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  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... Harker finds the secret room, and the way to get into the room ... anyways) back to the original game package contents. Was there a map? Because ... you think you need to find a map within the game or some ... sort of other clue to help ...
    ColinChan ColinChan May 2009 Games
  • Would welcome ideas for my large map game...I have been working on an engine to allow scrolling around a large map. For now, it allows 1 char movement around a 64x64 map made up of 4x4 char t…

    ... on an engine to allow scrolling around a large map.

    map made up of 4x4 char ... />
    My idea was to have the cat character collecting fish etc ... seperate attribute, so the graphics could be dimilar to Dan Dare III ...
    robpearmain robpearmain May 2009 New game ideas
  • Full .TAP file loading over the networkDevelopment of the Spectranet ROM modules continues... Courtesy of the new filesystem layer, the experimental TNFS (Tiny Network Filesystem), and th…

    ... .e trapping excution inside the LD-BYTES routine in the Spectrum's main ... ROM. This means no modifications need to ... be made to the TAP file - just issue the %tapein command to tell the ...
    Winston Winston June 2009 Hardware
  • What's the best prog to read .asm files?I'm talking about on the PC, i.e. grab an .ASM speccy file, read it and plop it on-screen with all the fancy colours for each word/remarks/numbers et…

    I'm talking about on the PC, i.e. grab an . ... it on-screen with all the fancy colours for each word ... /> It doesn't have to be able to assemble the code, I just ... want the fancy colours for printing ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman June 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • How feasible is it to add a second CPU to the ZX Spectrum?Today with IDE, and USB, and TCP/IP and other wonderful technologies arriving on the ZX Spectrum, I'm beginning to wonder if we'll run out of CPU tim…

    ... execute (i.e. jump to the address), and the other values can have ... So, if you want to write to the memory of CPU1, then simply ... let me pose two questions to the other enthusiasts here:
    ... SMP needs both processors to have access to the same memory. So, if ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm June 2009 Hardware
  • Someone knows a tool to convert mappy files?Hi, I'm new in the scene. I've been doing some stuff with z88dk (great tool). Now the question, I use mappy to create a map, and how can I get this m…

    Hi, I'm new in the scene. I've been doing some stuff with z88dk (great tool).
    Now the question, I use mappy to create a map, and how can I get this map to work with z88dk librarys?


    thx
    curro curro August 2009 Development
  • The Ultimate QuestIsometric game, point-and-click or Where-time-stood-still-style. The game could have just one map and several areas like in "The Great Escape" or a d…

    ... different map for each city where you traveled to. The point of the game ... would be to find the lost ... there you could use the bedroom computer to search for clues, ... with you and a map, talk to people, take the Tube, take a ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2009 New game ideas
  • The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…

    ... do much new, except for the map designer, but it does ... t exactly add to the fun of the firefights. And the game levels ... inferior to the original. UT 2003 was the worst, but the others ... they have just ported the original UT to the XBox? Some companies ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2009 Chit chat
  • Doubling the Spectrum's resolution?Before the advent of digital, PAL TV sets had a resolution of about 702x576 pixels. It was overscanned (i.e. the edges of the broadcast picture would…

    ... . By toggling the 128k display page with an IM2 interrupt routine, it ... should be possible to display one screen image on the ... :

    1. The Spectrum cannot automatically synchronise to the "odd-numbered" field ...
    ajmoss ajmoss October 2009 Hardware
  • Trying to find the music to 1980's science programHello all Maybe some of you 35ish fuddy duddies out their can help me solve this query... I remember when I were a wee nipper we used to watch this…

    ... a wee nipper we used to watch this science program at ... use to have some memorable synthesizer sound effect music during the science ... />
    Does anybody know what the series was called, and if ... the music is available anywhere? This ...
    Hercules Hercules October 2009 Chit chat
  • How to export the symbol table in ZX Spin v0.666I've managed to resurrect some old cassette tapes with the machine code for Freeway Frog from the Spectrum Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner…

    ... managed to resurrect some old cassette tapes with the machine code ... Spin. From the Debugger, I can send the code to the assembler... but ... how do I export the Symbols ... can match them with the labels from the book?

    bonzo3671@yahoo.com bonzo3671@yahoo.com November 2009 Emulators
  • Odd keyboard behaviour due to a single bit failure in +3 ROMI've just fixed a spanish +3, which, among normal issues (drive belt missing), presented a very strange one: the keyboard autorrepeated without a del…

    ... , being a bit difficult to select the desired option.
    ... A tiny BASIC program to show the contents of port 254 ... to a higher value (to add more delay from the keypress to the ... specifically while executing the standard keyboard routine? It doesn't ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix December 2009 Hardware
  • UWOL, quest for money - The MojonTwins (ZX SPECTRUM 128k)Uwol didn?t have enough after earning about the 90% of all the income which resulted of selling retrovideogames in Spain and getting himself rich. No…

    ... very old manor next to Canutos Forest -the so-called Storm ... img]

    The game is about to steal the most amount of ... />
    If you get to the bottom of the pyramid and you haven ... will be empty. Use the pyramid map to know which rooms are visited ...
    jf_jara jf_jara December 2009 Games
  • Screen to vector?I've found old topics covering this subject and even spoke to Geoff about this, but still want to ask a few questions. I've been playing with vector…

    ... where the line ends and how to jump to the next coordinates? Should the starting ... where the other one ended?

    I'm assuming such routine ... , either in BASIC or m.c., would have to erase ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • JetSet Willy - Mirrored UniverseHello All, Thought you guys might be interested in what I've been doing the last week or so. Using the following documentation: [list] [*][url=htt…

    ... evolved the JSW engine to run a z80 map reversal routine before running the game ... .

    The routine ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz January 2010 Development
  • Looks like the VCF is hotting up to be a good one...... and needs more Speccy goodness, says the organizer (who says basically there's hardly any Sinclair presence confirmed at the moment... we're in d…

    ... the first in the UK and will pay particular tribute to the British contribution to the ... development of computing.

    The festival ...
    Winston Winston February 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cheril of the Bosque (The Mojon Twins, Spectrum 48k)A brand new game from the Mojon Twins! In the Badajoz jungle lives Cheril, a common girl, just like every other girl of her age. She eats cucumbers,…

    ... better. She?s decided to go to the city and become part of ... whenever she?s arsed to go, but the journey is long: thirteen ... in the game map are closed at the beginning of your adventure. The ancient ... even more: you just have to exit the screen and, when you ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2010 Games
  • machine code player routineHi all, Collecting all my courage to ask more (rather stupid attitude from me, but so difficult to ask questions and bother other people, don't unde…

    ... of playing routine ie. saved to first REM line, which do the same ... /> calls playing routine (without saving) to output the sound. So the player needs two ... idea how to enter the machine code routine to code or how to do the routine itself ...
    jukka_k jukka_k March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Midi Out from machine codeI need to send midi-signals by machine code, while Basic is too slow for my current project. I already read I can use hookcode #11E, but I have some …

    ... controlled by port 7FFDh. The byte to output will be interpreted thus ... 2: RAM page (0-7) to map into memory at 0C000h.
    routine which sends the midi data for example ... /> So after sending the midi data I need to reset the mapping:
    bverstee bverstee April 2010 Hardware
  • Blank Jet Set Willy II .gif map?The link for the map file "JetSetWillyII.gif " works, but the image that I am presented with is blank with a little red x in the corner, although it …

    The link for the map file "JetSetWillyII.gif " works, but the image that I am ... red x in the corner, although it seems to be the right dimensions ... [/url]

    Other .gif map files on WOS are all ...
    Mousey Mousey April 2010 Support files
  • Countries of software release - what's the rule?WOS database says that there are many games from countries like Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia. All these countries appeared after the breakup…

    ... All these countries appeared after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
    And the games from the 80ties were created in ... /> 1) Use the current political map to determine the country of game origin ... br />
    2) Use the original, historical countries
    < ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2010 Infoseek database
  • An evening in with the Speccy emulatorAfter a day at work which didn't exactly go according to plan, and after three weeks of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a…

    ... disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a ... of revarnishing. With just the netbook to hand, I fired up ... - the map just sprawls all over the place. Maybe I ought to give ... become familiar with the map - for some reason the second part turns ...
    NickH NickH May 2010 Games
  • How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…

    The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine ... . The Line-Draw require two ... get it to work cause dont understand how to express the 'signs' in ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • So you need to double (or triple, or quadruple) the clock speed...No particular reason for posting this, other than I was looking at an eZ80 evaluation board that does this, and that jogged my memory of a project I'…

    ... of the master clock, the phase comparator changes the control voltage to slow the VCO ... for the 74LS629 is just below the green wire to the left of the chip ... .

    The bottom ...
    Winston Winston June 2010 Hardware
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... ] even try to make the best of the graphics either?, the problem is that ... on Paint in about 20 minutes, I tried to keep it in the ... they often looked awesome due to the 3D graphics and detail anyway ... they released them too early to the market before it was ready ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 July 2010 Games
  • Map MakingHi all. Apologies in advance for this question as I'm sure its been covered already, I've searched for forum but cant quite find what I'm after. Bas…

    ... />
    Basically, I want to make a map of Enigma Force and ... your opinions) would be the best way to go about it. Is ...
    big_plums big_plums July 2010 Games
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... a special loading routine makes it harder to copy the new programm ... the second part using a machine code routine. I would have to ... hack through the whole code ... all over the world who convert the programms to their disk ...
    Speccyman Speccyman August 2010 Development
  • Getting a ZX Spectrum to work in the USHello all, I'm terribly new to these forums but not to the use of the Spectrum. I have a few in my collection of old machines and one of them I am …

    ... terribly new to these forums but not to the use of the Spectrum. I ... I am donating to the fine people behind the Penny Arcade Expo ... technical issues to overcome in order for it to work. The power ... assuming) and the video output will have to be tampered with ...
    Kropotkin Kropotkin August 2010 Hardware
  • Trying to remember the name of a game...Hi, all! I used to play a game 20 years ago that I liked a lot... I can't remember the name. The idea of the game was like this: You control a creat…

    ... can't remember the name.
    The idea of the game was like ... moves in a peculiar way: the stick that is straight at ... /> You have to get to the other five creatures of the same species and ... greateful to anyone who could tell me what the name of the game ...
    AlexeyBg AlexeyBg August 2010 Games
  • Backpackers Guide to The Universe - Part 1Afternoon all, I'm currently putting together a web site devoted to Fantasy Software - detailing their short history, releases, press releases, unre…

    ... thought went wrong with The Backpackers Guide to the Universe, Part 1, and ... (as mentioned above), the controls are terrible (compared to the lovely control of ... out how far Backpackers Guide to the Universe 2 Super Pyramid got ...
    roberthazelby roberthazelby September 2010 Games
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