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fixed point mathsI came across this site which is quite interesting [URL="http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/advanced-math#toc18"]http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/advanced-ma…
... major takes.
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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;782185]I think zero needs amending, also.[/QUOTE]
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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;782229]What do you think?[/QUOTE]
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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;782357]Oops.[/QUOTE]
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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;782510]My personal favourite at present is number 3 even though it is the same as the uppercase "O".[/quote]
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Raspberry Outselling Spectrum in UKI just read an news article that is suggesting the Raspberry PI is on course to be the best selling computer in the UK. The article is claiming that…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;782618]Lots of muttering about Python coming from her bedroom now! :-) [/QUOTE]
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What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;783278]Ooh, that sounds very interesting Andrew. Any chance of a sneak peak?[/QUOTE]
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New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;781828]So ZXC4 gives you ... noticed.
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BBC BASIC for WindowsHi Folks, Gave BBC BASIC for Windows a go today and it found it very good. I wrote a wee program to remove REM statements from my BasinC source. T…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;783904]It is supposed to ... not an emulator.
Paddy[/QUOTE]
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Youtube vids of US guy converting speccy into handheldDidn't see it posted here but thought it was a pretty interesting project. Part 1 and 2 here, more to follow. [youtube]6GcwcyL9LgM[/youtube] [you…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;785467]Totally agree Patrik - I ... XL with ZXDS.
Paddy[/QUOTE]
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Best DS model for ZXDS?I'm toying with the idea of selling bits of my retro collection... which, despite being trimmed down a few years back to just Spectrum and Vectrex st…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;786120]Thanks to my daughters ... /> Hope this helps.
Paddy
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GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;786487]I see Buddy is ... -
GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;786527]Is that because access to mass storage is just as fast these days?[/QUOTE]
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Best DS model for ZXDS?I'm toying with the idea of selling bits of my retro collection... which, despite being trimmed down a few years back to just Spectrum and Vectrex st…
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What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
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[NEW] Speccy for Android ReleasedHello, All! A while ago, I have released the Android version of [i]Speccy[/i], my ZX Spectrum emulator. It emulates Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A…
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Beginners Basic Programming BookHi All, My son is interested in learing programming and I got him started on a spectrum emulator on my laptop. I've bought him a +2 (grey) 128 of Eb…
[quote="Paddy Coleman;840914"]I cannot find the ... -
Beginners Basic Programming BookHi All, My son is interested in learing programming and I got him started on a spectrum emulator on my laptop. I've bought him a +2 (grey) 128 of Eb…
[quote="Dunny;840918"][quote="Paddy Coleman;840914"]I cannot find the ... -
7mhz CPU?One of the things I like about Spectaculator, is that I can zap the clock speed of the emulated CPU up. Doing so makes me wonder about why the desig…
[quote="Paddy Coleman;842311"]The QL was a ... -
New Retro Virtual Machine v1.1.0Hello everyone, a new version of Retro Virtual Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXHnelI49A Change Log: Added the ZX Spectrum+ with s…
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[quote="Paddy Coleman;854933"]Stunning - looks amazing. Congratulations ... .
Paddy
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SpecNextThis looks interesting... http://www.specnext.com/
[quote="Paddy Coleman;859321"]Excuse my ignorance but ... understand the "why".
Paddy
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SpecNextThis looks interesting... http://www.specnext.com/
[quote="Paddy Coleman;859321"]Excuse my ignorance but why would you need two SD slots?
Paddy
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SpecNextThis looks interesting... http://www.specnext.com/
[quote="robbyrob;859475"][quote="Paddy Coleman;859321"]Excuse my ignorance but ... two SD slots?
Paddy
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Recreated ZX Spectrum thoughtsI have a recreated ZX Spectrum (and a Vega and a 48K with SMART) and while I know it is not well regarded I actually quite like it. The app is "ok" a…
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Recreated ZX Spectrum thoughtsI have a recreated ZX Spectrum (and a Vega and a 48K with SMART) and while I know it is not well regarded I actually quite like it. The app is "ok" a…
[quote="Paddy Coleman;862330"]May be a tie ... option as well?
Paddy
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I ... -
Recreated ZX Spectrum thoughtsI have a recreated ZX Spectrum (and a Vega and a 48K with SMART) and while I know it is not well regarded I actually quite like it. The app is "ok" a…
[quote="Paddy Coleman;862330"]May be a tie up with VEGA to give the handheld a keyboard option as well?
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Recreated ZX Spectrum thoughtsI have a recreated ZX Spectrum (and a Vega and a 48K with SMART) and while I know it is not well regarded I actually quite like it. The app is "ok" a…
[quote="hikoki;862341"][quote="Paddy Coleman;862330"]May be a tie ... -
Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
[quote="Paddy Coleman;867910"]An interesting (but slow) ...

