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Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…
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Arkanoid vs Giganoid (Amiga) - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the December 2017 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the last of the 2nd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
... edition and I can now reveal Barbarian 1 stormed to victory ... -
Gauntlet II vs Ranarama - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the December 2017 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the last of the 2nd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
... edition and I can now reveal Barbarian 1 stormed to victory ... -
Ghosts 'n Goblins vs Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the first of the 3rd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
... the votes I can now reveal Ranarama is the winner with ... -
Emulation Overload!!So, **** hit fan on various fronts (including real life, which was far more serious than all this online shenanigans) a little while ago and I made t…
... at Spectrum games with the attributes turned off and finding out ... -
Saboteur vs Saboteur II - Which is Best?!Hi everyone and welcome to the February 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed the arcade classics Ghosts 'n Goblins again…
... the votes I can now reveal Ghosts 'n Goblins is the ... -
Quest For Tires vs B.C.II - Grog's Revenge - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the March 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed both Saboteur and Saboteur II - Avenging Angel…
... the votes I can now reveal Saboteur 1 is the winner ... -
A recollection of a Bug in a "good" game:the mystery of the bug and the game will be revealed later!Well what is the "big deal":- a bug in an old Spectrum game. So what! Well , I should explain: it was a good very popular game and I have to watc…
... hope to be able to reveal the game and the bug ... -
Chaos Engine vs Chaos Engine 2 - Which is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the April 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed two C64 games against each other, they were …
... the votes I can now reveal Quest For Tyres is the ... -
FIRE & ICE vs SUPERFROG (AMIGA) - Which is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the May 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed the two Amiga Chaos Engine games against askin…
... the votes I can now reveal the original Chaos Engine (suprise ... -
The Earth is NOT Flat ! The truth revealed !!!!!!!!!!I see that a recent convention by people who believe that the Earth is flat, has attracted many thousands of attendants, each paying a large admissio…
... many other which I can reveal, like which way is up ... -
MERCS vs RAMBO III - Which is Best? (Megadrive)Hi everyone and welcome to the June 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed two Amiga platform classics against each other, …
... the votes I can now reveal that Fire and Ice is ... -
MERCS vs RAMBO III - Which is Best? (Megadrive)Hi everyone and welcome to the June 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed two Amiga platform classics against each othe…
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INTERNATIONAL KARATE vs IK+: WHICH IS BEST?Hi everyone and welcome to the July 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed two Megadrive run & shooter classics against ea…
... the votes I can now reveal that Rambo III is the ... -
D.T Decathlon vs Hyper Sports vs D.T Supertest 128Hi everyone and welcome to the August 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed International Karate and IK+ (representing al…
... the votes I can now reveal that IK+ is the winner ... -
Which game(s) had the worst colour clash?I remember colour clash was the bane of the spectrum, but are there any cases where it was particularly bad/good? I remember that R-Type seemed ve…
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ZY10, a tool to store and display some small bitmapped imagesZY10 Builder ============ Download at: https://www.sendspace.com/file/rncgbo ZY10 is a file format/tool to store some small images on the Spec…
... images of 128x64 pixels, including attributes, into
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The Eggsterminator[img]https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/3/e30%3D/patreon-media/p/post/22755571/dcc9a78542c1421b9a2a0b4441fb0a7f/1?token-time=2145916800&token-hash=VA…
... blocks in a square to reveal bonuses.
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[Asm] Is this nested loop faster than LDIR or a bunch of unrolled LDI's?Hi all. I'm learning Z80 asm on Speccy 48K, and to start with I decided to write my own "CLS" routine (without relying on ROM calls or LDIR) as a lea…
... | BRIGHT_ON | PAPER_BLACK | INK_WHITE ; Select attributes.
ld (SYSVAR_ATTR_P),a ; Save ... the selected attributes to the system variable 'ATTR_P ... ; Move back to the previous attributes address.
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Double Dragon II vs Double Dragon 3 Amiga Title MusicSo here we go again, another month gone since the last "Which is Best?" contest which saw me place 3 Amiga breakout games against each other, Giganoi…
... and Amegas, I can now reveal that after counting the votes ... -
The Ballpoint"The Ballpoint" http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007945 This is a summary of the investigation Philip Richmond, Tim Gilberts (Gil…
... a hobby database site which attributes the system to Adventure Soft ... -
ZEsarUX Beta 7.2-RCHi I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX Beta version: 7.2 Release Candidate! Next version will be final stable :) You can download it from: https://g…
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-Added TBBlue "reveal" setting to view which pixels ... -
ZEsarUX stable 7.2Hi! I have uploaded a new stable ZEsarUX version 7.2! You must go to the Releases section on the GitHub project to download It, as usual: htt…
... Tiles video mode
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Hiding a Loading Screen?Hi folks! Is there an easy way (a POKE or something) to hide the drawing of a loading screen? I did find a post from leespoons in an old thread wh…
... on black paper before the attributes load in, as BORDER 0 ... -
The unspoken question in 2001: A Space OddesseyFrom childhood I have watched this film probably more times than I can remember. As I got older it kind of appealed to me on a different level from…
... did not permit it to reveal certain details of the mission ... -
ZEsarUX 8.0 stableHi! I've uploaded a new FINAL stable ZEsarUX version, 8.0 :) You can download it, as always, from the url: https://github.com/chernandezba/z…
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SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... never used this before, is ATTRIBUTES.
Am I right in ... with its properties recognized as Attributes?
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PAPER&INK: screen/character differenciation?So I was looking at a type-in listing earlier and I got to wondering how the Spectrum differenciates between knowing that the PAPER/INK commands need…
... the character. To change the attributes of a character only the ... -
"Cottage Industry" creations. In other words software that has a genuine "hand made" quality to it ,such as :- 1) Daisy Wheel printed cassette inlays 2) Cassette inlays prin…
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How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this ...