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Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
... I was a keen Spectrum hacker as a child ... emulator and (later) the Spectrum emulator on the Psion 5.
... , I've been lurking on here. To be honest, ... other lurkers would feel the same.
Perhaps ... anything else like it on t'interweb. The transience ... -
Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
... colour palette and standard Spectrum colours on the same screen simultaneously?[/QUOTE]
Spectrum colors, only approximations based on the particular ULA ... issue of how the multiplexing on the blue bit is done ... -
Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…
... QL is the Super Spectrum. Sinclair did work on a next generation ... had asked for it, and Amstrad would have repackaged the 48K ... not convinced that a Super Spectrum based on 8 bit tech would ... not have bought a Super Spectrum although to be fair I ... -
Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…
... convinced that a Super Spectrum based on 8 bit tech ... have bought a Super Spectrum although to be fair ... with the QL. The Spectrum was still selling and ... the Spectrum+ would have needed minimal ... sale to Amstrad it was basically an MSX2. On the ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... much the end of the Spectrum.
However, ... time) had a "Software On Demand" service in their ... space with various Spectrum, Amstrad and C64 games on the shelf. ... they recorded the game on to a cassette out ... final nail in the Spectrum coffin as far as ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... the time) had a "Software On Demand" service in their shop ... shelf space with various Spectrum, Amstrad and C64 games on the shelf. It ... while they recorded the game on to a cassette out the ... the final nail in the Spectrum coffin as far as I ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... market the ZX80, ZX81 and Spectrum hit the sweet spot ( ... not have been the Spectrum replacement.
On the one hand ... basically looked like a Spectrum+ with two Microdrives on the end. If ... on a business machine
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Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... still got plenty of Spectrum games featuring sprites and ... /> Obviously, the C64 and Spectrum were produced to very different ... simple answer to that. On the one side, ... like the Apple II, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, ... until the 3DFX era. On the other, you' ... -
What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
... /> There were very bad games on the Spectrum, in every aspect you ... other examples found on the Spectrum.
At the same time, E ... an E.T.-like game on the Spectrum, you must search a ... there were no "crash" on the Spectrum, so it is impossible to ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... :35 from Demolicius demo on spectrum with the same quality.
Can we ... refuse to believe, that the spectrum with its vivid color palette ... , cant do at least the same or better.
There must ... -
What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
... think that Ghostbusters on the Spectrum is about as ... T, what game on the Spectrum relied on its official association ... subsequent titles from the same publisher, the capabilities of ...
So, yeah. Ghostbusters on the Spectrum, then. Yes. GHOSTBUSTERS.
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What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
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What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
what game on the Spectrum relied on its official association with a ... either subsequent titles from the same publisher, the capabilities of a ... Carnival
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What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
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Whilst the spectrum version is amazing (compared to ... spectrum can do) and the amiga version is poor (for the same ... reasons), it does not follow that the spectrum version ... , Renegade is much better on the Spectrum than on the Amiga.
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'Interesting' Issue 2 modSo I've been lurking on this forum for a while and I've got to the point where I want to see if I can repair a speccy.. so I bought me a 'broken' one…
... some designs of the Spectrum's on-board power circuit it can ... 0V, as it is the same as the connection that your ... -
Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…
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Megatree.prg is the same background with a scroller that ... information about the sprites included on the disk :
[QUOTE]Please note ... be example sprites stored on the Spritemaster disk, or sprites created for ... -
Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…
... and the faulty Spectrum+ had the same ROM checksum 7758 ... as a 48K Spectrum.)
On my working Spectrum+ I ran ... />
On the faulty Spectrum+ I run the same tests the first ... , this is completely missing on the faulty Spectrum+.
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Please explain Spectrum FPGA-clones to meI've been using the great ZXDS-emulator on the DS XL so far, which is great. But I kinda missed toying around with hardware. I've tried bidding on a …
... of the machine it runs on.
... t feel the same unless I play them on the original ... hardware.
If it looked like a Spectrum ... , had the same case as a Spectrum, same keyboard as a Spectrum, and ... -
What is the Speccy? exUSSR edition.In exUSSR 8 years ago have been solved all these issues, and developed a General opinion. All who do not agree with this opinion, are incompetent peo…
... to have the same ROM as the ZX Spectrum. For the Timex ... the media. On release, Timex also promised a Spectrum emulator cartridge which ... exact copy of the 48k Spectrum rom on cartridge. Timex in Portugal ... -
Retro GamerDoes anybody know when the next issue of Retro Gamer will be out? They told me to include an article about the Spectrum30 show in the News section an…
... so we could play Spectrum games on the QL. We never ... though) but handling the Spectrum screen was a big ... got the first "real" Spectrum emulator for my (then ... seems to be covering the same things over and over, ... 's not all in the same place.[/QUOTE]
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... much on the fence as I love both Spectrum & ... isometric games that rely on fastest cpu, it wins ... Mercenary.
On the other side of it ... was impossible for the Spectrum & Amstrad to do effectively ... a dead platform missing out on so many games.
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... -box with this bastardized Spectrum product. I'm sure ... give a **** about the Spectrum these days - if someone ... the need to play Spectrum games on my big-screen tv ... Today I spent ?10 on a crate of Christmas beer ... to spend the same amount of money on yet another ...Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…
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Megatree.prg is the same background with a scroller that ... information about the sprites included on the disk :[/QUOTE]
Would ... to publish the reader txt on here?
Has anyone ...Capturing some Spectrum sounds.I'm sure there's a simple way to do this. I want to get some simple(ish) Spectrum sounds and capture them into PC files, MP3 or WAV or something. The…
... to get some simple(ish) Spectrum sounds and capture them into ... would sound ok in early Spectrum games, e.g when a ... 'm making a 'fake' Spectrum game on the PC, just for lols ... Spectrum emulators can record the sounds to you PC hard disk as ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... palette and higher detail of Spectrum graphics, regardless of the ... has a higher resolution than spectrum; and on an old portable TV ... colours would look just the same, if you wanted that.
spectrum owners (white daley)
...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... me. Have no preference on any 8-bit format. ... and all are equal, same with Eidolon and Ghostbusters. ... Some games are just equal on all formats.
.[/QUOTE ... ' is equally as good on spectrum as on C64. Yes, the game ... logo. It's spot on, on the C64 version.Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... 'Ghostbusters' is equally as good on spectrum as on C64. Yes, the game ... play is. But the music on the speccy is dreadful and ... Ghostbusters' logo. It's spot on, on the C64 version.[/QUOTE]
same. The Atari 2600 version is ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... I mentioned both :) On the spectrum there is a tracker ... br />
The spectrum relies on fixed bandwidth filtering done by ... the same as the spectrum, remove the sid filtering, and rely on ... more advanced YM2149F, than Spectrum AY) into this discussion.
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... same manner that he is acknowledges that the frame rate drop spectrum ... >64 on the iso stuff is ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... same manner that he is acknowledges that the frame rate drop spectrum ... >64 on the iso stuff ...
I play games on both systems but in my ... games just feel nicer on the Spectrum. The C64 does ... is the better game on the C64, no doubt ...
