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Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…
... to hit those spider-like characters which were presented in the manual ... friend's 8085-based microcomputer which he made as a university ... is used? How the keyboard is used? Which memory areas/ports/whatever ... -
The Rubber Keyboard Muffler.One of those long forgotten memories arose from my mind the other day. The great invention of the Rubber Keyboard Muffler aka the pillow. Let me e…
... great invention of the Rubber Keyboard Muffler aka the pillow.
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Trying to remember an old Speccy game!Hello boys and girls, Back in the day I used to play this one often, but I cannot remember the name: It is a sort of text adventure style game where…
... areas looking for people or characters, areas I remember are ... find these characters and possibly some objects only that each game ... Perhaps you actually controlled different characters, it is all vague but ... 100s of original games, which would only ever be taken ... -
An idea for a keyboardHi guys, I was just thinking there just now (first time for everything). I was thinking about an AT keyboard on the Speccy. I remember a few peopl…
... about ways of extending their keyboard for projects like building ... />
A standard AT keyboard runs on a serial protocol ... PIC microcontroller to decode the keyboard input and convert to ... port which could be used to power the device and keyboard.
changing keyboard inputs?hey guys, a curious (if somewhat silly) question / problem i have... You know those classic Horace games from which my nick' is so blatently stole…
... those classic Horace games from which my nick' is so blatently ... the god-awful choice of keyboard controls for it? well... this ...Horror Top Trumps - who was the 'Daddy'?Who else can recall the 2 'Horror' packs in the Top Trumps series that were made in the early 80s (if not earlier)? I was having one of those 2am co…
... other morning trying to remember which creatures scored highest in every ... anyone reliably inform me, for each of the categories, the 'top ... can remember many of the characters themselves but have no way ...SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…
... missing SAM pipe symbol to keyboard map
- Added option ... - Fixed incorrect SAM palette spread, which made dark colours too bright ... /> - Fixed broken import/export which could crash with sizes over ... 50us) and timer reset on each byte read
- Fixed ...John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... hippy working for him which is why he packed ... characters. The environment was a futuristic domed city with each ... each of which had particular idiosynchrasies. You could talk to the characters ... via speech bubbles and they could interact with each ...These sounded great...Torstum's post about a hypthetical new micro-computer (on this forum) reminded me of something, but rather than post in that thread, I thought I'd ma…
... them, with each lense being suited to each person's eye ... would display an image on each lense, like an LCD monitor ... focused by the controlling computer, which means that the image would ... other is the keyboard, but with a smaller keyboard, speech recognition or ...Looking for one particular music demoHi. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. There is a music demo I'm looking for. Unfortunately I don't k…
... cover tape of some kind. Which, given the ones I collected ... Windows screensaver) and each key on the keyboard started up a different ...What was the +2 and +3 keyboard like compared to the 128 and + one?I had a Spectrum 128, which had the infamous plastic-but-spongy keys. It was fine for games where you only had to press a handful of keys repeatedly,…
I had a Spectrum 128, which had the infamous plastic-but- ... /> Was the +2 and +3 keyboard any better? It certainly looks ...PSP or GPX2 (or Pocket PC or whatever)?I'm going to get either a PSP or a GPX2 (or a Nintendo DS, or a PocketPC or something), so what are the differences between the PSP, the GPX2 and wha…
... the screen of each machine like, and how many characters per line ... are there when viewing e-books? Which machine ... the web for details of each machine, but I'd rather ...Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
... I think) upgradable catagories, each of which has four levels, from ... , and so on. Each of which can be upgraded to ... giving the NPCs (Non-Player Characters) more realism, so that ... artificial and cyberpunkish too, which increased the feeling of detatchment ...Fun with MAMEI'm having a look at history.dat, an add-on for Mame containing history, trivia and tricks about the games. Here are some funny/bizarre bits I found …
... an array of "sickening moves", which basically consisted of farting and ... garbage can and vomited, after which I went right back to ... . My fingers never left the keyboard.
[B] ... system with individual buttons for each strength - the now common ...ZX spectrum as a PC usb keyboard?One of my commodore brained friend showed me an interface which converts the keyboard of c64 to a standard usb keyboard. I quickly searched this for…
... showed me an interface which converts the keyboard of c64 to a ... standard usb keyboard.
I quickly searched ... and internet for zx usb keyboard, and nothing came up. Is ... tries to connect a zx keyboard to a pc via usb ...New Spectrum emulator for DS[url]http://zxds.raxoft.cz/[/url] [quote]Features already implemented: * Solid Z80 core - possible bugs aside, the Z80 emulation is as complete…
... all documented and undocumented instructions, each modifying the documented and undocumented ... N,(XY+D),R instructions which should modify the undocumented flags ... /> * Limited input support - although both keyboard and kempston joystick are technically ...Rubber Keyboard Membranes Are BackAfter all this waiting, the best news is that I now have some stock of replacement keyboard membranes for the original rubber key speccys. Best news…
... have some stock of replacement keyboard membranes for the original rubber ... to know. Cost ?8.50 each plus p&pConverting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory ... 's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted as 1s ... by reading the bits from each byte. If the first byte ... eg.) by reading m$ 8 characters at a time. I was ...'Straddle keyboard tailsWell, I bought an Amstrad Speccy keyboard off an ebayer - not for a Spectrum (I don't actually have an Amstrad one) - but for my own homebrew compute…
... bought an Amstrad Speccy keyboard off an ebayer - ... (or heaven forbid, USB keyboard). And cheap, too. The ... 'Straddle keyboard even with postage was ... was expecting the Amstrad keyboard to have the ... like the normal Speccy membrane. But the Amstrad one ...keyboard mashersand joystick breakers... I have just been given a spare keyboard so my first thought was perhaps I might destroy it by hammering it to pieces on Dal…
... just been given a spare keyboard so my first thought was ... in the early speccy years, which is where my knowledge runs ... />
Which would be the best ones to smash this keyboard in ... with - and which are the real ...Unreal Tournament 3Is anyone here looking forward to Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC/XBox 360/PS3? The original Unreal Tournament (1999) is probably my favourite PC game …
... prefer TV and joypad to keyboard, mouse and sitting at a ... the sometimes excellent user mods which can't be used on ... .I. of the computer controlled characters barely increases at all (and ...Emulator with remote keyboard input?(I've searched the forums before starting this thread) We've heard about the PC version of Jet Set Willy (which some of us were unable to run). What…
... version of Jet Set Willy (which some of us were unable ... would be nice to have keyboard input from TCP/IP connections ...YSRnRY: Introducing the "Virtual YS", plus a HUGE update[A few minutes early, but what the hey...] The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years is ten years old today! Time to celebrate... The problem with a…
... ?), now you can! Embedded on each webpage is now a virtual ... : three month's worth of keyboard tapping)
"The cheese ... /> "But what about the articles which aren't scanned?" I hear ...ULA RAS, CAS cycles, refresh and "snow effect"Hello everyone. I have a question, does anyone observed timings of RAS and CAS generated from ULA? I think there may be answer to where the "snow ef…
... /> Refresh...
A refresh is each cycle when RAS goes low ... - 7) = 1600us = 1.6ms[/B] which is definitely smaller than 2ms ... which is a maximal refresh period ... ?
Well, each text line consists of 32 characters, so we have ...One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... beyond the level to which I have time to ... condensed "loader" and "runner" which loads bytes into memory and ... animation of Miner Willy which you can move up ... have chosen) is 32768 which I code as "2 ... long string. Each byte is represented by two characters in a ...Reprogrammable keyboard?Here's an idea that, whilst I *won't* personally use the solution (probably), emulator authors might find interesting to tackle. Over the past week …
... to add a feature which would allow the keyboard to be reprogrammed ... the '#' key on the PC keyboard sent an enter-key keypress ...A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
... number at the side of each game!!! LOL
keyboard was like a half pipe ... games and go round each other's houses when ... was gettin smaller/thinner by each month, you could sense ... his excellent spin emulator which is the BEST one ...IF2 Joystick port on Keyboard connectorHi all, I just found this in the forums but I am not sure about the view to the keybord sockets. Are the connections give from the view to the comp…
... the cicuit board the two keyboard sockets (5 pin & 8 ... ) are usually almost inline with each other:
i refer to ... />
9 pin D : keyboard terminal
IF2 port ...How to rotate an imageI'm working on an idea for a game and to test it I want to draw some graphics on the screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters…
... screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters in ... my simple square graphics. As each shape can be rotated I ... didn't want to store each shape and all the possible ...128 +2 KeyboardI've just bought an Amstrad +2 keyboard assembly (membrane and keys) on ebay to use with my Harlequin project. It was a steal at about 1 Euro ;-) It…
... just bought an Amstrad +2 keyboard assembly (membrane and keys) on ebay ... manual, it looks like the membrane has several layers, and far ...
