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  • Nooooo my speccy died!??!!Hi! I am quite sad. :( Tonight I got a kempston interface so I rushed home to try it on my spectrum+ The edge connector of the interface was narrower…

    ... . However, I have a tube of 100 4164s from an eBayer ... 't see me using 100 of them!), I'll probably make ... though. However, with a little bit of creative soldering, I think it ... are easy to get hold of - RS Components sell new 128K ...
    Winston Winston December 2006 Hardware
  • SCART Lead and C= 1940 MonitorHi, I've decided to make a SCART lead for my +3 I've been doing a lot of searching on the internet and forums but I'm a little confused as some peop…

    ... DIN plug with a little bit to spare and ... (I use another bit of stripped outer insulation from the ... I ended up getting 2m of XS24V. Maplin don't ... ]This page features a little bit of H/VSYNC stuff using ... having ideas about having a little circuit squeezed into a ...
    links links December 2006 Hardware
  • From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…

    ... know this from the number of times I've read about ... the Spectrum to the extent of just releasing the +3 ( which ... :1 Spectrum:CPC. But instead of migrating to C64s, people migrated ... , when it arrived, was little short of a masterstroke. Zarch demo, played ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])

    ... easy to render to, consisting of pixels in certain format, like:
    of pixels, or JR/JP to a ... routine which fills two chunk pixels in vieoram. Typically:
    ... /> ret ; reads another two pixels and jumps to another similar ...
    baze baze January 2007 Development
  • "chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])

    ... byte) we pick a pair of pixels and look for their pre ... byte) we pick _two_ pairs of pixels... each pair is a unique ... /> pop hl ; get first pair of pixels
    ld a,(hl) ; get ... /> pop hl ; get second pair of pixels
    ld l,(hl) ; get ...
    baze baze January 2007 Development
  • geforce 6800, anygood?looking at buying one of these cards its the geforce 6800GT, 256mb blah blah, my PC is bout 3years old and 8xAGP, this card appears to be one of the …

    Looking a little more, price-wise a 6800GT ... think a 7800 is a little out of your planned price range ...
    icabod icabod January 2007 Chit chat
  • geforce 6800, anygood?looking at buying one of these cards its the geforce 6800GT, 256mb blah blah, my PC is bout 3years old and 8xAGP, this card appears to be one of the …

    ... to run at an average of 18 to 25 fps at ... on medium (and a little bit of tweaking in the config file ... my 6800GT until a batch of gfx cards come out that ... are leaps and bounds ahead of the card I have, rather ... tarted up and faster version of it.

    I ...
    Refrenz Refrenz January 2007 Chit chat
  • Map Book Updatepre-production work on teh map book.. I've decided to drop Lemmings from volume 1 due to it not being visually attractive. I've got the following …

    Looks nice, I like the little picture of the game at the top ... , but not tall... have layers of the map?

    -CrackDown ...
    -Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
    -Hero ... it`s brilliant graphics, one of the games that works well ...
    CKay CKay January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Book on Spectrum game graphicsWhat Spectrum games graphics would you like to see in a book? I've got some of the obvious ones (Head Over Heels, Batman games, Ultimate games, Wally…

    Didn't spot anyone mention Rex yet. The general graphics are nice, but it's the animation that really stands out. The things they can do in a 16x16 block of pixels.
    icabod icabod January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…

    ... moved the cars a couple of pixels to the side? You' ... the yellow-on-red of the headlights clashing with ... the black (and white) of the road. It's possible ... notice how the left edge of the road conveniently doesn't ... cross any slanted parts of the police car, for ...
    gasman gasman January 2007 Games
  • Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…

    ... moved the cars a couple of pixels to the side? You' ... the yellow-on-red of the headlights clashing with ... the black (and white) of the road. It's possible ... notice how the left edge of the road conveniently doesn't ... cross any slanted parts of the police car, for ...
    Swainy Swainy January 2007 Games
  • +3 Drive B ConnectorI've heard some people say the pinout in the manual for the +3 is incorrect and is actually in reverse. Does this mean that pin 34 on the connector i…

    ... you must put in one of the plugs upside down. ... wires by sticking a little bit of wire in the spare ... use the "crossed wire" part of the cable.

    ... have to reverse the position of the wires you connect. ... , this selects side 2 of the disk (not as ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2007 Hardware
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    Ouch!......sound like a lot of work....:o
    I ... it seems, the more of course we appreciate your efforts ... DS which have a lot of potential (once the 128K ... the DS seems a little out of reach at the moment ... br /> Having a database of previously only TR-DOS games ...
    Arm73 Arm73 January 2007 Games
  • Regarding Spectrum parties worlwideI was reading the thread 'Speccy users around the globe' and I wonder, how many of us never had the privilege to attend a party because we're too far…

    ... good to see some little videos of one of the demo party`s ... for those of us who can`t attend ...

    I think one of the spanish party`s is ...
    CKay CKay January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • jet set willy multi playercant believe what ive just seen posted on retro remakes. mersey remakes, smila, scottige and ovine are doing a multi player jet set willy. what a gen…

    ... experience more, hence a lot of the tweeks and changes to ... I do lament the loss of The Nightmare Room a ... but from a MP point of view it was a tad ... all passable now with a little bit of practice, but aye - I ... out over watching a couple of games in play. The ...
    oddbob0 oddbob0 January 2007 Games
  • "The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […

    ... a little world of its own, a spider webbing of force ... what matter? There was little room in the Universe ... . So many hundreds of billions of them, all with ... had any part of the making of a Universal AC. ... was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ...
    Daren Daren January 2007 Chit chat
  • Passing off games as your ownWe ran into a rather interesting case over the past day: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011821"]Jukebox[/URL], which appeare…

    ... ! A real bitter little piece of work most of the time. He ... (i give him a little wave every now and then ... Infact not a squeak out of him since. But the day ... Viper Squad style in front of all his chums about ... the way...Another author of one of the ST games he ...
    Sard Sard February 2007 Games
  • Passing off games as your ownWe ran into a rather interesting case over the past day: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011821"]Jukebox[/URL], which appeare…

    ... recently! A real bitter little piece of work most of the time. He ... /> Ooh! Thank you for that little snippet of news, Sir! You've ...
    Malc74 Malc74 February 2007 Games
  • Can anyone help identify this game plsHi - there was a great game I remember playing, but cannot remember what it was called. Can anyone help. It consisted if I remember rightly of a maz…

    With a little bit of imagination it could be anything
    chop983 chop983 February 2007 Games
  • The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…

    ... were nothing special - in spite of getting regularly Smashed by Crash ... more than their fair share of wobbliness.

    Gremlin ... USG promised lots and delivered little most of the time.

    little carried away with that at ...
    NickH NickH February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…

    ... a bit beyond the reach of anything anyone homebrew could challenge ... first I've actually heard of it in more detail than ... and exporters and some kind of reasonable sound.

    Yeah ... that. There is a little bit of space on the credit card ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PAW or GAC?Greetings all :) You might have heard me saying I was about to start in the programming of (quite silly and totally unworthy playing) games in BASIC…

    ... the new system adds a little bit of overhead)
    StuBruise StuBruise February 2007 Games
  • The Bring Back Dizzy PetitionTHE BRING BACK DIZZY PETITION... Look at this: [url]http://www.yolkfolk.com/petition[/url]

    ... this one. I'm a little weary of it cos' My post ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Bring Back Dizzy PetitionTHE BRING BACK DIZZY PETITION... Look at this: [url]http://www.yolkfolk.com/petition[/url]

    ... this one. I'm a little weary of it cos' My post ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…

    ... up and publishers having very little power, reviewers could just ... that they were a little bored of the Spectrum and spoilt ... and moved on. Kind of like what I do ... got 85% a couple of months after it's abysmal ... , however, the saving grace of many a review was the ...
    Collie Collie February 2007 Games
  • Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…

    ... 172618]Pelley was indeed one of the culprits, although Stuart ... up and publishers having very little power, reviewers could just say ... - that they were a little bored of the Spectrum and spoilt with ... Fortunately, however, the saving grace of many a review was the ...
    zx1 zx1 February 2007 Games
  • The Bring Back Dizzy PetitionTHE BRING BACK DIZZY PETITION... Look at this: [url]http://www.yolkfolk.com/petition[/url]

    ... this one. I'm a little weary of it cos' My post ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... ;174376]The beauty of the pickup items is that ... There's a couple of problems with these additions ... Here[/url] is another little test screen showing my ... I`m getting a little dot of corruption I have to ... of the girder to your right. The colours need a little ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... Here[/url] is another little test screen showing my ... I`m getting a little dot of corruption I have to ... look into, drop left of the platform and edge ... of the girder to your right. The colours need a little ... restricts you from flying out of the room.

    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • C# emulatorHi, I wanted to branch out and get a little better with C# so I think I need something meaty to do to keep me going....so an emulator seemed a reaso…

    ... /> i think ill write a little bit of z80 like

    polomint polomint March 2007 Emulators
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