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A day in the life of a studentIt's quarter to two in the morning and I've just finished my essay. 560 words in German on the most important famous person if Britain. I was going …
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ZX Spectrum and (real) B A S I CSometimes ago there was a thread "how spectrum changed your lives". Another thread dealt with "how to copy spectrum screens using basic not using co…
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One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... one could have dreamed of. Apart from my early ... is a new submission with a difference. It is a 1 ... a machine code coder.
My payload consists of a ... machine code animation of Miner Willy which ... 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Spectrum ethernet... step 1.1Yeah, a tenth of a step :-) Here's the W5100 board up and WORKING: [url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/w5100-online.jpg[/url] This is called the "Get Th…
Yeah, a tenth of a step :-)
Here's ... . unwanted capacitance of the PCB itself) as a consequence of how the board ... can't be so much of a disaster that it's stopping ... the board :-(
It'd ripped both the xtal and ...Half-Life - a film?I've just been playing Half-Life Episode Two (I'll post my thoughts when I finish it), and it reminded me of the rumour of a film version of Half-Lif…
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A couple of interesting suggestions that I read ...The life and times of a tempWell my boss at my job has been acting funny ever since the end of last week, and low and behold today I go to pick my check up from the agency and b…
... funny ever since the end of last week, and low and ...AY-player from Rastan SagaHello. For what ports #3F, #5F in the given fragment of a code are used? They give What effect in sounding? ================================= F4C1 21…
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F4DF F2CDF4 ...Some of my mp3s are too loudYou, know, so that as I go thr? my playlist, I keep having to turn my speakers up or down between each track. I'm looking for a piece of software th…
... /> I'm looking for a piece of software that could go thr ... the same volume. Anyone know of a good one that would run ... ?
I have tried a shell script to use "normalize ...New Spectrum game - On Reflection"On Reflection" has been my pet project for the last two years or so. My initial idea was to try to create a Spectrum adventure which was a bit more …
... into the usual adventure stereotype of 'slightly comedy dungeons and ... where I figure I'd better release it or ... thing (with naught a goblin or a wizard in sight) ... required to fashion a door key out of a fish). Type HELP ... WOS, but if you'd like to grab it before ...Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
... bought a couple of XC9536s a couple of months ago (and it's a good ... two). I thought I'd whip up a little project to learn ... (some hideous proprietary kernel module... a bit of a WTF - you don't ... need a kernel driver for parallel or ...Help with a gameHi I hoping that one of you will be able to help me out with the name of a game all I remember about it was it came in a box the size of a dvd case …
Hi I hoping that one of you will be able ... me out with the name of a game
all ... was it came in a box the size of a dvd case the ... game itself was sort of like a game ... global power where you control a country and there nuclear ...I am a sad cuntyup, this is how sad i am last night i saw a Glenn Frey (the eagles) solo discography. this morning i awoke thinking of a song i thought he did b…
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last night i saw a Glenn Frey (the eagles) solo ... /> this morning i awoke thinking of a song i thought he did ... /> w00p
another aimless bit of bollocks present and correct in ...Fairytale of New York - edited[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm[/url] I actually dont mind this 'Xmas' song at all. I cant believe the PC brigade have go…
... ' words at all but because of a few Mary Whitehouse fans and ... edited version because some members of the audience might find it ... some, the ones who are a complete pain to everyone else ... 1 then i 'might' understand a bit more but when theyve ...Ultimate Pentagram and some other junk.Just got, yet another box of junk, from yet another friend of my mother-in-laws. Kinda enjoyed an afternoon pottering in my study looking at it all. …
... Warrior - Melbourne
Way of the Exploding Fist - Melbourne (with ...
Following are all M.A.D, richocet, Mastertronic 199 etc
Halls of the Things - Crystal
... The Way of the Tiger - Gremlin
...OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…
... supports all the essential components of a Basic loader (namely CLEAR, ... with dialup and without a massive collection of TZX files to ... it definitely does run a grand total of... *some* games. Huzzah!< ... like Debian and Ubuntu (that'd be Fuse then), or hardware ...how to save WoS moneyI'd appreciate it if someone could tell me who is in charge of maintaining the grounds, and specifically who is in charge of the sprinkler systems? I…
I'd appreciate it if someone ... specifically who is in charge of the sprinkler
systems? ... offensive in the face of a drought to see a sprinkler
... discharging water at the rate of AT LEAST
50 ... been more than one instance of myself finding piss in my ...TS2068 TAP, WAV, TZX files..Anyone know of a source for some of these files? I have a bunch of TS tapes but most are 'converted' speccy titles. I'd like to try some of the TS sp…
Anyone know of a source for some of these files? I have a bunch of TS tapes but most are 'converted' speccy titles. I'd like to try some of the TS specific ones if available.How can I find out if I have a static IP?Suppose I want to serve some web pages, I need a static IP so that all the other computers know where to find me, right? How can I find out whether …
... some web pages, I need a static IP so that all ... one? I live in halls of residence so my internet connection ... goes thr? a bigass server in the cellar ... to check out what kind of a firewall they have, too.sign of two's complement numbersIs it possible to treat the leftmmost bit of a two's complement number as a sign bit? will this work in all cases?
Is it possible to treat the leftmmost bit of a two's complement number as a sign bit? will this work in all cases?Anyone playing Burnout Paradise?If you've got a PS3 or 360 then I recommend downloading the demo and getting a taste of it. It's out on the 25th Jan and I've been having loads of f…
... the demo and getting a taste of it. It's out ... demo gives you about a 5th of the game and is ... .
A couple of taps of the D-pad and you're ... it takes literally seconds - a lot of games in the future are ... game gives you a play area, a few rules to get ...Can I ever be king (seriously)?Not [B]will[/B] I ever be king, as obviously that's as unlikely as getting a good laugh out of Lenny Henry, but can I theoretically ever become the k…
... theoretically ever become the king of England?
See ... will be some sort of guild of historical wotsit unelected quango ... thing who'd check your ... then the matter of a monarch would be of very low importance ...Best Bond...I was going to put up a poll for the best Bond (Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig), but then …
... then I thought I'd also add the best Bond ... villain, so a poll is sort of out of the question.
d expect that from Christopher Lee ... great too. Ideally I'd say Robbie Coltrain (who always ... ]
Not much of a clue, really, as I'm ...Did the Spectrum ever have a joypad?There were plenty of joysticks but was there ever a Spectrum joypad? By that I mean something that worked like a joystick but had a flat direction p…
There were plenty of joysticks but was there ever a Spectrum joypad?
By that I mean something that worked like a joystick but had a flat direction pad instead of a stick, with separate fire buttons nearby.Subsunk and Seabase Delta part of seriesThe games Subsunk and Seabase Delta are the two parts of a series, perhaps they ought to be marked as such in the database. According to the inlay o…
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According to the inlay of Seabase Delta, the game Subsunk ... [/url]
The reviews of Seabase Delta also mention that ...Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... 'd have thought so, anyway.
...and a load of ... instead of a disc?
Yes, granted a 2GB stick (though of ... on your defination of a FPS, but I'd say a game played ... I prefer the convenience of a laptop or playing Speccy games ...Putative guide to CSSCGC 2009Can I start by saying kudos to Digital Prawn! His tireless promotion of this year's CSSCGC is practically certain to make it the best one ever. Ass…
... s organiser is rather less of a people person, but just so ... and you'd be allowed to download some sort of brand new ... really shit, instead of bestowing a gold star on a different game, you ... and "Bandersnatch"), and the results of a web-based voting system would ...Original Kempston interface on a +3Hello everyone, if i insert an original kempston interface in the extension port of a +3 should it work or not? I tried it and the machine didn't bo…
... interface in the extension port of a +3 should it work or ... +3 but i was expecting a standard joystick interface to be ... it possible to use a kempston joystick on a +3? The joystick ...MS Acces Help Again!!I have a DB in access that has the following tables: [b]Questionnaire[/b] QID [color="blue"]INT[/color] [color="red"]P-Key[/color] Questionnaire…
... list all the questions of a particular and provide space ... in the Question text field of the form.
of the selected questionnaire. However ... set the the value of the questionText text ... example of the form and how I'd like ...Help Needed - BBC Micro emulator and SMILE Maths softwareWhen I grew up at school, the once-a-year treat was to play the SMILE maths games on the mobile (it was on a trolley) resident BBC Micro. Now that I…
... that I teach kids of a similar age, I'd like to show ... the kids some of these games ... - I played on them a few ... I found a dusty old Acorn.
Many of the ... no more advanced than some of the modern maths based ...Happy ClampersCheck out these clamping fuckers: [url]http://www.geocities.com/waspdog3/happy_clampers_1.jpg[/url] [url]http://www.geocities.com/waspdog3/happy_cla…
... car in the forecourt of a garage beside the job ... after he got out of the car, these two ... He was out of the job-centre a minute later and ... the gleeful, laughing demeanour of the two clampers laughing in ... car.
What a pair of complete cunts. :D
