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Help me find a gameHello, I would like to find a game, but unfortunately I don't remember much about it. It was a shoot-em-up (almost sure) with spaceships and the loa…
... screen had a spaceship flying over a landscape, but the loading lines ... instead of being around the screen.
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zx Spin full screen problemHi guys,dont know what i have done here,but when i press F4 to go full screen,it just minimises to the task bar and theres a little black bar just ab…
Hi guys,dont know what i have done here,but when i press F4 to go full screen,it just minimises to the task bar and theres a little black bar just above bottom left side of task bar showin minimise,restore,exit buttons.Anyone know what ive done?cheers. -
Tuning issue 48KHi. I have just bought a 48K rubber key version and am having trouble tuning it in. I have tried two newish CRT televisions but get the same picture.…
... of white lines on the left hand side of the screen. I ... -
Mobile Phones.Ok so my old four and a half year old Nokia N70 is looking tired, its battery is giving up the ghost and it looks rustic to say the least from years …
... screen with Quad Band and GPRS looks nice, but with the lack ... -
Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... will appear as 15 lines of mainly grey text ... says "No errors in 16 lines. 4 bytes generated"
screen display.
The complicated ... black paper colour down the screen.
In the ... ;print road verge on 24 lines'
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TV Game on grey +2Is it possible to run "TV Game" on grey +2? The game loads and shows configuration screen. There are 2 rectangles visible (yellow in the top left cor…
... game loads and shows configuration screen. There are 2 rectangles visible ... the top left corner and red in the bottom left corner ... -
Spectrum 48k Fault - anybody seen this before?Hello, I have two 48k spectrums that exhibit the same fault. Black border, paper area is full of columns of wavey lines. I have posted a screen sho…
... of wavey lines.
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Loading screen artist?Anybody out there want to do a loading screen for my Christmas game? Obviously the time-scale is a little short - as in you only have a couple of we…
Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …
... code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my ... some moving sprites to the screen, first restoring background at ... understand correctly Zx Spectrum does screen refreshing 50 times per ... the computer will wait until screen refreshing reaches line A. ...Screen Machine re-discoveredFurther to [b]fog[/b]'s enquiry in another place, it transpires that although the programs as described did appear in Your Spectrum #19, the program …
... this morning and found [i]Screen Machine[/i] by Robert Robinson ... .uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/scrndemo.zip]Screen Machine[/url] to compare with ... -loaded the Nodes of Yesod screen.)Black screen on a Spectrum?I'm looking at a Spectrum+ on eBay right now and the guy says when he plugs it in and turns it on, the screen is black. He says it's because a casset…
... and turns it on, the screen is black. He says it ...Name that game: loading routineName that game but with a twist. I remember loading a game and it had a strange loading (protection?) scheme. It played normal when loading up initia…
... it went to a black/red or blue border. Before the ... for the loading of the screen; was a "wibble-wobble" sound ...Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…
... of memory, but once the screen display, system variables and other ... and level data.
The screen consists of a 256x192 pixel ... and makes up for the lack of support chips enjoyed by ...Solar Invasion (funky screen-grabs)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004629&loadpics=3"]Solar Invasion[/URL] There is something funny going on with both the load…
... both the loading screen and in-game screen in this listing ... are supposed to be "complete" ... screen-grab error?
... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/s/gif/ ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/s/ ...Bad loading screen in one Spanish gameF-1, here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002109[/url] the loading screen comes probably from some cracked version, the tru…
F-1, here:
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002109[/url]
the loading screen comes probably from some cracked version, the true loading screen is some scanned car.Old electronic handheld... Wot was this game called?Im trying to recall the name of an old early 80's electronic game I had as a kid. It were an early handheld which had a rectangular shape, a red min…
... had a rectangular shape, a red mini joystick you controlled with ... , and their were two square red buttons on it (one labeled ... saw asterisks appear on the screen and make a funny noise ...The Other Flying SharkWhile sorting out some tapes in the attic I came across this remnant of the original Flying Shark. What's not well known is that the Spectrum version…
... be in colour along the lines of 1942 rather than the ... /> (pic was grabbed from a SCREEN$ in ZXSPIN)"Up to 80% of violent criminals turned to crime because computer games"According to China (that well known bastion of openness and human rights), or at least the official China news people: [[COLOR=Red]Note: if you can'…
... news people:
[[COLOR=Red]Note: if you can't ... harsh state control, or the lack of human rights or even ...Question on copying screen bufferHi, Al my prevoius games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could d…
... were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now ... I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could draw ... clearing any sprites on the screen, I'm just copying static ... image from buffer to screen after HALT.
Am ..."fSplit-screen pics/text" ?What's "fSplit-screen pics/text" doing here? :confused: [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009704]http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
What's "fSplit-screen pics/text" doing here? :confused:
[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009704]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009704[/url]
It points to "No matches" anyway.Red Neck Bullies get theirs[youtube]lh_gL7Az53o[/youtube] Hee hee. It's not that I dislike Red Necks, most a probably fine, but its bullies that I hate. This group seems pr…
... 's not that I dislike Red Necks, most a probably fine ...Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…
... with games that load the screen and binary code all in ... 24570:cls : load "glider.scr" screen$
20 load "glider.001 ...
40 rem THE FOLLOWING LINES ARE ONLY TO BE USED ... load in 16384 and the screen appears the basic stack gets ...Spectrum +2A -Black screen-When I turn on the power I get only black screen (full size) PSU is working (I even tried with my +3 PSU) RF-cable is working. What could be the pro…
... power I get only black screen (full size)
PSU is ... />
There is only black screen no more no less.
flickering noisy screenI have just replaced the ram and ULA. The spectrum boots up OK but the screen is very noisy/wobbly/flickering really annoying :) I am wondering how …
... boots up OK but the screen is very noisy/wobbly/flickering ...Cheril of the Bosque (The Mojon Twins, Spectrum 48k)A brand new game from the Mojon Twins! In the Badajoz jungle lives Cheril, a common girl, just like every other girl of her age. She eats cucumbers,…
... spots will be blocked by red boxes which Eleuterio brought when ... just have to exit the screen and, when you come back ...More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... almost instantly you get a screen full of links, plus ... are played one person per screen, as two to four ... players on one screen has been phased out ... a way, as split screen gaming is sometimes very good ... effects too. FOr one, lack of competition is bad for ...Grand Theft Auto 3Following a discussion today about GTA style games, and which one is the best, I thought I'd post here and see what everyone prefers. There are *lot…
... /> Driver 3,
Driver: Parallel Lines,
and even games ... was ruined by a total lack of testing and some staggeringly ...Time Wreck (cracked screen)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005284&loadpics=3"]Time Wreck[/URL] Cracked screen as can be seen middle top. I was going t…
... Wreck[/URL]
Cracked screen as can be seen middle ... ://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/t/gif/TimeWreck ...Just changed a laptop screen.I just spent the last few hours changing the screen on a laptop for my friends son. He broke it by shutting the laptop with the lead across the keyb…
... last few hours changing the screen on a laptop for my ... .
Finally got the old screen out and the new one ... it worked :)
A new screen cost ?70 off ebay, not ...
