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Fuse 1.2.0 releaseAfter a long gestation, and on behalf of the Fuse team I’d like to announce that a new version of Fuse, the 1.2.0 release of Free Unix Spectrum Emula…
... Sergio Baldoví, Gergely Szasz and Stuart Brady for their contributions. Source ... -
Iffy memories of a platform game...I'm trying to identify a game I played back in the day. All I can remember about it is that it was a flick-screen platformer, it had quite chunky gra…
... tennis court with a deadly 'ball' bouncing between the static background ... -
My DIY joystick project from long agoDear WOS, A few years ago, some of you may remember I embarked on a one-man quest to design and develop an arcade-quality Atari-compatible joysti…
... a shaft cover and red ball-top handle, with two OBSC ... -
30 years later - Your personal favorite games of 1987Happy New Year everyone :) Looking back to 1987, which games would you choose as your top picks today? There was a lot of good stuff published tha…
... Complete ****
[*]Hysteria
[*]I Ball
[*]Indiana Jones And The ... -
Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
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My new joystick (custom-made) and Let's PlaysDear WOS, About 3, almost 4 years ago, some of you may remember that I was considering building an arcade-quality-Atari-controller-on-a-budget wit…
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RUBBER KEYS IS LIKE A RUBBER BALLJUST KEEP BOUNCING BACK TO YOU! BOUNCING LIKE BOOBS! BIG BOOBS! SPECCY RULES! YAAAWWWZZZAAAAAAAAAA!
JUST KEEP BOUNCING BACK TO YOU!
BOUNCING LIKE BOOBS!
BIG BOOBS!
SPECCY RULES!
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Spectrum games collection for saleHi all I'm having a clear out and all my old ZX Spectrum games must go. The reason being is I'm now marrried and I need to give the other half so…
... Goes Skiing Sinclair
I ball 2 Firebird
Incredible Shrinking ... /> Chart busters Beau Jolly I-Ball Park Patrol Thrust Harvey Headbanger ... -
Calculating coordinates for a curveI need to write some code that will calculate the arc of a curve so that I can draw a sprite at each location to simulate a ball being thrown. The an…
... each location to simulate a ball being thrown. The angle will ... go between 0 (ball going straight ahead) and 90 ... (ball going straight up). The height ... and distance the ball will travel will be defined ... -
Pinball Dreams vs Fantasies - which has the better "evil" table?Hi everyone and welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed two iconic classic arcade games against each other a…
... Dreams and I disabled the ball loss on Stones table so ... -
Most played games: Pirated vs BoughtMy confession of guilt in the piracy thread that I'd never legitimately bought an Ultimate game, despite playing Knight Lore to death BITTD, led me t…
... /> Exolon
Zynaps
I, Ball 2: Quest for the Past ... -
Name the Amiga Arkanoid cloneAbout 15 years ago I still had my A1200 working and I played an Arkanoid clone but I can't remember what it was called. I've looked on http://hol.ab…
... of the multiball one. The ball was also small, maybe only ... -
Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…
... something in front of my ball or bat has the correct ... -
1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... think about this, consider a ball that's just been dropped ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Friday, 03 August 2018Friday 03 August 2018 Blimey - this March update took a while to come round, eh? Feels like about 6 months! (Ahem. Ed)... Suffice it to say that Rea…
... /> Arkanoid, Atomix, B.A.D., Ball Crazy, Blam,
Bluber - The ... -
Infoseek not working for meIf I try to call up Infoseek from the front page (URL http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi) it just goes into an infinite page-load loop. Howe…
... .org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Cannon+Ball$&pub=^Hudson+Soft$& ... -
1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
... have something to start the ball rolling ;)
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Agent X 2 last levelAnyone completed it? I played it (just now) enough times to be able to completely clear all the blocks with half of my ”energy” left, but when the ba…
... ”energy” left, but when the ball (very very very rarely) goes ... -
DCP Interpacks - New Old Stock Still Available (Limited)!We rarely see New Old Stock of interfaces for ZX Spectrum appear - Never mind Still being on sale from the 1980's! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.c…
... ), a random number generator using ball bearing micro switches, and begun ... -
2xBooks: Assembly Language For Arcade Games & Machine Code Sprites And GraphicsI'm looking for the following two books to help my machine code game programming: 1) Assembly Language For Arcade Games and Other Fast Spectrum Prog…
... Other Fast Spectrum Programs by Stuart Nicholls
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Games of the Decade 2010-2019Just realised that we've not had our usual GOTD discussion (has it really been 10 years since the last one?!) so thought would get the ball rolling. …
... ?!) so thought would get the ball rolling. Here's my top ... -
Arkanoid II, I finally did it! :-DI finally completed Arkanoid II (128k version) without cheats yesterday on my Toastrack, I am over the moon, not a better gaming feeling than complet…
... BATTY has the bat and ball in black.
https ... -
Arkanoid II, I finally did it! :-DI finally completed Arkanoid II (128k version) without cheats yesterday on my Toastrack, I am over the moon, not a better gaming feeling than complet…
... BATTY has the bat and ball in black.
https ... -
Moritz The Striker for the 48k SpectrumDownload: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbb7n2ipv7ed4k1/Moritz%20The%20Striker%20-%2048k%20Release.zip?fbclid=IwAR2ZdaHdIFQEKGt5raugVaxeudTcQDJT-nQgSk…
... /> First he must retrieve the ball, dodge the card hungry marauding ... some of the levels the ball has been locked in a ... be pressed to release the ball.
The game includes cameo ... -
Spectrum scene self destructive behaviourElsewhere this was posted by me: [quote="1024MAK;968032"]And whatever the members here think, other people are talking about what’s happening with W…
... maybe you can start the ball rolling by forgiving past actions ... -
A Sunday grumbleGIVE IN & DROP OUT OR WHAT? The following is not a sensible message meaning that I'm not necessarily going to act upon what the title suggests, I'…
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Arkanoid / Batty clones ?Although there is an old 2008 topic [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16532/best-worst-arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new …
... vertical rather than horizontal bat/ball clones of the above. I ...


