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Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... , but they are often remembered long after happy songs? That's ... it's part, with on-line secondhand book shops (does anyone ... -
bobsleigh by digital integrationDoes anyone else know this game? I tried it for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it. The graphics are simple but effective and the feeling of mom…
... had straight away and a long term strategy to develop through ... mins, but I'm a long way off competition standard, so ... , not as you cross the line.
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New proccessors of the future and the Speccy[url]http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201862[/url] I was very interested in the part where it said "old embedded processors nev…
... x86 line soldier on in low-end systems."
Long live ... games will be like. As long as I can play Jetset ... -
Soldering surface-mount componentsWinston's latest posts about PCBs and joystick interfaces have reminded me of a question I'm really curious about. Basically: Soldering surface-mount…
... any rate) but for a long time I believed that SMT ... to own an automated assembly line in China, and for the ... which I learned that hair-line PCB tracks and desoldering pumps ... -
Daley Thompson's Decathlonhi I've been playing DTD a lot recently and I've managed a long jump of 9m 65 by jumping as soon as the line appears on the right, then holding the …
... long jump of 9m 65 by jumping as soon as the line ... -
How long before the bubble bursts...?!My Radiohead CD single currently on sale on eBay has gone mad (see item # 180132146685 as I can't post a link from work - they ban the site) and has …
... afternoon! :grin:
How long do we think it will ... -
Retro Fighter shoot-em-up development updateHi all, Some of you might recall I was developing a little shoot-em-up with the working title of Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed …
... Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed to get ... / baddies) using the poke in line 5.
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What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... if I'm not on-line. Why is there no "NO ... understand the concept of on-line safety.
* PC owners ... splitscreen, or the only on-line players are cretins who just ... so on. It's a long list.
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Microdrive wont LOAD - Help PleaseI have many Microdrive cartridges containing Original Programs and Backups. I have tried to read and load from any number of the cartridges all seem…
... "File not found" after a long time.
If I FORMAT ... Capacitor C6 (across the 5V line) in case it was a ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... you-can't-enter-a-line-with-the-wrong-syntax feature ... , it's just been so long since I used a BBC ... -
I hate this country (serious - England gets worse)Have you seen this: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm[/URL] "[B]The Prison Service has converted two jails to hold only foreign nati…
... closed for the day, people line up to watch, etc), as ... either capital punishment or life-long imprisonment for those who deserve ... -
Spectrum ethernet ... first stepsThe first thing I do when I get a strange and unusual chip to play with, is to make a breakout board. The breakout board basically contains the chip …
... double sided copper clad board, line up the sheets with the ... out.
With fairly long runs of 8 mil spaced ... a little more than 1mm long and a little more than ... -
Monster PitLong ago, I tagged [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006702"]Monster Pit[/URL] as a game coming from 16/48 Tape Magazine, as li…
Long ago, I tagged [URL="http:// ... 16/48 Tape Magazine, as line 0 contains the phrase "16 ... -
Problem with spectaculator 6.30 "load from audio soruce"Hi all :). I'm new here and with spectrum emulation :). I love old computers i have in home amiga 500, atari 65xe and commodore 64, and i dont have s…
... i plug my tape to line in of my soound card ... play again xP. so that long that film take =]. PLEASE HELP ... -
Faulty M1 LineHello, I've got a new DivIDE but it's not working with my Spectrum 48k+. I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's a faulty M1 line. Is there any way …
... it's a faulty M1 line. Is there any way of ... -
Star Trek tour in Long Beach, CaliforniaI don't know if we have any Californians visiting the forums. I have tickets for the Star Trek tour in Long Beach, CA. All I need is the full name of…
... the Star Trek tour in Long Beach, CA. All I need ... -
Zip disk long format problemHere's a puzzler. I've checked out the Iomega help & FAQs and Iomega user forum and Usenet and haven't as yet fully resolved this problem - so now I'…
... .) are also OK, except ...
* Long format runs (disk chugs away ... 3.1.1.
* Now, long format runs and progress bar ... : How can I get the long format to finish cleanly? All ... are working OK; even the long format now works, it just ... -
Regarding Speccy SpoilersDaren, would it be possible to add a redirecting link to the new home for the Speccy Spoilers page? Old link: [url]http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/specc…
... =22[/url]
How long will Google keep showing cache ... />
Maybe (just maybe) this line should be removed? If it ... -
Should I get the TopUp TV PVR or...?My PVR's on the way out, keeps incorrectly time coding any recordings more than an hour long, which means that even though it recorded the whole thin…
... recordings more than an hour long, which means that even though ... plug it into your phone line so they can spy on ... -
How can I do this, please?I'm using the PSP as an e-book reader, as it has a good text viewer (built into iRSHell), but it has the fault that it's not much good at word wrappi…
... that each line is a maximum of x characters long (where I ... specify the number x), and if that line ... begining of next line instead, and the current line is shortened by ... -
*The* Sinclair Knowledge baseOk, get ready for a long post. :p Let's consider a few facts: -The WOS ftp has thousands of important files, but it can be difficult to find what w…
Ok, get ready for a long post. :p
Let' ... to download it for off-line browsing. We wouldn't have ... to download it for off-line browsing, and if it included ... -
CRASH 78 & Mel Croucher's Computer Fun LineSomeone contacted me and asked how they could get hold of Mel Croucher's Computer Fun Line. This was an audio item on the cover tape of CRASH 78, see…
... Mel Croucher's Computer Fun Line. This was an audio item ... Mel Croucher's Computer Fun Line be added to the Infoseek ... -
Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…
... THEN PRINT : PRINT
"TOO LONG!": GO TO 51
61 ... THEN
PRINT : PRINT "TOO LONG!": GO TO 70
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For All Retro Fans - Aa118 Tribute MagA message to all retro fans Amstrad Action tribute magazine issue 118 is coming soon. A big announcement for all Amstrad Action fans and retro gam…
... magazine will be available on-line from 9 June 2008. As ... :)
Its taken a long while to finish the project ... -
"Upgraded" broadbandTo cut a long story short, I have just had my broadband speed upgraded from 1meg to 5meg (it was free). Having just spent over an hour setting up the…
To cut a long story short, I have just ... -mail telling me that the line has been upgraded. (I'm ... that because I use a line extension to get from my ... ) He refused to do a line test until I had moved ... -
Science Explained (Finally)!We believe that all the main physics principles can be explained away by the existence of tiny gnomes. Electricity: Inside cables there are hundreds…
... ) because very few gnomes have long enough ropes. All bodies have ... blind when they stay too long with the gnomes in the ... to 'connect' with a land line the gnomes are fired at ... -
Something amusing for long-term current and ex-CSS'ersForgive the blatant bragging, self-congratulation and one-up-manship here, but whilst researching for "the special" through the CSS archive on Google…
... archive on Google Groups, one long-standing mystery has been solved ... amusing to report for those long-timers here. I always wondered ... -
long playeri read something today about jem from the pogues, apperently hes done something called the long player, an experiment in music / sound and its suppos…
... hes done something called the long player, an experiment in music ... -
Authors of unreleased/MIA games?Browsing through my few remaining physical issues of YS, I came across much late-Speccy-era activity by Beyond Belief. Now a YS article notes they ha…
... 'd rather not pursue that line of enquiry :)
Sorry ... the archive records?
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Real Tape Mode From Line-OutHi folks, Are there any emulators that allow you to choose which input signal they 'listen' to ? Say for instance many emulators support real tape m…
... mode which listens to the Line-In or Perhpas Mic port ... possible to listen to the Line-Out ?
I was ... the tape waveform from the Line-Out. This may allow to ...
