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Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
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The vast majority of people out there, the types ... download lots of ringtones and games wouldnt bother with an emulator ... anything and not brilliant. You could just put an emulator on ... but again this isnt having much of an impact on sales. The ... -
Worse on a colour tellyOnly with the power of emulation have i bothered to try out some old games which i only ever played on a black and white portable. It's amazing how …
... about the colour limitations of the Spectrum in ... that wasn't as much of an issue as it would ... 83-'87) a lot of people played the Spectrum ... not a poor family. For a lot of people, the colour advantages of ... the C64 would have not ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... here?. 30 million kind of decides it really...the people ... It was never an issue of quantity but of quality, and we ... ? Er..no I think not (in case you haven ... me, did they have much of an impact on the end ... any difference to development of games like Zynaps or ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... were you and the number of pixels per mode.
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from a palette of 27 very lively colours.
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... were you and the number of pixels per mode.
[/ ... colour
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ive just had an ideaprolly the worst idea ever, prolly been thought of before, prolly thought no way would that work has anybody thought of doing a manic miner adventur…
i was thinking of emulating manic miner fully as ... />
only one exit so not much of the n, s, e, w ... jump?
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ive just had an ideaprolly the worst idea ever, prolly been thought of before, prolly thought no way would that work has anybody thought of doing a manic miner adventur…
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only one exit so not much of the n, s, e, w ... jump?
its certainly an interesting idea.
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Man Ezeke Sunshine ShowAnyone ever listen to Ezeke on radio 1 or radio Bedfordshire.Me I used to love it. Reggae to the max. [url="http://www.tellytunes.com/djphotocards/r…
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A touchy subjectHello people, having spent most of this morning and yesterday laughing hysterically at all the posts from a certain "ahem" troll I feel I must ask (a…
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PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…
... new console with a couple of games and a few essential ... the former's job or not, or vice versa for that ... , isn't going to be much of an issue to your average joe ... -
Which Linux distro for low end PC?Hi, I have a low end PC knocking about which I want to turn into a fairly simple and secure granny PC for surfing, email, odd word doc etc without h…
... & music OK 'out of the box'. You can very ... ), you can force it not to mount any hdds and ... is that I've not found an easy way to secure ... PC. Of course, as it's live (with an option to ... install), security isn't that much of an issue....
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Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... . I'm not suggesting that all of MS's practices ... didn't help them much. Again, I would ... time was 'you will not discuss anything, whereas we ... give away software to schools. Not much of a punishment!
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Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... , repetitive? Oh dear. Not at all! HL2 probably is way ahead of the game ... . The canal bit is one of the more interesting levels I ... -
4k RaceFind myself playing this a lot, also 4K Race refueled. Surely, if this was made into a fully-blown 128k only game, it'd be the best racing game ever…
... fog, heavy rain (with lighting of course), snow, powerful wind, wider ... t want to lose.
- Oh, and automatic track generation, with ... the possibility of replaying any generated track (i ... frame, I think they're not much of a challenge. -
+3e ROMs v1.28 releasedAfter a slight delay (ahem), I have updated the +3e ROMs to v1.28. Amongst other things, this release provides: [LIST] [*]Completely rewritten (and …
... out before that it's not much of a "daily" snapshot :lol ... the sdl version instead, oh well can't have ... /> I've never had much luck with gtk fuse either ... sound with it. I much prefer the SDL version ... though anyway - much nicer interface.
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... before 1982/1983 were not some kid with an intellivision -- they were ... fact.
Sales does not equal success. Every article I ... in a month just how much of an introduction did they get? If ... can see part of the sprite but not all of it unless you ...You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... that it largely got rid of the dot crawl problem that ... some fancy attribute effects, but not too much else.
If ... would probably have required too much of an overhaul to the architecture.Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... and annoying if you're not a pro. I recently ... . A few hours (and much havoc) later, I managed ... just don't have that much of an attention span - if they ... something quickly and get an instant result, they'll ... I think Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for a ...Star Heritage::TranslationHi all! I am almost finished with a translation of a Russian adventure game Star Heritage (demo) to poor English. I need a volunteer(s) with a good …
... another.
The time of day is an important factor: it affects ... .
To perform an action you should no more ... command will let you give an item from your
... /> maximum. But remember about time: not much of it is given
for ...Best-illustrated adventure game?Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations? It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.
... Co[/b] (128k-only), although not a "text" adventure as all ... the graphics didn't make much of an impression on me. I'd ... in a similar style, although not so well presented. [b]Venom ... br /> [b]Terrors of Trantoss[/b] - an original style of presentation, with well ...Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca
... block 0x2b. Personally I'm not too keen on this.
not too much of an issue, but then why ... /> Instead of getting rid of the initial level, can we not have a ... indicate whether to set an initial level or not.
Mike ...hollywood remakesseeing as remakes are en vouge at the mo. which old films would you LIKE to see remade. please don't abuse this thread by posting a 8 paragraph rant…
... done in CG instead of papier mache and rubber ... like the original so much a remake may ...
In the shade of Kilamanjaro.
Creepers ... not least a proper remake of Frank Herberts Dune (not one of ... see just how much of an arse they'd make of it.
Elite IIII've just seen this in the archive. It looks like Spectrum graphics, but it appears to require TR-Dos (what that?) to run. It seems to be highly rate…
... (by a small group of people), can anybody offer ... It's basically a hack of the original Spectrum Elite, ... Research disk drives. Although not much of a huge hit in ... clones where it became something of a standard.
an emulator (e.g. Spin ...Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... Anonymous;178638]Have you got an example? A quick guess would ... half tile at the top. An eariler version with the lift ... placed slightly differently created an entire "black invisible" tile. ... Example 2[/URL]
Not much of a controlled test! I'll ...New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …
... themselves in only making an operating system for their ... I will still use an high grade os for ... in 40 seconds. That's not much of a wait.
... a Mac you can use an emulator.
an emulator pre-installed even ...A Spectrum that fixes itselfWell, the modulator on my 128K toastrack machine fixed itself. It used to drift horribly within the first half hour or so of power up, but now it's a…
... are any electrolytic caps in an Astec modulator tho Mr W ... or something, but there's not much of that either. Maybe the tuning ...8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... H (when stored natively as an 8 bit number)
... QUOTE=bigredswitch;198861]...this runs much quicker on a Nokia Series ... native Symbian emulator it's not much of a feat).
[/QUOTE ... minute there (which is an S40, and Ive got ... and would love an emu for it!)PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... =glancaster;204966]It's not just an issue on the Spectrum. ... well. This would be much easier if they weren' ... , actually, come to think of it, the PZX format as ... shouldn't be to much of an issue if there are ... (for reasons of memory constraint) do not set the file ...Port Chuzzle Deluxe for Windows to the ZX Spectrum?Hi all, I've been looking around for a Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum game that's very similar to a Windows game called "Chuzzle Deluxe", but haven't b…
... 213279]Ok, a couple of thoughts on this. The dragging ... 2 years - I'm not much of a project finisher, you see ... machine code? I am aware of the Speccy "colour clash" ... But I'm certainly not expecting you to do that ... clash. I also have an idea for how the Chuzzles ...
