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Faster Manic MinerHey, dudes. I've been fiddling around trying to wring more speed out of this game recently. I've replaced the LDIR buffer copying routines with s…
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Smart platform-action games?Most platform-action games for the Speccy rely on "fast thinking" (to keep running while avoiding enemies) and pixel-precision movement (mostly jumpi…
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New NIRVANA tool: WTF!"[b]WTF![/b]" (Wide Tile Format converter) is a command-line tool to convert multicolor file formats from [b]btile[/b] (bicolor tile) to [b]wtile[/b]…
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quest adventureI'm playing it because it is recommended by someone here, In two locations it says 'there is something solid here' There is no examine command so I…
I'm playing it because it is recommended by someone here,
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best games post 2000 ?What do you all think ? What's been the best game or games of the last 16 years for the speccy ! I've not been keeping up so need some pointers but a…
What do you all think ? What's been the best game or games of the last 16 years for the speccy ! I've not been keeping up so need some pointers but also it would be good to know what everyone thinks so I can build up a bit of a list to go through. Spending ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 03 July 2016Sunday 03 July 2016 Welcome to the June update. In July (eh? Ed) * Andy Ford provided even more POKEs for Back To Skool and Skool Daze; a cheat …
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Night Breed and Viking Quest 3.
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Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…
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Dodgiest games?Which games would never get made today? Soho Sex Quest probably would, but I think the bouncing Arabs in Turmoil would be a definite no-no.
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Heavy on the Magick vs Knightmare (TV show) - similarities Whilst being immersed in all things Magick at the moment, I’m once again struck by a lot of similarities between HOTM and Knightmare, the legendary…
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Learn and use assembly language. Tony WoodsDoes anyone have an English scan of http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000213 There is a copy on Amazon, but it's £2000! Than…
Does anyone have an English scan of
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000213
There is a copy on Amazon, but it's £2000!
Thanks
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Jet-Set Willy: The Text Adventure!!! :DSo, having been playing quite a bit of Zork, and Colossal Cave Adventure of late, I thought to myself, why not mix it up with another childhood class…
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wav2pzx 3.0 - Convert ZX Spectrum tape recordings to the .PZX formatThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum and related computers primarily stored their software on audio cassette tapes. While most emulators for these machines suppo…
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Collectorabilia Sales Event - Leeds Town Hall 17th SeptemberThe Collectorabilia returns and to a bigger venue with more sellers!! If you couldnt find what you wanted at the Super Retro Games Fair then you may…
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Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …
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Retro ClassiX magazine scansThese are the only three issues I have of Retro ClassiX magazine produced by Graham Howard. Issue 14 https://www.sendspace.com/file/js7gft Iss…
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The RZX Request ThreadI have no idea if anything like this has ever been tried - but given that I am only a very occasional visitor these days I'd hope you all don't mind …
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Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
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The things you miss.Kaija has just reminded me of my little routines that are slowly disappearing due to time / age. Do you guys have anything in your life that you miss…
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Fuse 1.3.1 releasedA new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulato…
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Why do we have to live with colour clash on the Spectrum Next - if it ever gets sold!I can fully sympathize with those who would like to see a 'new' Spectrum, presumably modelled on the last and best version with perhaps the option to…
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1986 Best Loading Screen: from # to C.I'm nullifying [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53546/best-1986-loading-screen-to-b#latest"]this previous thread[/url] about th…
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ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 26 November 2016Saturday 26 November 2016 It's been a quiet couple of months, tip-wise. Just as well, really, as Real Life has been anything but. * Corrected t…
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Mysterious Dimensions, Pac-Man, Quest for the Holy Joystick,
The death of Rock n Roll and why rock died?I know most of you guys are more Punk & Techo oriented, I've always been more a Hard Rock / Grunge / Metal fan. While I work, I spend most of my …
... how great rock was from 2000 /2008
My point ... bands.
But after 2000 you had sort of the ...Zombo's Christmas Capers!(From my brother's blog...) [img]https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FmpTjyJSpXU/WDL89_wyKpI/AAAAAAAAA68/u7EQuv892J0R6DIpKwqTBUTH91Hdre3bgCLcB/s1600/ZomboC…
... , but there's a Shootybang 2000™ somewhere which'll probably come ... in mind that the Shootybang 2000™ can only fire horizontally).
Iffy memories of a platform game...I'm trying to identify a game I played back in the day. All I can remember about it is that it was a flick-screen platformer, it had quite chunky gra…
... the scenery (I think 2x2 pixel blocks), and one screen was ...My DIY joystick project from long agoDear WOS, A few years ago, some of you may remember I embarked on a one-man quest to design and develop an arcade-quality Atari-compatible joysti…
... embarked on a one-man quest to design and develop an ...Games That Will Be 10 in 2017The yearly list of some games that are turning ten, just to make you realise how ancient you're getting.... ;) Lost Planet : Extreme Condition …
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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Painkiller ...
