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  • Names not in our high streets any more.I dont know why but I just fell into a day dream and started to think of all the old high streets shop brands that aren't around any more. Don Mille…

    ... :) :) :) :) :)

    Can anyone confirm if Pimblets(a pie shop) still ... 'potato pies followed by a(massive) custard slice. MMMMmmmmm.
    If they are ...
    alanspec alanspec March 2010 Chit chat
  • Be honest now...When you got your (first) Spectrum, was it the computer you wanted? And don't worry, this poll is anonymous, so your secret is safe, even if you're …

    ... how blown away I was by those big bright coloured stars ... I played solidly for days. Followed by the Horace games, The Hobbit ... , Planetiods & Rocket Raid! But if I had to choose between ...
    xyzzy xyzzy March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Saucer - The Most Awaited Speccy Game Ever?Joff, I wonder if you could answer a few questions I'm sure many of us would love to know the answers too. 1. What year did you start writing Saucer…

    ... of the sprite data completely. If you start trying to editing ... might want to press N, followed by P after you create or ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2010 Games
  • The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!

    ... the Doctor's morality (and if you remember, the Master's ... is KoT, followed by Logopolis, followed by Castrovalva. Sometimes I wonder if they should have ... and truly past its best by that point.
    Alien 8 Alien 8 April 2010 Chit chat
  • So which 8-bitter was biggest in which country?ewgf's topic "Be honest now..." got me thinking about this. As we got people from most European countries here and also a few abroad, tell us which 8…

    ... machine. If you ask me it was the Spectrum leading followed by the ...
    batsilos batsilos April 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My Spectrum has gone a bit dud since doing some Mods, HELPMy father in law and I did some modifications to my 48K rubber key Spectrum last weekend, and now it seems to be very keen to crash, especially when …

    ... ResiDOS and loaded Alien 8, followed by Knight Lore. I have also ... the coming days and weeks. If the problem persists I may ... be resolved though.

    If it proves to be a ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 April 2010 Hardware
  • Dinamic GamesI was thinking the other day about Dinamic games and their notorious difficulty level. So I've selected 4 of their games (Army Moves, Navy Moves, Ga…

    ... times. 18024 is the code if memory serves well. The second ... choice of playability. Bad design, if you ask. Never finished it ... and could be way better if one of those two options ... impossible screens at the beginning followed by much easier levels!)

    na_th_an na_th_an April 2010 Games
  • I got attacked last night...last night, my team (Benfica) won the football championship, so I decided to go celebrate with some friends, we went to the streets, all was pretty g…

    ... because matches tend to be followed by the introduction of booze...There ... of football piss heads, but if you go out after the ...
    deadpan666 deadpan666 May 2010 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... amend character sets.

    If you want to load in ... new one the type L followed by a space and the character ...
    Strident Strident May 2010 New game ideas
  • damaged spectrum+ (blinking squares)Hi, Sorry for my poor english, but I couldn't find on family forums any remedy for my hardware problem with my first speccy in my life :) I've bought…

    ... a tough job) TR4. Often followed by a failure of 1 or ... prompt. Which makes diagnosis of if/which RAM chips are gone ... repairing the electronics. That is: if the keyboard wasn't shot ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie May 2010 Hardware
  • Which assembler do you recommend to a (complete) newbie?OK, I am re-dusting my assembler books and want to re-dig into the Wonderful World of Assembly. Just wondering which assembler to go with. I reme…

    ... , I started with TASM (very basic and lacked important things like ... assembles as LD H,D followed by LD L,E). I think ...
    ccowley ccowley June 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3I am trying to compile a basic program with the [B]Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3[/B]. When i read the instructions to prepare the program to be compiled b…

    ... Spectrum BASIC User Manual Page 3
    --

    If you have ... />
    During compilation, HiSoft BASIC will pause twice, showing some ... of bytes taken up by the BASIC program without variables is ... compiled code. For example, if the code is to be ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Which assembler do you recommend to a (complete) newbie?OK, I am re-dusting my assembler books and want to re-dig into the Wonderful World of Assembly. Just wondering which assembler to go with. I reme…

    ... binary versions? [/QUOTE]

    If you want to put some ... [B].BYTE[/B] followed by numbers.

    If you save it to ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... remember we're all spoiled by cheap Chinese imported electronics that ... -recurring engineering cost followed by extremely low manufacturing costs. If you're making ... actually banging out the PCBs). If you expect low volume electronics ...
    Winston Winston June 2010 Hardware
  • for (;;) { }What does that piece of code do in C? Well I am familiar with something like for (i=0; i<100; i++) { } but I haven't understood what happens if you l…

    ... , so 0 to 9 again. If the second x was declared ... 5 ten times.

    If we are talking about C ... second example result in 0 followed by an infinite number of 6s ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk June 2010 Chit chat
  • Anyone been to see the Tour De FranceWe're in France this summer and the Tour De France will go within 20 miles of where we're Staying. So we'll make a day of it and go and see it go pa…

    ... with people giving away stickers +followed by many more similar 'comedy' vehicles ... from a spriral of cardboard if you push through to the ... soak it up.

    If you want to see the ... at is staggering; amazing even if they did all shoot up ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack June 2010 Chit chat
  • Sprite MaskingI was looking at the sprites in some games, and noticed they have sprite followed by mask. Usually a row at a time (so the mask is sort of interleave…

    ... using BC as a counter. If you know you're filling ...
    [/code]

    Also, if doing a two (or multiple ... spriote bytes for a row, followed by all the mask bytes for ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2010 Development
  • Sprite MaskingI was looking at the sprites in some games, and noticed they have sprite followed by mask. Usually a row at a time (so the mask is sort of interleave…

    [QUOTE=Gedlion;450893]Also, if doing a two (or multiple ... missed the part about "followed by".

    If you use XOR with ... bit is inverted.

    If you're talking about walking ...
    ajmoss ajmoss June 2010 Development
  • Only 300MB ?I was watching the TV program Caprica, and one of the characters says to another "[I]The human brain can only store around 300 megabytes of informati…

    ... smallest thing out there, but if you think about it it ... connections are not on/off; if neuron A fires then the ... well with an IF statement.

    By your logic, if placing 1 ... a chessboard, followed by 2 grains on the second square, followed by 4 grains ...
    ccowley ccowley June 2010 Chit chat
  • Only 300MB ?I was watching the TV program Caprica, and one of the characters says to another "[I]The human brain can only store around 300 megabytes of informati…

    ... disagree completely :)

    By your logic, if placing 1 grain of ... a chessboard, followed by 2 grains on the second square, followed by 4 grains ... on the third, followed by 8 grains, etc ...
    Sokurah Sokurah June 2010 Chit chat
  • LDIR timings in contended RAM?The 48K Spectrum technical reference page ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm"]here[/URL]) describes the detailed ti…

    ... ) to copy an entire row, followed by an ADD to move the ... of the bytes LDI commands. If you can get your head ...
    joefish joefish June 2010 Development
  • RGB SCART Not Working on ZX 128K (heatsink)I've just received a SCART RGB to HDMI converter and it is not working with my ZX 128K (heatsink). I do have the correct 128K SCART cable (which is d…

    [QUOTE=LCD;454439]Your Monitor/HDMI converter chips will burn out if you do so.[/QUOTE]

    Ah, the wonderful smell of the magic smoke escaping followed by the hunt for the soldering iron. One of the great joys of my life.
    ADJB ADJB July 2010 Hardware
  • z88dk and kempston problemHi, I was working on a new project using z88dk, but when I was testing I found that I got complete strange values if I pressed UP and FIRE simultane…

    ... need a new zx_clib.lib (if you use +zx on compile ... line) and zxan_clib.lib (if you use +zxansi on the ... them yourself if you have make available to you by going into ... /libsrc and running "make zxlibs" followed by "make install".

    Otherwise ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2010 Development
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... below. Each block is terminated by a zero. You'll see ... />
    ink+(paper*8)(+128 if big border) - 1 byte each ... have a certain bubble type, followed by a zero. repeat another 3 ...
    mulder mulder August 2010 Games
  • Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…

    ... shifting all the values up by something like 32, like ... in the HEX approach proposed by ewgf... That would be ... br /> 4) Its pure BASIC (even more so than ... would be filtered out by any of the tools< ... what can people expect if they opt for BASIC over assembly?!?!?
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... and it will go there, if there is no player there ... back in the 89th minute followed by "can they hold on for ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause August 2010 Games
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... you want with it. If you cannot handle other people ... , you will.

    If you are distributing software, particularly ... non-commercial activitiy, even proofed by the financial goverment. So ... make my work easier if we would have Basic loaders, not only ...
    Speccyman Speccyman August 2010 Development
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