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Movie Critique (posh way of saying this is a film recommendation thread!)We haven't had a film recommendation thread for ages (so it seems), so I thought we should get a new one started, and hopefully everyone will post wh…
... , unless they are in a spoiler box of course.
This is a really funny film, starring Steve ... at. It's sort of a competition where each guest ... Carrell) and the rest of the film is brilliant. ... I'm not really a fan of many modern comedy films ... -
A major revamp of a computerI'm thinking about buying this motherboard here: [url]http://www.asrock.com/MB/overview.asp?Model=A330GC[/url] AFAICT the DIMM slots for RAM are the…
... says it will accept memory of 533MHz. My old stick are ... problematic to use those in a slower system?
Here ... -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... copying a four character sprite to the screen takes three cycles of push/ ... blocks and keep a dirty list, in the style of the SP1 ... given that there's a lot of work saving the status and ... wondering if the cost overhead of going further outweighs the advantages ... -
name of a game, amiga 500it was a 2nd world war 2 turn based stratergy game. in sort of hexagon tiles came on about 12 disks. :-D can't remember the name. cheers
it was a 2nd world war 2 turn based stratergy game.
in sort of hexagon tiles
came on about 12 disks. :-D
can't remember the name.
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Name of a tuneCan anybody give a name/artist name to this song? I've heard it on a film before I think. There is about 5 seconds of it on this you tube video. …
Can anybody give a name/artist name to this ... /> I've heard it on a film before I think.
There is about 5 seconds of it on this you tube ... name so that will be a dead end.
[url ... -
Need the name of a comicI wonder if someone can help with something thats been bugging me....... I remember a comic that i read in the mid - late 80's that contained mainly …
... bugging me.......
I remember a comic that i read in ... fi/horror stories, i read a whole load that my cousin ... can't remember the name of the comic and its annoying ... ) was called 'Tough of the track' about a runner and another was ... -
Name of a Speccy homebrew with a ball and gravity and stuffAnyone remember what this is called? It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something.
Anyone remember what this is called?
It's a homebrew title in recent years. Kind of like golf with gravity and sticky balls (ooer) or something. -
Trying to remember the name of a football game...Think it was budget, overhead view, released around 89 and on title screen when you made a selection or moved cursor it played a bit of sampled speec…
Think it was budget, overhead view, released around 89 and on title screen when you made a selection or moved cursor it played a bit of sampled speech that said "go for it".
any ideas? other than I should have been playing something decent? -
Trying to recall a children's bookHowdy folks. I'm trying to remember the name of a children's book I read around the mid-80s in the UK. It's something that really stuck with me but I…
... to remember the name of a children's book I ... It's about a girl who lives in a house (by herself ... sure) in the middle of a wide open wilderness. From ... room she can see a set of standing stones circling her ... it's a standalone book and not part of a series, but ... -
Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... I prefer to use a special kind of cardboard as desk cover ... Cleaning these kind of mechanisms is quite a toil because there are ... what appears to be a staple (several of these were found) and ... assembly, the final polishing layer of a German product used for what ... -
A Freecycle post that made me chuckleI subscribe to my local freecycle group and get emails everytime a new item is posted. I got his one today ========================================…
... group and get emails everytime a new item is posted. ...
We have 2 lots of ducks to offer, the first ... and 1 indian runner) and a girl (campbell cross) aged about ... is 2 boys and a girl aged about 4 months ... you will need to bring a large box or pet carrier ... -
Someone with a bit of a thing about clone games:I don't know if anyone knows who this is, but it's a blog post on arcade game clones and the development of licensing over the 8-bit era. I came acr…
... clones and the development of licensing over the 8 ... look up the extent of Harry S. Price's ... bile and fuming hatred of any sort of 'Froggy' or ' ... games. There's a definite touch of the David Starkey to ... just about to release a loose clone of an arcade game, ... -
Game of Thrones author - a speccy fan!?Have just finished book 1 by George RR Martin, a song of Fire and Ice towards the end, one of the protagonists of a large battle is none other than …
... 1 by George RR Martin, a song of Fire and Ice
towards the end, one of the ... protagonists of a large battle is none ... -
Physics of a bombim sure a few of you clever chaps can answer this. Im flying a plane at 100km and hour my altitude about ground level is 1km im flying dead level…
im sure a few of you clever chaps can answer ... this.
Im flying a ... level
i drop a 500lb bomb
how ... same speed as me, decelerate a certain ammount over that time? -
probably a stupid question about RST16I'm using the 'hello world' code borrowed from [url=http://equant-retrochallenge.blogspot.com/2008/07/zx-spectrum-assembly-programming-under.html]her…
... routine for the intro screen of a game.
... 16 ; Spectrum: Print the character in 'A'
inc hl ; Move ... ve checked the chunk of text in the spin ... 's still a perfectly valid chunk of zero-terminated ... -
AGD 2.6 WoesThis was originally in the New Game Ideas section but thought this would be the best place to post this: I'm no programmer, hence i'm using the exce…
... stumped trying to work out a few things...
... utilise the extra memory on a 128k?
Secondly ... to mask the sprite behind (or in front of) any blocks without ... />
Finally, any way of changing the character set (the whole alphabet ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... keyboard detection. Some parts of it is written in ... worry about writing a sprite routine, a joystick handler and ... />
// The maximum number of sprites is 10.
uchar ... />
// Define Starting Positions of the Sprites
struct sprentry ... -
joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join ... together lines of BASIC. The ... ENTER character is replaced with a ":" and the 4-byte header of the ... was intending to include a "dividing lines of BASIC" option as ... -
I need advice please :(Firstly I'm soo sorry that from time to time I turn up here in a mess, and usually don't post anymore (but that's purely because I try not to post wh…
... somehow got myself involved in a love triangle :(... myself,
a girl who I've stupidly ... there's been a lot of anger between me ... him (although aspects of his character I can hate easily ... friendship with this girl (I say girl, she's 15 ... -
Pip The Pipistrelle[color=red]*COMING SOON*[/color] Pip The Pipistrelle I am going to put all the game details,instructions and story here now and simply update this t…
... try and copy an mp3 of a real Pipistrelle bat using the ... find the remains of a huge moth another victim of the storm no ... main character Pip is injured and limps.
The use of basic ... the moth check screen (creature sprite 2-3 frames)
The smell of a brand new ZX SpectrumThis may be the weirdest question I've asked here... Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case to reveal your brand new…
... here...
Most of you probably remember the day ... smell emanating from the inside of the case.
a particular smell. That's ... ago. I was opening a ZX81, and to do ... moment I took off one of the rubber feet, I ...Dizzy - A Change of OpinionAll my friends (and most members) on here know how much of a Dizzy fan I am - I've enjoyed the games, even spending many an hour playing the Megadriv…
... ) on here know how much of a Dizzy fan I am - I ... continue to enjoy the rest of the games?28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…
... suggested a way of doing 18-character wide multicolour on a 48k ... just wanted a limited set of INKs on a uniform background ... character wide 8x1 multicolour code, it's obvious that a good chunk of ... a real problem.
So, the code below does 28-character ...Formalhaut year of release and a bit moreMartijn, this game was released in Microhobby semanal 117-120 which is from 1987, not 1986 (I guess the year of release must prevail over the year of…
... I guess the year of release must prevail over ... the year of completion of the game).
... magazine covertape" instead of "part of a compilation" since the compilation ... from Ignacio Prini was afterwards, a ...Eurogamer report on Horizons, a celebration of the ZX Spectrum[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url] Gasman gets a mention for his live performance of a speccy vers…
... .net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url]
of a speccy version of "Never Gonna Give You ...A "bit" of a curiosityHaving to use a bit of m/code to do the AND in that key check function, I was prompted to revisit the "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up wit…
Having to use a bit of m/code to ... m/code. An advantage of this version over that ...
[code]
REM a = val1 = 1st number
... /> d = bits = number of bits to check
g ... br /> LET ba2=INT (a/2): LET bb2=INT ...Got a date on thursday!I've been off the site for a while, decided to have a break but now i'm back. I've recently been chatting a girl online via a dating website, someone…
... site for a while, decided to have a break but ... ve recently been chatting a girl online via a dating website, someone ... she's not Thai!) for a coffee.
The thing ... ive not been on a date for a while now (2006 ... tbh) and i'm seriously out of ...Multi-sized character screen driverFollowing on from the thread on [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've dug o…
... t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've ... ]TAP file[/url] provides a screen driver with 8 individually ... windows, in each window a mixture of five different character sizes:
[img ... />
Ah, the happy memories of writing this all out on ...Question on a brace of DI games in the archiveRe: Fighter Pilot on Timex (MIA) and ATF 2 (never released) Do we have evidence that FP was indeed released on Timex? Also, what does the "never re…
... said he had never heard of a timex release for FP and ... 2 was always planned as a 16-bit sequel to the ...Anatomy of a bad M1No, not the motorway (although at times the tarmac M1 goes about as well as this one...) But the bad M1 problem that seems to occur most with issue …
... , date coded 8425 (25th week of 1984).
... a maximum voltage of 778mv and a minimum of 534mv.
To get a ... there's a lot of other noise on top of it. It ... honestly looks like there is a ... 's left of the M1 signal is a bit lower ...
