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Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …
... copy protection, and the copy loaded just like the original tape ... -
Forbidden Planet QuestionI just loaded up Forbidden Planet (Design Design) and I noticed the menu screen says it's "Part Three of the Dark Star Trilogy". Does anyone know wha…
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Lethargy and EggHead4 trained ...Hey all. Seeing that not many of you have heard of the great NEW game Lethargy I thought I would do a re-crack of it from TR-DOS which was trained b…
... real speccy which has a mass-storage device attached like DivIDE ... -
Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …
... if this game could be loaded in an actual Spectrum using ... -
OpenGL - how to install it and whatever?How do you actually install OpenGL, if it needs installing at all? I seem to remember for Quake 3, when it came out in 1999, that I had to install a …
... Spectrum sounds (music from the loaded game, etc) is fine, but ... -
Can you name it?I'm looking for something on the speccy but I ain't sure what it actually is. Could be a game but I dunno. Here comes a very vague description.... T…
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Once it had loaded, you were presented with a ... -
Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …
... the end (48k Spectrum) and loaded it back in, would this ... -
Love this guy's listing!I love this guy's eBay write up for a Speccy on eBay! item 110025606226. --- They say that time travel is impossible.....they're wrong!!! Put on s…
... Head, Kokatoni Wilf and Critical Mass. If you want a full ... -
TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
... loaders; wait until they've loaded and relocated the code, then ... -
Cd'sdo you guys think compact discs will become obsolete in the future? will these blue ray discs, drive down the cost of dvd discs. all the laptops i …
... way of cassette's and vinyl records, in that you can ... -
MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... games MP3d with 128kbps never loaded, 192 sometimes and 320 always ... Miner : loaded first time
Batman : loaded first time
Starquake : loaded first ... time
Jack The Nipper : loaded first time
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At Last!!!!!Beware, there is not too much sense in following text, this is nothing more, than I would like to let whole world know, that I got my childhood dream…
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First game I loaded in was JETPAC (I think ... -
Will we see a return of the microcomputer?The glory days of the 80's are definitely in the distant, revered past, but I notice that computer makers are marketing more and more ultraportable l…
... 80's like phenomenon of "mass-microcomputing" with at least smaller ... /> What is keeping companies from mass-producing such a device? Would ... -
Loadf from mic!Hi, i have discussed this in the emulators section which it obviously does not belong. Here is my problem... I got a Spectrum+ to remind me of my you…
... no loading sound,the game loaded perfectly!!!!!!!!!!!
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R: Tape Loading ErrorCan anyone explain how the Speccy knew that the loaded code was corrupt? I thought that in machine code every byte could be a instruction, so how wou…
... the Speccy knew that the loaded code was corrupt? I thought ... -
My Xbox 360's broke!My Xbox 360 has broke :( I loaded up Dead Rising and as soon as the title screen started, the screen went black and the sound stopped. I took the dis…
... Xbox 360 has broke :( I loaded up Dead Rising and as ... -
WafaDrives - with the MultifaceI know there were problems using the Wafadrive as it used up so much of the speccy memory. I read that the multiface 1 could be used and load a full…
... ram. What about when you loaded the saved game without a ... -
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... sucker (one of the spring loaded things) which works fine for ... -
I'm in need of help hereI've been using the 'COMB' and 'TRANSFER' programs on Lerm's Utility D package to convert copy-protected (Speedlock, Alcatraz etc) 48k games onto +3 …
... 128k games have to be loaded in from disk differently than ... -
disks for preservationI have gone through my lists and because i havent the hardware to do +3 disk preserving so its not much point in me keeping hold of them so i am offe…
... , and that all the software loaded and ran on the four ... -
Old vs NewApologies if this is a repeat of an old thread. Who thinks what is best? Old 8-bit games or today's PC titles? I would have to go for the old titles…
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Old games can be loaded and you can go straight ... -
Gods (YS) - ever 'completed'?Maybe the best strategy ever... but, is it playable at all? Is the file on WoS (tape from YS 69) just demo version? I have trouble to 'replenish' …
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When game is loaded, you can exit menu and ... -
Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
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SAM C is loaded at the end of the ... -
MP3 DownloadsIf you own a 7" or 12" Vinyl or Vynal album... Is it leagal to dowload and use a copy of the same music for your MP3 player to save you the troubl…
If you own a 7" or 12" Vinyl or Vynal album...
Is it leagal to dowload and use a copy of the same music for your MP3 player to save you the trouble of and time converting your vynal to MP3.
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basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
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ResiDOS v1.92 and +3e ROMs v1.30 releasedI've just updated ResiDOS to v1.92, and the +3e ROMs to v1.30. Full details can be found at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/"]http://…
... and 48K snapshots can be loaded
[*]The Task Manager now ... -
SabotageAnyone know anything about this game, looked at WOS but theres no instructions or game reviews or anything ? ( [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/in…
... =0004290[/url] )
Accidentally loaded it up last night and ... -
How to call plus3dos from high ram?Hello. I'm working in basizx disk access in spectrum version. The problem is tha basizx code is loaded in addresses above C000h, and plus3dos must b…
... is tha basizx code is loaded in addresses above C000h, and ... -
Keyboard Problem?Hey all. I'm Dave I'm in my last year of college before I go to University. I'm in the UK. I got a +2 a while back when I first told my mum and dad…
... was fine.
It loaded up the main screen (the ...
