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Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
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Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…
... nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in the 80s. [i ... ]Or was it?[/i] It's ... whatnot). I'm inclined to think it's not that the "classic" programmers weren ... -
+2A/+3 compatibility fixes thread!It might be a good idea to keep these fairly common +2A/+3 compatibility fixes (and requests) in a single thread for quick reference ;) Let's start …
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It's just occurred to me that the games listed above ... were re-released as part ... -
+2A/+3 compatibility fixes thread!It might be a good idea to keep these fairly common +2A/+3 compatibility fixes (and requests) in a single thread for quick reference ;) Let's start …
[QUOTE=jp;506929]It's just occurred to me that the games listed above ... were re-released as part ... 0011391"]Ultimate Play The Game: The Collected Works[/URL] in both +3 ... were made to the games to get them to work on the +3... ... -
+3 disks and IPF formatIn order to avoid derailing the Spectaculator 7.5 release thread, I've created this thread for further discussion of the IPF format for +3 disks that…
... /> Really it's the copy protected disks I'd need to look in more detail ... could just go and replace all the currently available IPFs->EDSKs ... the same, then it's perhaps
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Flash based rom replacement board for +2A/+3I'm sure I already started a thread about this, but I can't find it... Anyway, this post's to say that I've just sent off the order for the printed …
... projects for the 128k or the +2 at all as I ... don't own one myself, also the ... +2 is much simpler in having only a ... ok, and since Andrew's left the scene I don't ... IRC, it's much easier to talk you through stuff than in facebook ... -
Flash based rom replacement board for +2A/+3I'm sure I already started a thread about this, but I can't find it... Anyway, this post's to say that I've just sent off the order for the printed …
... ]p.s. you ought to get yourself on IRC, it's much easier to talk ... you through stuff than in facebook posts ... sorry about that I was in the middle of doing som much ... wife
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Beepola Source CodeAs I haven't done much with it for a few months, I'm releasing the Beepola source code in case anybody wants to play about, add to, or otherwise use …
... that you still need to determine that part yourself? That means that ... part there.
I was also wondering, if Shiru is the ... to a new version, and perhaps it's more efficient to just add the stuff in the ... -
Beepola Source CodeAs I haven't done much with it for a few months, I'm releasing the Beepola source code in case anybody wants to play about, add to, or otherwise use …
... part of the the parameters that an engine author supplies to ... to a new version, and perhaps it's more efficient to just add the stuff in the ... Shiru and anyone else who wants to add more engines ... pretty reasonable understanding of all the existing beepola 1.x ... -
Z80 Edge Connectors - ProjectsHello there my fellow Spectrum-mites I am looking to source a few of these connectors - while I could just rework some old ISA socket for proto's I …
... you to page in all four roms you'd have to replicate the paging system in the ... replacing the roms internally :) It's simple enough to open up the case once to fit the ... board, and it's just ... -
Petrol Station FoolsWhy is it that when queueing for petrol pumps at the petrol station that some people will stubbornly not go to the pump if the nozzle is not on the s…
... in a petrol station then, you probably already know, but it's all ... your fault.
It's your fault that the cut ... THE FIRST ONE!
It's down to you that people put diesel in ... will find it's way back to you once the promise of ... -
Best games, and fast loading?I'm getting my long-awaited Spectrum 48+ in the mail tomorrow, and I want to know what are some of the best games for it. I know about games like Jet…
... it's a multiload.. well only on the first part..
I used to ... use a thing back in ... speccy days called "the key" that ... put a "pause" for loop to mess such things up :) -
ZX SPIN (P and newer) issue.Why, oh, why doesn't Spin work ... (Let's just leave it at that, shall we. -Ed) Anywho ... I extracted it (P and later S) into a folder and then mov…
... well...been back into emulation the last few weeks, testing ... they would go back to work on it :)[/QUOTE]
... in my opinion. It's pretty intuitive and things like the icons etc are all ... very well done.
The tape ... -
ZX SPIN (P and newer) issue.Why, oh, why doesn't Spin work ... (Let's just leave it at that, shall we. -Ed) Anywho ... I extracted it (P and later S) into a folder and then mov…
... in my opinion. It's pretty intuitive and things like the icons etc are all ... (the byteloader / blockloader and the generic edgeloader) but it can still fall back to ... another accelerator by Woody, and all methods still use the underlying ... -
Odd habits..?Anyone here have any? I have problems deciding where to park, when faced with multiple empty spaces in a car park. I usually end up driving around …
... come back to the back door before going to bed to check if it's locked ... car I check the wing mirror is turned in .. There are ... dispatched when it's packaged / ready to go.
or the night before ... work, I'll put somethings in the car I need for work. -
MISTER BEEP - new album with ZX musicHi, normally I don't like my tunes too much :) but this time I would like to proudly present to ZX universum: MISTER BEEP - "A thousand furious b…
... sequencer in Windows 7 though, and I've switched to using Reason... it's ... completely alien to me at the mo, so it might ... take me a while to get to grips with it ... -
Which firms' tapes have self-destructed in the last 30 years?Just wondering.... I'm going through boxes of Spectrum games, and there are recurring themes as to which games' tapes have seized up and/or stopped …
Maybe it's just co-incidence then... but it does seem strange that out ... work without difficulty. It's usually tape drop-out - not the player, as I ... ", you can guess which of the four games didn't work ... .... and that's not an Ocean tape! -
Which firms' tapes have self-destructed in the last 30 years?Just wondering.... I'm going through boxes of Spectrum games, and there are recurring themes as to which games' tapes have seized up and/or stopped …
... ;535662]Maybe it's just co-incidence then... but it does seem strange ... work without difficulty. It's usually tape drop-out - not the player, as I ... ", you can guess which of the four games didn't work ... .... and that's not an Ocean tape![/QUOTE ... -
Last Sunset for LatticaHere's a [b]rough first draft[/b] of the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/lattica.gif]Lattica map[/url], just to demonstrate th…
... close enough to the regular passages, that it's possible to reach them moving in diagonal ... located, it may be worth it to move the fix code somewhere else, so the "eastern ... egg" area remains the same in ... -
Paper manuals - another casualty of modern times?I've just bought Alice: Madness Returns (about a fortnight back, actually, but I've not tried it until now) and it's another game that comes without …
... game and it added to the excitment of playing the game. In speccy times it also ... gave you something to ... instructions. It's a very atmospheric game but the instructions helped in setting down ... -
Is it wrong to pull outbits of old PC's that are on their way to silicon heaven? i have 4 PC's (and 1 spectrum), which 2 of them are older that are mainly used for the in…
... /> But I still keep doing it.
Edit:- ... happy it's not gone to Larry Landfill.
The hoarder in me wants to ... keep stuff, but the way round it is to consider ... , and if you need it again later, you can always ... -
binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…
... gas (gnu). I know gnu's z80 toolchain was not mature ... that was written), vasm's z80 support is recent.
it suffers the fate of all our projects - lack ... it would be inefficient to use or implement them (and in some cases to the extreme in ... -
Amy Winehouse found dead[url]http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Amy-Winehouse-Found-Dead-At-Home-In-Camden-London-Police-Confirm/Article/201107416036201?lpos=Show…
... surely they would have mentioned it?) can I get away with ... at this time, it's nothing compared to some of the outrageous comments I ... 've read elsewhere on the ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
It's just as well Family Guy ... many times it's still better than most of the dross that's on.
A couple of Quill AdventuresI have two Quill adventure games that I made in the mid/late 90s and wondered if there would be an audience for them and, if so, where they should be…
... most of it's come back to me, but the problem is ... t complete the game :/ so there's obviously a bug in there ... somewhere where the right things ... know it's possible to complete it because I obviously played through at the ...Backing up to an external hard drive.I've just brought a 500gig external HDD to backup some files. Not all of them, just the inportant ones (music, photos, a few films etc). It's a Seaga…
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The files in the folder were of wildly differing sizes. The Speccy games ... think it's probably something to do with the drive I'm trying to back ... spyware free as Norton runs all the time and I run a ...Preserving an old tape...Sometime next week (or so) I will receive a old cassette tape - containing a Spectrum game - in a bad condition (at least aesthetically) which I must…
... recommended Audacity to me a while ago - maybe fog - and it's very ... good. [/QUOTE]
I used Audacity in my ... old job where I had to splice together ... Audacity to be very good too. It's pretty easy to use for the non ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
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You seem to have missed the critical part in the example:
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to drop the negative sign (1001) as it can't be represented in ... . Maybe that's why the author is using 9's complement a lot ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... it all the way to the end where it constantly crashed when he was about to kill the ... looks exactly the same as it did on the PS2. It's quite hard to describe ... ?
So yes I'd say all in all ...Name this game (type in)I'm trying to remember the name of this type in game from Sinclair Programs. It was pretty awesome, involving you controlling a ship that had to ref…
Aaaha!!! I found it!
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It's still awesome, although I think the graphics glitch in ZX Spin ... , I remember the slopes to be smooth, not all ...
