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Radio Seven you have let me down!Playing "out of a silent planet" and then " a night to remember" I've heard both of those a year or so ago, at around midnight, when I was playing…
Playing "out of a silent planet"
and then " a night to remember ... 've heard both of those a year or so ago, at ... games all night.
C'mon! You've got perhaps ... -
Can't find a certain game.It was for the Speccy of course, but you played as a warrior type guy that had a shield that he held out in front of him, then he would strike out wi…
... guy that had a shield that he held out in front of ... , then he would strike out with a sword as enemies and arrows ... -
Adding graphics to a text adventure??Hi everyone. I've always wanted to create a Spectrum adventure game and have spent several evenings browsing the forums here, WOS and the internet on…
... always wanted to create a Spectrum adventure game and ... with is somehow importing a graphic into Illustrator that ... work this out - loading a .scr file (as a tap) doesn ... if the above is a bit incoherent or stupid ... my Speccy was to write a poke :)
[ ... -
Looking for a game.An expression of goodwill upon this meeting - Hello to the Graxznor's meandering blithe! Looking for a game. Start out in a courtyard. Have to fin…
... for a game. Start out in a courtyard. Have to find a way into a ... -
Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …
... /> DI
LD A,$08
OUT (&FE),A
LD HL ... A,L
AND &0F
OR &08
OUT ... (&FE),A
SCF
RET ... /> LD C,A
LD A,(DE)
AND C
LD C,A
POP ... -
the worldthey point at small children and say "look at this little boy, what do you think he has" and answer "I don't know, I don't think it's dyslexia, I thi…
... . Scots and Mankish! Look out for the clouds! they will ... buy buy. And watch out for when the clouds leave ... Watch out for the sun, it will give you C A N C E ... yours. my father is a fireman" bob the builder ... product and you will be a better person".
Urgent Help needed to fix this: calling all machine code gurusI am currently trying to write tutorials on the amazing Orfeus music composer by Proxima which allows you to do multi channel music through the beepe…
... ld a,#00
out (#fe),a
l89a1: ld a,c
and a
ld c,a
xor a
l8a4a: add a,c
... br /> ld c,a
xor a
l8aa4: add a,c
...
out (#fe),a
xor #10
inc c
...Blowtorch method of Speccy repairsI just did my first Spectrum repair (and successful at that). It was the Issue 2 spectrum I wrote about a while ago, I just hadn't got around to doin…
... just lever the chips out with a screwdriver as the solder ... heat tolerant.
So out with the trusty paint stripping ... 4116s almost just fell out - just a little encouragement with pliers ... clear screen with the (C) 1982 Sinclair Research message. I ...Well I'm excited, but I guess you might not beHehe this is as far as I got today, a silly little border program: [PHP] ORG 32768 PROGGY: LD C,255 ; We loo…
...
BORDERDOWN: OUT (254),A ; Put pen colour ... loop.
BORDERUP: OUT (254),A; ; Put pen colour ... A,C ; Load C into A
DEC A ; Decrement it
LD C,A ...out (254) - Bright Border[code] ld a,%00000111 out (254),a [/code] The above changes the border to white. Is there a way to set the border to Bright white? Cheers
[code]
ld a,%00000111
out (254),a
[/code]
The above changes the border to white.
Is there a way to set the border to Bright white?
CheersCurrah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …
... br /> xor a ; select the DOCK bank
out ($ff),a ;
< ... 2bb1 ; $1902
l1905: out ($ff),a ; $1905
push af ; ... $18f9
ld a,$80 ; $18fa
out ($ff),a ; $18fc
...
; moved OUT-C-1 routine (copied to $386e ...What's the name of this game ? (not a quiz)I once played an adventure-game on a Speccy, back in the 80's, but I have forgotten the name. The main character's name was maybe Harry. He was he…
... played an adventure-game on a Speccy, back in the 80 ... .
He was heading out for a night on the town, but ... images in the game, like a drawing of the room where ... lead him to his night out.
I never came any ...My little first set of routines.Hi all, I just coded a little set of routines just to draw a screen on video mem and a fade out. I could have just copied the screen rendering rout…
... br /> ; Fade Out Paper ;
; In: A->Attribte
; Out: A->Attribute ... br /> push bc
ld c,a ;backup a
and 0x38 ...Kamikaze (A'n'F)Following the "what's on the inlay" rule, I thought I'd point out that A'n'F's Kamikaze is spelled Kamakazi on the inlay (for the Electron version, a…
... thought I'd point out that A'n'F's Kamikaze is ...Could use a little German advice hereThis December I want to spend a long weekend visiting one of the largest Christmas markets in Europe, as well as doing a little sightseeing in daylig…
... December I want to spend a long weekend visiting one of ... Europe, as well as doing a little sightseeing in daylight hours ... local airport, so Nuremberg was out for a start): Cologne and Stuttgart ... really thought of Stuttgart as a touristy place - any comments ...a zombie at chelsea?So what's your views on the new Chelsea Coach? I was never a Chelsea fan, but I've been a mourinho and Ricardo Carvalho fan (although I dislike Porto…
... I dislike Porto) for a long time so I followed ... but he looks like a zombie out of a romero movie, and ... the team looked like a ... , they deserve more of a winning streak than chelsea, ... each position) followed by a close Arsenal(I dislike ...th?ts on a CF hard disk for a laptopG'Day y'all, I'm thinking of splashing out on a low-end laptop once my loan comes thr?. A REALLY low end one: ?89.90; Pentium II @ 200MHz; 32MB RAM; …
... 'm thinking of splashing out on a low-end laptop once ... my loan comes thr?. A REALLY low end one:
a modern one? I am considering ... getting a CF/IDE adapter so that ... I can just keep a bootable CF card of windows ...Free to a good home - Anyone in South Wales want a pile of Spectrum Games and a +3?Bit of an emergency - I'm moving out in a hurry and I don't have time to sell these! Is there anyone in South Wales who wants a fairly big pile of s…
... emergency - I'm moving out in a hurry and I don't ... in South Wales who wants a fairly big pile of ... ?
Free to a good home - You are just ... br />
I also have a WHSmiths tape recorder which is ... great for TZXing and a Spectrum +3(unboxed but ...What a crappy nightJust got home from a very stupid situation, so I will post this story to bore you. I was hanging out at a mate's place until pretty late. At about 2…
... />
I was hanging out at a mate's place until pretty ... at home when I went out. But hey, lucky me ... to my mate also is out of question because he ... . Since I live in a relatively quiet area where nothing ... there, I got me a magazine, a coffee and some rolls ...BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…
... , which can be printed out for a handy reference - it's ... CAPS+2 when in C mode
C : Uppercase : CAPSLOCK or ... # : KLC : SYM + 3 ? : KLC : SYM + C
$ : KLC : SYM + 4 @ : KLC ...Great new virtual keyboard!This won't be of use for emulators that run on machines that have real keyboards, of course, but for emulators that run on the XBox, PS2/3, PSP, Nint…
... PSP) then instead of a drawing of a keyboard, nine small boxes ... |F...H|J...L
..C...|..G...|..K..
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..M ... four buttons are laid out in a cross (a plus shape) formation, so ... of the four characters laid out in a cross shape in each ...Racy type-in fold out questionHi all, I was the proud owner of a ZX81 (I remember buying it on Saturday 20th Feb 1982 at around 3pm with my Mum at WHSmiths!) then for Christmas th…
... was the proud owner of a ZX81 (I remember buying it ... -in magazine which was a fold-out featuring a game in zillions of ... . One particularly good one was a cricket game and I remember ... . The fold-out magazine also featured a poster of a drawn scantily-clad ...Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…
... BASIC.
However, when a new command is successfully parsed ... , if on a +3, the system crashes hard ... with the connector key falling out of a peripheral, my toastrack 128K ... handling worked fine on a 48K or on a toastrack 128, but ...Developers developers developers developers developers!OK, I think it's at a stage where someone else can also have a go at doing things with the Spectranet. If you've not been following the hardware foru…
... . I'm going to loan out (on a free loan, indefinite) 6 ... completely new
* A networked strategy game.
* A simple web browser ... anyone can squeeze enough performance out of the Z80 for an ... do it in asm or C (with the Z88DK) - channels/streams ...Best unbeliavable story to a videogameI've been playing some old games SNES, and that got me back to Jungle Strike. it has probably the best plot I've ever seen in a game, something out …
... ever seen in a game, something out of a chuck norris/Steven ... they decide to make a giant terrorist attack on Washington ... of the U.S. A. do? it's quite ... easy actually: they send a single Apache to save ... how come they never made a movie out of this games...)
Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... them, then drawing them out of a hat in batches of 6 ... was trying to learn some C++ before and tried and ... give it another go in C++. Plus I'm learning ... /> 70 REM
90 LET c=1
100 LET numbersleft ... SUB 1000
320 NEXT c
400 REM print ..."Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... decoded, it would be a handy CPU-time-saver to ... like LD BC,0xf8fd / OUT (C),B to select AY register ... practical use (except for a rather nasty form of anti ... 4-bit code by a special order factory mask ... are programmed to recognise only a 0000 code.[/quote]
...Keyboard Input$/scan problemHi, I'm finally fulfilling my promise to get a reasonable understanding of the Speccy and embarking upon attempting a few simple routines in Assembl…
... C,FEh
IN A,(C)
AND 7
LD D,A
OUT ... (254),A
DEC D
LD C,254
OUT (C ... not recognise the instruction 'IN A,(C)' or 'OUT (C),D' :-? ...... so I decided ...Creating a header for a scr file...Right. I've eventually created an mp3 out of a .wav (using my mobile phone software) that was converted from a .tap (using tap2wav) that was converte…
... 've eventually created an mp3 out of a .wav (using my mobile ... software) that was converted from a .tap (using tap2wav) that was ... converted from a .scr (using bmp2scr) that ... was converted from a .bmp (using photoshop). I could ...
