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  • Spectaculator - behaving as though z key is held downAnyone else seen this on Win 10? When I start spectaculator, it almost always refuses keyboard input, and if you flip to 48k basic, you get COPY COPY…

    ... a while it locks down the Z key again.

    No ... is behaving like the Z key is held down, and I'm pretty ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2017 Emulators
  • Voltage SchmoltageOk then. Don't flame for wanting to use a C64 tape deck for this - it was the only one I have to hand which may be cannibalised for the purpose. So …

    ... stopped - even with the play key held down.

    Just leave that ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2007 Chit chat
  • Hidden porn screen in Cabal?Your Sinclair's review of "Cabal" says: "If you can find the right combination of keys to press on the title page there's a secret and rather fnar-wo…

    ... key combination on an emulator it might be down ... RealSpectrum that keeps a key "held down" if you're holding ... you want to hold down multiple keys, hold the ... down and press Esc to invoke the debugger, then release the key ... to want to have held down. It's the only ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2009 Games
  • Reading the Spectrum KeyboardI've been playing around with reading the Spectrum keyboard (in the guise of Spin 0.666) using Z80, and I believe I've discovered that the number of …

    ... in a matrix so key combinations can cause short ... diagram of the spectrum key layout. Normally when reading ... a specific key row, one of the ... etc. Now consider holding down keys V,G,A while ... keys ASDFG. The A key held down places a 0 on ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2009 Development
  • Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…

    ... BBC Masters on with R key held down.

    Vountary job, changed ...
    thx1138 thx1138 August 2012 Chit chat
  • Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…

    ... a, (0xfe)), then if no key was pressed, it simply skipped ... the key decode, and no new keypress ... was to clear out the "key being pressed" variable such that ... * press as before (i.e. key held down) and ignores it.

    u6c87 u6c87 May 2013 Development
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... suspect machine with the 'U' key held down, It'll enter a ULA ...
    balford balford November 2014 Hardware
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... suspect machine with the 'U' key held down, It'll enter a ULA ...
    Korinel Korinel November 2014 Hardware
  • Making your own tapesTowards the end of last year [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53607/recommend-modern-1994-2017-games]I dropped in here to ask a…

    ... won't keep the rewind key held down without a tape in the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone February 2017 Games
  • Making your own tapesTowards the end of last year [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53607/recommend-modern-1994-2017-games]I dropped in here to ask a…

    ... won't keep the rewind key held down without a tape in the ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum February 2017 Games
  • Can you link two Spectrums via the tape leads?If you connect EAR to MIC and vice versa, then save on one and load on the other, does it work? I don't see why it wouldn't but I'm just wondering …

    ... tape player with the play key held down with blu-tak as the ...
    GReW GReW March 2017 Hardware
  • my dodgy speccys.hi people, i was wondering if i could engage some opinions / thoughts / ideas of anyone, regarding my current "fixing up" of my speccys, since you s…

    ... the machine with the break-key held. To my surprise i heard ... when you hold the cursor-down, and the play control on ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace May 2006 Hardware
  • Fuse - Is there something wrong with my build?Just built Fuse this morning under 64-bit SUSE Linux 10, x86_64 architecture. It seems to work fine with most of my favorite games. (Manic Miner, Sp…

    ... appears like it thinks a key is held down or something.

    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2007 Emulators
  • The best portable machine for Spectrum emulation?Which is the best portable or handheld device for Spectrum and non-Spectrum emulation? I only have a PSP, and whilst it has some good emulators, the …

    ... cursor keys (including Caps Shift held down) and the ability to hold ... Caps Shift when you press down another key on the virtual keyboard ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The next update of FUSE?Uberjack (author of the great FUSE PSP) tells me that FUSE (PC/Linux) is due to be updated soon. I thought FUSE more or less did everything (except f…

    ... , where when you hold down a key then the game runs backwards ... game, a speed up key which, when held down, runs the game at ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Emulators
  • Computer problem, any advice welcomeHi Guys Bear with me as a detailed explanation of my problem follows. I'm on my own in rural France so not many PC experts to hand, and feeling a bi…

    ... if several keys were being held down at once. Whatever I did ... as if a key or several were being held down.
    Eventually I ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack November 2008 Chit chat
  • Weird 'semi-crash' I used to be able to make the 48k speccy do.I've always wondered about this (but I seem unable to recreate it at the moment). I used to be able to get the Speccy to display some weird screen o…

    ... you held down either caps shift or symbol shift and pressed another key ... in BASIC', you pressed a key and it was gone.
    Grunaki Grunaki July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • +2A - stuck on test signalHi, new member here, hope it's OK to ask for help... I recently rescued my old +2A from my parents' loft. When I tried to test it out, I've found th…

    ... appear if the Break key is held down. The key doesn't appear to ...
    Scarysheep3000 Scarysheep3000 November 2012 Hardware
  • SpecBAS 0.780 releasedHi all - Back again with a new SpecBAS release! It's all been about arrays this time around, and to add to those lovely associative arrays from las…

    ... froze the screen when a key was held down
    PRINT on its ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…

    ... .
    The right arrow key works, as do the full ... Shift plus a non-working key.
    Because the joysticks ... to the non-working D key). I found a working ... that holds the disc drive down... and is this wire ... screw it's supposedly being held down by won't go ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone February 2017 Hardware
  • Harlequin 128K minor problems.....Hi All, I've just assembled my Harlequin 128K kit, I had initial problems with it that I traced to not having soldered all of the pins on a couple…

    ... because it thinks a key is being held down). I built the machine ...
    prime prime March 2017 Hardware
  • SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…

    ... file first for important control key changes! Oh, you can ... of the editor windows
    Key buffering in the editor so ...
    Fixed crash in HOME key handler.
    Fix carriage-returns ... while a mouse button is held down no longer clear instantly
    Dunny Dunny April 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... keys held down upon entry
    ;(i.e. wait for the key ... (dummy_key, LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN, and FIRE)
    ld (control_count ... skip (dummy_key, LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN, and FIRE)
    ; ld ... /> ld a,(ix+1) ;? down (vertical coordinate)
    rst $10 ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • Tutorial: Using UDGs in SpecBASSpecBAS is capable of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original Spectrum. Like most things though, the extended nature of SPecBAS's ab…

    ... will convert any key to a graphics mode key as long as ... the combination of ctrl+alt is held down ... to the "a" key through the "p" key. Note the lower-case ... />
    Which displays the currently held memory banks. Because the original ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Ever not get past level 1 in a game but still played it?I never got out of the first screen of bugaboo the flea. I kept going back to and tried to beat it. Bugaboo was so cool just jumping around avoiding…

    ... you can go up and down in Dan Dare by using ... with the shadow and push down. I'm only saying that ... Wulf. Only when I held down the fire key did I get past ...
    Spector Spector July 2003 Games
  • JetPac JetPac has to be one of my all time favourite speccy games, next to Manic Miner. But for some bizzare reason this site has "Distribution Denied" o…

    ... something heavy on the pause key while I had my tea ... and only works when its held down, rather bizarrly. :)
    caffeinekid caffeinekid August 2003 Games
  • Reading the keyboardDoes anyone have a code sample to read the keyboard in machine code ?

    ... /> xor a ; a = current key index
    ; h = index ... ret nc ; if key hasn't been held down long enough
    < ... ascii code
    scf ; indicate key was registered
    ret
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... will thell you if each key is pressed (0) ... click emanated when a key is pressed in command ... 130 tend to noticeably slow down the keyboard response (since ... Bit 5: Any newly pressed key is indicated by its code ... to indicate that a new key has been pressed.
    ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Key press to ASCII valueI need a bit of code that will give me an ASCII value when the key is pressed. I only really need a-z. I tried using the following code but it only s…

    ... SHIFT
    inc d ; another key pressed
    jr z, toomanykeys ... /> ret nc ; if key hasn't been held down long enough

    scf ; indicate key was registered
    ret
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2005 Development
  • Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…

    >>>>
    loading noise
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy September 2005 Games
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