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BASIC-code challengeFor the BASIC-coders among us. There is a number that has following aspects. divided by 16 remains 15 divided by 15 remains 14 divided by 14 remain…
... 1 to 17
30 READ m(i)
40 ... TO 1000
80 READ fact: LET skip = skip ... *fact
90 LET a = (n+(attempt-m(attempt ... br /> 100 if a INT a THEN LET n=n ... etc.
The DATA in line 50 holds the contribution ... number).
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SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... live with the shortcomings in favour of the greatly ... and so the keyboard is as responsive as a normal speccy. ... - the CPU does not in fact speed up, the ... really ought to go in as a feature sometime, as you ... I suspect that AY music in, say, Cybernoid, will ... -
Machine Code Challenge #1 ResultsWell at the stroke of midnight there were 3 entries so everybody gets to stand on the podium and the 3 Spectrum books will be going out to prizewinn…
... character set?
No in fact there are 32 ... I noticed something odd in the version 2 ROM ... is pretty similar to that in version 1 -
... of probability there is a flaw in the process as ... 's routine would produce a more generous FORMAT,
in particular ... -
Machine Code Challenge #1 ResultsWell at the stroke of midnight there were 3 entries so everybody gets to stand on the podium and the 3 Spectrum books will be going out to prizewinn…
... didn't publish the thickening routine in his Interface 1 disassembly, it ... the remnants of a more sophisticated routine.
A further piece in the jigsaw ... is that in "Your Sinclair ... -
Spectrum ROMI downloaded some text files (they are actually the spectrum ROM files but in text) which can be compiled using TASM (or soemthing). I read on WOS th…
... I will give hime a simple printing routine in MC.
in BASIC and when you ... you could use this simple routine.
To move ... ,10
LOOP LD A,(HL)
RST 16 ... 144 ; AT 10,10;UDG-A
DEFB 145 ; ... -
New SPIN 0.3a releaseHi all, here's the next version - mainly a maintenance release, with new bugs :) Here's what's new: V0.3a - Bugs and more tapes -------------------…
... didn't have to go in to the Periphals section and ... /> The Keyboard helper is also a great help. Not having a speccy handy ... is the TZX editor - albeit in a basic form
Nice ... present)
All in all a great little package. Keep up ... -
Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…
... entire snap collection on a CD, nor being able ... needlessly? Just so people can read them in a notepad?
I'm all for a global snapshot format that any ... will *not* support a format that intentionally bloats ... br /> And yes, I'm in a bad mood today. -
How do you download?Oooh! Haven't been here in a while... Hi all... No, this is not a rudimentary surfing query. I was wondering how people use retro archives like WoS e…
Well, I first frantically searched for the games I knew about or had read about in mags but never got my hands on. Got almost all I wanted online.
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ANNOUNCE: vbSpec v1.60The latest, greatest, most wonderful and beautiful release of vbSpec, the free Spectrum emulator for Windows, is available now from:- [url="http:/…
... didn't see any value in starting a new topic for this ... /> Fixed the .z80 file compression routine, which sometimes produced invalid .z80 ... his assistance).
Port #FF in TC2048 mode is now decoded ... .z80 files.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the ... -
ZX-2-PC Interface : Is it dead ???Certainly not, but I had some problems getting the EPROM-reader constant. In my former threat I stated that it worked, well, it read ROM-values but n…
... loaded a game in app. 40 sec and saved in 120 ... at #0556 to load a block of bytes and at ... 14. This also gives a BORDERing effect, which makes ... you use the normal ROM-routine in your program, the same ... START OF DATA
LD A,255 ; Signal of DATA-byte ... -
all in a good cause...We are hoping to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and support the UK?s first glossy (and hopefully rather funky) retro gaming …
... whatever per page, to advertise in such a magazine?
... I think that, sadly, such a magazine is financially imposible. However ... produced in digital format, which could be downloaded and read on ... I must admit, in the absence of a dedicated retro glossy, ... -
ObituaryYesterday my spectrum died :( Over 7 years of faithful service its finally gone to Silicon heaven. Rest in peace spectrum 48k+ Born sometime in 198…
... corrupted the ROM in hardware - a total mess to ... fix and replace :(
Takashit- that keyboard ... clicking is produced by the ROM in response to ... the keyboard moving into contact - a dodgy keyboard ... -
ObituaryYesterday my spectrum died :( Over 7 years of faithful service its finally gone to Silicon heaven. Rest in peace spectrum 48k+ Born sometime in 198…
... corrupted the ROM in hardware - a total mess to ... fix and replace :(
Takashit- that keyboard ... clicking is produced by the ROM in response to ... the keyboard moving into contact - a dodgy keyboard ... -
speccy emulator on OS Xhi there i am trying to use ZXSP on OS X but it won't load TAP files, and that it only supports .SNA and Z80 files. can i convert TAP files to .SNA o…
It is possible to convert a TAP in a .Z80.
Only no one ... ever written such a program.
Back in the early '90 ... to PC with a standard setting as described in one of the ... file in memory, but before returning to BASIC or from LOAD-routine in ... -
Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
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Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... used in that way - they play a note for a specific ... So :)? Convert PLAY note into a sequence of 'commands':
... the 128's PLAY routine in an interrupt, you'd ... .
A really keen person might find ... be attainable without using a good sized portion of ... -
Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... /> So :)? Convert PLAY note into a sequence of 'commands':[/quote]
routine in which case the note is ... sense as PLAY just becomes a DATA statement.
... What you describe would apply a universal vibrato effect - as soon ... -
.dsk back to +3 original format?Hi everyone! I recently stumbled over my spectrum +3 and i decided to replace its 3" dead drive for a 3.5" one. After some time, i was able to put it…
... 've been trying to use a program called CPDWrite, which claims ... file to a PC floppy, but unable to read it in my +3 ... -
"La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…
... of the Inquisition in that area , and a representative of the ... by his Novice years after, in a collection of scrolls , where it ... br />
USE OF THE KEYBOARD
William can be moved ... version , or CTRL + TAB in MSX. A flashing cursor will display. Press ... -
More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…
... is colliding with, in other words make disappear a graphic that is ... maybe this would be a pain in the a$$ to do, i really ... approximate last third could be a scoreboard in regular graphics or something ... ]
maye you read that in my article on peek n ... -
WOS and copright[url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html[/url]
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DESERVES A BIG KICK IN THE ASS FOR BEING ... software, or a company withholding a grant to a preservation archive ... permission.[/quote]
read the updates and permissio pages ... is concerned. if in fact a grant for distribution were ... -
unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …
... aren't complete and in a few cases the same ... but there is a significant difference in the number of ... ( to paraphrase what i read ) is utterly ridiculous. though ... USA as it is in fact a USA computer. But ... itself, and some distributors in portugal would often put ... -
What is SAM?Whilst looking at my spectum tape collection i foun a number of SAM only games. What is a SAM game and which emulators support it?
... -screen is updated and the keyboard read.
Together with Harddisk ... , CD-ROM interface it is a very nice machine. -
Microdrive utilityMany 'moons' ago before I sold my Spectrum, I had a micro drive utility which included amongst other things a re-written format command. This increa…
... /> I think I had a bid on that one and ... . It worked by using a shorter gap between the headers ... of the motor. I read that in the last month but have ... forgotten where. Probably in the maintenance manual on this ... site.
A nice set up - enjoy. -
Load games from mp3Hi, I'm a very new member of this forum, so please don't take offence of this topic. I'd like to know if I can load games from mp3 files. And if it…
... it once and with a handful of games, some ... closing down everything in the background in windows cause im ... read them and output a VOC/WAV rather than recording a ... WAV through the line in. i did ... not that i really had a choice, at the time ... -
Finding the length of loaded Bytes:Is there a way from BASIC of finding out how big a block of bytes loaded from tape was? i.e. - if you do LOAD""CODE and load in a lump of bytes, ca…
... :
Also, you can load a block of data even if ... test whether
it's a header or data and it ... /> LD HL,65535
XOR A
SBC HL,DE
routine in my copy-program. -
How often do you play Spectrum games every week?It's been asked before, I'm sure, but there's some new people here now, so it needs to be asked again. And what emulator do you use?
I also prefer playing games on it`s original computer, but my speccy has it`s keyboard almost wasted; there`s a guy in my city with CZ spectrum spare parts, but he demands an extorsive quantity.
Cambaccio says "no" to such nasty people. -
Speccy machine code info where is it?Recently I've been trying to learn Z80 and I've managed to make limited progress (some of my routines even compile now!) but I seem to be having trou…
... '. I picked one up in Oxfam recently and it's ... perfectly, so that even a thicko like me can understand ... fairly frequently, going for a couple of quid (and ... find a good old-fashioned book easier to read and ... use than a text or HTML ... -
Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…
... gray letters ( black keyboard, and key colours? - just a thought )
... something done on a spectrum, with spectrum graphics, a screen$...?
... something in javascript a while back that could take a gif ... be cool, with a gif of a spectrum screen (?), if ... -
GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…
... Batty! i was writing in such a hurry i messed up ... am doing my own interlace routine (for 48k which they ... cause i might use it in the intro if i ... out, ai downloaded a qbert vbut it is in basic ( and ... mean the original ones, 48k in partuclar, but on 128k, ...
