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EliteWhy was there never an Elite II on the 8 bits?? Surely this was a lucrative license. Or was it the perfect game.... _________________ The grass is …
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Loading games onto a real Speccy from an iPodA regular on my site recently bought a 48k Speccy and tried to run programs stored on his iPod, but the volume just wasn't enough so he added a modif…
... only cost you a little time.
The amp is ... Spectrum loads the file in real time.
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Name the game...?Can anyone help me? It's a strategy game which involved moving tanks and infantry units about on a contour map. There was a status box in the bottom…
... definitely not... erm... an old real time strategy game from Imagine. Everyone ... -
Q on Black Magic in Spectaculator & Spin.Yo there! I was trying to load [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Black+Magic$&pub=^US+Gold+Ltd$&model=spectrum"]Black Magic[…
... missing. If you load in real time in Spin it works. We ... -
Q on Black Magic in Spectaculator & Spin.Yo there! I was trying to load [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Black+Magic$&pub=^US+Gold+Ltd$&model=spectrum"]Black Magic[…
... . [B]If you load in real time in Spin it works.[/B ... /> [/quote]
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Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…
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That means that time which have passed still B ... teammate spends this amount time units to anything irregardless ... spends
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Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…
[QUOTE=Dunny]Does this apply to other "enhancements" too? Do you sit through 5+ minutes of game loading, or do you have fast/flash loading enabled?
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When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
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Having Problems Creating .TZX filesI have a ZX spectrum +2 and i am using the headphone jack at the back of it to connect it ot the Mic in jack on my sound card, I recorded the tape us…
Ok thanks for all the help guys, ive fixed the problem, or got round it, i just have to use makeTZX to convert in real time, and it seems to work. -
Having Problems Creating .TZX filesI have a ZX spectrum +2 and i am using the headphone jack at the back of it to connect it ot the Mic in jack on my sound card, I recorded the tape us…
... always want to convert in real time.
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Having Problems Creating .TZX filesI have a ZX spectrum +2 and i am using the headphone jack at the back of it to connect it ot the Mic in jack on my sound card, I recorded the tape us…
... use makeTZX to convert in real time, and it seems to work ... than rewinding the tape each time the signal drops out slightly ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... animation looks like on the real machine.
I ... the IM2 mode to measure real time to keep a constant animation ... these things through the next time.
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Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
[QUOTE=Andy Gurr]i like the old proper way a speccy loaded,with the blue n yellow lines and the picture drawing first[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I like the b/y border (especially because you can simulate it with
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PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?
... -rendered and not drawn in real-time. Which is why the camera ... , on the other hand, uses real-time full 3d environments that allows ... -
ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…
... 1982 at around the same time by Quiksilva) came before it ... game. It actually runs in real-time for the most part, although ... -
Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... you're flashloading. For the real thing, you should disable tape ... back the Wizball TZX in real-time, and it skipped straight over ... -
Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... back the Wizball TZX in real-time, and it skipped straight over ... that the data arrives on time when they come out of ... -
Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... 's facial expressions and real-world (by today's ... respect, HL2 is a real step backwards from HL1.< ... were no cutscenes, just real-time events and people talking to ... there because they are real in that world. As ... that explode after a time), and the alien and ... -
The best adventure game on the speccy.I'm on a roll ain't I? Well the best adventure game this time. The Hobbit for me for various reasons: it was the first speccy adventure game I playe…
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Games reset sinclair 48k.I am a relative newbee to these forums and indeed spectrum emulation. I have been acquiring audio such as wavs or mps of games I own and am trying to…
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Was learning machine code a waste of time?I remember computer magazines from the mid-1980s often had features about using machine code, which I duly skipped over as it seemed totally impenetr…
... numbers and letters wasted their time?[/QUOTE]
There are ... necessary. There is also a real-time systems subgroup of embedded applications ... in a certain amount of time. You can think of public ... -
DVD to audioI've just bought the DVD of The Monster Club, and it has the soundtrack in the extras section! What I need to know is how can I convert the songs to …
... playing it all through in real time :-(
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Is there a flight simulator like this?There is a great N64 game called called Pilot Wings, which is a flight simulator, but unlike every other flight simulator I've ever played, the lands…
... do by way of generating real-time (blimey! A legitimite hyphon!) versions ... of the real world. Wow.
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ZX Shed Issue 3I'm putting the finishing touches to Issue 3 over this weekend, so if anyone had anything they would like to submit now's your last chance....
... on (real) time. Although technical difficulties were blamed at the (real) time, the real reason ... was in force at the time, actual delivery was 6 months ... -
This is..............probably a really stupid question and I'll be laughed off of the forum for it but I'll ask it anyway! I have just got a super duper 19 inch So…
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When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
Why?
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TZX specs v1.20 RC1Hello folks, after months of waiting finally you have the latest update proposal (RC1) for the TZX format! This update includes revisions to the 0x…
... author James McKay at the time (X128 was the first to ... in an emulator or a real zx spectrum
I am ... loaded the TZX files in real-time which meant that to play ... from you (Phil) at that time - you might of told me ... -
Best-illustrated adventure game?Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations? It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.
... they were all played in real time with little text input.
real time affair. I couldn't get ... here and there all the time and I could never keep ... -
Phrases you'd like to banI vote for "It's compulsive viewing" and "Space is at a premium"
... - in the development of the real time strategy genre.
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