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Who knows how to program a "pathfinder"?Hi all. I like to play games like "Colour Lines" and I think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy - until this "dam…
... /> ld (hl),1 ; startvalue of path
ld b,1 ; flag for field ...
ld (hl),a ; path+1
ld b,h ; flag ... -
Blowtorch method of Speccy repairsI just did my first Spectrum repair (and successful at that). It was the Issue 2 spectrum I wrote about a while ago, I just hadn't got around to doin…
... the holes in about 1/6th of the time it took ... I thought a quicker way of clearing the holes was to ... cleaner hose on the bottom of the board, while I ... Don't do this. Instead of the solder just shooting up ... splattered all over the bottom of the board, and bridged ... -
k7zx, a utility to load programs to Spectrum at very high speedk7zx is a windows program that convert .tap, .tzx , .sna and .z80 files to a wav file that can be played to a real Spectrum. You can down load it f…
... loads a complete screen in 1 second.
For video you ... to a 1/18 of the screen so a block of 5x9 would ... the best option then (app. 1/18 of 24x32).
In ... in 128K and display it 1 after another for app. 7 ... -
jet set willy multi playercant believe what ive just seen posted on retro remakes. mersey remakes, smila, scottige and ovine are doing a multi player jet set willy. what a gen…
Best version of Head over Heels?What's everyone's favourite version of Head over Heels? I've seen the Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC, the Atari ST and the PC remake, and whilst they are …
... we failed (well, atleast 1 out of 7 thinks we didn't ...Best version of Head over Heels?What's everyone's favourite version of Head over Heels? I've seen the Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC, the Atari ST and the PC remake, and whilst they are …
... we failed (well, atleast 1 out of 7 thinks we didn't ... at the time.
Of course, if you *do* ditch ...Best version of Head over Heels?What's everyone's favourite version of Head over Heels? I've seen the Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC, the Atari ST and the PC remake, and whilst they are …
... we failed (well, atleast 1 out of 7 thinks we didn't ... to evauate a general value of speccy remakes. i guess, we ... general population, the pc version of HoH is MUCH more popular ... they let shine the qualities of the classics even more... :-P ...Lost and Harrison FordHas anyone else noticed that characters from lost use line spoken by Harrison Ford in his films, I've only noticed Star Wars/Indiana Jones ones, am I…
... quality streets, quote from set of star wars "bovril is my ... drink!" and from the set of temple of doom " christ I'd murder ... a box of quality street right now ...Riko Data correctionhttp://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Riko+Data$ Riko Data was not a UK company, but a Swedish one. They manufactured games under l…
Here are some of the Riko's I have:< ... /> Codemaster Viking Software
Countries of the World Hewson
Death ... /> Sea War Panda Software
Ship of the Line Richard Shepherd Software ...Speccy emulator for AtariIt seems some crazy Atari person is writing a Speccy emulator for the Atari. No, not the ST series... the Atari 8 bit machines. :-o [url]http://www.…
... KGB emulator still on one of the amiga floppies with nice ... . Anyway, this is v 1.2 of the emulator (it seems that ... the internet there is only 1.3) and it is (c ... . I remember having atleast version 1.0 back in the days ...Speccy emulator for AtariIt seems some crazy Atari person is writing a Speccy emulator for the Atari. No, not the ST series... the Atari 8 bit machines. :-o [url]http://www.…
... the screenshot from the KGB 1.2 version :
[url ... 't find anything lower than 1.2.
TC[/QUOTE ... readme file in version 1.0 of Speccy is dated 17/03 ...New Scumball 2 game!This game was posted in another thread some time ago now but after the ongoing Cybernoid discussion I thought I'd just overhaul the graphics a little…
... very little in the bottom 1/3 of the display and anything ...The horror!Oh no! Elite has been knocked off the top spot of WOS top 100 games. How could this be? It's been displaced by ... "Hero Quest, Return of the Witch …
... that there are so many 1's and 10's given ... game, and i'm one of it's biggest fans. Admittedly ... in a million years a "1 out of 10" game (niether am ... 10!!)
Some sort of recommendation check has to be ...25 years of gamesWith the anniversary fast approaching I wanted to start some discussions about the last 25 years of the Spectrum firstly of course comes game Which…
caves of doom.
first game game ... played on it.
out of the games i got with ... the computer. it does sort of define that era too, as ...first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]
caves of doom
horace goes skiing
the alchemist.WOOOH nice find today :)all my retro game goodness came today :P nearly orgasmed in a charity shop today as i came across all the following .....boxed a gamegear (with powe…
... still snowy but thats cos of where we live)
... work.
tried a couple of master system games with the ... are thus
1: one of the battery compartment lids has ... find as it was one of the first games and ... hole in the back of the game gear???Retargetting the Z88dkWell, I'm asking here because it's come up before, and I assume someone here might know the answer... I'm trying to retarget the Z88DK for the Z80 b…
... this may involve rearrangement of the fragmented topics that ... Yeah there is the concept of separate file descriptors and ... missing two important features: 1. separation of code and data segments ... address 23560. These sorts of declarations could be included ...TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... 're from Greece (land of ace coder Theo Develegas) ... 20+ years, the tolerance of the components tend to go ... something has gone out of the datasheet specs. As ... which is less than 1/100th of 1% of the total frequency. I ... PC running half a gig of RAM.
...Anyone for a PS3?Hey all, I had heard that it was hard to get a hold of the PS3, so I went to the local shop, slapped down ?5500 and acquired 12 units. I was surpris…
... after that, there is 1? years of warranty, where the customer ... Basically that means 2 years of "guarantee" as neither the company ... the customer is held free of any expenditure, including postage.< ... which sometimes leads to battles of "whos right", but usually ...Border size?Hi I've read the documentation on the border in the CSS. But I think I've managed to missread somthings, perhaps som one can explain. it says 64 bord…
... - that's about 2/5s of the screen, not over half ... , and as mentioned earlier some of those 120 won't be ... repeat same frame twice in 1/25th of second.
On TV ... black space between lines because of not 100% accurate vert. positioning ...ZX Emul on Atari 8 bit ! -> Working Death Chase !Below is a link to a news about ZX Emulator and working Death Chase on Atari 8bit ! Sorry but all is in Polish :/ [url]http://atari.online.pl/v01/ind…
tried the exe thats on the site with death chase... 20% would mean 1/5 of the spectrum speed... and the emulation crawled more like 1/20 of the speed. Still a great accomplishment though.SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
I remember cursing Daley Thompsons speedloader....only loaded 1 out of 3 times for me....the frustration of a 15yr old spending 20 mins to load a game to destroy the keyboard...Recursive acronymsBrowsing through Wikipedia (as one does, y'know -- it's so full of itself and What Wikipedia Is Not, strange that it never mentions the three main th…
I like the sound of that. :)
No, it ... Disk and had more than 1 Megabyte of RAM ... which I didn ...Spectrum 48K ROMHi Can anybody help I have an Issue 6a Circuit Board which has a faulty ROM Chip. Is it possible to program a ROM Chip with the 48K ROM and fit it as…
... a signal a few tens of nanoseconds. If you look at ... inverter) going to pin 1 (select) of the two address line multiplexers ... RAM sees the rising edge of RAS while the row address ...2007 In MusicJust thought I'd start a little music questionnaire. :) 1. What new releases have you bought so far this year? 2. What do you think of them? 3. Hav…
... . :)
1. What new releases have you ... 2. What do you think of them?
3. ... Have you heard any of these bands/artists before ... quote]
1. Compilation of Nickel Creek songs.
2 ... Williams, Beastie Boys, Art Of Noise, Prince, Red Hot ...RGB OutputWas there ever a device available for the 48 that had a RGB output ? As an alternative , what about using a pc monitor (iirc these have seperate syn…
... may couse ignoring of bright:
1: Usage of TTL monitor ( ...
2: Usage of adapter which ignores bright of Speccy 48K
3: bad combination of previous 2 - Bright aware adapter ... ]
It is of course for analogue monitors, or ...Testing RAM Chips After RemovalHi I am going to use Winstons Hot Air Gun method of removing the RAM chips from a 4S circuit board. I wish to check the RAM chips, I have a Logic Pr…
... ROM chip enable
- 1 x of either Am29F010 or Am29F040 NOR ... if I want to. One of the '272 flip flops ... t have a separate piece of hardware to do the job ... to allow easy selection/loading of a 16K rom page, or ... but here's a picture of the board in action:
unheralded classic games...(in your opinion, of course.) [U]Kane[/U] great cowboy adventure game in 4 stages, I used to play this all the time. 1. shoot birds down (presumabl…
... thought the drool coming out of their mouths was a pretty ... fact I got a load of my good games off him ... the baddies have a habit of respawning on the same spot ... are standing.
Caves of Doom: not sure if this one ...Auntie remembers the Speccy[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6580000/newsid_6582200?redirect=6582255.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1[/url…
... ]Most importantly, from the point of view of video game history, the ... is recommended to all fans of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half Life and ... really is the literal grandaddy of them all.[/quote]
