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Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
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Modern and future computer/console gamingI'm downloading and I'm bored, so I thought I'd post about something that has been bothering me for a while (and I'll make it a long post, as I know …
... very rare given the vast number of games on the market ... -
Denied: Still For SaleAfternoon all, I've just been browsing the archive, and noticed that there are a number of Players games that are denied due to being "Still for sal…
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New Game - Oddi the Viking[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0025145[/url] Very interesting logical game :). POKE 34823,0 (infinite lives) POKE 32227,X (…
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0025145[/url]
Very interesting logical game :).
POKE 34823,0 (infinite lives)
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Congratulations Horace and Bob!Number 1 spot on the "visitor voted top 100" for Horace in the Mystic Woods! I fear it may only be temporary as the maths mean that one silly bad vo…
Number 1 spot on the "visitor voted top 100" for Horace in the Mystic Woods!
I fear it may only be temporary as the maths mean that one silly bad vote will screw the average - but for now - sincere congrats on a wonderful No 1 game!!!:-) -
bast, the Basic tapemaker for LinuxAnnouncing a new utility, [b]bast[/b], the BASIC Tapemaker. Now available: version 0.2.3 (alpha) for Linux. At: [url]http://github.com/ec429/bast/do…
... labels) and directed to auto-number it; it can also compute ... -
The Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All TimeYep, another "best of..." list posted on the 'net, and like all lists based on opinion it's contentious, but even by the standards of most lists I th…
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numbers to binaryHi everyone, I have looked through the manual and have found nothing. How do you change a number to binary easily? I know you can go binary to decim…
Hi everyone,
I have looked through the manual and have found nothing. How do you change a number to binary easily? I know you can go binary to decimal but not the other way around :(
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variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…
... $ "v$"[/b]
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FairlightJust had a quick browse at the top 100... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html[/url] (No i'm not moaning about whats on the list for …
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General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
Hi Folks,
One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could accept strings and numerics but there was no ability to limit input length etc.
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Surfin Bird for Xmas No1[url]http://www.facebook.com/pages/BIRD-is-the-WORD-for-UK-Christmas-number-1-2010-to-beat-X-Factor/134615893253740?v=info[/url] I doubt this year's…
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Weird Spectaculator problemI thought I'd post this here first rather than emailing Jon directly in case there's a simple known answer to this issue. I've recently transferred …
... enter my name and serial number to register, which the programme ... -
Do you play violent computer games AND support hunting?After the oh-so-brave shooting of a locally famous stag: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11624253[/url] questions are again being a…
... it virtually. There's any number of violent computer games that ... -
A cheat's way of viewing magazine scan archives as double-page scansI don't know why I didn't think of this sooner - previously I was viewing my locally-stored magazine page image scans a page at a time, sort of killi…
... directory name, filename start and number of issues of any other ... -
The ZX Spectrum YearsStill got a copy of Andrew Rollings book The ZX Spectrum Years 1982-199x for sale if anyone is interested. Very collectible, number 49 of only 100 co…
Still got a copy of Andrew Rollings book The ZX Spectrum Years 1982-199x for sale if anyone is interested. Very collectible, number 49 of only 100 copies printed. Signed by the Author. Hardback. -
ROM interface add-ons?Is there a summary description of various ROM interface add-ons, listing things like number of multiple ROMs holdable, compatibility with Interface 1…
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UnlockablesI was wondering if there were many games on the Speccy that had unlockables, game longevity bonuses and half decent easter eggs like what exists in q…
... what exists in quite a number of games these days?
Going back a good number of years, I was always ... -
Help Setting up / testing 48k +Hi guys, I've bought hubby a Spectrum + 48k and games for Christmas. As it's a surprise, his sister and I have been trying to test it at her house …
Why doesn't my loop work?Can anyone help me understand why my loop doesn't work? Is it to do with how DEC HL affects the flags? [code] ; Read 32k bytes from port 191 as fa…
Help with mystery game programmer...Hi, I wanted to try to revive an old C.S.S post from 2004, where I was trying to track down the name of a very exploited Spectrum games programmer. …
... features Mel Croucher interviewing a number of
programming "celebrities" who ...Raided by the Customs and ExciseA friend of mine (in England) has been raided by the police and the Customs and Excise, for selling cigarettes that had come into the country without…
... she was given an emergency number to call in case she ...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... /> I have stumbled upon a number of unrelated Z80 projects on ... hasn't increased in a number of years so its probably ...Favourite Boxing Game?There were a surprising number of them. Andy's (sirclive1) review of BarryMcGuigan in the Spectrum Bible says that's the best and I'm tempted to agr…
There were a surprising number of them. Andy's (sirclive1) ...Smok WawelskiThis Polish text game: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006986[/url] The publisher currently listed as KWCz is actually Krajow…
... /> Smok Wawelski is the "unknown" number 16 in the series. I ...FS: 48k Issue 2, comp mod, extras etcIts got to go, works bang on now, been testing for the last 5 hours and no trip ups. Comes with the usual, joystick, interface, psu, selection of ga…
... leads and rubber feet! Serial number D01-014904
[URL ...BASin - Wow!Hi Folks, I know I have said this before but I have to take my hat off to Dunny (Paul) and the other folks who were involved in writing BASin. It r…
... /> Having used BASin for a number of months now it has ...
