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Divide and multitapDear All, i hope to write into correct section. I have divide and 128+2, i would i likt to play with R-Type, and many games (target renegade)..but …
... the version 128k... (tk gasman)
for Wonderboy in monsterland i ... found a version in one part, (the original ... identical with original ZX128, only in modern case. You can search ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... are switchable between 48K Spectrum, 128K Spectrum, Pentagon and Scorpion, ... what I got for each one...
48K:
... B=0x01)[/code]
128K:
[code]Frame length 0x8000 ... Megademo runs with minor glitches in one corner), as I wouldn't ... -
Does anyone remember....the spectrum software hire club? just found an old catalogue and news letters from 1993, the news letters had reviews and tips in it and a section c…
yer I remember being in one.. there was a few of ... was handy for speeding up loading times ;-)
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Does anyone remember....the spectrum software hire club? just found an old catalogue and news letters from 1993, the news letters had reviews and tips in it and a section c…
... ;516797]yer I remember being in one.. there was a few of ... was handy for speeding up loading times ;-)
I do ... -
Games you thought nothing of as a kid, but are now disturbingI've been playing some 1982 games, and I find the popular genre of aeroplane bombing cities a little disturbing now. Games like City Bomber and Groun…
... this one back in the day, but I did see the loading screen in ... -
I've got a VIC 20 again!!!It's been 24 years since I got rid of mine. Had a brief interlude with one in 1998 that I got from a boot sale and then went BANG later that weekend.…
... you cut a hole in the front of one, do a bit ... can plug a second one into the first one. What does that ... from the modified one, while it's loading, the other one is recording ... -
simple things that get you..after rebelstar's thread here's another confessional type one... simple things, that well. get you.. here is my example... where I am currently has…
... slowly put all their **** in the trolley or carrier ... just 1-2 notes) in one of my hands as I ... next customer can move theirs in that "pocket" which is ... my head in.
Or dumbasses who block a half ... -empty conveyor belt by standing right in ... -
New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... cart with all the loading screens in higher memory with ... marsport with menu program with loading screens for 88K :smile ... program with three full loading screens went down to ... for them. But your loading system is more fun. ... Tape Output and 128k snapshot support. -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... do it by relying on 128K screen switching. Normally, if you ... to update a whole line in one go, you end up meeting ... 've used the 4x2 mode in [url=http://www.zxdemo.org ... the first to use it, in [url=http://www.zxdemo.org ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... go at any step speed in any direction you like.
in 2-pixel steps, that'd ... bit of memory as each block moving one cell from right to ... position and redraw the screen in one 50Hz TV frame. -
The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.
... the Spectrum and C64 have loading stripes anyway? What did they ... have some sort of unusual loading scheme.
The ... played over and over again, in one voice. Pretty advanced for an ... it has turboload built in. When the loading has finished it plays ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... in-line instead. It would mean I could mix block ... first line of every block in one pass, then the second ... could replace the 'platform' block type with the 'ground' ... time in one frame to load any more block data.< ... ways to add more block types, but every method ... -
Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... the default mode for snapshots in Zero but nothing prevents the ... changing it back to the 128K in settings. I must say I ... spent some very late nights in getting 128K emulation to work like ... 've got ULAplus support in there as well, one of the nicest ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... of how it works in that game. Joffa did ... s a preliminary pass in which one bit of code ... I can only really have one block type per row. But ... graphic design to make that one pixel count.
in performance.
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50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... I use a 16x6 block and pre-shift the ... amp; IY to get in other block types. The thing there ... spare NOP/EXX byte in front of every PUSH ... takes time to execute). One compromise is to only allow ... different block types (girders, poles and drums) on one row ... -
Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…
... an edge immediately following the block? I think the PZX sample ... the other strings in the block, though the behaviour in the spec is ... all the TZX to PZX block translations) and to get the ... audio2tape to cover some new loading schemes/problem cases if that ... -
Captain Slog faulty?So ... saw this game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000815&loadpics=3"]Captain Slog[/URL] mentioned in another thread and th…
Maybe you loaded it in 128K mode and then if it uses UDGS then it might be trying to print the words PLAY or SPECTRUM instead of the correct UDGs? If so, then loading it in 48K would make it work OK. -
Amstrad Toast Rack?Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Recently I have been very lucky with my brother giving me a Sinclair Spectrum 128K+ (Toast Rack), it needed a little a…
... a heatsink on the ula in the grey+2 when the ... have one?[/QUOTE]
I bought my spanish spectrum +128K in 1985 ... ( or 1986). It was repaired one time ( I ... -
Was the Sinclair 128k the same as the 128k +2?I only ever played on a 48k Speccy a few times and I owned a +2 and that's it. Was the Sinclair 128 the same as the 128+2? I mean you could play a 1…
... want to hear the glorious loading sound (heretic I know!)[/QUOTE ... zx spin emulator,cheap,fast loading,or if you like allow ... on the loading sound,or invest in one of them compact loading adaptors if ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... [/URL] (128K) snapshot had to be replaced, because loading it in a +2A ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... [/URL] (128K) snapshot had to be replaced, because loading it in a +2A ... top score for ST 2010 in that game :eek:
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... send me all problematic games in one archive, I can fix it ... a TAP file of Thanatos 128K which runs under USR0 mode ...Question about wiring up ethernet at homeWell, since WoS is the best forum I know for technical folk, I wondered if I could get a sanity check on my wiring plan for laying some ethernet cabl…
... both cheap and has one standard of everything.[/QUOTE ... a modular block system. Think it was this one [url] ... . All three cables neatly terminating in one wall box.
One last tip - If you don ... 't already have one get a "krone tool ...Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... still need a tape saving/loading routine, in Machine Code obviously. The ... be fit within 500 bytes, in contended memory, as I used ... />
(In the meantime I'm just writing one using ROM ...Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... still need a tape saving/loading routine, in Machine Code obviously. The ... be fit within 500 bytes, in contended memory, as I used ... />
(In the meantime I'm just writing one using ROM ...Help identifiying a very old gameHello, first post here although I've lurked for a while :) Great site! This is a long shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me find a game I played…
... The graphics are very good, one reviewer actually thought they were ... . Joystick; Mikrogen. Sadly only one skill level. Above average, overall ... a games designer in one ? another from the specialists in games for ... you think it isn?t loading properly. It is a ...Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…
... your adventure into the copier in one go, so you might have ... sound generated when loading or saving anything. I looked in the Help ... clicking on the Generate Loading Noise and Boost Loading Noise Volume, and ...The Work Life Ballance.Is it really possible to be successful in your job and achieve a good work life balance? Is it possible to earn a good wage or get the promotion with…
... cheap noodles, and stay in a block of flats populated by Junkies ... them! I stuck with one of them even when they ... sung my praises as being one of their best workers ... going to last 3 weeks in before I either quit, ... not just applying for jobs in game shops. I've ...AY DetectionOff the top of their heads, does anyone know how Exolon detects that an AY chip is present? Reading and writing from the PSG registers seems to work…
... that while testing Exolon in several emulators (in 48K mode and without ... br />
I guess this one deserves testing on real machines ... on a 48K, on a 128K in 48K mode, on a 48K ... /> If further testing is needed in specific emulators and emulator configurations ...A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…
... find it hard to fit in though (memory problems).
in 48K with 23 K ... have problems fitting everything in, and it uses almost ... to add some extra functions in GAC (like colour support ... as GAC thinks it's one block of text, while PAW ...
