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The Fool's Workplace SurveyI thought I'd try and find out more about what my fellow WOS'ers are up to during their work hours, so I've compiled a simple survey. Overwrite my an…
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Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
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The Non Randomness of Sam BasicHows about this for weird. Hardly ever bothered with such simple stuff before but this is what I just did on the Sam ( as in a real one now I've got …
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Possible great ideaHello there everybody, I have been toying with the idea of doing a project here with the help of the gurus on the forum. The idea is to start the de…
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New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
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Room TenI played this for a few weeks last year after reading about it on this forum. I ignored the lukewarm Crash review and enjoyed it a lot. The question …
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Blitz Basic questionHello my saucy lil code-kippers... I'm crap at making games. Sorry but I am, but it doesn't stop me from trying. Oh, actually, it has! You see,…
... about 50 pixels. Should be simple, right? But silly old me ... equation, or is there a simple method for saying, 'If bmp1 ... -
ZX81 - Modulator problems...Not a spectrum I know, but does anybody here have an experience of repairing ZX81s? When I dusted mine down recently and plugged it in, the display …
... with a soldering iron, and simple electronics, but no experience of ... -
Plus3E RomsI saw this portuguese webpage where they have plus3E roms available for sale, but judging from the pictures they could be old. [url]http://ultratech…
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First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... above for me to learn simple routines (e.g. an 8x8 ... xor sprite routine), make simple sounds etc.. Obviously it's ... -
ZX Spectrum 48K +Hi, I have a ZX Spectrum 48K + which I bought like a million years ago (1984) My Spectrum has been out of duty for quite some time and I guess I ke…
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Best tennis gameI love playing [I]Match Point[/I]. 8-) In spite of being from 1984, having very simple graphics and poor sounds, it has a high playability; one of…
... being from 1984, having very simple graphics and poor sounds, it ... -
Home made SinclairsHi, I mentioned in another thread that I had made a ZX Spectrum out of spare parts. If you'd like to see my efforts, I've set up a simple web page o…
... , I've set up a simple web page of photos so ... -
Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
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B: drive dont workHi all, I went to Maplin today got myself a DIY lead the one with the proper 34 way edge connector for the Spectrum+3 other end 34 way to floppy driv…
... other end to a Sony floppy drive unit.
... the correct voltage to the floppy drive.
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Game ideaThinking of a game that could enter the Minigame compo I came to the following idea for a game, although it might not fit 1K or 4K: A mazed snake ga…
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Epson SD-700 5.25" floppy driveDid anyone here work with 5.25" drives? I have an Epson SD-700 drive and i want to connect it to my Speccy (russian Pentagon-128, with Betadisk inte…
Did anyone here work with 5.25" drives?
I have an Epson SD-700 drive and i want to connect it to my Speccy (russian Pentagon-128, with Betadisk interface onboard). The problem is that the drive doesn't react on any attempts to control it. It doesn't ... -
Opus Discovery Testers NeededHi folks, I wondered if anyone on here had access to real Opus hardware ? I've made a few disk images of the disks I have with the great help of Sim…
Pentagon-1024 manufacturingI am finishing a trial assembly of 2 boards. Unfortunately getting components appears to be very time-consuming (it's difficult to obtain electronic …
... will include fully assembled board, floppy drive cable, a manual in ...ZX Adventure Club reborn - Game for AugustThe above are the choice of games I've shortlisted for August. I've kept it simple with a ye olde world theme and "single load" games that shouldn't…
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I've kept it simple with a ye olde world ...The Big Four Oh (Oh Oh)!Wow! I can't believe I've just reached the 4e3 point. As you all know, it's customary for me, on reaching such milestones, to ruminate, reflect on, a…
... game. This will be a simple adventure game, created with The ...YSRnRY: Introducing the "Virtual YS", plus a HUGE update[A few minutes early, but what the hey...] The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years is ten years old today! Time to celebrate... The problem with a…
... total now. There's a simple list of the new articles ...Very noob question re +3First things first, ive never owned any Sinclair equipment until last week. I have used Amstrads, Atari, Commodore etc, but not a Sinclair! So, apolo…
... on how to format a floppy disk! As I have loads ...Good site for guitar players[url]http://www.nowplayit.com/index.php?section=home[/url] It has tutors telling you how to play certain songs and in the case of the KT Tunstall so…
... thats because the songs are simple and need no explaining.Mnemonics UppercaseMy question is more PC oriented than Spectrum, but maybe somebody knows a simple solution. I have some Spectrum machine code in .asm files. I wrote …
... , but maybe somebody knows a simple solution.
I have ...Stack Up - level 13: anyone want a challenge?okay I swear this level is not humanly possible. if anyone doesn't know Stack-Up it's a simple Tetris type game - match 3 blocks of the same colour i…
... Stack-Up it's a simple Tetris type game - match 3 ...Does anyone remember ftp.ijs.si?This is a blast from the past! I was going through some old files the other day and found this file:- [url]http://reptonix.awardspace.co.uk/sinclair…
... list, and about 10 DD floppy disks into the university and ...Best 128k model to add CF IDE disk etcHi, i'm hoping to turn one of my speccys into more of a 'console' the plan is i'd like loads of speect games installed say on a compact flash card …
... +2a and +3 have the floppy drive access inbuilt, maybe they ...Paging Gary LancasterI just noticed that you'd posted and it jogged my memory, I sent you an e-mail while the forums were down, about the +3e. Did it ever get through? […
... /> I've recently built the simple 8 bit interface detailed on ...