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Is this right? Winston, Phil, Beanz, etcI'm reading Robin Cook's Coma (the film was based on this book, but I've never seen the film, so no spoilers, please) and I've found the following pa…
I'm reading Robin Cook's Coma (the film was based on this book, but I've never seen the film, so no spoilers, please) and I've found the following paragraph, which I think is incorrect.
See, the paragrah describes a room, and begins "[I]The ... -
The best ... beginning with "D"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "D", which do you think are the: [B]Best g…
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IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…
... accessed (A0 = 0).
Winston told me that Spectaculator and ... -
z88dk Help neededI'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification t…
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Spectrum+ 128 (toastrack) - tuning issueI remember a post from a while ago where [COLOR=Blue]Winston [/COLOR]said his [COLOR=Red]toastrack[/COLOR] had horrendous [COLOR=SeaGreen]drift [/COL…
... while ago where [COLOR=Blue]Winston [/COLOR]said his [COLOR=Red ... -
"Hang on, lads - I've got a great idea."Spoiler warning: This thread is about The Italian Job (the 1969, starring Michael Caine, not the recent remake, which I haven't seen). If you haven't…
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Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
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Spectrum dead: 8 vertical bars in alternating colorsI have been soldering on this basterd for a long time now. All IC's now have sockets (except the LM1889). I swapped all 4116's by types that are 100%…
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Winston's diag board was connected ... -
Attn: XBox users (original XBox, not the 360)On the original XBox, game patches were sometimes issued, to fix problems with the games, or to add new in-game levels, or whatever. The patches were…
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SP1 - 5 new songs. 2008 blocks ... -
Snow on screen of 48K Speccyok you wizards I fixed up my 4116 ram issue as Winston and McLeod advised me before by replacing with 4164's.... all I could find here in Singapore (…
... my 4116 ram issue as Winston and McLeod advised me before ... -
group buys?I'm just curious if it has been tried here before. I mean I'm tempted to get the diagnositc board made up that Winston designed for example, maybe ot…
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RetroMa??a 09Last week the association [url=http://www.retroaccion.org/]Retroaccion[/url] celebrated "[url=http://www.retroaccion.org/retromania-2009]RetroMa??a[/…
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Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…
... memory with all z88dk and sp1 default settings, maybe I'll ... to set up a z88dk+sp1 project with optional future 128k ... -
The Chuntey InitiativeIt's the start of a new year and with it brings a new wave of optimism and hope! :) In light of the relative success of twitter/speccynews (in the s…
... 2 with photos etc, or Winston's H/W Interface project ... -
The ZX-filesIt's an incredible story I found in the spanish forums (Speccy.org). Yesterday night, in a spanish TV program about strange phenomena, UFOs, etc pre…
... in: (in spanish, sorry. Only Winston can understand it! :-))
Problem with Spin 0.7s +3 file I/OI'm currently trying the +3 disk functions in z88dk. I've based my work upon the simple snippet Winston posted a while ago, but doing the contrary. H…
... work upon the simple snippet Winston posted a while ago, but ...The Grim Reaper is coming for your consoles...According to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8556874.stm[/URL] [COLOR=Blue][B]"A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional …
... I'm missing something, and Winston or Phil K. will post ...Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…
... more complicated code, perhaps using sp1.
Obviously, there are ...New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... is created using z88dk and sp1 sprite library.
And thank ...FMV on +3eOK, so about 6 months ago i posted here that i got full motion video on +3e, with a bunch of scr files called passion. I added the glider rider music…
... take me up on it! - - Winston, your diags board is great ...FLASH EPROM programming on ZX SpectrumThis is photo of Winston's DIAGNOSTIC BOARD: [img]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/diagboard.jpg[/img] Schematic and flash utilities: [url]http://www…
This is photo of Winston's DIAGNOSTIC BOARD:
[img] ...BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
... bit low initially, since [B]Winston[/B] wants to let the ...Programming flash eprom on DIVIDE+Can you test it on DIVIDE PLUS ? [url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/flasher-divide-plus.zip[/url] (This flash utility is WINSTON's flasher for dia…
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(This flash utility is WINSTON's flasher for diagnostic board ...Toaster repair update.The speccy is fixed :) I asked about my speccy a few days ago why I had a dark picture but I could just about see the menu ok. Winston ( bless his …
... about see the menu ok. Winston ( bless his little socks) said ... its working perfectly. Thank you Winston and all the other's ...TV report of the morning at RetroMa?OK, so it's in Spanish, but the pictures really say it all. Antena 3, a national TV broadcaster in Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is …
... 't have graphics in 3D (Winston's note: Usually!) nor large ...Microdrive faultHi, After a chat with "Winston" at the R3PLAY show I have been able to fix my 48k spectrum faulty M1 signal. My problem with the microdrive is int…
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After a chat with "Winston" at the R3PLAY show I ...New Game: Forest Raider CherryJust a game I've just finished this morning. Consider this as a Christmas present. Help Cherry to find the treasure in the Mysterious Forest. [URL=…
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Using z88dk and sp1 library by Alcoholics Anonymous.New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... ever written using the excellent SP1 sprite library for Z88DK. In ...ZX Spectrum 48K, issue - works fine till it gets hot (?)ZX Spectrum 48K, issue 2, works just fine, tested with Winston's diag board. At a certain moment in time however, it seems to run hot and stalls. Whe…
... , works just fine, tested with Winston's diag board. At a ...
