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Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
[QUOTE=BiNMaN;652017]crikey how tall is Dr Beep!! (think that's who it was judging bu his avater)[/QUOTE]
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Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;652042]Don't forget Joefish. We share the same length (well I might be a little taller).[/QUOTE]
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Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
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The need for multiple versions of the same gameWhile looking through the TZX Vault I was struck by how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and I wondered whether there really was an…
... how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and I ... this is the only difference between the two versions then the TZX files ... that storing identical versions of the same game just becasue they were ... -
Archon - 2 entries for the same gameI see that WOS has two entries for this game. One is by The Ramjam Corporation, while the other is by Ariolasoft. However, they both appear to be th…
I see that WOS has two entries for this game. One is by The Ramjam Corporation, while the other is by Ariolasoft.
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Steve Vickers / Alan Partridge, are they the same?Steve Vickers main contributor of the Spectrum Basic ROM and local radio DJ Alan Partridge, are they the same person? Steve Vickers on the left: [ur…
Steve Vickers main contributor of the Spectrum Basic ROM and local ... DJ Alan Partridge, are they the same person?
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Things that just aren't the same anymore...Just drank a can of Tizer... It used to be such a gorgeous drink, and now it's crap!! Had a Slush Puppy a few days ago, raspberry, and that didn't ta…
... bars are a fraction of the size they used to be ... ... they were massive back in the day, now they're tiny ... to be good, but since the [I]Black[/I] album, they ... like, that just ain't the same anymore? -
F16 Fighting Falcon & MiG29 Soviet Fighter - the same game?Check out those 2 games: F16 Fighting Falcon [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001706[/url] MiG 29 Soviet Fighter [url]http://…
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They are almost the same. "F16 FF" is probably a ... of "MiG29 SF" because the plane in the game looks like MiG29 ... . And look at the loading screen of "F16 Fighting ... -
All Defenda versions in the archive the same?Are all the Defenda versions in the archive the same? All from Interstella year 1986. But in the info I read that the first version from Interstella …
Are all the Defenda versions in the archive the same? All from Interstella year 1986. But in the info I read that the first version from Interstella is from 1984.
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Was the Sinclair 128k the same as the 128k +2?I only ever played on a 48k Speccy a few times and I owned a +2 and that's it. Was the Sinclair 128 the same as the 128+2? I mean you could play a 1…
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Was the Sinclair 128 the same as the 128+2? I mean ... the obvious tape deck attached and the design was the Sinclair 128 then same ... as the +2?
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Virtual things costing more or the same as physical productscarrying on from my ACDC thread, we discussed mp3 albums costing more or the same as a physical product. I've just noticed something on amazon The …
... mp3 albums costing more or the same as a physical product.
The game of thrones book
check out the prices of the first two results for the SAME book
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Why are the same size memory cards different sizes?I've heard before that two memory cards or USB sticks can have the same official capacity, but be different capacities in reality, and I'm not talkin…
... or USB sticks can have the same official capacity, but be different ... bytes, both on the same Windows 7 PC, and copied the same empty .txt ... and marked as officially being the same capacity? Is this a ... by one company will be the same size, whereas those from ... -
2 type-ins which are the same game (or almost)These two games, which also have the same name: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027745[/url] and [url]http://www.worldofspe…
... two games, which also have the same name:
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Have you ever listened to the same song for hours? :)I mean about 20 times or more of non-stop listening to the same piece of music. If so, what is your record? And what was the song? :) Personally I …
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Learning Machine Code the +2a wayHello again all, I thought I'd ask in this forum as the other categories seem less relevant. I keep re-reading the thread below with the advice given…
... /+2, which I understand is the same machine. But there are config ... site I read that 'The +2A/+3 share the same timing information, sound chip ... , etc as the 128K/+2 machines ... -
Games with the same musicI'm sure we covered this topic but is there a list of games that have the same music? The one I can think of is Bosconian & Raster Runner (2 games t…
... of games that have the same music?
The one I can ... I enjoy much more the speccy version than the original Arcade).
Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT ... a multiple of 4, and the main loop is full of ... a key press and close the loop. The portion of instructions that ...The "hearing and reading the same things" coincidenceWhat I'm talking about are those rare coincidences where you read a specific word or sentence on a screen or in print, and at exactly the same time y…
... print, and at exactly the same time you hear someone saying ... playing a game on the PC, also had a ... internet radio running. So the song "7 seconds" from ... is playing and the refrain includes the sentence "I'll ... came up in the song at the exact same moment I saw ...The Test - Adventurehttp://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015648 Just a bit of info. This is authored with The Quill (this is not listed) :) I would st…
... the same people as 'The case of the obscene mural' as the way the ... is almost identical. Given the permutations of where to ... A further indication is they share the same custom character set too, confirmed ... they both have the same CRC for the actual data in ...Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
... were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I ... on YouTube looked like exactly the same game with just different and ... usually less colors than the Speccy. Could you not then ...48K games with in game bleeper music and sound FX at the same timeJust wondering if any clever programmer even managed to make a 48K game that features in game music and SFX (from just the bleeper - no AY). Was havi…
... music and SFX (from just the bleeper - no AY). Was having ... if music and sfx at the same time (maybe using interrupts or ...Kempston Pro Interface - three joysticks at the same timeJust bought myself a Kempston Pro Interface (not arrived yet so I don't have any idea of its innards). The idea was to get an interface that allows o…
... three joysticks to speccy at the same time.
... support is just mapping the directions to keypresses 1- ... to use all the joysticks at the same time as the cursor support ... pretty trivial) modification to the Kempston Pro interface which would ...The Ice Temple AKA and a series(?)The game [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games/brainstorm-bubble-bus-software"]Brainstorm[/url] may be the first of at least two g…
... year later, and made by the same author, [url="https://worldofspectrum.org ... prosser"]Tom Prosser[/url], and same publisher [url="https://worldofspectrum. ... third game: At the end of The Ice Temple, the hero's spaceship ... games. BUT they don't share the same name.Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... by the Main ROM but additional channels are of varying length and ... have two length bytes.
share the same microdrive map.
With ...fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …
... had a look at the Chicago Manual of Style to ... with uppercase as typically they share the same height. And hanging numbers ... proportional spacing are the best combination. And for the design of ... in order to have the same length for both the telephone and fax ...Krakatoa not workingI can't get any of the Krakatoa files in the archive to load on spin or zxds. Anyone else had this problem?
... I'd share what I "discovered" at the time in ... vital part. Having analysed the original sample there is ... block of data at the end which has clicking ... on again you can make the game load.
the same length but the main header for the bytes has ...Just a curiosity of mixing synth with samplesThis is really a proof of concept, I made for the idea of playing simultaneously two ZX Spectrum computers, where one is playing chiptune music and t…
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pattern length.. how many lines of code ... pattern list. just "gosub" to the patterns
instruments ... .. suss out the pattern side first.. then the instruments.
... ll notice the kick drum and bass notes share the same channel.. there ...Speeding up programs by hacking the SysVarsPositively pleased to properly discover this area of the forum! I have a couple of recent tricks that might be of interest - they're probably old hat…
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... to skip over the '$' in the name. The SysVars referenced are ... could be maintained independently and share common code & names ... even if it's the same length as the old value. This can ...No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…
... version of the game), but on the versions of the game found ... 7 different emulators and the result is always the same.
Moreover, ... my old TAP file and the TAP ... archive have [I]exactly[/I] the same length (48,732 bytes), and ...Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... I always synchronize with the interrupt in the game loop?
the sprite passes a whole character, the movement routine draws the edges so the ... game loop is about the same length, i.e that it ...
So... Ideas on the main game loop, interrupt synchronization ...
