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Hi Guys!......Been a while ain't it? What have a missed? Who has left? Who is still here? Who has kissed who? Who has got married? Who is in jail? :):):):)
... does exactly this. It's in the form of The Powers ... it's not something you press with your fingers nor other body ... there a button you can press? :D [/quote] -
Need help finding a suitable emulator...Hi All, I've been working on a concept of superformatting a microdrive cartridge, so that a normal interface 1 can store up to 600Kb on a single c…
... Spectrum can read and write to just fine, with a normal ... sectors anyway.
In READ mode, the Spectrum should be ... can read 5x256 sectors. Because the files are interleaved with other ... files, it is possible to read any file in ... -
Some real treasures to sellI'll sell my last Sinclair and other old PC parts in the next days ... https://www.ebay.de/itm/303558178892 https://www.ebay.de/itm/303558177393 h…
... +D-interface(s) are in the final state. I ... are switchable to start with GDOS +2a or Uni ... disk images are preinstalled with start +2a and uni ... floppys and they are read- and writeable with the 3.5" drive ... br /> Is anyone interested in this forum? I invested a ... -
Sleep aids?For years I have had problems sleeping, mostly getting to sleep (it can take me half a night sometimes) and staying asleep or getting into deep sleep…
... I tried to get Melatonin in Holland and Barrett (said she ... sell it) and also in Boots, but neither had ... someone telling me go in and ask for Melatonin ... a prescription to get it in the UK?
read it works with ones circadian ryhthms and ... -
Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... , it's easier to type in command words rather than have to ... entering RUN and then 74 in my case) gets the nicely ... up my text adventure game with (if it ever gets written ... -
Things that people >= 40 (ish) would recognize (and others would likely not)#1: Used to see these all over the place, usually right above the bath tub. [img]http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A052-01718/3/A0…
... with the water-soaker is Louis Theroux?
Do not read ... who played the alternate Ross in Friends, but of course that ... Richard O'brian is playing with in the picture. Kept me amused ... -
Multi-tasking OS on the Spectrum?Do you think it is possible to build a multi-tasking operating system on the Spectrum? That is, most important the ability to have several task run…
... replaces the RST in the first block with original content. And ... access(es) and port read/write operations in the same way. ... mass instructions (LDIR, etc.) with jumps to implementation or reinterpret ... would have to be dealt with in similar matter (hooking I ... -
US Dollar to collapse soon?I'm hearing a lot of commentators predicting the imminent collapse of the dollar. Dollar decline v Dollar collapse. It's declining fast right, but…
... need to do the same with oil and gas. Climate change ... people don’t understand that (with our current technology and understanding ... of vested interests (read money and power) in the oil industry. And ... br />
Even with the best will in the world, oil will ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... quick converter (to be used in a batch file).
Not ... the emulators can be executed with a command-line to set up ... if needed (usually to add in game tiles/maps)
Convert ... little more complicated in my 128k game code with multi-load and ... -
Advice on electric guitar learning, pleaseSo, briscaF1 junior (who is 10 and not the tallest person) has signed up for some "pop/rock" guitar tutoring at skool (sic) which basically translate…
... and Epiphones have gone down in quality recently, so look around ... wouldn't go for built in effects except overdrive and maybe ... list of ones to start with in earlier post) before learning power ... strings and you need to press down harder. -
Whatever happened to the BBC Domesday Project?Do you remember this huge Project that was to record lots of info about Britain for future generations to read about, in the manner of a 21 century "…
... , I hadn't read the Wikipedia article in its entirety. Those are ... it was more to do with how it had been stored ... .
Anyway I'd read up a bit more on ... -
QL manualthis may not be the place, and I know I should try ebay, but has anyone got a spare QL manual (or manuals, Im not entirely sure what it came with) …
this may not be the place, and I know I should try ebay, but has anyone got a spare QL manual
(or manuals, Im not entirely sure what it came with) in need of a good home?
please email if you can help
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TZX file format descriptionI figured what this meant after a few minutes: The length of a block is given in the following format: Numbers in square brackets [] mean that the v…
... Numbers in square brackets [] mean that the value must be read from ... the offset in the brackets. Other ... Numbers in square brackets [] mean that the value must be read from ... the offset positions given in the brackets ... -
simple 1 for uwhat do i press to get the top words on a key up? example: what do i press with z to make BEEP appear?
what do i press to get the top words on a key up? example: what do i press with z to make BEEP appear? -
trade games[B]I offer the following Spectrum games for trade[/B] (view link for more specific info and a picture)... Ultimate Play The Game: -Alien 8 [url="htt…
... /> -Auf Wiedersehen Monty (One with metal badge, other without, both ... -Jack The Nipper (One with metal badge, other without, both ... two with plastic tray, two with cardboard tray, one with selfmade cardboard ... a t' with '@' and d o t's with '.' in email adress)< ... -
Spectrum audio signallingI've had a poke around in some of the docs (and my Z80 assembler-fu is so rusty it'll be a while before I grok the Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly)…
... had a poke around in some of the docs ... port? Lots of comments in the ROM disassembly about " ... IIRC, it was all done with IN 254 (which looks like it ... 's confirmed in the ROM disassembly, although ... find some docs specifically on IN 254 - any pointers ... -
+D diskette reading sourceHello there, is there someone here who has a (free) source how to read +D diskettes? With this source I would like to add reading +D diskettes to m…
Hello there,
is there someone here who has a (free) source how to read +D diskettes?
With this source I would like to add reading +D diskettes to my ZX-PC Interface. -
Converting ZX Sprites to imagesSo, having written a program to convert images into ZX sprites, I now want something that I can use to convert sprite data into an image. The idea is…
... a program and then "played with" in a graphics editor. I've ... -
Ports AccelerationOn ZX48 or 128/+2(grey) is contended and uncontended ports. For example: if you will read 512 bytes sector from IDE device to ZX ram via INI or INIR,…
... /> For example: if you will read 512 bytes sector from IDE ... . Data of register B is with INI(R) instruction set to ... )
Example of slow read 256 bytes:
LD C ... /> INIR
New read sequence 256bytes with all fast ports:
AlchnewsHow to read a certain article in Alchnews ? I?ve loaded number 17 and want to read article number 29. How to do it ? I can?t find any way....
How to read a certain article in Alchnews ? I?ve loaded number 17 and want to read article number 29. How to do it ? I can?t find any way....IN31 is pissedHe has a 3ltr box of wine and away from home with just the Internet He is out to get world Read all posts with caution :-D
He has a 3ltr box of wine and away from home with just the Internet
He is out to get world
Read all posts with caution
:-DYou know you're getting old......when most of the staff you work with in a shop doesn't know how to load 35mm film into a camera. :(
...when most of the staff you work with in a shop doesn't know how to load 35mm film into a camera. :(Machine code and Basic system variablesSpectrum system variables (I mean 48KB model) are essential for Basic. But what if I started my machine code program and it's never going to return t…
... I overwrite system variables area with my data?
I ... it had something to do with code executed during interrupts. I ... /> If I disable interrupts with DI command, can I use this memory ...RLE source codeI'm considering tweaking my Des Des loader to cope with on the fly decompression (yeah I'm bored) I was wondering if anybody out there had a very ba…
... Des Des loader to cope with on the fly decompression (yeah ... RLE (only)
Preferably with an easily defined maximum run ... many timing issues to contend with in the beginning.
I ...Does the new Ghostbusters game need to be any good?In the next month or two there is going to be a new Ghostbusters game released which has been getting quite a bit of press time in the gaming journal…
In the next month or two ... getting quite a bit of press time in the gaming journals over ...RIP Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7994444.stm[/url] [quote][B]Role-playing games pioneer dies[/B] Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators …
... 61 in a hospice in St Paul, Minnesota.[/quote]
Read the ... glowing tributes in the user-supplied comments ...faster bitwise operators?well, sinclair basic lacks bitwise operators and I searched "basic forum" with keyword "bitwise" and only 3 thread came up. So the forum also lacks b…
... and I searched "basic forum" with keyword "bitwise" and only 3 ... they all slow, almost unusable in a basic game.
with IN 61438). I want to check ... the result in fastest possible way.
