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Carphone warehouse starting to bite AOLI have been a member of AOL on and off for years, and when previously I left AOL it wasn't down to bad service or even bad software, more often then …
... was charmed with the promise of a discounted price, and each ... been flirting with the idea of going Linux, and have ... the script wasn't there :D ) so they passed me ... elsewhere I was out of contract so no shakes.< ... do not offer a discount or a router but I would ... -
A return to point-and-click adventures...Okay, they've nicked my username, but I sincerely hope this is the start of a welcome return to the traditional point-and-click adventures. Made by …
... hope this is the start of a welcome return to the traditional ... first, Grim Fandango was one of the very few to get ... -
What a Summer - Will this pleasure never end?[center]:-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :-? :cry: :…
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Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…
... the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF card via ... /samdisk/]SamDisk[/URL] to create a .hdf of a blank CF card. I ... it into a real Plus3e, some of the files I'd copied weren ... . However, when I do a directory listing of a partition, I get garbage ... -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
I've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, ... of a "pre-drawn" shapes of craft that simulates the looks of a ... been used before: I, Of The Mask is another, ... -rendered frames stored in a buffer, that is played ... it needs to be (like a flickerbook).
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Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row ... calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking the ... way is to use a look up table I ... that holds the Y address of each pixel row.
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Games on the "big" screenI don't know if any of you listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2, but I usually do and a part of his program around 5.45 is the business news where some t…
... I usually do and a part of his program around 5 ... who's had a great bit of business recently or ... so they had developed a way of using the other 75 ... and you had a day of playing games on a huge screen, what ... - I'd impress the girls with my control of a huge Willy ... -
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…
... select all 4 drives (A, B, C, D) in TR-DOS, no ... with no result. Even photo of jumpers of a working drive can help. -
Any of you listen to TWiT technology Podcasts?This is a series of free Podcasts from America but actually done by Americans who understand irony run by a guy called Leo Laporte. The main podcast…
This is a series of free Podcasts from ... for You for techies, a sort of round table for discussion ... .
One of the occasional round table guys ... is great to hear a brit side of view.
a bit of a prick and is always ... -
text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
... in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location ... /> 10 CLEAR
20 DIM d$(6,6)
30 FOR ... TO 6
40 READ d$(n)
50 NEXT n ... TO 4
220 PRINT d$(l(n,m));
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Amiga emulatorsHi. I've been searching the net for a decent amiga emulator without success, does anyone know of a decent emulator for the amiga? I'd love to play a…
Hi. I've been searching the net for a decent amiga emulator without success, does anyone know of a decent emulator for the amiga? I'd love to play all the old games again (Cannon fodder, Theme park, Syndicate etc). -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings ... anti-merge or anti-break of a few games, but since I ... system variables, causing a reset if a multiface is used.
of a multiface without causing a reset. Sometimes those ... -
Unreal Tournament 3Is anyone here looking forward to Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC/XBox 360/PS3? The original Unreal Tournament (1999) is probably my favourite PC game …
... higher resolution graphics and expandability of a PC. And for someone who ... modding much sooner
d) the game could be cheaper ... the UT engine, then point (d) above wouldn't take place ... ; we'd still be charged full price ... -
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…
... marked the 25th anniversary of our beloved Speccy, and ... Yay! :D
I also celebrated a minor milestone ... do have a couple (i.e. a hell of a lot) of ideas ... at least one instance of the Quirkafleeg. Keep watching ... . If you're a fan of the Myst series at ... -
Photographing a Psion 3a LCD screenI'm trying to take photos of a Psion 3a LCD screen for a (very) vaguely Speccy-related project, and they're coming out terribly (usually blurry and o…
I'm trying to take photos of a Psion 3a LCD screen for a (very) vaguely Speccy-related project, and they're coming out terribly (usually blurry and out of focus even if the screen is frozen). Any hints? -
Bad things you did as a kidOk, fess up. What's some of the worst things you did as a kid? For me: (1) Almost burning a neighbour's hedge to the ground. (2) Wiping a big dog…
... 's some of the worst things you did as a kid?
(1) Almost burning a neighbour's hedge to the ... dog turd on the handle of a grouchy old lady's gate ... -
Morons at Ebay, but not for saleWhat a dope. I sent a mail to some dude selling some Speccy-stuff on Ebay. The ad said he would only ship within UK, so I mailed him asking if he c…
... be expensive, so he'd rather keep it within UK ... know that shipping cost quite a bit already.
My last shipment of misc Speccy-stuff from the ... Speccy items to get hold of here in Norway, even ... was never as big of a hit in Norway as the ... -
A few things I want to sharePics of Paul Farrow's custom cartridges, pcb, populated pcbs (each with a different configuration), interface to allow the 48K to emulate the ZX80 an…
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Pics of a rare cartridge that had a demo program for ... mod for the TS2068, pics of a custom Spectrum emulator cartridge (Timex ... for that same cartridge, a pic of the cartridge whit the eprom ... -
Emulator that will run on Blackberry?Hey folks, This is my first post... I was just wondering if anyone knew of a Spectrum Emulator that would run on my Blackberry 8300? I'd love to pl…
Hey folks,
This is my first post... I was just wondering if anyone knew of a Spectrum Emulator that would run on my Blackberry 8300? I'd love to play Jet Set Willy on the bus!
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Here's a puzzle for you all.Hi all, I'm new to WOS and for my first post I've decided to set a small brain teaser. The link below contains a small sound sample of a very well k…
... link below contains a small sound sample of a very well know game ... to figure out the name of the game from the sample ... -
Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... D or from TAP File. However, luckily we have a real setup of ... to other formats because of this. I heard about ... space here for a third set up of Spectrum with ... it on a real Spectrum (which is of course always ... my problem). I have a +D and Disciple... in fact ... -
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 …
... to turn one of my speccys into more of a 'console'
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the plan is i'd like loads of ... speect games installed say on a compact ... .
i'd like to do this as ... given the choice i'd like to use a grey +2, but ... -
a zombie at chelsea?So what's your views on the new Chelsea Coach? I was never a Chelsea fan, but I've been a mourinho and Ricardo Carvalho fan (although I dislike Porto…
... he looks like a zombie out of a romero movie, and ... the team looked like a bunch of ... think it's because of spectrum and gary Lineker ... best, they deserve more of a winning streak than chelsea ... position) followed by a close Arsenal(I dislike ... -
Light gun emulation status?Hi there, The 1989 chapter is going to mention the Sinclair Magnum and Cheetah Defender light guns, and I'd like to get some decent footage of a cou…
... I'd like to get some decent footage of a couple of lightgun games ... -
Sinclair Infoseek ArchiveLike most of us here, we think this is a brilliant site, and the Sinclair Infoseek tool has got so much content it's unbelievable. All the informatio…
... posters makes it one of the most useful things ... being pessimistic, there was a period a few weeks ago when ...
So, any chance of a CD-ROM with all that ... info on it? I'd be willing to pay ? ... :) , but yeah I'd throw a few bucks in your direction ... -
WANTED - Return to Ithaca AdventureI have been contacted by the son of the author of this program - does anyone have an original I could pass onto the son? It was published by Atlanti…
... been contacted by the son of the author of this program - does anyone ... I could pass onto the son?
It was published ... , but I guess he wants a real copy :-)
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Bride of FrankenstienI've been recently playing a game called Frankenstein Jnr. and it reminds me of a game i played years ago called Bride of Frankenstein. Is it the s…
I've been recently playing a game called Frankenstein Jnr. and it reminds me of a game i played years ago called Bride of Frankenstein. Is it the same game or is it some kind of remake? -
Adventures in Programmable Logic, Part 1So I have a couple of Xilinx CPLDs, and I've downloaded the Xilinx programmable logic IDE (WebKit ISE, they call it). All 1.2 gigabytes of it. Plus S…
... instead I decided I'd try and get to ... . There are a number of surprises. One of them is that ... Then, if you have a bunch of tristate outputs feeding into ... lower 16K address space of a Spectrum. This needs 4 ... , a couple of 2-to-4 line decoders, a couple of simple ... -
A vexatious questionThis is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and hardware that I wrote in the development forum a while ago. To summarize that: certain ha…
This is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and ... br />
Is there a handy list of the various PC addresses ... that various different bits of ROM-equipped hardware trap?
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Compatible SpectrumsFollowing some recent coding exploits I've been thinking about compatibility of various models of ZX Spectrum. Yes, it's a common question on the for…
... models of ZX Spectrum. Yes, it's a common question on the ... the ROMs with those of a +2... you'd lose any disc access ... , but you would get a better ... compatible than a +2? There is also the issue of different contention ...
