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Spectrum Computing Update ThreadThis thread has been created for us to provide updates for the Spectrum Computing Website. As well as providing updates, this thread is ideal if you …
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New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
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Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…
... . If a mistake is made simply retype from the beginning. Once ... -
Disable IF1 with switchOk probably silly question time but if you don't ask you'll never know, I have the JS128 which is great and has a jumper on the board to disable the …
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Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. BUGFIX.While playing around I managed to put the game in a bugged state. When the game is in this state any enemy that's facing right while executing an att…
... one. To fix this I simply skipped the strange code mentioned ... -
Understanding tape edgesI've never done any tape reading code. But I've read about these "edges" on multiple occasions. Trouble is I don't understand what they heck they are…
... what would happen if I simply deliver voltage instead of sound ... -
Star Trader by Bug ByteSo I played this a fair bit back in the day and I've got a soft spot for it. I'm trying to load the .tap file in Spectaculator - I get the STOP TH…
... 't start. The TZX file simply crashes.
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SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... , instead of just numvars
EXECUTE and TOKEN$ no longer crash ... -
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... according to the manual it simply means the information relevant to ... -
Deprived childhoods?Do you ever look on Ebay - at Spectrum bundles / job lots which are a bunch of games and a Speccy - look at the choice of games they'd made and thin…
... either never heard of or simply didn't realise would be ... -
Talk about time consuming!This is an aside, not a request or a grump, just an observation. Yesterday I cut and pasted all the messages from BASIC relating to my struggl…
... glacial speed. To put it simply, I've always wanted a ... -
Double Buffering Artefacts on Real HardwareI have a project that I've played around with for a while and always tested using emulators, either ZX Spin or Spectaculator. It is a 128k game th…
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Super Wonder Boy antimultiface[url="http://bizzley.com/"]Bob Pape's book[/url] mentioned that Rob Hylands put Multiface protection in Super Wonder Boy. The program can detect whe…
... honour.
However, I simply have to ask though, does ... -
128K memory bank selection to avoid contention issuesI'm currently developing a game and I'm trying to get my head around the memory contention issues of the various 128K/+2/+2A/+3 spectrum models in or…
... , either to read data or execute code, then it is delayed ... -
Jackpot poke needed - Fruit Machine Simulator 2Hi speccy guys, need a little help here dudes. I've been asked so many times now to the point I need to ask you, I've been asked to show a clip of t…
... I can achieve and I simply don't have unlimited time ... -
A non-gamers grump!Theres a reason why I'm not a gamer and its this - I find most games boring, there's no incentive to work through them because there's not much of a …
... simple old style game and simply max it out using the ... -
z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
... compiling when using "system()" it simply isn't implemented. So is ... -
ROM emulation in softwareHi, first of all -- I only have shallow / uni knowledge of hardware, electronics, and physics. So forgive me for asking things that are out of that …
... microprocessor at 80 Mhz can execute an instruction in under 20ns ... -
What am I doing wrong?Working on the idea of making a book type game I decided to start with a title screen. However I thought that the extension .scr was what the Spectru…
... the right file but that simply sits there and does nothing ... -
Poseidon: Planet Eleven - Missing credit + Author AKA.[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003840&loadpics=3"]Poseidon: Planet Eleven[/url] As per in game screen, music is by Peter Fr…
[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003840&loadpics=3"]Poseidon: Planet Eleven[/url]
As per in game screen, music is by Peter Frith.
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Competition to the premiere of Spectrum Movie in CambridgeHi there! My name is Andy Remic. I’ve made a 2hr 20m documentary feature film about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer entitled Memoirs of a Spectrum…
... offer in competition style – so, simply email your name, address and ... -
When games had very little or no sound ...We all know the Speccy often got ridiculed for its shortcomings like colour clash, and another factor was the lack of music in most 48k games. It jus…
... a good tune but it simply doesn't fit this particular ... -
High score table routineI wrote this general purpose high score table routine. It stores 5 scores and displays them alongside the player names, which are 8 characters long. …
... (FIFTH),HL ; this score is simply overwritten
LD HL ... -
Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…
... than a single frame to execute and I end up losing ... -
KLIK: Z80 snapshot to screenshot converterWith most Spectrum emulators, you can save current game screen in original ".SCR" format. This will give you a 100% perfect copy of the Spectrum scre…
... screenshot called "dreamwalker.z80", then execute this command line:
Cronosoft TERRAPINS Competition*** COMPETITION TIME *** As you may well know, Cronosoft is releasing Allan Turvey's excellent new AGD arcade game TERRAPINS on cassette in the ne…
... 10th September.
Simply upload them to this post ...Does anyone actually support the "A white man mustn't play a non-white role" drivel?Regarding the recent political correctness hypocrisy (the one where a bunch of morons started complaining about a white actor, Ed Skrein, being wrong…
... wrong to play an asian simply because he was white, just ...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... ) values.
I could simply detect which hardware my code ... correct, I’d like to simply use a different port number ...ZX Microdrive .mdr file "Cruncher"Hello all. Last year I've been in contact with Marcos Cruz and he gave me the idea to write a [b].mdr[/b] manipulator since it is a well known for…
... "[b]mdr cruncher[/b]" that simply examines and manipulates anything within ...
