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6 months of uselessness!How about you? This is just Chit Chat nothing serious.... Okay let me explain. Traditionally I do my best work drawing/writing/painting/music (I …
... who have offered their help with me trying to make my ... a program to be read and interacted with. I have really tried ... -
Basin made me sad...Player movement sorted, firining sorted and a single alien to shoot at... Basin has a wobble and takes half my code with in. Would not have minded…
Player movement sorted, firining sorted and a single alien to shoot at...
Basin has a wobble and takes half my code with in. Would not have minded but I did save...
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The trials and tribulations of the external tape recorderAnd you may find this a strange topic, because having been a +2 owner for the last 31-and-a bit years, it's not something I've had to deal with in th…
... I've had to deal with in that time, when I'd ... this was the only way), with a copy of Oh Mummy ... I ever remember having with my ZX81 in the very early days ... £25 I might get one with a working volume control and ... a couple of Spectrum tapes with me to see what the ... -
Spectrum +3 Disk Drive Not WorkingCan I just check that I need to replace the drive belt on my +3. When I insert a disk it tries to read the disk twice in Loader then asks me inser…
Can I just check that I need to replace the drive belt on my +3.
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game instructionswhere can you get these from... I can't pick anything up in dizzy or the great escape. I was hoping you just walk into them or press up. Anyway I've …
... very different (besides the letter keys...), so I MAY want to ... -7-8 keys to the arrow keys.
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spectrum on pcI was just wondering,the pc is brilliant for speccy emus but wen playing speccy games on a pc keyboard it just doesnt feel rite for sum1 who used to …
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Currah Microspeech: good or guff?I've just been looking through old Speccy mags and saw the Currah Microspeech add-on. It certainly looks good, with lunar jetman having speech among …
"Atic Atac" crashes? I read something about that in an old Spectrum mag I have. There may be a way round it. Need to dig it out. -
Keyboard controlsAn idea occured to me when reading thread on Ultimate. What is your favourite keyboard controls layout? For me: O=left P=right Q=up A=dow…
I preffered, the QWERTY keys as used in SABRE WULF AND UNDERWURLDE. Not ... could use the Interface 2 keys which were 67890 and were ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
curious: how did 'they' make games?Now that ive found this forum i can ask all the questions I always thought about :) Im just curious, how did they (the software companies) make the …
... only have 41k to play with in the first place without losing ...OUT to file, IN from fileOUT - sentences won't do much on emulators since they mostly communicate with external devices. If there was an emulator that would write the (last) …
... do pretty much the same with IN calls, callig a callback function ... know much about what happens with IN and OUT calls, but it ... would seem reasonable. 'logging' IN's and OUT's to ...How To List BASIC?Hi, I want to look at the BASIC coding for a game. Is there a piece of code I can load into a 48k Spectrum which will read in a .TAP file and list i…
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On 2002-08-24 19:36, Fuzzbucket wrote:
IIRC the simplest way to load code without running it is to use MERGE instead of LOAD
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Not familiar with this command. How would I use it?New style Reviews are upJust wanted to tell you my site is now doing reviews for Spectrum games (amongst others) like the old days of C64 legend magazine, Zzap!64. [url="htt…
... are games I have read very few about in mags. It would ...crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…
... never stated that everything in crash was wonderful - quote ... spectrum users had to read , i enjoyed the ... crash is still enjoyable to read - sinclair user - anyone ... issues in the time it can take to read all ... the information in one issue ...250,000 assorted spectrum games for saleHi , ive got a quarter of a million spectrum games , #(also quite a few c64 and amstrad) some sealed as new , most others still as new , loads of cla…
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Do u need a 2nd in command up there Andy? ...someone to clean the loo's? ...polish your boots? :D
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLHow do you play Harrier Attack?Am I alone in dealing with enemy fighters by flying at their altitude until they fire a missile, then rising above them and dropping a bomb on them? …
I love this game, hard to play on the highest level, but you must try :
1. Bomb down you mothership :)
2. Press SPACE in fly :)
anything else ?Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.
... That way you can have keys assigned to those unique ( ... for INPUT could be in the extended mode key ... You could also have STOP in this list. Since it ... otherwise typing the token in manually would still be the ... macros to specific keys as well in addition to the ...name this gameHelp can anyone tell me the name of this game. There were two main characters Olaf and Olga and you had to get thro various mazes. There were potions…
Gothik is the name. One of the games i spent most time with in my old days.
/PedroThe Specchums Government ProjectRighto, listen up lads! Now, that we have a sizeable Speccie community here, I suppose it is time we laid the foundations of a new government order f…
Kevin Toms? Minister of Sports?
He's already working in two departments... Second in command, and special advisor to Alan Sugar's beard growth ministry, and also he's the Official Cheesy-grin-master general.Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... much colour Ocean got away with in Shadow Warriors.
-Steve ...*** CRONOSOFT *** help a little so it can Serve YOU betterSalud if you believe in what [url="http://www.cronosoft.co.uk/"]Cronosoft[/url] is doing and would like to help out a little bit, you could mention…
... so much with work or whatever but with sid spider and ... and sam coupe too, in the meantime skimming material when ... what i like, same with my songs, if others ... to fill up space with something simple and the ... good thing to do that with, in addition to that it ...Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
I haven't read this thread until today (not ... just found it today and read through it all.
It ... a very entertaining read :)
Good luck with the game btw ...Somebody is having a laugh on Ebay[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3042093515&category=11994"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3042093515…
... think its all being dealt with in a civil manner. i told ... I suppose he'll piss in the wind?
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in the lovely cool wind - with these temperatures i ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... /> IMHO the point is in the reason for voting, ie ... of expressing our thoughts, in a very synthetical manner, ... could put the question in every possible way, yet ... no need to support it with "objective" factors. We ... more important to deal with in his/her life :lol ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... /> IMHO the point is in the reason for voting, ie ... of expressing our thoughts, in a very synthetical manner, ... could put the question in every possible way, yet ... no need to support it with "objective" factors. We ... more important to deal with in his/her life :lol ...Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... the practicalities of implementing it in a player :
... s what 'de' is loaded with in the code snippet above). You ... cycles taken through all paths in the interrupt routine and adjust ... the 'de' register in the main program loop accordingly ...cotrols of wolfenstein type gameif would be a wolfenstein style game written for spectrum, what kind of control should be used ? just turn left, right, go straight, go back via joys…
... it changeable.
my opinion: in games like wolfenstein (pseudo-3d ... is no need in mouse.
Keys I use in it:
turning ...
