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Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
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Does anybody know the POKE to stop the Bytes: blahblah being ... displayed that uses only 1 poke command, and needs only 1 ... have to use it before every LOAD command)?
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unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…
... from LodeRunner and something to crack Lenslok on one of the ... if anyone (Woody?) wants to try to crack it, together with ... the utilities I wrote to auto-crack most of ... far as it needed to then perform a NEW, ... forward the relevant stuff to Steve to play/scan in.< ... -
BonwesharUctopurdidn?t anyone correct the transcription of this title in the archive? [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Bonweshar+Uctopur$&p…
where?s mel anyway... haven?t seem him lately in this forum, he browses other ones... did anyone use a poke to protect the games forum from mel? ;) -
Listing Lenslok and Padlock protected softwareI was wondering if we could try to come up with lists of all software using either [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Lenslok+…
... shouldn't be too hard to remove these. I say this ... I've successfully removed the Lenslok from Art Studio, Tomahawk and ... that it's far easier to use those in an emulator ... bespoke protection system) specifically to remove Lenslok if anyone wants that published ... -
The SGC is over!Run to know the winners and see the plaques :) [url="http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/network/sgc/results.php"]http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/networ…
... that someone is still accessing to the vote pages (which ... explained when I was about to add the polls, there ... the best option was to set a Cookie in ... be allowed to vote. This is ?ber easy to bypass, but I ... the voting.
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Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
... are THREE loading screens dedicated to advertising a certain brand of ... , was bobbins) took 87 years to load.
And finally ... can't work out the POKE to suppress the "Start tape, then ... -
+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... talking about - ripping disk images to tape/disk.
DB2 ... image (as a security measure to prevent piracy). Still, as I ... first place, I would need to program the PD765 controller chip ... it's the only way to bypass (and therefore copy perfectly, tracks ... -
Legal Sinclair clones?Are any of the cloned Sinclair computers legal, other than the original Timex machines? Are the QL Clones legal? Could a legal clone be produced with…
... make a bona fide effort to avoid infringing copyright, it seems ... that you have to enforce copyrights for them to be valid, ... spec) so it ought to be possible to independently write compatible routines ... on Fuse's tape traps to bypass the routine - or rather, ... -
req: hack/poke for 3D deathchase border colourBack in the day, I used to have a version of 3d deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white one, it made it much better, especiall…
... in the day, I used to have a version of 3d ... with it, anyone got a poke to change it, weird request i ... -
manic miner version?in the archive I?ve found this screen from MicroHobby: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/MicroHobby/Issue061/Pages/MicroHobb…
... know that. I still seem to have the Oric "manic.tap ... " I have has been modified to bypass the copy protection - that's ... sprite timings pretty much identical to the speccy version.
to the end, just to see the additional ... -
manic miner version?in the archive I?ve found this screen from MicroHobby: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/MicroHobby/Issue061/Pages/MicroHobb…
... that. I still seem to have the Oric "manic ... I have has been modified to bypass the copy protection - that' ...
The inferior graphics is to do with the Oric's ... 256x192, so to fit, the graphics had to be shrunk ... , which can lead to horrendous colour clash ! :) -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... It is indeed very easy to do hardware pixel scrolling in ... a single poke to VIC chip will offset to one of 8 ... do your 7 pixel shifts to the left, and then ... , the screen reverts back to it's original position, ... course, there's nothing to stop anyone using hi-res ... -
Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... PEEK and POKE etc (with 512K spanning from 16384 to 540671) , ... use those values in BASIC to POKE to the screen, even blit ... !)
POKE 507904, MEM$(100000 to 124575) (Poke it to the screen!)< ... be OUTing to VMPR anyway to set the screen to be displayed. -
Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... The viterbi encoder tries to determine to what volumes and what ... the channels should be changed to minimize the clicks). However, ... with better quality. They had to prepare the sample somewhere and ... address and lenght values, use POKE to set the m.c. player ... -
Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... -- just click on OUT to change to SPEAKER and hit PLAY again ... , then used SOX again to convert to whatever the destination format was ... SD or compactflash card attached to your speccy.
... address and lenght values, use POKE to set the m.c. player ... -
Next Category - Level 9Since we all seem to have gone poll crazy, I thought I'd continue the trend and do one for the masters of the adventure game - Level 9. Naturally, T…
... the first Level 9 games to get a wider release; ... half-empty flask is going to contain some air. The ... there was a neat cheat to bypass it, so that wasn't ... nice selection of easy puzzles to get you going and ... seemed like a desperate attempt to fend off the rising ... -
Next Category - Level 9Since we all seem to have gone poll crazy, I thought I'd continue the trend and do one for the masters of the adventure game - Level 9. Naturally, T…
... there was a neat cheat to bypass it, so that wasn't ... selection of easy puzzles to get you going and ... like a desperate attempt to fend off the rising ... worked.
As to the scuba diving gear... again ... game doens't seem to allow you to put just the ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... , which was all PEEK and POKE.
Here is ... in one file. The poke to enable room re-entry(key_enable ... at $FCAA, its set to 0 in the source.
to destroy/explode part of the ... block is exploded next to it Can explode walls ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... which was all PEEK and POKE.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for ... labelled in one file. The poke to enable room re-entry(key_enable ... and perform direct POKEd modifications to this, allowing export of a ... . Volcanoes get destroyed, but continue to erupt.
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SequelsSorry if this is an old thread. Can anyone think of a sequel of a game that's better than the original? The only one I can think of is Strider 2 or …
... filed by Elite due to simularities to Commando. The company which ... changes which made it able to bypass the injunction and was released ... significant deal with Capcom to bring Commando to home computers and ... and we were advised to go to the High Court and ... -
the best version of bruce lee(which one?!) :)
To me the Speccy version is ... />
But I just wanted to point out that there is ... , but it' s insanely hard to beat !!!
I don't ... are tons of cheats to make games easier to play, but in ... if somebody could find a poke to make enemies faster (or repawn ... -
More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... consider the difficulty of having to take into account every ... easier than console piracy, not to mention the computer-illiterate users ... an obvious (and futile) attempt to bypass your spam checker?
I'm never going to reply to any form of spam, and ... -
More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... an obvious (and futile) attempt to bypass your spam checker?
I'm never going to reply to any form of spam, and ... [/QUOTE]
I prefer to call these emails 'great marketing ... '.
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Stopping autostart/autorun and entering POKEsHi, I want to enter some POKEs into a game on my ZX Spectrum, but whenever i do a LOAD "", my games always autorun. Is there any way I can get the pr…
... spectrum games you are likely to want to play (and cheat) either ... the code unpacks the game to its final (workable) state.
poke to the game you want to cheat using an ... then save this snapshot back to tape using a program like ... -
8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... but I'm guessing not) to access the high and low ... short"[/i]
To answer myself, a few simple ... that it's not possible to read fields as a ... , AFAIK). The alternative is to create an array of two ... . It might be possible to bypass the verifier but I don ... -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... br /> Suppose I want to exit to BASIC using the Multiface, ... long enough to allow me to exit to BASIC. I ... QUOTE]
Use SpecEmu24 to load moorhunn.wav, it ... the game and poke it to point to your routine in ... screen should be a poke to restore the changes you ... -
Hidden gamesAs you may or may not know, Zub has a hidden game in it (a kind of shoot em up). Is there any other games which have hidden games in them? I guess …
Booty has a hidden game - I think if I remember correctly you have to load it with a Currah Microspeech to get to it. (Although there is a POKE to get into it too) -
Games that CANNOT be completed if you cheat?Was just letting my mind wander this evening (oo-er!) and was thinking what games CANNOT be completed IF you cheat? All I could think of were the Mo…
[i]Spellbound[/i] (MAD) / [i]Crime Busters[/i] was another one (they're the same game): the POKE to prevent characters starving to death actually prevents the game ending in [b][i]any[/i][/b] way whatsoever...
