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This Is Your (Gaming) LifeHi there spec-chums. I'm in an inquisitive mood, and feel like doing a bit of writing, so I was wondering if you folks would like to share the story …
... Saturn and the Dreamcast. During this time I also went back and purchased ... , and I believe this bitterness actually cost me a good gamestesting job with ... go in and be testing AAA titles for my first job?!)
Need help with controls in some programI've been able to preserve some software for WOS recently. Among the titles there is a Polish drawing utility called Graphic's Master. The WOS entry…
... goes to left upper corner and stays there. Instructions say that ... peek into the code and see what input this program expects to have ...Have you seen this man?I was digging around in the sprite graphic data of Contact Sam Cruise when I came across this sprite: [IMG]http://pyskool.ca/images/csc-as064.png[/I…
... data of Contact Sam Cruise when I came across this sprite:
and are curious, this character - let's call ...LCD monitors with aerial input and other expensive+simple options for running on flatHi, What great forums! Just fired up a 48k for the first time in probably 20 years for a burst of lovely nostalgia :D Due to space constraints I w…
... route. I need something simple and reliable. Within reason, I ... ?hash=item27af433bba"]this[/URL] do the job? Would this give me ... low (about 70 eur) and you should be careful to ...Chess Program - Tournament - three possible types of... :-)Depending on program's settings (response time, as key factor), we can have 3 possible types of Tournament : 1. 'burst-mode' - with 30 or 45 seconds…
... :
- If "program A" beats "priogram B", and "program B" do the ... winner was Clock'89 and once 'Super' !!!
This closes the list ... /> BTW,
- Program developers played duels like on this Tours... we see ...Shameless website plug!I've recently put my Speccy dedicated site live after finally getting around to making a half decent attempt at a web site design for it, so I though…
... it, so I thought this was as good a time ... got a job VB programming and learnt to database program properly (hah ... database along with a program I'd written in ... in the Crash percentages)) and other drop downs to quickly ... Contact or post on this thread which I'll ...Jonathan CreekI meant to post about the Jonathan Creek episode from a few weeks ago, but never got around to it, and since no one else did (as far as I know) then …
... amateur detective, who's day job is as a magician's ... follows logic and the conventionally understood laws of physics - his job is ... . Except for this episode. And it [B]really[/B] hurt the program.
Polish corrections and new dataInfo update on Polish software There were some auctions with missing Polish titles which I didn't win unfortunately:-(, but I can give the names, so…
... sees that they are missing and sends them one day.
and the titles were unknown but ... angielsku (Learn to Read)[/B] This program was apparently released on 4 ...Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... /> The Simpsons
This program really went down hill. It ... program with a history this extensive? Actually, lots of people, and ... (or "confirmation" of what Sam thought) was dissapointing to me ... />
Oh bugger. This program had a higher drop in ...Matt Smith as Doctor Who?Now that Matt Smith's first series (or season) as the Doctor has ended, how do you rate him? Do you think he's done a good job, is suitable for the p…
... he's done a good job, is suitable for the part ... about the program since it came back in 2005, and how much ... many years.
And of course this Doctor's appeal isn ... you don't like the program (fair enough, each to his ...Modern and future computer/console gamingI'm downloading and I'm bored, so I thought I'd post about something that has been bothering me for a while (and I'll make it a long post, as I know …
... Duke Nukem 3D, Serious Sam, etc. And you can download some great ... (the PAL version has this fixed, and reportedly there are fixed ... least to the end user), and this is due to extensive testing ... to xbox-scene.com and Wikipedia confirms this) the bugs still ...For anyone who is interestedAs Jumping Stack mentions in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32113[/url] I've been banned recently (the ban…
... 's my favourite program ever, and if I ever deny this in any ... seem too capable at their job).
Why didn't ... , Martijn, and others on this forum. I do this frequently on this forum, largely ... things I hear and see during the day. This is why I ...ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …
... environment, 2000 feet high and 20 000 feet from the ... precision instruments (especially analog), and post flight analysis, with some ... , Hisoft and Boriel compiler) failed to get the job done.
However, if you want to see how this program ...Working with DOS and Plus D disks on a +2A/+3Don't know if this will be of interest to anyone, but once in a while someone asks how to do it. Dominic Morris has given permission for WOS to distr…
... conversation with Dominic and hope that this will be of ... I wrote a nice converter program at one point to copy ... create a single file per program.
I' ... maybe I'll treat this an impetus to finish ... great programs and I just wish this was 199x and we ...ZX Spectrum Woes...In my endeavours to get my second Spectrum (Issue 3) working I have replaced the CPU, memory and lower ram. I have fitted sockets for the CPU and me…
... the CPU and memory to minimise soldering and de-soldering ... animated alternate vertical black and white bars to an ... EPROM be used in this position and if so, is the ... have 16K eproms and the means to program them, if I ... that TR3 is doing its job, but there is no ...New game! Dire Job (Trabajo Basura)Amador the programmer couldn?t stand it anymore. His boss? terrible scolding after the project he was working at failed miserably was the last straw.…
... of the executive committee, and because the only one in ... demise was his boss himself and his bad project management. ... leave his boss between Scylla and Charybdis. He was sure ... juegos_mojonos/trabajo-basura-dire-job/[/url]
(this game has been ...DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …
just messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing ... actual program.....is there any point?
Is this method ... in speed, collision detection and moving stuff around...sometimes not ... despite trying a OVER 1 and OVER 0 type instructionInterview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... did you first used to program the game?[/I]
... do you carry out this adaptation of the book ... could imagine how to program, figuring out how to ... of character creation and how do you ?program? them.[/I]
job during university, and back then it ...Nomen Rosae type-in author and remarks[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017824[/url] The real name of the author of this adventure game (a type-in program published …
... the author of this adventure game (a type-in program published at ... Gonzalez
And a remark about this program: Michaelino Campus Vetustus Labanda ... there is music adapted from this musician, so there is only ... charge of the making of this title.OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
... borrowed from SAM BASIC (thanks to Andrew Wright) and original ... from the 16K and 48K machines (this requires replacing the ... or off and set the palette), RENUM (renumber the program), SOUND ... No direct ZX Printer support. This makes the screen printing routines ...ULA bug and snowI am tryng to improve the snow emulation in FBZX wii but I do not have a real spectrum to test the results. I used the information taken from Harele…
... register is between 0x40 and x7F. In this case the emulator substitutes ... of R register.
This emualtes the fact that the ... the refresh remains.
This is roughly the code:
I am not sure what to think about this!I was seaching for images of sides of a +2 and +3 and happened across this! The blogger has certainly done a very careful, proper job, and I think it…
... sides of a +2 and +3 and happened across this!
The blogger ... has certainly done a very careful, proper job, and ... I think it looks cool but would you do this?
read his blog and get more pictures here
Help finding a C64 and Amiga game which inspired this Spectrum gameHi all, I was playing a Little Magic Fields, and in the instructions it reads that the game is a conversi?n of a C64 game which inspired later an Ami…
... a Little Magic Fields, and in the instructions it reads ... inspired later an Amiga and then this Spectrum one. There is ... another game very similar and very ... recent, called Knights and Demons, but this is ...Timex contended memory timings, the TS2068 kludge board and EXROM at $4000 - $7FFFI haven't seen this documented anywhere yet so I thought I'd share my findings. I've been investigating contended memory timings on the Timex Sinclai…
... timing loop.
When this program runs it plays the same ... port F4 bits 2 and 3. When the program steps through $0000 ... kludge circuit fixes this for the cartridge port and the Bus Expansion ... to the VRAM signals RAS1# and CAS1#.
Second ...Test Program K3, a german program in russian in 1992?I came across this program in Infoseek and found out that everything is quite weird. First, the game is in russian, and secondly, the German publishe…
I came across this program in Infoseek and found out that everything is ... , the game is in russian, and secondly, the German publisher, Happy ...Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…
... writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. ... program, I'd be very grateful and if anyone wants to use this ... are on screen when the program is run, 'i' records ... Untitled AY MUSIC Making Program
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750 PRINT ...program upload via Interface 1 RS232 from PC/Mac/LinuxHello. I've made good on a promise to my 13 year old self and have been recently learning spectrum z80 coding. I can happily build a program (as …
... build a program (as e.g. .tap) and load it ... emulator in real time and divert the generated audio ... physical Spectrum 48k and successfully load the program. I needed ... more to it than this. I'd appreciate anyone ... who's done this expanding on it.
ZX-Paintbrush and ULAplusAnyone used it to draw ULAplus graphics. I just can't get my head around how to use the CLUTs, I can edit the colours but I only seem to be able t…
... 0.
I use this program for all my graphic need ... standard colours in 8x8, 8x2 and 8x1 attribute modes. I need ..."ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that ... enthusiastically joined this forum I was a PhD student, and even ... [i]without consulting anyone on this forum first who would be ... thorough job, the ZIP package contains the program in tape, +3 disc and ...Multiple Simultaneous Keypresses and PC KeyboardsAn issue was brought to my attention that a short test program that detects whether the QAOP,space keys are pressed was not behaving as expected. …
... direct read of port $XXFE and the result ANDed with a ... in this order: q then a then o. q and a are ... in this order: o then a then q. o and a are ... real machine to see if this program does as it should?
