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  • Mame issuesI've only recently got hold of the MAME emulator and I thought I'll fire up some old arcade classics and see what the originals were like. Unfortun…

    ... everyday, but be warned to read a few posts before asking ... , so it comes with a `key` in the zip, you need ...
    CKay CKay December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    ... up the hole opposite the read/write tab.
    [/quote]
    key"?
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Changes to Retro Gamer magazine.For those of you who have heard of the UK-based magazine Retro Gamer, we are currently planning some changes. Here are the rough ideas that we have …

    ... Anthology (THANKS RG`er), but read all issues as a friendwas ... joined words but my Space key is buggered/wonkeyand too tired ...
    CKay CKay January 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help me with something important here pleaseHello everybody, I was wondering if anybody could help me. I'm trying to load a "picture" from the real tape into emulator. I used to create many …

    ... " simultaneously then let go. The cursor should change to a flashing ... 's in red below the key, whereas CODE is above "i ... or similar that explain the key layout (if it tells you ...
    VincentAC VincentAC March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help me with something important here pleaseHello everybody, I was wondering if anybody could help me. I'm trying to load a "picture" from the real tape into emulator. I used to create many …

    ... " simultaneously then let go. The cursor should change to a flashing ... 's in red below the key, whereas CODE is above "i ... or similar that explain the key layout (if it tells you ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... a Tabulation key)
    Chr$ 7 = Edit
    Chr$ 8 = Cursor back ...
    zx_if1 zx_if1 April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... that I use only to read the keyboard.
    In these ... change.
    You can read the "graphic" key by means of chr ... codes 0 to 3 I read a combination of keys that ...
    zx_if1 zx_if1 April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    sorry I like say chr$ 7 to edit and chr$ 6 to read the caps lock key
    zx_if1 zx_if1 April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Have your parents ever packed away your Speccy?...have they? they did to me when I was in 4th grade as they thought I would spend too much time on it, and neglect my homework... So the speccy was …

    ... am my parents kept the key and locked the thing when ... .
    That lasted until I read the manual, opened the PC ... the keyboard instead of the key :(
    cascarria cascarria April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Protection against MERGEI remember using a routine to protect against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the lines of :- 1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 …

    ... a string of CHR$ 8 (cursor left) characters before your message ... the string of digits to read something different.
    gasman gasman April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... editor at all which is key to me as i dont ... for it and I actually READ the instructions (which are very ...
    Skarpo Skarpo May 2005 Development
  • What control keys for Jungle Trouble?I feel a bit embarrassed asking this,but what are the correct control keys for playing Jungle Trouble? I've managed to find the left and right but no…

    ... :-

    5 or Cursor Left - Left or Strike Monkey ...
    8 or Cursor Right - Right or Chop ... Tree
    6 or Cursor Down - Down
    7 ... or Cursor Up - Up or Jump
    key and press jump. After a ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous May 2005 Games
  • Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?

    ... , an RZX records merely the key presses so the average file ... correct. RZX records all bytes read by IN opcodes, along with ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2005 Games
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... the number of the key currently pressed in the ... (or 255 if no key is being pressed). So ... your redefine key routine should CALL this ... the memory location for the key you're redefining.
    ... call that ROM routine, read the E register and store ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2005 Development
  • Diagnostics on SpeccyHi, can anyone please tell me what key combo after you reset that you have to hold down to get the diagnostics for the speccy to show itself? I think…

    ... ]. You hold down the Break key while you press the reset ... Speculator emulator hold the Esc key on your PC and press ... 128.

    Better still read the instruction manual!

    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Diagnostics on SpeccyHi, can anyone please tell me what key combo after you reset that you have to hold down to get the diagnostics for the speccy to show itself? I think…

    ... ]. You hold down the Break key while you press the reset ... Speculator emulator hold the Esc key on your PC and press ... 128.

    Better still read the instruction manual!

    Skarpo Skarpo May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help with loadingI made a simple input game, and saved to tape/verified it (I bought the spectrum for ?1 at my church fete on saturday) and when I go to 'loader' on t…

    ... of the cursor keys (you can press any key, but cursor keys are ... J and the double quotes key twice). Load your program. Press ...
    pottyboy pottyboy July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Help with dead Spectrum +2aHello. My Spectrum +2a died some time ago. It was powered on, I looked away and next time I looked at it, screen was black. I have replaced the 4 r…

    ... pressing the up or down cursor buttons?
    [/quote]
    I ... tried to boot with BREAK key (should display test pattern with ...
    Timppa Timppa July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ArmalyteI am sure a lot of folks here remember Armalyte, the fabulous C64 shoot-em-up that almost came out on the speccy. I think there was a demo on some of…

    ... ,A,O,P to move cursor.

    N,M - cycle ... the whole level - press another key to return to the editor ... the tile at the current cursor position.

    1 - flips ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Games
  • Redefining Keyswondering if there is any way that keys can be redefined in games that don't allow it (E.g Hunchback 1). (at the minute, it is some crazy config like…

    ... in turn and tap the key that you want it to ... .

    When done, the cursor keys and Ctrl will work ... you don't like the cursor keys then you can use ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2005 Emulators
  • Key press to ASCII valueI need a bit of code that will give me an ASCII value when the key is pressed. I only really need a-z. I tried using the following code but it only s…

    ... e,(c) ; read status of key row
    ld ... /> inc d ; another key pressed
    jr z ... ld h,a ; remember which key

    .nopress ...
    scf ; indicate key was registered
    ret ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2005 Development
  • Press any keyI need to write a z80 function that waits for a user to press any key. As it is possible that the user may be pressing a key when the function is cal…

    ... " are pressed. If any other key is pressed it will wait ... then waits for a "proper" key press. But if the e ... /> Yes. As you know, to read *all* the keys at once ... if someone's pressing a key when the routine is called ...
    Marko Marko August 2005 Development
  • Press any keyI need to write a z80 function that waits for a user to press any key. As it is possible that the user may be pressing a key when the function is cal…

    ... " are pressed. If any other key is pressed it will wait ... then waits for a "proper" key press. But if the e ... /> Yes. As you know, to read *all* the keys at once ... if someone's pressing a key when the routine is called ...
    Marko Marko August 2005 Development
  • IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …

    ... Spectrums returned 255 if no key were pressed and issues 3 ... the lower 5 bits to read the IN. In Mc you ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... />
    // do collison detection
    // read joysticks

    // move & ... /> If I press the "left" key I need the sprite to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…

    >>>>
    loading noise
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy September 2005 Games
  • Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…

    [quote]
    On 2005-09-30 21:12, Ashley Pomeroy wrote:
    >>>>
    loading noise
    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Games
  • Mame againCan somebody please explain in GREAT detail how get Mame to work. I would like the explanation to be done in a step by step style as I am piss poor …

    ... . The default controls are the cursor keys and the left Ctrl ... has started, press the TAB key and go to "Dip Switches ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob October 2005 Chit chat
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