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Can I fix it?This PC was stored in a the spare bedroom at a jaunty angle of 30 degrees for several months. I powered it up today and was greeted with a 1..2.3. b…
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Features that never made it into the SpectrumAlthough kind of a Hardware question (a kind moderator might want to move it, I was 50/50 on where to post it, I don't mind) , I was thinking about t…
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ZEsarUX-7.1Hi! There’s a new stable version of ZEsarUX, version 7.1! The next 24th of September it will be 5 years old :) So this is a special anniversary…
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Added setting --random-r-register to generate random value for R ... use that register as a random value
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FANTASY THEMED block falling game.I have no idea why, but I was trying to get to sleep last night and this game appeared in my head... kept me awake a while! Anyway, it has the usual…
... white wizards to destroy 3 random red enemy blocks
... magenta warriors to destroy 3 random red enemy blocks
Match ... cyan dwarves to destroy 2 random red enemy blocks
... a critical hit - destroying 5 random red enemy blocks.
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Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…
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WoS Charity draw.As a thank you for everyone donating to WoS last year, I have generated a random set of raffle number for all donations. In a change to the charit…
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Your thoughts on Hewson's NetherworldHi, I never played this one back in the day, although the cover illustration always caught my eye. I've played it for quite some time on emulators…
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Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…
Hello guys,
Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE.
It seems that PRINTing a string$ combined of UDG is the fastest, at the expense of the available UDG chars, of course. As an ... -
If Sinclair computers had not been sold...I was just having a random thought. If Sinclair Computers (or the rights to them, not sure how it 'worked' back then) had not been sold to Amstrad…
I was just having a random thought.
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Todays rant! There must be something archaic about my wiring! Because Heather bought me a nice smartphone oh about two or three years ago and I simply could not…
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Devils of the Deep - what to do?game is (very) slow, but it has its "charm"... manual is on WoS... 1st thing is to find a KNIFE, then you can chop seaweed and eat it to restore …
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Were the SciFi Fighting Fantasy books so bad?I stopped reading FF books after about Armies Of Death, #36. But they started printing only fantasy based ones after #33 Sky Lord. They ran all the w…
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Raw Rumble Sound?Hi all. I am looking for a set of bytes that could be sent to the AY-3-8910 PSG to make a "rumbling earthquake" sound using the white nose generator.…
Hi all. I am looking for a set of bytes that could be sent to the AY-3-8910 PSG to make a "rumbling earthquake" sound using the white nose generator. Can anyone point me to a resource that would help me make?
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Music: If you like this, you will like that.So at work with our very high speed internet connections I have youtube on the go all day listening to Jean Michael Jarre, Gorgio Moroder, Todd Terje…
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1982 Atari game, 'Entombed' - with uncrackable maze algorithmInteresting article: [url="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190919-the-maze-puzzle-hidden-within-an-early-video-game"]The mysterious origins of a…
Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url]
I did a random pick and this is what I got...Multi-Platform Arcade Game DesignerFirst of all, I should say Hello, having left the Spectrum scene around a year ago. I'm not planning to make a return but figured that I have some n…
... replaced with an intelligent events generator to generate much of the ... sprites, bullet sprites, point the generator at the sprites you want ...Looking for Chaos remake "Chaos Groove"The best Chaos remake is Chaos Groove but the homepage for it has become defunct. The version I had on my old hd before it became corrupted included …
... board size modification and monster generator boxes. I am unable to ...Alien: ReversalI found it fascinating how some ideas to reverse--[i]play for the [b]other [/b]no-symmetry party[/i]--involves totally unique exp. So, how about a…
... , where you can place a random egg and control, say, a ...+2B: where's the tape signal gone?So, this is what I really came here for today... I've got two +2Bs, one with an issue 1 board and some extra soldered wires, and one with an issue…
... to fling small objects in random directions with little provocation.
Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…
... of 512 items with a random selection between 0 and 3 ... come next a routine to random sample this population, and see ...16k and PEEK 40000 (on a real 16k Spectrum)?Imagine a real 16k Spectrum (without any RAM expansion or circuits fitted). What would I get if I do a PEEK or try to access memory over 32767? Wo…
... 49152?
- some kind of random (I mean, not a fixed ...Random search in the WoS database with an optional minimum scoreAgain, this score should be retrieved from magazine ratings or taken directly from user reviews or user comments which were present in the old WoS we…
Again, this score should be retrieved from magazine ratings or taken directly from user reviews or user comments which were present in the old WoS website.New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
... a few game pages at random to compare old WoS (search ... page at new WoS at random, you will notice almost all ...How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... 60000" because we actually use random numbers. Try replace line 100 ...doubt about swapping ULA in an issue 2 boardIs it possible to swap a 6C001E-6 ULA type with a 5C112E ? I have this issue 2 board that is not booting, it shows me a black border with horizont…
... black bars and a few random squares.
I'm suspecting ...Games with proper "Micro Manuals"COMBINED CASSETTE INLAY AND "MICRO" SIZED INSTRUCTION MANUAL This is something I have not come across before . Two staples are used to hold it al…
... SCANATRON . And there is a RANDOM LETTER BLOCK inside the cassette ...ZEsarUX 9.1New ZEsarUX stable version 9.1 :) You will find, as always, compiled versions for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac and Windows. The source code is available,…
... fill types: RainbowAlive, Chess, Grid, Random
-Improved input number windows ...Computer Literacy Project - An alternative realityAlthough given quite a few things sadly it was unlikely the Speccy would of won the BBC's "Computer Literacy Project" , I had a random thought: If…
... Literacy Project" , I had a random thought:
If say ...
