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Jonathan Cauldwell in Retrogamer!Jonathan Cauldwell, author of such superb games as Gamex*, Quantum Gardening, and about five billion others, including the excellent** Egghead series…
... excellent** Egghead series, is interviewed in this month's Retrogamer (issue ... later no one plays them, in my experience).
... ! fan, Bobs' brilliant Famer Jack in Harvest Havock was a sure ... about a Spectrum game based in anyway around an egg without ... -
Wrong language in some entriesThere are some entries which give wrong describtion of the language used in game. I'll deal with my native Polish language, which I can be sure about…
... describtion of the language used in game. I'll deal with ... city, the game was written in.
Author is A.Durych ... =0006709[/url]
It is in Polish, not English
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Fastest way to decide which pixel to paint in order to draw a straight line(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ask this in here) in fact, I want to accelerate a car towards a direct…
... I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ... ask this in here)
in fact, I want ... pixel. since target changes position in every iteration, so a new ... fastest method to do this in basic? -
Most expensive item in the archive?I know there have already been threads on "most expensive game" and "most expensive program" in the archive. But what about the most expensive item …
... game" and "most expensive program" in the archive.
But ... 2" robot, costing ?1725.00 in 1984.
That's ... probably equivalent to around ?5000 in 2008 money. (I can imagine ... -
Decompiling a TAP file and remaking a game in FlashHello everyone! I posted this, in part, under another username (a while back) but I don't have access to that account anymore so I started another h…
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I posted this, in part, under another username (a ... started another here.
In short, here is what I ... book of the same title, in Flash. The emulators for websites ... -
Amiga Spectrum emulationWonder if anyone can help with the following:- 1) I am using ASpV089 on my Amiga, but despite all the drop down options, it will only display a scre…
... ) Many of my favourite games in the Archive are "Distribution denied ... involved?
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Remember that 1960's music center I had stuck in the loft?I emptied the loft today of everything. I had an early 1960's music centre up there too heavy to get out, and a sofa bed, and boxes , and boxes of ju…
... best.
Plugged it in just now, and it still ... . The wheelie bin is emptied in the morning, and we'll ... put some of the junk in there. Over the next couple ... -
Site that shows screenshots of all the games in the archive...Unless I imagined it during a moment of drunken madness, there was a site or page that showed a very long list of screenshots from all the games in t…
... screenshots from all the games in the archive (or at least ... -
Retrogaming in Second LifeHi there! Athough it's not Spectrum specific I'd like to let you know about the "retrogaming" group in Second Life... among others activities, we've…
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Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
... seem to be "finished" in the sense that they ... .
Like in the game [URL="http://www ... types the incorrect code in then it goes straight ... So if you are interested in BASIC programming then you might ... games/listings ... but keep in mind that the quality ... -
Japan's Economy now in serious troubleReceived this startling news via email: [quote] Following the problems in the financial sector in the US, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last…
... /> Following the problems in the financial sector in the US, uncertainty has ... , while today's shares in the Kamikaze Bank were suspended ... a hit, but they remain in the black.
Furthermore, ...
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And in other news - Man with solid ... -
How to get WinXP folder contents listed in ASCII sequence?Having recently transferred a lot of source & data files from Win98 to WinXP I've just come to realise that, unlike Win98 or Win3 or MacOS or Unix or…
... directory contents sorted by name in ASCII sequence; it uses ... convention which includes numeric digits in file names.
... trying to find items in large folders problematical when ... customisation option which restores sanity in this respect. I also ... -
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…
I remember a type in program of a sliding block ... that drew some geometric patterns in for the puzzle though.
in another magazine. Maybe I wrote ... 't remember ! Dementia has set in.... Help.!?! -
Letter errors in Spanish instructionsSometimes when I want to play Spanish game, I try to read an instruction first. As I don't speak Spanish I try to use Google Translate with Spanish t…
... instructions have some bad letters in the text.
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From Pong to Playstation - meeting in HollandTomorrow there is a meeting in Holland themed "From Pong to Playstation". It is hosted by the C64 group of the HCC. I will be there to show Sinclair.…
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Games in basicIs there a definitive list of published games written in Basic, I'm particularly interested in Text adventures.
Is there a definitive list of published games written in Basic, I'm particularly interested in Text adventures. -
In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
... wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound ... 128k games did not have in-game music was because that ... -
april fool joke game in the archiveI was looking at this yesterday and have already forgotten the name. It's got a CRASH! review and they give it 98% but it's a joke. anyone remember w…
... a little yellow square man in the review pages. I just ... -
Letters in MagazinesAs you can view all the pages of various speccy magazines on WOS, who has had letters published? I read mine the other day which was printed in issu…
As you can view all the pages of various speccy magazines on WOS, who has had letters published? I read mine the other day which was printed in issue 39 of Crash and it made me cringe in embarrassment... -
Music in TV/Film tie-insOh, I feel a bit fnirky today, so I fancied posting summink, well, erm. Fnirky. What game d'ya reckon had a theme tune that...(deep breath; comma s…
... bit, but it's undoubtedly in-keeping with the show. Bravo ... -
MJB in TelegraphHis initials are etched into the bits of the Interface 1 and 128K Spectrum ROMs and yesterday Martin Brennan was in the Telegraph to promote his JB7 …
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Found 128k +2 in the garbageHey there, I had a 48k Plus when I was a kid (still have, actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I know the basic of these computers. …
... , actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so ... /> I found a 128K +2 in the garbage last week and ... -
Which Speccy sounds 'best'? ie, differences in AY outputDoes anyone know if there's any noticeable difference in the quality of the sound output on the Speccy models with an AY chip?i'm wondering if there'…
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Back in the UK...Well, I've been here four days and am reminded why I left in the first place :) Cold, miserable, damp and just generally a depressing dump... :( On…
Well, I've been here four days and am reminded why I left in the first place :)
Cold, miserable, damp and just generally a depressing dump... :(
Only two more days to go, and I can escape... :)
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Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... There was a story in the paper about somebody ... out of a hat in batches of 6). Apparently ... failed to implement this program in that language. Now that ... I've succeeded in Speccy BASIC, I think ... Z80 assembler too. Another project in Z80! :D
What computing platforms do you have in the house?Just took delivery of my first Mac so now in our house we have: Study: HP Compaq desktop running XP Living room: Dell laptop running Vista (spit)…
... my first Mac so now in our house we have:
In addition have iPod touch and ...Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
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[COLOR=blue]"Epic boss Mike Capps has told GI that ... sales are a ?huge? issue in the US, and he believes ... DLC will be increasing in scope just because in the US we ... market is a huge issue in the United States. Our primary ...Screen access in assemblerI am again troubled by the unusal screen design of the Spectrum. :) If I want to do something with, say, a 16x16 bit block of the screen (in the sam…
... bit block of the screen (in the same 1/3 part ... have the correct start address in the display file loaded into ...What is the most common language used in Industry??Help me out here guys what do you reccon is the most commonly used programming language in industry. The TIOBE index shows me that its the most comm…
... most commonly used programming language in industry.
The TIOBE ...
