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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never ... program should be error checked by the programmer), or a RENUMBER ... -
Wipe Out by KB RamWhilst doing a long-overdue update for Speccy Spoilers, I noticed that one of the latest additions is a game which doesn't appear to be in the archiv…
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Tetris by Doctor Spin singleFor some reason, I got remembering the 1993/4 single of Tetris by some bloke called Dr Spin. I remember having a copy at the time but I can't find …
For some reason, I got remembering the 1993/4 single of Tetris by some bloke called Dr Spin.
I remember having a copy at the time but I can't find it now - does anyone have a copy they could send me please? Thanks in advance. -
I was just dozing offI was just dozing off when the bastards let the fire alarm off again. so we all evacuated, the thousand or so young men and women in our house and w…
... ("k?ny?j?rg?s" by "kalyi jag" and a bit ... in the morning and 8 pages to read by then, in german ... -
Anybody like maths?I signed up for an a-level maths night class at the start of September. Gonna havemy a-level maths finished by summer 2008. I've started reading som…
... havemy a-level maths finished by summer 2008.
I ... &qid=1192043463&sr=8-1[/url]
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A vexatious questionThis is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and hardware that I wrote in the development forum a while ago. To summarize that: certain ha…
... the edge connector traps RST #8. For instance, the Sinclair ... it traps an RST #8 - presumably when the program ... the bus being crowbarred by two ROMs at the ... trap something other than RST#8. (Does the DivIDE ... jumper that disables RST#8 traps and instead tells ... -
I hate this country (serious - England gets worse)Have you seen this: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm[/URL] "[B]The Prison Service has converted two jails to hold only foreign nati…
... and let's prove it by treating minorities better than we ... life means 6+ years, usually 8 to 10, which is insane ... -
Spectrum ethernet ... first stepsThe first thing I do when I get a strange and unusual chip to play with, is to make a breakout board. The breakout board basically contains the chip …
... be split in places by signal lines and 3. ... pins. That's about 8 mils (8 thousandths of an inch). ... .
8 isn't divided by 3.3 very cleanly ... With fairly long runs of 8 mil spaced tracks, there was ... mount size, meaning 60 mils by 30 mils - basically a ... -
The most overrated games of all timeWhich games did the magazines say were really good, but are actually... um... not so good? By a combination of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/b…
... easily compare the ratings given by magazines to what "we" ... all time (as determined by looking at the difference between ... the magazines, as given by SPOT*ON, ignoring any ... Europa[/url] (2.91 vs 8.00)
4. [url ... ?id=0000467]Battlecars[/url] (8.50 vs 3.50)
SPIN's breakpoints - an overviewAs quite a few people have been asking how to set breakpoints on memory write etc. in SPIN, here's a description of the way the breakpoints work. Get…
... /output ostensibly uses an 8-bit address. While this ... may actually be used by some hardware to effectively ... Code that accesses genuine 8-bit hardware tends not ... bit value, the highest 8 bits of which would ... which masks off the lower 8 bits of the read port ...ULA RAS, CAS cycles, refresh and "snow effect"Hello everyone. I have a question, does anyone observed timings of RAS and CAS generated from ULA? I think there may be answer to where the "snow ef…
... contended memory refreshed? By constantly reading from it by ULA. The address ... refresh period is: [B]64us * (8 * 4 - 7) = 1600us = 1.6ms ... text line consists of [B]8[/B] graphic lines and one ... while displaying a text line 8 times the same address sequence ...One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... . You can return to BASIC by pressing "a" (quit).
... . Each byte is represented by two characters in a Hex ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
(= ... is simply calculated at runtime by halving the length of the ...Alien 8 questionHi my copy of Alien 8 contains a competition voucher. I can't see a scan of this on the infoseek page for this game, so is it required? I don't have…
Hi
my copy of Alien 8 contains a competition voucher. I can't see a scan of this on the infoseek page for this game, so is it required?
I don't have a scanner though.
thanks, from GuySpectrum ethernet... step 1.1Yeah, a tenth of a step :-) Here's the W5100 board up and WORKING: [url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/w5100-online.jpg[/url] This is called the "Get Th…
... xtal and the adjacent 1.8 volt supply traces off the ... groundplanes than should be done by a sane person during tea ... solder a 1206 (about 4mm by 2mm) faster than a through ... do an 0603 (about 2mm by 1mm) almost as quickly!
Rick Astley 8-Bit Style! LOLCheck this out!!! "Never Gonna Give You Up" 8 Bit Style!!!! Imagine if a 128k game had this as a soundtrack!! LOL [url]http://uk.youtube.com/watch…
Check this out!!!
"Never Gonna Give You Up" 8 Bit Style!!!!
Imagine if a 128k game had this as a soundtrack!! LOL
[url]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WWpKEPdT4[/url]The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…
... of them were fixed just by pushing a bus connector fully ... must be loaded a bit by the ULA, which so I ... a single instruction for an 8 bit register.
Bus ...POLL: Pizza guy hit by car - real or fake?Somebody put up a poll please? Pizza guy hit by car - real or fake? [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticZMs2hwv0&feature=related[/url] Cheers! …
Gryzor for DOS, apparently by OceanAnybody know anything about a Gryzor for DOS "made by Ocean"? It is in fact just Konami's/Banana's Contra for DOS, with a modified title screen and d…
... a Gryzor for DOS "made by Ocean"? It is in fact ...Compiling FUSE from source for a complete and total beginner...?[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b] A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Wel…
... /jim/fuse/fuse-0.8.0.1/ui/xlib'< ... /jim/fuse/fuse-0.8.0.1/ui/xlib'< ... home/jim/fuse/fuse-0.8.0.1/ui'
... `/home/jim/fuse/fuse-0.8.0.1'
make: ... may already have been executed by cancer, terrorism or falling ... Blair will have installed by then. Should I make ...Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
... loading the low and high 8 bits of the counter, and ... traps, such as interrupts raised by the W5100, NMI and reset ...Fuse 0.8.0.1 packages for Ubuntu 7.10Hi! I've made a rather crude .deb packages of the latest version of Fuse for Ubuntu Gutsy with the [URL="http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkins…
... .com.ar/fuse-ubuntu/fuse_0.8.0.1-1_i386.deb[/url ...It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... allowing RST 8 traps to be enabled/disabled by the user)< ... same time as ours, by fooling it into thinking upper ... except for the RST 8 trap which does an ... and do the RST 8 style trick of passing ... " especially with regards to RST 8 traps.
Oh ..."The Sinclair Story" by Rodney DaleDoes anybody know where I can get a copy of "The Sinclair Story" by Rodney Dale? Is it worth reading?
Does anybody know where I can get a copy of "The Sinclair Story" by Rodney Dale? Is it worth reading?List of I/O ports used by common peripherals?I remember looking at a file (just plain text, IIRC) a while back that listed all the IO ports used by various bits of Spectrum hardware, such as the…
... all the IO ports used by various bits of Spectrum hardware ... the I/O ports used by the DivIDE too?Identifying "inspired by" gamesIs there any way of getting the WOS database to chuck out a list of games which were "inspired" by a specific arcade game? E.g. I'd like to see a li…
A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
... "speccy abuse" it recieved caused by either a r-tape load ... />
As the years went by, Your Sinclair was gettin smaller ... /thinner by each month, you could sense ...Steep Way by Mastertronic ?Hello all. Anyone here knows if the game "Steep Way" was actually RELEASED by Mastertronic ? I have my doubts since the author is from Slovenia (he …
... "Steep Way" was actually RELEASED by Mastertronic ? I have my doubts ... other games which were distributed by the "pirate" casettes here - the ... ... some of them were released by them too) then please do ...Signed by Matthew Smith[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Jet-Set-Willy-ZX-Spectrum-Signed-by-Matthew-Smith_W0QQitemZ200192509304QQihZ010QQcategoryZ112866QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmd…
... -Set-Willy-ZX-Spectrum-Signed-by-Matthew-Smith_W0QQitemZ200192509304QQihZ010QQcategoryZ112866QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122 ...Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... underwater?
8. What's the difference between ... signal exists either side by side or interlaced with ... 25GB (I think) offered by Blu-Ray), but they ... mean, telling the future by tea leaves or animal ... is no longer believed by most people, so why ...New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... wormhole without being slowed down by the tears in the fabric ...
