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ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... (presumably R Tape Loading Error) in the same way it would ... the type and other information to be determined by the user?[/QUOTE ... making. You *cannot* use LOAD "" in a non-sequential filesystem. These ... can't be arsed to type in where you want the file ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... , let's see it in the emulators". Every other ... able to select particular file in emul, it would still ... need to not have to type in the filename or the ... entry in the FAT? Have the filesystem handle the type/address ... a flat binary to the user, and do all you ... -
ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…
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What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... the rarest thing I have in my collection is the 128k ... recall, all my stuff is in the loft):
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Games club wc 19/08/06Trying again!
... Guardian II came out in 1990 and IOTBS in 1983, I'd ... far as Defender games went in the period I was using ... Box sound. There's a Sinclair User review entheusing about it here ... to use the AY chip in the 128K machines too. -
Your SinclairHi all, i've just bought a load of Your Sinclairs from ebay (trying to get the ones i don't already have) and flicking through it made me forget how …
... issue went on sale in November 1989. It covered ... game seperately) and extremely in-depth previews, there were ... and the Highest Joystick in The World. Regular contributors ... almost every issue somewhere in my mum's house ... and even the odd Sinclair User (spit!) -
Your SinclairHi all, i've just bought a load of Your Sinclairs from ebay (trying to get the ones i don't already have) and flicking through it made me forget how …
I bought Sinclair User originally, bit too 'techy' and boring for me in the ... early days, fell in love with Crash ... , used to buy Your Spectrum/Sinclair and ... -
Sinclair User and other MagazinesHello all, I'm raising funds to fund a teaching trip, so I've been clearing out the attic, therefore: [LIST] [*]Sinclair User Monthly....May 1982 …
I'd be interested in buying a few Sinclair User mags to plug the holes in my collection. Would I be able to take a few individual issues? If so, I'll make a list of the ones I need later.
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DVD to audioI've just bought the DVD of The Monster Club, and it has the soundtrack in the extras section! What I need to know is how can I convert the songs to …
... few times all three fail in ripping the audio, so i ... outputs using a Y-lead in the soundcard, and recording with ... software on a covertape from sinclair user (i think) ..... -
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…
... language is that everything you type in should have an immediate meaning ... with the idea of a Sinclair BASIC compiler for .NET, to ... -
Looking for one particular music demoHi. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. There is a music demo I'm looking for. Unfortunately I don't k…
That demo was on the Sinclair User Issue 111 Cover Tape (Fuxoft Soundtrack 4). What boggled me is this: Why does it feature 128K music if I loaded it in 48K mode WITHOUT the USR 0 command? -
Looking for one particular music demoHi. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. There is a music demo I'm looking for. Unfortunately I don't k…
... That demo was on the Sinclair User Issue 111 Cover Tape[/ ... music if I loaded it in 48K mode WITHOUT the ... still control the AY chip in machine code with out ... what mode you're in. Being in 48k mode simply means ... access to the PLAY command in BASIC. You're hardly ... -
*** New Game *** Farmer Jack Now AvailableFARMER JACK IS NOW AVAILABLE ... ?2.99 + ?1.00 UK Postage (or a nice pack of cigars) I haven't updated the website yet though, as someone volunt…
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One percent more than Sinclair User, and 2 percent less that ... with Saturday's Daily Mirror in the 1980s.
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If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
... if I can find that type in that gives you loads of ... could get brown as shown in the flag example.
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I might already by in Type Fantastic......
Ah here ... ?regexp=^Colour+Mixer$&pub=^Sinclair+Programs$
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Your views on...Cavelon[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Cavelon$&pub=^Ocean+Software+Ltd$]Cavelon:[/url] A very addictive game. Simple graphics, a …
I remember seeing the screenshot for Cavelon in a Sinclair User review, thinking 'that's just my kind of game', and it was :)
A really addictive game, but also very frustrating sometimes.
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Game with Most Eye Popping colour scheme?Which game had the hardest-to-look-at colour scheme? I'd vote for Howzat... white on pale green.
... III from the pages of Sinclair User when it was still called ... />
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Questioning CCSLet's continue discussing some titles from the publisher that I like most of all - CCS. Let's also keep this discussion to what it's about, or I'll …
The classified ads sections in magazines such as Sinclair User, Your Sinclair and Popular Computing ... -
Unlisted MIAsI'm working through back issues of Sinclair User from 1982. As mentioned (in my first ever WOS post!) there are a lot of pretty obscure games which …
... back issues of Sinclair User from 1982. As mentioned (in my first ... games which are advertised, mainly in the classified ads section, ... every magazine he also catalogued in the fabulous SPOT database ( ... the UK magazine references in Infoseek). You might want ... -
Unlisted MIAsI'm working through back issues of Sinclair User from 1982. As mentioned (in my first ever WOS post!) there are a lot of pretty obscure games which …
... few from issue five of Sinclair User:
ZX ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/Issue005/Pages ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/Issue005/Pages ... games were first advertised in issue four of SU ... -
Xevious release dateI swear I played the Spectrum conversion of this arcade classic during Christmas 1986, and there's an advert for it in 1986 Spectrum magazines, but o…
... mags reviewed it in Feb 1987:[/quote]
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The ZX Spectrum Book of MapsFollowing some discussion in a maps thread, I have decided to make THE ZX SPECTRUM BOOK OF MAPS - VOLUME ONE At the moment, I have the following in…
... my fav so it goes in regardless.. I'm adding tips ... II has a place reserved in a volume 2..
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cup of tea on a laptopmy desk buddy has just spilt a mug of tea over her lap top. it wasnt switched on, i unplugged it, removed the battery and cd drive. what do you thin…
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Call comes in....
My keyboard ... machine up you have to type in "yes" before it ... have heard from a user was that "all the ... dunked the keyboard in coffee and in a rescue attempt ... had, unknown to the user, spilt the coffee, removed ... -
Name that gameI'm trying to find a game in the archive with no luck due to the fact i've forgotten the name of it. It's a mountain climbing game by Epyx and came …
Final Assault : The WOS user rating is a large 8.20 - but Crash gave it 38% and Sinclair User 41%. Then Your Sinclair weighs in with a decent 7/10. Is it worth a play I ask myself? -
The Specchum DatabaseThis evening I was going through the bygone topics that were discussed on the WoS forums, some extending to the very beginning of time (2001 to be so…
... others, so I now live in Charleroi.
4) Occupation (past ... think the Speccy influenced you in you being what you are ... /> 10, but not in the usual sense: Your Sinclair, Sinclair User and Crash - that ... Had the Speccy been popular in Belgium, I'd never have ... -
Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…
... the first "Joystick-you-sit-in" I remember at the arcade ... which was the first 'climb-in' arcade cabinet? They should have ... made a sit-in joystick peripheral for starglider and ... free on the front of Sinclair User to get someone to buy ... -
Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…
... by descriptive scenes in which characters in the game interact ... having a chat..."
"In the action sequences you will ... Issue 47 of Sinclair User reported: "while the graphics in the game ... ... Scooby Award in the Gremlin column of Sinclair User which was ... -
Spellbound, David Jones and *that* prismHello, As part of my ongoing quest to make "Spellbound"'s Wikipedia entry great I'm trying to track down the full story behind the infamous prism in…
... story is given in the January 1986 issue of Sinclair User (the 'Hit ... programmers. David got his revenge in Spellbound - out of the 50 ... Prism.
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Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…
... now. I've looked in a number of possible ... in England, but I don't think that the Sinclair ... Spectrum was mentioned in the programme.< ... of articles about them in the Spectrum mags already ... uk/045/bschool.htm]Sinclair User[/url] (Dec'85). -
Number of reviewed games?Does anyone have a quick answer as to how many programs were reviewed in the Spectrum magazines during their lifetime? If you don't, I'll finally ge…
... others only partially. The "not in ..." condition eliminates non-software ... were reviewed more than once in the same magazine; the ... Comp. 8
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Learning z80 assembly - useful linksI'm starting here: [url]http://cobb.host.sk/z80guide/index.htm[/url] Anyone got any other great links?
... -Feb/Mar'84) (no article in issue 9 (Oct/Nov'83 ... /pourri/zx1st_mc.zip]First Steps in Machine Code[/url]" (6 parts ... ) by Marcus Jeffery from [i]Sinclair User[/i] 38-47 (May'85 ... with the demo programs typed in and tested.
