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The most expensive Spectrum program?What Spectrum game or utility cost the most money to buy? I seem to remember seeing a review for a horse race prediction program for ?80 or so, in Si…
What Spectrum game or utility cost the most money to buy? I seem to remember seeing a review for a horse race prediction program for ?80 or so, in Sinclair User I think, though I could be wrong. -
"Bouncing Bug" and "In-betweening" - missing games?Has anyone heard of the following two Speccy games: - Bouncing Bug - In-betweening They are not listed on World of Spectrum Infoseek at all, and I …
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- Bouncing Bug
- In-betweening
They are ... them in Google (although the second one is hard to search for ... unearthed from my past. Back in the day, I used the ... (A, Z, N, M) and In-betweening (A, Z, N, M ... -
Does this program exist?I've seen many maps of text adventures here on WoS and was wondering if there is a special flow-chart/diagram program available just for those sort o…
... a special flow-chart/diagram program available just for those sort ... of games.
In case you are wondering then ... will consider conjuring up said program in your spare time, such as ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... br /> Fixed - Lines written (in notepad, say) whose line numbers ... new characters into the Graphic/Sprite editor. (Kiwi)
Fixed - ... would end up corrupting the program. (Arjun)
Fixed - ... than is strictly necessary in a sane program were not saving ... -
problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
... printing and avoid sprite flickering. But in my stubborn way ... at getting the road in my scrolling road routine ... how far to go in that direction. This produced ... br /> I could get the program to wait between (say) 0 ... ;save no. of moves in one direction
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Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…
... of how variables are stored in memory.
... this, I typed in this small program from an old ... scanned speccy book in the ... CSSCGC tape magazine, which runs in 128K mode).
< ... fix this program to run correctly in 128K mode.< ... -
Memory paging in 128 KB - 64KB RAM possible?I have found a quote in Spectrum 3 manual (available at WOS) -------------------- In the +3, we have crammed in more than twice the amount of memory…
... at WOS)
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In the +3, we have crammed ... address 65536 bytes, there are in fact 131072 bytes of
in all! All this
is ... it possible after starting a program to "disconnect" the ROM memory ... -
[Deep voice] The Big One...Wow! This is going to be my 1,210th post! And it only seems like days since I made my 1,000th post (not that anyone'd know, as no-one reads my posts …
... of every living thing in the universe? Is the ... Are we destined to search for an answer where none ... of the finest minds in history have devoted their ... Will we be compensated in an afterlife for our ...
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Help with maze in Sorcerer's Mountain.:-? Does anybody out there know how to get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text adventure (with some pictures) written by Martin Sykes and r…
... get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text ... and realeased in for the Spectrum in 1984? The program is written in basic ... but after looking at the program ... -
Collision Detection in SP1Hi, Does anyone have a well-documented example of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK forums but no joy. Something wi…
... of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK ... -
Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…
... /> Here is what we get in ZX-Blockeditor:
[url ... "BASIC" blocks, the first one (Program Data after PROGR "CHUCK2") reads ... and game code. Everything is in one block (I mean, loading ... diffent to what we get in Blockeditor.
The second ... -
TZX info grabber programHi, I have my full TZX collection in a folder on my hard disk. I would like to separate games for Spectrum model (16k, 48k or 128k could be enough). …
... have my full TZX collection in a folder on my hard ... it? I think about a program launched with TZX file name ... me know.
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Breakpoints in debuggers in emulatorsA breakpoint, according to Wikipedia ( [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakpoint[/url] ), is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program…
... stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging ... breakpoint at a given location in memory and your Spectrum ... goes into debugging when instruction in this location is executed. ... or watchpoint.[/B] The program is stopped when it tries ... -
Does this Windows program exist (no. 275,873,239)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20422"]Following ewgf's thread[/URL] on video editing software I remembered I meant to a…
... there a Windows program out there which can take in video and ... /> I.e. something like take in a 10min video and spit ... -
Program to convert .bin to other file format?I'm after a Windows program to convert one disk image file format to another. At the moment I'm have downloaded some Sega Saturn games and they are …
I'm after a Windows program to convert one disk image ... Saturn games and they are in .bin format with a .cue ... know of a good, free program?
Thanks all ... -
wos search doesn' t work {?)hello, tried to find "flashZX" string under the emulator section, first time it did work (found nothin' though, but worked) - and then every consec…
... try to fill in the 6letter password, the search engine tells me ... -
How to run assembled code in emu?Sorry for the complete newbie question, but I can't figure this out anywhere. I've assembled a very simple program using z80asm on linux. Now I hav…
... 've assembled a very simple program using z80asm on linux. Now ... to get it to run in my spectrum emulator (xspect, spectemu ... -
New 'Cuil' Search engine[i]Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own s…
... ]Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that ... Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own ... .cuil.com[/url] and put in zx spectrum here is the ... -
Does any emulator do this?For Spectrum emulation on the PC, I still use X128, which is a great emulator fair enough, but I use it still largely because it works with SGD, whic…
... .html[/url] ), but that stopped in 2001.
Anyway, ... nowadays the games' filenames are in extended character length, not the ... and that SGD (a DOS program) followed. I know that SGD ... Spectrum programs, and lets you search/scroll through the list and ... -
Aarrghhh - I haven't seen this in 10 years!Oh my giddy aunt, I can't believe it! Every other year or so, I do a search for the old Fanzine 'Crashed'. And finally I see it's been added to the …
... or so, I do a search for the old Fanzine 'Crashed ... two dodgy games that appeared in the Fred magazine, this is ... only dubious claim to fame in the Speccy / Sam world.
Wrong language in some entriesThere are some entries which give wrong describtion of the language used in game. I'll deal with my native Polish language, which I can be sure about…
... of the language used in game. I'll deal ... It is for sure Polish program, however you have here ... , the game was written in.
Author is A ... manipulation, but Eliza style program where you talk to computer ... 0006709[/url]
It is in Polish, not English
...Most expensive item in the archive?I know there have already been threads on "most expensive game" and "most expensive program" in the archive. But what about the most expensive item …
... expensive game" and "most expensive program" in the archive.
But ... 2" robot, costing ?1725.00 in 1984.
That's ... probably equivalent to around ?5000 in 2008 money. (I can imagine ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... - You can now search for whole words only in the search/replace dialogs ... - Animation strip to the UDG/Sprite editor. This allows you to ... use.
Added - The Sprite editor can now handle more ... Paintbox for opening the Graphic/Sprite/UDG Editor.
...Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
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Like in the game [URL="http://www ... character leaves a streaky sprite-trail and when one ... types the incorrect code in then it goes straight ... So if you are interested in BASIC programming then you ... /listings ... but keep in mind that the quality ...Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…
... a physically different method) in that it reads a storage ... makes even the 3/10 program [I]Massive[/I] look ... t find via a brief search of WOS). And am ... also had to contain the program/audio/graphical data, but ... (eleven thousand words in a 48K program!) as to the ...How to get WinXP folder contents listed in ASCII sequence?Having recently transferred a lot of source & data files from Win98 to WinXP I've just come to realise that, unlike Win98 or Win3 or MacOS or Unix or…
... convention which includes numeric digits in file names.
... makes trying to find items in large folders problematical when ... customisation option which restores sanity in this respect. I also ... get anywhere with an Internet search either. Is there a ...Please help me complete this lil'programI'm editing Basic programs that were saved in Timex TOS discs, and every load command starts with LOAD *"filename". If I want to go through these pr…
... Basic programs that were saved in Timex TOS discs, and every ... till the end of the program, but I'm not sure ...Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…
... seemed[/i] to compile the program. Upon running it though, ... READing DATA statements with strings in them? for eg, I ... DIM v$(22,2) in my original code which ... allowed me to READ in strings like DATA "fd", ... This doesn't work in COLT of course because v ...search by hash?would it perhaps be possible in future to do a search by hash (md5 or crc32) of a block? (for eg. I have only few readable blocks and would like to k…
... perhaps be possible in future to do a search by hash (md5 ...Ridiculous amount of spyware and shit on my laptopHello specchums, I was having a bit of trouble recently, with my search links from google and yahoo being redrected to some dodgy fake "Check your P…
... of our I.T. manager in work and ran the full ... to a previous restore point in Windows XP a few days ... taken.
C:\Program Files\MyWay\myBar\History\search (Adware.MyWay) -> ... ; No action taken.
C:\Program Files ...
