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BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
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My wife walked into the middle of the EDL march in NewcastleMy wife walked out of the train station in Newcastle City Centre to be met with coppers wrestling radgees to the ground, and had no idea what was goi…
... with coppers wrestling radgees to the ground, and had no ... happened but the missus said it was crazy (She's in England ... Newcastle Unites marched against the neo nazis. The news says there was ... little incident, but the missus says the streets were strewn with ... -
Ultimate Play the Game apps - Want a non English versions?Hello All, I have noticed my [URL="http://www.livewiredesign.co.uk"]blog [/URL]regarding releasing the "Ultimate Play the Games" back catalogue on W…
... [/URL]regarding releasing the "Ultimate Play the Games" back catalogue ... putting the store info into the native language it's not ... translate the store info for the apps for me into their ... /> Spanish is probably the easiest as the Ultimate games were released ... -
Guess the name of the Royal baby.The Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labour. It's fair to assume that at the moment she's being told to go home as their are no free beds in the ma…
The Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labour. It's fair to assume that ... at the moment she's ... no free beds in the maternity unit at the moment.
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Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's TrapThis room should really be called old game ideas, but since it's only for fun... I think the Sega Master System version of Wonder Boy III would work …
... since it's only for fun... I think the Sega Master ... a variety of incarnations of the main character with different abilities ... . Aside from the boss encounters, there's no content in the game that ... isn't already supported in the ... -
Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... many hardware experiments connected to the Spectrum's edge connector and my ... downloading all the relevant files from Dan's site into a dedicated directory ... , so I push the button until the regarding LED shows the 'result' and ... -
Artist(s) and illustrators wanted!Hi all - It has become my current project to help a certain gentleman of note in our community bring an old project from the 80s to life. I can do t…
... The project requires scenes from a book to be rendered into picture ... form, black and white (think Games Workshop's ... smaller items relevant to the project's theme to be inserted ... I cannot stress enough that the reward for this, aside from ... -
MISTER BEEP - the NEW ZX48 album 2014 "Chromospheric Flares"Hi mates. So. Here it is. Something like 2 years after the previous one - here is my new ZX Spectrum album "Chromospheric Flares". [img]http://mi…
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Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
... as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game ... officially, the legend has seen the light of day. Sabreman's last ... off volcanoes, then throw them into the Well of Mire Mare, in ... Gargoyle and a Fire Eagle. Watch out for the Guardians, because they ... -
Old CDr'sI've got an old audio cd that a friend made for me of his old bands demo's. It was a one off print run and he no longer has the MP3's to make another…
... and he no longer has the MP3's to make another copy ... unable to find them as the cd he made for me ... years old)
But, the cd has "stopped working" as ... disc whenever I put it into a laptop etc. It deffo ... it works again. Or, at the very least, be able to ... -
Loading AGD games into AGD to check codeHey there Not sure if this is quite the place to put this but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is a question about developing my AGD game.…
... but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is ... ] and playing around with the AGD commands and trying to ... tried to 'load' a game into the designer but it either doesn ... to change a setting in the emulator or use a ... use (4.5) to view the game code?
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The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…
... opening the chest, telling him to climb into the chest and closing the ... you - you go to the Elvenking's dungeon and then (somehow ... again - and who's hanging around the Waterfall EVERY FRIGGIN' TIME ... way to open the Magic Door in the Elvenking's Halls, you' ... -
RIP The Ultimate WarriorAfter a big weekend with his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame on saturday, an appearance at Wrestlemania Sunday an also on RAW on Monay, The Ultim…
... weekend with his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame ... on RAW on Monay, The Ultimate Warrior died suddenly, ... !
It's the timing of his passing that ... makes it all the more sad! After years ... of falling out with the WWE, they finally made ... -
Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
... 48K ULA to turn the contents of that into a TV picture ... interface? Or maybe inject the graphics data into the top half of a ... 16K RAM that overlaps the second machine's ... streams video). Or force it into the uncontended upper memory so it ... -
LOADing 128k's worth of data???Just getting to grips with the concept of the 128's 'bank switching' set up, but how can you load the stuff into memory from tape (or TAP file)? Do…
... grips with the concept of the 128's 'bank switching ... ' set up, but how can you load the ... stuff into ... , the 128 games of the late 80's all ... LOADing/SAVEing using the bog standard 'Bytes ... -
U.S. Gold Kickstarter - 'The Story of U.S. Gold'I searched but could not find info about this so here you go. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_FFXVt-H8[/url] The U.S. Gold Book The book, '…
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The book, 'The Story of U.S. Gold ... used).
The U.S. Gold logo on the front cover will ... the rise and rise of U.S. Gold throughout the 1980's and 1990's ... up to the sell ... -
Sultan's Maze - Potential remake of CPC game?One of the games I liked on the CPC was Sultan's Maze.. In it, you have to go through Hampton Court Palace's maze and get six jewels, get back, avoi…
... the games I liked on the CPC was Sultan's ... get back, avoiding the Sultan's ghost and solving a ... If I understand right, the game was written in BASIC ... the edge of the maze.. and you could walk into the ... ghost at any time (game over!)
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Parallax scrolling - Shadow Of The Beast tech demoHi there folks! I thought I'd post what I've been pottering around with for the last couple of weekends. I've been experimenting with doing multi-la…
... pottering around with for the last couple of weekends ... layer parallax scrolling on the humble 48K. I ... to replicate the classic Amiga "Shadow Of The Beast" intro ... d have to weave them into the draw update too.
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Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…
... thinking "Argh! The ULA has gone!". And indeed, that's the case. When ... I plug the ULA into a working machine ... 74LS125 tri-state buffer into one of the spare sockets on one ... -
New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
... (a 32 fold increase over the ZXC3?s 128K). This makes it ... .
4. The ZXC4 supports the interception of the LOAD and SAVE ... to the ZXC3 via RS232 faster by splitting bank data into multiple ... -
The Time Jumpers - July 1986[quote]Join the Retro Asylum as we hurtle back into the past and bring you The Time Jumpers! Paul Davies takes the controls for our maiden voyage bac…
... hurtle back into the past and bring you The Time Jumpers! ... Paul Davies takes the controls for our maiden ... really appreciate everyone's feedback on the episode as if ... it's well received ... we'll look to put Time Jumpers into the ... -
2 x Divide's for saleI have 2 x Spectrum Divide's for sale. These plug into the back of your Spectrum - u press the button on the top right that gives you a menu where yo…
... x Spectrum Divide's for sale. These plug into the back of your ... Spectrum - u press the button on the top ... .
The Divide on the right has the 1GB Compact Flash ... />
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Been reading The Holy Qur'an ...... just to see what all the fuss was about. I've got the Wordsworth edition, translated into English by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, authorised by the Islami…
... I've got the Wordsworth edition, translated into English by Abdullah ... (for the time being, unless there's interest to the contrary, ... a good argument with the Jehovah's Witnesses who call every ... example.)
Here's the first little bit anyway.
Wanted: A Quickshot IV With the Interchangeable Grips to be Imported to the U.S.Greetings everyone. I'm Back and this time I will try my hand at making some Deals. I am in the US and I couldn't get the Sticks that the people in t…
... couldn't get the Sticks that the people in the UK got a ... with all of it's Grips to the United States? I know ...New Game - Page's Castle QuestMy fist game created with AGD. Page's Castle Quest is a simple platform game, nothing fancy just simple 'dodge and collect' game. [FONT="Comic Sans…
... into the castle and scattered the treasure all around the castle and beyond. It's ... our hero's job to ... collect as much of the hoard ... little reminiscent of Paul?s levels in the tutorial? This is an ...Showing off the SpectrumOne of my fellow hosts on the Retro Asylum podcast has never been into the 8bit micro's as he started gaming on the 16bit consoles. Anyway, he has ch…
... podcast has never been into the 8bit micro's as he started gaming ... on the 16bit consoles. Anyway, he ... games would you show off the Spectrum with?DivMMC Enjoy! Works on 3 of 4 48k Speccy's I own?Hey guys. I have a DivMMC Enjoy! Which is absolutely awesome! Love it to bits. It works perfect on three of my 48k Speccy's, but something isn't rig…
... 48k Speccy's, but something isn't right with the fourth ... speccy.
If I plug it into ... my issue 4S Plus motherboard, the Power light on the DivMMC ... the DivMMC is getting all the correct voltages/comms etc from the speccy's ...GameBaddie's Art project...Hi Guys, I've recently revived my old 48k for a (just-for-fun) art project. I have about 4 weeks of spare time to accomplish my goal, and the plan i…
... t quite copy the stick-men due to the speccy's low resolution ... to create the cross-hatch effect in the center of the large ... re-create the cross-hatch effect in the center of the large ... EASY way to extend the usable screen-space into the border, using BASIC ...80's fashion the good the bad and the fugly.Ok so it seems it's 80s season on WOS so here's another 80's thread. Fashion in the 80s? Was is good, bad, fugly? I appreciate that all decades have…
... so here's another 80's thread.
Fashion in the 80s ... and good fashion but was the 80's extremely in both goodness ... last centuries dress conventions. Are the kids of today missing out ... was not so much the geometric shapes, but the color. Clothes could ...Bowie's effect on the 80'sDid bowie influence a lot of 80's bands/music? Example,'the politics of dancing' sounds like a bowie track. He was cross dressing in the seventies a…
Did bowie influence a lot of 80's bands/music?
Example,'the politics of dancing' sounds like a bowie track.
He was cross dressing in the seventies and wearing weird makeup and costumes.
