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Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... CURP (or storage at that address) and it ... unfortunate thing is that it seems that you can only ... preload into that area all sprites that were likely to ... were 512 bytes each, I'd first copy them all into that ... them onto screen using that rom routine, then load ... -
To all the forum.....To everyone on the forum zx1 wishes all a very happy new year and all the best for 2007! Let's make this year a good one after all it is the 25th ann…
... ). Uridium is another game that is better than many modern ... and Laser Squad are games that were innovative, and even to this ... appearance however, five levels were added to the original 144 ... [Two more versions of Gauntlet were made, both coin-operated machine ... -
To all the forum.....To everyone on the forum zx1 wishes all a very happy new year and all the best for 2007! Let's make this year a good one after all it is the 25th ann…
... by playing the same tunes that were in the charts back then ... did then.. only difference is that back then it was my ... mum asking "you still playing that rediculous game?" these days the ... -
Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…
... still people around who were forced to fight or ... been a lot of ones that were positive. and in the ... only think of one movie that was pro vietnam. (the ... a chap saying that german troops were the best baddies in ... games. In a way that ... -
Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…
... been a lot of ones that were positive. and in the ... only think of one movie that was pro vietnam. (the ... the cool high tech equipment that war nuts drool over, ... lesser of two evils, that there's always a price ... are always wrong, just that people need to get a ... -
Map Book Updatepre-production work on teh map book.. I've decided to drop Lemmings from volume 1 due to it not being visually attractive. I've got the following …
... Naturally if the consensus is that it needs to be changed ... 5 mins with the pictures that were provided to me by zeropolis79 ... page properly. I also think that the screenshot needs something doing ... yet. I do personally feel that landscape is the better option ... -
Spectrum Music CDsI wonder: Are there any officially released CDs with Spectrum music? C64 fans can choose from no less than 20 CDs, but I have yet to find a single Si…
... all the other sound interfaces that were thought about and released for ... few years ago - to get that unique sound!
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funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... of all of these games that were planned, but perhaps didn't ... of Spectrum website called "Games That Weren't" or something like ... that.
Alternatively, everybody could ... etc. I wish I had that map now - it would be ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... of all of these games that were planned, but perhaps didn't ... problem I have with that idea is that I still have (probably ... , and eventually had to accept that "Blade" would only work on ... -
Are there any Speccy mysteries left?In the past we've had the "Where is Matthew Smith?" mystery which has now obviously been solved as Matthew is back on the scene. More recently the B…
... Nash episode, but I think that could be rather personal in ... used in Imagine's vapourware that was the "Megagames"?
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Are there any Speccy mysteries left?In the past we've had the "Where is Matthew Smith?" mystery which has now obviously been solved as Matthew is back on the scene. More recently the B…
I was flicking through Andrews Speccy book earlier and read the article on Heavy on the Magick. Apparently that was supposed to have had a couple of addons that were never released. Gargoyle certainly made a habit of it didn't they? -
What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... versions of the software packs that were given away with various spectrums ... -
Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... tailored to that format. That's the exception that is ... due to artistic license, films in the 20s were ... b&w or nothing, and that' ... original questions, they were all rhetorical, answered ... got multitudes of clones that were rubbish. I shouldn' ... -
Nostalgia or just pure quality?I was just thinking - if it wasn't for emulators and I played my last speccy game back in 1990 (on a real speccy) - would I look back with a fondness…
... new. Still, the programming achievements that were attained on occasion given the ... -
Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... port ResiDOS to it. Note that it currently expects RAM to ... br />
Actually, I think that a certain degree of friendly ... tended to concentrate on stuff that extends the functionality available to ... disk and tape-cartridge interfaces that were made for it... -
New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …
... overlays I'm aware of that were released commercially are the MEGA ... -
Number of reviewed games?Does anyone have a quick answer as to how many programs were reviewed in the Spectrum magazines during their lifetime? If you don't, I'll finally ge…
... be some missing, especially those that were not a "normal" review or ... review. In my fine tuning (that is getting the text of ... -
+2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.
... a +2b is that true that there were 3 versions of ... used ? ( i noticed that t he capacity was 720 ... the 720K DSDD ones that were so popular in the 90 ... get a Shugart drive, that that'll do you. Look ... plus3_hardware.html#3and5inchdrive[/url] That's all the info ... -
+2 / +2a : What's the difference ?+2 / +2a : What's the difference ? I still haven't managed to find out this yet. Yes, I know I'm an idiot.
... PCs - the 720K DSDD ones that were so popular in the 90 ... can get a Shugart drive, that that'll do you. Look here ... /html/plus3_hardware.html#3and5inchdrive[/URL] That's all the info you ... -
Passing off games as your ownWe ran into a rather interesting case over the past day: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011821"]Jukebox[/URL], which appeare…
... may have mentioned on here that my second was a +3 ... I'll swap it for that T-shirt". Well obviously I ... , so I didn't score that highly, but I did get ... my friends that were still interested in that kind of thing that I'd ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... of these lesser universities were pollytechnics once uppon a ... defects at molecular level, that were noticable in the finished paint ...
The Engineering degrees were Honours degrees, i.e. BEng ... Honours degrees, and they were offering Honours degrees to ... -
Speccy regrets...One of my biggest regrets is disposing of all the Personal Computer News that I had - all of them from - issue 1 It wouldn't be bad at all if they…
... 3 original games left, ones that were in music cassette cases by ... -
lazy fat b'stard moderatorwell i have tried to join another forum and am still waiting for confirmation to join. i mean what else can he be doing, chances are he works from h…
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in fact ive found that about most of the people ... to do the Speccy things that were second nature 20 odd years ... -
Not a new site, but still good.Some of you probably know the "Planet Sinclair"-site, but it's a good one, so it's worth mentioning once more: [url]http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/…
... didn't use it for that, most people used it for ... controlling games and for that it was perfectly good. The ... to the rubber-keyed joypads that were still to come.
don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... can understand all that. I can also understand that if there ... 't had jobs, but that makes it justifiable to always ... other templates or document files that were opened and disabled the Save ... br />
You might find that the 32MB onboard graphics actually ...The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…
... released a bad game and were usually very innovative. Shame their ... they announced so many games that were never released.
Level ... text adventures. Only Magnetic Scrolls were in the same league.
Which Speccy Game Do You STILL Play The MostPersonally I am seriously clocking up the hours in Gunfright running on the PSP under PSPec. Have obviously clocked the game many many times over, bu…
... with using an emulator is that you can flick through games ... doing. i think i did that with splinter cell, got stuck ... it again. but even games that were rock hard like robocop, i ... again. would never consider doing that now, even on the most ...Which Speccy Game Do You STILL Play The MostPersonally I am seriously clocking up the hours in Gunfright running on the PSP under PSPec. Have obviously clocked the game many many times over, bu…
... doing. i think i did that with splinter cell, got stuck ... it again. but even games that were rock hard like robocop, i ... again. would never consider doing that now, even on the most ...TZX Vault DVD(Be kind to the newbie!) I recently bought myself a copy of the TZX Vault DVD, and I can recommend it to others. The seller even ships overseas :) …
I sent him an email.
If I ever get hold of my +-3000 tapes that were sold by my family (I'm working on it), I'm sure I'll find a way to help the tzx project. For now, I've sent my donation.basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... statement and tokenizes the ones that represent new commands. I ... GW way results in programs that execute correctly on the ... results in programs with listings that make more sense.[/QUOTE]< ... the extensions to standard BASIC that were posted in another thread ...
