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  • Stuck in head over heelsHelp - I'm stuck half way through in bookworld - even with map. I've reached a pink room with only one entrance - I can get heads to a platform at t…

    Help - I'm stuck half way through in bookworld - even with map.

    I've reached a ... - I can get heads to a platform at the very top ...

    does anyone have a solution for this game?
    Jim Jim August 2001 Games
  • all in a good cause...We are hoping to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and support the UK?s first glossy (and hopefully rather funky) retro gaming …

    ... to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and ... magazine (Retroid is thankfully only a working title) hopes to redress ... people would be interested in buying such a magazine, no publisher will ... be willing to take the time to answer. It should take ...
    retroid retroid December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …

    ... used to time screen drawing.

    The game loop as it ... function add a counter and then do a check in the game loop: if ... this counter is above a certain ... only moves the sprite a pixel at a time (although they can of ...
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • Speccy Soft Time Travel - a theoryYou know, sometimes I have a few weird thoughts (not uncommon on this forum, it seems)... I?ve been thinking about this a couple of times - as we al…

    ... fact that all games in Speccy history were, in theory, possible on ... Gems came out fairly early in the Speccy?s commercial ... this:

    You have a time machine and the possibility to ... the unsuspecting public in 1982? Think of having a few gems, travelling ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG February 2005 Games
  • Dynamite Dan 2 - help with a time bomb.Sorry to be a pain in the arse but we need help again. We have just RZXed Dynamite Dan 2 and everything has gone fine until the last island, but we c…

    Sorry to be a pain in the arse but we need ... see anywhere to lay the time bomb. You can just get ... shall keep an open file in case there are any last ...
    jamieangus jamieangus February 2005 Games
  • Do these games loop forever?Hi chaps :) Right, after what... n=n+1 years of not getting to the switch on Firefly, I decided to have a go at it last night and with judicious use…

    ... hit the thumbs up, in 2005 I finally got there ... do, anyway, does Firefly loop forever after that? Or does ...
    Also, does Shockway Rider loop forever, or is there an ... it since I got in a SU tape years ago..< ... in your 10 votes for the top 100 games of all time ...
    Vertigo Vertigo November 2005 Games
  • Looking for a TV show from early '80s.OK ... I just remembered watching a show (pretty sure it was a BBC production) from around 1981-83 (maybe that was just the timeframe I saw the show)…

    ... time.

    It was about a couple who I think had a ... as if they were still stuck in the 70s. I think ... the father had a mustache, the kid had ... home most of the time, and there were maybe ... believe the husband looked like a youngish Mr. Bucket (" ...
    Skarpo Skarpo January 2006 Chit chat
  • Jonathan Cauldwell offered a job in this month's issue of Retro GamerHas anybody seen this month's issue of Retro Gamer (Issue 29) ? I was just reading it and there's a big article where a bunch of big name programmer…

    ... A. Sadly I had little time to play Spectrum games in ... the mid-Eighties, now I have a ... a family - I'm afraid I don't have any time ... ! But if Jonathan is looking for a rewarding long-term career in a ... be interested in finding out ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick October 2006 Chit chat
  • Stuck in the Storm...[FONT="System"][/FONT] I really like the Magic Knight series, but I can't seem to do much in StormBringer!:-? I've learned how to use the spell "Pa…

    ... or is that area a dead end in the game? I ... can get: a disguise (wearable), a water pistol, a paintbrush, a photo ( ... a banana (smellable), a boomerang (found in Moonmot the Halfling's inventory), a message in ... something?). Anyway, I'm stuck and I refuse to ...
    CaroKann CaroKann December 2006 Games
  • Stuck in the Stormbringer...[FONT="System"][/FONT] I've been playing Stormbringer for some time now, and all I've figured out is that pass plant is used on a plant to the east …

    ... been playing Stormbringer for some time now, and all I ... plant is used on a plant to the east ... in! Am I missing something here after trying a second time ... Anyway, I would appreciate a little help in figuring out how to ... but I would like a way to get unstuck ...
    CaroKann CaroKann January 2007 Games
  • Possibly the silliest thing I've done in a long time..Just in case any of you guys are feeling down on a Monday morning - I thought I'd cheer you up by letting you know that your morning can't be as bad …

    ... in case any of you guys are feeling down on a ... working. We went to a fairly posh bar/restaurant ... games going. It escalated into a game involving forfeits - mainly ... my desk with a huge scab in the centre of ... other mate who teaches in the local school got off ...
    misguided_fool misguided_fool February 2007 Chit chat
  • In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…

    ... people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you think ... frustrated by the 'attic bug' in 'Jet Set Willy' or trying ... the pieces of the Amulet in 'Sabre Wulf' etc.

    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones July 2007 Games
  • A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…

    ... in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a ... to use 'SCF' every time I call $0556, or ... registers if I call a routine from the ... use a certain register for a certain purpose for a certain ... />
    I have a machine code tutorial here and ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A serious question (in case you think it's facetious)Alright, so none of us can tell the future, and equally no one knows for definate what oil/gas etc reserves are left and where, but I was talking to …

    ... will happen, will there come a time in the not too distant future ... nuclear power plants, the increase in the number of countries who ... haven't mentioned?

    A truly horrible post, I know ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2008 Chit chat
  • Free to a good home - Anyone in South Wales want a pile of Spectrum Games and a +3?Bit of an emergency - I'm moving out in a hurry and I don't have time to sell these! Is there anyone in South Wales who wants a fairly big pile of s…

    ... out in a hurry and I don't have time to ... sell these!

    Is there anyone in ... South Wales who wants a fairly big pile ... way or another by the time I move - which is ... />
    I also have a WHSmiths tape recorder which is ...
    thingley thingley January 2008 Sales
  • Lost In TranslationEy up! You may already be aware, but the typically Amiga-based website [url=http://www.exotica.org.uk]ExoticA[/url] has now become a wiki. "What's …

    ... it could be the voices in my head!)

    ... .org.uk/wiki/Lost_In_Translation]Lost In Translation[/url] (LiT) that attempts ... ever find yourself with a bit of spare time whilst waiting for ... this ambitious project? It's a wiki, so just get stuck-in! :)
    XtC XtC February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anarchy in the streets of Bedford. Burn the town hall. I've been banned from a shopA nice, eloquent foreign gentlemen just banned me from his shop. All I did was go in, and get some John Smiths draught flow. They were right at the …

    A nice, eloquent foreign gentlemen just ... /> All I did was go in, and get some John Smiths ... , in single cans, so I got them out one at a time, and ... over, and demanded I use a basket.

    Ooh ta ... he distracted me, I knocked a can of guiness down cos ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2008 Chit chat
  • Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…

    ... Make yourself a large cup of tea - by the time you've ... /> PRINCIPALLOOP ;label for the loop in the game that will execute ... caps to v
    in a,(c)
    cp 191< ... keyboard space to b
    in a,(c)
    cp 191< ... keyboard space to b
    in a,(c)
    cp 191< ...
    bigjon bigjon November 2009 Development
  • Photos from a 1987 Sinclair users meeting in the U.S.These pictures were sent to me by a fellow TS user who told me it was ok to share them online, so here they are: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/1…

    ... to download all the pictures in one go:

    in Washington D.C. and ... or anything from back in the day to please ... did. Let's remember a time when people thought it was ... I'm posting this message in all the Sinclair online places ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • An evening in with the Speccy emulatorAfter a day at work which didn't exactly go according to plan, and after three weeks of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a…

    ... and relaxing at the same time. After playing that through ... menu music is one which stuck in my mind as it was ... give it a few more goes, spend more time on it ... '88 nostalgia, it was time to flick back to 1987 ... so that you can get in a dozen levels quite nicely. ...
    NickH NickH May 2010 Games
  • problems tuning in a new +2Got a new +2 today from eBay, as the last one I 'won' turned out to be a 48k+ that didn't work. Anyway, I've connected it up to 2 TVs, by the Aerial…

    ... HD TV, the other a portable TV from about 1990 ... my original 128k+2 back in the day.

    ... t tune it in properly. I can get a vague picutre that ... on our VCRs atr the time when C5 started broadcasting, ... I can tune this in?

    In the near future ...
    Retro_eido Retro_eido July 2010 Hardware
  • Just found this in a stack of photo'sBless him Oli, he signed my posters for me and stopped for a bit of a chat even though he was busy [IMG]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/…

    ... me and stopped for a bit of a chat even though he ... was 18/19 at the time)
    Dave Thompson

    in the day?
    BiNMaN BiNMaN December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A fast DRAW routineI was investigating how to speed up the line drawing for the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL]…

    ... be updated most of the time, and later the screen ... gets pixel mask in A register
    ld b, a
    inc ... /> ld e, a
    sbc a, a
    ld d, a

    in free E register
    jp __DRAW6_LOOP

    __DRAW5: ; While loop ...
    boriel boriel December 2010 Development
  • Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …

    ... island (be it in a corner of a room, a suitcase, a locker, a dumpster, etc ... in many others. Also, you can only carry two weapons at a time ... some bugs. I once got stuck in the floor, and had to ... the game.

    Maybe in a sequel (which I certainly hope ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2011 Chit chat
  • What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…

    ... to port a 128K Spectrum game (Where time stood still) ... version stored in WOS. This version has a series of ... each block to be loaded in "extended" memory. To ... sound but no action in screen, or simply reboots ... all the available memory in all pages) succesfully? ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix March 2011 Development
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... pages of densely packed listing in a tiny font that I ... a magnifying ruler to read I thought "D'OH!" big time ... written entirely in BASIC. I've shown a few screens ... can be seen in action - there's a demo mode which ... It'll be included in the archive whenever I do ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2011 Games
  • Anyone interested in a ZS Scorpion 256 Turbo+?[url]http://zx.pk.ru/showthread.php?t=16169[/url] This guy is producing PCBs and I'd arrange a mass order for europe if there's enough interest. I'd…

    ... ]).

    Keep in mind this is only a PCB, meaning you ... documents for building are available in russian (no knowledge of the ... in china at a confirmed good plant (it's not the first time ... 256k of non-contended RAM in this configuration (runs virtually all ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 July 2011 Hardware
  • checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…

    ... in character strings for ease of handling from BASIC, with a little loop ... to build a binary number in a string, and also a method ... strange results. For the time being the function below will ... br />
    It's a work in progress ... :) So I got ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Did you have a favourite/hated game genre?Tried a quick forum search but couldn't see anything specific on this. Thinking of the YS top 100 thread, it struck me that growing up with the spec…

    ... loved Knight Lore, Fairlight, Where Time Stood Still, Spindizzy etc. - ... Highlander. (Think I'm in a distinct minority here though).
    time fave, Deathchase, Enduro Racer ... them, always got stuck)

    Not a definitive list, ...
    Morkin Morkin September 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... 16 ; Spectrum: Print the character in 'A'
    inc hl ; Move onto ... ; Loop round

    [/code]

    the first time I ... pointer or anything like that in the meantime.

    ...
    sack sack October 2011 Development
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