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What was the last Spectrum game you bought (in a shop)?Not counting recent-ish Cronosoft releases etc... what was the last ever game you bought before you packed your Speccy away and moved on to other pur…
Not counting recent-ish Cronosoft releases etc... what was the last ever game you bought before you packed your Speccy away and moved on to other pursuits?
Last one I definitely remember buying was, erm, Ghostbusters on the Richochet label : ... -
SPECTRA - RGB SCART Interface for 48K SpectrumSince the launch of the SPECTRA interface back in June 2012, some discussion of it has appeared in the forums in the past (mainly [URL="http://www.wo…
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Songs that define your life.For most people songs have and continue to be a feature of our lives. So what songs define you and your history on this rock we call earth. The songs…
... couldn't Happen Here - Pet Shop Boys.[/B]
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Repair 128k +2 grey part2hi all, i am trying to fix it couple of weeks now, i bought a working one for tests and parts check so until now, power TRs are all news memory IC'…
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Games with reflections in (i.e. with working mirrors)On another forum, the question arose of why modern games mostly don't have reflective mirrors, when they have almost every other visual effect you co…
... as bathroom or a clothes shop? And the number of wrecked ... -
AGD help neededI know this has been discussed before but I can't find the thread. When moving between screens how do you stop from falling down a few pixels? I reme…
I know this has been discussed before but I can't find the thread. When moving between screens how do you stop from falling down a few pixels? I remember Jonathon mentioning a work around but I'm damned if I can remember it! -
Laptop graphics issue: getting booted out of full-screenHi guys I have a relatively trivial but exremely irritating problem that's driving me nuts. In the last few days I've noticed that if I have an appl…
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New WIP underway: The Speccies.Perhaps this will be of interest to one or two of you. ;) I'm working on a new game which will be coming you way soon. On this project I'm working w…
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"Chronos": how fast should it really be?I was reading [URL="http://timfollin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Archive.htm"]Tim Follin's webpage[/URL] the other day and came across a curious remark abou…
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Chronos (BUGFIX)Please add the following "known errors" entry to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000951"]Chronos[/URL]: [QUOTE]Bugfix provid…
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Issue 3 board... How to resurrect?Dear Everyone, Now I have a working 48k Issue 3, a sort of working Speccy+ (still having problems with the keyboard, more of that in another post) a…
... (but consistent) pattern of black pixels, which flash and alternate with ... -
Blocking adware/popupsDoes anyone know of a program I can install (or a setting in IE9) to stop unwanted adverts popping up all over the shop? I'm getting adverts everywh…
... popping up all over the shop? I'm getting adverts everywhere ... -
I share the Ultimate moonlighting project....I announce this here FIRST, I suspect this post might get deleted quickly, but it is right to come here first, WoS is after all the home for this kin…
... sponsored run to the corner shop but it was done with ... -
Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
... attribute square (i.e. 8 pixels) at a time in order ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... example above, the character pixels are defined in a smaller ... that all characters are 9 pixels tall ("height"), character "a" ... ("shift"), character "a" is 5 pixels wide ("width"), and there should ... with characters up to 16 pixels wide. Here's another example ... -
Type in game with font generatorBack in the day I can remember a BASIC type in game that generated its own font by PLOTing extra pixels next to the PRINTed characters existing pixel…
... own font by PLOTing extra pixels next to the PRINTed characters ... existing pixels, it would then store this ... -
+3 find.Whilst lookin around a shop called level up in Liverpool. Managed to nab my self a +3 for ?20. Though id open it up and low and behold it was upgrad…
Whilst lookin around a shop called level up in Liverpool. ... -
Struggling with this routine... Any ideas?I'm trying to write a routine that plots 3 pixels to decrease the energy bar in the top right corner by 5 units, but it just wont have it! There mus…
... a routine that plots 3 pixels to decrease the energy bar ... -
display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... has eight lines of pixels; each line of pixels has 32 column ... -
IZX: a new standard format and driver for ZX-Spectrum icons[B]IZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient standard format to create icons for the ZX-Spectrum. You can download it from here: [LIST] [*][URL="http:…
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steamI bought a PC DVD called The Orange Box. It's a compilation of games that includes Half Life2: Episode Two, a couple of other things and Portal. I …
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BRAND NEW RETRO GAMING SHOP OPEN!!!![url]http://www.thegameguy.co.uk[/url] Who Is The Game Guy? The Game Guy is a very rapidly growing company and is proud of providing quality serv…
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Who Is The Game Guy?
The Game Guy is a very rapidly growing company and is proud of providing quality services to its customers.
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JSW paste-upsDamn, I can't find that old thread. Which one, you ask? Well, a few years ago there was a thread here on WOS where someone (probably me) posted a pho…
... , you keep the un-set pixels black rather than "transparent"/cut ... -
BIFROST* LogoDespite my lack of artistic talent, I decided to design a BIFROST logo, that could be used for either the currently available 18 columns multicolor e…
... only 3 characters wide (24x11 pixels) and can be used at ... -
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
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Flash works on individual pixels so it just alternates between ... because you cannot change a pixels ink colour just by changing ... need to make sure the pixels and attributes get written in ... blank the screen while the pixels are being changed, a counter ... -
RND cyclical behaviourGood evening. I'm playing with RND function to show its cyclical behaviour, i.e. after 65536 calls to it, the next one will return the same value of …
... -file has not that much pixels and I suspect sometime this ... -
BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
... are reduced playing area (144x144 pixels) and less CPU available for ... to create images with 15x15 pixels (instead of 16x16) and ... all tile images have 15x15 pixels, leaving an empty pixel line ... rule, using the entire 16x16 pixels area. However it works fine ... -
Rainbow Chaos(I so want to call this Law of Chaos to pun on lords) Anyway. Dunno if I'll make this. But if I don't /someone/ will want to. It's just too good an …
... you've got just 256 pixels per sprite, with two colours ... -
Push 'n' ChaseIt is my great pleasure and honor to announce the release of PUSH 'n' CHASE a game made with CGD featuring a wonderful loading and intro screen …
... the money bags over the "shop" blocks to buy your trap ...
