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TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
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1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
Problem with my speccy 48+My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all?
... you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down ...The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.
JB1 had the hyper speedloader which was faster then regular speed loaders
JB2 had the pacmac game which unfortunately crashed on spectaculator
JB3 had some very fancy loading stripes which where multi coloured and moving horizontal.timeless speccy gameswhich speccy games do you hold tobe worth playing today regardless of nostlgia-reasons (if possible not to "regard" them...), regardless historical c…
... 't cut it in the horizontal shmups of today, but it ...Border size?Hi I've read the documentation on the border in the CSS. But I think I've managed to missread somthings, perhaps som one can explain. it says 64 bord…
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Horizontal/vertical retrace is just the ...Border size?Hi I've read the documentation on the border in the CSS. But I think I've managed to missread somthings, perhaps som one can explain. it says 64 bord…
... need to calculate with 288 horizontal lines, because they repeat same ...PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
... look right in it's horizontal position and I was sure ... back to it's rightful (horizontal) state, I tried it again ...My little first set of routines.Hi all, I just coded a little set of routines just to draw a screen on video mem and a fade out. I could have just copied the screen rendering rout…
RGB OutputWas there ever a device available for the 48 that had a RGB output ? As an alternative , what about using a pc monitor (iirc these have seperate syn…
... ] vertical, [B]15625 Hz[/B] horizontal. Don't know about your ...RGB OutputWas there ever a device available for the 48 that had a RGB output ? As an alternative , what about using a pc monitor (iirc these have seperate syn…
... ] vertical, [B]15625 Hz[/B] horizontal. Don't know about your ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
Help! Need to prove the Speccy's worthA friend of mine who used to own a C64 (well, alright, not a friend, an aquaintance ;) ) was saying how good Dropzone was, and how it proves that the…
... , can anyone tell me what horizontal games (if any) on the ... can anyone name any Spectrum horizontal shooter games to show him ...Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... that vertical is fine, but horizontal moving sprites appear to have ...Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…
... feature might be called "hardware horizontal line accelerator", because you would ... paint a horizontal line just by setting two ...Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…
... QL's ULA draws a horizontal line from X1 to X2 ...Growing up... Jasmin supports 128/+2 nowHi, all. New version of Jasmin is available (v0.11). It supports ZX Spectrum 128 and ZX Spectrum +2 models. Try it [URL="http://www.dustedpixels.co…
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Hercules (horizontal strips in the border) + some ...Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
I'm having a nightmare trying to dock with the space station - what's the trick?
I tried flying past it and doing a 180, but still no good. I get so close that I can't tell if I'm horizontal with the bay door any more...seconds later: Kaboom!Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
... 't tell if I'm horizontal with the bay door any ... easiest of the lot. Your horizontal plane almost doesn't matter ...Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
... 't tell if I'm horizontal with the bay door any ...Bring Back Dallas on Channel 4Did anybody see the supposed "reunion" at the end of this show? My God! NOBODY TURNED UP!!!! (Except the ugly baby dude, who doesn't really count..…
... wind blowing everything pretty much horizontal :-) If you've ever been ...How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... includes left and right border, horizontal flyback and the actual 256 ...How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... . TVs themselves vary in their horizontal dot resolution, which is tied ... are horizontally inside the CRT. Horizontal resolution is also affected by ...best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
... seems different, like sometimes its horizontal then vertical, sometimes youve got ...Childhood strange obsessionsWell, off on a tangent from the white dog shit thread... there were the strange childhood obsessions which were pretty arbitrary and maybe a little o…
... with a curved and upsloping horizontal bit rather than a square ...Childhood strange obsessionsWell, off on a tangent from the white dog shit thread... there were the strange childhood obsessions which were pretty arbitrary and maybe a little o…
... with a curved and upsloping horizontal bit rather than a square ...horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
... is meant to be about 'horizontal' Shmups! So - back to the ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... sp1_CreateSpr()
char dx; // signed horizontal speed in pixels
char ...