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How to update titles in infoseek?I've been recently reported that the versions of Maritrini and Severin Sewers in the archive are not the final ones. Is there any way to update them…
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I'm glad I didn't stand behind Samsung in the post office queueAfter Apple won their lawsuit against Samsung in the latest patent wars court case, and Samsung were ordered to pay Apple one billion dollars (litera…
... dollars (literally!), Samsung have started to cough up:
... the ability to sense multiple simultaneous touches on the screen, for instance ... using a pinching motion to zoom ... 've heard) patent on how to do the D-Pad properly ... -
next pixelI searched the "Discussions" groups for the phrase "next pixel" and got no matches - and removing the quotes it discards the "next" and just searches…
... spawned from my converting Doom to run on the +128, and ... usual struggles with printing stuff to the screen, I rediscovered this [url ... was what I was wanting to do, but it seems rather ... ? I expect that someone knows how to do it in six lines ... -
Game artworkDoes anyone know how to get hold of really high resolution versions of game artwork? I'd like to have some framed prints in the house. Scanning the c…
Does anyone know how to get hold of ... adjustment would be best, to preserve the whites and ... so the artwork is unavailable to me, thus the request. ... />
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Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…
... up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen ... (35 secs). Any suggestions on how to speed up those two parts ... /> 1050 FOR y=tri TO tri-ml*my+1 STEP ... IF NOT y THEN GO TO 1082
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How to get consistent speeds from BT Broadband?I was wondering if anyone's had a similar situation to mine with BT Broadband and found a solution. The service is reliable but usually slow. With th…
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Possible TZX of City Connection?After a long time there is only a .Z80 file of this game for 48k version (only??? If it appears on the menu screen alongside the game title, it seems…
... it appears on the menu screen alongside the game title, it ... this format or was intended to send a digital copy of ... cartridge. It would be great to preserve it and get the ... .
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Covering my tracks using OVERI've got myself in a bit of a mess again I'm afraid, the routine I have written is for 4 characters to move across the screen 2 spaces at a time in I…
... is for 4 characters to move across the screen 2 spaces at ... INK 8 and OVER 1 to avoid corrupting the background. This ... time I am unsure of how to go about correctly deleting the ... />
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semi dead speccy 48k who can helpHi forum , i am busy recovering a 48 k speccy issue 3 board unit. With the help of a more experienced spectrum user from the uk , i managed to get…
... speccy boots -> and the screen remains with the copyright logo ... from speccy by trying to connect the connector pins ... and all looks fine to me compared to the schematics of issue ... defective ?? ( i assume ula but how to prove that ?? )
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How do you save in multi part games?With a game Like [i]The Bard's Tale[/i] or [i]The Lamberley Mystery[/i] saving is a bit more complicated than usual. Rather than just saving and relo…
... such, I have no idea how to, say in [i]Bard's ... question, got prompted to save your party to tape, then loaded ... right tape and then prompted to load your saved game/ ... loading it just restores you to the place in the ... where you saved it. How the heck do I work ... -
help needed :) how to rotate a 3 x 3 array 90 degreesI just cant seem to get this sorted in my head ( or on paper ) , I've found multiple examples in C , python , etc but cant find any z80 examples any …
I just cant seem to get this sorted in my head ( or on paper ) , I've found multiple examples in C , python , etc but cant find any z80 examples any one have any thing to offer or best practices etc
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Space PhantomsWith Halloween fast approaching a horror theme shooter could be of interest to someone looking to start a new project,something like the arcade game …
... could be of interest to someone looking to start a new project ... alien sprites had been changed to a horror theme (ship=angel ... only just started downloading code how to`s and guides so i ... little busy with bullets on screen but is it possible?
How to lengthen the life of a laptop battery that I rarely use?I keep my laptop mostly plugged in, so the battery doesn't get used. So to keep the battery viable (not charged as such, just working so that I can c…
... doesn't get used. So to keep the battery viable (not ... beforehand if I'm going to take the laptop away with ... somehow that does the most to keep the battery viable, but ...Dont play this crap - SharkFirst off I have to let you know that I have switched from Windows to Linux (yeah again lol) So the tools I am using are new to me so everythings a …
... I have switched from Windows to Linux (yeah again lol ... so everythings a little ... raw to say the least.
... had no clue on how to play this game but ... lot of your special weapons to get anywhere.
screen had some.
windows 8 !!!!!!!!I've just tried windows 8 on a new laptop, and I hate it already ! You're not supposed to close windows anymore, just keep opening new ones and windo…
... /> You're not supposed to close windows anymore, just ... Internet explorer doesn't seem to have a home button. ... There's no easy way to shut down windows, you ... calendar from the tiled screen. It said if you ... working out how to close this screen and get back to a ...Hoping to build a zx spectrum laptop in futureHi, I'm new here, going to school learning to be a computer tech. I like computers, computer stuff and I'm sort of a laptop fan - have several laptop…
... new here, going to school learning to be a computer tech ... I was googling for how to's on how to build a zx ... I found some info on how to do it. (er I ... I could either give to charity organizations in our ...
I'd like to know how many of America's population ...Amazon voucher - how to spend it?My sister got me a ?25 Amazon voucher for Christmas and I've been wondering what to spend it on. I could put it towards a new digital camera, phone o…
... I've been wondering what to spend it on. I could ... if there was anything cool to get for around that amount ...Writing to virtual disks/tapes? (in ZX Spin, please)I have some emulators installed in Windows: Spectaculator 8, ZXSpin 0.7 and Fuse (1.0.0.1). I've been able to save to disks in Spectaculator and fuse…
... 've been able to save to disks in Spectaculator ... how to save to tape in ZXSpin.
When I try to save to ... I don't know how to create new floppies or ... fails when I try to write to floppy disk.
... I have to use Spectaculator to save data to disk/tape ...How to check the whole memory on a +2 greyHi everybody!!! I suspect that i have a bad memory chip on my +2 Grey. Does anybody know if exist any utility to check the whole memory? Thanks a …
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I suspect that i have a bad memory chip on my +2 Grey.
Does anybody know if exist any utility to check the whole memory?
Thanks a lot!!!Adding IDE to your Spectrum +2 A/B (or +3)Hello my fellow [B]WoS'ers[/B] [B]This is a shared thread with [url]www.amibay.com[/url] which you can [URL="http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=…
... /> I don't often get to do a Show and Tell ... I start I would like to thank and greet the following ... ]So would you like to know how to add IDE mass storage on ... /> [I]Very carefully - dont be to sudden with them[/I]
How do I make a TZX image?I've done a very quick search through the forums on "tzx make" and not yet found what I need... So can someone point me in the direction of a guide …
... a guide or tutorial on how to make a TZX image from ... game, and I want to make it into a TZX ... use a tool called "audacity" to rip audio from vinyl and ... I could easily use this to create a WAV file from ... there a different/better way to do this...?
...Fuse branchingHi Guys, Although I am a developer, I'm not that experienced with coding under linux and am very out of touch with coding C (not done so for years).…
... I want to look at coding additional SPECTRA screen modes for ... give me some pointers on how to get set up.
... Would I find it easier to develop under Ubuntu + GCC ... work in a similar way to git?
... tree will I find the screen renderer?
...Saving to Tape File (Android)I've figured out how to get near-perfect digital files loaded from my Android phone as if they were real tapes (Emulator/Cassette Adapter), thanks to…
I've figured out how to get near-perfect digital files ... tapes (Emulator/Cassette Adapter), thanks to the FLAC format. Now comes ... FROM the Spectrum or PC TO the Android phone as a ... 've tried connecting my phone to the microphone and headphone sockets ...Bottom 4 lines of the screen fileI'm wanting to save the bottom 4 lines of the display memory (AT 20,0 to #0; AT 1,31) 23168 is the start of the attributes and its length will be 32…
I'm wanting to save the bottom 4 lines ... display memory (AT 20,0 to #0; AT 1,31)
But I cant figure out how to store the bottom of the ... of this piece of CODE to save?Disabling the +3 disk buffer; yes, but how?I would like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By reading the computer manual and some posts on…
... +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the ... I did not yet understand how to call +3DOS routines from BASIC ... don't even know where to start from, except that simply ...TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…
... sprites on a screen.
Again fairly similar to the concepts ... the standard TommyGun map tools to layout screen tiles.
The ... a previous screen then it is moved to the new screen.
... the AGD game tutorials on how to programming using the AGD ...Switch 128k to 48k modeNot sure how to go about this using MC, in 128 basic you can type SPECTRUM to revert to 48 mode (I think), but how would I go about switching modes u…
Not sure how to go about this using MC, in 128 basic you can type SPECTRUM to revert to 48 mode (I think), but how would I go about switching modes using MC?
Thanks in advance! :-)8-Bit Bach, available!At last, my ultimate 128 BASIC music program has been released today. After this, I'll get some time learning how to compose / arrange music with Bee…
... 'll get some time learning how to compose / arrange music with Beepola ... a couple of inlays, loading screen and some reading have been ...Archimedes file to diskBanging my head against a wall here but i dont seem to be getting anywhere fast, all I want to do is put the Acorn Archimedes version of Elite on a f…
... here but i dont seem to be getting anywhere fast, all ... I want to do is put the Acorn ... an Archimedes, does anyone know how to do that? All I can ...Emulator audio...how?Hi all. I am in the process of writing a Spectrum emulator (c#) for my final year project at university. I've got it all working, apart from sound. …
... It's easy enough to trap the ROM routines ... give me an idea of how to approach this? I'm ... easier than it seems to me. My current system ... over that timeframe, trying to recreate the pitch and duration ... - I get sound to output, but inaccurately.
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