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Python script to scrape Amazon.com book reviewsI've been meaning to read the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks (roughly 40 books) and Sci-Fi Masterworks (roughly 100+ books) lists for a while now, but …
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Edge Connector InformationHi Everyone, Hope I'm posting in the correct forum. I've recently been playing with an Arduino and got to thinking it would be fab if I could do so…
... to select which memory location or input/output interface to communicate ... ). But go to the logic 0 level to signal to the ... 's output pins.
Now if all you want to do ... a driver, or buffer. Or you could use transistor(s). Now depending on ... -
Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
... save the loop counter for now
push bc ; ... and 192 ; segment 0, 1 or 2 multiplied by 64< ... take that loop counter back now, :)
dec d ... bc, screen_table ; remove this if you don't need the ... which can be overwritten if's only being used ... -
Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…
... IC23 is a 74LS32 quad OR gate chip. It is ... " 32k RAM is one or more of the DRAM chips ... br /> This should print 0
Now enter
POKE ... results here :)
If all these tests pass, try ... the fault to just one or two chips.
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Fixing my old ZX Spectrum 48K issue 4AHi Guys, I trying to fix my old Spectrum 48K. Looks like my dad used a wrong power supply as the ULA had a bit missing and so did the 7805. So I rep…
... IC23 is a 74LS32 quad OR gate chip. It is ... upper" 32k RAM is one or more of the DRAM chips ... br /> This should print 0
Now enter
POKE ... results here :)
If all these tests pass, try ... the fault to just one or two chips.
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eBay 128K Spectrum RGB cables overheat the Spectrum!?Hi everybody, For a long time I've wondered why Spectrum 128K Toastracks were overheating when using my Retro Computer Shack RGB SCART cable. Today …
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Now let's use 560 ohm ... ohm.
The current now is: I = 12 / (180 + ... BLANKING pin, which now works out at 0.818V.
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Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?
... argument X of SIN X or COS X into a value ... /(2*Pl ( + 0.5), where Y is greater than, or equal to ... returns with: V=4*Y if -1 -
Popular Computing WeeklyHope someone can help me, I've been typing in a whole heap of early Type-ins for the Amstrad CPC 464 and have typed in a program, though it's not wor…
... written August '84, a month or so after the launch of ... :INK 0,13:INK 1,0
80 LOCATE #0,8,22:PRINT#0,"SOUND ... )=0:IF INKEY(0)=0 THEN k=1:' **** VOLUME ENVELOPE
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FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…
... by anything else gets "eaten" or interpreted as follows:
0; /* now send __ to if1
later we raise :-) */
} else if ... */
if1_ula.tx = 0; /* send __ stop bits or s.e. :-) */
SpecBAS / SpecOS documentationHi, I just find out about SpecBAS and I was so impressed by the new functions while retaining compatibility with ZX Basic that I've been playing wit…
... 10 SPRITE NEW sp1,0,0
now add an animation ... screen destination
so if the sprite was at ... ,400
if you repeat option 1. the ...
but
if you repeat option 2. the ... :
If you do not set the frames or steps Specbas ...Help with Manic Miner tweaksPlease. :) This is the Software Projects version, simply as I had it to hand. [B]Problem 1:[/B] I've learned a bit (actually quite a bit) and manag…
... CP 2Ah ;Are we now on the ten-thousands digit ... JR Z,R90EA ;If so, roll over to '0'
INC ... End of list
OR A
JR Z, ... C90FE
LD (IY+0),0 ;and mark the item ...Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…
... to me until now. This version uses 0 to +191 for ... jr nz,IsNeg
neg ;if SGN y is +ve, make ... will calculate -16:+175 as 0:+191
...
djnz MoveBit
or (hl)
ld (hl), ...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…
... the grunts usually attack you, or shoot these weird bone shuriken ... is annoying me intensely right now.
I've worked ... to bed today, even if I lose sleep :lol:
EDIT ... and melee him about 4 or 5 times.....plobrem solv[B ...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…
... the grunts usually attack you, or shoot these weird bone shuriken ... is annoying me intensely right now.
I've worked ... to bed today, even if I lose sleep :lol:
EDIT ... and melee him about 4 or 5 times.....plobrem solv[B ...New Tool: HCDisk2Hi, I bring to your attention a new tool that I wrote: HCDisk2. HCDisk2 is a command line tool able to transfer files stored on several file system …
... /sector). Well, no luck until now, because
- I didn't ... still around 180 KB, even if the image file size is ... 0, side 0, track 1, side 0, etc or
2. track 0, side 0, track 0 ...Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…
... [list]
[*]If a live cell has 0 or 1 neighbours then ... it dies.
[*]If a ... ld bc,17873
xor a
sbc hl,bc ... (hl),b ;update p$() " " or "*"
inc hl
inc ...Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…
... white sprites over a yellow or green or cyan background makes it ... something like
"if image =y
if a=0
animate
now) I can't get it ... on the back-burner for now.
And thanks for ...Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…
... goes to 0 (or to a certain value, depends if it is ...
"if a=0
animate
endif
if (counter) =0
kill ... if (counter)=0
if lives>1
remove
spawn 0 0
(cannot use "if lives>0" because then lives will ...Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
... 20). Set it to 1 if you want full high resolution ... : DIM map(mw,mh) BASE 0: GO SUB 37040 LET px ... =IIF(map(px+1,py)=0,0.001,90.001),mmw=13 ... =1350 REM Engine60 FOR x=0 TO w-170 LET dx ... +(rdx*rdx)/(rdy*rdy))90 IF rdxFeatures that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…
... see why anyone would now go out of their ... 55 (00110111). If you poll with IN 0 then everything, including ... 8 output lines rather than OR or NAND logic.
if two COMCONs would clash ... whether the pins are connected or not. But then again ...Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…
... call those clones “nasty” if they’re just doing ... what the DISCiPLE does, now I think of it. ... 55 (00110111). If you poll with IN 0 then everything, ... so you can actually hold “0” (or “5” for Sinclair 1) ... fun things would happen if you enable Cursor joystick ...Broken search (or bigger problem with WoS?)This might have been brought up already, but the problem really hit me under the belt, as it were. Then I sent a msg through the form afterwords, and…
... baby - most of time you sleep but when you wake up ... :)
If you followed what happens on WOS or made some ... their attitude. Maybe check it now.
It's not ... last for half a year or longer.New game: Speccies 2 for arcade hardware.I hope this is the right section for this - "Brand new software" doesn't say anything about being "Spectrum only". If it isn't then I'm sure a mod wi…
... Sokoban LE are in HBMAME 0.167 now:
http://hbmame ... most on 2013. I wonder if a pub owner could make ... version meaning if it has limited number of lives or playing time ...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…
... nasties, so now I have a place to sleep pretty close to ... .
Don't know if you can still get the ... to see if you can just buy the DLC (or how much ... one without to my mate if he wants it.
British Foods not generally available in the USQuality Street! --Haven't had that since I was a child Trifle! --Same Shreddies! --No malted wheat cereal as far as I know
... n' Mix at all now, because about 80% of the worlds ... population no longer has any standards or ... stale taste to it, or all the skanky fat women ... the mother got angry, if you don't want to ... , most places like that now will let you try 1 ...Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
... using indexed memory locations. If you store stuff in ... in the instruction encoding -- if you look at some ... exact horizontal pixel coordinate. If you need to shift ... or (hl) ; or spr graph rotated right
ld (SP1V_PIXELBUFFER+0),a ...So were the 80's really that great?I should imagine that most of us on WoS were kids during the 80's. I was 6 at the start of the 80's and obviously 16 at the and. Now that is one he…
... must be much more peaceful now.[/quote]
9/11 ... to home as the 80 IRA campaigns. Or there was the 'English ... , like Able Archer in 83. If that had kicked off WW3 ...So were the 80's really that great?I should imagine that most of us on WoS were kids during the 80's. I was 6 at the start of the 80's and obviously 16 at the and. Now that is one he…
... must be much more peaceful now.[/quote]
9/11 ... to home as the 80 IRA campaigns. Or there was the 'English ... , like Able Archer in 83. If that had kicked off WW3 ... footnote.[/quote]
Actually if you're talking the Able ...
