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Which Is Best?! Nitro, Super Cars II or Overdrive (Amiga)Hi everyone and welcome to the August edition of Which Is Best? Last month I placed an Amiga and Atari ST not well known fast racers against each ot…
... faster than the other game, plus unlike Ammotrak, Highway Hawks didn ... only you will decide that :-D
Happy voting!!! Zeus.
Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
... of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It ... way more options than I'd ever need.
Despite ... stored as 8 bytes each (plus a byte for width), aligned ...1986 Best Loading Screen: from D to F.Vote, vote, vote your top five among these delightful loading screens from 1986, this round is from D to F, yes, F again because it occured to me tha…
... /pub/sinclair/screens/load/d/gif/DanDare-PilotOfTheFuture.gif ... /pub/sinclair/screens/load/d/gif/DemonFromTheDarkside.gif[/img ... /pub/sinclair/screens/load/d/gif/DraculaPart1-TheFirstNight.gif[/ ... /pub/sinclair/screens/load/d/gif/DundeesEuropeanChallenge.gif[/img]< ...Does anyone know whatever happened to Miles Kinlock?In the 1990s, during the 'dark times' of the Spectrum (between the commercial magazine days of old, and the then in-the-future forums of WOS), a few …
... two operating systems for the +D (offical OS, and the ... his door. And he'd never appeared on any Spectrum ... I can't imagine he'd just suddenly decide to ... off all contact with people. Plus he loved the Speccy, so ... I'd have thought he'd visit WOS or ...3.5" disk drive on plus 3 or HXC/GotekHello all I have a zx spectrum +3 and in the late 90s I used a teac FD-235F drive as an external 3.5 drive. It was very eay to connect as it had …
... state if they are speccy plus 3 compatible.
thanks ...Live and learn and be thankful for the opportunityOver at the SpecNext Facebook page there's a video from Kim - forget the last name - about the covertape wars which is yet another facet of Speccy lo…
... them here and grabbed them plus 'Pippo' which boozy gave a ... UK in 1984. If I'd stayed the magazines would have ...Just had the weirdest power cut ever Oothis morning i was posting Johnny Cash songs on google+, then i took the dog out. Came back noticed the downstairs lamp was flickering so thought it …
... media player still had electric, plus the bedroom telly came on ... ask a neighbour and he'd phoned em, his was the ...Adding PC files to a DSK imageHi everyone, I expected this question to have been asked before, but couldn't find anything with a quick search of the Forum. I have a bunch o…
... on my PC, which I'd like to add to a ... access them from CP/M Plus, running on an emulator such ...wtb: Spectrum and/or Spectrum Plus CaseLooking to buy a Spectrum (rubber key) and a Plus case. I would be interested in a case only, or a non functional machine - don't want to take a wor…
... Spectrum (rubber key) and a Plus case. I would be interested ...Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
... :
3, 8, E, I, D, X, K, M.
However ... which are all Caps Shift plus a non-working key.
D key). I found a working ... it's loose, which I'd assume it shouldn't be ..."ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... that the school used Mac Plus, Classic and LC II ... RPN calculator program he'd written on an Apple ... b]
I'd already written a screen-drawing ... right place. If they'd only had to be centralised ... result of a calculation, d and e are both automatically ...LA ConfidentialDear WOS, I've been playing Grand Theft Auto 5 on the PC recently and an idea hit me: Take an awesome game (GTA 5) and an awesome movie (LA Confid…
... Confidential's crime story, it'd have to be a 128K ... be playable).
Plus, it'd be interesting to hear Jerry ...z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... 'P' one is, presumably, the "plus" version and the 'M' one ... differences are?
Edit: D'oh! 3 minutes after posting ...Spectrum games collection for saleHi all I'm having a clear out and all my old ZX Spectrum games must go. The reason being is I'm now marrried and I need to give the other half so…
... 1987
Double Dragon Mastertronic Plus
Double Dragon 3
P.O.D Mastertronic
Pedro Imagine
Plus
16k Spectrum Value Pack ...UFO Defence Command: XCOM without the tactical battles!I've got it into my head to create a Spectrum game that's basically XCOM, only without all the parts where you're personally guiding soldiers around …
... your best troops, who you'd given amusingly meaningful names to ... game already on the go, plus it's been literally decades ...TV programs that jumped the shark (then fell off a cliff)[b]Can one of the mods move this to the chit-chat forum, please? Sorry, I posted it whilst fixing another PC and my tiny brain can't cope with two th…
... pre-season five special, he'd given that up and is ... Creek seasons 1 to 4 plus the first two pre-season ... the specials hoping that they'd have deleted scenes that explained ...The aliens who built Stonehenge must be laughing at how stupid we humans areSome rapper is looking to crowd fund 'research' whereby he intends to prove that the Earth is flat. He intends to raise $200,000 (£150,000) to launch…
... satellite and then launch it, plus can you actually have a ... cause anything to orbit, I'd have thought.
TS-2068I have a Timex Sinclair listed on ebay in the US for $79 US dollars. I'd be willing to sell it outside of ebay if anyone is interested, but I'd ha…
... $79 US dollars.
I'd be willing to sell it ... anyone is interested, but I'd have to take google wallet ... shipping estimate through USPS is $66.50 for 6lbs and it ...Something my dad did for me...Today, what's left of it, is what would have been my dad's 75th birthday, but he never made it past 50. Here's something he did for me, other than…
... to IBM PCs), sometimes he'd bring home a stash of ... no longer needed because they'd bought new devices that used ... the C15 computer cassettes we'd get from Boots or W ... after that. 30 years later, plus or minus a couple of ... !" I wonder what he'd have made of the 32 ...Games with help for deaf people?On another forum, there's a discussion about the lack of subtitles in some action games. But there are seemingly no game developers on that forum, an…
... louder when the enemy approaches. Plus stealth games make your own ... sounds. And by now, you'd think there would be all ...No-tearing (“vsync”) Full Screen FadeSeeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I wrote my own routine which does away with that problem. Simple, effective, short, and fully re…
... screen area,
ld a,d ;plus generous overlap to account for ...Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…
... -myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-audio-fix-guide ... is a little puzzling. I’d be willing to suspect a ...Gandalf [z88dk][Nirvana Plus][128Kb]Gandalf 1.00 [url="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T9HK0_isoMrfogSIJVhPGehjVIdFus4c"]Download Ver 1.00[/url] Long after the destruction of t…
... z88dk compiler , the fabulous Nirvana Plus, and the genial Vortex II ...Livestream EP.8 - Atari ST Gaming EditionLivestream EP.8 this sunday 6pm - Atari ST edition Hi all, this sunday at 6pm (GMT) I'll be livestreaming Atari ST games on my youtube retro game ch…
... tune will also be featured plus possibly the ususal appearence of ... asked to show him lol :-D
Here's a ...Retro Game Youtube Livestream - Amiga II Edition Sunday 6pm (GMT).A week earlier than planned but because of popular demand, larger viewcounts and Snoopy's birthday tomorrow,...my Labrador, (plus a week off work!) I…
... 's birthday tomorrow,...my Labrador, (plus a week off work!) I ... , it's become very enjoyable :-D
So feel free to ..."Monty Hall" problem in Spectrum BasicFollowing a rather odd conversation with my wife regarding the probability puzzle "[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem"]The Monty …
... "I:";i;"+ D:";d;" C:";c;" R:";d$(d)
220 IF d$(d)="C" THEN ... :";i;"* D:";d;" C:";c;" R:";d$(d);" M:";m
350 IF d$(d)="C ... doors
430 PRINT d$(1);":";d$(2);":";d$(3)
440 RETURN ... - should be 2/3 or 66%).
Can anyone see ...Free gifts per donation?We are being offered items as gifts for people that donate to WoS. I'm not entirely sure how to handle these items! We can't make a profit or oper…
... costs per year, plus two charities we'd like to donate to ... hosting costs per year). We'd also open a poll to ...Load of ZX81 GamesHi all, just clearing out some stuff here and came across a load of ZX81 game cassettes that are looking for a new home. The games are: Supe…
... Raiders
Asking €10 plus postage / paypal fees.
I ... 'd attach a picture, but I ...ZX spectrum +3 CPM plusDoes anyone know where to get the plus 3 version from as there is no dsk files and the company who used to sell it is no more. I had the original di…
Does anyone know where to get the plus 3 version from as there is no dsk files and the company who used to sell it is no more.
I had the original disk and manual back in the with mallard basic.
