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  • Jade Goody's cancer is terminalRIP Jade: [url]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090214/ten-jade-goody-plans-to-wed-jack-tweed-5f8abb3.html[/url] A friend sent me the following text m…

    ... surviving.

    In some cases, the mutations affect ... allows cells to destroy themselves in certain circumstances. Basically, ... , but there is worse out there - cancer will eventually ...
    That, in a nutshell, is cancer in very basic terms.

    Dunny Dunny February 2009 Chit chat
  • User reviewsAs often requested (e.g. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18135"]here[/URL]), user reviews are now possible through the s…

    ... ]

    Yes, I noticed in the archive that not only ... may do from the tape in more depth, but I fear ... in some cases, the review may turn out longer than the BASIC ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2009 Games
  • 128k games were an improvement over the 48k versionCan you think of any games that were better or improved versions over the 48k version? Im not just talking about better music, but perhaps improved s…

    I thought Yie Ar Kung Fu was terrible in 128K, a real botch up, but maybe I didn't play it enough. I can't remember any games that were actually faster in 128 mode, so that Roadblasters post surprised me - I'll need to check it out.
    Spector Spector February 2009 Games
  • Who Are You Guys..... ???I'm curious to learn about the guys (and no doubt gals) who keep this forum alive. Were you all Spectrum-heads from the start? Did any of you come la…

    ... first had a Speccy back in Xmas '83 and followed it ... taught myself how to program in BASIC to pass the time as ... the first things I looked out for in the PC mags was ... />
    I found an ad in one of the PC mags ... CD-ROM player and found in one of the mags and ...
    Vampyre Vampyre March 2009 Games
  • ZXSpin sound problemsIn some games I run in ZXSpin, Ant Attack or Corrdiors of Genon for example, the music that plays at the beginning doesn'y play in ZXSpin. However i…

    ... the bug isn't there in 128K mode, i.e. MM and ... during the beeper decoding stage in an OUT instruction on the ULA ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2009 Emulators
  • Detecting Spectrum modelsIs there any sure-fire way a program can detect the model of machine it's running on (48K, +, 128, +2, +2A, +3, clones) even when running in the 48K …

    ... manage it! But putting in a custom routine for each ... to load them up in the slow memory below ... have the game running in 48K I'll have ... 48K, and 128K / +2 in 48K mode. It crashes outright in 128K mode, ... at least a few enthuisiasts out there who would be ...
    joefish joefish March 2009 Development
  • The 8-bit book...Filed under miscellaneous because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it... It's almost the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :) Anyway, I've finally p…

    ... question. Are you putting in a basic web guide to the best ... inspire me to try these out.
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 8-bit book...Filed under miscellaneous because it has quite a bit of speccy stuff in it... It's almost the ZX Spectrum book version 1.5 :) Anyway, I've finally p…

    ... C64 games that we covered in the first two books, that ... own just as well... And in my opinion, Jerry really has ... question. Are you putting in a basic web guide to the best ... inspire me to try these out.[/QUOTE]

    That is ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Their Finest Hour - manualHi all ! Any chances to see instructions for this game? 'Shorten' or full, in txt or jpg, pdf,...

    ... are aiming at its basic number) sent to the ... state (damages), and in the basic case aerial, the number ... will be indicating the basic number (from 0 to ... the computer), it carries out an attack. Any anti ... the readers interested in deepening in the subject it is ...
    Mevweb Mevweb April 2009 Games
  • Issue loading certain tapesI got my spectrum today, but I'm having a few issues with a couple of games. Scrabble - loads the loading screen, after the screeching stops I try h…

    ... the one with the built-in tape deck there should be ... me a minute to figure out where to type it hehe ... to type it in +3 BASIC >.> Figured it out, tried loading ...
    Eambo Eambo April 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Alllmost Sinclair Basic CompilerYou guys looked at the compiler Boriel is working on over at boriel.com? It's definitely interesting work - and makes Spectrum m/c as output...

    ... printing UDG "T" and "U" in 128K mode, but this makes the ... is included.
    Extending Spectrum Basic with modern syntax is not ... ).
    It is not Spectrum Basic anymore, but a modern and ...
    LCD LCD April 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…

    ... and later a degree. In my first year of Aeronautics ... week and work through it in pairs. It was actually ... re-write the program in BBC basic, and got paid a ... was asked to help clear out the computer store rooms ... file, a elaborate routine in LOGO and a few other ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 May 2009 Games
  • Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…

    ... it is the first line in program, you can then ... stored as m/c data in REM mines.
    [code ... is a bit hard in Spectrum BASIC because Spectrum has no ... hard time working out how this would work - BASIC can display ... to define characters to use in the REM made up ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Draw (x1,y1) to (x2, y2)?I was never very good at math. :( Given the above variables, what should I do to draw a line between the two pixels? How do I calculate the values fo…

    ... 50, 150.

    Standard BASIC's "LINE (x1, y1) - (x2 ... to this couple of lines in Sinclair BASIC:

    [code]PLOT ... you were right. The integer out of range error may be ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …

    ... version 1.1.7 is out now.
    The only drawback ... reasons to use ZX BASIC ones. Some Sinclair BASIC routines have bugs ... also gives "Invalid Argument" in Sinclair BASIC. ZX BASIC manages this the right ... ROM entry to allow drawing in the range 0..192 so ...
    boriel boriel May 2009 Development
  • Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…

    ... an scr with multiple frames in (say 32x24 pixels each) ... can store at 8 scrs in 128K "m:", then my maths ... on some emulators. POKE from BASIc is too slow, even ... 344[/url] (load them in USR0 mode of Spectrum 128 ... br /> The Player is in Assembler and very small, the ...
    LCD LCD May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE and Spectrum +2 (gray)DivIDE connected to my +2 always resets it in 48k mode. Some of the 128k games work but some don't. Is there a solution for it? My DivIDE has a Fatwa…

    ... />
    Start up an emulator in 128k mode and save off a ... z80 snapshot of the 128k menu.

    Put ... keep a copy of it in the root of my ... method will get virtually every 128k .tap file I have ...
    EDIT: I should point out that the other options on ...
    thingley thingley May 2009 Hardware
  • Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …

    It doesn't work in 128 BASIC because you've put the interrupt vector table in the top 16K and 128 BASIC pages that out quite frequently without disabling interrupts.
    chev chev May 2009 Development
  • Which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator?Ok, which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator? Please don't just vote but give reasons why.

    ... this kind of ghost lines in my basic listings when there is ... text on black paper back in 80's. But honestly, I ... it over Composite and RGB out.
    Arda Arda May 2009 Emulators
  • Which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator?Ok, which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator? Please don't just vote but give reasons why.

    ... this kind of ghost lines in my basic listings when there is ... text on black paper back in 80's. But honestly, I ... it over Composite and RGB out.[/quote]
    Woody got it ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2009 Emulators
  • Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …

    ... disc, I thrown these blocks out and replaced them with POKEs ... they will find three POKES in the BASIC loader...
    LCD LCD May 2009 Games
  • Ultimate! Time WasterThis used to bug me big time 25 years ago.:mad: In the early 16k releases of Ultimate Play the Game , Games Jetpac Cookie Trans am there are three …

    ... disc, I thrown these blocks out and replaced them with POKEs ... they will find three POKES in the BASIC loader...[/quote]

    polomint polomint May 2009 Games
  • Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …

    ... just don't return to BASIC, it seems fine. ... I'm doing wrong in code, or it may ... file from a generic BASIC bootstrap loader and the ... crashes when returning to 128K BASIC because 128K BASIC swaps RAM pages ...
    Not checked the 128K RAM paging though to see ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Development
  • DIVIDE - NEW FATWARE for 128kB spectrums[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide/divide-fatware.htm[/url] [img]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide/systems/fatware/fatware+2sp.gif[/img] [im…

    ... any software with basic loaders writed in 128 basic. Work also ramdisk ... ( ROM 0 / ROM 1 ) in low 16kB and use different ... reset (in browser)
    SS + R - software reset (without OUT 7FFD)< ... features
    - compatibility with 128 basic (rom 0)
    - fixed ...
    velesoft velesoft June 2009 Development
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ...
    Firstly I should point out that the English tap version ... TAP file probably worked this out already. :D )

    in the WoS archive indeed ... would not be a problem in a snapshot file.
    ... from a snapshot taken in 128K/+2 mode?
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... translating was even "more out of whack" in the versions I never ... is set to simply "Spectrum 128K" mode. This way a very ... />
    In SpecEmu however, it works fine on any 128K model as ... expected. Pretty strange that one!

    EDIT2: In ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • C sharpe (programming)don't have a hash key on my keyboard, grrrr. does anyone know hoe to program in this, if so, do you know of any good sites where i can learn the bas…

    ... sample that you can try out. I guess you are ... find that books become out of date way too quickly ... advised to get some basic knowledge of C sharp.< ... you say, ive programmed in flash before and it ... are plenty of people out there in the various communities. ;)< ...
    mile mile June 2009 Chit chat
  • Which speccy do you use & why ?I`m lucky enough to have the choice of using a 48K original, a 48K+ and a 128+2B Sometimes I prefer the 128 because of it`s nice keyboard, crisp pic…

    ... +3 have another timing, seenable in some demos. Also they are ... have different pheripherial port. The 128k on the other side has ... an overheating problem. When running in summer for several hours, it ... story).

    So out of the 128k machines is only the ...
    Speccyman Speccyman July 2009 Hardware
  • divide plus back to life , preorderI have green light form authors to made DIVIDE PLUS, anybody interested? Promise from me , fully asembled and tested DIVIDE PLUS in plastic case. Qua…

    ... type you're using (48k/128k/+2)?[/QUOTE]

    Actually ... only SPANISH rom with 128 basic).
    For example: your ZX ... only. But writing command in 128 basic is possible only with "SPANISH ... only add possibility use 128 basic.

    For +2A/+3 ...
    velesoft velesoft July 2009 Hardware
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... space will be a problem in 128k, but screen space might.
    in contended RAM
    [*]Moved scrolling ... /> [*]Moved a lot of routines out of contended RAM into the ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2009 Development
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