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Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…
A new year and the first posting in a new ... by character steps; putting the assembler listing, and other low activity stuff ... ... time for some breakfast ... and the fire's nearly out ... time to get ... -
WOS slowdownPeople, what's going on? I wasn't able to load WOS yesterday at all. Today I got somehow into forums but opening any thread was too much. Is it som…
... like that the elite saga and the site's performance issues ... are completely unrelated. :D
It's ... likely that the ISP issues and the elite popularity are ... is the only cause of the site's responsiveness ... -
Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
... - limits itself to some irony and the odd sarcasm, but nothing really ... his love of Italy and football and the country's political messes several times ... play something through for the blog's sake, and then I use save ... -
doom on 128ki see a youtube video of doom being played for the spectrum, is this designed to work stright of a tape and onto a spectrum without the divide thing …
... being called by the maskable interrupt, and if I've ... in a system variable?) and the code's been lost.
< ... is loaded; the timeout routine is called unconditionally - and some common ... BASIC commands cause the Syntax ROM ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
I'm playing the new [b]South Park[/b] RPG and I'm ... a try and I'm glad I did.
The game ... look like an episode of the series and I've found myself ... the first day and the story's just taken the usual South Park turn (aliens and ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... 'm playing the new [B]South Park[/B] RPG and I'm ... look like an episode of the series and I've found myself ... the first day and the story's just taken the usual South Park turn (aliens and ... few of the spare achievements*.
Really funny and I will ... -
FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…
... , -rs232-rx, --rs232-tx, and --rs232-handshake. The documentation for these switches ... a string from the serial port in the emulator, and run:
the 128K's serial support (not emulated by Fuse), and the DISCiPLE's too ... -
New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…
... I deserved to be punished, and the game was being too soft ... an interrupt on the last scan-line, and use the extra T-states ... generation, I expect NIRVANA and the Coup?'s Mode 4 allow for a ... follow up on the NIRVANA thread about the Timex and Coup? as this ... -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... generation, I expect NIRVANA and the Coup?'s Mode 4 allow for a ... a HALT for synchronisation and the 48K, 128K and +2A will vary slightly ... from the start of the bitmap data, and it's simplest to keep the bitmap ... -
Tape loading problem with Issue 3BI have an Issue 3B 48k that doesn't seem to want to load any tapes. I have an MP3 player connected to the EAR socket. When I type LOAD "" and start p…
I swapped the ULAs over and it turns out the ULA in my 3B is partially duff. :( With the Issue 2 ULA the 3B screen comes to life, when loading and the 2's screen stays blank with the 3B ULA.
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Personalised licence plates. Naff or nice?I'm guessing that most you will say that personalised licence plates are a naff. It was always been my opinion that if one has 100k to spend on a bad…
... .html]this story[/URL] about the dangers of having personalised plates ... banks.[/QUOTE]
that's funny, bet there are more ... done over and the little ****s who did it traded in the games at ... -
Spectrum screen layoutSeeing the thread on displacement I was wondering why the spectrum had the stupid screen split into three sections and the addresses for each section…
... the best — between the timing requirements for burst mode reads and the Z80's instruction ... set and DRAM refresh behaviour. The alternatives are ... -
BrewDog beerI've recently been working my way through the wonderful range of Brewdog beers. Yum yum, shame there's no BrewDog pub near me :( I wonder if anyone…
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It's the Cooper's Australian lager which is quite ... VBMST=coopers%20australian[/url] and the Wilkinson's brewing sugar is very ... yet. I've stopped the almost surgery-like cleanliness that ... for the fridge.
I might treat myself and try ... -
BrewDog beerI've recently been working my way through the wonderful range of Brewdog beers. Yum yum, shame there's no BrewDog pub near me :( I wonder if anyone…
[QUOTE=Vampyre;769760]It's the Cooper's Australian lager which is quite ... ?VBMST=coopers%20australian[/URL] and the Wilkinson's brewing sugar is very good ... -
Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
... publishers, esp. the ones who in the past have ripped ... if they aren't paying the talent , then I have ... ripped off. 1 spectrum and 1 c64 company always ... lot of music software, and the licensing on it is ... system and isn't expensive
and the EULA's on ... -
New Kidney!I've just had my phone call to say they may have a new kidney.for me! Plenty can go wrong, but it's still early days yet. Fingers crossed for me and …
... the time gone? It's been 6 weeks since my transplant :o ) and ... week to see the transplant nurses and the Dr's and that's a good hour ... and 20 minutes drive ... ! The stent is between my new kidney and my bladder and yes ... -
Odd song lyricsI mean ones where you thought nothing of at first and then listened to again and thought "uh-oh...where the hell is this going?". Exhibit A: [B]Red…
... and out and in and out
She's playing all night
And the ... music's ... and out
'Cause she's playing all night
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Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
... entirely on it's absence but the more I think ... growth area, so WOS's (and the Spectrum's) time will come, ... think it's yet.
The forum seems ... m most worried about the atrophying [URL="http:// ... quite tickled by the thought of the hardwear/coders/people ... -
Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…
... hardware and the Spectrum's ULA to easily resolve. The fact that it's been ... .
The Z80H might have been an option, and Sinclair looked ... doubling the speed of the RAM and possibly other components. Given that the Spectrum ... -
Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…
... hardware and the Spectrum's ULA to easily resolve. The fact that it's ... doubling the speed of the RAM and possibly other components. Given that the ... been easier too and it was the last Zilog 8- ... been afordable and cornered the 8-Bit high end market . The QL ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... the TS2068 showed the way. A 128k spectrum with an AY trip and the ... TS2068's improved graphics in 1984 ... /> I also wonder if the spectrum's life span could have been ... -
hints for visiting Scotland?Hi, in August this year I will visit for the first time Scotland with my wife and doughter. My holiday tour starts in Edinburgh via Inverness to Gla…
... a big Spitfire hanging from the roof and the Salvador Dali painting of ... as a few Van Goghs and Cezannes, the GoMA always has something ... itself worth a visit), and the People's Palace is an eclectic mix ... takes forever to drive to, and the nearest car park is 2 ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... ;779423]That's interesting, that you started with the Spectrum at the tail ... we were to share the machine, and also he had a large ... />
The fact we had a games collection already and also cost ... where lots of new consoles and the Amiga's around which I was ... -
BrewDog beerI've recently been working my way through the wonderful range of Brewdog beers. Yum yum, shame there's no BrewDog pub near me :( I wonder if anyone…
... been the coal hole and utility/washing room, I think it's a ... the house)
The temperature's usually pretty constant in there and the thermometer's ... showing 22 degrees at the ... -
Not a very nice situation to be inA mate of mine and his girlfriend decided to take the plunge and move out of my mates parents house and get there own place in a town 40 miles away. …
... his boss as it's a company van and the drunk was fired ... son's room he ran to the toilet and vomited at the overwhelming stench and ... stuff she inherited from her and the drunk's grandmother had been stolen ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... the TS2068 showed the way. A 128k spectrum with an AY trip and the ... TS2068's improved graphics in 1984 ... /> I also wonder if the spectrum's life span could have been ... -
Ubuntu Gnome HelpI've been workng wih UBuntu Gnome increasingly in my work and on my home computers. So much so that when my company surplused a dual core laptop I wa…
... PC, my work PC and the PC's of the two folkes either side ... of my office.
The ... laptop boots from the live CD, and runs the programs like ...
Running firefox from the command like gives a bus ... -
Dot crawl?Hi, As I'm rather new to the hardware of the spectrum, just to confirm: is this video showing "Dot crawl" ? [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U…
... that help in reducing the dot-crawl effect?[/QUOTE ...
Not in general. The oscillators just aren't stable ... output is used and the Spectrum's chroma carrier is ... not frequency locked to the master ... now it's just part of the charm of an ... -
Play Expo 2014Today common sense left me temporarily and I booked a flight, hotel and a ticket for the Play expo in Manchester. I will probably spend a lot of time…
... , probably with my lad (17) and the gf's lad (12).
Is there any schedule for the talks ... just shout some WOS names and see who puts their hands ... -
Windows 10Microsoft goes back to go forward... [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412[/URL]
... cop at explaining things, and the person(s) I'm explaining to ... have retained 7's GUI as default, and offered the touchscreen tiles ... when they got the important patches and service packs out).< ... not only due to the many bugs and incompatabilities, but also ...
