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Funny coloured spectrum found in my attic.While rummaging through my attic I found this funny coloured spectrum. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/white_speccy.jpg…
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Spectaculator on 2 PC's?Hello. I purchased spectaculator a few weeks ago. I was wondering if its ok to use the same licence key on my laptop? I already use it on my deskto…
Do I have a Spanish +2B here?Hi everyone, been lurking here for a little while:) I recently bught a +2B from e-bay, one of those "no way to test it" ones. (I know I know!) I was…
... I discover there is a serial number printed on the box ... it doesn't match the serial number on the machine.
Speed tip - "e" notationHi Folks, Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is use…
Hi Folks,
Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is used to calculate the current time in hours, minutes and seconds.
Orginal code:
...Giant Book of Computer GamesHi you have listed Tim Hartnell's Giant book of Computer Games with an ISBN (Invalid). Having just dug this out of my archive and stuck on eBay I can…
... seem to have twisted two numbers around.
Your listing ...Spectaculator: Com port bug?I just bought Spectaculator yesterday but probably erred as the one feature it has that no other emulator has is the ability to use COM ports with an…
... on X64 Win7, with USB serial port on COM 8)Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
... the Spectrum screen had a serial layout.
It runs as ... the
contents of the serial (or byte order) buffer at ...How was JetSetWilly made?Dear all, Can any help explain how games like JetSetWilly are put together? In a programming environment (rather than a GameMkier one), how were ro…
... rooms compiled? How were specific numbers of enemies populated in each ...Decimals!Quick couple of (probably very silly) questions, folks... If I have an input command in a program asking "How many potatoes do you want to buy from …
... them and just accept whole numbers?
Also, if for ... INT function to produce whole numbers elsewhere in the program, but ...Multi Spectrum Games?Hello! I was wondering does anyone know of any games that had a multiplayer option to play an opponent on another Spectrum? E.g. over the Interface …
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I was wondering does anyone know of any games that had a multiplayer option to play an opponent on another Spectrum? E.g. over the Interface 1 or +2/+3 serial port?ZX Spectrum +--Borken!Just got of these fellas, boots up ok, but looks like several of the keys are dead. Never had one of these, is it like the 48k? membrane prob fooked?…
Just got of these fellas, boots up ok, but looks like several of the keys are dead. Never had one of these, is it like the 48k? membrane prob fooked?
Oh btw, any idea where the serial number is on these?The Collapse of Free Radical DesignFor anyone interested in how and why Free Radical (the console games developer, made up partly of ex-Rare employees) managed to go from the brillianc…
... generic, uninspired, and by-the-numbers FPS) and then to bankruptcy ...Another Roger Jowett oneHello guys, I want print here the conversation with Roger Jowett. He is spamming all e-mails he can get hold of. Especially for the Spectrum30 show…
... sure as **** don't support serial modems connected to
speccies ... with serial ports - which is a ... br /> uninstall the onboard 115200bps serial port using tyhe bios and ... to find that neither the serial port manufacturer or the< ...number padding functionI wrote a number padding function in BASIC a while ago, but when I came to want it again I couldn't find it, so I've done this enhanced [url=http://w…
... use zeroes, negative use spaces. Numbers wider than the pad parameters ...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…
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* More line numbers: Line numbers from 1 to 16383 are ... BASIC programs which use line numbers above 9999 will still execute ...Two more M.I.A.sI wrote two simple educational games in 1988 called "Easy Time" and "Easy Maths" (may have been "Easy Math"). They were written in compiled BASIC, a…
... clock had markers but no numbers. If the player typed in ...Contender for the earliest Spectrum still existingThis chap [URL="http://avaragado.org/"]http://avaragado.org/[/URL] gives details in his blog of a Spectrum he has had from new, serial number 001-000…
... he has had from new, serial number 001-000046. This is ... number (001-000184) on my serial number list. It'll be ...ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 releasedDear ZX-Spectrum emulator fans, yesterday I've released ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 which now comes with several interesting news that were long needed: ZX-…
... blocks that have equal block numbers into two sections, and the ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... set their coordinates and tile numbers, that's all. They have ...assembly optimization: times tenDecimal numbers are not computer friendly :) Anyway, short of saying "sod it - I'll multiply by 8" - and another part of the program does indeed div…
Decimal numbers are not computer friendly :)
< ...A spreadsheet queryMy attempts at importing my bank statements (in excel format) to my budget program for mac (Money) has run into a spot of bother. Help! I have an ex…
... Amount with the actual numbers, but all numbers are positive.
Mark the numbers in the Amount column positive ...INKEY$ giving me troubleHello, I have been using BASin (great program by the way...) Sad though it seems during the typhoon here I have been re-learning my spec-skills an…
... i spaced out the line numbers a bit..
Then ...redirecting Z80 sub-routine CALLsI'm working on changing a TR-DOS disk program to work from standard +128k tape and thought that rather than painstakingly working through the code ma…
... just to determine the sector numbers & lengths being read, and ...problems with rndGot past the whole INKEY$ issue and now am trying to pin down the combat section of the game. got a basic combat routine however, when i try and gen…
... and generate 3 separate random numbers it does not seem to ...A new ZX spectrum cloneOver the past 12 months i have been developing a new spectrum clone as a hobby project to waste my spare time on. It is still not fully complete yet …
... for cassette tapes.
RS232 serial port
SCART RGB connection ...adventure compilerThis is the project I've working on for the last week(?), but I realise I won't be able to work on anything Spectrum related for a while. So here's …
... you might have to put numbers between brackets, as well as ...SABBAT / SKYCLAD appreciation thread!So it turns out from another post that a number of us are also huge Sabbat and Skyclad fans! For those in the know, what are your favourite songs an…
... ) and did some old Sabbat numbers. The man remains a genius ...Spectrum +2 grey 12v railHello everyone, I have this grey +2 with no video from tv. After much reading and testing i realized it was the internal power supply. At the 12v ra…
... 12v rail to tea2000 and serial port i get only 1 ...
