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Are there any 'REAL' global conspiracies?Me and the missus have been watching the new X-Files series and also watching the old series from Episode 1. After watching last nights episode, the…
... wondered if there are any 'REAL' conspiracy theories? I used to ... . My Dad think they're time travellers and thats why they ... 'd love to see some real proof, but, as yet there ... -
1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... show the passage of time are needed, then the ... Pete's five'o'clock shadow jumping about because ... the surface because the real mechanics of animation has ... count per move. In real life movement isnt timed, ... accelerating upward but this time slowing down as gravity ... -
Rod-land - struggling to get working on my real +2 (grey machine)Hi Everyone, I've had a week enjoying tinkering with my +2 and there are only a few games I have not managed to play on my +2 that I enjoyed back …
... Future, so 70% of the time the TAP file simply works ... works the remainder of the time largely.
Unfortunately with ... emulator, initially loads on my real Spectrum but corrupts as soon ... but this feels like a real faffing about!
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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…
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48k spectrum pausing the clockI had a spectrum 3b motherboard donated to me with no case. So i have decided to put it in a custom case with built in kempston port etc. I also …
... to pause the clock. I have found the clock line as it ... the time it freezes but never resumes when throwing the clock back ... -
How to Use a real Physical Old Style Retro ZX Spectrum INFREQUENTLY and EFFECTIVELY.These days a lot of WOSSERS use emulators most of the time but like to get out the old Speccy ,every once in a while ,for a quick nostalgic revisit .…
... emulators most of the time but like to get ... the "INFREQUENT" ( but enthusiastic) real Speccy revisitor?Clearly sorting out ... to go for an infrequent real Speccy user?
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Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... ink, at least during execution time, of some routine, or ... to generate video frequency and clock frequency. If more speed, ... -you baloney instead of spending time doing spectrum graphics. also, ... they aren't real banks :)
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Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…
... 've tried this on a REAL Spectrum as well as emulator ... unproved either way at this time, such as Fairlight 2 and ... found with Gregory Loses His Clock, what may appear impossible to ... -
Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... surely live for quite some time yet :p
[quote ... constant no matter what the clock speed. This is not true ... gonna do is fire up Real Spectrum emulator for windows--it ... -
Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... . 54 (Jul '88)
Where Time Stood Still 94% Iss. 54 ... . 64 (May '89)
The Real Ghostbusters 90% Iss. 64 (May ... '89)
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Will Spectrum run @ 60Hz?Sorry to overlap w/ my other recent post, but want to know, if I grab a Spectrum and use it in America with a voltage converter or a different power …
... use power frequency to measure time, and that is a fact ... TV picture from its own clock surely.
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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. …
... to draw a clock. That must be the first time many people ... such. Unfortunately there's no real way to get the correct ... -
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... Mastertronic Plus - Gregory Looses His Clock
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... Mastertronic Plus - Gregory Looses His Clock
Mastertronic Plus - Jonah ... Throne of Fire
Time Scanner
Track Suit ... Platoon Project Stealth Fighter
Real You, The
Riddle ... /> Code Masters - Race Against Time, The ( Sport Aid 88 ... -
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…
... in compare with cracking on real, unmodded Spectrum. Especially with ... (apart) one sentence at a time:
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In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... added complexity may waste more clock cycles than it saves on ... Z80 code in a long time and I'm tired so ... have a dataset of any real size and it has any ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... software blit. It leaves more clock cycles for running the interpreter ... hacked it back into a real computer though... I just play ... me or does this forum time out your login really quick ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... an opportunity to add a real MMU.[/quote]
Actually ... a real MMU would be the ... RS-232 ports, but real ones driven by hardware with ... of the mags) and, time permitting, a better full text ... done it doesn't steal clock cycles.
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... all depends on how much time there would have been to ... depending on what graphics mode. Clock cycles could be alternated between ... old hardware. I think a real upgrade appearing in the 128 ... old 8 bit at that time you still have to compete ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... you guess an average cycle time of 8 cycles per instruction ... still have to insert a real refresh step every 2ms or ... depending on what graphics mode. Clock cycles could be alternated between ... it less than the double-time I mentioned.
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Faulty M1 linesI'm sure this has been discussed before, but using the forum search for the word 'M1' pulled back no hits, which surprised the hell out of me. Anywa…
... we can concentrate on the real culprit.
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... /> A pulse of 2^32 clock cycles is approx. 20 hours ... likely to never appear in real data, but you can never ... part, eventually causing it to time out, rendering the first part ... -
Top Ten British Things Americans Don't Care AboutThis is A list of ten things that were/are huge in the UK, but (most) Americans don't care about (in no particular order): 1. ZX Spectrum 2. Footbal…
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Top Ten British Things Americans Don't Care AboutThis is A list of ten things that were/are huge in the UK, but (most) Americans don't care about (in no particular order): 1. ZX Spectrum 2. Footbal…
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costa capers ..Is CC a real followup to technician ted or what? I thought about the name.. coz it has nothing in common :)
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Fairytale of New York - edited[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm[/url] I actually dont mind this 'Xmas' song at all. I cant believe the PC brigade have go…
... words, even past nine o'clock. And even really soft words ... /> And yet they'll show real, heartbreaking footage of starving children ... the third world at any time on the news. They have ... strange that you can show real life tragedy and death, however ... -
Electro Magnetic EngineI think Winston my be qualified to answer this one. What do you know about the magnetic engine. I don't know anything about it, but taking the techn…
Clock makers do make exemplars of ... no such thing). In the real world, bearings have friction, so ... keep going for quite some time. But all you're doing ... with your finger, winding a clock spring, supplying electricity to a ... -
Fastest loaderWhat was the fastest speed loader developed and could you name a game using it?
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Fastest loaderWhat was the fastest speed loader developed and could you name a game using it?
... L is one unit of time, at the same fundamental maximum ... should be sufficient transitions for clock recovery with anything other than ... it (I was going for real high speed, since I was ... all worlds - up to 8 clock periods with no synchronization information ...
