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MP3/WAV Tape Images for iPod etc to REAL speccyGuys and Girls (well to be realistic - guys), I was messing around with my old +3 this afternoon, my PC, and my iPod trying to find a way to play so…
... speccy. The idea was to ultimately store some speccy tape images as ... !).
The only thing is the volume levels and creating a suitable audio ... think there would be a market and a few magazine reviews for the clever chap ... -
The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
How can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY ... is for lazy, lazy people, and it severely limits the commands available to the ... short, the Spectrum is vastly overrated and is shit! The sound is like that of a baby ... -
A suggestion for the forum.I have been thinking about this for a while now. It would be great if it was possible to read any sent private messages (at the moment it's only poss…
... have been thinking about this for a while now. It would be ... any sent private messages (at the moment it's only possible ... to read the ones that we receive). Is there any way to ... incorporate that into the forum software ... -
Search a Tool to remove the multiface protectionHy, i still have asked for this in the NG, but do not get what i am looking for... maybe someone here can help. The question is for a spectrum +3 an…
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The question is for a spectrum +3 and a Multiface 3.
Is there a program, where ... remove the lock in games, which i have transferred from Tape to ... Disk using the Multiface 3.
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Decent Gaming Books - Is There Such A Thing?The 30th birthday is imminent so I'm being pestered for a list. What I'd really like is a nice, picture filled book filled with stuff about retroga…
The 30th birthday is imminent so I'm being pestered for a list.
there's such a thing?
Everything ... seems to be written for the US market, and there are only so ... -
The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... /> I recall this system has been mentioned several ... last weekend. There you'll find the original (English ... both for the PC and the Spectrum.
Well, the thing is... ... for Pasmo.
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Getting Games onto a disk?OK, I will be buying a spectrum +3 and have just bought an Amstrad 6128+ (great hardware for programming). Now I am all set to go with programming b…
... a spectrum +3 and have just bought an Amstrad 6128+ (great hardware for ... the games onto an actual system? How do you get games onto a ... onto tape but that is hardly a quick development method. Better still is there a way ... -
Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …
I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with ... connector. Is there a source for these and what is the 2nd connector for? (the label is in spanish ... there plans for running the cassette lines to din jacks for an external tape unit ... -
k7zx, a utility to load programs to Spectrum at very high speedk7zx is a windows program that convert .tap, .tzx , .sna and .z80 files to a wav file that can be played to a real Spectrum. You can down load it f…
... emulator. The maximum speed for a real spectrum in the practice is arround ... you will *see* easily the tape loading error. (methods Milks ... test it in a emulator, not all emulators will load the ... a emulator.
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It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... to test my concepts of the execution trapper. The CPLD here is ... release at the beginning (in the Spectrum ROM, 0x007C contains a RET ... I may do for the call table is trap a particular CALL instruction ... there, and do the RST 8 style trick of passing a system ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... spectrum fonts, any graphic you have available as a pen, there ... memory the current line is stored. Useful for the new REMStore system.
there is space for in the palette.
Fixed - A bug ... - Appending a binary file to a tape in the Tape Creator would ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... in the manual, except for the Binary Import system (which ... properly if there's a space in the 2nd ... for keywords.
Fixed - Crash when deleting a watch whilst the program is ... for commands and variables with similar names. (Jimmy)
Fixed - The SPECTRUM ... -
Aliens vs. Predator has been released for the XBox!!!Aliens vs. Predator, the superb PC first person shooter (the first AvP, not the inferior AvP 2) has been released for the XBox! You need to download…
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It is fantastic, it is a first class port of ... a menu, press the "Back" button.
When starting the game for the ... change these! The left analogue trigger is used for movement so ... this a test version. I wanted to get something out there into ... -
Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... -fi-is-grate/]there was one in my garden[/url] on the day ... at, I'll quote from the test program I'm using (and ... kind of segue into a whole new operating system for the Spectrum, but let's ... -
Need some advice regarding a Windows problemNeed some advice on this one, and Google and Bing aren't being my friends. Now that computer repair is how I get my bread and butter I should know h…
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[quote]The system detected that network adapter \DEVICE ... test passed with a green check mark. Could it be that there ... go crazy? There are no updated drivers for the Linksys wireless ... -
Searching for the artistes from The Power House / H.E.X.Hello, my name is Caroline Bren, and this is my first post. Recently, I put out an audio record which some of you may have heard of, under the Feedin…
... for another release relating to the history of music for the ZX Spectrum, and there are a ... Wayne Allen is (there is no other mention of him in the WOS database ... , whether a digital rip, or an actual copy of the tape that I ... -
A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
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There's a way to squeeze out another ... , by using the line number bytes for something other than a jump. Doing ... ). The first command in the Spectrum character set that takes a single numeric argument is ... -
Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... for the Spectrum will be done using the PC based PDS/2 cross-development system ... owned. I used both tape based packages on a regular basis. I ... of a couple of KBYTES.
Here is the first example sourcecode test ... -
yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…
... hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to ... . There will be two kernels - external and internal kernel. The one ... warn programmer when he is generating dangerous code (such ... /dev/ear being used for tape archive or even connected ... -
Is there really such a thing as "progressive" rock?I don't think so. Quite apart from the fact that just about any modern musical style evolves over time and can thus be called "progressive", I quest…
... "progressive", I question the claim that "prog" is a style somehow different from ... ; unless a genre is intended for disco floors instead of actual listening, there's ... collection there are too many wildly different genre tags for what is actually the ... -
IDE Hard Drive on your Spectrum!Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Today, I am going to share with you something that has truly captivated me over the last couple of months, some of you…
... The above is installed in a slightly Modified Spectrum +3, as you can see there ... have yet to test this on a 48k or 128k ... code programs... I can convert tape and FDD games / applications ... crawller with some fellow crazies for the system =)
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The end of the road for the CD is nearWell, it seems that cds are now definately on the road out. There was a report last week that Mercury will stop pressing cd's at the end of next yea…
... are now definately on the road out. There was a report last week ... at HMV's sales, the same is going for DVDs). I personally ... prefer buying a cd as i ... cds).
The writing has been on the wall for the cd for a few years ... -
Is there a limit to the numberof variables you can have in BASIC..... Reason I ask is I've got an idea....but using my "lowest common denominator" approach to code I fear that I'…
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Reason I ask is I've got an idea ... etc) to assign to the play area and movement routines ...
Now, given the last thing I made was ... hell...I'm wondering if there's an easier way ... ....basically a maze with walls held as values which the player ... -
Tape Preservastion for the Amstrad CPCI can't seem to find one on the net at all so that everyone can get the games they want on tape and I am really thinking about starting one up and ma…
... everyone can get the games they want on tape and I ... a while expand it to other systems.
The ... life span of tapes is short and we ... need to preserve the data at least for ... looking like i got a hobbie again whoohoo -
The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…
... machine is a minority (compared to the former). From the people that use the a real Spectrum ... (are there new developments with no support for one of the two major ... kilobyte for the IM2 table, but if space begins to be a scarce ... -
More from Timex Computer corp. (U.S.A.)I'm hoping this will be of interest to some of you. Bruno: For many years we've been told a 48K Spectrum had been modified to work with NTSC but did…
... a real American version of the Spectrum, why the TS1500 looks so much like a Spectrum ... the sound of 68 more than 48.[/COLOR]
Bruno: Is there ... the story behind the batch of TS1500s made for the ... a system that was planned but never released, where the ... -
Strange cures for a ZX Spectrum +2I have been looking for a +2 now for more than 2 years since I started collecting and restoring Spectrums again. I won a few on eBay, but was unsucce…
... of sport watching and braaing is compulsory in South Africa or ... . Most of the wine produced in South Africa is close to where ... to faulty components and this is the first time that I got ... test the tape drive and load a program or 2, but that will be for ... -
Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... for the other single registers....
Hmmm...
Time to test the ... anything with A as it is the 'Billy no mates' of the spectrum register set ... there, the code was correct just the values were never getting 'remembered' by the spectrum ... -
Was there a 'great' golf game on the spec?So...a few sports had games made of them on the speccy that were more or less as good as you could hope for IMO. Emlyn for football*, konami's ping p…
... as you could hope for IMO. Emlyn for football*, konami's ... for athletics etc... All top games. Even a couple of the ... as they could be. There's no amazing golf game ... s Golf 2 on the playstation is one of my fav ...
* switch Matchday 1/2 for Emlyn if you're one ... -
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 …
... a NMI pulse) is a little too long, it counts as a full Reset for the Spectrum ... /> So this is the moment for a silly test, my first program for the 1bis:
10 ... IF1bis is OFF. This shows that all the time there is one or the other ...
