleport...but while the same code is working fine on the right hand ... side of the screen (say print ... by this weird reversing effect on the left hand side
3D Deathchase on the Commodore 643D Deathchase has been ported to the C64, at least according to Micro-Mart. According to this week's MM, the port is called Hell Racer, and here's a …
... looks pretty disappointing; the trees look even less ... well. And the enemy bikes on the C64 version look, ... according to the text on the Youtube page, the game is ... the C16/Plus 4), so I can't comment on ... that game, except to say that in the screenshot in the ...playing mp3s on the wrong speed?just downloaded a visage 12" cos id heard one of the songs on the b side was a club classic in the early days, an italian dj used to play it on 33 wh…
... id heard one of the songs on the b side was a club ... classic in the early days, an ... italian dj used to play it on ... .
is there anyway on the puter to play an mp3 ...Game character on the WoS homepageHi, I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-l…
Hi,
I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-left corner of the Spectrum.
Thanks in advance.Author of The Hobbit featured on The RegisterSpotted another ZX Spectrum-related on The Register today: an article featuring the personal history of Veronika Megler (yes, a woman), one of the pr…
... Spectrum-related on The Register today: an article featuring the personal ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006440"]The Hobbit[/URL].
the job and recommended her ... friend Mitchell. The pair became employee number ...Interesting web-articles on "the untold story of the first British laptop"...Hi folks, some days ago I stumbled over this web-articles on ?The Thorn EMI Liberator: the first British laptop?: [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/…
... this web-articles on ?The Thorn EMI Liberator: the first British laptop ... read, Sinclair computers as the QL and Spectrum got a ... that Sinclair?s last computer - the 1987 Cambridge Computers Z88 - ... has many similarities to the Liberator.
Have ...mario kart "muck up" games on the wii ?dunno if you lot have seen it when you play on the net.. you get loads of blue shells and odd things happening that won't in a normal game.. I never…
... seen it when you play on the net.. you get loads of ... today.. it's fun for the odd game but messes it ...gamer on the newsshe's been playing games for 40 years.. Hilda, she's 86... and if you prolly have a ps3.. she prolly calls YOU noob :lol: also featured in the clip …
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also featured in the clip was 1 oliver twin ... be on at 6pm I guess, it's the main UK news on the ...Film on the UK software industry - Kickstarter to complete it..Thought you guys might be interested in this - came up on my FaceBook Newsfeed, endorsed by Mel Croucher (of Automata fame) [url=http://www.kickstar…
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Click on the link to go to the Kickstarter page - already ... film telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video ... pioneering role in the shaping of the billion dollar video ... industry which today, dominates the modern world's entertainment ...Spectrum TRD Images on the PCLo folks, little tech/hardware? problem :) In short im trying to find a way to read the name of a trd disk, ie, the label, on the PC, if it even has…
... a trd disk, ie, the label, on the PC, if it even has ... images without any booter in the emulator, but i have absolutely ... no idea of the syntax, kinda confusing really.
Nodes of Yesod 128k & Stars on the 128Hi all, I've listed these 2 on eBay. [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261206458364?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649"]Nodes of Y…
... /> I've listed these 2 on eBay.
... .co.uk/itm/Stars-on-the-128-ZX-Spectrum-128k- ... =UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item3cd11e5182"]Stars on the 128[/URL]
the Wood 128k, which I ... , but I'm holding on to those for myself- ...A few questions on the Z80A cpuI know this has been discussed before and I read (a while back) the post which goes over the different Z80A CPUs ...(CMOS, NMOS? can't recall exactl…
... a while back) the post which goes over the different Z80A CPUs ... tests the Z80 Flags and also tests the MEMPTR.
On the ... why hehe
On the MEMPTR test everything passed.
the same failed entries on the Flags test...
Is This PSU Useable on the Speccy?I just got my Speccy and the PSU has had some 'work' done to it. Somebody has added an extra length of cable on it but rather than soldering or crim…
... they've just tied the ends together. I've ... a little concerned that the PSU may have suffered ... some damage in the mean time. I decided ... something small to match the footprint/design of my ... fitted - Something I always miss on the machine itself.
10? on the PS StoreI have 10? to spend on the PS store... not sure where to spend the money. since summer & vacations are comming, I was thinking on something for the …
I have 10? to spend on the PS store... not sure where ... comming, I was thinking on something for the PSP (I recently downloaded ... Castlevania Sinphony of the night, and i was ... />
has anyone downloaded the harley quinn level for Arkham ...Has anyone completed a Spectrum game on the day they bought it?Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day? I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was …
Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day?
I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was so easy.
I think i did the same with Yie Ar Kung fu as well but i can't be sure.Bomberman and other Hudson Soft games on the SpectrumAs I suspected, the games, or at least, I found a comment which confirms it, were ported from the MSX to the Spectrum. The MSX was very popular in Ja…
... , were ported from the MSX to the Spectrum.
The MSX was very ... popular in Japan, so thats the most plausible answer:
< ... Bomber Man that came out on the MSX (v=qs5JWLORfoY) and NEC ... year later (v=vNYVWpqHA98). The MSX1 and the ZX Spectrum had similar ...Is there Monty on the run 128 music?By far imho this Rob Hubbard tune on the c64 pushed that sid chip to the limits, what a great tune. Ive tried to youtube a speccy version only to fin…
... imho this Rob Hubbard tune on the c64 pushed that sid chip ... to the limits, what a great tune ... version or has anyone replicated the c64 track? Cant see it ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... code books for the specy avaliable for free on the archive. (and ... typed this post, however on looking at the op code list for ... out whats going on. Barring that going over the LD function ... getting a handle on the registers... Time to test the theory again.
The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…
Bob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [url]http://bizzley.com/[/url]Was there a 'great' golf game on the spec?So...a few sports had games made of them on the speccy that were more or less as good as you could hope for IMO. Emlyn for football*, konami's ping p…
... had games made of them on the speccy that were more or ... games. Even a couple of the darts sims feel like they ... .
But none of the golf games I've played ... . And Everybody's Golf 2 on the playstation is one of my ...Taito's Dead Connection on the Spectrum?I had never seen this game before, its from 1992, but looks very suitable for the Spectrum, because of the lack of scroll. Looks quite fun to play, a…
... looks very suitable for the Spectrum, because of the lack of scroll ... fun to play, and even the graphics are small but very ... , it could work very well on the ZX (I can imagine Craig ...Adventures on the Spectrum (Mike Gerrard book)Used condition as follows: [LIST] [*]The cover has some wear and yellowing to the edges. [*]The inside pages are all clean, with the exception of a …
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[*]The cover has some wear and ... yellowing to the edges.
[*]The inside pages are ... clean, with the exception of a small mark on the inside front cover ... , and a couple of marks on the outside ...How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…
... thought this was the limits to programming on the Spectrum, but I ... "how did they make the games?") I just didn' ... assembly code and wondering how the &^%$ you know ... have tried in the last few years on a few ... on these guides on how to code, but I can't for the ...A tally on the number of successful builds of the Harlequin[SIZE=4][COLOR=Green][U][B]A tally on the number of successful builds of the Harlequin.[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE] Please post your successes below :-) …
... ][U][B]A tally on the number of successful builds ... of the Harlequin.[/B][/U][/COLOR ... a poll to show the count?[/QUOTE]
Yes ... entries[/B], the number of replies to the thread will ... give the number built ;-)
Creating actual floppy disks using .dsk files on the SpectrumHello ZX friends I have a +3 and diskette related question. I have a +3 with an external 3.5" floppy disk drive and a divIDE+. Is there a way I can …
... can put a .dsk file on the CF card and create an ... that disk image file using the Spectrum?
I used ... to do the ".dsk file to actual disk" conversion on my old ...Which games perform checksums on the 48K ROM?I've just modified a version of the 48K Spectrum ROM designed for use on the Timex Sinclair 2068, so that a 16 bit checksum of the ROM produces the r…
... ROM designed for use on the Timex Sinclair 2068, so ... bit checksum of the ROM produces the result $641F and ... . These are the same values as the standard 48K ROM ... which games performed these tests on the ROM? I'd like ... to try the new ROM out on these games.Are there any Metroid style games on the Spectrum?Are there any Metroid style games on the Spectrum? You know the Metroid games (Metroid on the NES, Super Metroid on the SNES, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 o…
... on the Spectrum? You know the Metroid games (Metroid on the NES, Super Metroid on the ... SNES, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 on the ... and forth across the ever expanding map, ... br /> Someone mentioned that the Batman: Arkham games (XBox ...The best Tetris game on the Speccy?The recent [B]Tetris Ultimate[/B] debacle on the PS4 and XBox One* made me wonder what was the best version of Tetris on the Spectrum. I'm not famil…
... wonder what was the best version of Tetris on the Spectrum.
... seem to remember that the offical Tetris on the Spectrum wasn't ... was an interesting Tetris variation on the Spectrum (can't remember ... more impressive than it does on the Spectrum, though to be ...Games that look *exactly* like a Spectrum game, but was never released on the Speccy.As the title says - what games are there (on other platforms) that look just like Spectrum games, but was never released on the Spectrum? This subje…
As the title says - what games are there (on other platforms) that ... games, but was never released on the Spectrum?
This ... why they were never released on the Spectrum.
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