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How gullible are you?This from a website (no longer active, but availible on [url]http://web.archive.org/web/19970125142623/media.circus.com/~no_dhmo/[/url]] Ban Dihydro…
... has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the ... /> Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life ... and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical ... the clientele at a number of bath houses in New ... -
Games that shouldn't be good...Anybody ever read a blurb or review of a game and think 'nah, this looks rubbish', only to give it a go and find out that it's pretty damn good? I'v…
... read a blurb or review of a game and think 'nah ... /> I've done this a number of times, but the one that ... -
Worst advert?What was the worst advert you ever encountered for a Spectrum game - the sort of thing where if you'd had any vague inclination to buy it, you sure a…
... a Spectrum game - the sort of thing where if you'd ... .
There are a number of contributing factors; poor artwork, shoddy ... -
TZX format rev. 1.21Once 1.20 draft seems to be official now I would like to suggest some additiones to do on 1.21. I hope it will be easier to upgrade once block 19 has…
... the specifications are a couple of fields into archive info as ... games)
- Series (for series of games like sabreman, willy and ... (for other game names)
- Number of players allowed
- Controls
exploring zx interface 1...I got an IF1 from a friend as a gift, and I realized I don't know what to do with it. I dont have any microdrives, I cant event test it to see if it …
... pc, an amiga, and couple of spectrums. are there any if1 utilities ...CRASH and Spectrum History BinderAround CRASH's fourth anniversary they published a number of pull-outs detailing the magazine's history. They also made available a separate binder w…
... fourth anniversary they published a number of pull-outs detailing the magazine ... with an insert including reprints of the Lookback articles previously printed ...More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... What's the highest number of own goals scored in ... for every possible piece of relevent hardware, the ... teaching people the dangers of everyday life. But ... could be from any number of programs, be they ... flashing for one fiftieth of every second, saying ...Diminishing MircodrivesHi All Got my first ever set of MD carts today and have been fiddling around - I have what seems to be 9 blanks and the Demo cart. The demo cart loa…
... /> Got my first ever set of MD carts today and have ... and runs quite happily, some of the other carts seem to ... that with each format the number of bytes free falls off rapidly ...BMP to animated-GIF builderI'm looking for a small program to build an animating GIF from a large number of BMP files. Can anybody suggest a (preferably free) package to do th…
I'm looking for a small program to build an animating GIF from a large number of BMP files.
Can anybody suggest a (preferably free) package to do this?Hacking ChaosIs it possible to poke chaos or write some hack so you could extend the number of set turns?
Is it possible to poke chaos or write some hack so you could extend the number of set turns?Sam Revival issue 17 now out [Sam CoupIssue 17 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! Sam Revival is a must for every Sam owner to see what's happening in the Sam world! So if you are an ol…
... the third installment of the Money Bags series of games. Typical ... collect objects over a large number of rooms. The game has ... somewhat heated aftermath! Plenty of screenshots from the near finished ... compulsory sprinkling of Sam Snippets with bits of trivia from ...Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... pack you have the problems of power consumption and the thrust ... (which of course must be kept away ... tried, given the number of people and the amount of money involved.
of either :lol: .
< ...LiberatedI was just browsing around at "stuff" and spotted the [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000227]Liberator[/URL], a hardware wotsi…
... wotsit that does a bundle of things for your 48k ZX ... software "through an almost infinite number of speeds". Anyone know how it ... actually lower the clock-speed of the ZX? Or did it ...infoseek distribution denied errorshi okay, I've found a bundle of errors in infoseek, if they can be corrected. choose 'advanced search' then 'release' and choose 'distribution deni…
... , I've found a bundle of errors in infoseek, if they ... 'distribution denied'
a number of items come up 'available' when ... just on the first page of infoseek results. It happens on ...Database design?Hello, chaps.. This has nothing to do with the Speccy (eh? Ed), but I'm looking for a little advice.. I'm currently doing an inventory of different…
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* Hardware inventory (serial number of computers, monitors and printers)
number of a specified computer)
... lines of:
(a) Show serial number and ... ROOM01PC which had serial number 12345 with a new ...ZX81 & Spectrum Membrane manufacturerHI All, I noticed numerous questions regarding these. The original, and certainly the main manufacturer (if not the only one) was a company on the Is…
... a company on the Isle of Wight, called 'Nameplates for Industry ... there's a small history of how the guy started the ... . I visited the factory a number of times, the most recent was ... , and still the same phone number - (+44) (0)1983 526535. That ...The WoS Top 20!I just discovered that you can arrange the members list by number of posts. The current top 20 is :- 1. karingal (6293) 2. mel the mell (5345) 3. Ar…
... arrange the members list by number of posts. The current top 20 ...Bird Sanctuary 5th BirthdayMy web site, which chronicles the history of Telecomsoft and the games we published under the Firebird, Rainbird and Silverbird labels, is celebratin…
... , which chronicles the history of Telecomsoft and the games we ... (sorry!) but are still hopefully of interest:
RAIL ( ... people who were behind a number of other games including Gyron, the ... Z80 versions of Elite, Hive, the game ...New Discussion Group? Sinclair Machine Code/AssemblyHello, What do people think about whether we should have a new discussion group relating to machine code for Z80? We have a Sinclair Basic discussi…
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There are a number of postings in the forums which ... (traditionally BASIC programmers) with bits of advice or small functions to ... saving and restoring a copy of the display area is so ... that there are a lot of other Spectrum folk out there ...Wikipedia: How about some Spec-Chum(TM) userboxen?In keeping with other userbox collections, there'd have to be eight levels (spch-0 to spch-5, plus spch-n and spch), as follows: spch-0: "This user …
... " linked to the C64 page, of course)
up to ... , and has completed Robocop any number of times"
spch-n ... , and..." (I can't think of another good simile, apart from ...Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
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ld b,8 ;counter, number of bytes in graphic store
ld c,8 ;c=number of columns in "sprite"
ld ...
dec c ;decrease c, number of side movements in one byte ...
dec d ;decrease d, number of total characters to move graphic ...Delay routineAs some people are aware, I have recently starting writing a [url=http://fuse-emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fuse-emulator/trunk/fusetest/]autom…
... /]Fuse[/url].
One of the things I need repeatedly ... for an [i]exact[/i] number of tstates. At the moment, I ... routine which when given a number of tstates in (say) the HL ...Those Capcom Bastards!!!First of all, I love Resident Evil games, I've been playing it since RE1 for Saturn (I had it for 5 months never touching it, and then one day I brok…
... /> I loved every inch of outbreak, it was "the other ... side of the adventure" the regular ... love the multiplicity of choices of playing the game ... with real people instead of computer AI (and after ... play with and the number of trolls playing in the ...What PS2 games would be good for 2 player japes?My girlfriend has very kindly bought me a PS2 for my birthday to replace my old, creaking PS1 (we're nothing if not up to date with these modern gami…
... ...)
Part of the deal is that we ... 've got a selection of games to play head ...
By way of example, we enjoyed both Driver ... tried.
Of course, games where we can ... all suggestions, as the number of cheapo outlets for PS2 games ...Vectron musicI'll still to this day never forget the first time I heard Vectron - three channel music! With attack and decay! What software was used to create t…
... with different music in a number of games (Agent X for one ...my brain failed me.i have forgot my pin number for my cash card. i went to the machine typed in the wrong number 3 times, locking me out. i have to have a new one sent.…
i have forgot my pin number for my cash card. i ... machine typed in the wrong number 3 times, locking me out ... . i have used the number for a number of years and have never ...I could have been worth millionsIn the 1980's I came up with a number of inventions (not working models just ideas), but never got them patented :-( - A teletext to brail TV inter…
... I came up with a number of inventions (not working models just ... -fi or plugged a pair of headphones into it.
100 games vid teaser100 games teaser I quickly knocked [url=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7699907269907315294]This[/url] together yesterday afternoon there'…
... afternoon there's a number of flaws, one of the wipes is missing ...First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... having assemblers available on both of those platforms.
... to grips to the basics of Z80 machine code.
< ... , here I have a snapshot of it
[url] ... seems like loads of registers and a vast number of instructions available, compared ...Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
... have decided upon a number of handy little features that ... assigned to a series of events. Events include things ... keypresses, collecting an item of type X, or just ... would allow the creation of games more along the ... PGD users. What sort of actions would you like ...
