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"The arcade is done. Game over."Nice little article on the death of the arcades. [url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/explore/chi-arcades-end-0605jun05,0,3830088.s…
... at the top - with one LED being highlighted and slowly changing ... down and stopping at one LED, if you hit the right ... got a free extra credit. Memory is hazy, but I think ... -
I/O on the Speccy - ideas/help wanted!I'd like an interface for the Spectrum that can control and monitor other items. I have a task in mind that would require: A: 4xbinary inputs (as in…
... a 8x8 LED matrix amongst other things!
fom memory that ... rather easy, simply poke the memory area needed! (or was it ... -
Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…
... them the more warped my memory of them becomes. Kinda like ... moss/seaweed thing is what led me to doubt the 3D ... always been present in my memory banks, and I've always ... of it.
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Any good Defender-style games for the Spectrum?I rediscovered my love for Defender when I played Chopper Command a few days ago, and realized that I'd only ever played one Defender-y Spectrum game…
... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0003148"]Meteor Storm[/URL]. The latter even manages ... as it gets distorted by memory contention. -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... half man half plants Petal storm. Some of them like Kain ... had things missing due to memory issues. The Darkstalkers series was ... I never owned a converter/memory expansion the lithium battery has ... carts or even just a memory cart cost far more than ... -
What bands have you seen live?Have seen: Rick Wakeman - Inverness - 1989 AC/DC - Wembley Arena - 1990 AC/DC - Manchester MEN - 2000 Rush - Wembley Arena - 1990 Fish - London As…
NORMAL CONCERTS: (missing lots, my memory ain't perfect)
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Katie King + Lujuria + The Storm
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Oblivion...Thought I'd start another thread, to save further derailment of the "XBox Tips" one. Ok, so I'm now an expert in light armour, thanks to Vampyre's t…
... ... I found one once that led to a wierd underground church ... have to have a good memory to know what everythign does ... -
'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back, videos & photos'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back Longton, Stoke On Trent, 7th March 2009 "One of the most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester…
... me as long as the memory of this entertaining afternoon and ... a vitriolic deeply personal ego-led assault from anyone on these ... -
Laptop hard drive questionWell the battery in my laptop holds absolutely no charge whatsoever any more, so I'm taking it out so I'm not lugging the dead weight around with me.…
... useage, except for keeping USB memory sticks in, if your following ... drive something interesting like an LED to illuminate the keyboard, or ... -
Spectrum 2.0 (soon to be) updatedI've just pushed out a "beta test" of the next version of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url] to [url=http://staging.spectrum20.org/]stagi…
... hankering for one game from memory lane might find their way ... Manic Miner. I think that led me to a Java site ... -
!!! Trdos Emulation On Zx !!![B]This is software emulator of TRDOS(betadisk). Yet is writed only for interface MB02+, but will ported to more other IDE interfaces with external r…
... /> My old MB02 has additionally "memory LED map". It is matrix of ... 64 LEDs, each LED is representing 1k of memory. LED is ON when ... processor is accessing this memory address ... just by looking at the memory LED map. My favourite no.1 ... -
Repair options for my own dear old Spectrum 48k?Hello all, This is my first post to this wonderful forum, which is part of a truly great website! My name is Arnold, and I live in Utrecht, The Nethe…
... stuff that led up to the homecomputer age (core memory, CPU's ... -
This Is Your (Gaming) LifeHi there spec-chums. I'm in an inquisitive mood, and feel like doing a bit of writing, so I was wondering if you folks would like to share the story …
... 128k models with awesome sound led me to build my ovn ... resembling my Spectrum to 80k memory model compatible to Didaktik Gama ... sound routine was in second memory bank as it was on ... -
Crazy Ice Storm.Well I've been in Boone NC, we have had 16" of snow, then on Christmas day we had the worst ice storm in living memory. Christmas was spent cold, wi…
... had "the worst ice storm in living memory" (it seems to happen ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... them due to memory and performance. This also led to the discussion ... -
OptimisationI've participated in several thread hijacks about this, so perhaps I should open a new thread. Et VIOLA! Here it is! Knuth, who was earlier reporte…
... virtual memory manager which can leave you in a swapping storm even ... bit of the Windows virtual memory manager that figures out what ... fast to reference frequently used memory pages. Being an on-chip ... actually touching most of this memory, and most of this would ... -
OptimisationI've participated in several thread hijacks about this, so perhaps I should open a new thread. Et VIOLA! Here it is! Knuth, who was earlier reporte…
... virtual memory manager which can leave you in a swapping storm even ... bit of the Windows virtual memory manager that figures out what ... fast to reference frequently used memory pages. Being an on-chip ... actually touching most of this memory, and most of this would ... -
Bloody doctors...Kind of a long story and I have a habbit of going off tangent a little, so stick with me here :lol: I've got a condition called PKD (Polycystic Kidn…
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Bloody doctors...Kind of a long story and I have a habbit of going off tangent a little, so stick with me here :lol: I've got a condition called PKD (Polycystic Kidn…
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Bloody doctors...Kind of a long story and I have a habbit of going off tangent a little, so stick with me here :lol: I've got a condition called PKD (Polycystic Kidn…
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It's led to theories of memory being stored and transferred ... -
Broken ram or what?Hi! I own ZX Spectrum 48K. When i run command PRINT PEEK 23732 + 256 * PEEK 23733, I should get answer 65535? But i get 49151. In my machine the upp…
... 48K issue 4B: thye ROM memory check routine gave me 49152 ... the wrong position, and that led to the address range 49152 ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... factors and considerations that ultimately led to the graphics being the ... were, not least being the memory constraint issues... I would go ... to fit the game into memory... I would, however, love to ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... factors and considerations that ultimately led to the graphics being the ... were, not least being the memory constraint issues... I would go ... to fit the game into memory..[/Quote]Bubbble Bobble was not ... -
updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…
PC trouble!First my flash disk suffered a spectacular crash and now my PC refuses to boot up. I mean, all I get is the powered on LED light, and the internal fa…
... . I removed the hard disk, memory cards, display card, attached peripherals ... up.
2) All the LED lights indicating Hard Disk and ...The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... wisely in the future that led to the demise of those ... and uploading/downloading chunks of memory at high BAUD rates. ... four horizontal/vertical combinations saving memory.
The VDP ... map in VRAM. The memory buffer automaticly wraps round on ...Toki review?I'm having a dig around the unreleased Spec/CPC version of Toki to see what turns up. I noted this in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cg…
... mock up the screens. This led to some famous 'differences', like ... the finished product, due to memory/speed issues.Assembly Programming for IDIOTSOk are there any websites guides for what opcodes do in a z80 or books... but for really really thick people like me :-) Something along the lines …
... address BUS, random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), central processing ... language back in 1987 which led to a job in the ...Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
... applications allocate far too much memory throttling the system... idiots ... else wanted to allocate some memory. Under normal circumstances, this ... t using most of its memory, was actually touching everything ... the memory it wasn't using, and a huge swapping storm ...Lennon-30 yearsMight come a shock to some,but coming on 8th marks 30 years of the death of the former beatle,notoriety still surrounds this,some saying there should…
... for the IRA, which then led to atrocities in England.
memory at the time the song ...
