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If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... like math, character printing/reading, string manipulation, memory allocation, etc. There is ... -
first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]
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Help with creating .ayI am trying to create an .AY file for Sidewalk. Now this is the first time I am trying to do anything like this, so please bear with me. Using Spin's…
... that involve IM2 trickery include (from memory):
Cobra
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Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.
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Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.
... a true fLame war ( quoting from memory as the most amusing way ... -
DeathsHas anyone ever been on the last screen in a game only to be killed with your last life? (excluding pokes). This happenned when i played 'Tank Comm…
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toasted soeccysHello, ive jsut bought a pair of speccys on ebay (one 16k issue 2 & a prob 48k issue 3) unfortunaly the genius who sold them tried to see if the wor…
... additionally - although my analogue electronics fu is not all that strong, looking at the schematics for an Issue 2 suggests that the power supply that generates some of the 'weird' voltages (+12v) is a switch mode power supply, which gets regulated by ... -
Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…
... are right. I was typing from memory.
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Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…
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Inspired games[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/basedon.html[/url] I'm sure there's bound to be far more (especially in the "coin-op" section) than are currentl…
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Inspired games[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/basedon.html[/url] I'm sure there's bound to be far more (especially in the "coin-op" section) than are currentl…
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Install Linux to Memory Card(MMC/SD etc)?For anyone that knows, would it be possible to install Linux to a Memory Card? My new PC has a card reader that supports SD, MMC, MS, SMC, CF and MD…
... . I installed 98lite from cd to memory card and booted from memory card, was ... a stick USB than a memory card reader...[/QUOTE]
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5v Transformer.I've got a 5v 3A transformer, would this be ok to use with two 3.5 inch floppy drives?
... it says on the tin (from memory, the 7805 is good for ... (the service manuals suggest the memory is the most vulnerable).
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Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…
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games club WC 10/04/07over 2000 years ago, the robot jesus 0.1, was created and went on to lay waste to a third of the earth. after a pitched battle he died and his space …
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Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... be scrolled and continually updated from memory.
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... graphics engine should be written from scratch for scrolling and ... means -- it's linked from the documentation page on WOS ... -defined control method set up from a menu.
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Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
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Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
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Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks
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Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…
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Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…
... dozen that didn't work. From memory, to save some trouble: movie ... -
Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... storage of sprite data into memory. In order to speed up ... POP instruction to fetch graphics from memory:
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Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
... Vettra's creation of antimatter from comparatively little energy input is ... when just a few inches from the container is a wireless ... canister would involve (I quote from memory, so this may not be ... any kind of chemical signature from the antimatter, then the ... -
Why the name "8-bit computer"?The Spectrum was called an 8-bit computer, but what does that mean? For modern hardware and operating systems (32 or 64-bit) it seems to be the poss…
... means to fetch a word from memory (a 16-bit quantity as ... registers on chip) requires two memory reads grabbing 8-bits at ... -
the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
SNA's were quite commonplace - I remember the main site of the time being ftp.nvg.unit.nu and ftp.ijs.si (from memory). I just found a post in alt.sources.wanted dated 28 Apr 1992 mentioning .sna format. -
the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
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I have joined the Dark SideGone and bought a PS3 that is. Even after all of the posts I made about not getting one as they were so expensive I succumbed and sold my 360 (and o…
... to a nice "play anything from memory card" setting!
Wanna ... a Memory Card
Users can now copy saved data from PlayStation ... PS3 system to a Memory Card or Memory Card (8MB) (for ... their PS3 system and a Memory Card Adaptor.
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the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
... be gone forever, likely running from 1990 through 1993 (and ... topics were, what countries from around the world were involved ... or Fred?[/QUOTE]
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Sincnews was ... though. I was a reader from ~Dec 1992 to the formation ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... using your favoured method (eg. from DOS: copy /b screen. ... 6126 and do the dumping from there; then you could remove ... (which just wipes the loader from memory and enables interrupts, which will ... already be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... using your favoured method (eg. from DOS: copy /b screen. ... 6126 and do the dumping from there; then you could remove ... (which just wipes the loader from memory and enables interrupts, which will ... already be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this ...
