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External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
... here got experience of Spectrum to Spectrum comms using a pair ... RX switch when you wanted to transmit or receive.
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Someone managed to set up a BBS with ... the sysop had to be there to hit the line ... A Speccy would be able to do the same with ... -
I'm a naughty little man!I've had quite a dodgy week or so, some rather disturbing news back home (bad things going on with my ma, but I won't bore you with the details) has …
... of human existence. We have to work for a living, raise ... 's what you've got to do in your life, you ... fantastic! Then she'd have to fight the crazy dog with ... Britain would go, "Hey, fair play to the Queen,- killed the crazy ... -
GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... be the best for Spectrum emulation if it wasn' ...
The GP2x emulates the Spectrum perfectly and allows saves and ... map all the GP2x controls to Spectrum keys and it's ... a bit unfriendly when compared to the NDS one.
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GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... , and slows the emulation down to a crawl (rather than stopping ... knows ARM assembly good enough to write decent code.
to mention the really bad colour ... map all the GP2x controls to Spectrum keys[/QUOTE]
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Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... doing video conversions from pc to spectrum with bmp2scr, I have a ... /> -option to save converted avi file not just with spectrum image quality ... to 1-bit, 4-bit (ay) or 7-bit (ay) spectrum ... WIP copy to Sintech and WoMo Team from German Spectrum Clubs, so ... -
GP2X or DS: which is best for the speccyHi - just joined but have been reading posts for years and I know ye are as passionate about the Speccy as I am! :-) I've waited so long to buy eit…
... that allowed you to map all GBA buttons to Spectrum key presses or ... difference over Foon, the other Spectrum emu on GBA.
to the Spectrum to try games.
to get back to the menu and have ... -
7 to 9" TFT screen on SpectrumI'm willing to buy one of those and connect the Spectrum via the Composite Video input. Has anyone tried that? What kind of image quality may be expe…
... I just found a bit to do with tuning frequencies, which ... -such, it will default to SECAM". I'll take ... X 480' is meant to refer to the screen resolution - it ... Maplin one) have the chutzpah to describe the resolution as ' ... of being honest... fair play to them :-) -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... " ideas that unfortunately never came to Spectrum.
As an example ... ,3,7,11,17,0 TO 3
PRINT i;
you big babythis is the biggest baby ive every seen. [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_russia_baby[/url]
... ) just makes me faint. Fair play to any women who have kids ...Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …
... find apLib to give the best compression usable on Spectrum, and ... aplib.html[/url]) aiming to decompress SCREEN$s directly ... data back from column based to Spectrum video memory.
I ... to minimize the storage requirements and increase loading speed of Spectrum ...new spectrum testhi i have made a silly but nice spectrum test the test is a word association game where you get the first word or words and the second word or words…
[quote=hillelr;219435]press play on tape is the right answer![/quote]
Not according to the test: "Press play to continue"
Andrewnew spectrum testhi i have made a silly but nice spectrum test the test is a word association game where you get the first word or words and the second word or words…
[QUOTE=andrew_rollings;219440]Not according to the test: "Press play to continue"
Andrew[/QUOTE]
Doh, I'm in the wrong test thread.new spectrum testhi i have made a silly but nice spectrum test the test is a word association game where you get the first word or words and the second word or words…
Ok I took the test, and would have gone with, press play on tape, but for the fact that it docks you 5% So I went with press play to continue.
And I still got 95%
Fnrk?Beautiful Young MindsDid anybody watch the documentary on BBC2 last night - "Beautiful Young Minds" ? (i.e. Sunday 14th October 2007) ? I just caught the last half hour …
... that I would never amount to anything.
Boy, did ... were surprised I was married to a drop dead gorgeous woman ... -Level![/QUOTE]
Fair play to ya big lad. :)Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
"Head over Heels" is an easy choice for me. It simply oozes class and it's still great fun to play. To have remained so good and so impressive over two decades is quite an achievement.another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... b]unavoidable[/b] limitations to either machine imposed by hardware ... major drawback when compared to Spectrum gamewise lies in its ... are "good to excellent" on Spectrum and "poor to abysmal" on ... incarnation, Fairlight was doomed to be painfully slow, because ...many rare games on ebay[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320205136066&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling[/url] tee hee :)
He does have R@RE, LOOK! etc in the description so perhaps hes taking the mick
Either way fair play to him for putting them on for 99p starting price instead of 50 quid or somethingMULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... /> Thanx.
And about Spectrum SE. As for me very ... time: is there any possibility to change attribute interpretation by ULA ... thing: is it possible to add to Spectrum SE graphic mode with, lets ...A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
Great post. It's good to see that I'm not ... old books and magazines, listening to Spectrum tunes, using loading noise as ... movies from the 80s, listening to music from the 80s, using ... 'Sinclair' on it, I try to use airlines that show 'ZX ...Ebay Victory!HAHA! Oh, I know I shouldn't gloat.... but someone tried to snipe a speccy auction I was after and I sniped him back and won it! WOOHOO..... Happy …
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'Truely a classic' to most games ! ;)
Surprised ... to know that he has over ... many games (fair play to him) but never seemed to chat hardly about ...Ebay Victory!HAHA! Oh, I know I shouldn't gloat.... but someone tried to snipe a speccy auction I was after and I sniped him back and won it! WOOHOO..... Happy …
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'Truely a classic' to most games ! ;)
Surprised ... to know that he has over ... many games (fair play to him) but never seemed to chat hardly about ...
Players Software - How to Be a Complete Pasty - 128K ...moral DilemmasA friend of mine plays in a Heavy metal tribute band. This weekend I was supposed to go and watch them, however the band broke up so it was canceled.…
... pill' shocked me, always said to them 'well what about anything ... a 5th with him ! Fair play to him for standing by her ... who he wouldnt have wanted to get pregnant (he wasnt aware ... ! Serves him right but fair play for sticking with her and ...Most difficult game to playThanks to Rickard's thread about Skulduggery (or however they wanted to interpret the English language) where you had to not only control your charac…
... ever)...but the prize goes to Tau Ceti in my opinion ... of them you only need to use fairly infrequently. Flying around ... docking is a doddle compared to Elite.
On the ... 's an extremely long haul to play to a finish...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... , thanks Andrew. It's going to be pushing it I think ... and haven't got back to spectrum things for a while. But ... I'm hoping to resume this week.RealSpectrum doesn't work in 48k mode.It doesn't. All that happens is a black screen with a few vertical red lines, which disappears after about 1/10 of a second. Then, it goes blank, w…
Check out Colin Woodcock's book, [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumOnYourPCThe.pdf]The ZX Spectrum on Your PC[/url] which is a very useful reference to Spectrum emulation for beginners.If you were to change back to the Speccy?What game/program would do it for you?
... the third) could be ported to Spectrum. Puzzle Quest needs more CPU ...Your 80's playlistOkay here is mine and now on my iPod: Kids in America - Kim Wilde Rio - Duran Duran Goody Two Shoes - Adam & The Ants Don't You (Forget About Me) - …
... and my friends used to all hang out in ... few of my mates used to download tunes.
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i used to have one of them before ... though, you'd be chilling to some ambient music, then ... someone one left a song play to the end, chances are ...ZX Spin and real tape modeTrying to load games into the ZX Spin real tape mode on my mp3 player and i seem to it to even load. What socket do i need to connect my mp3 play to …
[QUOTE=morcar;252235]Trying to load games into the ... mp3 player and i seem to it to even load. What socket ... i need to connect my mp3 play to for the emu to load the ... mind
[21:39] trying to load games into it using ... do i have to use on my pc to load the ...Interesting setup at Retromadrid'08[url]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/galeria/main.php/v/reuniones/rm2008/Octocom+-+demo+Insert+Coins+2.JPG.html[/url] [url]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/ga…
... /> One switch allow external drive to be "A:" or ? B:? (external ... drive get use to be "B :?)
The ... ? disk drive works in a Spectrum +3 like a 3? driver ... interface that turn db25 connector to spectrum +3 disk B connector (Only ...Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…
I thought Rescue by Mastertronic was an underated game (at the time). It has some nice colourful graphics and is one of the games i still play to this day.
Space Gun by Ocean was another game that should have got more recognition!
