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Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... Kosmovichski, the Crusader. Questing to destroy the Jewel of the ... utter pants (except for the loading screen) on the Spectrum. Name the ...
20: "Thrill to the amazing movieload. Dodge the ... no clothes and you have to get them back. Publisher - ... -
Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…
... answers (along with the questions) to
[email="kindawitch@ ... answers.
Multiple answers to 1 point questions will ... Sputniks, Burpers. Goto the debugger to remove the buggers.
... : Fireworks everywhere, someone has to collect them all. That`ll ... -
Italian 'pirate' magazines.Hi, this emerged in another thread. We in Italy used to get plenty of cassettes which were regularly sold, and which all featured 'pirated games', wi…
... thread. We in Italy used to get plenty of cassettes which ... names changed (both in the loading screen and in the game itself ... . Multiload games were typically 'trimmed' to a single-level game, and ... legal 'trickery', they were allowed to sell those, and you could ... -
Randomize USR xxxxxA weird topic: When I was a kid I use to mess around with the RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx, sad I know!!! For instance RANDOMIZE USR 51234 would give me a loa…
... was a kid I use to mess around with the RANDOMIZE ... 51234 would give me a loading screen with noise funny colour and ... give a screen of basic simialr to the Speedlock protection screen i.e ... /> Anybody know where these fancy loading things come from or a ... -
Yet Another Speccy Quiz (not too hard)OK! I thought I'd chance my arm at one of these things. I must say I've found the recent quizzes WAY too difficult, so I've pitched this one at simpl…
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Please mail your attempts to [email="eddie.duffy@bigfoot.com ... noise of the "Sabre Wulf" loading screen.
... What was the FIRST sequel to "Mountains of Ket"?
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ANN: ZXF Issue 2 publishedIssue two of ZXF (free spectrum magazine - PDF format) has now been uploaded and awaits your inspection. The new URL for the site is [url="http://ww…
... ] - from there you can proceed to
the download page.
* "Bitmap to Screen$": loading screen tutorial
* +3/2A ... - either in reply to this post or
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Possibly *weird* .WAV request?Hello there! WOS has sure moved on since I last visited back in '99. Looking great! :) Anyway, I'm in the middle of producing a little homage to ZX…
... producing a little homage to ZX81 classic "3D Monster ... finished my ZX-Speccy loading-screen sequence and it looks ... some similarly realistic sounds to go with it. What ... if it's possible to find some appropriate WAVs ... someone might be able to point me in the ... -
XarkLooking through my collection of games I came across Xark. The MIA states that its by Contrast but my version says HITECH. I'm attempted to make it …
... HITECH.
I'm attempted to make it into a TZX ... far I've got the loading screen
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Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
... have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by ... it for ages and seem to be getting nowhere. I can ... my lantern and still need to find a use for the ... -
Name the GameI have just remembered about a compilation that my mother bought me, but the only game on it that I remember was like this:- You were a wizard or wa…
... ) and you went from screen to screen (willy like). To pick things up you ... had to be on top of them. I also remember the loading screen ... round the edge of the screen. It was a crap game ... -
Having problems with Falcon Patrol 2Ive recently discovered the wonder of TZX.files, giving my old 48k spectrum a new lease of life.. But im having problems getting a copy of Falcon P…
... a TZX. file, recorded to Audio Tape) to run on a real ... crashing just after the loading screen loads.. (back to the 48k prompt)
Sinclair QL emulation - @#$%!Ah yes, the joys of emulation... I've just been trying out a QL emulator - QLAY for Windows, and I haven't been able to run a single game! Ok, so I…
... with other emulators with loading and running games. At ... would expect an emulator to hide the underlying complexity by allowing ... me to navigate to the required directory ... archaic commands and parameters?! To add to the misery, there ...Maria vs. Some BastardsTheres a Willy based game that some may know of but not the majority. Personally I don't go for edited or hacked Miner games AT ALL, they never inter…
... . the game is a joy to play and the graphics are ... well and funny, especially the loading screen ( i love that style )
to give this one a try ... ill leave that upto you to figure out. ( okay- HINT- just ...Two Manic Miners in the top 100 games table?A while ago I was checking the top 100 games (according to WoS visitors' votes), but I couldn't help notice that there are [I]two[/I] distinct "Manic…
... The first entry refers to the Software Projects re- ... version, while the second to the original Bug-Byte ... comes to vote - for instance, a different background music or loading screen. ... Are these little discrepancies so important to justify ...Jet Set Willy Problems...I THINK I've completed the "Lord of the Rings version of Jet Set Willy...I've reached the "Grey Haven" (or whatever it's called) but when I jumped ov…
... sea, it just looped back to a yellow room 5 screens ... back. What are you supposed to do to complete the game?
loading screen in "OCP Art Studio", how ...ZX Spectrum Image AppletHi folks. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the 'ZX Spectrum Image Applet' that they could possibly mail me? I've read that this applet can take …
... .
Does anyone happen to have a copy of the ... would draw a loading screen. Trouble is, all links to the host site ...Italian versions of ZX GamesHey everyone ! While transfering A LOT of ZX games to TZX files I stumbled across an original casette with about 10 games on each side. Side A is fo…
... Spectrum. The casette seems to be from Italy and all ... ALL games seem to be normal English (Foreign to Italy anyway) ... games which have been translated to Italian and their names totally ... some cart) and most with loading screen have it completely remade (mostly ...Gamebase ZX coming soon!For the last few months i have working on a new database called 'Gamebase ZX'. The single goal of Gamebase ZX is to be the ultimate offline database …
... goal of Gamebase ZX is to be the ultimate offline database ... games have two screenshots, one Loading screen and one Ingame.
to browse the Gamebase listening to your favourite Spectrum ...Great Fire Of London doesn't work!I've tried to load the TZX file of [I]Great Fire Of London[/I] into several emulators but so far I haven't had any success. The game starts loading, …
I've tried to load the TZX file of [ ... success. The game starts loading, then the loading screen comes up all garbled ...
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all updated to their respective last available versions ...Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…
... how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when ... 14 I became slightly addicted to them. Titles from Compass Software ... Beyond? What's Tim up to these days?SpeXtrum the xbox speccy emu is out! Alpha release, just tried it out works well with the keyboard and emulates the 48k and 128k well. Speccy fun on the Xbox at last Yippee Spec Chums…
... .SNA and .Z80 formats) - loading only.
* TAP file support ... have to use
the normal Spectrum loading procedure to make ...
Please feel free to suggest any other enhancements.
to hide the virtual keyboard again.
Does Screen Flipping work on a 48k Spectrum?On the other post it showed some basic code to flip the screen on a +3. Does it work on a 48k Spectrum. Can anyone show me the machine code to: Se…
... some basic code to flip the screen on a +3 ... machine code to:
Set the screen memory to default ... 16384
Write to backbuffer 49152 ...
Flip the screen memory to ...The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…
... I wanted the loading screen and I wanted to be able to load (where ... Making good 48K snapshots with loading screens became the goal...
to make the loader "unbreakable" (pressing SPACE during loading was ... white border, so the loading of the next level was ...NAME THAT GAME ! (PLEASE)Help me Obi-Wan you are my last hope! This was a game very similar to Gauntlet except that it had a World War 2 theme to it.You were a British soldi…
... was a game very similar to Gauntlet except that it had ... a World War 2 theme to it.You were a British ... soldier and you had to go through all these rooms ... German Soldiers.
The loading screen had some sort of searchlight ...How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…
... bit it was supposed to sit in had long ... other things I did to try and make that ... a scrunched up face only to see the words "Sinclair ... lad on the skool daze loading screen for the entire duration ... any superstitious things they did to make that game load?< ...TASM, Z80 and Spec emusHi! Having some novice questions here regarding TASM and writing machine code for the Speccy emus... Now I have configured TASM into my EditPlus and…
... program converts the binary data to ASCII text).
Two questions ... as I understand it - when loading the OBJ file in Spin ... ends up in memory after loading it...
2. ... relative stuff). And how to insert data to specific memory cells, i ...IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
... IM2 and use HALT to sync screen drawing (dumping of offscreen ... IM2 for synchronizing screen manipulation (a scrolling text) using HALT, ... br /> ei ;interrupts. Jump to 0056 in ROM
jp ... 56 ;for smooth return to Basic
...RETRO GAMER ISSUE 7 now available to pre-order!Retro Gamer issue 7 will be available to buy from August 31st, and copies can now be pre-ordered from [url="http://www.retrogamer.net"]http://www.ret…
... so popular, enabling people to copy tapes to disk, plus many ... other functions. We talk to Alexander Goldscheider, the man ... market that had begun to outgrow text-based adventures. Games covered ... creation tools were available to those who lacked decent ...Twilight: English version is availableDisk image for Spectrum+3, the size of the program is over 190KB, so I had to put it to 3,5" disk and am not sure it will work on any emulator (it do…
... 190KB, so I had to put it to 3,5" disk and ... RealSpec, Spin, SpecEmu23, it seems to work without any problems and ... 't press any keys until loading screen appears, otherwise it hangs.
