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50Hz on PC?Hi, do you know of any emulator for PC that can switch monitor refresh rate to 50Hz or closest possible and sync ZX interrupt with monitor refresh?…
... large amounts of refresh rates and non-native resolutions that don ... enough?
Is this correct? And does this explain why I ... put that down to LCD screens and their slightly longer pixel fade ... -
The most overrated games of all timeWhich games did the magazines say were really good, but are actually... um... not so good? By a combination of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/b…
... the Robots" was utterly notorious and, unfortunately, marked a watershed ... Warner, an entertainment giant, and backed-up by what was ... 'll create something special) and the talk about the gameplay ... out all the most obvious and basic two-player features which ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... made a start, and uploaded the following in-game screens:-[/quote]
and covertapes, to grab all missing screens and helping to ... request for the covertape-only and compilation-only titles. -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... all remaining compilations and covertapes, to grab all missing screens and helping to ... request for the covertape-only and compilation-only titles.[/QUOTE]
and thus quicker than the ones ... -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
... interesting. Nonterraqueous (2 good loading screens) and Action Biker spring to mind ... -
Post a pic of your desktopI am sure it has been done before, but here is mine: [url=http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktoptt4.jpg][img=http://img99.imageshack.us/img…
... full width of both my screens, and with a slice taken out ... the plastic cases of the screens :)
I'd put ... -
Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…
... interesting. Nonterraqueous (2 good loading screens) and Action Biker spring to mind ... Quazatron which uses multiple loading screens to tell you the plot ... -
Duel of the games 4! Super conundrum! Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillyGo on I dares ya, to decide which one is best, it's popped up in many, many previous threads, so do it, decide the better of the 2 :D
... 's just a more finished and more enjoyable game.
screens in a platformer was huuuuuge ... something wrong (the Banyon Tree and Conservatory Roof's bugs (or ... how how to do those screens, and the Attic bug might (not ... -
Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... up), things like colour clash and basic sound devices made the ingenuity ... because of their awesome graphics and sound but in the 24 ... day, newest releases like UT3 and Half-Life 2 stretch boundaries ... just a few dozen chips and yet the creativity in hardware ... -
Speccy on the telly no.857362Watched "Exodus" on C4 last night while waiting on Zatoichi coming on...some lassie was uploading a virus to the interweb, which consisted of animate…
... of animated frogs and flys filling people's screens, and the distinct sound ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
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BBC MicrosAny speccy peeps on here also have a collection of Beebs ? :) I have a fair few (and some accessories) , il try to get some pics later if anyone is …
Have you checked the MOS and BASIC ROMs? There are also a number of configuration jumpers on the keyboard - so a BBC might not start without a good connection to the keyboard PCB.
Fortunately, the ROMs generally are socketed on a BBC Micro. -
New tape releases - 128K only?As Jon's new Egg-Head game is 128K only, and splATTR has also evolved into a 128K only game - both due to memory constraints - I was wondering if the…
... a burton with a +2a and a +3 **OUCH**
screens and characters. I thought the demo ... /> Bloomin ek I'm sleepy and can hardly type. Better go ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... cluttered by variable definitions and redefinitions. Sinclair basic maintains a clean variable ... region which includes reading the basic program and data). Perhaps more since ... memory accesses than regular code. And basic's interrupt routine consumes another ... -
Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…
... be placed directly in BASIC line number and length -> ... pointer to bitstream
;and DE by pointer to destination ... dolit
jr next ;and place instructions: dolit LD (DE ... by BASIC LINE NUMBER and BASIC LINE LENGTH
;such basic loader ... -
Son of Blagger - impossibly difficult?With the help of emulation, I've been tring to play through some of my first Spectrum games, namely those on the Dixons games bundle that came with m…
... out on that machine, and it's even worse than ... my favourite games on C64 and the Speccy. I had ... my mates had breadboxes, and I always had to sit ... there and listen to them moan about ... Mugsy's Revenge. Had more screens and music on the C64. But ... -
How to rotate an imageI'm working on an idea for a game and to test it I want to draw some graphics on the screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters…
The formula won't be a problem.
However when you handle a point and set it elsewhere then that point can be set again back when your routine reaches that point.
Solution: use 2 screens and place second screen when ready calculating. -
Calculating how many pixels each mapper has created - for Skarpo especially :)Pavel Plíva : 2992717027 pixels Ladderman : 2058908818 pixels Sherwin Robb : 411890200 pixels Viktor Drozd : 266748605 pixels Victor Daulichen :…
... opinion. Some maps are better and some maps are worse, it ... , it's quite a dismay (and ultimately the reason I stopped ... , even with the limited palette and resolution, were works of art ... you can do is grab screens and add them to the list ... -
Calculating how many pixels each mapper has created - for Skarpo especially :)Pavel Plíva : 2992717027 pixels Ladderman : 2058908818 pixels Sherwin Robb : 411890200 pixels Viktor Drozd : 266748605 pixels Victor Daulichen :…
... s quite a dismay (and ultimately the reason I stopped ... even with the limited palette and resolution, were works of ... can do is grab screens and add them to the ... maps at one place. And my attitude is simple - ... 20% quality of maps and 80% make layout, additional ... -
Beanz for president!After hearing yet more about John Mcain, Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama in the race to be president of America, I've decided that I'll be voting fo…
... would dismantle the M$ and Apple companies and install ZXs everywhere. ... it).
4) Plasma screens and LCD-TVs would be no ... E) The ZnorX would outlaw and ban any weapons, including butter ... quell all hostility before teatime and take a shower at least ... -
basito: CPC Basic interpreterHello. I'm writing a Basic Interpreter compatible with the Amstrad CPC series Locomotive Basic. It's still in a very early development stage, but al…
... routines does not work well and I must set emulation speed ... with his own line input and several other routines to be ... , in addition to machine control and basic's basics, floating point routines ... -
Mapping big games using screenshotsI know it's an unpopular thing with some people, and I object to whoever did the Deactivators map as it's shit and only shows room layouts and nothin…
... have quite a few screens on the go. The ... every 2-3 screens. Every 25-50 screens I make ... you snapping hundreds of game screens and then pasting them together? ... the beginning but 50-80 screens (in PSPv5) became troublesome ... work on 10-20 screens at the most each ... -
BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…
... the speccy is a cheap and nasty machine with all the ... beeb, being aimed at education and wholesale distribution to education boards ... circuitry built in for networking and disk interface (the ICs ... operating system, so mc routines and basic can be mixed in one ... -
Run fatboy, run (seen it yet?)[URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425413/"]Run fatboy, run[/URL]. It's going to be shown in the States in a couple of weeks. It's been out in Euro…
... about 30 mins too long and fell into the trap of ... , as a movie, stand alone and be homaged itself!
screens and spoils it. It's the ... Hot Fuzz and Shawn team doing their cultural ... -
Run fatboy, run (seen it yet?)[URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425413/"]Run fatboy, run[/URL]. It's going to be shown in the States in a couple of weeks. It's been out in Euro…
... the US remake hits your screens and spoils it. It's the ... Hot Fuzz and Shawn team doing their cultural ... -
If they've have been ported to the Spectrum...Spec-chums, There were many games that for various reasons never made it to the spectrum. As an aside to the If they'd have been released in the 80s…
... (split into 8 or 10 screens) and a boss at the end ... -
disassembling raw images of ROMs.Pip pip. I'm wanting to disassemble a few ROMs. I have the raw file, a dump, but I'm looking for a way to take every two bytes and print them not in …
... C for nearly twenty years, and basic, pascal, C++, Z80, 68000, forth ... , prolog, SQL... and never had to use Octal ... -
New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…
... display variables, sprite parameters and such. The address of ... - SCREENUP, SCREENDOWN, SCREENLEFT and SCREENRIGHT. There's some sample ... a couple of demonstration screens, and I've left in ... want to move between screens AND have sequential levels in ... -
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…
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Manufacturers of modern screens and laptops have taken to offering ... improve the contrast of black and very dark colours.
