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More Micro drive problemsHi everyone! I recently bought a interface 1 plus a microdrive for my 48k speccy and have finally gotten round to trying it out. Having set everythi…
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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?
Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever? -
Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
Today painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loading screens twenty years ago? Did they use lightpens or some kind of scanner? -
Spectune (MIA) WAV->TZX problemI've just got the tape for Spectune (Xorsoft, 1983), which loads direct on a Spectrum or emulator OK, and from which I created a WAV which also loads…
... I try it resets on loading block 5. (Spectune uses a ... works for me with any program I've ever tried; I ... -
Spectaculator and MicrodrivesBeing unable to program machine code I've been looking at ways of improving the speed of my basic and I've hit on the idea of loading data from micro…
Being unable to program machine code I've been ... hit on the idea of loading data from microdrives ie screens ... it employ somekind of speed loading like it does with tapes -
Top 100 things to do while your Speccy is loading100. Stick on the kettle and nip down the shops for a nice bar of chocolate to go with your tea. _________________ BigBadMick (bigbadmick2000@hotmai…
100. Stick on the kettle and nip down the shops for a nice bar of chocolate to go with your tea.
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Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…
... attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama beads.
various Spectrum MIAs not listed on WoS* PAUL (Personal Accounting Utilities Ledger) by Jaysoft was reviewed in Home Computing Weekly #9 (3-9 May 1983, page 39) for the 48K Spectrum, price…
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* 1984, an educational revision program for George Orwell's book ... won't be for a while yet.Looking for loading screens by M. StawickiHi, In late 1980's Polish Spectrum artist M. Stawicki created his own loading screens for (at least) few games, for example: Gryzor, Combat School, E…
... M. Stawicki created his own loading screens for (at least) few ...MakeTzx questionHi! I've been recently making tzx of some Polish Spectrum tapes. I don't have any experience with MakeTzx program, so I just used GUI and followed tu…
... have any experience with MakeTzx program, so I just used GUI ... cases. However I encountered problems while trying to convert some data ... of speedloader. MakeTzx sees just program loader and doesn't notice ...Space Crusade InstructionsI've been playing a bit of Space Crusade and HeroQuest during my lunch breaks at work, and one annoying thing is that there's no instructions for [UR…
... game). While some of the details will be different (saving/loading progress ...+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
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This program/project is written entirely in ... Installer for my file manager program. All the Formatting etc. ... recommended install mode, the program alters the boot configuration to ... to boot the file manager program.
All load ...MAKETZX helphi there. i managed to get help on converting all my original spectrum tapes to .tzx files. the trouble im having at the moment is i think maketzx st…
... struggles to recognise some turbo loading blocks. i have monty on ... know much about the maketzx program. thanksHow to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…
... are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader ... a way of speeding up loading code in a fairly generic ...The Sing-clair ProjectFollowing on in a way from [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11800]this[/url] thread, I have had an idea. How about if we …
... star | The Buggles):
While playing Manic Miner back in ... /> We can't rewind, Tape Loading R
Oo-a-oo ...ANN - ZXSoftware.co.uk Update V1.5 21/05/06ZXSoftware has now been updated to V1.5. Changes :- 299 new titles have been added - Listed below. A few thousend new ingame screenshots and loadin…
... thousend new ingame screenshots and loading screens have been added.
SSTV Printing Program
SSTV Transceive
Star ...Disk R Tape ???I was recently trying to make a bootable disk image (for my Deal or No Deal simulator, if you must know) using RealSpectrum, SPIN to make a blank ima…
... got an R Tape Loading Error while trying to load from a ...Games you didn't like after first loading but appreciated them laterYou know the story: new game, first loading, few minutes of playing,"it's crap!". But few days/weeks/months later you load this game again (because y…
... the story: new game, first loading, few minutes of playing,"it ... didn't like after 1st loading but appreciated later?
I ... one: "Bruce Lee". After 1st loading I was disappointed because of ...R: Tape Loading Error on an EMULATOR??I was just trying to load 'Stop The Express' (a TAP file on a WOS Cdrom) on to a Mac OS X 10.4.6. TAPs (in OS X, I don't have Classic installed) AF…
Which Hobbit Is Which?I've been wondering about this for a while. Melbourne House's The Hobbit was rereleased on the Sinclair label (No. G19/S). What does the cover of the…
... wondering about this for a while. Melbourne House's The Hobbit ... also slightly different. On the loading screen it says 1.2 ...256 color spectrumhi i start to make a project. a 256color spectrum like the spec256 emulator. capable to run 256 color games and the original ones from a cdrom,a flop…
... not possible to the classic program loading for the 256 color games ...Additional YAY for one Ian Collier!Just came across this totally by chance while googling: [url]http://www.crumblenet.co.uk/~tim/spectrum/MINUETZ2.zip[/url] Don't bother with options…
... across this totally by chance while googling:
[url]http://www ... version of the original "MINUETZ" program by Hopkins/Laverty.
SpecAY (formerly Speccy-Player) Version 0.3 ReleasedJust in case you haven't heard of it (quite likely!) this is a program that plays back .AY music files on genuine, physical Spectrum hardware. Good t…
... (quite likely!) this is a program that plays back .AY music ... AY-3-8912, hence this program.
More info, and ... ever really a working title, while I thought up a decent ... be the most well-written program in the world, but it ...Detect if program was loaded from tape or microdriveHow (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded from tape or microdrive? This can be helpful to then load the screen or more machine code…
... at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded ...Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... they look promising for a while whilst loading! :???: Cheers guys!!Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…
... say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive ...John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... a book called 'How To Program Your ZX81 In Machine Code ... the environment.
(7) While working on the Megagames, were ...Help with a program that doesn't run but should?The MSX collection at: [URL="http://www.msxposse.com/msx-mbox.php"]http://www.msxposse.com/msx-mbox.php[/URL] (the link is broken, but can be dow…
Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …
... I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is ... name messages appearing ? When the loading screen was designed there was ... simple loader).
Are the loading messages always shown hard against ... more central position within the loading screen.Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …
... 65024 and she loads main program.
I try to put ... , but at the end of loading main data block, game not ...
