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Darkening of aging CRT monitors / PowerstripI'm using a CRT that I got way back in 1999, and it's still working, but the screen seems to have gradually darkened over the past few years. I think…
... still working, but the screen seems to have gradually darkened over the ... WOS); I usually darken the screen to reduce glare.
Does ... " flatscreen because the screen display often tends to look ugly when you ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... keyboard, writing to the screen, saving to tape, scrolling the screen etc. will ... You currently can't draw to the screen, save files, make sounds ... c. I need to be able to implement core file routines ... might be able to point me to a useful magazine article ... -
128 ROM paging alternativeWould this work (with the appropriate code in each ROM)? [code] ; 128 rom paging routine ; use rst 28h with call address stored after restart ;;rom…
... /> inc hl ; to create
inc hl ; return address
ex ... (sp), hl ; call address to hl
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2 (or more) players over the netAre there any emulators that allow 2 (or more) players over the net? I guess, 1 machine running the emulator but serving the screen up to 2 or more …
Are there any emulators that allow 2 (or more) players over the net?
I guess, 1 machine running the emulator but serving the screen up to 2 or more PCs and accepting keyboard/joystick input from each PC. -
Question about something I don't know what is called.I am interested in reading about something which I don't know what is called (duh). I am looking for (online/offline) reading material which explain…
... still don't know where to start because I don't ... ones and then displayed on-screen ... want to know more!
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... way the spectrum writes graphics to the screen uses very little CPU ... power (especially in comparison to the ... game Dragon and the whole screen flickers to hell whilst it's ... on screen.
The last ...Speccy games in widescreensMaybe this thread might not be significant to you. Maybe stupid. But it's something I've noticed and I must tell. It's about modern LCD widescreens…
... thread might not be significant to you. Maybe stupid. But ...
In the traditional screen format (4:3) we can ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/p/Pyjamarama ... you like this new 'screen format' to play games? The first ...Equation of a Line - ScotsoftHi Martijn, Can we have an infoseek Entry for Equation of a Line by Scotsoft: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Scotsoft$&loadp…
... inlay, but I will upload screen shots to help infoseek.
The ...ANN: MobileZX UpdatedDear All MobileZX, the J2ME ZX Spectrum emulator ([url]https://sourceforge.net/projects/mobilezx/[/url]) has been updated and now has the following …
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[*]Landscape and full screen mode to make the most of your ... phone's screen space.
[*]File ... browser to load games directly ... for each game
[*]Option to save game snapshot so you ...H20 CorrectionsThe game H20:- [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0021105[/url] is currently listed as being in Russian. It's not Russian though,…
... words appear on the intro screen, next to a date.
to the place the game is ... name is currently unknown (well to me anyway!). I suppose, in ...Getting started with ... part II (help needed)Hi to everyone. I just founded simple wiki to solve usual problem "how to do [placeholder] in asm?". Check it on [url]http://zxsnippets.wikia.com[/ur…
... founded simple wiki to solve usual problem "how to do [placeholder ... />
Check "clearing screen" section to get idea how it *could ... fill some of your tricks to microoptimalization page ?
to copy your mesmerize twister ...Vague Memory of a GameI am trying to remember the name of this game. I think it is a Spectrum game as I think I actually remember the color clash! I think it played on a…
I am trying to remember the name of this ... it played on a single screen. There were lots of WWII ... type warplanes flying around the screen trying to shoot each other down ... ). It's not a lot to go on I know... :???:Randomize usrHi, I've often wondered why/how they came up with RANDOMIZE USR <memory address> to invoke machine code couldn't they have used a better keyword (e…
IDE emulation and delaysA few months ago I was told that IDE emulation, while perfectly usable, isn't accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on real hardware. On some e…
... t accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on ... to find out the physical sector from the LBA or CHS address ... a logical sector address to the physical (internal) sector address.
to perform an address coordinate translation which ...How would you win ?1m in a Spectrum virtual reality challenge?Imagine, if you will, a strange opportunity in which you have been selected to play a virtual reality challenge game pitting your wits against the pr…
... you have been selected to play a virtual reality ... your challenge is simply to do is survive 30 ... are required to progress through the game from screen to screen, level to level, ... as advanced rules dictate that trying to ...Game IntrosFellow Speccy'ers I'm looking for those game intros that really amazed you back in the day. For me the opening to Combat Lynx was pretty cool (the …
... cool (the way the loading screen 'came to life') and the opening ... to Trantor was amazing - pity the ...Resolving USR entry point into a data + m/code block?Well, I had another look at that Merlin listing and decided that blowing up the faint page made it possible to read everything (with a struggle). How…
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+ The instructions refer to two listings - there are nine ... , which doesn't match any address given in the instructions.
Computer Gamer never printed corrections to listings, so a fat lot ... I work out the USR address to start the machine code?ZXDS interlace issues (DS Hardware issues, nothing wrong with emulator)I love ZXDS and its an amazing emulator but just wanted to ask if anyone else has noticed problems with the newer revisions of DS hardware itself whe…
... small screen for 256x192).
Last year, I decided to buy ... could soon tell that the screen seemed to be interlaced. I had ... before. In all games the screen was slightly blurry but the ... seems to have a nice crisp picture and a lovely large screen ...Speccy repairs?I've finally got round to testing all the various Spectrums that I seem to have accumulated over the years and discovered that "my" two machines (i.e…
... /> [*]Seems to output a green or yellow screen. (C) ... sometimes the screen corrupts. Actually, the screen pretty much corrupts ... MINE Produces some intense colourful screen garbage. Pretty consistent pattern.< ... comes on and screen seems to be producing some ...Problem with the inlay in the entry of Nelo and QuqoMartijn, I just saw the entry for Nelo and Quqo, and noticed that the inlay of the game overlaps with the letters at the left of the screen, due to t…
Martijn, I just saw the entry for Nelo and Quqo, and noticed that the inlay of the game overlaps with the letters at the left of the screen, due to the length of the inlay. Maybe if the inlay was resized it could be better??
:) cheers!Glot?n, Microhobby type-inThe correct name of this type-in program should be "Gloton", unless on the in-game screen seems to be written as "Glotoh". On the magazine appears wi…
... ", unless on the in-game screen seems to be written as "Glotoh ...Good Saturn GamesI just manage to put my old Saturn working (I lend it to a friend and last time I tried it it was ruinned, but now today I tried it and it was workin…
... Saturn working (I lend it to a friend and last time ... way, the screen seems to keep popping from one format to another... maybe ...Printer Printing Problem (assembler)I've a program that outputs to the lower screen at various places, using a combination of calls to RST $10 plus OUT-NUM-1 and PR-STRING. It also call…
... a program that outputs to the lower screen at various places, using ... want the lower screen output to go to the printer instead, to give me ... /code output still goes to the lower screen, and not only that ...happy birthday murtcepshappy birthday murtceps .., I knew I should have kept ya address to send you some "quality" games :) I think you were one of the first people I talk…
happy birthday murtceps .., I knew I should have kept ya address to send you some "quality" games :)
I think you were one of the first people I talked with on here.. that rev hardcastle thing? :)Issue 2 Speccy faultHi Guys, I'm really hoping someone can help me with a fault that has just developed on my issue 2 speccy. After perservering for some time with usi…
... perfectly. I even managed to play a couple of games ... distorted. Sometimes it will boot to "1982 Sinclair Research Ltd" ... about 10 seconds the screen starts to develop blocks to the point that ... it fills the screen.
< ...Z88DK tapfile creation questionHere's another question. The game I've just started working on (Sid Spanners 3), I'm concatenating the following tap files together, to make a big ta…
... 2. A loading screen exported to a tap file from ... using the below Makefile to build this tapfile " ... all.tap: loader.tap screen.tap music.tap font.tap ... /> cat loader.tap screen.tap music.tap font. ... want automatically, without having to manually modify it in ...Jet Set Willy: Manic Mining Robot's Day Out (missing info)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017662&loadpics=3"]Jet Set Willy: Manic Mining Robot's Day Out[/URL] * - JSD in the upper ri…
... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/j/gif/ ... )
* - The loading screen seems to indicate that this game was ... who indirectly had something to do with this game( ... says 2001 but the loading screen says 2003 ... haylp?
...Persistant tape loading error*big cheery wave* Got myself an ebay 48k rubber key speccy recently. Seems to be working ok, excpept for tape loading errors. Tried from a few sour…
... when I try to load manic miner, the loading screen loads, it ... goes all the way to the end ... daze loads the loading screen, gets to the end of the loading ... permanent black screen.
Tried loading 16k programs to see if ...MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
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[*]At the first screen asking to cheat take a MF3 snapshot ... work appear to work - the game crashes after the first screen).
So... does anybody know how to have MF3Z80 behave like M3Unlock ... does anyone have a solution to running a Z80 snapshot file ...Serial protocol, help!Hi, simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC to real ZX Spectrum for testing purposes. Under Windows I tried using Spxfr and it w…
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simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC ... it works. But to upload a file to ZX Spectrum it ... that I just need to prefix my raw binary ... All I really want is to transfer my machine code ( ... CODE program) raw binary to zx spectrum and run it ...
