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Sinclair User issue 127: Great Eight 16 - what happened?I've been trying to make sure I have an as-near-to-complete-as-possible collection of Crash, Sinclair User and Your Sinclair covertapes (at least as …
... a WAV of the tape, spectacularly fail to convert it to a perfect TZX and then send it to ... in this disassembled state (SU Fun Four 3 and the YS Beaut Boxes 3 and 7, all from ... what's the story with thisZ80onDSK now compatible with +3e with ZXMMC or similarJust updated my utility to work on Spectrums equipped with +3e ROMs and IDE storage. I've tested this with ZXMMC at the moment but don't think there …
... I had to move part of the decompression out of bank 7 to get this working and move it to the ... a normal +3. Tested with Heartland 48k and Three Weeks in ... to ensure PLUS3DOS compatibility
║ -s .scr: use an ... /> ║ all outputed to "compliation1.dsk ..…Oure Dawn of HopeMy copy of Oure Dawn of Hope has never managed to load. At best I get 1/3 of the loading screen and then I get a loading error. The tape signal itsel…
... managed to load. At best I get 1/3 of the loading screen and then I get a loading error. The tape ... of my old tapes load just fine, so it's puzzling that a game from ... /> Does anyone have this game in any format? A simple snapshot would be ...Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…
... it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a ... , I can't attach a ZIP archive here, so the assembler listing and Sinclair ... a=63488
9020 READ a$: PRINT "{AT 20,0}";a$
9030 IF a$="" THEN ...Happy Hallowheeen / All Souls DayHappy Halloween or All souls day if you like. Despite many towns not doing nout because of Covid (US towns typically make Halloween a downtown event…
... Halloween a downtown event to keep the kidos safe from knocking ... and gardens and get involved. The police are there to stop traffic and just in ... if all the kids at the event got that much candy (and my ... closed the door and was like wait for it 1...
Scottie_uk
November 2021
Chit chat
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…
... doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a ... but i cant get it to multiplex the sprites as i want the same sprite repeated many times and ... the screen and even the same sprite at the same time walking at twice th…is a arduino uno / nano fast enough to talk to a specie ?my current project is to load games onto the specie via SD card / Arduino uno / nano although i suspect that the micro controller will not be able to…
... using port 31 (kempston) . the best i have achieved is to send a 32kb file over and ... the buffer chip but then it only receives one random byte. so back to the ... is to make a routine in place of the rom if i get any success at all (although
mark8bit
April 2022
Hardware
pc 2 zx, problems!!! :(Ok I've recently bought a cd (not a copy either, I got it from HMC in chester) containing some 6000 games. Now as my spectrum was damaged some 2 yea…
... using a 'tape courier device' (thats what it was called in maplins)
It's ... are all wired to the tape player differently.
2. Using the sound socket at the top ...Speedlock & Spin (again)Following on from the Vixen thread, I've come across another game which crashes during the decryption beeps - Imagine's "Ping Pong". With Vixen, a ne…
... blocks from that working Vixen I sent you, and it loads fine. There was me looking at the ... In addition, ZX SPIN annoyingly plays to the end of the tape/TZX and then plays the first ... it's actually quite obvious why this happens, when you learn how a spectrum ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... this from the beginning, and here's what I think of the whole affair (everyone else has an ... /> It's going to be almost EXACTLY the same as the Spectrum 48k. I'm just using a ... know their hardware inside and out. And neither are a +3 inCrash CD'shi guys, any of u received the Crash CD's yet? about to order them and wondered what they were like.. regards
... all to read( I have spent over 2 years on this project buying missing issues and collating all the ... holding my breath, and not paying to do it either.
The reasoning behind the ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... An attempt to capture the essence of the human knowledge in a specific domain and to ... 3 with item 1 and item 1 with item 2. From this ... are and what you have tried and not tried would ... all of these situations.
Problem Solving.
It ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... use I register to look at table at HIGHBYTE * 256 then get IM2 ... to shove it all up at the top of the RAM (there is some trick with using the ... player and AY data so there's no ... to the end of the RAM.
I knowCastlevania ZX looking REALLY nice in color :)[url="http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html"]http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html[/url]
... i do remember some demo that, at the end had a face contorting but it didnt ... i cant get right in bmp2scr, and i use it mainly for making an SCR to then convert to Tap. then i edit in ... on my mood ) to<…Castlevania ZX looking REALLY nice in color :)[url="http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html"]http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html[/url]
... ;cant get right in bmp2scr, and i use it
>mainly for making an SCR to then convert to ... corrupt a few pixels from the lower part of image. Anyway, I?m working on ... to scale up too. At the moment I can only scale down.
Anyway, my ..."La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…
... i'd get sidetracked, so i really don't know what context it is in. i ... the loading screen title to English, in which case - fancy a crack at it ... i almost missed this part, and wasn't going to look at this thread at all ... the ordin…Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... to them about the remake not to worship them :rolleyes:
[quote]Strange, a ... I helped then I would need to see consent from the owners. I don't believe this ... sort of underground activity is in any way helpful to the retroscene breaking it's ...Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…
... care at all for the looks, and certainly WOS DOES look good to me, I think it's a ... better in order to please those who pay more attention than I do to this ... changing, the emphasis is still on the content, and the site does not get overwhelmingly ...Is spectaculator emulating the +2 correctly?i remembera few games that would crash when running in 128K mode, due to a bug in the hardware of the grey +2, hence it being replaced with the +2a. …
... outrun (and possibly super hang-on on the other page). this is all from memory ... at the board in the +2 and give some details, perhaps tape a picture, i cant compare it first hand to a ...My favourite games!Alchemist, Antiriade, AticAtac, Blob The Cop, Bomb Jack 1-2, Booty, Boulder Dash 1-6, Bride Of Frankenstein, Bruce Lee, Buratino, Custard Kid, Dan Da…
... it was the end, it went back to level 1) but I am still playing, trying to get a ... , and that's what great arcade games are about, I think.
3 ... this on the PC, but I find it hugely addictive even though it is very simple. I tr…Fire Ruby - More HelpI cant pass the spikes in the fire ruby by lawrence creighton, can someone please help? [ This Message was edited by: welsh_brawler on 2003-08-08 21…
... bring the Coast{6}Guard! Here's a diving-suit: put it on and let's get ... }{3}{19}{1}"Who lights a candle in the{6}wind?" says Wally, "my name's ... at the quayside. Wally strides over and warns you that this is not{6}the time to ...Trapdoor Has anyone here actually completed this game? I keep getting stuck on the "I want some Fried Eggs" mission. Yes i have read the text on this site,…
... open the safe at the end) depending on whether you managed to serve 3 or ... I tried to check all this by playing it through to the end again, with the intention of documenting a ... I've done Popeye (my fave game evah!) and Flunky screenshot maps -
jil
August 2003
Games
New Games WantedI'm sure 99% of you know already, but just in case you don't... CRONOSOFT.CO.UK is happy to release quality Speccy software you may have written!
... to compress/compile them all into one file + when you walk in a room and a ... screen loads it only displays at the top 2/3 so it's not messing up the text and ... Input a$ and what not. I'm not using an adventure creator im doingNew Games WantedI'm sure 99% of you know already, but just in case you don't... CRONOSOFT.CO.UK is happy to release quality Speccy software you may have written!
... made it to the Spectrum in any form, and it's a corking little game. I've ... using an adventure creator!
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Have sorted it now! No worries at all. I ...I am going to check my entire collection of tapes tommorrow....I must confess to being very lazy with my Spectrum tapes, all tapes for that matter, I just have them piled in boxes around the place. Tommorrow af…
Right, I cant get the hang of any of this preservation lark.
It's all a mystery to me. I'll leave it to the experts.vote rigging ?This is not intended to cause any major rows , id just like some sensible views on the voting from regular forum users , 2 games that ive noticed wit…
... me get this straight...I'm only disagreeing with Andy like I would with a ... /> I know it has for me as I spent an hour in the early hours casting a ... to the subject... When I went to look at some of my votes I then noticed how angry andSecurity codes for Operation Berlin and Operation Stallion kindly requestedHas anyone the security codes for these adventures? It is impossible to start playing without the codes, since the player is requested to input them …
... 's what I always say...
Pity bosses have never heard the saying :( The exception to this ... no real hacking to do at all to find these codes just a spot of ... I will use Operation Berlin and place the snapshot in the Unpaws directory.
Using a ...New gameHello. I've just started developing a new game for the 128K spectrum. In fact, its the first thing I've ever programmed on a Spectrum (i'll admit, I…
... .. I'm using snapshots at the moment simply because it was the easiest format to make from my assemblers ... to get all the pieces in the right order by following the first paragraph.
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