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Elon Musks's Blastar (Conversion)Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer) [url="https://www.t…
... Since it's quite instructive to see what 12 year old ... I don't yet know how to do proper attachments so I ... INVETERVAL type commands to force periodic calls to the game code ... =0
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What are the keys to Exterminator by Silversoft?As the title says. It's a Berzerk clone, but there's no instructions available to tell me how to select a 1 player game and what the keys are. Anyone…
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SP1: Print text outside the game sp1_RectHi, Is it possible to print outside the usual sp1_Rect defined for SP1? My idea is to have a small sp1_Rect for the game and print text outside fo…
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Last Problem in Chapter 3 of Toni Baker's Mastering Machine Code on your ZX Spectrum.Chapter 3 of this great book is all about how to use the registers and covers the operations LD, ADD, ADC, SUB, SBC, INC, DEC, SCF and CCF. The la…
... great book is all about how to use the registers and covers ... asks a program be written to produce a 1 if ... mind this only expects us to use the operations outlined ... by PRINT USR 61440. However, I can only get it to ... BC, 0 01A000 Init BC to 10
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ZX Spectrum +2B 128K sound distorted and vertical jailbars. How to fix it?Hello, I have a ZX Spectrum +2B 128K (Issue 4 Motherboard) which suffers from sound distortion (the AY music is loud and distorted) and also very fa…
... I can do is to replace R203 and R206 ... there anything I can do to eliminate this problem? It ... ghosting (which I would like to eliminate) but I also ... than it should be compared to RF output). Is there ... issues?
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Pandemic boredom induced hobby revisitedA few weeks ago, possibly because of the promised Biden stimulus check for $1400, I decided I deserved a splurge and went to Walmart to get two new l…
... a splurge and went to Walmart to get two new ... made and remembered how much I used to love Polaroid ... and you have to keep the print in the dark ... quite dramatic pictures thanks to those special effects lenses ... on Instant Cameras showing how to get the most out ... -
Spectrumpedia revised and extended edition. Suggestions about possible new contentFor the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the Spectrum, I am going to revise the Spectrumpedia. Feedback was very positive, although the fact t…
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[i]To be added to Chapter 1[/i]
[i]To be added to Chapter 4[/i]
Big Brother Publishing, London 1984
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Remainder (Mod) calculationsI've been figuring out how to calculate remainders after integer division by a constant divisor k (A mod k = A % k). I found that for most small di…
I've been figuring out how to calculate remainders after integer division ... that for most small divisors, numbers n of any size could ... br /> [/code]
For some numbers (9, 11, 13, 18, 19 ... br /> - Only divisibility for nonzero numbers can be found in 14 ... -
pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
... completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more ... ... Plot-Print
unfortunately it doesnt allow you to clear a ... square like print " " does, for ... and animated walking. anyone know how to do this? as i dont ... -
RF to HDMI adapter...So I have been wondering about getting a RF tuner lately, as the only TV set I have that still works and still has a tuner is VHF and most Speccy's a…
... would be handy to be able to tune a speccy ... you know you've going to have to tune it.
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1) How to make it use English.
to most Speccy owners, hit ... />
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How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…
... " error when I later return to basic.
... I know you have to restore the IY register before ... returning to basic but my code ... presumably something else needs to be restored as well ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one ... -
WiP Raspberry Pico Microdrive Hardware EmulatorDecided to take the plunge and learn how to program a Raspberry Pico Micro Controller and, after messing around a lot with Oqtadrive, decided to crea…
... the plunge and learn how to program a Raspberry Pico Micro ... enough :-)
I wanted to mirror the Pi1541 project whereas ... ; output) & 9v reducing to 5v to power the Pico. Rest is ... go.
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game instructionswhere can you get these from... I can't pick anything up in dizzy or the great escape. I was hoping you just walk into them or press up. Anyway I've …
... if you don't know how to play DIzzy then that more ... legally - unless you been unable to figure this game out for ... />
There's a wopping big archive on this site.
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PrintingI know this is totally off topic, but I am in dire need of help, and all u guys on WOS have been of great help to me before. Everywhere I've asked so…
... same problem though! How can Epson do this to their customers?
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Is it just me...?Maybe I grew up paying too much attention to films like Tron, Max Headroom, Robocop etc. - always the companies in them were huge faceless corporatio…
... For me it was part 'Big Corp' (The mighty Oceans, ... but they did seem to be big 'n' powerful in their ... br /> Things were brought down to earth for me when that ... here was a face to put to a game - and ... I do remember thinking how amateurish some of the adverts ... -
Currah Microspeech: good or guff?I've just been looking through old Speccy mags and saw the Currah Microspeech add-on. It certainly looks good, with lunar jetman having speech among …
... me hours of pleasure learning how to programme it, I made my ... own ''lexicon''. I got it to say - reasonably clearly, The Eagle ... , which I thought was a big deal at the time.
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Big K magazines/ Your Computer I do not know where else to advertise these multiple computer magazines but as they touched on the Spectrum as well as Oric, Atari, Apple etc I supp…
id like big K m8,all 8 of them if you still got them,email me with details on how to get them off you,i will need them posting tho as im a bit far away from wilmslow,well the other side of the hills in sheffield,lol. -
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…
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Please explain to me exactly how the Print Screen button on your ... keyboard allows you to display ... you're just going to just going to post more random junk ... -
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…
... br /> Please explain to me exactly how the Print Screen button on your ... keyboard allows you to ... an emulator by using the print screen and obtaining a ' ... '. That was in response to your wondering why bother displaying ... -
Help!!!!!!!I have a PC at home and I have stumbled across this web site, which is excellent, I dont know how to work an emulator or anything, I love playing STR…
Maybe you should learn how to use windows first... this is ... can't rely on autoplay to do everything for you all ... actually have ZX32 installed the big familiar open folder icon would ... be a good place to load snapshots from. -
Multiface pokes just for you...Hi :) Way back when I was a young 'un I used to be banging away at my Multiface with Genie non-stop. Oh joy :) Made a packet advertising in YS selli…
... suggest you read the excellent 'How To Hack' Jon North articles right ... must say a very big thank YOU to EWGF for sending back ... -
What is the name of the game where....You was a space soilder (i think), and you had to rescue mad scientists from a space station by placing things so that they changed direction around …
Does anyone know how to play this game? I downloaded ... other day and got round to playing it tonight. It's ... very similar to Mastertronics "Colony" in many ways ... doing. Or how to get those stoopid scientists to move their big fat backsides. -
Z80 AssemblerSome of you may know that I'm working on a Z80 assembler. I thought I'd start a thread so I can see what people think and what they might want to see…
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Ideas: how about macros? (A predefined set ... -completion of Z80 instruction (ignoring numbers, but showing in a scrollable ... numbers like #1 so that it's entirely up to the user to ... decide how to name them for ... -
Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …
... ! :) ) ... though im not trying to tell you how to do things by any ... i thought maybe how feasible it would be to actually put the ... whatveer you like to use, onto to these premade templates to print out cd ... agree, but that's how it seems to me.
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Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …
... paper as possible and print to it as a picture ... it's normally to set up machinery to print on the ... ... though im not trying to tell you how to do things by any ... I can judge how many are likely to be sold... ... games on it - how long to you give each game, ... -
Professional PiracyI was just wondering... Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a …
... boxes were always as big enough to hold the largest of the ... , saving them money on having to print different inlays.
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Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
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how to escape and then he'll ... did you resign? why??"^{7}Big Ben..the sights and sounds ... No.2^{7}^{7}A big red phone rings..^{7}No ... -
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... guess it also depends on how big the gme is ) when the ... the game to basic how will the program know where to return to in ... sprite editor allows crtain sprites to be big enough even a egghead ... so newbies would be able to see how it's put togehter ...
