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Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…
I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, ... the scaled orbits of either at least four planets around the ... TO 80
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Computer or console: Which do you prefer for games?Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about this yesterday to a mate (a World of Warcraft addict) who doesn't like consoles, and neither I (who …
Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about ... pain. Or, to look at it another way, learning to fix ... a machine to look at it, so it's a bit of ... , you have to install it first (and waste time ... the 360, I understand). Then again, the N64 had cartridges, ... -
Strange but true things that you've experienced?On Monday I had one of those days where you just shouldn't have got out of bed. I won't bore you with the details, and I've sorted most things out, b…
... I'm no bloody good at it, frankly. That's not ... of day seems ridiculous (or at least very unlikely)?
... my mate were walking along at night, and we saw ... and couldn't see it again. And yes, it was a UFO, since ... ve forsaw what is happening at that moment, I'll ... -
Chuckie Egg rules at retro computing mini-event in LondonOne of my pals put on a retro computer game event at a uni bar on Tuesday. We made sure the ZX Spectrum featured! Most of the games wouldn't load pro…
... all night. Chuckie Egg! It was noticeable how newbies to ... of doing it is to keep running at the ladder ... then press up as you pass it, ... or better still, jump at it and grab it on ... splashed around the walls. At times Mario was in ... -
Bad English at its bestI got sent this by an Pakistani colleage, I've no idea where it is from but is bad english at it's best. -----------------------------------------…
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at everyone. I am jolly. I ... -
Need help making a program workAfter more than twenty years and thanks to the help of Jose Manuel (who kindly preserved the Timex 3" disks with cpdread) and John Elliot (who kindly…
... get the program to work again and would love to come ... version, but I need help. It seems some of the files ... wants to take a look at it:
[url]http://brunoflorindo ... .DSK version can be created it will be uploaded to WOS ... -
games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…
... ?id=0002177[/url]
it's such a great game ... ... but I'm so crap at it. never get beyond the 3rd ... 'm sure there's probably at least 30 bad guys in ... similar games you're rubbish at but you really have a ... -
Ocean's Cobra - +3 incompatability. Is their a fix?Hello all, Anyone know of a fix for Ocean software 'Cobra' (the one with stallone in it) ? This was the first game I bought for my 128k toastrack, a…
... ' (the one with stallone in it) ? This was the first game ... been looking forward to playing it again.
I then found ... work on my +3 at all, as it freezes up as soon ... fix (some pokes) to get it working on +3 machines?
Your favourite TV science fiction drama?What is your favourite science fiction drama ever, from television? I'm limiting this to television as if we were to include books and the cinema the…
... (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits), as again the list is long enough ... some terrible episodes, but at it's best it was far above any ... second to me, as at it's best it's excellent, and has ... variable (quality wise) program ever, it drifts from superb (Remembrance of ...The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …
... here, but I've been at it for so long now that ... as if you ask me again I might name a Bond ... or his world right at all. It's strange how Superman ... film without knowing anything about it).
... t move the way it does if it was in no ...Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…
... /> 8 - Now don't do it again
9 - Don't tell ... br /> 10 - Never be late again
11 - And stay ... ... Press a key to play again.
40 - Turn to ... have mumps ERIC. Go home at once. This game is over ... questions and answers.
It is also doubtful if I ...VERY annoying (DVD drive not detected)My 'puter seems to have forgotten that I have a dvd/cd drive. It has done this before and I thought it may be some virus or other and I took it in…
... drive.
It has done this before and ... I thought it may be some virus ... recieved it back.
It seems to have done it again!! ... I'm on the dole at ... avoid this happening again. If it is due to ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... I've just designed. Although it still doesn't actually keep ... automatically detected, and press it again to change it. But if you play ... option doesn't come up again, and doesn't muck you ... through the levels, different features (at the moment, ton weights and ...Multiface One - brokenFor a long time I have had a Multiface One, that since I got it never worked. When I attach it to the computer (edge connector completely cleaned), i…
... , that since I got it never worked. When I ... blocks. I took it apart and tested it again. Maybe both switches ... a low noise. Sometimes it boots again and the the screen ... CMOS Static RAM". Looking at the 4116's in a ... for this chip? Or can it be the diode?
...The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... most amazing thing about it at the time it was released was what ... you feeling almost physically sick at the though of how some ... in Bioshock that it's worth my stressing it again - you can almost ... in the game (again, how rare is that, at least in a ...strange requestJust a quick ask for help,there a orange sim card pop up add at the moment that features a little sim card that eats stuff and then gets eaten by a m…
... sim card pop up add at the moment that features a ... phone. My little lad watched it yesterday about ten times and ... hes been asking to watch it again all morning but i cant ... remember where we found it. Anyone know where it is or if ...Repair options for my own dear old Spectrum 48k?Hello all, This is my first post to this wonderful forum, which is part of a truly great website! My name is Arnold, and I live in Utrecht, The Nethe…
... circuit. Since then, all it showed at power on was a ... tried it again recently it only showed a black screen (well, at least it ... precious memories are attached to it.
Therefore, I would ... PCB (at the expense of another Spectrum), get it repaired somewhere ...MailstromReminded of this game via another thread here, I decided I would try and play it again as I never really got what it was all about back in the day, d…
... would try and play it again as I never really ... good instructions in the magazine it came with.
at all. It's running, there ... are graphics moving at the ...
EDIT : I worked it out, but in case anybody ...'Bumpy' questionOne of my favourite Spectrum games is 'Bumpy'. This game of French origin is a classic puzzler, and is a joy to play, right up until a certain, unsol…
... problem seems to be that it is impossible to make ... one size larger, thus making it possible to bounce out in ... m learning some programming at the moment but it's very early ... 'd be able to crack it.
Anyone help? ... and so forth by replaying it again. :)Name the arcade gameI recently came to think of a game I played in the arcades, presumably in the late 80's. It was never converted to the Spectrum so I guess this part …
... the late 80's. It was never converted to the ... be fun to see it again.
It was a helicopter ... some special stick which made it possible to control the ... , so you could fly at high height and then dive ... . I would say that it was perhaps 1989-1990 or ...Looking for YS column - anyone able to search?Way back in, erm, well, maybe 1986 or 87, or maybe 88, there was an occasional column in Your Sinclair magazine, the name of which I don't remember, …
... level nature. I think it was written by a ... the magazine. I think it was a tip on ... 't find it. At about 200K per page it's slow ... t even know what year it was published in!
... magazine archive, find it, and point me at it? I'd get ... to see that one again...Games so insanelly unforgiven that still make you curse everyone involved in it?On Speccy: MadBalls Hell you havent even started the dam game and you where already losing lives... I tried it again the other day and found my se…
... already losing lives... I tried it again the other day and found ... hard, some mini-games on it don't even have any ...More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... the English teams? Today at work some blokes were ... turn over and never watch it again. It would be so boring, ... t remember it's name, it was on ITV at about ... and can watch (or record) it at another time.
... too much, but look at how many channels are ...Worse things happen at sea[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005758[/url] I did enjoy this the few times I played it when it was new, probably because it …
... the few times I played it when it was new, probably because ... it was a little bit different, ... I was never very good at it.
I think this ...DAB Radio?I don't listen to much radio, though I should (it's better than TV for many types of broadcast, and you can get on with other things whilst listening…
... where you have to look at it as well as listen), so ... with the British public, despite it apparently being heavily pushed by ... a success?
Then again, this is England. I mean ... your book gets there. Thanks again"[/I].
And of ...So you want to be a poser. Again.Imagine operating a website that got exposed for gamestaging other people's work, hilariously forgetting to remove the author names when claiming it …
... the author names when claiming it your own work. What would ... .
Because he's back at it.
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It even includes handy compilation references ... br />
Amazing, isn't it?
So I inquired ...BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
... too.
Again, press FIRE to start or ... setting, and press it again to change it. But if you ... br /> Scoring now works, and it logs your highest score and ... as many rows as possible at once). In the final ... you start on will at least control which of ...How to solderI've just tried soldering two wires together (one end'll fit in my computer, and the other into a little radio) I found that when I stripped the two …
... to identify each line uniquely at each end. But how can ... through that?
and does it matter each wire matches up ... . I'm going to try it again.
EDIT 2: Nope ... stuff. How can I get it off?RIP Roy Ward Baker*OOps! Posted in wrong forum...could someone move to chit chat, please...sorry.....being rubbish again...* (From Facebook) "[b]Hammer Films[/b] We…
... chat, please...sorry.....being rubbish again...*
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at it...he was 93! Still, sad ...
