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Electronics books for kids - ideas?Hi folks In the 1970s, there were loads of 'teach yourself' electronics books for kids. I remember the Ladybird series in particular were great, alt…
... people who don't want to make up the vast majority of ... school of 600 who knew how to use a soldering iron properly.
up at an affordable price! 25 years ago you had to be a ... on my shelf I picked up cheap on ebay. The former ... -
many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…
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The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
... the video..if only to see what the inside ... the video was just a crappy how to make a JSW room vid, ... somebody planted the idea a ... the vid as I seem to have misplaced it. But ... package will probably end up being somewhere between 35- ... -
Free Speech???I guess I better edit this....
... of things I wanted to do after Miles Mad ... maybe finally get round to trying to pen my elusive ... may pick up a coding book and try to get to grips ... t even remember how to attach a loader onto a game....oh ... World a few years back, but couldn't remember how to ... -
ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
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Yep. Look at what talented, determined programmers ... superior graphically and sonically to most dedicated arcade machines ... if they could learn how to push a certain graphics card beyond ... -
Question on copying screen bufferHi, Al my prevoius games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could d…
... bytes of interrupt vector table to force screen refresh to call my code ... cells from back buffer to screen I use a 256 byte buffer with screen ... addresses to update (generated from dirty ... -
Games Notorious for F*cking UpThis is a thread dedicated to games notorious for f*cking up or crashing mid-game (48K and 128K games). :) Music demos are also welcome. My experien…
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How To Be A Complete Bastard - I loved the ... Video game was fun to begin with but gradually ... version, it simply REFUSED to load the 1st stage. ... br /> 128K games tend to f*ck up way more than 48K ... Especially if they crash to BASIC with the AY ... -
Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…
... STILL trying to figure out how to do simple puzzles, ie pick up key ... dA page, and link to it. It's a simple design, nothing ... favourite bands as well, played a fairly indirect part in it ... he use his "influence" to make a sequel. Which is why Johnny ... -
Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... world :- a header file that tells you how to call a function, some ... spend hours to find how to print highscore text at a specific location ... 8-bit compiler with a nearly grown up implementation of stdio ... on smallC... then I gave up.
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Moggy Adventure (Mojon Twins, 48K)After travelling across the world to become a gentleball and leave all his vices behind (mainly alcohol and the riverside weeds, but rumours suggest …
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Look at October. "Oct" = 8, but ... Some name changes happened to devote months to popular gods, as in ... Caesar and introduced July, a month devoted to praise him. And when ... stuff like that. They knew how to have a good time!
Please test my Manic Miner remake!Thanks to everyone who downloaded my sneak preview of Manic Miner Turbo. Thanks especially to na_th_an who is the only person so far to give feedback…
... that (or a 1.75K rotate table and mask it to get the ... save some memory by using a 256 byte mirror table (or generating one as ... : I'd also have to redraw a lot more if it scrolled ... since this is intended to be easy to make mods from, I ...Maths stuff...Was wondering if any of you guys could help me here. I need a mathematical formula or algorithm which will allow me to place 2D shapes within a give…
... O" level" book to get a grasp of how to do ruler/compass constructions ... , and had to ... how to construct a line of length root n, because that question came up ... bastards used to give you homework once a week at my ...JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …
... 'll have to study the audio code as up until now I ... had no idea how to use Spectrum ... audio inside Java! A few more ... us who have no idea how to write a full emulator :)[/QUOTE]
Blackstar by Richy Pitch[youtube]FQLznlyLONI[/youtube] Discuss. Points will be deducted from the first person who asks "can this be done on a real Spectrum?"
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how to produce a better .TAP and also how to load the ...At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
... how to fix it. It just makes a whurring sound, then asked me to ... put in a tape. I'm ... "]handy info on how to fix a broken drive belt[/ ... reason didn't seem to provide them without labels ... printed) to the games publishers so covered up Amsoft blank ...New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... 'm glad you bring this up.
Let ... be very surprised by how similar games programming is ... fact, I'd not know how to.
Of ... young 'best coders' (well, up to 18 ) won't make ... to write a tutorial about how to make a game with z88dk, but to ...New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
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Love the 'arcade' look and feel to it, reminds me totally ... people "How to buy a burger in McDonalds" as an alternative to "How to Snare a Rabbit ... " or "Catching and gutting a fish" in a survival ...game inlaysjust curious if people keep them...I have loads of tapes without the inlays or compilation tapes.. with 1 tape missing etc.. I should list em, just…
I've got a few spare inlay ... address:
Cosmic Pirate (Byte Back)
Daley Thompson's ... />
I also have a couple of odd compilation tapes ... Frost Byte
Ghostbusters
Ground Force Zero
How to be a Hero ... hand games - too many to list here.wINDOWS 7[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8081003.stm]I love it when I'm first with this kind of crap[/URL]
"signed" drivers , that goes back a long time ago.. for 64 ... what midi format it conforms to / how messages are sent/what order ... got used to it, well moreso.. 32 bit is a headache for ... 's VERY easy to eat a lot of memory up , way beyond 4 ...Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance
... use a look-up table, which would reference both your name table, and filename table.
With this you can get to any file by calculating *4 ... the first two bytes point to the location of the name ... , and the second two point to the location of the file.What do you think about this ?It seems in near future this multi-role board will be able to mimic Speccy too.... [url]http://www.retrothing.com/2009/04/fpga-arcade-replay-emulati…
... are boards that allow you to use a standard PC motherboard in ... year where we were shown how to build a MAME cabinet and what ... a PC (flaky OS, driver problems, having to wait for it to boot up ... PCB factory the initial set up of the photo tools requires ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... to speed it up a bit then unwind the loops and use a look-up table to ... to be a general PRINT routine, not a Sprite routine, which should take a ... up with all sorts of colour clashes - imagine Printing a Character to ... m probably going to put in a 64 column print ...Invasion of the Zombie Monsters - What do you think of it?In case you missed it, RELEVO Videogames have just released their excellent Invasion of the Zombie Monsters game for free... (See [url]http://www.wo…
... this is just one exception to a general trend of games ... Back then, you had to learn how to play a game, improve your reflexes ... , put in the practice to ... Now people expect to just be able to pick up a game and be ...speccy colors ajnd pixels and stuffwhat are the speccy colours? specifically the RGB values of them. i suppose could just put a screen in photoshop and work it all out. also how big …
... than dodgy televisions. In addition to failing the FCC test, ... also made it highly susceptible to interference from other devices. ... it will result in a spurious byte ending up on the bus, ... which in certain circumstances might cause a program to ...Gaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
... [I]ages[/I] to learn how to beat (if ever) ... /> Games that take forever to load, even if you die ... spending ages learning how to beat a game, just to see "well ... /> Games that turn out to look nothing like the screen shots ... back of the box. how many times have we ...Games hacked to be played with Sinclair Joystick #1 (67890)I have mentioned a few of these in other threads, but I think they kinda deserve their own... I have been hacking a few of my favorite games which ha…
... sort of a guide how do you generally do that? "How to make a speccy ... game utilize Interface 2" :-)[/QUOTE]
I will look ... find them, just change them to check for keys 67890, which ... means change the LD A,$DF to LD,$EF and then change ...Gameboy Color Development (Slightly offtopic)So I cut my teeth on developing for old systems and memory maps with the ZX Spectrum and Image to ZX Spec. I've recently picked up a Gameboy Color wi…
... . Scott, you really know how to make a great platform game :D
up that you were making a few years ago ...Spectrum +2 wantedLooking for a fully working Spectrum +2 Dont need any games but if you got them then they are always welcome addition. I Will need the psu and the o…
... on a +2A that suggests to me that people should up their efforts to ... get an original 128k+. What a bloody ... topics where people explain how to mod a specific Spectrum to make it the ...Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url] But I'd like to know about adventure ga…
... I found still loaded up with no problem). School ... a System 15000 clone, rather than a straight up adventure, although there was a ... and Machine Code thrown together to conclude the adventure.
... very good at explaining how to structure a text adventure game ...
