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The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…
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Python script to scrape Amazon.com book reviewsI've been meaning to read the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks (roughly 40 books) and Sci-Fi Masterworks (roughly 100+ books) lists for a while now, but …
The Wizard of Hotspot HillockI've just re-discovered this unfinished game which I haven't done any work on for a couple of years. As it can be played through to the end as it is …
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Response is a bit slow. Press arrow key ... (one-elephant ...SSD on an old laptop - a question for the system builders among you.I'm upgrading an old laptop from Win XP to Win 7. I've bought one of these [url=http://www.scan.co.uk/products/240gb-crucial-m500-slim-msata-ssd-msa…
... a consequence, everything is appallingly slow. When I checked the Disk ...Game codeHi Quick questions. Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly? Also these slow …
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Quick questions.
Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly?
Also these slow loading screens? Basic or assembly?
ThanksDouble-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
... sprites milling about with no slow-down - the target is about ...Beeper and Sprites at the Same Time?[URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWX1pQLS14RnppNFE/edit?usp=sharing"]Why not?[/URL] "q" for quit "m" to change sprite mode any other…
... it's stuttering or too slow.
These are software ...ScrollsHello. Ive been working in scroll routines and I want to show you them. First, one vertical 2 pixels scroll routine with 13 sprites [youtube]D-T3…
... use it because is too slow and the screen is very ...DIM and FOR, NEXT loopHi there. I'm making a program with 100 items on screen using dim and a for next loop. The thing is, each time I want to manipulate the items I do an…
... for next loop which is slow(even after compiling with mcoder ...Sorting BusinessThis is a little bit different from the usual game-related fare but I know there are a few people here who like this sort of thing. This is about so…
... but it is still unacceptably slow compared to the others two ...Why do modern computers go slow?I'm not so much thinking of home PCs slowed down by viruses, more the extent that modern programmers think about the speed of their code. For exampl…
I'm not so much thinking of home PCs slowed down by viruses, more the extent that modern programmers think about the speed of their code.
For example - I use a lot of different software related to instrumental analysis, and am often surprised ...Ooh 'eck!I've just heard from Colonel K. that Danger Mouse is set to return to our TV screens! Yep, the world's greatest secret agent and the world's worst si…
... but now I think is slow/boring/pointless and leaves me ...HACK PACK - WILLY THE WASPBit slow 50845,0 - Infy lives
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50845,0 - Infy livesFeud's village on TripAdvisorI was thinking of spending a day out in Little Dullford, the location of Feud, but the TripAdvisor reviews are mixed... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bmVw…
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[i]"Quite a slow sleepy village but with the ...1st interface in 30 years (update)Hi all, Just a wee update to my "1st ZX interface in 30 years" project. Main IC's: 82C55 three 8-bit port I/O (configured for 12 dig in, 12 dig out…
... in BASIC this will be slow as it involves DEC to ...Good, free, useful programs for Windows usersI was asked to recommend a couple of programs (which happens enough to make me wish I had a fiver for every time!), and I didn't know offhand either …
... program, but since work is slow ATM, I've tried a ...the internet.. and the truth...it has come to my attention some people are "gobbing off" about me elsewhere , facebook.. that's fine if it is 100% factual, but sadly it isn't. I d…
... /> emile.. sadly you are a slow payer, you did it once ...Arcade conversions, automatically convertedHi! My first post, be gentle with me :smile: I was creating for a hobby project of mine (a completely non-speccy-related, unfortunately) a postproce…
... but that is way too slow on my low-end graphics ...Wifi leeching questionMy internet connection had been slow for a few weeks so I upped the security to WPA2 from WPA, and I changed the pass key. My speed then returned to …
My internet connection had been slow for a few weeks so I upped the security to WPA2 from WPA, and I changed the pass key. My speed then returned to normal. How easy is it for an IT savvy neighbour to hack a WPA / WPA2 protected Wifi?Best non-Windows OS for an old laptop?I have an old Pentium M 1.5 ghz, 1gb RAM compaq evo laptop that I want to use. It just about runs W7 home premium but seems to spend forever updating…
... forever updating and generally being slow.
I don't ...Boomshine in SpecBASHere's a little game called "Boomshine": [url]http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/[/url] It's a really nice, relaxing puzzle game about exploding b…
... 80 LET blobs(f,7)=RND*360: PALETTE HSV f,blobs ... : LET blobs(f,2)=RND*(SCRw-2*blobs(f,1 ... 1): LET blobs(f,4)=(RND*(maxspeed-minspeed))+minspeed: LET ... blobs(f,5)=(RND*(maxspeed-minspeed))+minspeed: LET blobs ... )=0
100 IF RND>=.5 THEN LET blobs ...Losing the will to liveThere were some games... and the longer I think, the more I remember ... some games that had me on the cusp of ending it all. Remember "[B]Circus[/B…
... nice but oh god those slow motion, uninterruptible jumps into an ...Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…
... that just a tad too slow for the native machine. Basically ... /> However, the above routine is slow to execute or fall-though ...Quiz 1 - A-M Name the GamesEach screen shot is displayed for 0.2 seconds. There are 13 screens, A-M. If this goes well I'll do the other half of the alphabet. I've tried to pic…
... sure you can cheat and slow it down, extract the images ...RANDOMIZE - still not sure what it does...Whenever I wish a random number I use RND like: 10 LET a=RND*100 20 PRINT a 30 GO TO 0 and "a" will truly be random. But if is do the following: …
... a random number I use RND like:
10 LET ... a=RND*100
20 PRINT a ... RANDOMIZE
10 LET a=RND*100
20 PRINT a ... number
10 LET a=RND*100
20 PRINT a ...Slow BrowsersI'm getting fed up with web browsers. I've been jumping from Firefox, to Chrome, then back to Firefox and even to Internet Explorer but still am expe…
I'm getting fed up with web browsers. I've been jumping from Firefox, to Chrome, then back to Firefox and even to Internet Explorer but still am experiencing issues. IE seems to be the worst performance wise baulking or stuttering on about 4 tabs.
< ...New game: Sixteen SkirmishThe hamlet of Sixteen Skirmish has been cursed by the presence of 16 Scumels, and you are the only one that can defeat them. [IMG]http://i1142.photo…
... than if you're too slow. When you are hit the ...The best Tetris game on the Speccy?The recent [B]Tetris Ultimate[/B] debacle on the PS4 and XBox One* made me wonder what was the best version of Tetris on the Spectrum. I'm not famil…
... 2D Tetris, it somehow has slow down, random pausing, and even ...
