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Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…
... of call is obviously the BASIC manual that came with the Spectrum, available [ ... books that deal specifically with Spectrum programming. There are loads of these ... periodical was intended as a complete programming course for the Spectrum and other contemporary ... -
spectrum disks for saleI have 296 titles on around 200 disks for sale. Offering them on here first before ebay gets them. Contact me at [email="cluncastle@hotmail.com"]clun…
... himself, he has done a lot
for the Spectrum scene, helping databases like ... from the salgging, what else is there.
Fiction... So let's draw a ... against helping us now. What is there left ?
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spectrum disks for saleI have 296 titles on around 200 disks for sale. Offering them on here first before ebay gets them. Contact me at [email="cluncastle@hotmail.com"]clun…
... himself, he has done a lot
for the Spectrum scene, helping databases like ... (even mine) so no problems there.
So after ... posting here, especially as he is a freind of mine. I hope ... /> So Robert and Andy, the best is to continue this talk in ... -
Composite video on SPectrum 48KHi all I'm in Australia, and recently had a Speccy 48K sent over to add to my collection. I have had very little to do with Speccys (it was most defi…
... /> Is there a way (apart from taking the signal directly from the inside) of getting a ... composite video signal out of the Spectrum?
a fair number on a CD, and use a cd player instead of a tape ... -
Are there any games based on Alfred Hitchcock films?Following on from a discussion in the chatroom, are there any games based on films by the legendary director? I would be very interested in playing …
... Following on from a discussion in the chatroom, are there any games ... based on films by the ... to the UK.
There is also a Japanese Hitchcock game for the 3DO ... t think Saboteur is based on the film of the same name! ... -
My First Speccy.....and in 2005 aswell, Sound! ?'s ahead!I just bought my first Sinclair Spectrum in April 2005!! **waits for cheers from everybody!** It's the 48K one that they made when Mr Clive had a ru…
Chaosmongers, thanks very much for the info...very informative!
a monitor, just for the sake of ... a 464 and although the monitor support is there, a modulator was needed for ... it separately so I could use the ... -
Help! Spectrum +2 not working with Manic Miner and Atari 2600 JoystickI cannot get Manic Miner to work with my Atari 2600 joysticks on my Spectrum +2. I've got 3 of these sticks and I've tested them on my 48k with joys…
... use with the +2, and infact, the quite joyful ironic situation is that ... Amiga`s that had a special connector just for the Spectrum, hehe
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It's near halloween so here is a true ghost storyWhen I lived in Sweden(here I go again). I stayed for a in cabin deep in the woods with my gf for a bit. For 3 nights she was called to work and I wa…
... need for logical conclusions. Mr Spock hasn't got a look ... siree. Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, there can ... be. Do you believe in luck?
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"Unknown disk format"-error on Spectrum +3Hi, I have just gotten around to changing the drivebelt in my newly acquired +3. I tried to format one of the 3" disks I bought on eBay the other we…
Is there a head-cleaning disk for 3" drives available? Or any other way of manually cleaning the heads, say with a johnson's baby bud and isopropyl alcohol? -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
[quote]Best way for crisp fullscreen speccy display is by using the 320x240 display ... the aspect ratio is not 4:3, the Spectrum screen is extended horizontally.
Is there a way ... .[/quote]
I'm waiting for :) There are no round corners even ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... the aspect ratio is not 4:3, the Spectrum screen is extended horizontally.
Is there a ... way to force 4:3 Spectrum ... /> [quote]
I'm waiting for :) There are no round corners even ... -
Arcade games that never got converted to the SpeccyOver the years, loads of arcade games never did make it to the Speccy. What games would you have like to have seen converted to the Spectrum?
... . The trouble is that the Spectrum had neither the sound - although the 128K machines could make a ... think there were better original games for the Spectrum in similar genres. Commando is basically a ... -
Arcade games that never got converted to the SpeccyOver the years, loads of arcade games never did make it to the Speccy. What games would you have like to have seen converted to the Spectrum?
... think there were better original games for the Spectrum in similar genres. Commando is basically a ... , there was a bit of re-interpretation involved. Bomb Jack for me is a Spectrum game ... -
Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…
[QUOTE=obo]It seems the original quoted port numbers ... My first attempt had the ports around the other way, and I ... Speccy ROM. Those ports work for the 87.2 version, but ... wrong for my weird MF128 :(
Is there a list anywhere of all the Multiface ... -
Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…
... Speccy ROM. Those ports work for the 87.2 version, but ... be wrong for my weird MF128 :([/QUOTE]
The original way ... .
[QUOTE]Is there a list anywhere of all the Multiface versions and ... but here's a program that should probe for them: [url] ... -
Legend (Century Communications)Just bought this on ebay and it appears to be missing a proper TZX. Is anyone else doing it or will I try and make a proper version? Necros.
I've just transferred the tape to a WAV file. TAPER won't ... I can make a TZX. Is there a program to do this? The relevant documentation ... entry mentions a program called ... -
Legend (Century Communications)Just bought this on ebay and it appears to be missing a proper TZX. Is anyone else doing it or will I try and make a proper version? Necros.
... =Necros]I've just transferred the tape to a WAV file. TAPER won ... I can make a TZX. Is there a program to do this? The relevant documentation ... entry mentions a program called ... -
Two questions for those of you who are from UKI just saw that documentary about death of imagine, and I heard that games prices ranged from 2 pounds to 7 pounds or so. If that is accurate then do…
... 20 or less? Another question is, when did you begin to ... because the exchange rate has changed a lot over the past ... PCs are today. There were 7000 games released for the Spectrum, about ten ... times as many as the NES ... -
Playing an AVI Video on an XBOX.I have a standard unmoded XBox. I wants to watch a video I have downloaded on the big screen and have no spare blank DVDs to hand but a stack of sta…
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Is there a way I can play the AVI by conversion ... ]
For all questions about the XBox, always go to ... for playing video files, just CD audio tracks.
There is ... only software instead of a mod chip). For details of this ( ... -
Your favourite abandonwareJust found a great adventure game called Dreamweb It runs with dosbox, a utility for running old dos-based games. It's a pretty good utility and ca…
Slipstream 5000 is a classic game - a racing game with flying zero-grav machines with weapons. Is there an equivalent to it for the Xbox? -
MS Windows on SpeccyWonder if the new Windows Vista will also run on the speccy..... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SMRRmaIzgE[/url]
Now that the IDE and CF usage is becoming more common, it ... up (finally) with a good O.S. for the Spectrum, compatible with most ( ... using them.
A system similar to Windows, Mac O ... />
A true, easy-to-use O.S. for the Speccy... *dreaming* -
Fuse for Mac OS X 0.8.0-pre1A new public preview of the next version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.net/pr…
... tape files (there are few ROM files for the Spectrum as unlike a games console like the ... cassette tapes).
Fuse for Mac OS X doesn't ... writing such code for Fuse.
Fuse for Mac OS X ... -
Dragon Adventure - Level 9Following on from the Level 9 poll, I really don't think that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009688"]Dragon Adventure[/URL] …
... 9 adverts there is no reference to a Dragon Adventure anywhere for the Spectrum. That's ... 9 did have a good sized back catalogue for the Acorn Atom and ... Nascom, so I suppose there *could* be a ... -
Are you a serious programmer of the Spectrum?A statement at the back of "The complete Spectrum ROM disassembly". [quote] The "Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly" is a must for all serious progra…
I would say nowadays there are no serious programmers for the Spectrum, we're all ... /> @MattB
The Amstrad version, is that the "Amstrad Whole Memory Guide ... that is excellent book and made my coding a lot easier for the CPC ... -
New game newsThere seems to be several small companies now releasing games apart from Cronosoft, if anyone has any new gossip/news about future games please email…
... ? As long as there are games being released for the Spectrum, and people like ... release, and maybe a review or two, the Spectrum will remain reasonably poplular ... , which is a shame.
I still think Cannon Bubble is the best ... -
I have a couple of MIA type-ins.What's the procedure/format for submitting them? I only have .sna files of them from when I converted them a few years back. Is the preffered format…
... =stvd;181705]What's the procedure/format for submitting them?
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Is there a type-in archive (of the actual listing) as ... Fantastic website to see the listings for each magazine.
... for the type-in and see if it is listed in the ... -
Possibly a little OT: Exporting ROM function addresses to the Z88DKOK, so I'm using the Z88DK. It's entirely possible that some documentation has bypassed me. But assume I have a function in ROM, say, at address 0xF0…
... compiler.
Is there a simple way of telling the linker that function ...
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And for the fixed addresses:
[code ... probably involves manually making a symbol file for the ROM addresses and linking ... -
SpecOS questionsDunny, Sir :smile: regarding your [url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/DSC01180.JPG]SpecOS[/url] work in progress, will it use The Artist i…
... instead of notepad? and is the GUI based on Maxdesktop? ...
Was there a desktop/GUI built into the Spectrum ROM? Was the Artist built ... in? Was Tasword?
This is ... write an art package for it, then they can ... -
Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
[QUOTE=Winston;189900]Also, there's a version of Elite for the Spectrum called Novosibirsk Elite ... />
The main improvements of Novosibirk version of Elite is a new missions ...
