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Did you ever cheat to win in a competition?I just remembered this because of a post over at [URL="http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/best-cpc-games/45/"]CPCWiki[/URL]. I never personally cheat…
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Possible uMIA in a french magazineIn a sales page, it reads: Gryphon. It could be a typo, anyone knows what game could that be? [url]http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Tilt/…
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Diagnosing a strange software fault in a 48kHi, A friend gave me a 48k, which I am very keen to restore. The spectrum 48k was my first computer over 20 years ago and I owe my ability to code t…
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Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... I remember it being used in a couple of old games ... text. It was published in one the Your Sinclair magazines ... point me in right direction?
Theres a couple more ... one that didnt take a new line on your ... image....sure these were all in YS'91-92 but ...AY capabilities in a new ZX programHi. Finally in a ZX Spectrum version - "ASTRAL COMBAT". Download: [url]http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/astral_combat.zip[/url] it's a 3-parts mus…
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Finally in a ZX Spectrum version - "ASTRAL COMBAT". < ... /> it's a 3-parts music-collection made in 2013.
... load from cassette, please remember - in the main part choose songs ... /> You can find this music in MP3 files, recorded from real ...Worst/least effective weapon in a game?Just a bit of fun, like. Mile's 3-way (fnar!) comment in the other thread got me thinking - What's the crappiest weapon ever used in a Speccy game? …
... a bit of fun, like. Mile's 3-way (fnar!) comment in ... the crappiest weapon ever used in a Speccy game?
I ... the 3-way (fnar!) gun in [I]Robocop[/I] was pretty ...Manually embedding a .TAP file in a .SZX fileAnnoyingly, Fuse doesn't seem to give me the option to embed a .tap file in a .szx file. I've looked at the specs:[url]http://www.spectaculator.com/d…
... the option to embed a .tap file in a .szx file. I've ...I am walking London to Brighton non-stop in a day.I've registered and signed up, ( [url]www.bhf.org.uk/l2btrek[/url] ) to walk roughly 100k / 60 miles from London to Brighton, in a day, next summer. …
... miles from London to Brighton, in a day, next summer. Got to ...Favourite things to do in a power cut threadApparently we have yet another power cut at home, this is after 35 hours without any leccy over Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. Suggestions for favouri…
... for favourite things to do in a power cut please. I'll ...How copy a load menu in a TRD file?Hi I like to watch demos on my toastrack, i'm using DivIDE/DivMMC (with exdos) to load TRD files. Most of those TRD files have a nice boot menu to se…
... those TRD files have a nice boot menu to ... select a file I want to ... sometimes I got a TRD file without a boot menu. Is ... there a way to ... of those menu's inside a TRD?
... the real machine or in a emulator?XP POWER SR10S05 will not fit on Issue Two in a rubber key caseSo, FOR SCIENCE I decided to see if an XP POWER SR10S05 would fit on my Issue Two board in a rubber key case. Especially since it seems to be *juuuu…
... on my Issue Two board in a rubber key case. Especially since ... 3 48k which will fit in this rubber key case just ... XP POWER SR10S05 will fit in a rubber key case on an ...Poll : How interested would you be in a Speccy Remix CD?Chris Abbott is trying to work out excitement levels for a CD of remixed Speccy tunes over on Facebook.... [url="https://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/…
... out excitement levels for a CD of remixed Speccy ... /> ...and he posted it in the Announcement section here, but ... me to repost it in a more prominent position and ... of the original sound in the track or as ... re-imaginings in different styles? Leave a comment and let ...Using an EPROM in a 48K SpectrumThere are plenty of guides as to how to do this floating around, however I didn't like the fact that you can't then plug in the standard 27128 ROM ch…
... , and installed pin headers in the four link positions, ... at the ground point shown in the above guide:
... pin 28, I soldered in a couple of more pin ... I want to plop in a standard ROM for whatever ... could always wire in a switch as shown in the guide, and ...Biggest baddie in a speccy gameIf you ignore really huge ones where the whole game is set inside a baddie (Dominator, Gutz etc), what is the biggest enemy "sprite" in a Spectrum ga…
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Dark Sceptre ...is it possible to display code being loaded in a loader?hi, is it possible to display code being loaded in a loader?
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is it possible to display code being loaded in a loader?Best and worst jumping in a gameI've played Dynanmite Dan for the first time. I'm a bit disappointed that the jumping felt rubbish and out of place. Its just a diagonal up and strai…
... for the best jumping in a game would be Bruce ... is marvellous. Its a bit like a proto Prince Of Persia ... Its supposed to be a serious game about jungle ... or whether the target is a villager or soldier. But ... soldier in the face (In which case, you lose a health ...Yay (In a sarcastic, and sort of foreboding way), they're making a sequel to Bladerunner[quote="ewgf;52032"]In a parallel universe, one where directors understand what makes a classic film great, and the accounts and marketing department…
... 52032"]In a parallel universe, one where directors understand what makes a ... news that a sequel to the fantastic Bladerunner is in the ... rights to BLADE RUNNER in 2011 from the late ... -harrison-ford-officially-starts-filming-in-july-20160125
...flash in a stringhi, is it possible to store flash in a string? u can store colours, bright, etc.
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is it possible to store flash in a string? u can store colours, bright, etc.How do I [blah-de-blah] while using an emulated diskette in a +3?I'm using ZXSpin 0.7, emulating a +3 and I've been trying out random games that come on diskettes. I've had issues with saving/loading snapshots corr…
... /loading snapshots correctly when using a multi part diskette.
1) I load in a multipart game off of an ... 3) The +3 loads in the next level, all is ... a snapshot of my progress.
5) I progress in ... but because it's a snapshot it just stalls.< ...The ZX Spectrum and its derivatives used in a static , semi portable and portable way.Now on "portabilty" is there any where I will not be able to "go" with this (Now let me see!) Hmm ! Well semi portability should be totally OK as …
... get the idea for it.? In a pub of course : it ... drink . Here I saw a semi portable wireless screen system ... ice cream top up in a bottle but it was ... cleaner ! So it stuck in my mind Well it ... screens. So I became interested in "semi portability" and eventually ...Selling 10 Sinclair User magazines in a bound hardback coverI'm selling 10 Sinclair User magazines in a bound hardback cover. One of these is the first Sinclair User Annual from 1983. The first magazine starts…
... selling 10 Sinclair User magazines in a bound hardback cover. One of ...Raspberry PI in a Spectrum 48k+ case Keyboard OptionsHi, I was lucky enough to get an empty Spectrum 48k+ Upgrade Kit Case on eBay. This is good because it doesn't involve taking apart a good Spectrum a…
... 't involve taking apart a good Spectrum and it ... slightly more space to fit in a Raspberry Pi compared to ... problem is I need a way to connect the ... keyboard to a USB Device.
a USB device that a Raspberry Pi emulator ...How to Find a Game You Are Looking for - in a TZX (Emulator) Context I was looking for information about something else but I found a totally different concern instead . Whilst looking I found out that have been lo…
... else but I found a totally different concern instead ... genres could then be put in a "MASTER FOLDER" for ... they are all together in one place and easy ... to find in future.
Well maybe a could ... Maybe I should start in the WOS archive and get ...ZX80 in a BoxAfter putting a [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57916/spectrum-in-a-box#latest"]Spectrum in a Box[/url] a while ago, I thought it…
... discussion/57916/spectrum-in-a-box#latest"]Spectrum in a Box[/url] a while ago ... www.babbletower.net/forums/zx80/in-a-box/01.front-right.jpg ... www.babbletower.net/forums/zx80/in-a-box/04.closeup.jpg[/img ... www.babbletower.net/forums/zx80/in-a-box/05.inside.jpg[/img ...NMI Routine and Restarts in a new 128K ROMI'm presently engaged in creating AGD 5 with the intention of making it a pair of 16K ROMs for the 128K/+2. I'm fairly sure that the vast majority o…
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With that in mind I'm basically looking ... to fixing the NMI bug in the new ROMs?
... has been a fair bit of new hardware in recent years ... 0 as the delay routine in RST 0 overran. Beyond ... I can do something useful in a few bytes I'd like ...Name of the GameI need help remembering the name of a speccy game I once played eons ago. I thought it was called 'Bob Loader' or similar. It's basically a platfor…
... help remembering the name of a speccy game I once played ... /> It's basically a platform type game played in a pyramid, where you start ... .
If you died, a nice gravestone appeared with your ...Did anyone ever play the games on Videotron cable tv?This was the cable TV service I used to get in London. Can anyone remember any of the games on it, specifically one where you played a guy stuck in a…
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Can ... where you played a guy stuck in a pyramid, another thing I ... br /> There were puzzles in it and also instant- ... out of the pyramid in competition with a mate of mine ... anything else, or was a port from another system?< ...Old game - cant remember titleThere was a game about 23 years ago which featured the main character in what can only be called a bubble. I seem to remember the action take place …
... a game about 23 years ago which featured the main character in ... what can only be called a bubble.
in a pyramid and the character had the ...Videotron cable gamesDid anyone else here used to have cable TV that came into a Videotron box? I had it in London in the mid-90's and it had some decent games on it, inc…
... Chin, and also a puzzle adventure game set in a pyramid which I believe ... was called Temporal Ltd.
In Temporal ... Ltd you were a male figure who ... way to the top of a pyramid for some treasure, each ...help pleaseI'm dying to play on old Speccy game but i can't remember the title so can't find it. It was an old tomb raider / indiana jones type games. running a…
nah - not that one. It was set in a pyramid egypt-style I'm sure of it.
