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what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…
... Wham Music Machine.
Loading Systems:
Daley Thompson's ... Ted - ultra smooth animation during loading, plus a counter! Very ... which also had a scrolly message
Lode-A-Game - ... screen.
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128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…
... . The novelty of the tape loading sound wore off on me ... .7 seconds. :)
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ZX-PC InterfaceRight - i'm 34 and I cant take the pain of waiting for tapes to load any more - somethings gotta give ( either the tape deck or me ). I've seen a 'Z…
... it would become 4x slower (loading 48K would cost 30 sec ... for emulators.
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ZX-PC InterfaceRight - i'm 34 and I cant take the pain of waiting for tapes to load any more - somethings gotta give ( either the tape deck or me ). I've seen a 'Z…
... loading/saving is also a checksum. Worst case scenario : TAPE LOADING ERROR! message ... -
Chuntey - what a fantastic word!Just thought I'd share that
... within ten feet of a loading tape (or, heaven forbid, caught ... was my own personal tape-loading psychosis but it wasn't ... happy day!
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
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The battery life and loading times on the PSP are ... something.
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Latest Cronosoft News...Just in case anyone was wondering what's been happening recently with the Cronosoft site, as it's not had an update for a long time.. TIS THE SEAS…
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The loading screen is cool - I didn ... 't want to double the loading time for tape users (and ... the way?
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... (a-la Spin) releted to loading games, save,reset,config,activate ... /[/url]
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New game for spectrumIn my spare time I wrote a simple game for ZX Spectrum. It is called Chicks&Bricks and as you can guess from the title it is yet another arkanoid, bu…
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The Key - version 5I used to use this to copy games (back up my own tapes, naturally!) when I first got my Spectrum in '83. Latterly used v7 which is in the archive, bu…
... a block copier ?
[ This Message was edited by: Andrew Barker ... most files that merged the loading screen with the code (what ... out. It does have aa loading screen though, unlike the one ... Gob Stoppers.
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Best screenshot/game graphics?My son got some Hama beads for Christmas (coloured beads that you put on an array of pins, and iron to produce a permanent picture). This seemed lik…
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test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…
... for the fastest TZX turbo loading of Manic Miner or something ... it worked.
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dK'Tronics 4K Graphics ROMHi, I've got a working 4K graphics ROM fitted (today) in my ZX81 (yay!). I'd like to put a RAM chip (battery-backed) in the socket provided, howeve…
... use the ROM just by loading it into EightyOne at address ... .uk/[/url]
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any of u punkheadsneed the stupids - violent nun ep (1985) its just been uploaded to [url="http://www.strangereaction.com/"]http://www.strangereaction.com/[/url]
404 R Tape Loading Error :(
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SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…
... the tape deck until its loading properly.
I've ... found loading games from a computer sound ... and boring.
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test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…
... for the fastest TZX turbo loading of Manic Miner or something ... ] (14379 bytes)
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Emulators don't *FEEL* like the Speccy!I just recently played Ghostbusters II on my ZX Speccy emu and i miss the difference in graphics quality from playing on a lil old 15 inch CRT telly …
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also: uncheck the Fast loading, AutoLoad and Auto Play/Stop ... recorder to enjoy the realtime loading - you can always mind- ... control the loading chuntey - that?s the ... ZX art -
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Emulators don't *FEEL* like the Speccy!I just recently played Ghostbusters II on my ZX Speccy emu and i miss the difference in graphics quality from playing on a lil old 15 inch CRT telly …
... ...you won?t believe... Tape Loading Error!
got this terryfying ... ZX art -
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Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
... ROM routine is used for loading from TAP-files
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Emulators don't *FEEL* like the Speccy!I just recently played Ghostbusters II on my ZX Speccy emu and i miss the difference in graphics quality from playing on a lil old 15 inch CRT telly …
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Converted tzx looks differentI finally decided to have a go at converting some of my old tapes to tzx incase i find any mias later on. I converted the game Speed King 2 by master…
... he said block is 103% loading speed and the pauses look ... />
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Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
... .scr files and simulates the loading process (with accurate timing of ... the loading and border flashing).
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Kewl Your Sinclair Metal BadgeNice metal YS Badge, found this tucked away on ebay, might be of interest to a YS collector out there, I just thought it was really Kewl and wanted t…
... is - are you going to hide it away in a box ... -199x[/url]
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Speccy users around the globeHi all, I thought it could be fun to set up a map at frappr: [b]<EDIT By Mod 2019> This website is a now a spurious link that is not not to be tru…
... that upon the first page loading it is reset to show ... of cheese!
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Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
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Speaking of stolen loading screens, the screen for Stainless ... 1994....
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Mortal KombatI was looking through the archive last night looking for game maps, and I came across Mortal Kombat for the speccy! It's a surprisingly good conversi…
... can get it to display loading screens but nothing else :confused ... round here...
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Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
The worst loading screen was for 'Rescue' it just says'rescue is loading please wait' quite a lot of games had that message. I really liked the animated loading screens like Technician Ted.
