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Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…
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Disappointed with InterstellarI'd heard so much about it that I bought the DVD yesterday and quit after an hour of gruelling, depressing, difficult to follow and frankly pretty bo…
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Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
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Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
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Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
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Multiface CloneHello all! I create hardware for the retro computing and gaming community through my company RetroHQ, I've mostly been doing SD cartridges for co…
... can get PCB's from eBay, but that's not my intention ... IC's, so not ideal from a cost and productin point of view.
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What was the last Spectrum game you bought (in a shop)?Not counting recent-ish Cronosoft releases etc... what was the last ever game you bought before you packed your Speccy away and moved on to other pur…
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Awesome/Cool/Beautiful *.MOD *.xm, etc muzak requested.I just re-discovered an old HD of mine with .MODs from the 90s and also discovered that VLC actually plays those! Please, drop links to awesome .M…
... in the late 80's when I had my ... and made some (from my point of view) good compositions
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C64 Intro Tape ?Just a quick question about the C64, a cursory Google did not really help but I'm not really the best at finding stuff. As with our Speccy's you g…
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C64 Intro Tape ?Just a quick question about the C64, a cursory Google did not really help but I'm not really the best at finding stuff. As with our Speccy's you g…
... ;937904"]Quite odd they kind of 'tied you in' , ... I guess from a positive point of view this way CBM retained some ... 'control' over the quality of tape players used so there ... was little chance of the 'I used an ... from the early 70's and half my tapes ... -
Laser Squad remake - As a 3D multiplayer FPSI'm slowly writing a multiplayer FPS engine, and I thought an ideal game to test it with would be a remake of the classic Laser Squad mission "Moonba…
... prevalent than ever, but it's a struggle to get noticed ... days.
Anyhoo, here's another update to my Moonbase ... try playing from the defenders point of view, so here I am, watching ... /> I was trying to think of other classics I could convert ... -
Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
... to remember the name of the assembler with this ... thing from a different algorithm point of view, and the new one ... storing pre-shifted versions of the font. But that ... for a given font that's typically 20-30 patterns. ... string. And there's still things to try.. -
Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
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Vote for nationalised health care.Place your vote for nationalised health care in the USA. BTW: its quite clear this site is run by those with vested interests in blocking Obama's he…
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I'm such a messPeople may notice i haven't been posting lately, the reason is i'm not very good at the moment. I'm an emotional mess. I've been best friends with …
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Back in the days of school, many eons ago (well ... and from my point of view fell of the face of the planet. Like ... pancreatic cancer on New Year's Day 2010.
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Is Sabre Wulf a bit naff?Go on, I'm feeling controversial. I have never, ever liked Sabre Wulf. It looks pretty nice but even back in the day I found it a tedious and frus…
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Spectrum and Z80 emulators with Python APIHello everybody, It may be the right time to create a topic for these two emulators. They are not at the initial release point yet, but might be w…
... sure how much it's a software point of view, especially taking into account ... . I'm one of those, actually. :-) What's clarified is what seems ... to be actually happening in terms of ... -
Other books worth getting as good as "Speccy Nation"?I bought this off amazon - it has reviews of fifty Spectrum games that capture the essence of the machine, and it looks good fun. I'm wondering if th…
... related content, but from the point of view of developers (etc.) in the ... in a lot of these types of books). Read the ... expensive at £30 but it's worth every penny:
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Drift!, Valley of Rains and Just a Gal at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019We presented 3 new games at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019 competition! Side-scrolling action "Valley of Rains", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing…
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For me, it's not. It's all about passion, celebrating ... not express myself clearly. Your point of view, I seem to understand, is ... little else. While there's a whole lot of independent films, made ... for the simple sake of fun. Again, it's all about the ... -
Have you got a project or are doing anything interesting during lock down?I’m “having” “fun” cutting shapes in wall tiles to fit around the electrical switches, sockets and heating/boiler control box in the utility room. …
... project I'm redesigning, it's a railway terminus glass canopy ... .
Here's the story - it's a bit long...well ... to look convincing from my point of view. Not that I wouldn't ... those bloody rounded corners! That's when a lightbulb went off ... -
What can we expect from Boris once this coronavirus is over?I wonder is Labour going to become credible and put up a good opposition now that Corbyn is gone - I hope so, not because I am a Labour supporter, I …
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Is FTP WOS available ?Hello friends ! it makes a loooooooooong time i came here. it's fine to retrieve this good old site ! i tried to reconnect to the FTP , and i w…
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why not ? From my point of view ... , the initial goal of the site was ... the dissemination of a kind of online encyclopedia of everything related ... not see the problem of making available the ... -
Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
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Finding and listing the Games that are PWI ( Playable Without Instructions)The idea for this came up here:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/58008/what-of-zx-spectrum-games-can-be-played-without-referri…
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In the Speccy's early days games were generally ... was unwise, from a coding point of view, to waste it on "internal ... to read . The key point is that separate written instructions ... for information with the Speccy's limited memory, and so this ... -
Ebay find: Arduitape (virtual tape deck)Hi fellow Spec-Chums I just came across this interesting-looking thingy on ebay and thought i'd share with you guys: [img]http://i.ebayimg.com/imag…
... want to recreate the experience of seeing complex loaders, or even ... areas, fundamentally... From a person point of view, its not as satisfying to ... reproduction using .TZX, but that's just my opinion there... ;)
Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem (to me) that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to wr…
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It's all fake and ... carry junk. It's the negative sides of a capitalist society. ... benefits but it's been ruined and taken advantage of by le ... And maybe it's just my negative point of view on a pissy Tuesday ...zesarux emulator > pc keyboard mappingSorry that this is so trivial but I cannot find the "=" key which is fairly important
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