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  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    The Spectrum were better at polygon games, Stunt ... br />
    The Spectrum were better at "real" isometric 3d such ... Heels. But the c64 were better at "fake" isometric 3d ... />
    The c64 were usually better at everything else. Ofcourse there are exceptions ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... ]
    The c64 were usually better at everything else. Ofcourse there are exceptions ...
    Muig Muig December 2014 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... as the bleep is sounded). Usually, the one to use is ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Blue Ray vs. HD DVDBlue Ray vs. HD DVD Which is better, and why? And which will survive the other? Personally, I don't much care at the moment, as my TV is not high…

    Has anyone else noticed a trend that is ... is for me, it is usually better than VHS for example), then ... ever newer emerging standards than simply superior quality though!
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2008 Chit chat
  • pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…

    ... * in order to achieve better results in worst cases. And I'm ... mention that simply processing all positions will work even better for this ... /> move POSY inside WHATEVER
    else[/B]
    add POSY to ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2013 Development
  • Bringing light to the City Connection conversion...Reading the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39015"]Freddie Laker's Airline Capers[/URL]", it called my attention the co…

    ... there is also a much better version to be run
    is even better than the original arcade.
    better
    Amiga, or else the game won ... jump.
    Since Spectrum joysticks usually hadn't two buttons, to ...
    SyX SyX May 2012 Games
  • The Spectrum and it's rivals...This has no doubt been posted and debated many times before, across hundreds of messages boards and across hundreds of playgrounds before that, but h…

    ... available on both platforms were usually better on the Spectrum.

    simply because I prefer the games ...
    MattLamb MattLamb January 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... at the time, we could usually only afford ONE of the ... always want to have better than somebody else. if a neighbor gets ... have a better house than so and so if someone else happens ... even though my instincts are usually right about these types of ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... who think theyre better than everybody else from the off< ... to be talking about someone else, and not me. ... t think I'm better than anyone else - but I do ... that I'm "better" than someone else, you're sorely ... to somebody, which is usually never, but well done ...
    mel the bell mel the bell October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... to 2:1 in all cases, largely becuse it uses the ... or something as that's usually better than index indirect addressing?
    better.

    The Sentinel and ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... The July release is much better and it stopped crashing when ... a little in making better code but it doesn' ... portions many times. Compiler optimizations are based on repeatable conditions ... ANSI-C compliant compiler and usually better generated code (when it ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Another Doctor Who spinoff coming new years dayIts basically what K9 and Company was going to be, its called The Sarah Jane Adventures, personally i thought the Sarah Jane Smith episode was one of…

    ... that, it would have been better if they used the Torchwood ... older Dr Who episodes were usually the historical ones. Imagine if ... do it, and do it better than anyone else too.
    udgoverload udgoverload December 2006 Chit chat
  • TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…

    ... in fact you would be better simply using compressed CSW for that ... guess you often get even better results anyway). In case there ... not proven considerable amount of cases when such loader was used ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2007 Emulators
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... of the program, where you simply execute BORDER 3-r. I think ... game logic without thinking about optimizations.

    Anyway, I'll ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... of the program, where you simply execute BORDER 3-r. I think ... ]

    Yes, that's better, I have applied this change ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • 2001: A Space Odysseyhello have you ever wondered what this film was all about?.check this website i discovered:- [url]http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20analysis%…

    ... ;318660] The reason that's usually cited for that is that ... think I like the book better simply because I understood the context ... a bit better when reading it.

    Arjun Arjun November 2008 Chit chat
  • Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…

    ... that my stats were better than everybody else?s! I still ... and the ports it received usually weren't so good. ... gamer, the Playstation is better at doing mean & ... was like, 50 times better on N64...The price ... and animation were far better, the game engine was ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2008 Chit chat
  • Some TV/DVD questions1. Very often, on my television (PAL, 29" or so, CRT, by Bush, two or three years old) when there's text on a TV program or a DVD film, the left hand…

    ... right!

    60Hz is better, simply because the game runs faster ... issue on consoles, since they usually anti-alias the fuck out ...
    The Starglider The Starglider February 2009 Chit chat
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... (and therefore presumably understand better than anyone else), well, too bad. Expecting ... assume you are not stupid, simply trolling.
    MrCheese MrCheese August 2010 Development
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... (and therefore presumably understand better than anyone else), well, too bad. Expecting ... . In quite a lot of cases, the customer owns the copyright ... like the license, in many cases you can take your business ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Development
  • The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…

    ... version means that sometimes you simply cannot see doors moving or ... N64 games and were better than anything else at the time but ...
    WhizzBang WhizzBang April 2011 Chit chat
  • The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…

    ... version means that sometimes you simply cannot see doors moving or ... it as we knew no better.




    better than anything else at the time but ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... , it should be enough to simply change the order of these ... have a finale, it's usually better to restart from the beginning ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2011 Infoseek database
  • Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…

    ... 's good in most use cases": I choose this one to ... it's faster and far better. Simply, I didn't took time ... twice fixes it and gives better result.

    BTW: Calling ...
    boriel boriel May 2012 Development
  • Work out attribute location in MCHow do I go about writing a MC routine which calculates the attribute address from a set of PRINT co-ordinates. I know you in basic you multiply the…

    ... address.[/QUOTE]

    Possible optimizations:

    1. Largest y ... is in HL you'd simply execute -
    [CODE]ld a,#0x58 ...
    tstih tstih August 2012 Development
  • CAPS SHIFT on Spectrum+ ComputerI have just recently supplied a couple of replacement Spectrum+ keyboard membranes to a customer in Barby, Germany. Although something may have been…

    ... slightly over to align better on some Spectrum cases.

    The ... />
    So this is something else people may need to bear ...
    rwap rwap December 2012 Hardware
  • Getting PC into HLHello, here's a conundrum for you... Is there a way to obtain the value of the PC register (say into HL) without using absolute addressing such as C…

    ... a relocatable version for everyone else's convenience. It would need ... , not Assembly. Or you could simply execute POP HL/PUSH HL at ... would not work if someone else calls it a few bytes ... Z80 routines, so users can simply reassemble them wherever they want!
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... points in it. I'm usually only human when I kindle ... but my other armour is better (from the merchant in the ... damage so that's better than everything else although not tried buffing ... anything else yet. It has the highest ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter November 2013 Chit chat
  • I can't get on with Fallout3Dear all, With Fallout4 round the corner, I thought I'd try Fallout3 again as it never really held my interest when it first came out - even thoug…

    ... actually becoming a better player.

    In some cases games are ... on the map, your boat simply turns round in the middle ...
    joefish joefish September 2015 Chit chat
  • damn 60 HzYou know I am really glad that ZX Spectrum is 50 Hz only. Not only the games always run in correct speed (unline Atari, Commodore, Sega, Nintendo...)…

    ... PAL one, and in both cases are noticeable examples.
    ... well the PAL machine was better simply due to many of ... rather than in some cases have a bodged PAL fixed ... the US ones are better than the UK counter parts ... the UK one is far better.

    I ...
    fog fog January 2016 Chit chat
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