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Any retail workers here with tales of idiot/time wasting customers?Having seen the tread about people smiling on supermarket adverts I could tell you that The customer is NOT always right. Where I work theres some r…
... be about half a mile away..and I got a polo mint ... for a tip.[/QUOTE]
I did a few ... Christmas stints there when I was younger, and ... they were always a complete nightmare. We did ... -
US minister planning to burn Koran in the USWhat an eejit that Koran burning minister is in the states. I'm not the greatest fan of organised religion myself, but even I can see how offensive …
... , in a galaxy far far away"
"Anyway, I'm rambling ... , he's a very naughty boy."
(I was going to ... I could remember, but I did a google search to see if I could find a ... =26941560717[/url]
have a look, there're some good ... -
what are the hardest speccy games.can members please post what they feel are the hardest spectrum games. there are tons of them. a few i think where hard. midnight resistance jet se…
... =3[/url][/QUOTE]
I agree, that could be most ... survive a while with a bit of luck.
I did a RZX of ... -
Rescue?!!I had a look at the top100 games and saw this one...is it really so good? I have never heard of it and it only has 1 reference in a big magazine gett…
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I still await a sequel. If anyone's interested, I did a review for ... Retro Gamer's website about a year ago ... it actually is mind! I think I wrote that review just ... more recognised as I can't think of a game quite like ... -
Rescue?!!I had a look at the top100 games and saw this one...is it really so good? I have never heard of it and it only has 1 reference in a big magazine gett…
... />
I still await a sequel. If anyone's interested, I did a review for ... Retro Gamer's website about a year ago ... it actually is mind! I think I wrote that review just ... more recognised as I can't think of a game quite like ... -
logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…
... INSTR commmand[/quote]
I did a example of "new commands for ... doesn't evaluate expressions within a REM statement.
[code];A "new" PLOT command using a REM statement.
a ":" or CR.
CheckLen ... -
z80 machine code assemblerHi everyone, Which assemblers have a nice user interface. Because i want to code in assembler on the computer and then assemble it. I dont want a co…
... /> They are "gui" based. But I think it's worth the ... editor and cli assembler myself. I did a quick setup guide using Context ... not too long ago in a thread called "starting out" or ... -
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…
... out of memory [edit:again]. I did a compress, and saved myself about ... : read the thread back, aaaah, I remember now]
... Barring any further problems, I might actually have this done ... by next week! Maybe. I'll need a game-tester or 2... -
Getting hit in the balls (guys only)Hi guys, I have a really strange quesiton, Everytime i get hit in the balls, its not the balls that hurt much, its the abdomen just above, so its t…
... hurt remembering the first time I got "nadded"...
... my bmx, I did a little bunny hop off a curb, my ... was mainly abdominal and I thought I was going to ... be sick for a good 30 - ... 40 minutes afterwards. In fact I actually thought I ... -
Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
... sometimes have to be taken - I would recommend developing an emulator ... I was thrilled by them as they lacked many basic features a ... CPU supports. As for ARM, I did a little on the GameBoy advance ... with it...
I guess I have been spoilt by my ... -
+3 issues....Hello All I came by a couple of +3's on ebay and I'm having issues with them. Since I only ever owned a rubber key, thought someone might be able to…
I did a quick composite mod on mine runing from pin 6 of the tea2000, works but the picture is quite dull compared to my scart signal -
Job Hunt Stress.My employer has never offered me commitment, with me being first put on 12 contracts, then 6 month contracts. Generally I only get to find out if it …
... 't find any..
I did a temp teaching job at her ... them time to find a replacement. They did more digging into my ... I turned it down, teaching all those brats did nothing for me, I ... only did the temp job as a favour ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
[QUOTE=deadpan666;489829]That'll get better once you find one of the "other" horses....;)[/QUOTE]
yeah i did find one, broke it and made it my stead. but then it never came back when i did a mission.
does it go back to my ranch? -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
[QUOTE=mile;489854]yeah i did find one, broke it and ... it never came back when i did a mission.
does it ... -
life problem...What is the best thing to do when your [I]ONLY[/I] social contact turns into a bad, unhealthy relationship? Being 28, and with social anxiety disord…
... see them anymore. I guess as i've got older it ... family.
Also i've found it slightly easier ... talk to people as i've got older. I did a plumbing course recently ... which I was totally unsuitable, however I found I got ... -
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... British Rally on the C64, did the graphics for Zach Townsend ... one day at my flat, I did a load of sprites, backgrounds and ... -
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... British Rally on the C64, did the graphics for Zach Townsend ... one day at my flat, I did a load of sprites, backgrounds and ... -
life problem...What is the best thing to do when your [I]ONLY[/I] social contact turns into a bad, unhealthy relationship? Being 28, and with social anxiety disord…
... that anyone uses it. I did a recruitment drive a while ago, and got ... , and it's just got a couple of #spin regulars (and ... -
life problem...What is the best thing to do when your [I]ONLY[/I] social contact turns into a bad, unhealthy relationship? Being 28, and with social anxiety disord…
... that anyone uses it. I did a recruitment drive a while ago, and got ... , and it's just got a couple of #spin regulars (and ... -
? ! WtfHello all I have just got a lot of un-subcription e-mails,from the tipshop,YSRnRY,RZX archive.And then i got one from Skarpo?,telling me i had a vir…
I had something similar a few days ago, i got an ... but when i clicked on it a warning came ... this email contains a virus'. Before i had a chance to do ... and the email vanished. I did a virus and spyware scan just ... but nothing showed up. I phoned my brother and ... -
ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …
... There seems so be only a little significant speed gain (comparing ... />
Great, thank you. :)
I did a brief test and it seems ... (about 2x), but still i am pleased with the result ... .
I suppose that pure machine language ... -
Two-resistor fix for +3 sound distortionOver at Zonadepruebas, mcleod_ideafix has done a circuit analysis of our favorite distorted sound output: the issue 1 +3 AY chip sound output, and fr…
hmm, I did a two resistor fix on mine (not sure if it was those values or similar ones) and it helped to a certain extent but the sound was still not great. Changing all the resistors out as well to get the levels as per the +2B circuit was better. -
Upgrading 16k MemoryHi All I have a fully working issue 2 16k spectrum and a broken issue3 48k spectrum (It's showing the black and white bars and some flashing blocks)…
... electronics shop. I also got a multimeter so I could check ... booting. I added the RAM ICs one at a time, ... machine booted up as a 48k. I did a "PRINT PEEK 23732 + ... when it boots. I loaded up a 48K game (Penetrator) ... :grin:.
I suppose I could get some more ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
I did a bit more work on the ... at the customize.asm file, I did not realise that there was ... reclaiming about half a Kilobyte.
I've also re-exported ... level in it, but I now have a whopping 7K available for ... -
ps2 retro game collectionstrying to collect as many as i can, any got any ideas? so far i have Atari anthology Capcom classics collection Capcom classics collection volume 2 …
[QUOTE=mel the bell;503349]i saw a blaze one hung up behind ... the counter in a chips shop the other week ... one due to the size. I did a bit of research myself as ... I was tempted to buy one.. ... -
The I remember That Thread!!!!!A thread devoted to all things retro from out past, be it old TV shows, old chrips, chocolate bars, drinks, places or people. Can anyone name this f…
... ;499766]Like Wagon Wheels I believe. I always wondered what was ... if it wasn't chocolate. I presume chocolate flavoured coating is ... made to taste like chocolate? I dunno......[/QUOTE]
... bigger etc.
I watched a thing on BBC 3 ages ago ... -
Does VLC make use of graphics cards?Since buying two HD tv's (a Samsung and an LG) around christmas i've been scratching my head bleeding how to get to watch movies in full HD. The xbox…
... using MKVtoolnix?
I've got a Western Digital media player ... films were refusing to play. I did a bit of googling and it ... this is perfectly "in spec" a lot of media players can ... ". This fixes every problem video I've come across since. Worth ... -
Sea Dragon creditsBy some reason I can't find credits for [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0025426]this game[/url] anywhere, neither on WoS nor in…
... if you did something relevant for developing a game and they ... my nephew and I did a demo of a ZX game via ... GameMaker 8 for PC, yet I ... language... Also recently I learned about a man alleged to ... kindly agreed to explain a few moments regarding his ... -
Does VLC make use of graphics cards?Since buying two HD tv's (a Samsung and an LG) around christmas i've been scratching my head bleeding how to get to watch movies in full HD. The xbox…
... configure almost everything, and i had really good quality ... ?
I've got a Western Digital media player ... were refusing to play. I did a bit of googling and it ... remux a video with no quality loss! Now i'm ... and not buy a new one when i got the ... -
Tzer version 1 (I think)Hi all, I chucked together this Windows application (although it will work under Linux using Wine with the .Net Framework 2 installed) so that I cou…
A proper infoseek frontend I see. And a promising one at that. I quite like ... -coded to Fuse ATM, so I'll reserve my comments. ;)
I did a search, I waited for a few seconds and then ...
