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Come on I can`t be the only oneAs a spotty 13 year old computer game addict back in `87 my idea of a sexy laydee was the chick on the cover of Imagines "Game Over", even the loadin…
... Imagines "Game Over", even the loading screen was pretty hot if ... my copy of Crash magazine still falls open on that advert ... -
Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... to load the loading screen?
After the loading screen theres usually ... -
Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…
... /> Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing ... the loading screen or, as in the ... -
test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…
... trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised ... I had a real Speccy still, but they all died on ... -
Hard drive and Multiface problemsI recently read about the Spectrum +3e, and thought to myself - "I'll give that a try, and I'll build the Hard drive Interface while I'm at it". So,…
... the hdd, so I tried loading the image from the original ... the +3e only supports the loading of 48k z80 snapshots.
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Loading via minidiscHiya I know this might sound a bit strange but has anybody experimented with loading spectrum games via a minidisc player? I`m trying to work out how…
Hiya I know this might sound a bit strange but has anybody experimented with loading spectrum games via a minidisc player? I`m trying to work out how I could get it to work on my +2 - if at all.
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How do you customize loading stripe colours?Is there a program or something that can let me change the colours of those loading stripes or whatever they are called, like when Bomb Jack loads? …
Is there a program or something that can
let me change the colours of those loading
stripes or whatever they are called, like
when Bomb Jack loads?
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Are there still any good games to be found among MIAS?There is over 1000 of missing games listed at WOS, however I have the impression that the best games written for Spectrum are already preserved. The …
... do you think, are the still any valuable
games among ... -
Yugoslavia custom cracked games - available?Hello. I used to have a penpal from Ljubljana, Yugoslavia I swapped games with way back when. The games he sent me, however, were all normal speed w…
... bar headerless loads, with custom loading systems nothing like anything I ... except it had an excellent loading system!! Very pretty.
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Real long shot: Exolon and Arkanoid cracked and made really pretty but chucked away!!Hi guys. Real, real long shot here. Many moons ago I launched a cracking group called "Sutton Hacking Force" (the 'group' was my mate Cliff and I).…
... the stuff we did I still have but we did Exolon ... game - all with whizzy clever loading systems, naturally.
And ... -
Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... was wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on ... -
Shortest Game Loading TimeFollowing from the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=9905&forum=4&34"]longest loading time thread[/url]... There are s…
Do you still play freescape games?Hi everyone....Just wondered if u still play freescape games....slow as they now seem in a world of Halo and Doom 3! My brother has just started usi…
... everyone....Just wondered if u still play freescape games....slow as ...Spin v0.504 - "R Tape loading error"?Has anybody else had the problem that when you turn off all the tape-loader optimisations (Standard blocks, Edge loader & Byte loader), loading any T…
... , Edge loader & Byte loader), loading any TZX file will result ... in an "R Tape loading error" at the end of ...Compiling BASIC programs using Hi-Soft CompilerThis might get me nowhere, but it's worth a try... I'm writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's CD compilation, if he'll have it - …
... a tape file and then loading into Spectaculator/SPIN running Hi ... BASIC program and compiler were still resident in memory. So I ...PAWS & GAC, still being used?Back in the day when i was a teenager i wrote many a text adventure on my 128K + using both PAWS and GAC, i really wished id kept them now. On one oc…
... if any of u guys still write text adventures using PAWS ...Can't remember name of a Text AdventureHello there! I can't remember the name of this Text Adventure I used to play... and to complicate things further, there's not much i remember from t…
... . Possibly there was a nice loading screen, but the game was ... vague memories of finding the still-warm remains of campfire... but ...Loading tunes possible?Ever since I first saw the pacman load-a-game loader by Andy Severn on Joe Blade 2, I`ve wondered if it were possible to have loading tunes. Would i…
... it were possible to have loading tunes.
Would it ... volume of the beeper loading noise during loading, and a routine to ...Speccy abuseI've not checked this forum to see if this topic has appeared before but are there any cases of spectrum abuse out there .. for example, i've lost co…
... back whils the machine is still switched on thus blowing up ... one too many 'R Tape Loading Errors' .. there was one incident ...More Micro drive problemsHi everyone! I recently bought a interface 1 plus a microdrive for my 48k speccy and have finally gotten round to trying it out. Having set everythi…
... . I waited 10 minutes and still nothing. tried again using another ... same thing. I also tried loading a known working cart and ...Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …
... of a wav created is still creaking as an old gate ... is a reason of nonfunctioning loading, it should be remastered, ... /> [/list]
[B]Tape loading error[/B]
Wheelie ... blocks instead the Loading screen, self-reset during loading[/B]
< ...Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
Today painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loading screens twenty years ago? Did they use lightpens or some kind of scanner?Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…
... attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama beads.
A problem on startupMy pc has been acting a bit wierd it boots up and when it get to the desktop it seems ok but then when i try to launch a program the cursor changes t…
... the hourglass as if its loading and then it goes back ... and running spybot but it still says the same thing. I ...loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…
... the other finished. I tried loading them on my +2a, one ... , i'm a musician) the loading of the two games and ...If were still around......(and perhaps writing for the Speccy still), what could s/he do nowadays? It's just struck me that if Harry Price were still in there, he could ha…
... perhaps writing for the Speccy still), what could s/he do ... that if Harry Price were still in there, he could hack ... />
If Jon Ritman were still around?... (Yes, I know, he ... />
If Don Priestley were still around?...Loading ScreensThanks to everyone who's so far helped out with the [url=http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/loadscreen]Loading Screens Project[/url]. We're now…
... .ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/loadscreen]Loading Screens Project[/url]. We're ... which don't use a loading screen, please report these via ...OpenZXRom v2006-05-17 releasedJust knocked out a new release of OpenZXRom last night - a GPL licensed functional replacement for the original Spectrum ROM. [url]http://matt.west.…
... load them from snapshots. Still no tape loading or BASIC loader parsing ...Games you didn't like after first loading but appreciated them laterYou know the story: new game, first loading, few minutes of playing,"it's crap!". But few days/weeks/months later you load this game again (because y…
... the story: new game, first loading, few minutes of playing,"it ... didn't like after 1st loading but appreciated later?
I ... one: "Bruce Lee". After 1st loading I was disappointed because of ...
