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Cracking softwareIn the 80-ies I programmed a cracking program to crack exact 48K sized programs like POLE POSITION and A VIEW TO A KILL - CITY HALL. I still have it …
... was to start a blank tape recording, then press the red button ... Finally, another program (a mixture of BASIC and machine-code) was ... all the differences, with addresses of course (keeping in mind ... memory).
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Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... C+VG's Hits (only relatively to Spectrum games, of course?)
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New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... which I already had. Because of the compression, the main ... 18k - that's part of the reason why it's so fast ... It's so long since I originally did the tape I ... t compressed, it's just a copy of the ROM loader ... up with a new version of my 'creator' program which ... -
OFF TOPIC: MarillionHi sorry for the off topic post but I just got the new Marillion album called Marbles. This is one of the best albums I've heard in years!! So if y…
Cheers Karingal ive added his name to the entry in my database :)
now ive done over 500 of my 7" singles into access and im about half way through my list :p
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You want to read this. Oh yes you do.1) Go to [url="http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro9.shtml"]http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro9.shtml[/url] 2) Read to the very bott…
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With the eventual arrival of competing retro mags, this is ... the reader.[/quote]
Of course, on the flipside, there ... 's bound to be the equivalent of SU's 18-pack tape, so ... we must prepare our souls for that sort of ... -
New tzxvault team accounts setupAfter the long drawn out discussion re. the "official WOS DVD's" etc and ways to fund purchases of tapes/disks for dumping, I've created accounts for…
... say, the tape will degrade, so it`s obviously just about ...
I think the idea of your own shop is a ... good one, one of the places I`ve been ... generic stuff, yet there`s plenty of us new or fairly ... just wanting big box originals of stuff like Paperboy, Ikari, ... -
I'm getting sick and tired of EBAYYeah thoroughly sick and tired of people hiding behind misleading descriptions, ie " Spectrum mint and boxed " the reply when i said the box wasnt mi…
... keyboard has all sorts of scratches and burn marks ... user's feedback value not only based on the number of ... on the value of goods traded. It's far too easy ... by pseudo-trading dozens of useless items that all ... to yourself or a couple of friends.
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Best Spectrum emulator for Pocket PCOk, folks, I need you opinion! Which is the best Spectrum emulator for Pocket PC platform? I think that this is SpectrumAnyWhere. [url="http://www.w…
... yes it will load TZX's!
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Best Spectrum emulator for Pocket PCOk, folks, I need you opinion! Which is the best Spectrum emulator for Pocket PC platform? I think that this is SpectrumAnyWhere. [url="http://www.w…
... 't see the TZX's in the tape browser of PocketClive...
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I'm getting sick and tired of EBAYYeah thoroughly sick and tired of people hiding behind misleading descriptions, ie " Spectrum mint and boxed " the reply when i said the box wasnt mi…
... through your pay-pal user agreement / terms of service.
Now ... you'd expect of your bank.
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I'm a newbie with SPIN and can't load SNA /Z80 filesGuys I need help... I'm running SPIN on XP system but when I load a game using file Load snapshot and use a game ( ihave a Speccy cd from 97 with lot…
... strangest error I've heard of! Granted Spin has some ... but not sure if that's one of them. ;)
of JetPac as a snapshot ( ... first try the "Insert Tape..." option from the File menu ... have a corrupted version of JetPac or maybe even ... -
Problem with saving picture for game!Thanks for the code guys! The auto-start code is very sweet! And thanks for telling me about programming it to pick up items etc. There's only one p…
... (there's two of 'em) out to another tape file using the tape browser ... be obliterated by the "Start tape..." message, but there is a ... -
Part ThreeI just got Return Of The King - The Extended Edition today. Woo Hoo!!! I'm happy. I just finished watching it an hour ago. Brilliant. Especially t…
... read the book.... I got the compleat unabridged book on tape :)
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A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... view the first of a series of not so good ... success it wasnt in my book, and a company cannot ... profit and boasts some of the finest games ever ... to match the N64's areas of strength (first person shooters ... entitled to your opinion, of course, but your opinion ... -
Scariest things ever.As a follow on from another post, here's several things that I used to find very scary or un-nerving. Anyone remember any of these? 1. The keyb…
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9. STRANGE 70's TV POET WOMAN WHO PRONOUNCED ... Can't for the life of me remember her name. Maybe ... mother used to have a book of her poetry and I read ... I do remember thinking some of them were funny at ... but I can't think of a more undignified way than ... -
Best Sci-Fi movies!Following on from the WOTW movie thread, I think it's time for another "best of " topic! (Yawn-o-rama - hey it's a long sunday ok?) No doubt someone…
... do a movie on one of Larry Nivens "Ringworld" series. Should ... />
Arjun, *any*[1] of Larry's books would make a great ... that the most film-able book of his (and Jerry Pournelle) is ... unparalleled "The Mote in God's Eye" - quite simply the *best ... -
More RZX fun and gamesHi guys, as you may or may not be aware, xmikex and myself have been submitting recordings to Daren's archive for quite some time now. We still have …
... with nice graphics. It's multiload iirc, but a ... only playable on emu's with the new RZX ... />
There's nothing stopping you recording the RZX right through ... to make fairly extensive use of IN!), but the RZX ... able to cope with replay of loaders - I certainly ... -
More RZX fun and gamesHi guys, as you may or may not be aware, xmikex and myself have been submitting recordings to Daren's archive for quite some time now. We still have …
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There's nothing stopping you recording the RZX right through ... to make fairly extensive use of IN!), but the RZX format ... able to cope with replay of loaders - I certainly did a ... 'm looking at it, it's only ~300k. -
Is it possible... (in Spin or Spectaculator)For the emulator to save a tape image when a Spectrum program saves a data block to tape? and if it is possible how would you do it in SPin or Specta…
... to the 'Recording' menu and select 'Tape Recording' then 'Insert Tape for Saving'. Type ... back to the 'Recording' menu and select 'Eject save tape'. That's it! -
PAW instructionsI've the instructions for the PAW add on pack Paw PTM (Phosis, Tel and Mega) If anyone wants them posting to them for scanning purposes - can they e…
... Microdrive instead of tape.
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That's fantastic - but ... aiming to create PDF versions of all documentation, rather than just ... -
Update this forum to latest phpBB?I saw on phpBB site that the latest version is v2.0.7 and 1.4.4 is rather old. I'm not sure if it worth upgrading(security....). I'm just wounderin…
... [/url]; that one stores each user's state (something Philip Kendall has ... not HTML generally, of course).
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Stupid Question... but: BMP2SCRI have downloaded bmp2scr, and produced a couple of pictures in the hires formats, I can see that there are 3 binary files, a red,green,and blue, how…
... and even then there's no ready-to-run universal ... your AVI into a series of SCR files - it ... hardware limitations and the complexity of the animation; if you ... have a second or two of animation, you could get ... flash-loading of tape files, with the aid of a BASIC ... -
BASICODE 2 programsI like to support some BASICODE 2 programs. BASICODE 2 is an universal BASIC dialect, compatible for many home computers, with its own LOAD/SAVE form…
... your other thread :). So it's Basicode 2+ we're talking ... make a TZX, as it's currently listed as STP.
s versions of many 8-bit platforms on the tape. It ... 'll just be a case of figuring out ... -
What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …
... they make the film of a book, it's usually a disappointment to ... at least some of the people ... who liked the book.
What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …
... they make the film of a book, it's usually a disappointment to ... at least some of the people ... who liked the book.
Looking for rare TZX blocksBy rare I mean out of the hundreds of TZX I have non of the following blocks exist. I need to test my loading/handling/saving code. Are there any TZX…
... just to fool tape copiers.
Oh and of course a cut ... .
I suppose it's down to the individuals taste ... I'm thinking in terms of tape where you go from beginning ...Looking for rare TZX blocksBy rare I mean out of the hundreds of TZX I have non of the following blocks exist. I need to test my loading/handling/saving code. Are there any TZX…
... have been better, let's work together as always to ... iron fist. However, it's not a commercial venture just ... br />
So let's forget about what ifs and ... translated like that. It's true though, I just ... get back to my work of tape conversion.
...Whats happening here then? Still waiting on a Dizzy game though...as Colin Mc Rae Rally sucks big time compared to some other rally games. I cant stand PS2 ports: 1) Lazy 2) PS2 gfx are disapointing for a next gen…
... the "my Speccy/Playstation's better than your Commodore ... machine... Check the Guinness Book of Records. I do have ... more. My PS2's been out of action since November ... .
Out of interest does Gran Turismo 4 ... , a game with a set of bongos?
...Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... checking the distribution state of your software. The objective ... game database, giving the user the possibility to know ... />
[B]Gamestage's distribution of your ZX Spectrum software will ... Developers' names, Distributors, Year of release and Genre.
...SPIN trying to reach out (?) !!!AGAIN!!!Many mangy men mainly mime mimes. [ This Message was edited by: Skarpo on 2005-12-09 07:06 ]
... always as a direct result of user actions, NEVER on its own ... />
Which version and build of Sygate firewall are you using ... anything else. Incidentally, all of the few results in google ... query mentioned Sygate as the user's firewall - maybe that points ...
