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  • I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…

    ... />
    I am completely confused regarding binary notation in the ... much binary mathematics that i'm really getting confused. Could somebody ... ?

    I understand that using signed binary and 8 ... it is this book that has confused me by introducing the ...
    MadDoc MadDoc September 2004 Development
  • I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…

    ... />
    I am completely confused regarding binary notation in the ... much binary mathematics that i'm really getting confused. Could somebody ... ?

    I understand that using signed binary and 8 ... it is this book that has confused me by introducing the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2004 Development
  • Problem with SpectaculatorHello, It?s ages since I don?t write on this forum. I use to have Spectaculator on my PC and i don?t use it for a few months, today i try to play som…

    ... br /> [/quote]

    That's sort of like saying ... "Why do I need that triple heart bypass. It ... t noticed the breaks, that they aren't there."< ... [/quote]

    If only that were true. My job would be ... re doing, and those that use it for anything ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2004 Emulators
  • WOS archive on DVD?Hello This question has appeared few times, but I have not found any place to order WOS archive. Is anybody selling the whole arcive on DVD's? Jocu

    ... the Live Aid bootleg DVDs that were on sale a while ago ... desperate people did though. Does that make it acceptable? Bob Geldof ... /> I somehow don't think that anyone looking to charge excessive ... finishing any more too - not that most people care.))

    jil jil September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Joysticks...Hi, this is probably a really obvious question to most of you but I just needed a little advice about joysticks. I never owned a Spectrum back in th…

    ... lot of the later joysticks that were available came with two D ... lead.

    I believe that the grey lead/plug is ... the one that you use for the +2 ... an interface. Kempston or compatibles (that use IN31 rather than a ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • OT: Silent Hill 4 - The RoomI just bought Silent Hill 4 on Friday and I'm slowly making my way through it. So far I can say that it is the most twisted installment so far. All t…

    ... had so many subtle touches that were lost on most people - read ...
    Refrenz Refrenz September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to me to have games that were either slighty coloured-in versions ...
    General_Zod General_Zod September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to me to have games that were slightly coloured-in versions of ... often because programmers / software companies were lazy and ported the graphics ... for the CPC. These games were known as "Speccy Ports" and ...
    stinkfoot stinkfoot September 2004 Games
  • flying sharkHi, I'm looking for a tap or disked version of Taito's Flying shark, the original loader is a protected bleepload and I'm not very good in asm hackin…

    ... my games i skipped over that were already at the TZX Vault ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... , biolaboy wrote:
    wat were the differences between 48k and ... and 128k were vastly different and not like that poorly executed ...
    The main difference was that the 128k models had a ... of memory, which meant that many games that were multi loaders on the ...
    Swainy Swainy September 2004 Games
  • Speccy games on AMIGA/STI can't play Amiga or ST games til the emulators era. And now, i need to know what old speccy games conversions on this computers are better or impro…

    ... `d really love to see that.

    I was trying ... />
    The sites I found that were supposed to have an archive ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... far as game programmers were concerned, the CPC's ... graphics capabilities were either

    ... there are clever things that can be done with ... (altough you incorrectly state that the CPC had a ... I saw almost no games that were 6128 only, in fact ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... true. Bear in mind that the C64 was launched in ... have been other contenders that would have gained enough ... pull it off, and that was in 1982. Only ... variations of the games that were hot in the arcades ... machine as good was in that price range.

    ...
    Spector Spector September 2004 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... (ISTR that it was aimed at people who were experienced MC ... graphics language ( OASIS software ) that comes with White Lighting? Brings ... although the Spectrum's demonstrations that are also in the C64 ... a couple SCADS made games that were on PD SAM disks and ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... for sale for cpc that may well be true ...
    I fully realise that - in fact I have an ... />
    And although there were admittedly loads of games released ... for the CPC, there were loads MORE released for ... C64. And the ones that were released on all 3 ...
    stinkfoot stinkfoot October 2004 Games
  • Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…

    ... some second hand books that deal specifically with Spectrum ... of the "Input" magazines that were published in the mid-eighties ... were many BASIC listings in old computer magazines and books that ... modifying them, until they were confident enough to code ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2004 Development
  • Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…

    ... so can't comment on that approach. As it stands ... of the game designers that were released for the Speccy ... you, some of them were utter crap and the ... games were a plain laugh.
    ... really excellent adventure games were written using these tools.< ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2004 Development
  • Imagine and Psygnosisback at the 80es my favourite games company was Imagine. I liked ZZoom, JumpingJack, GreenBeret, WorldSeriesBasketball, PingPong.. then Renegade, Tar…

    Although some of the games that you mentioned were infact the later OCEAN ... Imagine Mega-games (Psyclapse/Bandersnatch) that were in production just before they ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... would've been scrapped if that were the case) but they had ... on the CPC and that's all that the Speccy does ... just making the point that other machines were considered mainstream enough to ... get the same treatment and that ...
    TMR TMR October 2004 Games
  • I.E 6Can someone please help me! I know this is going to sound stupid but my I.E 6 has changed! It used to be that when I clicked on a file to download i…

    ... ... goodbye to the pop ups that were popping constantly, hopefully goodbye to ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why did you choose your nick?Referencing the end (currently, thoough if more than a month or so have gone by it may by now be the middle) of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    rfout comes from RF Out, as on the back of a VCR. Chosen entirely at random, and nothing at all to do with any attempts to video tape a high score on Decathlon, many years ago.

    And even if that were true, I bet I wouldn't be the only one...
    rfout rfout October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why did you choose your nick?Referencing the end (currently, thoough if more than a month or so have gone by it may by now be the middle) of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    [quote]

    And even if that were true, I bet I wouldn't be the only one...

    [/quote]

    If you were, we probably wouldn't have RZX. ;)
    AndyC AndyC October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …

    ... silly "exclusive" tag on games that were reviewed in every magazine in ... , giving high ratings to games that were basically crap , its all there ... this than meets the eye , were you one of the paid ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 October 2004 Games
  • Elite owe me...Way back in the 80s sometime, I was reading Crash (as you do) and came across an advert by Elite for Frank Bruno's Boxing and International Basketbal…

    ... . Many disks I've had that were originally Amstrad CPC disks with ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2004 Games
  • Spectrum 48k with removable metal keyboard plate Ive got 1Hello can anyone give me any info on this speccy I presume it was the last before the speccy + .I have some rather interesting info on the motherboar…

    ... know all the board revisions that were released. I suppose your info ... thinking that version 6 boards were Spectrum + boards ?????. Do you think that the ...
    swordheart swordheart October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • commodore64just download a c64 emulator and find this interesting site [url="http://www.c64.com"]http://www.c64.com[/url], lots of games and screenshots, ..i re…

    ... playing Action Biker on 64 ??, that I seem to remember was ... only game without save points that I ever completed.
    [/quote ... to get the bike pieces that were up on the girders! Its ...
    LeeT LeeT October 2004 Games
  • New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…

    ... Battlestar Gallactica game with that, would be ideal for ... it... remember, now that each machine is commercially defunct ... 16 year old youngin` that were like 300 pages of ... perhaps 250 pages of that being text and 50- ... etc

    That stuff used to get me ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Games
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... to always release new versions that were back compaptible. ? ?

    I ...
    Saboteur Saboteur October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... can`t think of anything that I would have liked changed ... mean, it would have meant that there was significantly better hardware ... /> It would have just meant that all those later spectrum buyers ... games, or any newer ones that were 48K only... meaning less game ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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