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Calling Woody and Andy Ryals: Shed stuff...?Guys - Andy Ryals has some stuff he wants to publish for ZX Shed and Fogartylee has approached me for copy ... do you fancy hooking up and writing so…
... want, why should we? We are the people which do the work. Also ... />
KARINGAL - I love the idea of the "The Hacking Shed" I think ... " article regarding this area of the spectrum community. Nice to hear that ... this thread dosen't it make you proud that a few ... -
Spectrum Emulator for Windows XPHi all. I'm struggling to get any emulators to work with Windows XP. I'm just after an emulator with Joystick support. Any suggestions? Thanks
... a wish not to see the Spectrum die off (not least ... br /> No one should be charging for the ROM code because (as ...
As for the games, well, downloading Spectrum games for free is ... everyone that's helped to make the Spectrum emulation scene what it is ... -
Lead ProblemI want to record games from the net using taper onto my pc and someone suggested taping them with a 3.5 headphone socket with 2 phono lead to plug in…
... quality for the recording to load into your Spectrum.
... plugs at the soundcard end - make sure you wire the plug properly ... whatever) and load directly into the Spectrum.
As mentioned ... remember rightly, the AUX line, if an input, should be at ... -
Would you buy speccy games if they were made/sold today?Say for some crazy instant that ZX Spectrum came back on the scene bigtime and they started making selling ZX Spectrum versions of the latest games, …
Spectrum games should remain to BE spectrum games and nothing else! (I ... dont really got the point ... Jonathan programming games for the spectrum without trying to make need for speed ... -
Advice needed - Xbox EmulatorsDoes anybody have experiance of using a speccy emulator with an Xbox ? My intention is to install Linux and then try and run an emulator (most like…
... would simulate pressing Spectrum SPACE, and so would make Willy jump, and ... White would pause the game (pressing A on the Spectrum keyboard).
should also be an option for the emulator to emulate the Kempston ... -
New Speccy Hardware IdeaHi All, With the growing trend towards consoles-in-a-joystick, I wondered what the likelihood of a speccy model being released? I also have a few i…
... d like to see the spectrum 48k rubber-keys-case being ... are more than adaquate for the Spectrum.
[quote]There ... And how could the speccy cimmunity make it a reality?[/quote ... the original devices, not more complex.
[quote]Maybe I should ... -
Amstrad CPCWhy did the CPC lose out so badly to the Spectrum and C64 - it looks a tidy bit of kit and seemed to have a half decent number of games released for …
... because it had the same Z80 heart as the Spectrum plus everything else ... it was the machine that Clive should have made with the QL.
the Spectrum or Commodore 64 without any serious attempt to make use of the ... -
FuseX on the Xbox :releases, testing and feedbackI'm creating a new thread here to continue on from the thread about emulators on the Xbox ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php…
... much every tzx should load (and not reset the spectrum like they do ... -forward button on the joypad then it should make this more bearable.
make the speccy run at the correct speed when ... -
Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... later on. Hence going with the basic suggestion and introduce machine ... going the basic route with the spectrum because it just seems to make sense ... get in to, but the easy stuff should have made more sense ... -
Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…
... adequately on a real Spectrum. Wouldn't it make more sense to ... write said games for a PC in the ... to be embedded in the z80. Maybe you should have a look ... alter the emulator's speed) inserted into the Spectrum game, probably in the form ... -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... =Kiwi]You should cut and paste that into the start of ... , must say that since the spectrum has a forth interpretter), ... as the Timex machines, so I intend to eventually make available ... compatibility with games written for the Spectrum as compensation. MSX1 also ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... /> Alright, let's make the libraries.
1. Make the generic libraries.
the next post.
"make spectrum" will make sp1.lib ... ).
You should open up and read the "spectrum-sp1.h" header ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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The spectrum's customization file ... The rest of sp1's variables are small and should ... be placed wherever there is free memory.
With the ... the customize.asm file and make the spectrum version of the customized library with "make spectrum ... -
What's your favourite death in a game?In a morbid fashion what is your favourite death in a game be it a quick sprite dies type thing or a brutal scene? Speccy only is preferable but feel…
... : The noise of you dying can be enough to make you ... MM/JSW, and the lovely Golovinesque noise that JSW II makes ... [url]http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/[/url]
[url]http ... ://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/[/url]
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Graphics : CPC -> SpectrumOk my CPC game is nowhere near done (the actual coding for the CPC hasn't even begun yet as I'm still preparing enough graphics and animation and doi…
... involved so should play sorta like Castlevania but I want the general ... without me, the git. So this all might make not much sense ... what ain't. Remember though the Spectrum version still ain't a ... the CPC version goes first and then that'll help me make ... -
Graphics : CPC -> SpectrumOk my CPC game is nowhere near done (the actual coding for the CPC hasn't even begun yet as I'm still preparing enough graphics and animation and doi…
... do think you should look at the speccy version as ... You could always make the game-area the same size on both ... the attribute problem the Spectrum has but few companies bothered to make the ... finished doing a Spectrum specific version of the status bar. I ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... and {z88dk}/include/spectrum.h contain all the keyboard, joystick ... file ready for loading into the Spectrum. Unfortunately, most Russian ... are used (this will make the code ROMable and interruptable) ... colour grayscale which should be similar to the CPC. I ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... [B]The Spectrum's Interrupt Environment[/B]
On the Spectrum, the ULA generates ... or asm program to make use of the im 2 mode. ... table. A "0" would make a 256-byte table, which ... as it should. The "0xd4d4" is the address of the default subroutine ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... view, but you make it sound like we should be eternally grateful ... who has even the slightest nostalgic memory of the Spectrum (and other retro ... to try and make money from them again. The way you ... or similar, like Speccy games should be!)?[quote]Plus there will ... -
Help me remember the name of this game.I'm trying to remember the name of old side scrolling platformer I played on zx80 Spectrum computer. I remember it had an item you could pick up that…
... , I should have Carrier Command recorded within the next day ... the Spectrum. The only problem with the rzx you have is somehow the ... possible to repair the rzx to make the embedded snapshots pentagon ... options from memory:Zx Spectrum to memory:Pentagon, otherwise ... -
PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…
... a 250 quid "console" will make more sense than buying a ... sold in a similar way the Spectrum was sold: a low-cost ... 'll no doubt be others should it take off. -
PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…
... ll no doubt be others should it take off.[/QUOTE]< ... order to make up for it in licensing from the software. The Spectrum [i ... ]was[/i] a cheap machine. The PS3 ... not.
Unlike the Spectrum Sony therefore has a vested ... -
Spectrum 128+2Greetings to all My Speccy Tape Drive has died. Fully blown :( Is there any way to hook up a external cassete player to the +2? I can't see any "lin…
... Solder one of the wires from the GND connection to ... and should only be used as such.
The ... the amp chip, which is 2OUT. That would surely make "PLAY" the ... OUTPUT from the Spectrum, while "REC" is the INPUT to the Spectrum?? -
OpenGL - how to install it and whatever?How do you actually install OpenGL, if it needs installing at all? I seem to remember for Quake 3, when it came out in 1999, that I had to install a …
... NES/SNES/Megadrive/MAME (arcade)/Spectrum/C64 (spit spit)/Atari ... at least by then the XBox 360 should have some more first ... make on a retro-gaming forum. Especially a forum dedicated to the Spectrum ... be inferior to the original games. The originals would look ... -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... .h, but I mistyped the name -- it should be "puts_cons", and it ... and output. You can see the spectrum's low level functions here ... because in your program you make use of getk(). There's ... -contained, does not rely on the spectrum ROM or interrupts, and scans ... -
Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …
... to make? A memory map would help as well. If the chips ... put in your machine is the Spectrum SE ROM which will give ... search of WoS forums should turn up the goods).[/quote]
I ... used the same phone connectors... till now anyway. That means they should ... -
Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... that was commercially published on the Spectrum, he never wrote programs that ... about some guy trying to make himself out to be bigger ... hasn't since the AA thread) than he should be exposed every ... and credit goes where credit should, in the end, it all boils ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... pulled out of the market, the Spectrum never retailed at ... the spectrum and pricing the parts. Yeah, the speccy was that cheap to make ... manufacture the chips so for the Plus/4 that should ... have been easy.
Just because the ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... also add that the Spectrum should have been released in the USA without any ... they could have asked Spectrum sw houses to make the trivial modifications necessary ... to make their sw run on the 2068 ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... within another year or two. The Spectrum+, Spectrum 128 or 2068 would not ... that price and you should have heard what the person's kid ... afford it... lets buy the kids one. The kids say... this ... swap buffers to make it appear rather than copy the entire thing ...
