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Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
... bus input for loading the low and high 8 bits of ... logic (i.e. trap execution at certain addresses to cause a ... -
It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... set to trap instruction fetches at the following addresses
... I waited until MREQ went low before grabbing ROMCS and ... until *after* the instruction at 0x007C gets fetched. This means ... proving it all worked, looking at various Speccy ROMs (including ... -
Tom Cruise second in command at the Church of Scientology?According to Andrew Morton's new biography... [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7176796.stm[/url] ...Tom Cruise is second in command at…
Can I ever be king (seriously)?Not [B]will[/B] I ever be king, as obviously that's as unlikely as getting a good laugh out of Lenny Henry, but can I theoretically ever become the k…
... saying that when he was at school, he was told that ... monarch would be of very low importance.
Still, I ... housing, or even no housing at all).
And if ...Any speccyer at Breakpoint'08?Looking at last years breakpoint (worlds biggest demoscene event) there is no zx spectrum product except sundown invitro. But anyway, I'm starting t…
Looking at last years breakpoint (worlds biggest ... be any of WOS people at this year's breakpoint?
Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…
... his best was TLL (Tornado Low Level) - definitely underrated in Crash ... shit licenses to work with at times but always did them ... really had to be there at that time to appreciate how ...Jesus! I STILL can't complete this game!Thought I'd give "Beach Buggy Simulator" a wee go, after having been reminded of it in the "game that made you a Spec-chum" thread. My one over-ridin…
... myself as being pretty good at games. This self-diagnosis was ... would have to rank pretty low...I'm sure Codemasters wouldn ... a machine-gun to shoot at enemy helicopters that are attempting ...At a lossWell looking at all this hardward people are building i would love to own some of it but i can no good with a soldering iron. Is there any people or …
Well looking at all this hardward people are building i would love to own some of it but i can no good with a soldering iron. Is there any people or sites out there that would make this hardware for ZX Spectrums and sell it on ???CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …
... laptop can only run DOSBox at about the speed of ... 100Mhz, and so surely at best one core of a ... multi-core CPU running at 2.8 couldn't ... that requires more than a low end Pentium one impossible, even ... whatever running on a console at a fast enough speed to ...3" disk preservation - optionsFor now we're still able to find old PCs with Floppy drives, floppy drive cables, new PCs that may not have a Floppy drive but still have the FDC and…
... real spectrum +3 with low level tools to make an ... drive to an XT or AT FDC card, and connect ... have no idea if the low level commands would work. ... Some people say their low-level apps work fine with ... solutions now, but we could at least talk about them.
Did you publish any hoax back in the day?I did tons of those. I need to explain the "setting" though: Around 1990, we had this computer classifieds magazine printed on thin crappy recycled p…
... was very slow.
At one point people started to ... had a powerpack with variable voltage to change it from 6 ... TV shows we had back at that time (it was ... up/down/left all together at the same time on the ... phone number of a wanker at school I didn't like ...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…
Someone 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 tried getting an object, but it said "Verb not recognized. Type help for clues".
Here is the ...Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... by smiley culture is played at least once a day on ... you have to keep it low key/.
The White ...Faulty M1 pin on a Z80 made from SGS?It's the second time I have come across this: a Spectrum that seems to work ok, but if I attach an Interface 1 or a DivIDE to it, it behaves as is no…
... at the M1 signal using a scope, the signal is permanently low ...Throwing fits at games back in the dayDid you get really pissed off at games back in the day? The answer will be most likely yes, I'm pretty sure everyone of us did. My speccy definitely …
... you get really pissed off at games back in the day ...Free meal at McDonaldsRemi Gaillard shows how to get a free meal at McDonalds's drivethru. :) [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NX_MMIkLY&feature=related[/url]
Remi Gaillard shows how to get a free meal at McDonalds's drivethru. :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NX_MMIkLY&feature=related[/url]How do you make a CD play at its normal speed in a PC?OK, annoying. I want to play a CD using my laptop but it seems silly to me to have the thing going at 24x generating a ton of heat and noise. I tried…
... to have the thing going at 24x generating a ton of ... to make a CD play at its correct speed?
Windows ...Barry George found not guilty of Jill Dando's murder at retrialThat bloke Barry George, who was convicted of murdering Jill Dando and has spent the past 8 years behind bars, has just been found not guilty at his …
... just been found not guilty at his retrial.
[url ...Testing other ZX roms on DivIDE / DivIDE+This is package of different ZX rom images with DivIDE instalator. Each file contain ROM image at adress 49152 + assembler Prometheus with installati…
... . Each file contain ROM image at adress 49152 + assembler Prometheus with ... rom image will copy to low 16kB ram (0-8191 = divide ...Smoking at workEastenders is on. This just got me thinking.... Dot Cotton smokes. When June Brown is playing her, on set, she is at work. So how come she gets t…
Eastenders is on. This just got me thinking....
Dot Cotton smokes. When June Brown is playing her, on set, she is at work. So how come she gets to smoke at work?
Isn't that against the law now?A familiar face at CERN....!?!!?Just so as I'm not multi-posting about the impending rip in the fabrics of the universe at CERN, I've posted this in a seperate thread from The God P…
... the fabrics of the universe at CERN, I've posted this ... .....
Take a look at who's been spotted lurking ... in the background at CERN...
[url]http ... /2008/09/gordon-freeman-spotted-at-cern.html[/url]
More chat needed!Ok, this sort of post happens at least once per year, but the WOS IRC chat never seems to gain momentum, with only one or two permanent residents. C…
... , this sort of post happens at least once per year, but ... much CPU time at all, and have a pretty low memory footprint ... we're doing other things at the moment, but hang around ... can pretty much discuss anything at all in #general, but please ...Think you're good at Tetris?The fun starts at 3m30s: [youtube]6cvtuJekuYY[/youtube]
The fun starts at 3m30s:
[youtube]6cvtuJekuYY[/youtube]How do YOU want to buy Spectrum games?Hi! To all, As you know I am clearing 100's of Speccy games in job-lot's over the coming months. What I want to know is just how you li…
... ONLY sell and quite often at very low prices.
[B ...being hussled at the job...During August, I got this call to work on tv, directing actors. I'm not sure if i've mentioned before, I work in company that I hate, but pays me t…
... ? a day, 5 hours work, at least that was what was ... , some of a hustle, but at the same time I know ... /> I'm really pissed off at the situation and now I ...Print ATHello, Can someone please tell me how to do a Print AT command? Thanks,
Hello,
Can someone please tell me how to do a Print AT command?
Thanks,Wireless Router ProblemI have a DLink DSL-2640B an all in one DSL Broadband Modem and Wireless Router. However,the signal that is puts out is a weak as American lager. I…
... have a broadcast rate of low, medium or high power. It ... tried it on Medium and Low).
Still I can ... droping upstairs.
So at the weekend I brought a ...
