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SPIN betaHello. This is my first message in this Forum, so excuse my bad english as it is not my main language. I would be extremely grateful if somebody cou…
... RZXs from Daren's archive. There are many RZXs for multi-loading games ... is NO (!) RZX for multi-loading game, which would be created ... -
SPIN betaHello. This is my first message in this Forum, so excuse my bad english as it is not my main language. I would be extremely grateful if somebody cou…
... you want playback to resume from. You can then continue your ... open RZX from the last session.
from Daren's archive. There are many RZXs for multi-loading games ... is NO (!) RZX for multi-loading game, which would be created ... -
Now it's workingHello again and again, Today I received the membrane. And i turned the speccy on and worked a bit. I wrote some commands, used CLEAR 65535 command to…
... it's cords are different from the ones which Speccy use ... don't have any original games with a big cassette box ... only wav files made from the perfect tzxs from TZX Vault and WOS ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
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To ... bar" to appear when loading blocks from tape (so they don' ... t waste your nice loading screen) ... a mode change made normally from the keyboard. So if ... -
Pirate game trading at school?How many people traded pirate games at school? At one school, there was a group in which members would trade pirate games for all systems most break…
... you wanted to get games from. So, if you ... got a few other games in on the bargain ... creating loading screens (some good realistic code from a ... mag). Went on to become a hobby of drawing loading ... monkeys. Several even swapped games and music with my ... -
Presevation malarkey - what i've found in my collectionhey, just gone through all my old speccy games, the original purpose was try get rid of them but i'm finding myself loath to do it anyway, i've run …
... br /> i have found 3 games that don't turn up ... tzx of, but again its a copy (i think the games ... br /> [quote]
3 more games i have copies of that ... that some games have tzx and everything but no loading screenshot ... theres just so many games that people don't ... -
Describe what makes the Spectrum so special and uniqueFor me its very much a nostalgic thing. I havent even seen a spectrum or a spectrum game for real for 13 years, and so when I found this site I was j…
... this period, the majority of games that came out could still ... an unusual thing. Very few games were released that only worked ... regularly. I've played countless games from that pre-86 period and ... Ultimate isometric rip-off not loading on the 128, and neither ... -
Retro scenes slowing down?There was a post last month about fewer people posting here, but is the entire retro scene in recession? I'm talking about fewer updates on websites…
you say are making Spectrum games more mainstream, but what you ... previously free and downloadable spectrum games non-downloadable and only available ... removal of more and more games from the WoS archive?
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Retro scenes slowing down?There was a post last month about fewer people posting here, but is the entire retro scene in recession? I'm talking about fewer updates on websites…
... /> you say are making Spectrum games more mainstream, but what you ... previously free and downloadable spectrum games non-downloadable and only available ... removal of more and more games from the WoS archive?
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Phantis(Game Over 2) +3 versionHi dudes, As far as I know, the version with ay music and effects exists for +3 spectrum. Anybody does have it, or heard of it ? I know, that there i…
... rights, but look at such games from Dinamic as: Navy Moves and ... War and Aspar GP. In tzx a format we notice only ... -
couple of questions..im new here and i have a couple of ideas/questions.. First.. can anyone point me to some retro gaming/deving newsletters/magazines out there? and he…
Heh, get with the times. CDs are *so* last year.
You need to be loading your games from an [url="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/45ea46428d79735f/215ae46e71a60fa5"]iPOD[/url].
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divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... issues with 128k Z80 snapshots loading. The IM2 detection routine ... solved.
3) Games from Ultimate access the 128k's ... use OUT 32765,48 before loading them (DivIDE firmware doesn' ... Good BASIC loaders for Ultimate games MUST disable the 128k paging ... -
Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…
... scores.
As for loading games up slowly, i find that ... that but from time to time i might start loading a game ... reasons we play these old games is for the nostalgic factor ... -
Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…
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As for loading games up slowly, i find that ... that but from time to time i might start loading a game ... difficult if you use accelerated loading speeds.
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divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... :49, zilog wrote:
3) Games from Ultimate access the 128k's ... use OUT 32765,48 before loading them (DivIDE firmware doesn't ... ). Good BASIC loaders for Ultimate games MUST disable the 128k paging ... to play most of Ultimate games on 128k. Now I got ... -
A 2 part question about .SCR1) Is there a place i can get .SCR of Speccy loading screens from games? 2) Is their any plugin for Windows XP that allows me to simply double cli…
... can get .SCR of Speccy loading screens from games?
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divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... would be very hard (and loading would be slow). TAP ... decide which ones belong to loading routine (this sounds easy ... A register with proper data from TZX file. Currently I can't ... ). Support for non-standard loading schemes in divIDE appears infeasible ...what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…
... something like a reverse screen loading - first it loaded the colors ... )
A lot of games from Proxima have a unigue basic ... Anglicky (a english learning program from Ultrasoft) - you could also cycle ... , and all during the program loading :)Bug in EMUZWINIt's quite minor actually and is in the Assembler. Ocassionally when assembling the ASM gives the wrong address to a label. For instance I used the l…
... /> [*] While saving Hobeta files from Disk Browser, undesired characters in ... TZX.
[+] Auto-detection of two-sided tapes added while loading ... TAP or TZX from the ZIP archive. ... fixed. (The error is from version 2.6 when memory ...Calling Woody and Andy Ryals: Shed stuff...?Guys - Andy Ryals has some stuff he wants to publish for ZX Shed and Fogartylee has approached me for copy ... do you fancy hooking up and writing so…
... lot of people still buy games from Cronosoft for example and these ... ! Some poeple like to load TZX's into there speccy and ... machine, so in theory these games will have loaders, hence a ... have time.
Hacking games nowadays is a piece of ...putting images back on to tapeI`m hoping i can put the .tap images back on to tape if possable if so how can i do it and what programs do i need thanks
... pc that will read the games from the soundcard mic port or ... but what about converting the tzx images over to voc with ... would let me load the games up through the sound card ...What software do I need so I can transfer tape games to disk?What utility would I need so I can save tape based games onto specci disks? Can I download something of the web or is there something available to bu…
... WOS, there are versions of games in .tzx and often in .tap ... to disk.
Multiload games will always be a pain ... to hack them to load from the disk instead.Mystical powersWay back in the day I had a friend who could listen to a Speccy tape and tell, just by the pattern of the high-pitched screech and warbling, what the…
Some games have quite a tell-tale loading 'tune' from which you can instantly guess what game it is. I once tried to program games that would 'sing' during loading the title page, and managed a fair rendition of 'god save the queen!'DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…
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I have run DarkStar.tzx in RealSpectrum.
I don ... (hall of fame) is different from what I remember.
There ... time it was loaded. Try loading it (from a tape file, not ...A Few QuestionsHi, can you help with a few questions. 1. On ebay you see a lot of rubber key spectrums. How can you tell the difference between a 16k and 48k machi…
... versions (from what I remember the free games that came ... already available as 128kb games, and budget re- ... when I am downloading games from WoS I download the ... work on 128s. The loading screen was slightly different ... of the game's loading tone.
The ...Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
... url] games here at WoS to see what poor loading screens I ... earlier games from the pre-1984 era when top-notch artistic loading screens ... and deserved a decent quality loading screen, especially if they had ... the blobby title on the loading screen. If you opened ...Best Loading ScreenWhat the hell ... we had worst so let's explore the other end of the Spectrum. * Some of my favourites are what I like to call [B]Picture Frame[/B] …
My favourite loading screen is from Russian game Fire&Ice:< ... i like good old loading screens from Ultimate games PSSST, JetPac, Lunar Jetman ...Best Loading ScreenWhat the hell ... we had worst so let's explore the other end of the Spectrum. * Some of my favourites are what I like to call [B]Picture Frame[/B] …
... very early games from a time many games didn't have a loading screen ... whole, Ocean did have good loading screens. :)ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... a PS2 only for those games :)
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... card, and 6 other used games ?130 - gamestation)
I ... /> Intersting that the loading time for both these games (from switch on machine ... off the same as tape loading a speccy game if not ...loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…
... of the game to work from TZX, so hopefully that will keep ... a couple of other basic games though... R Tape Errors - so ... -protection emulation rather than the TZX file then.
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