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Manic miner question?Hiya, Hope you can help with this techie problem...well not a problem just curious. I am a big fan of Manic miner on the speccy, been playing for ye…
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In screen 6 "The processing Plant", the ... belt in the bottom left part of the screen.
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Does anyone remember this demo?Hi all, My first post so forgive me if I'm in the wrong part of the forum. I remember a demo that came on a cover tape which had the "twisting line…
... I'm in the wrong part of the forum.
I ... the top 2 thirds of the screen and you pressed any key ... given away with one of the mags. Sure of it, and a ... great demo with lots of tunes, all in a single ... lines, Indy Jones, also lots of Jarre and a bit o ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... compression. The SCREEN$ for instance would load in part of the screen as just ... about half the screen, then resolve once the SCREEN$ finished. Then ... At 1200 baud on one of BT's last remaining Strowger ... that liked to add lots of line noise, the compression was ... -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... per pixel modes) organized the screen with each byte rotated 90 ... next part of each character to the screen, with a simple increment of a ... the logic that built the screen picture read the RAM only ... today has an access time of 70ns) -
MCoder III - corrupt?Hello, all.. Could someone check check MCoder III? It appears to be corrupt - the first block of code loads, and then not much else. Toodle-pip! Ge…
... first[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]part of the compiler has loaded and ... . When PLAY appears on the screen, restart the[/COLOR]
[COLOR ... player and allow the second part of MCODER III to load[/COLOR ... ]
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Problem with ZX Spectrum 128k +2B Tv Output and RGB imageHello, Last week I've been ofered with a ZX Spectrum 128k +2B but I have a problem with the tv out (through RF modulator) .The image is clear on the…
Pilsener - yes, that's a bloody good possibility too! Especially as only a part of the screen is affected..... -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... here, but using tables of vram addresses might be speed ... of useable screen area to 32x16 attrs (just 2/3 of the screen, regardles of ... position (0-31) is MSB part of vram_table
ADD A,_vramTableBase ... this is base of vram_table
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Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... access pre-calculated "address of first line", you still ... such code in second part of [url]http://zxdemo.org ... own table. The first part of the code calculates table ... at the whole screen you have saving of 192*(22- ... each column, 256*number of columns = max. 8192 ... -
Is your son a computer hacker?Watch out, parents, your kids could be using illegal software like lunix or BSD for hacking your computer. [url]http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001…
... the site? 58% of respondants are afraid of hackers because they smell ... . Either way it goes to show -- [b]you can't trust ... think the (non existent) logic part of my brain-device is about ... -
Eurovision song contestSo... to save me the aggro of listening to dodgy Europop (as well as the abortion of a UK entry), is there any of the Eurovision songs worth listenin…
... highly. It goes to show most of Europe really does have ... done this have received lots of votes. Last year zombie ... "We are the winners of eurovision" over and over ... tore their skirts off as part of their act, and they ... sound to the rest of the acts that night. ... -
GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
... as the current maintainer of GP2Xpectrum. GP2Xpectrum is based ... the games list, configuration of game files path...
screen as it should. It ... where to start. This part of code is based on ... 187446]My only criticisms of GP2xpectrum is that the ... -
Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
... plenty of other problems with it, of varying degrees of seriousness ... br /> [*]Why are huge flat-screen displays erected by networks such ... simply electronically blank that part of their image, or mosaic ... (or any other moving part), goodness only knows; as ... -
hiding file names while loadinghello, i just found my old home grown game Bubble Bobble The Adventure in original form, so i'm trying to convert it from TR-DOS to TZX for submitti…
... less time to load, no screen corruption etc.
It ... , then when you save the screen, save the printer buffer too ... loaded, assuming it was just part of the screen picture instead. -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... there a way of loading a file into screen$ then coping that ... into a safe separate part of memory ... a full screen$ occupying the entire screen takes up 6912 bytes of memory ... -
Bargain BasementAnyone here actually read the full disclaimer at the beginning of Bargain Basement? It's rather strange... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infos…
[QUOTE=Skarpo;190964]That text is part of the intro scroller.[/QUOTE]
Ah right, I didn't leave it waiting at the options screen long enough to see it! -
So far so good sound and visionPlease bare in mind the following 1) When I had a spectrum, I never tried writing anything that was arcade, graphically interesting or had any sound…
... general point, is a start screen and music a good or ... !! :D
The programming part of my 'O' Level computing exam ... had a loading screen (stolen from Robin of Sherwood with a few ... to the charm of the machine. Stunning loading screen, awesome music, ... -
Big BrotherHere we go again...zzzzz. Is anyone interested? Surely the novelty wore off about 4 years ago.
... loves watching The Jeremy Kyle Show and Little Britain.
Charley ... , and describes herself as ?full of life, vivacious, nuts, passionate, ... for intelligence. This is all part of her very honest attitude to ... to help out or take part.
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Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... I've fixed the small part of the PCB that was damaged ... It's an interesting piece of electronics (congratulations on using only ... thing by connecting a couple of wires between two computers. < ... the ULA from accessing the screen memory.[/QUOTE]
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How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... 'll see part of the screen in the old state and part in the ... fact that only 2/3 of the screen actually displays the play ... 't drawing the visible portion of the screen. This confines you to ... tell when the visible area of the screen is done drawing. 14300 ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... drawing the TOP part of the border (above the screen) by:
of updating the sprites on the screen. (You will ... be drawn (at the bottom of the screen) can be safely rubbed ... -
This is Blasphemy....[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac_Pb9EE4vw[/url] ;-) As a Frankie fan I must say you have some way to go to reach Mr. H, but not bad :) Bye.
... /> This was part of Stars in Glamorgan our universities anual tallent show.
Problems with my specs!!! Help wanted!!Hi, I newly had a zx spectrum 48+ and a Spectrum +2 and got problems with them. The keyboard of 48+ is not working. When i turn it on i see the clas…
... problems with them. The keyboard of 48+ is not working. ... see the classic white screen with the ZX Spectrum ... on it but none of the buttons are functioning. ... on it at the back part of the machine (Just after ... can easily come out of the back of the +2 cassette ...Bargins I hopeJust done it. Hopfully bought a speccy on ebay.:-P The seller has a real good rating its just a pity he misfiled the listing. Most of the time I h…
... no idea what the value of those are) and 39 orignal ... and forgot to put zx part in. (when I was ... wise you get a load of rubbish in with the results ... even show the machines which I think is the selling part of the ... like he sells a lot of bric n brak which may ...the bothersome thing about linuxI want to install audacity so that I can record sounds and things. Now this needs wxSomething 2.4 which is the old version that isn't on the site any…
... all designed to exist as part of a repository - they aren ... all the multimedia applications simply show up under Applications -> ... packages get updated as part of the normal security/bugfix ... that many repositories of various categories of software also exist ...AstroBall (Sam CoupHi there, Does the full version of this game for the Sam exist in a preserved digital image format, as I have searched hight and low to no avail. I…
... the back-story to all of this (I haven't ... it's good to show a bit of respect to these ... as there is a window of opportunity open at the moment ... missing out on the potential of the current enthusiasm for ... from teenagers in the Sinclair part of this forum? This is ...Strange I see no PS3Ive just seen a couple of vid game adverts on tv (lara croft, Pirates or the ... and Tiger woods golf) Any idea why on the final screen of the ads,…
... Sony have included upscaling of standard DVD to HD ... quality really). The best part of the update is "You ... br /> In terms of the 360 all of this required a lot ... on the PS3 to the screen of your PSP, hell, you ...
In terms of the amount of games, the PS3 is ...Strange I see no PS3Ive just seen a couple of vid game adverts on tv (lara croft, Pirates or the ... and Tiger woods golf) Any idea why on the final screen of the ads,…
... Sony have included upscaling of standard DVD to HD ... quality really). The best part of the update is "You ... on the PS3 to the screen of your PSP, hell, ...
In terms of the amount of games, the PS3 is ... 'invalidate your warranty' sort of put me off.
...ZX 81 games (and an emulation issue or two)Hi Not really sure this is the right forum, but maybe someone can help. As a Speccy fan, I was always intrigued by the old ZX81, and thanks to the w…
... not a standard part of ZX81 BASIC syntax, but part of what is called ... .
7. Break out of the loading sequence by pressing ... " appear at the bottom of the emulator screen.
8. Goto ...Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... re-use large sections of the code and still ... first TR is split screen and DD is supossed to ... to scroll a huge screen area with so many ... It is the most ackward part of programming: you are supposed to ... saw is .SCL image of some russian assembler with sources ...Bernard Manning RIPsad to hear of one of the legends of comedy has died. One of the only people left to openly tell non-PC jokes.
... was on that Tiswas reunion show. Now that was funny.[/QUOTE ... whatever and not have a part of you / your actual beliefs coming ...
