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  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... that a speed of the most of them is far from ... there are no problems I thing to do similar for the ... . This is not so good thing, in my opinion. Any confutations? (I ... not see any slow down in the Spectaculator under Windows2000?)
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov January 2004 Emulators
  • 3.30am after a night of boozeI just spent the night in various pubs drinking cider and listening to quality music(metallica, korn, ACDC, Billy Tallent, The Beat, The Selecta & Th…

    ... for us Indians most of the dishes in a meal ARE ... are the popular curries/dishes in Brittany anyway? Is Biryani ... is often featured in establishments of Indian cuisine in the UK, ... />
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    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most Disappointing Speccy SequelOk, I'm going for 3 of the most obvious: Impossamole Renegade 3 Chase H.Q 2

    By far and away the most disappointing sequel I had the ... was a frantic blaster unmatched in My opinion on the machine ... I heard speech so clearly in a game.
    The sequel ... threw away every single good thing in the original.
    Renegade 3 ...
    Starglider Starglider February 2004 Games
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    Interesting thread you have here.
    < ... are simply enough to write in basic and are not performance driven ... /> So get any version of BASIC and learn to program "Hello ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... machine in Decimal? Its stored as Binary in the actual addresses, BASIC ... use BASIC and decimal you're really using the most inefficient ... has no inherent properties useful in this field.

    ... the small program would run in BASIC, just type it out ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... : Sure, the overhead of Basic is enormous, but a lot ... time, a lot of Basic games, even uncompiled ones, ... similar Language to Laser Basic, but with a buggy ... my games in Basic and compile them, but most of my ... time-critical routines are coded in Z80 ...
    LCD LCD February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    Why two versions? One Version with options (selectable) Novice/Expert/Guru could be fine too. To be honest, I'm a bit lazy too, that's why I do most stuff in a game in Basic. But I still like to have full control over my created game.
    LCD LCD February 2004 Development
  • new and probably worst game ever :)bored by perfect things ? try this: [url="http://fikoviny.webz.cz/FF.TZX"]fikoviny.webz.cz/FF.TZX[/url]

    ... always thought that type of thing looks better on a black ... i'll be sticking with Basic :-)

    ( i think something ... 's game might be possible in Basic. i might give it a ...
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 Games
  • your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…

    ... [I]Ghost Town[/I] - in an "unofficial" Italian version named ... the puzzles! Written in BASIC and with some very basic (no pun intended ... now due to my interest in emulation. Anyway, I remember ... User Megatape.

    The most durable side effect of playing ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2004 Games
  • OK, KiloByte magazine is available for download :)Ladies and gentlemen... Issue 1 of the Kilobyte magazine is available for download. Surf to [url="http://www.kbmagazine.net"]www.kbmagazine.net[/u…

    ... for the few pages on BASIC
    as this is my ... more of this kind of thing in there. a sort of issue ... amatures up with some advanced BASIC knoledge(if poss.) i also ... /> good to see some links in there aswell.
    last but ...
    grim grim February 2004 Announcements
  • helpwhen you start up games sometimes it appears with a grey screen and i am unable to play the games what do i type to start the game

    ... games.

    In general, you should do ... these steps in an emulator:
    < ... then type LOAD "" (in 48K basic, you press the J ... marks. in 128K basic you type in the whole thing letter ... by letter)
    3) If the game is in BASIC ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Games
  • Which is better? Knightlore or Alien 8ok mates, by the years i tend to say the best games in zx history was knightlore but i've been playin' alien 8 a lot and i'm divided Is knightlore be…

    ... similar clone.

    Back in those days, WOAH when i ... i couldnt believe it. The interesting thing is that Ultimate had developed ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2004 Games
  • Which is better? Knightlore or Alien 8ok mates, by the years i tend to say the best games in zx history was knightlore but i've been playin' alien 8 a lot and i'm divided Is knightlore be…

    ... the 2 or 3 most important games in the Spectrums history, ... and possibly the most influential. But ... were difficult to pass merely in the annoying sense. Jet ... surpassed it. Perhaps the most important thing about Knight Lore is it ...
    Spector Spector February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... br />
    You learn Spectrum BASIC and get two commands; border ... odds with what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... you make the transition from BASIC expert to novice machine ... ], that isn't the same thing.

    [quote]
    ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... "forsake all others" in order to post here ... machine or whatever, but in turn you come out ... much because of the BASIC. You cannot prove that ... there is even one thing, like BASIC, that overall is ... something else appearing somewhere in the sentence, suggesting that ...
    Spector Spector February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... that there is even one thing, like BASIC, that overall is better ... or something else appearing somewhere in the sentence, suggesting that the ...
    My comments about Spectrum BASIC apply equally to just about ... myself in the same way by the Atari 8bit's BASIC ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • AY tracking newbieHey everyone, I'm about to embark on tracking for the Spectrum's AY chip. I was interested in knowing some things: 1) Which are the best trackers o…

    ... of any tutorials for trackers ( in English PLEEEEASE :) ) please do pass ... stuff. i only dislike that most is like dance/club music ... tape file of music done in basic which is outstanding considering it ... is basic. if i didn't know ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Gift From The GodsDoes anyone have a map for this game?

    ... ago. One of the most underacheiving games in my opinion. It had ... anyone actually completed the damn thing, and if so I'd ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2004 Games
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... /> [B]Heartland[/B] (Mort! said in an old thread here: "there ... ; Field[/B] (crashes when qualifying in last event)

    Am ... WOS, it's the most bugged thing I've ever seen.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2004 Games
  • Insanely difficult gamesOK, folks, so we know Speccy games were difficult in general. But have you ever played some games which were totally unfair from your point of view ?…

    ... worst/hardest/most evil thing to happen to speccy gaming. Bearing in mind ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree March 2004 Games
  • Imagine versus UltimateImagine (The Name of the Game) Ultimate (Play the Game) Well, twenty years after their heyday, how do these two super software houses' products com…

    ... can see that the most important thing they did was raise the ... more than the other, culminating in the "Knight Lore" genre. But ...
    Spector Spector March 2004 Games
  • Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…

    ... every last
    >effect in the MOD specification, but a ... /> --------
    Of course the most resonable thing to do is to make ... MOD's routines should be in General Sound's ROM. ' ... routines, and they are already in Spectrum format.
    Actually they ...
    Yerz Yerz March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: Spectaculator 6.1Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... /> In any 128K model? No, in the Spectaculator not in any: only in 128 ... wan't load at all, in +2A/+3 it crashed on ... in +2a/+3 - they're a very different configuration to the basic ... 128k.

    Does it do the same thing in other ...
    BN^2 BN^2 March 2004 Emulators
  • Problems with WOSIs there problems with this site tonight cos i keep crashing......other sites / forums / winmx / irc are fine but everytime i come on here tonight i …

    ... Kazaa has a nasty ADWARE thing in it that redirects you to ... and Emule/Overnet etc. ( most Edonkey based clients ). There may ... other things, like common applications most people want, etc. But ... other pay software firewalls and most are just terrible.
    ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • handbook for newbies ?looking at questions what regulary appears on this forum i have an idea. why not to write short book for newbies. if few experienced coders write eac…

    ... there's also the basic and machine code tutorial on ... br />
    fact is most z80 books suck. some dishearten ... point.

    most books bore you to death ... s not necessary but most explain it in a rather confusing, ... i have ever seen. Most times i feel i ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • Is Spectaculator Worth Registering?I normally use RealSpectrum and was thing of trying another emulator. What are the pro and ons of Spectacultor? Does it support disk image files?

    ... has been the best and most stable of the many emulators ... ceramic glaze calcuation software programmed in basic in the 1980s it works fine ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) April 2004 Emulators
  • T.I.M. - A New Interlace - Demo for DOWNLOADHere's something that's been in the works for quite a while ( mostly in my head ) and recently I've aquired assistance to help it come to fruition. …

    ... the balls do. i explain in the email.


    only thing is that it may make ... however drawn, the most dominant colour in each cell should be ... the paper colour is in the cells that are ... m only imagining all this in my mind's eye, ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... big chunks of data in the gfx in the editor and ... the re-colouring showed up in the background gfx. The ... this jumpsuit vs trouser+shirt thing. :)
    [/quote]

    ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Games
  • Retro Gamer 3 out now! Just a quick warning to say Retro Gamer 3 is now out, so get those skates on before they go. Got a large Chronosoft article, BBC review an…

    ... must say it is the most interesting and well written piece of ... I still have some dosh in my UK bank account and ...
    Malc74 Malc74 April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • More R@RE Stuff on eBay...Another apparently rare item... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8101487490&category=50224"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI…

    ... />
    Ooooo, that type of thing winds me up too. I ... />
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    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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