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Success with cassette sdcard adapter and +2After far too long fiddling with tape volume and various compressions of tape files converted to mp3 I was able to get my +2 to to load files from th…
... t get a game to successfully load with tape2wav in fuse ... lame and in some cases with the high speed loading. Any ... that the +2 has built in joystick ports (and the ... to code a game in z80 I haven?t used in 20 ... years I would like a ... -
Help with random numbers......Hi all, wonder if anyone can help me... sort of a novice here ... I have been trying to write a simple ish basic program to compare random sets of n…
... of 6 numbers without repeating a number in each set.
in some of the sets, someone suggested a randomize ... below i have included a little (poorly written routine) to print out ... /> 130 REM PRINT RANDOM NUMBERS IN SETS OF 6
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Game Selection Menu for DivIDE (& others)I retro game on a few other machines and one of the common things is a menu front end on a hard disk to all the games/disc images stored on it. The m…
... br /> This would be a massive boon for gamers like ... tapes, and use a DivIDE. In addition the menu could ... be used as a central library for loading ... simple, the devil is in the detail (like what ... skills to do something in basic but I ... -
Please help identify this gameI must confess that I usually remember how much I like this game about every 5-10 years, then I manage to find it, enjoy it, and then forget about it…
... sliding doors. The loading screen was a bit like a screenshot from 3D ... Monster Maze, except with a baddie in ... -
Newbie's development thoughts.Just wanted to thank WOS development forum regulars, for the amazing information etc contained within these pages. 20+ years ago a did a little asse…
... assimilated somewhat, and his whitenoise routine was effectively pinched verbatim - ... routine was greatly helpful in getting me using the screen a ... is-going-to-be-a-right-pain-in-the-bum' to ...
For anyone interested: A work in progress build is here: [URL ... -
Is it OK for a CPU to idle at around 75??I recently found that the (nearly) fanless build I put together had an idling temperature of about 90?C! I nearly fell off my chair when I investigat…
... down and drilling ventilation holes in the covers). Now it idles ... fans except the exhaust fan in the PSU.
Well, CPU ... need to put a fan in here to cool in down further still ... -
Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... /> Then watching a YouTube clip of someone loading something from a disc, I ... you imagine? A "professional" product and theres a blatant typo in the manual ... of "R Tape loading error" in that the loading stripes suddenly fill the ... -
Justin Beeper - new demo for the unexpanded 16K Speccy[img]http://pouet.net/screenshots/57726.png[/img] This was my entry for this weekend's [url=http://www.sunrisedemoparty.co.uk/]Sunrise[/url] demo pa…
... demo party, winning first place in the Oldskool Demo competition... and ... wrote a new one (in Javascript), relying entirely on the BEEP routine in ... the ROM. And doing everything in contended RAM ... you're quite constrained in what you can do ... -
Getting the contents of tablesHi All, I'm risking a potentially daft question here as it seems pretty fundamental but here goes: What's the best way of pointing register pairs a…
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I'm risking a potentially daft question here as ... to call a routine with hl pointing at a screen address ... graphic data, and repeat a number of times I ... br /> It works but seems a little longwinded (I'm basically ... this (and do so in my sprite routines) but ... -
2 blown PSUs in one dayI got a SAM Coupe today, and the PSU started to smoke as soon as I turned it on. Since the Spectrum +3 PSU looked up to powering the SAM, I wired to…
... /> I put a disk drive in to try to load a disk blind ... - which worked for a ... no LED. I had a look in the PSU and sure enough ... so I got a new one and put it in. Still the ... 5V pins to 12V, resulting in a burning smell and smoke.
AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…
... one. So here's a routine to provide all of the ... from BASIC. Syntax is explained in the listing. The numeric ... second parameter actually ends up in C, as I was ... on error
ld a,c ;A =operator offset in OPTIONS
push ...Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…
... the positions of 'a' & 'b', in order to preserve ... data at the destination in case the two areas ... run at a fixed point then the 'initsr' routine can ... comments with the listings in [url=http://www.users ... listing is so that routine addresses can be calculated ...Heartland, AuthorsNot sure if this subject was already raised (searched the Forums but couldn't find anything about it). While checking Odin's [URL="http://www.worldo…
... names are "hidden" in the loading screen, behind a black ink on black ... h/scr/Heartland.scr"]loading screen available in WoS[/URL] without the ... (with ZX-Preview, for instance) a lot of text can clearly ... Grunes (Design and Graphics) and a Max Bounty Count (and Max ...BREAK from GOSUBHere's another one. Just in case you wanted to break out of multiple GOSUB levels with a single command, here's a routine to do it, tested on all mod…
... another one. Just in case you wanted to ... levels with a single command, here's a routine to ... value
LD B, A ; 71 ;from calc ... POP DE ; 209
LD A, D ; 122
CP ...found something in food..so I had a bar of chocolate today.. think there was a twig in it.. well I "hope" it was a twig.. it's going off to the maker with a little "note" i…
... today.. think there was a twig in it.. well I "hope ... " it was a twig.. it's ... s chocolate with something else in,normally but if I ...
I found a bit of bone in steak and kidney pie ... so what have you found in food that shouldn't have ...Undefine functionHere's a routine to selectively remove variables from the VARS area and reclaim the space. This can be done partially from BASIC already by assigning…
Here's a routine to selectively remove variables from ... /> It does have another advantage in that the arguments can themselves ... work as a direct command, because a direct command is held in the ... area (above VARS) rather than in the BASIC area, so catering ...Riding a motorcycle in morning rush hour traffic.It's a little bit something like this [youtube]zcJDn03ANdA[/youtube]
It's a little bit something like this
[youtube]zcJDn03ANdA[/youtube]Would you play a game called...?As Partridge once said, "It's just an idea" so. . . Rooster Booster - In which you play a Rooster (starts out on a farm, ends up in Space). There's…
... - In which you play a Rooster (starts out on a farm, ends up in ... Hoose) - In which you play a Moose (and maybe a Mouse). In a Hoose.
Pleasant Pheasant Plucker - In ...Bit of an obscure oneThink it may have been Dynamite Dan? If it crashed when loading near the beginning , an R:Tape error would appear on screen , but also a message in b…
Think it may have been Dynamite Dan? If it crashed when loading near the beginning , an R:Tape error would appear on screen , but also a message in brackets saying something like "Look Jim , another pirate"). Anyone else remember seeing this?Andy Carr in Egypt - Never released game from Reptile IndustriesAccording to "The games that time forgot", there was a game in early stages (Mock screens) recovered from the Anaconda development disks, called "And…
... that time forgot", there was a game in early stages (Mock screens ... development disks, called "Andy Carr in Egypt, the adventures of the ... />
There is no entry in WoS for this never released ...New Game! Maritrini, Freelance Monster SlayerAfter experiencing the sweet taste of success, Maritrini woke up one fine day in a mess of bed sheets and with the biggest hangover she could remembe…
... woke up one fine day in a mess of bed sheets and ... collapsed over a chair in the kitchen in front of a rusty coffee mug ... the high school, take a look in a set of mines which lead ... ].
9:30 minutes loading time, 210Kb compressed into roughly ...joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together ... code is based on the routine "Edit Key" by M.Loftus ... move up/down one line in the editing line (come out ... ,(IY+55) ;set EDIT flag in spare bit of FLAGX
Admiral Graf Spee (AKA)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Admiral+Graf+Spee$&pub=^Temptation+Software+Ltd$&loadpics=3"]Admiral Graf Spee[/URL] AKA G…
... Spee as per the loading screen (and in-game screen).
a/gif/AdmiralGrafSpee.gif[/img]I Remember "Back In The Day"Forgive me for rambling (Led Zeppelin wrote a song about it). . . I remember my Dad buying a computer in 1996? Pentium 100, 8 Mb Ram. I remember spe…
... for rambling (Led Zeppelin wrote a song about it). . .< ... remember my Dad buying a computer in 1996? Pentium 100, ... Ram just to play Quake in Windows.
a Spectrum and "The Hobbit ... , and?" my mate throwing a huff. . .
Just bought a +3 and i think it's broken :(Please help... my spectrum +3 arrived today and I plugged it in, the red light came on and the disk drive made a little noise. So I then set the T…
... today and I plugged it in, the red light came on ... and the disk drive made a little noise.
So ... then the drive started making a constant noise :confused: And didn ... not been able to tune a picture in, and when I tried ...4116 SRAM replacement (and ULA timings).As mentioned in another thread, I have spent quite a lot of time experimenting with different circuits and components for using a static RAM IC to re…
... the lower RAM 4116s in a Spectrum. I hope to ... It also works correctly in the Spectrums later than ... a more complex picture - I have been using the loading ... information to this effect in Chris Smith's very ... suspect there may be a difference in the timing of ...Worst gaffes you've made in gamesWhat is the worst gaffe or gaffes you've made in a game? Can be a stupid own goal at football, walked straight off a cliff in some game or other, sho…
... you've made in a game? Can be a stupid own ... football, walked straight off a cliff in some game or other ... shooting a bush (believe it or not) in Rebelstar 2 ... torch ammo left is a classic when you haven ... Rygel's Revenge (?) is a classy text adventure, swear and ...Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... and soldered to a board. It was a project in an electronics ... you entered a location, I?d call Phil?s graphics routine and ... game I started them in a random place in that sequence; and the ... pick up a random object, run in a random direction, drop a random object ...Proper mapping for joysticks in an existing emulatorThis may seem like a strange question, so I'll try to explain it as well as possible. In one of Rare's (Ultimate Play the Games) later games there…
... well as possible.
In one of Rare's (Ultimate ... mapping the controller input as a kempston joystick (or whatever is ... . Obviously, that creates a bit of a problem in that you'd need ... twofold here:[list=1][*]Can a Kempston joystick be used without ...
