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Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... 2-player games, read spectrum magazines, try to unprotect basic loaders, type ... my first Pacman written in Basic, for eg. Did any of ... ? All those tapes with simple basic+m.c. routines games and ... -
Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... mates'), but yeterday I read that it was shorter than ... same thing? I once read that the [I]in ... the Deathly Hallows? Has anyone read it? PLEASE - NO SPOILERS. ... as I only have the basic package :x ). Presumably they ... more. Don't people read books anymore (I know ... -
How to compile a BASin program with Hisoft Basic Compiler?If I write a Basic program with the BASin application and then wants to use Hisoft Basic Compiler to compile to machine code, what are the steps to a…
If I write a Basic program with the BASin application ... then wants to use Hisoft Basic Compiler to compile to machine ... then load the basic program. But must the basic program be in ... -
Time travel...Time travel is a very, very interesting concept. Surely everyone has dreamt of going back in time, to see how things used to be, or of going into the…
... people believe that by travelling faster than light that you can ... . But they also belive that faster than light travel is impossible ... , many of whom can't read anyway, so they wouldn't ... time? Have you seen or read any good time travel stories ... -
Converting 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 …
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-Create a routine to read data from the m array ... Dr. Beep's one line BASIC program request. But I was ... -
Anyone used WinAPE before?Erm ... sincerest apoligies all around ... yes, I'm trying to run a game (Death Pit) in WinAPE but the silly bugger who made the emulator doesn't mak…
... the face with either "f1 basic" or "f2 burning rubber"
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Why can't I use the keyboard?Playing some old Speccy games recently, there's a fair number that ask you to enter your name using the joystick (Trashman for example). Why not let …
... let the player use the keyboard?
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'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…
... , I bought an Amstrad Speccy keyboard off an ebayer - not for ... /2 (or heaven forbid, USB keyboard). And cheap, too. The 'Straddle ... keyboard even with postage was only ... I was expecting the Amstrad keyboard to have the usual 5 ... -
You're gonna bloody well read this...I took the time to write this rubbish, so you can damn well read it! In the thread about Dan Brown (a third class writer who has achieved major fin…
... , so you can damn well read it!
In the ... not many people will have read through that thread anyway, since ... lot ;) ). If anyone wants to read the (rushed and unedited) story ... -
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 ... best ones to smash this keyboard in with - and which are ... -
WOS Forums NNTP gateway movedThe WOS Forums NNTP gateway now has a more permanent home, where it should be a bit faster and not so dependent on my home ADSL connection. You'll no…
... it should be a bit faster and not so dependent on ... new service allowing you to read the WOS forums from the ... you have and haven't read (so you don't have ... to read everything in one sitting). If ... - note that it's currently read only, and won't allow ... -
Yep Speccy owner again X 2My ebay stash arrived and it all works (not quite tested all the games and the second tape unit, but both speccys work and both look48K's as well) T…
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Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
... simple programs written in Sinclair Basic (in the forums somewhere) ... been explained its easy to read.
I ... Basin and downloaded "Beginning BASIC With The ZXSpectrum" for ... before she trys a modern (read marketable) language. Best suggestions ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... to continue producing MULEs, the basic workhorse of plot developments. No ... the game.
Read the manual above for more ... ) from which SP1 will read background for each plot.
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Blitz Basic questionHello my saucy lil code-kippers... I'm crap at making games. Sorry but I am, but it doesn't stop me from trying. Oh, actually, it has! You see,…
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The 'Must read' threads.Ahhh, memories! There's been a hell-of-a-lot of great WoS over the years, and many fantastic threads currently being reminisced over, like the X-Box…
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text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
... to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing ... =1 TO 6
40 READ d$(n)
50 NEXT ... =1 TO 4
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+3dos BASIC Headers - Char and Number ArraysHi. I'm almost ready to release the first beta of "3eExplorer" my utility for extracting files from a +3e HDD/CF image. It's actually going quite w…
... +3DOS file header the "+3 BASIC header data" is the same ... a .TAP file...[CODE]+3 BASIC header:
0x0f : Type
keyboard commandsHi all, I have a dk`tronics keyboard with some of the key letters missing from it. I have done a search on google to try to find letre sets (I think…
... /> I have a dk`tronics keyboard with some of the key ...Read anything funny lately?I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins at the moment and on page 212 he mentions how the yanks referred to the French as "cheese-eating surr…
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Anybody else read anything funny lately?Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or ... are some games with a BASIC listing inside the code, especially ... remembers any game that has BASIC listings (inside the game of ...super-quick games in BASIC?do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed? (i wonder, speccy is rare…
do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed?
(i wonder, speccy is rarely used in this way - it's even more platform independent then JAVA! :-))) )Name three books that a person MUST readHere's the score guys. Life is short, and I don't have enough time to read all the books I'd like to read. Therefore, I'd like you to name the three …
... 't have enough time to read all the books I'd ... like to read. Therefore, I'd like you ... that you feel MUST be read in this lifetime.
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2. The Stand ...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…
... 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…
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But! You've already read all the pages on the ... : three month's worth of keyboard tapping)
"The cheese ... few more old articles to read - say, 750-odd? That's ... icon.
Want to read the "Street Life" in issue ...A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…
... 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that ... tutorial here and I will read it, but if I have ... . I still see registers as BASIC variables, and I want to ...PC Power supply for SpeccyHi all, after 13 years with out playing spectrum games I am eager to play the old games. Thus I got up to the garret checking my old stuff. Two of m…
... is an 48K with rubber keyboard. It misses the -5V and ... rather often as I can read in the forums here. I ...What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... months) old card but slightly faster. And then the new drivers ... M$ products) won't correctly read documents produced by earlier versions ...Port Chuzzle Deluxe for Windows to the ZX Spectrum?Hi all, I've been looking around for a Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum game that's very similar to a Windows game called "Chuzzle Deluxe", but haven't b…
... been very successful. You can read all about the game here ... Spectrum machine code programming - only BASIC programming, but I have done ... non-commercial programming in Visual Basic, and I know a few ... basic programming concepts as well so ...New versions of ZX-Editor and ZX-Preview publishedDear ZX-Spectrum Emulator fans, I want to announce that I published new versions of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to [url]www…
... are: virtual keyboard, better BASIC editing, renewed tokenizer, full (!) BASin basic program and ... see all colour effects of Basic programs, but also syntax-highlighting ...
