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Ever missed the obvious in a game?I felt like another go at [B]Ant Attack[/B] tonight, after trying to rescue all 10 girls for the last 25+ years. Every time I played I got to a simi…
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games that are great despite their obvious flaws...I think 'WONDERBOY' is a great game on the spec, used to play it non stop, but... the scrolling is abysmal. slows down and speeds back up at random w…
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Why so few open source Spectrum emulators?A couple of days ago I started to look into converting an existing Spectrum emulator to Pocket PC (mainly the iPaq) and ran into problems directly. T…
... ran into problems directly. The obvious starting point would be an ... one with published source code (obvious because of the similarities between ... -
Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …
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Totally original gamesWhat games on the speccy were totally original? Not copied or based on something done before, but a completely new idea for a game? The obvious ones…
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UnReal SpecI may be a fool, but! two things! 1) I can't seem to find out how to get the cyrillic 'thing'? shift on unreal spec. I know it's russian but how do …
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UnReal SpecI may be a fool, but! two things! 1) I can't seem to find out how to get the cyrillic 'thing'? shift on unreal spec. I know it's russian but how do …
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Credit due.Can you think of any games that were fore runners of todays games, but were never given the credit they deserve? For example Sky Ranger By Microsphe…
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Vixen mystery solved !, ZX SPIN now loads it !Hi folks, I again, resampled my Vixen tape (CSW & WAV) and set to decode it with MakeTZX, strangely it refused to decode it this time, failing at s…
... , as Arjun said, sometimes the obvious isn't ;)
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seeking info about a mysterious version of ProGolfSimI have 2 versions of Pro Golf Simulator (Codemasters) and would like to clarify which is which. No original tapes, just old copies. One version is i…
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Native OS X port of Fuse availableA beta version of Fredrick Meunier's native OS X port of Fuse, the Free errr... Unix Spectrum Emulator is now available from Fuse's homepage: [url="…
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Anyone interested in emulating the ZX Spectrum SE?The ZX Spectrum SE is now emulated in FUSE (thanks to Darren Salt and Fredrick Meunier) and EightyOne (thanks to Mike Wynne).
The ZX Spectrum SE is now emulated in FUSE (thanks to Darren Salt and Fredrick Meunier) and EightyOne (thanks to Mike Wynne). -
WOS and the IDSAI recently listened to the latest edition of Retrogamingradio ([url]www.retrogamingradio.com[/url]). In it, there was mention of the IDSA threatening…
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ANNOUNCE: Fuse 0.6.0 and friendsThe Fuse team announce the release of version 0.6.0 of Fuse, along with version 0.6.0 of the Fuse utilities and version 0.1.1 of libspectrum, the Spe…
... * New SDL user interface (Fredrick Meunier).
* 16K Spectrum ... support (Fredrick Meunier).
* Load and ... type 15. (Witold Filipczyk/Fredrick Meunier).
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You live you learn - random ramblingsWell I've been around for some time now and I continue to be amazed at the new things I find on WoS. For example, today I came across Martijn's inte…
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Frog hopper questionThe 3 Frog hopper (by Walltone) tapes on the WOS archive all share a very interesting problem: when you load the game up and press I for info, you ca…
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Translating games from RussianThe recent arrival of biotoxin and his obvious enthusiasm for Russian games has set me thinking: Will any Russian games ever be translated into Engl…
... arrival of biotoxin and his obvious enthusiasm for Russian games has ... the graphics aren't always obvious... one of these games (either ... -
Help identifying a gameHello, I've come here looking for help identifying an old game which I have memories of, but I don't know the name. I wonder if anyone here can iden…
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Most Disappointing Speccy SequelOk, I'm going for 3 of the most obvious: Impossamole Renegade 3 Chase H.Q 2
Ok, I'm going for 3 of the most obvious:
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AssemblageCan any of you marvellous programmers out there recommend a Speccy assembler that even a complete dunce could use? At the risk of sounding thick, as…
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Treasure Hunt instructionsMight be a bit boring, but I'm playing Treasure Hunt, based on the old Anneka Rice UK TV series, mainly because I remember playing it many years ago.…
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spectrum fruit machine gamesapart from the obvious fruit machine simulator 1&2 (codemasters)what is the best 1 in your opinion?
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BASIC OptimisationsOk, BASin is maturing fast and now I want to add some more special "stuff". A guy called Chris requested by email that I include a REM killer, to s…
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BASin CompilerAm I right in thinking that it isn't a fully-working one yet? Just a couple of obvious suggestions anyway... 1-Could you add an ORG command to the …
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The Pre 85 threadMost of our memories are of games that were from 85 and onwards when the programmers had got to grasps with the Speccy and were coding more efficient…
TASM, Z80 and Spec emusHi! Having some novice questions here regarding TASM and writing machine code for the Speccy emus... Now I have configured TASM into my EditPlus and…
... /Load binary file...) it is obvious that the OBJ file contains ...InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... M-cycle has two non-obvious consequences:
* If a ...New TZX files of already TZX-converted tapes - why?I noticed that with the last update of the TZX Vault, many TZX files of games that were already present in TZX format have been introduced. I can eve…
... TZXs. Letting aside the most obvious cases - ie "beautified" files or ...Loading Compilations using EmulatorsI have downloaded some of the new compilation .tzx files form the .tzx vault and am having trouble loading them using both Spectaculator and SPIN. I…
... stupid and have missed the obvious, but can anyone guide me ...Lambourne games1) "Cricket Player Data Cassette - "(blah blah).TZX Do these files go with another program (as the name would suggest) or are they stand-alone ? 2…
... seem to follow a very obvious pattern of gameplay - my question ...