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How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
... , not for Debian). In these situations I look for the instructions to ... -
Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't ... pixels that ruined the look of all the sprites and backgrounds, I ... PC Engine and it'll look even worse.
Which ... be able to buy them in currys, dixons or wherever. When ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... is written in C and uses the SP1 engine for sprites. The ... output routines. SP1 will do sprites and some backgrounds, some routines ... Unsure how memset(), strtok() works, look it up under the strings ... library. Also look up the new spectrum.h ... -
The ropes in JSWJust watching the latest JSW mod rzxs from the archive and I remembered how good the ropes were in JSW - nobody came close in achieving that level of…
... the ropes were in JSW - nobody came close in achieving that level ... of realism in rope simulation :smile ... :
how did MS generate the look ... -
First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... code I'd previously done in the past was 6502 on ... is maybe get some 16x16 sprites going, and I also have ... something that's actually interesting in the long term future, but ... -
Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
... pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate ... -ords into the appropriate bits in H & L registers. The ... way is to use a look up table I suppose that ... (s) people prefer to use in their own routines. -
Ultimate games in USAAnother nod for the USA peeps. This guy is selling Ultimate games and located in USA. (though strangely has them listed in pounds) Here is a link to…
... selling Ultimate games and located in USA. (though strangely has them ... listed in pounds)
Here is a ... up though so have a look at all his auctions...sabre ... -
Passing the torch - Spectrum games in the modern school classroomI teach maths in a middle school (years five-eight), and at the end of lessons we often try to assess learning by playing a maths based game on the i…
I teach maths in a middle school (years five- ... Speccy, so I had a look and found [url=http://www ... -
Look what I got!Look what I just got in the post: [url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/W5100.jpg[/url] But, please... don't hold your breath :-) Coming to an edge connec…
Look what I just got in the post:
[url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/W5100.jpg[/url]
But, please... don't hold your breath :-)
Coming to an edge connector near you...eventually! -
For the first time ever in my life - I am posting whilst wearing glasses.Bugger. :( Getting old sucks. I am wearing glasses, "breaking them in". Will have to wear them at work. At the moment, I can't get the hang of wal…
... am wearing glasses, "breaking them in". Will have to wear them ... side, they do make me look more of a fucking nutter ...
