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Thinking about getting a laptopI've been thinking for a while of getting a laptop but theres so many models available making a choice difficult. I'm looking for something fairly …
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Spectrum loader ringtone! (funds for a good cause)Hey all. Recently, I made myself a Speccy ringtone and I liked it so much, I though I'd share it with all my retro buddies. I've put it up for sale…
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Recently, I made myself a Speccy ringtone and I liked ... make it as small as a PSP! So far, I've ... 'm going to have a go at making a PSP sized Speccy!
help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …
... short, I want to create a tzx file from the original ... very first basic header as a turbo loading scheme.
a bunch of small headerless segments ...Hello from a new forum user!Hi folks. This is just a post of introduction -- to say a little about me and my interest in the (World of) Spectrum. I've recently acknowledged to…
... five years my senior were making a fortune out of, but that ... part, Z80 to be a blank wall; a sheer cliff. And, in ... and the first beginnings of a couple of Z80 libraries underway ... library, plus, perhaps more unexpectedly, a multi-threading library.
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So where do my ... come together and form a bigger picture - a few beers often help ... eyes, swinging the arms or making a sprite dip one pixel in ...Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…
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Nevertheless, with a little practice, command typing was ... ROM's? A binary compare with a working copy of the spanish ...If I want to create a power supplywell, I'm doing a fair bit of travelling with my leads and wires and computers and speakers and stuff,so I thought of making a little device out of a…
well, I'm doing a fair bit of travelling ... stuff,so I thought of making a little device out of an ... old PSU from a computer. many small devices ... MP3 players charge off of a USB these days, so ... like from this object is a USB shaped connector that supplies ...+3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…
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I am making a generic menu to my compilations ... disk ?
we can do a 'cat' but, how to detect ...A day in with the Speccy (real hardware)right, inspired by nicks post heres my speccy games playing so far today. All on real hardware now ive got a speccy set up and all the games out of t…
... hardware now ive got a speccy set up and ... i saw it, on a tiny black and white telly ... lol, played a few go's on ... did, think i need a new copy of the software projects ... and the tape does have a nibble out of it, ... they did, i had a small go on each but ...TZX Utils for the Mac?Hi All After a long absence I'm wanting to preserve original tapes again. I ditched PCs when I stopped preserving tapes, and I'm now Mac based. I d…
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After a long absence I'm wanting ... Is there any way of making a TZX using FUSE?
... a lot, to correct speed loading errors or to copy ... and paste blocks together to generate a workable ... TZX, is there a Mac equivalent? ...Help with mystery game programmer...Hi, I wanted to try to revive an old C.S.S post from 2004, where I was trying to track down the name of a very exploited Spectrum games programmer. …
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by hand, tape ... /> Suddenly I was making a few quid, quite a few actually. I used ... .
They bullshitted me along, making me work nights, weekends, letting ...The Never Ending Story (on a +3)I recently got a tape copy of The Never Ending Story, but it doesn't seem to load on my +3. Are there any known issues with this game and +3s/+2A/Bs?…
I recently got a tape copy of The Never Ending Story, but it doesn't seem to load on my +3. Are there any known issues with this game and +3s/+2A/Bs?
It loads all the way, and then crashes.PS3 now fully cracked and open?About a month back, a hacking group claimed that they'd discovered the PS3's 'key' algorithms, meaning that they can 'sign' any code. What this means…
... cracked and download (or just copy my mates' versions) the games ... how much work goes into making a game. My XBox 1 is ... course. Sometimes I'd complete a copy of a game and think "Nah ... good games, plus one pirated copy does NOT equal one lost ...What first person shooter games (PC or console) have both a map maker and bots?I was just wondering if there are any other games that have a map maker (or level editor, whatever you want to call it), and also have bots that can …
... other games that have a map maker (or level ... like to spend more time making maps.
... limitations, but it's a fact that the maps, ... Unreal Tournament games offer a map maker and full ... themselves, of course. Making a map in Timesplitters takes ten ...Any folks with a mechanical mind on here...?I need some advice about my motor. I drive a 1.8 VVT-i Toyota Avensis T4, 53 plate. It's one of them engines that over-revs when you start it to wa…
... 2, that it was making a proper racket when warming up ... , knocking...I'll have a look at me oil...". So ... then switched it off for a few minutes - it says ... or should I be finding a non-synthetic one? The ... all and it only makes a difference to the cleanliness ...Designing a game.Hi all Lets say that i have been impressed with the games being created by guys on WOS and want to have a shot at making a game myself,my ageing know…
... and want to have a shot at making a game myself,my ageing ...Add quite a lot of items to my site and a Make an Offer Button.Hi everyone, I asked for some feedback on my site a month or so ago ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33521"]link[/URL]).…
... link[/URL]). I got a few constructive comments and some ... suggestions on how to make a little better. One of ... Also whilst I have been making a few changes I managed to ... list a couple of hundred speccy ... 350 now, with (at a guess) another 200 still to ...copy standDoes anybody still do copy typing? I've got a powered copy stand up for grabs. Has 2 AA batteries in the foot pedal or can be mains adapter powered…
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I've got a powered copy stand up for grabs.
a mouse and could be used ... whole thing is mounted on a sprug loaded 'angle-poise' arm ... with a table edge clamp.
IDE Hard Drive on your Spectrum!Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Today, I am going to share with you something that has truly captivated me over the last couple of months, some of you…
... I have a DivIDE and a few other Spectrums ... so after refurbishing them, making sure that they do ... are... so I went about making them up
a subtle modification are also compatible ... /> The above is a direct copy of the CF card ...Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…
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* find array 'a' [& optionally rename as 'b ... copy string 'c' to address 'a' then]
. copy 'l' bytes from address 'a ... string is defined then 'copy' will start from the ... jg27paw4/pourri/find-fill-copy.zip]Find-Fill-Copy.zip[/url] . ...How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…
... made to a basic text based game i am making. I have ... a way i could load the code into an assembler and copy ... z802tzx then tzx2tap also tried making a tap file using fuse. Neither ... code correct like when opening a bas file.
A 30th Anniversary ProjectHappy new year (belatedly...) So with the 30th anniversary approaching, I've decided to do a hardware project to celebrate it. Something hands-on (o…
... rather he was working on making a device for proximity detection, ... In my design, it controls a VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) ... comprises of two counters plus a "direct" interface. This ... timing, at least without making things very inconvenient for the ...Making a Zx Spectrum betterIs there anyway to make my Grey ZX Spectrum more power efficient and more reliable from the original you get. What I mean is we all know the ZX Spec…
... know the ZX Spectrum was a great computer but they used ... and were prone to breakdown a lot. So with how components ... have been improved a lot over the years could ... but I wouldn’t mind a go at improving the mighty ...Just bought a +3 and i think it's broken :(Please help... my spectrum +3 arrived today and I plugged it in, the red light came on and the disk drive made a little noise. So I then set the T…
... and the disk drive made a little noise.
So ... ! :( and then the drive started making a constant noise :confused: And didn ... not been able to tune a picture in, and when I ...Is there a ROM modification (48K) for load without typing LOAD""?The target is to play with 48K machines with keyboard broken, or an alternative solution for new clones like Superfo instead of making a new keyboard…
... clones like Superfo instead of making a new keyboard.
The ... only materials needed are a DB9 socket and a rotatory switch (1 ... for other that initalites in a state equivalent to after typing ... + Enter.
Here is a picture with the help, the ...Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel compoI've recently found out that there's been a graphics competition Pixel A Pixel held by Microhobby magazine, thx to Ivanzx for pointing this out in on…
... there's been a graphics competition Pixel A Pixel held by ... which can be viewed on a real hardware).
... see them again on a ZX-Spectrum is some ... ask somebody, who has a paper copy of one of Microhobby ... issues, to send me a good ...Good free games (for any machine)?Like everyone here (I imagine), I've got too many games vying for my too limited free time, and the backlog isn't helped by my spending so much of my…
... freeware version of Go, a Japanese game that is supposedly ... about it, making people work for a living when there ... - 'abandoware' is just a term pirates invented with no ... games too, and has a review and screenshot of ... to a site to buy a legal copy of a copyright ...The 'new' Digital Copy.Yesterday, I bought the new sherlock Holmes film on Blu-Ray. It's one of those tripple packs, with the DVD and a digital copy. Usually, the digital c…
... packs, with the DVD and a digital copy. Usually, the digital copys ... , this new digital "copy" isn't really a copy of the film. It ... this is a step back from the usual digital copy. At least ... the digital copy of films. It's not even a decent quality ...Cobra - movie references[I]Cobra[/I] was on a digital channel recently, and I was trying to spot all the movie references that Joffa worked in. If you can find any more, pl…
... hooks, looking more like a slaughterhouse with pools of ... Joffa had difficulty drawing a female character as the long ... a Miami residential district, with humpback bridges over the waterways making ... the cars bounce around in a cheap copy of ...The Hobbit, Empire, and an interviewHi all, I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine (we've run a huge feature on the film). I inte…
... /> I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit ... ! We also thought that packaging a copy of the book with the ... spare bits for other data, making the game even harder to ... a few years ago. There's a real sense of challenge in making a ...
