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Do you know this game (a dog in a kimono)?Hi, everyone! I'm looking for the game I used to play on my Spectrum, but I don't know the name. All I can remember, it was a platform game, the gr…
... I can remember, it was a platform game, the graphics was ... white and you were a dog wearing a kimono or something that ... looked like a kimono and you should kill ... -
+3 compositve video out problemToday, I've tried to put a composite video out in my +3. I've built the circuit proposed [url=http://www.secarica.ro/html/plus3_hardware.html#composi…
... :
- Video In soldered to D31 (and later ... if was not correctly set in a RF TV).
In my Spectrum + I made a hole in the lower plastic ... solve this question? A RCA connector in the upper part ... se puede poner ah?. ?C?mo lo ten?is ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... system calls will be emulated in Z80 for maximum speed. This ... /> I actually do have a working prototype in that it allows you ... - writing to Microdrive from m/c. I need to be able ... seem odd typing in a BBC Basic program on a Spectrum. It will ... -
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... X in BC and Y in HL, calculates SGN of X in D ... , SGN of Y in E and ... line drawing algorithm poorly implemented in the following part...
< ... B,A
LD A,L
LD L,C
LD C,A ;swap ... or +1
LD D,A ;dx in D
;deal ... -
Jonathan Cauldwell in Retrogamer!Jonathan Cauldwell, author of such superb games as Gamex*, Quantum Gardening, and about five billion others, including the excellent** Egghead series…
... Egghead series, is interviewed in this month's Retrogamer ... even possible to do in a playable form, and if ... Famer Jack in Harvest Havock was a sure win ... make a complimentary remark about a Spectrum game based in ... anyway around an egg without making a ... -
A familiar face at CERN....!?!!?Just so as I'm not multi-posting about the impending rip in the fabrics of the universe at CERN, I've posted this in a seperate thread from The God P…
... CERN, I've posted this in a seperate thread from The God ... /> Take a look at who's been spotted lurking in the background ... /> Rumours of a man walking around the collider dressed in black and ... carrying a suitcase, have yet ... -
Bresenhams circle algorithmI post here my final circle code to replace, if you want, the one in the ROM. It only uses integer math and runs very fast and is very compact. It is…
... precise than the one found in the ROM.
< ... the locations of the pixels in the first 45 degrees.< ... br />
;we draw a pixel in each of the 8 octants ...
add a,c
ld c,a
exx< ... -
Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…
... need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used ... was but a lad, so that I can indulge in severe overdoses ... accurate, actually, because the game in question was also very dark ... around, and is always in a horizontal position as a result.
Romance is dead, or at least it's got a dead armIt's the wifes birthday tomorrow and I've got her a really nice card, but I had no idea what to get her, she has everything. So I came up with an id…
... and I've got her a really nice card, but I ... where the thread title kicks in.
I thought like ... there I'll write her a song, and this is what ... .
When I was sleeping in a bus stop, where were you ... I came up with that in about 20 seconds, and the ...Spectrum Ethernet updateWell for those of you who don't follow the news section on the project page, here's a quick update...and a request. Development has slowed a bit, si…
... far uses these functions - the in built DHCP client, for example ... /> So...if you have a project in mind, tell me what you ... either an asm programmer, or a C programmer with the Z88DK (or ... !) The simple transfer routine is in ROM.
If there ...A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... is, the Spectrum now has a "dual-screen" feature: the well ... known ULA video output, and a TMS9929 video output.
in a matter of few hours.
in Spanish, but Google assisted translation ...Best unbeliavable story to a videogameI've been playing some old games SNES, and that got me back to Jungle Strike. it has probably the best plot I've ever seen in a game, something out …
... ve ever seen in a game, something out of a chuck norris/Steven ... with the biggest drug lord in Latin America, and together, ... they decide to make a giant terrorist attack on Washington ... fully equiped with tanks, guys in machine guns and VW spacewagons ...A few tapes, books and some hardware for sale on the 'BayHiya! I've put a few (hundred) tapes up for sale this weekend, all of them starting at 25p or less (unless I've made a cock up anywhere!) [url]http…
... less (unless I've made a cock up anywhere!)
... maybe even a few "R@RE!!!" ones mixed in as well ... />
There's also a few bits of hardware and ... some books... and a load of other assorted items ... for anything in particular then they were in a sort of ...Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, TheBelow is the spectrum listing from the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000078"]Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, The…
... not sure about a variable called [I]in[/I] as BASin ... ): DIM p(11): DIM c(11): DIM n(11): ... READ o$(i),p(i),c(i),n(i): NEXT ... 0
110 IF c(4)=-2 AND pn= ... n(4)=4: LET c(4)=-1: LET q$(4 ... )="Oops! Tree just fell in moat!": LET e$(5 ... w"
120 IF c(8)=4 AND pn0 THEN ...Found 128k +2 in the garbageHey there, I had a 48k Plus when I was a kid (still have, actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I know the basic of these computers. …
... ,
I had a 48k Plus when I was ... actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I ... />
I found a 128K +2 in the garbage last week ... attempting to restore it to a better state. It was ... most of it off with a gentle scratching.
...My god! How easy is it to fake a no claims bonus!! Not that I wouldI have recently renewed the Insurance on my car. The company wanted me to send proof of my no claims bonus in the envelope that I get in my welcome …
... of my no claims bonus in the envelope that I get ... I never recived a pack, but got a call from them ... that will be enough.... [b]In anycase we only bother to ... were to put an claim in with us.[/b]
... when I get another policy in a years time, providing I have ...Need FPGA advice for building a 24 port Ethernet hubNot Speccy related but know some of you guys have done FPGA work. Boss at work wants me to get 50 x 24 port Ethernet port hubs designed to replace k…
... hubs designed to replace kit in a legacy installation that cannot use ... /> I am getting a supplier to quote for a 1U unit that ... for specifying Altera or Xilinx in terms of what they should ...The Youg ones - There's many people in it.After all these young ones quotes flying arround, I decided to watch an episode. I watched the one called [COLOR="Red"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE=…
... /> For example, in NASTY, Chris Barry has a bit part in a cut scene ... as the Ships captain. Also in ... Smith and Jones).
In other episodes I have also ... angels stood behind freeman fluf in a cut scene of another episode ...The best ..... begining with the letter "A"Since forum posts are few and far between at this time of day, and I'm waiting for downloading to finish, I thought I'd post something interesting . …
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Best sound or music (in a game):
Best graphics ... [/B][B] (in a game)[/B][B]:
in a game)[/B][B]:[/B] Auf ... /> [B] Best graphics[/B][B] (in a game)[/B][B]:[/B] Oh ...Best Spectrum [whatever] beginning with "B"You know the drill, this time it's letter "B". I have to say, for me the Speccy stuff beginning with "B" tends to be of a higher quality than the "A"…
... "A" stuff.
And anyone, feel free to start the "C ... ", "D", etc threads when the earlier ones are done, in case ... />
Best sound or music (in a game): [/B]Brian Bloodaxe (well ... />
Best graphics[/B][B] (in a game)[/B][B]:[/B] Back ...Best Spectrum [whatever] beginning with a numberI forgot to do a numbers one, so here it is, for things that begin with a numerical digit:[B] Best game: [/B]Does 3D Deathchase count? If not (if…
... allowed), does 3 Weeks in Paradise count? If not ... probably called Three Weeks in Paradise), then I'll ... or music (in a game): [/B]3 Weeks in Paradise, if ... br /> Best graphics[/B][B] (in a game)[/B][B]: [/B]3 ... Weeks in Paradise, if allowed.[B]< ...John Elliot does it again! Re: TOS disks.[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit/browse_thread/thread/aa809b6f6b9c6f7f#[/url] It is now possible (and easier) to extract …
... to +3DOS. I wrote, in extreme haste, a C program
to do ... Stick the resulting +3DOS files in a .TAP so an emulator could ... second one needed a different
entry in diskdefs (only two ... system tracks, and a different skew ...Gone a bit film mad latelyYeah, I got a Sky box and the Sky Movies package, so now I'm going a bit film crazy, recording 3-4 films a night, watching one or two every evening f…
Yeah, I got a Sky box and the Sky ... , so now I'm going a bit film crazy, recording 3 ... -4 films a night, watching one or two ... their recording box and gone a bit movie mad?
in a week or so. I'm ...Help to run Abu Simbel in a +2A SpectrumI bought this game some weeks ago, but the version is the old one. When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to switch the keyboard issue to 48Kissue.…
... one. When I loaded it in the emulator, I had to ... I can't do that in my +2A to make the ... help??
Thanks in advanceHelp Identify a Kid's Book I Read Many Years AgoI'm not sure why but the memory of reading it just popped into my head today and I'm curious about it now. It was about a young London girl called Pe…
... Penelope who spends a summer in an old house somewhere in Wales. While ... in a tree house in the middle of a forest, but not a tree house in ... the branches and foliage formed a roof.
I can ...World Champions - E & J Software & Challenge SoftwareHi folks, The current infoseek price for this title is wrong. According to this mag advert: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Sin…
... on the Challenge Software label in a double cassette case, colourful ... /sinclair/games-inlays/Rereleases/c/CricketMaster(ChallengeSoftware)_2.jpg[/ ... it looks like an EJ in a diamond type shape, the ... probably threw too much information in already.
...Graphic enhancements in games!(this message was also posted at [url]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12431[/url]) Hello to everyone! A couple of years ago I …
... remake. At least for Speccy, in many cases gameplay and sound ... /> The "new" pictures" are created in double resolution (screen size 256 ... everythere (clearly, we need a sprite-based game, not ELITE ... states/frame -- number of tacts in a frame" that can (as I ...Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…
... what keeps us interested in these retro elements long ... still got issues of C&VG and Your ... type-in I programmed in, which was Stasteroids from C& ... I still can't find in a magazine, anyone know? I ... It was noticeable how annoying C&VG could be ...ANNOUNCE: JSW64: Flash Manic MinerI am delighted to announce the gamma-release of [b][i]JSW64: Flash Manic Miner[/i][/b], which is available as a free download from [url]http://geocit…
... more than 5 items in a room (the Flash MM ... have their columns specified in pixels rather than characters ... free for MM/JSW in 2009 than in 2008.
( ... documentation. There's a beta-version in the Files section ... Quantum of Solace".
(c) I plan to start work ...Recommend a PDF-reader plugin for IE/Ff (WinXP).I've been having misc. problems with PDFs on a work computer. I can read the PDFs just fine but once in a while (couple of times a month since 200…
... misc. problems with PDFs on a work computer.
... but once in a while (couple of times a month since ... and the computer responds in various ways, halting, ... be a phantom-problem I have lost interest in ... Ff for a WinXP[/U], not interested in hearing about ...
