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New Spectrum GameFor those who didn't attend, this weekend's Retro Fusion event featured a high score competition, for which I wrote a new Spectrum game. Nothing too…
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When Spectrum fans took ova zee Vorld!Do any of you remember... In 1983, the police issued a request to all upstanding citizens, to approach anyone speaking strangley and ask them what t…
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OT: Calling Z88 guru'sHi there Anyone familiar with the Cambridge Computers Z88 laptop? I just got one on Ebay, working fine (had to repair a broken track on the keyboar…
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Beyond Big Yellow BoxesI am trying to collect all of these titles as I used to love how they looked as a kid. I have (from memory) Lords of Midnight Doomdark's Revenge So…
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VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
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Do we actually love the spectrum?Hi As my title says " do we actually love the spectrum " OR is it just a childhood/nostalgic thing? I personally don't love the zx spectrum but hav…
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Name that GameHi all, I'm looking for a game that used to be on MSX, and almost certain it had a Speccy port too - but my memory is rather hopeless :D It's a rac…
WTF is this???[url=http://cgi.ebay.es/Spectrum-128-Emulator-ZX-Interface-2-ROM-Cartridge_W0QQitemZ170254558796QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZ…
... signals needed to make paged memory work.
Is it ...The Official Christmas 2008 Thread113 days to go - anything in shops or catalogues out yet? The Xmas in July stuff on Freeview is now just a cheap, plasticky, tacky, faded memory. 1…
113 days to go - anything in shops or catalogues out yet?
The Xmas in July stuff on Freeview is now just a cheap, plasticky, tacky, faded memory.
113 days to Cybermen.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…
... , and have a pretty low memory footprint. Best of all, you ...Basin feature requestsI know dunny does not ask for those requests, and he is mainly coding basin for himself, I still want to list my requests here, in case if he's bored…
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Making snaps only saves memory. Making tapes needs extra work ... , own icon.
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As requested before ...Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…
... as best I can from memory.
The game is ...DivIDE emulation on MB02+This is FATWARE system originally writed for DivIDE interface, but new ported to MB02+ interface. This use 8kB+8kB paging emulation in 16kB allram mo…
... ). MB FATWARE use three 16kB memory pages (patched ZX rom, patched ...Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
... , as Micro$oft bought the memory from different manufacturers, and bought ... got a 128MB stick of memory in there, with a knackered ... , then I read about the memory issue, and I've always ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... current mouse position in screen memory to the paintbox's statusbar ...New DS announcedIt's called a DSi [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=249483[/url] this is how it compares with the current DS lite... Nintendo'…
... DSi: DS card slot, SD memory card slot, AC adaptor connection ...I just learnt that Spectrum has 1kB of unused ROMWell, man learns through all his life. I have just discovered that Spectrum has over 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615. Al…
... 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615 ... /> Why did they leave this memory empty? Were they too lazy ...Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…
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2 Is flash memory fragmentation a problem? I mean ... place, but doesn't flash memory have no moving parts, and ... 8-bits, the speed and memory limitations made complex AI impossible ...Looking for a type-in.I remember a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. It used code to shift the screen blocks. At the start of a game you could select how many m…
... the magazines to jog my memory to the issues I had ...I WILL combine postageHi! Guys, Just to let you know that for private bidders I will combine postage on my current ebay auctions, for instance [url]http://cgi.e…
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So forget the global banking blues and cheer yourself up ...Doom on the Spectrum - QuestionsHey folks, I'm just wondering if anyone could answer some of the questions I have about the Doom demo created for the Speccy. It's basically one sm…
... whole 128k or however much memory used, being used up just ...RUSSIAN SOFTWARE and real ZXRussian ZX games is writed on russian ZX clones and support hardware feature TURBO OFF ( for ZX clone ZS SCORPION ). Russian ZX clone ZS SCORPION use…
... used on ZS SCORPION for memory paging and reading this ports ... different functions) used too for memory paging. Read of this ports ...Tai-Pan: can you board a FrigateSomething which has bugged me for decades is a simple question: can you board frigates in Tai-Pan? [url]http://www.caffeinated.org.uk/spectrum/games…
... for the Frigate, given the memory constraints of the 48k Spectrum ...Memory upgrade for original DIVIDE[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide512/[/url] VEESOFT
[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide512/[/url]
VEESOFTHow is the Spectrum to live on when we are all dead???We have had 25 years of the Spectrum and it lives on in us all and as long as WOS is here, on the Internet. Because of this, it will be alive as long…
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Will it and its memory die? Will anyone care??? Will ...Questions about the Nintendo WiiGreetings, I got myself a Wii for my birthday :) (My first console other than my atari 2600) and a 2Gb SD card, a second set of controllers, a class…
... games and my Wii system memory is almost full...Suggestions for Mr. Rich MellorRich, is there a chance any of these things could be available from you in a near future? -AY interface for 16K/48K Spectrums -PS/2 keyboard interfa…
... Spectrums (sound fix on +3, memory replacement, ula replacement, hardware fix ...Check your spam-boxCos it may well be 75% empty. According to [url]http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online_scams_a.html[/url], a ma…
... software operation that apparently stole banking and credit card data from ...Spectrum clone system that can run game imagesI was wondering... Is there a spectrum clone in the market (that I could buy) that can accept any type of external memory (eg USBdrive,IDE,SD cards …
... accept any type of external memory (eg USBdrive,IDE,SD cards ...Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
... /> Speed is more important than memory, and there aren't going ...