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Black screen of deathI recently aquired a zx spectrum (revision 3b) of the rubber key variety. it was all running smoothly(for about an hour after pluggin in), i left the…
... returned to a black screen.
Restarting the device multiple times always ... the lack of video output the spectrum is behaving normaly. keyboard clicks on ... />
any suggestions on what could be causing the problem?
Heavy on the Magick modulesWhen Heavy on the Magick came out, I believe there were going to be expansion modules. Were these likely be stand alone releases? Or is it possible …
When Heavy on the Magick came out, I believe ... would have been loaded into the Heavy on the Magick game (I feel ... mean)
And if the second, has anybody actually ever ...What's the best prog to read .asm files?I'm talking about on the PC, i.e. grab an .ASM speccy file, read it and plop it on-screen with all the fancy colours for each word/remarks/numbers et…
I'm talking about on the PC, i.e. grab an . ... it and plop it on-screen with all the fancy colours for each ... assemble the code, I just want the fancy colours for printing on paper ...The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …
... Fish Called Wanda, Wilt, Nuns on the Run, There's Something About ... surgeon is killing people live on the internet.
An ... implied or off screen, which really worked, as the horror was all ... we drive cars on the left hand side of the road, whilst in ...The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... playing areas and lots of on screen enemies, but that's just ... cursor in the third person on foot sections, no on-screen map on the driving sections ... , long unskippable cutscenes, no real time adjust-the ...Mr. Weems and the She Vampyres (missing connection?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003311"]Mr. Weems and the She Vampyres[/URL] Macmillan Ltd. flowing in the blood on the uppe…
... /> Macmillan Ltd. flowing in the blood on the upper right.
Only ... nor is it connected with the other companies listed under this ... the time :- ) )
[img]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen ...What was the name of that game?Hi there, This is my first thread of any kind! I hope it brings me beginners luck. I?m after a game I used to play and was very fond of, but you'v…
... /> You would start on the top left of the screen and would have to ... negotiate your way to the exit on the ... part to play.
The character you controlled was a ... case of falling through the bottom of the screen.
If ...Retro Gamer eMag - Load 01 & Load 02Apologies if this isn't 100% Spectrum related, but of course Retro Gamer has many great articles based on the Spectrum and its games. Anyway, I purc…
... has many great articles based on the Spectrum and its games.
the contents - I guess I prefer reading on paper than on screen.
the UK, then please PM me ... by a trackable method with the postage paid by ...Help wanted to finish That's the Spirit[img]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8269/spirit11.png[/img] I've reached what I think is the final screen of [I]That's the Spirit.[/I] I managed t…
... reached what I think is the final screen of [I]That's ... the Spirit.[/I] I managed to get on the ... roof of the house by throwing the QL on the board, but ... try to get closer to the archdevil on the right, I fall down ...SPOT+SPEX magazine index updateThe SPOT+SPEX Spectrum magazine index at [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/spot-on/default.htm]SPOT*On[/url] has been updated. There ar…
... HV; cf. UV Utility: Visual/Screen)
HM Hardware: Music ........ (*NEW ... ; layouts are the same but the contents are different. Previously the version number ("v1 ... very happy with as the position was variable on the line; so now ...The Grim Reaper is coming for your consoles...According to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8556874.stm[/URL] [COLOR=Blue][B]"A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional …
... buying them off the shelf, OnLive promises games on-demand.
... will deliver on-demand video games via the cloud to the PC, ... that reads your moves on the controller and sends them to ... on screen moving in the direction you chose? On a real console, the ...Shameless website plug!I've recently put my Speccy dedicated site live after finally getting around to making a half decent attempt at a web site design for it, so I though…
... sig for while on here, but never bleated on about it - until ... file; to transferring the data and contents of the WOS CD of 1998 ... HTTP request/screen scrape what's currently there and use the text ... downs to quickly get at the data. On each game there is ...What does this screen mean?Hi, I wonder if someone might be able to shed some light on what this screen means when powering up the machine: [url]http://i720.photobucket.com/a…
... light on what this screen means when powering up the machine ... all seemed fine; screenshots attached on the listing:
... flashes on the screen when you switch it on, and the sinclair research screen ... thoughts as to what the error might be, and ...Screen display but with static noisePicked up an sold as seen speccy+ on the bay,the screen on the ebay listing was garbage but i suspect it was due to the seller using his lcd tv so ma…
... sold as seen speccy+ on the bay,the screen on the ebay listing was garbage but ... suspect it was due to the seller using his lcd tv ... way,as it displayed fine the grey screen on my own crt tv ... have static type noise from the speccy on the tv,so could it ...The Spectrum screenshot odd-one-out round - easy skill levelYou know how in the (British) program "Have I Got News For You" they have an odd-one-out round, where they show you four photographs, and you (well…
... photographs, and you (well, the competitors on the program) have to choose which ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/h/HappiestDaysOfYourLifeThe ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/t/ThreeWeeksInParadise ...Problem with new DivIDE+ on ZX +2A?I just received DivIDE+ from RWAPSoftware and am having trouble getting it to work on my +2/A. The device came with 1GBCF card preinstalled with 3 ga…
... . The game loaded, the graphics on the initial screen looked fine, but the text at the top ... of the screen (score ...Problem with PRINT #stream on +128kWorking on a +128k, I want to choose whether all report output goes to screen or printer, so I use PRINT #stream where stream = 2 or 3 for screen or …
... all report output goes to screen or printer, so I use ... stream = 2 or 3 for screen or printer. If I type ... command is encountered in the depths of the program on which I'm ... getting the error, I select the line which gave the error, remove the line ..."Booty" on Fuse for Mac Keeps CrashingMorning all, I just wondered if there were any other Mac users who'd had issues getting the classic game Booty up and running when using Fuse. I've…
... to crash out when starting the game on both versions.
the game crashes out as soon as you get past the options screen ... at the start.
I ... 've raised a bug in the ...Picture interference on red areas.I recently got a 48K Speccy off eBay, did a composite mode and it seemed to work OK, but then my TV had to go off for repair so I didn't use it for a…
... scratchy interference lines in the large red areas. It ... before, as the plain white screen at power-on or the black background ... Other systems (PS1, N64, DVD) on the same telly using both RGB ... original Speccy+ shows the same problem, with the same cables etc. ...Silver speccy on the inside, you know what it is ?I was looking at one of my 48k speccys it has a label underneath with the serial printed on it and signed and dated, there is no permanent serial num…
... on the cassing
Then I noticed on the bottom casing on the left towards the ... and sure enough the top and bottom of the case on the inside is ... assume to prevent the solder side of the pcb shorting on the silver as ...bast, the Basic tapemaker for LinuxAnnouncing a new utility, [b]bast[/b], the BASIC Tapemaker. Now available: version 0.2.3 (alpha) for Linux. At: [url]http://github.com/ec429/bast/do…
... utility, [b]bast[/b], the BASIC Tapemaker.
Now ... TAP file with those programs on it. bast can also ... an object file as the contents of a REM statement.< ... you attempt to run the tape on your Speccy. Lexical ... release.
The long-term goal is to ...Spectrum +2 screen?Hello all! I would just like some advice on a Spectrum +2 that I recently bought. It powers up just fine with solid red light. I have connected a sc…
... would just like some advice on a Spectrum +2 that I ... scart cable for visuals but the only display I am getting ... faint black/grey on screen?
I can kinda see the screen but not ... anything out. Any ideas what the problem here could be?
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... , duff membrane (ordered), the other, this screen upon turning on, i know its ... but all that grey in the middle is rapidly moving about ... . The mikro plus cart i have ...Bug on Renaud(Spanish version)Hello, In this game, when asked the hippie on where to buy tickets, the screen goes blank and returns to the spectrum 48:-? [url]http://www.megau…
Hello,
In this game, when asked the hippie on where to buy tickets, the screen goes blank and returns to the spectrum 48:-?
[url]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U44HHXH4[/url]
Thanksbroken 48K, strange screenwell I finally socketed all lower 16K ram chips, (8 of them in a row near corner, not those 4 in two rows) and replaced them with new ones but it did…
... I still get garbled screen (some interesting graphics!) when ... is turned on.
strangely, ULA chip on this ... sitting inside small PCB on top of main board ... there are two more chips on that small PCB.
the voltages on RAM chips and they ...Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …
... , though some people do. On the plus side, any upgrade you ... worse is that the game is rather easy; on the plus side ... - your cursor (the onscreen sights at the centre of the screen, I mean) ... some real replay value. Also, the contents of some containers seems to ...Working with DOS and Plus D disks on a +2A/+3Don't know if this will be of interest to anyone, but once in a while someone asks how to do it. Dominic Morris has given permission for WOS to distr…
... DOS or Plus D formats on a +3 (and maybe ... code - it'll read the contents of a raw +D disc ... and create .TAP files from the contents. These can of course be ...
(pdread.c is now on WOS and can be found ... of discs and also the dependency on ROM calls for loading ...What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... right page. Then, the next block, and so on.
I ... were aware of the fact that ... to the screen (page 5). After all disk loads finished, I built the contents ... of page 7 from the part loaded at ...IM2 calls to player routine on 128k?Hi all, Apologies for being crap, and not even in a funky, skillo kind of way but it's been over 20 years since I last wrote anything in machine cod…
... in machine code for the spectrum, and indeed Z80 ... my hand at using the Vortex Tracker player, but ... munging my registers around. On the old beeper, ISTR I' ... noise while things happened - the only thing is I ... to syncing music to stuff on screen in Z80? I'm ...Screen burn questionDoes anyone know how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching the snooker on my LCD Panasonic tv for the last 3 hours, when i changed the chann…
... you can see the outline of the snooker table on the screen (as snooker fans ... will know, most of the ... action is off the ...
