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Cronosoft - buying digital games(I did attempt a search for this, but the search feature was behaving weirdly!) I e-mailed Simon several days ago to ask him how to purchase digit…
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ZX Dev - Conversions * New Spectrum games Compo!! *Hi Everybody! A new edition of the ZX Dev has just started, we have been planning it for the last weeksand finally we have come up with this speci…
... as not only conversions of games from other platforms are accepted, but ... also conversions from movies, TV series, cartoons, books ... encourages people writing new Spectrum games!
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When games had very little or no sound ...We all know the Speccy often got ridiculed for its shortcomings like colour clash, and another factor was the lack of music in most 48k games. It jus…
... lack of music in most 48k games. It just made me think ... you relate? In some modern games, I set the background music ... , there must be very few games which do that? Still, even ... -
Magnetic Scrolls games' source code has been recovered.Any fans of the Magnetic Scroll games from the late 1980s/early 90s might be interested to learn that the source code of all of the games has been fo…
... of the Magnetic Scroll games from the late 1980s/early 90s ... strandgames.com/blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-code-recovered"]https:// ... strandgames.com/blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-code-recovered[/url]< ... used to release the games on tablets and PC:< ... -
Reliving your youthKeep finding myself in a distructive circle. In short form.... Decide to start playing spectrum games every few years. Starts off ok, then I ge…
... /> Decide to start playing spectrum games every few years. Starts off ... play. I then rembember other games from other formats and the cycle ... on some of the best games I had ever played.
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Replaying games from Crash Issue 1Only a small conceit in the general scheme of things, but since Issue 1 of Crash was the first Spectrum mag I bought, and I remember wondering at the…
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Games that deserved a better port/conversionRecently I was watching (again) some classic games from other machines. Thinking about how to resolve graphical decisions on the speccy (colours, des…
... was watching (again) some classic games from other machines. Thinking about how ... at the conclusion that some games could have had a better ... made the player completely black :(. Games like R-type on the ... -
problem loading/playing gameshello to all! i was last active at this forum 11 years ago, and here goes the same thing :) found my old speccy, did the composite mod, managed to …
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My +2 has gone completely madApart from the two +3s I'm trying to get into perfect working order (or as near as I can manage), I know my venerable old +2 with its steadily-browni…
Apart from the two +3s I'm ... short trousers it had trouble loading 128K games that should have been ... -
Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
... /recommend-modern-1994-2017-games/p1]recommend games from the "modern era" (1994 ... the year, adding in new games from 2017 as they were released ... Essentially, it was his modern games that made me think of ... the rate home-brew games on tape from the UK, Spain and ... -
no sound from speaker when trying to load games from tape and games are not loadingcould this be a blown component like a diode or something? it must be something simple. any help would be appreciated as im sure it wouldnt be that h…
could this be a blown component like a diode or something? it must be something simple. any help would be appreciated as im sure it wouldnt be that hard to fix. -
Less MIA - Avon (1989)(Topologika)[+3 disk]Hi All :) I got interesting titles this time, even i not like adventure quest's, may be some one will be happy :) Thanks to Simon Owen for his grea…
... .dsk"]Avon (1989)(Topologika)[+3 disk][/url]
bonus side ... (1989)(Topologika)[+3 disk][/url]
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Plus D AutoloadDear WOS, I have no idea how the hell to get an Autoload file to run with the Plus D interface. I tried reading the manual, I tried loading the OS…
... , I tried loading the OS and then inserting my disk with the ... same disk as on the System Disk (saves me loading the OS from tape ... -
How to Record Retro Games to Blank DVD's (Scart & Composite)First of all my apologies if this should be in another section but it is about recording games :-D I've been meaning to do this video for some tim…
... but it is about recording games :-D
I've ... how I record old retro games in perfect picture quality on ... having issues with recording retro games from the original hardware to blank ... -
Saving Basic games from code...I don't know if I am posting this to the right section, but I need to know how I can type out a Basic program from code and save and run it through L…
I don't know if I am posting this to the right section, but I need to know how I can type out a Basic program from code and save and run it through Linux. I am currently using the FUSE emulator.
How is this done?
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Tape to +3 disk transferWhen the first basic part was merged from tape, to be saved to disk, and it looked like this: [img]https://i.imgur.com/UQx1hc2.jpg[/img] how di…
... part was merged from tape, to be saved to disk, and it ... the files were saved to disk, I mean...
It ... transfer and run the game from disk:
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Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …
A lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features,
What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game data etc?
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"Cottage Industry" creations. In other words software that has a genuine "hand made" quality to it ,such as :- 1) Daisy Wheel printed cassette inlays 2) Cassette inlays prin…
... Ltd" for the Spectrum , 48k RAM , Financial games from Simon Hessel . I have ... -
How to download games to micro sd card to play on Sinclair zx spectrum vegaHello Could anyone tell me how to download games from a website to a micro sd card to play on a Sinclair zx spectrum vega , I mean do I use a emulat…
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Spectrum Plus 2 display issueMy trust plus 2 is working fine, loading games from tape etc. Suddenly the video output has gone black, with a faint outline of the main elements of…
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Someone repairing ZX Spectrum in The Netherlands?Last december I bought a Spectrum 48k of an online marketplace. This week a new powersupply arrived (did not dare to try the old one) and a divMMC de…
... december I bought a Spectrum 48k of an online marketplace. This ... a divMMC device to read games from SD cards.
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Mostly Harmless - an Elite save game editor[img]https://i.imgur.com/MoNgWCe.png[/img] [b]Mostly Harmless - an Elite save game editor The most complete save game editor available for the…
... available for the ZX Spectrum (48k/128k) version of Elite.
from tape.
Edit your ... Missions.
Saved games from both the 48k and 128k versions of ... may also convert a save from one version to the other ... -
uMIA(?): "Igra"With the forums back and some promise of a database update, I thought I'd post this. For years on end, I've had this game on my hard drive. No ide…
... "Game" in various Slavic languages. From what I remember, though I ... on WOS to find "modern" games from the Wilderness Years, I know ... one of those "colour lines" games that was popular with the ...
Machine type: ZX Spectrum 48k
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JSW Central YouTube channelI am pleased to announce the launch of a new YouTube channel which will complement the information presented on [url="https://jswcentral.org/"]JSW Ce…
... walkthroughs of MM and JSW games, created from my RZX recordings made ... ;) ). They include all of the games from the official Miner Willy canon ... , 48K about a Legend", for letting me use an excerpt from the ... -
esxDOS v0.8.9 has been officially releasedhttp://board.esxdos.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2025#p2025 [quote]lordcoxis Today 12:35:17 esxDOS v0.8.9 has been officially released. Grab it at http:…
... /> Support for SCL (TR-DOS) disk images
TR- ... the root directory when the disk was full (lordcoxis + reported ... support for SCL (TR-DOS) disk images (lordcoxis)
[18 ... NMI: Added support for loading SCL files from the browser (UB880D)
spdif adapterIs there some kind of adapter that would allow direct loading of data from spdif? I mean lossless data like dat/cd.. (to avoid long and unreliable l…
... that would allow direct loading of data from spdif? I mean lossless ... and unreliable loading and to fit a lot more games on media ...Badly written arcade games?A thought came to me earlier when reading the thread discussing retro consoles.... Back in the 80s arcade conversions were all the rage, but they …
... home computer and console games that stretched the respective ... platforms, arcade games were the ultimate - always ... talented developers working on arcade games back then - just as ...
What are the arcade games from 80s which were clearly way ...fastest emulationhi there as i got a hold of an old 486 laptop, i need to know: which is the fastest dos emulator? does any emulator uses the pc speaker for sound? …
... /33 and I can play games with Z80 3.0 at ... available), can play 128k's games, it has very nice sound ... 's very useful to load games from tape (if you have the ... , but it works only for 48k's games.
Regards,
Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…
... I had my first Spectrum 48K back at 1984 when I ... a TC 2048, a Spectrum 48K clone from the Portuguese Timex. I ... I prefer to play Speccy games on emulators, than the PC ... games :) Unfortunately, I did not keep my Spectrum 48K, but ...which spectrum?.......hi everybody, which zx spectrum had the best games specially written for them and why? was it: zx spectrum 16k " 48k " +2
... say 48k. That's as probably more than 90% of the games ... were targeted for that machine, and if you look from ... the early 48k games (1982) and the late ...
