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Biggest ZX collection ever offered for sale on the internet !!!The most COMPLETE ZX SPECTRUM collection ever offered for sale on the internet! It took me years to collect everything, to make sure I have every …
... sure I have every item, in the top working condition, boxed, ... well preserved - the best museum quality items.
Various magazines - x27
The Complete Spectrum - 01-06
NUMBER, OR WELCOME YOU AT MY PLACE SO YOU CAN CHECK THE ... -
I think I'm in love with Alexa....Hope the wife doesn't get jealousAnother gadget thread, no it's nothing as exciting as me having an affair with an Eastern European girl :)) It's basically Amazons equivalent of S…
... me instantly love it was....The wife has been using it ... pleased, I'm easily pleased in the short term though, and I ... 'm sure the novelty will wear off quick ... let me go and read the instructions :))
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Which peripheral listened on port $9f from back in 1984 (Chuckie Egg related)Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it to the correct one if so. I've been looking through the Chuckie Egg c…
... OUT ($9F),A instruction in the middle of the interrupt service routine ( ... the ISR does is output a value on said port number ... . Further examination of the code reveals a ... pointers to the 'tune' data. The 'tune data' itself is in the form ... -
Thanks for the support!!There's been a bit of (unwanted and unprovoked) negative commentary made by an ex-WoSser on Twitter and FB recently and the support for WoS from the …
... would dwindle as the years roll on (in fact it's ... site. Some take active participation in the forums whilst others just prefer ... has managed to get all the behind the scenes work done (and ... mentioned a number other factors earlier but this still is the place ... -
Land of Ultimatum poster in The Collected WorksHi I have a cassette copy of The Collected Works by Ultimate and the Ultimatum Poster in it has the Ultimate logo printed at the bottom centre. I hav…
... by Ultimate and the Ultimatum Poster in it has the Ultimate logo printed ... at the bottom centre. I ... not original. I have searched the forum and can't find ... I have seen in eBay listings and on the WOS database doesn ... -
Iconography in the 21st century.Today I am designing icons for a small program I am revamping and I got to thinking of saving and loading. Traditionally an icon for saving or loadin…
... just link such association with the 'oooold school computing' at best ... . A folder with an arrow in or out (for saving and ... at a stage now where the icons that are familiar to ... will rapidly become unfamiliar to the next. -
Was Beach Volley from Ocean ever released in the UK (Spectrum release)?I have never seen it but the entry in WoS shows a cover from a UK versión, although It may be from the CPC or C64 versión... Anybody owns this game …
I have never seen it but the entry in WoS shows a cover from a UK versión, although It may be from the CPC or C64 versión...
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Everyone's a Wally, dancing in the street.I was messing around with the people commands in Wally and managed to get three of them.. Well take a look https://youtu.be/nxuMScKWZZY
I was messing around with the people commands in Wally and managed to get three of them.. Well take a look
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New Game! WIP demo based on HP Lovecraft's "In the Walls of Eryx"Started making this a fortnight ago after listening to an audiobook of "...Eryx" on Youtube and thought "This would make a brilliant wee game, actual…
... come on leaps and bounds in that time (I've even ... invisible maze/puzzle game (per the story), with lizard men, carnivorous ... . Here's a video of the progress I've made...
Games from the loft.Hi all, I've been going through my collection as my house is now bursting at the seams from the stuff we have hoarded over the years. I need to tr…
... now bursting at the seams from the stuff we have ... /> 3 Deep Space
Vampire Village
Bosconian 87
< ... loft (I've lined the inner roof in the silver bubble insulation) ... which keeps the temp even.
...My re-creacton of the Z80 8-bit Universal IDEI looked into my draw with various bits & bobs for PC and I found there a CF-IDE adapter, HDD ribbons and two CF cards. So, I was thinking to myself,…
... in some how for Speccy I got. I looked through a number ... the CPU was not sitting properly in the socket and loose connections between the ... umbrella board and the main ...The ideal USB "emulation" joystick. I used to be happy using emulation with a Dual Shock 3 Playstation joystick . It works and has loads of control buttons that can be configured with…
... be configured with Spectaculator . The buttons can be configured for ... buttons seemed to just get in the way of setting it all ... Atari style joysticks from the 1980s like the Competition Pro
... the question.
This can only go one of about six ...So, is the loading noise in Start Trek IV Speccy noise, or something else?I grew up thinking that a few scenes in Star Trek IV had, without a doubt, ZX Spectrum loading noise in the background. I watched it again a couple d…
... doubt, ZX Spectrum loading noise in the background. I watched it again ... is true? Maybe the mystery was solved in a old topic, ... about Spectrum loading noise in one of the CSI shows.
the first article above seems to ...Send in the ClonesPlease name all the Spectrum clones out there ( I would say I need it back on my desk in 5 minutes , but I will be a bit more generous in this case!…
Please name all the Spectrum clones out there ( I ... it back on my desk in 5 minutes , but I will ... bit more generous in this case!)
When the list is ... then they can be assessed in rank order!Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…
... is now the Cartography Room.
Expansion of number of permissible ... implemented across all the sprite data. It is in the game but apart ... /> This JSW2+ routine still runs in the Spectrums original 48K.[/b]
Galactic Abductors mispelling in the archiveThe title of the game should be Galactic Abductor, in singular: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001924
The title of the game should be Galactic Abductor, in singular:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001924wanted zx-style graphics / remake in the workswell, I`m not so sure where to put this, it is to summon people here at wos to join me at the graphics side of my project, a remake of one of the mos…
... to join me at the graphics side of my ... remake of one of the most loving classics (to ... keep at maximum the fidelity to the original, in an effort ... to honor the original.
... is important to have the Spectrum-related abilities and ...Serious facts about the ZX Spectrum Serious fact Number 1: It is a business machine. From an article about and interview with Sir Clive ( by Mike Cowley) Sir Clive says here:-"Nor…
Serious fact Number 1: It is ... by far the best selling business machine in the UK . ... This is something I am very conscious of and the ... (from page 26 of "The Complete Spectrum" , Database Publications ... today , in fact my business on the Spectrum is ...The Order of Mazes & Flynn's Adventure in Bombland Physical CopyHi I've always meant to create a physical copy of the games I created and have finally got round to it. I've only made 2 so far, one for me and on…
... for the Lone Magpie who created the great inlay (it is in the post ... just in case
Side B of the tape has the newer ... version of Flynn's Adventure in ... Bombland (as mentioned in another post), plus all of the ...Used games are killing the games industry and should be banned (wibble wibblI was on a forum for flash cartridges ('backup' devices that allow you to play digital images on a real console, so you can download a game and play …
... heard this said a number of times, and yes ... a film are basically the same in this argument, both ... paid for as in the money goes to the makers) then ... apply to games (in the minds of the (few) gamers who ... Metroid Prime, Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, Batman: Arkham City ...z88dk : FIle Handling in C on the +3e environment under Win 764bitHello my fellow WoSers! I am wondering if someone can help me solve this little pickle of z88dk / Windows using +3e Filesystem. So a little inf…
... space in BASIC, by saving programs and variables within the environment ... Running this program loads the code from the virtual tap/tape created ... know could just lump the bin in the memory of the system but I ... I want to dump the code to the virtual hard disk.< ...Uploading a Type-in TAP fileHi, Not sure where/how to progress this. I've been playing with Emulation for awhile and thumbing threw old mags on archive.org. This site, WOS,…
... helped me experience a number of type-ins from ... having to put all the hard work in!
... ins I wanted to try in the archive. Namely "Diamond Draughts" ... by Pat Norris from the September '82 issue of ... WOS. I've tried the upload page but keep ...How much would you actually PAY for the exact Arcade machine you wanted?As you know, I'm an Arcade freak, and I've been taking notes and making tests with controllers so that in the future I'll be able to construct my ver…
... with controllers so that in the future I'll be ... my little one being the lobbyist with the mother :D ).
the new Jammas and Raspeberrys ... and delivered to me the PERFECT arcade, how much ... considerations, I came to a number: €500 (if it ...TV programs that jumped the shark (then fell off a cliff)[b]Can one of the mods move this to the chit-chat forum, please? Sorry, I posted it whilst fixing another PC and my tiny brain can't cope with two th…
... at best miles below the quality of the first six series.
But for me the ... now know the solutions before hand, the humour and small drama in the episodes ...Jumbly -- God's Number?For a Rubik's Cube, God's Number (the minimum number of moves to turn any legal position into any other) is known to be 20. There's at least one onli…
... Cube, God's Number (the minimum number of moves to turn ... will solve any scramble in at most 20 moves ... ever calculated God's Number for the 15 Puzzle on ... would God's Number be for the 5x4 version (which ... and how does adding the wrap option (which potentially ...The Crystal MazeDear WOS, I thought about conceptualising a Speccy game based on the classic 1990s game show "The Crystal Maze", which has recently returned to TV…
... participants (typically five or six) who engage in four types of challenges ... games. The climax of the game takes place in the Crystal Dome, where the team ... be redesigned slightly whilst retaining the Dome in the centre, along with a ...New version: LOST IN MY SPECTRUM v2.0Hi everybody! Here is my New Year's gift to you: the new version of my first Spectrum game ever, [b]Lost In My Spectrum[/b]. The objective is simp…
... by collecting all the objects in each screen and reaching the exit (although ... 128K versions available.
Six languages: Italian, English, French, German ... name changed to “Jack-in-the-boxes”.
- The “stage completed” message has ...Doing the DNA thing DNA was never done on a Spectrum . Nowadays there are loads of companies now offering DNA testing for about £60 to £100 per test . Some offer it fo…
... . I sent off the mouth swabs in the post to the USA lab and ... that in so doing I was taking it outside the security the site ... was now responsible for the security of the data . Of course I ... number . It takes them about a day or so to process the ...A recollection of a Bug in a "good" game:the mystery of the bug and the game will be revealed later!Well what is the "big deal":- a bug in an old Spectrum game. So what! Well , I should explain: it was a good very popular game and I have to watc…
Well what is the "big deal":- a bug in an old Spectrum game ... sons who clearly remembered the said bug in the said game and also ... said something along the lines of ... actually play them .But back in the the 1980s when I bought a ...
