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  • Reading the Spectrum KeyboardI've been playing around with reading the Spectrum keyboard (in the guise of Spin 0.666) using Z80, and I believe I've discovered that the number of …

    ... , but I've never noticed any occasion where I've wanted ... can't see the third key-press.

    Any thoughts?
    RoseCotton RoseCotton December 2009 Development
  • What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…

    ... , select Tools / Tape Creator... to open Tape Image Builder window.
    10. Click File in Tape Image Builder window.
    11 ... should now have a new tape called Penetrator Keys.tzx.< ... /> Insert original Penetrator tape from start and press play to load game ...
    FrankT FrankT January 2010 Games
  • What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…

    ... , select Tools / Tape Creator... to open Tape Image Builder window.
    10. Click File in Tape Image Builder window.
    11 ... should now have a new tape called Penetrator Keys.tzx.< ... /> Insert original Penetrator tape from start and press play to load game ...
    itsallgood itsallgood January 2010 Games
  • Your views on...Beach-Head[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000481]Beach-Head[/url] Another game which I never played. It didn't look interesting enough …

    ... then sat through the whole tape. Later he learned from the ... bad as looking for the 'any' key
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley January 2010 Games
  • I am working on 'Stratego'.So finally Fuse is working on my EeePC started coding "Stratego". I have ideas about the artificial intelligence, but if you have ideas how to play …

    ... have set your army just press any other key than QAOPZ.

    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2010 New game ideas
  • ANN: EsxDos 0.73 released (third party - not mine)Papaya Dezign have finally released their firmware/OS for the DivIDE interface. Go get it from [url]http://www.esxdos.org/files/esxdos073.zip[/url]…

    ... FLASHER.TAP (from FATWARE) i press a key, it says "cannot flash ... a garbled screen.

    Any fix?
    dg67 dg67 February 2010 Development
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... can change the name of any of the 11 characters now ... keyboard input you have to press the key for a certain period ... bug. I can't see any reason why it should be ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2010 Development
  • Super Hang On (Speedlock deprotector program needed)Hello all, I been looking into finding a way of decrypting the speedlock on Super Hang On. I want to create a deprotected tap version of the game, w…

    ... ;428461]Is their a key I need to press to activate the ... /> Once the game has loaded, any key will (should) activate saving.
    FrankT FrankT March 2010 Games
  • Some Beeper TunesAfter doing a verion of [URL="http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/popcorn.szx"]popcorn[/URL] a few weeks back, I got a bit carried away with doing a f…

    ... be the best behaved of any of the 3 channel editors ... to represent patterns in any key and virtually any time signature. Very impressive ... on the stave? Why, just press Fire+Up+Right (simulatenously, mind ... Hugely irrating to use for any length of time, not least ...
    ccowley ccowley March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tricks with IN 31It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ap…

    ... not, I'll rewrite the start routine that I've just ... - on this joypads is possible press any combination of buttons. Also more ... must be used before first start of game.
    velesoft velesoft April 2010 Hardware
  • Tricks with IN 31It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ap…

    ... pressed?
    JR Z, xxx ; start game with joystick controls
    CP 31 ; any key pressed?
    JR NZ, xxy ; start game with keyboard ...
    ajmoss ajmoss April 2010 Hardware
  • Tricks with IN 31It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ap…

    ... pressed?
    JR Z, xxx ; start game with joystick controls
    CP 31 ; any key pressed?
    JR NZ, xxy ; start game with keyboard ...
    velesoft velesoft April 2010 Hardware
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    ... the top of the mountain" *Press a key*

    From what ... 128K one... you had to start from scratch. I've not ...
    Strident Strident April 2010 New game ideas
  • Don't Buy This TZX file on x128 emulatorI'm runnign this old DOS emulator on my old Win95 PC for Speccy Games (My main XP PC is for work, and bug-riddled to hell). I've not used a TZX file …

    ... press ALT-F7 to bring up the Tape Browser (only when a tape ... the tape.

    Press F1 to see the list of F-key ...
    Jmk Jmk May 2010 Games
  • Playing AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …

    ... music - it will stop after "any key" is pressed.

    any good editor (Sound-Tracker ... , SQ-Tracker or any Pro). But I don ... know BASIC players for any other progs than ... music while loading from tape/divIDE. Otherwise the machine ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…

    Gasman, any planned features for the player? :)< ... know if any of them are doable:

    -Press a key to ... would be interesting to see any Speccy using the DivIDEo codec ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2010 Announcements
  • DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…

    [QUOTE=zxbruno;445027]Gasman, any planned features for the player? :)[/ ... framerates besides 25fps (i.e. any multiple of 1/50s - 16 ... know if any of them are doable:

    -Press a key to ...
    gasman gasman May 2010 Announcements
  • Games from before your timeI really enjoyed reading NickH's piece. I found it interested that all of his games were from 87-88 - by which time I had stopped buying games (havi…

    ... cos you had to "hit any key to start" or whatever just at ...
    Lee_dC Lee_dC May 2010 Games
  • Speccy repairs?I've finally got round to testing all the various Spectrums that I seem to have accumulated over the years and discovered that "my" two machines (i.e…

    ... comes up but when you press a key that works (most don ... but then you try using any of the keys A, S ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Hardware
  • ZX80 Games on your +2A/+3Hi all. Was just having a talk on irc about Paul Farrow's ZX80 games and his emulator for 128k Spectrums and IF2 and since I remembered I got them r…

    ... from the DivIDE and then press a key to continue. That way ... mode software would work without any issues.[/QUOTE]
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 Games
  • Teodoro no Sabe VolarIt's out! [URL="http://www.retroworks.es/php/game_en.php?id=6"]Go and grab it![/URL] Comment here on in our blog...

    ... 23999
    LOAD "" CODE
    (start tape, stop it once code block ...
    RANDOMIZE USR 24000
    (start tape and game will load, then ... )
    POKE 39090,0 (and any other pokes you want)
    StuBruise StuBruise October 2010 Games
  • Directions in isometric gamesThis is my biggest bugbear when playing isometric games. Something that is more of an annoyance when playing it on my DS. There is no standard in w…

    ... character will move when you press that key.[/QUOTE]

    I ... and do not really remember any trouble with this. However I ...
    Rickard Rickard November 2010 Games
  • 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…

    ... start menu press "x" (erase flash rom sector) and in next menu press key ... menu
    - press key "w" and in next nemu press key "r". Will program ... to main menu
    - press key "r" for start new zx rom
    velesoft velesoft November 2010 Hardware
  • Genesis: dawn of a new day, new game from RetroWorks!It's been a long development, but finally we made it. We proudly present the latest game from RetroWorks, Genesis: dawn of a new day. [img]http://ww…

    ... />
    You have to press a key to skip the intro and ... . Then, if you keep the key pressed [b]long enough[/b ... and the game crashes on start. I think I know where ... be to "just" tap the key instead of a long press ;).
    utopian utopian November 2010 Games
  • Genesis: dawn of a new day, new game from RetroWorks!It's been a long development, but finally we made it. We proudly present the latest game from RetroWorks, Genesis: dawn of a new day. [img]http://ww…

    ... -4 tv frames since you press the key till it's shown ... FUSE, and didn't notice any issue, same for the testers ...
    utopian utopian November 2010 Games
  • A curious problem with Tomcat's cracked version of R-TypeTomcat (AKA Tomaz Kac) has done an all-in-one loader for R-Type which is very nice. The trouble is, when I try and make a turboload of it using Tomca…

    ... TRDos one to the normal tape loader that is in ROM ... pause the load near the start to press Space. Also, once it ...
    Spector Spector December 2010 Games
  • +2b faulty keyboardhi. a friend has recently acquired a +2b that was sold as working. when switched on the menu is is displayed fine but none of the keys can be persua…

    Can you hear any clicking when you press any keys (from the tv sound ... the break key down and keep ahold of it and press / release ...
    spider spider January 2011 Hardware
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... that can taken in [U]any[/U] [U]Sinclair Basic[/U ... , and without having to do any manual modifications.[/QUOTE]

    [code]
    5 PRINT "PRESS A KEY": PAUSE 0
    10 LET ... /> [code]
    10 PRINT "PRESS A KEY": PAUSE 0
    20 LET ...
    boriel boriel February 2011 Development
  • Spectaculator Load/Save?Hi Any Spectaculator users here who can tell me if or how it is possible to save/merge/load programmes/code/data to HD rather than having to do a ful…

    ... easy to save to virtual tape with Spectaculator. Notice that you ... $
    - a message "Start tape..." will appear
    -press Enter and immediately load ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2011 Emulators
  • Good morrow comradesHello there, this is my first post. I'm aware of the speccy and have recently managed to at last find a working emulator for mac (having lost two eb…

    ... 'DALEKS'
    press 'SPACE' and it will then say START TAPE

    so if your emulator didn't STOP the tape ... TAPE controls on screen and you may need to stop n start ... the virtual tape recorder as you would ...
    ASH-II ASH-II April 2011 Emulators
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