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Who's got a tool box?I got one a few weeks ago in B & Q. It only cost about £10 (reduced from £15) and only had about 12 items in it, but the number of times I…
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Your favourite Half-Life game?Right, I've posted a few polls up today, and I've had so many pm's (nearly one, so far) from people saying how much they liked them, and asking for m…
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I've voted for number two, Opposing Force, which surprised ... had intended to vote for number one, the orginal Half-Life ... probably add some mods at number 2.5, or maybe 1 ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the way to go.[/QUOTE]
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New website goodness - improved Speccy reviews!I could have sworn I stuck a post up yesterday, but the byte-bandits appear to have stolen it :lol: Anyway: I've revamped my website which (among ot…
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15 years of comp.sys.sinclair!On 13th December 1993, thanks to the efforts of Arnt Gulbrandsen, comp.sys.sinclair sparked into life, taking the reins of the primordial soup of the…
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WinXP VPN setup advice neededThis may be too complex a question to ask here, as there seem to be such a vast number of variables in the mix, but I'll have a go anyway. I can't as…
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BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... tool was showing the wrong number for the keywords.
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Help needed with quiz at work"A Quiz of many Colours" Basically, each answer has a colour in it, eg: Prime Minister: (6,5) (Gordon Brown) Here are some I'm stuck on, any help…
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Preservation PleaHi folks, There's a number of MIA/uMIAs (second time around) on eBay right now, but unfortunately the preservation team don't have funds to secure t…
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There's a number of MIA/uMIAs (second time ... Software (uMIA)
150316805162 - Number 7 by Prime Software (uMIA ... Software (uMIA)
150316805162 - Number 7 by Prime Software (uMIA ... -
reading Hex[code]1 DIM a$(20,20) 2 DIM g$(16) 3 LET g$="\::\ \' \ '\ .\. \.:\:.\:'\':\''\..\: \ :\'.\.'" 4 BORDER 4 20 LET a$(1)="00000000000000000000" 21 LET …
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Graphic enhancements in games!(this message was also posted at [url]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12431[/url]) Hello to everyone! A couple of years ago I …
... , but generally by increasing the number of sprites we can considerably ... "magic" parameter "t-states/frame -- number of tacts in a frame ... -
How Low Can you Go ? 001 000184 ???Low Serial number speccy [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ULTRA-RARE-FIRST-RUN-ISSUE-1-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-48K_W0QQitemZ250346343514QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK…
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"Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... 4 bits of the register number.
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Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…
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Whoops!I've never seen this before: Full title Damocles Year of release never Publisher Novagen Software Ltd (UK) Machine type ZX Spectrum 48K Number of pl…
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Number of players 1
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ZX archive high-resolution dreamI was thinking today how great it would be to have a high resolution archive resource of ZX advertisements and photographs from magazines, as opposed…
... effort and experience, with a number of issues to consider.
Voting problems again ?How come La Abadia Del Crimen has got almost 3 times the amount of votes that other games have ? 1. 8.78 (704) Abadia del Crimen, La I hardly beli…
... would go and vote highest number for this game. This must ...Spectrum games continued on other platformsAs we all know, the Spectrum didn't live forever, comercially anyway. However, there are a number of game series which featured games on the Spectrum…
... anyway. However, there are a number of game series which featured ...Wii Sports is the best selling game of all time!To quote: [url]http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2724[/url] "[B]Wii Sports has now passed lifetime sales of Super Mario Bros (NES) to become the…
... Bros (NES) to become the number one selling videogame of all ...ZX Microdrive ULAsI have now found a stock of brand new microdrive ULAs - they are Ferranti 2G007 (alas no Interface ULAs as yet - does anyone know the number and typ…
... yet - does anyone know the number and type?)
Cost ...Only PS2 and curent generation console games sold now?I finished early today (dentists appointment, arrghh!), so I went into town to see what Gamecube games I coud pick up. I've got all of the XBox (not …
... had a [B]huge[/B] number of used PS2 games for ...WiiFuse snapshot 2A new release of the Wii port of Fuse, nominally called "Snapshot 2" is now available from [url=http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Fuse]WiiBrew[/url]. This is b…
... (yes, I know what version number it says on startup. Don ...Spectrum vs Virtual ConsoleAnother one of my little mashups... [url=http://zxspectrum.freebase.com/view/base/zxspectrum/views/games_also_on_the_virtual_console]A number of gam…
... /base/zxspectrum/views/games_also_on_the_virtual_console]A number of games[/url] which were ...Freedom of the games software industry?Dan Houser, of Rockstar games, who worked on Grand Theft Auto 4 and other titles, was interviews and said of the software industry: "[I]It's really…
... for companies to make any number of generic World War 2 ...Need a pointer to using the spectrum calculator from MCHi all, Can anyone point me to a good resource on using the spectrum calculator stack from machine code? I need to work out the number of seconds f…
... need to work out the number of seconds from the current ... /> 1800000 is a rather large number to play about with dividing ...A little slice of undocumented Sinclair historyHi, I'm incog, I dump computers/consoles for emulation in [URL="http://mess.org"]MESS[/URL]. Recently I found a machine I had never heard of or seen…
... /ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=47849#Post47849"]Here[/URL] is ...Spectaculator and Arkanoid 2 48K versionUsing the perfect TZX of Arkanoid 2. When I load up the 48K version, the bat and number of lives flicker a lot. This doesn't happen in the 128K versi…
Using the perfect TZX of Arkanoid 2. When I load up the 48K version, the bat and number of lives flicker a lot. This doesn't happen in the 128K version or in Spin with the 48K version.
That is using version 7.0.1 of the program.Spectrum 128KI have a spectrum 128K (with the heatsink), no box, but it's never been used. I was going to teach my daughter to program on it, then thought I'd bet…
... my Sinclair stuff for a number of years!
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