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Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... A or B ( so the BASIC is at least not lost ... these simple BASIC listings . But usually with this (TZXing thing) there is ... person who sent it in , to send in the whole TZXs for ... platforms in their un usable state .
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Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…
... passed my mandatory college course in Basic without the aid of the ... suck![/quote]
Interesting to hear about your progress ... bit daunting for most beginners, and not a lot in the way ... have been a bit less interesting. But it didn't really ... -
Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…
... passed my mandatory college course in Basic without the aid of the ... suck![/quote]
Interesting to hear about your progress ... bit daunting for most beginners, and not a lot in the way ... have been a bit less interesting. But it didn't really ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... heat the room you most occupied which in a lot of cases ... hot water bottles were the thing.[/quote]
There was ... that contains a lot of interesting footage of the blizzards. It ... -
Is the Queen of England finished? - What Will Happen Next?I keep hearing constantly that the queen of England is puling out of events and cannot get out of bed some days. So..seeing how high profile English …
... 991804"][quote="Luny;991801"]Interesting, what advantages to the ... royals have demonstrably interfered in govt policy behind the ... prejudices is human. Happened in the past, is still ...
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I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... interesting thing is that the script was put together for the most part ... about 5 years ago, which is interesting considering ... , and 2) a localized skirmish in Eastern Europe that escalates into ... -
Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
... to do it in BASIC on a Spectrum ... are used most and save the most space map ... 9 did the same thing, but obviously today ... /> }
foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in _letterfrequency)
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Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
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1) It's an interesting thing to implement, especially if you ... simple, which is why speccy basic encodes all the keywords as ... rubbish) - it compressed 3 characters in 2 bytes and it had ... -
Physics threadProbs best to not confuse Physics with "Been to the Cinema recently"? Physic away! I'm only good at maths though, sorry.
... I can also do Maths in this thread if you want ... its BASIC too, but enough about that.
Heres an interesting thing ... , that I just came across in my old INPUT ... do with an 'ideal' rectangle (in its proportions - it has a ... -
Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…
... speed tweak. Obviously programs written in basic and text adventure games are ... with a 10-20% reduction in speed.
On the ... -
How to play without POKEsI have a Speccy story, hope you will like it. It's about 13 years back. I was sitting in our living room and playing Dynamite Dan (part 1) on rubber…
... years back. I was sitting in our living room and playing ... playing, interesting thing happened. Maybe it was an electric pulse in our household ... ? Somebody should put this function in some Speccy emulator's menu ... -
Make TZX WOESHi, ive found that lots of my old games are either MIA or STP and ive converted them to WAV files so far and most load succesfully in RealSpectrum. …
... files so far and most load succesfully in RealSpectrum.
I ... intend to convert. it appears in the box
- I ... press START and teh only thing that happens is a DOS ... it but its the same thing.
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Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
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1. In which country was based the ... completely written in BASIC.
3. In Raid over ... a platform suspended in space in this amusing conversion ... upon one of the most successful trash horror ... -
Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…
... -show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere ... ) but I can only program in basic. Anyone know of any demo ... -
BASIC code challengeWrite a program in BASIC as short as possible that will continue after KEY-RELEASED. The program must be fully relocatable (so it must be programmed …
Write a program in BASIC as short as possible that ... -
OT, but I thought this was funny...I was clearing my hard disc out a few days ago, and I found the following, that I'd downloaded some time back. Re-reading it, I again thought it was …
... Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book ... offence.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The ... comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and
most famous composer in the world and so ... -
virtual worldsAny suggestions for which were the most interesting speccy games as far as giving you a sense of being in some big or convincing computer generated w…
... suggestions for which were the most interesting speccy games as far as ... you a sense of being in some big or convincing computer ... -
Game manuals in Russian - help...I found few interesting manuals in Russian in HTML format, which I translated with Web page translator but few others have 'weird' characters :( and …
I found few interesting manuals in Russian in HTML format, which I ... have 'weird' characters :( and are in TXT format.
... can convert those 'weird chars' in something usefull ???
... is, but there is more in that format Evening Star,... ... -
Type in magazineCan anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine. All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a ph…
Can anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine.
All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a photo-fit, one called London Raid, and one with crabs. All in basic.
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Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…
... spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment ... -
Sam Coupe - WANTEDWould like Sam Coupe preferably as follows: -512Ram -2 Floppy drives -All original Manuals/Documentation -Disks that came with it -Power supply and…
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Preferably in its box, but if its ... this is more a wish thing though because i cant find ... absolute most important thing is that it must be in very ... />
I live in the USA right now, and ... like to see my feedback. Most purchases ( 99% )are from ... -
Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …
... first stage (write the things in basic to check the logic) and ... reason I've written it in basic first rather than jumping straight ... anyone point me in the direction of a good basic compiler and ... />
BTW, the debugging features in BASin ROCK! And Tasm is ... -
Spectrum booksOK, this is a question posed not out of curiosity, but because I have to construct the 'bibliography' section of some paper I'm making. Unfortunately…
... I'm making. Unfortunately, although most of my info comes from ... , I must not specify websites in there (please don't ask ... -
[ANNOUNCE] ZXSpectrumHello, As you all probably already heard before, I just created a new website with the "Name the Game" game about the ZXSpectrum, located at [url="h…
... , and 1000 diferent games and most interesting we have already 36660 page ...
to your friends and in case you have a webpage ... /> add a link to it in it we would be more ... -
Blood's Crap Speccy PageJust a little note to you all to let you know that I have *finally* gotten around to doing a bit of an update to the 'Crap Speccy Page'. The most im…
... Page'.
The most important thing about this is that I ... moved it - it's now in my personal web space on ... visitors who've seen it in the latest Retro Gamer), a ... -
Where to find components, tools etc ?!I think i'm not the only one spending a lot of time surfing the net for components etc for Spectrum Hardware projects. Some component's are not manuf…
... are hard to find cheap in small volumes. So, i will ... what i think is the most interesting with each company.
in many countries. This is where ... /[/url]
Still have Z80A in stock !!! Also nice prices on ... -
ZXSpectrum "Name The Game"Hello, As you all probably already heard before, I created a new website with the "Name The Game" game about the ZX Spectrum games, located at [url=…
... diferent games to guess and most interesting we have already over 62000 ... site to your friend and in case you have a speccy ... add a link to it in the links section we would ... -
New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…
... BASIC, the best place to store these functions is in ... partially compatible with their Beta BASIC equivalents. Some of the ... dealing with 16-bit numbers in BASIC would be tortuously slow. ... used here in order to permit compilation with HiSoft BASIC.
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Name the (CRAP) gameI've had a heated discussion with a friend over what was the 5#!++!35+ speccy game we've ever played...he argues that it is Jet Set Willy, and I say.…
... like it was written in Basic...the weird thing was, the cassette box ... surround. Which was a odd in that the graphics were 5 ...
