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  • stuck in Jasper!Hi Speccy-buddies! I am playing the cool game Jasper but I am completely stuck on the screen with the two snakes. Its the screen which appears after …

    ... Jasper but I am completely stuck on the screen with the ... also to fetch the rope in the tree but the tail ...
    Dasse Dasse February 2002 Games
  • Name of a game ... againDear Speccy fans, I am happy that I have found this forum recently, because I am looking for one old game I played as a kid. I can't remember it'…

    ... old game I played as a kid. I can't remember ... Na Nog or Dun Darach. In the upper third of screen ... was pictured room you were in. On left side of ... I can't remember). Not in real time, of course. You could ... tried hundreds of Spectrum games in past two years and I ...
    Dynamite Dan Dynamite Dan March 2002 Games
  • Machine Code Challenge #1 ResultsWell at the stroke of midnight there were 3 entries so everybody gets to stand on the podium and the 3 Spectrum books will be going out to prizewinn…

    ... much room to squeeze it in so
    Mikie has first ... third choice.
    There was a nice variety of approaches and ... in my head did a week ago.
    Next time I am stuck at a ... .
    Thanks Guys.

    In fact I'd make an ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…

    ... been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA ... all other registers are stored in a file separately, the program counter ... the next time.

    I have encountered this problem in the ... the next time annomalies appear on the screen. In the time of 48k ...
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2002 Emulators
  • Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…

    ... Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel ... keep plugging away, but Im stuck again. Im not entirely ... sure how to port a compiled binary into an ... to let you load a binary file straight into ... registers or does this work in a different way?
    any ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What was the text adventure game based around surviving a nuclear war in suburbun London?I remember playing a game, I played loads my dad had a shop selling them, text adventure. You were based in a suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear w…

    ... a shop selling them, text adventure.

    You were based in a ... suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear war was ... ' style shelters that the Jim in 'When the Wind Blows' built ... , using an old door and a matteress. - but you just died ...
    thx1138 thx1138 December 2002 Games
  • ahem!.. could I have a minute of everyones time please :)ok... here's the thing. I'm looking into sourcing some spare IC's for the whole range of Spectrums - mainly memory, as that's probably the weakest l…

    ... be interested in either :

    a) buying some spares / a complete set ... br />
    b) be interested in a 'future proof my speccy service ... /my speccy'

    In case you're wondering, yes ... there's much actual interest in this !

    cheers ...
    GP GP February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Vote Spectrum! (One last time)I've written my last article for the Micro-mart computer world cup competition. This time - as I think you all already know - it's the FINAL against…

    ... computer world cup competition. This time - as I think you all ... and it was consigned to a box in the shed. You see ... , but that too resides now in a taped-up box. Meanwhile, my ... so many for the first time and because it was (and ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • need helpw with speccy i found in a binToday what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an atari box, after more investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads for…

    Today what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an ... investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads ... the speccy when connect to a tv has audio feedback but ... its aerial lead is wired in
    any clues?
    fishbone fishbone April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Install a Sintech Video adaptor in a Spectrum+Hi all, I'm an old Commodore user (boo! hiss!) that's aquired his first Spectrum. Since my modern TV doesn't like the RF output of any old computer …

    ... old computer I also bought a video adaptor from Sintech ([url ... . There are two leads going in there. Which one should I ...
    Bacon Bacon June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • All hail the ZX81Just wondering... does anyone out there in Spectrumville still have a ZX81? Also, what's the best ZX81 emulator? I had Xtender until the time limit …

    ... ... does anyone out there in Spectrumville still have a ZX81?

    time limit on it ran out ... my ZX81 and I was stuck with a 1K machine for two ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • First Y2K bug found in a spectrum program ?I've just been making some tzx files and I always test the file when its finished. So I loaded up Micro Fitness by VO2 software which is a fitness ut…

    ... by VO2 software which is a fitness utility program. First it ... date, so I type it in, then it asks for your ... DOB so I type it in. Then it tells me I ... me I wish I was a lot nearer to 16 than ... year and ending up with a minus number....

    Anybody ...
    ADJB ADJB August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Need help finding a game name No.453 (but with a slight difference)A mate of mine asked me to help him track down an old PC game. Ive been to several PC game forums and asked for help but they dont seem to care about…

    A mate of mine asked me ... /> Now, i know this is a speccy site but some of ... this game as "being set in a house, and the object of ... and that the game plays in real time"

    He cannot ... he was playing it on a P166 machine when they were ...
    sully sully October 2003 Games
  • I am soo glad I owned a SpeccyJust passing the time here, and decided (after seeing some CPC screenshots of Shadow Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games with their…

    Just passing the time here, and decided (after seeing ... Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games ... I shocked or what? What a steaming pile of toss it ... agree with that troll from a few weeks back ;)
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a October 2003 Games
  • Frank N. Stein help !!!I'm stuck on level 25 of this cute little gem ! It was smooth sailing up to now, but on this one, I keep running out of time. Could someone show me …

    I'm stuck on level 25 of this ... , I keep running out of time.

    Could someone show ... />
    If anyone's interested in a save made at the start ...
    GOC GOC February 2004 Games
  • Temple Of Terror - what to do next?I had this on a covertape many moons ago and spent a fair amount of time trying to get past the first puzzle. Then i noticed a solution for it in a …

    ... and spent a fair amount of time trying to ... get past the first puzzle. Then i noticed a ... solution for it in a magazine scan featuring a screenshot ... again... now i'm stuck on another part.
    I've read in another scanned article that the ...
    Mark_C Mark_C February 2004 Games
  • spectrum, microdrive and printer in a briefcaseHi, My godfather gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which he and some of his colleguses worked on for the uk mod …

    ... gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which ... uk mod army. It was a kind of lap top the ...
    nathanwiblin nathanwiblin March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…

    ... work reading all that text in the speccy's usual ... of the time all you do is walk in 1 door ... about, always seems a bit of a waste to me.
    a level designer.

    ... having one bouncign bomb at a time - so if you fire ...
    Neil^P Neil^P March 2004 Games
  • "TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …

    ... a few years ago, and in my spare time I wrote a ... Image Editing framework in which you can ... to WhiteLightning format. (Interested in writing this one yourself? ... should have a good working version in a week or ... a preview copy to test for me (if you have the time ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • CHROME: a new ZX model! :)Probably You know already about 'last days news', but well... ;) Such informations are so important that I'll put it here: here is a news about n…

    ... a news about new ZX SPECTRUM model, Italian this time. ... We are proudly to present a new Spectrum Clone:
    ... Ram Memory 160K (paged in 16K chunks), 8K Disk ... is +D compatible but in the second release it ... Tr-Dos and much more in a single floppy drive!).
    ...
    Yerz Yerz April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Don't forget about a priority of GAMEAll of us were united with this site, which name ? World of Spectrum ? speaks that it applies for being considered as storehouse of all Spectrum-prog…

    ... archive has obviously taken a great interest in minor, accompanying appendices ... there is to archive last time? It is seldom updated, ... Tienov (it is absent even in a MIA-list).
    All ... right, the bitterness will suffice. In a result I offer the following ...
    Viktor Drozd Viktor Drozd June 2004 Games
  • I never had this as a lad...I have only just found out recently that I can no longer load games on my spectrum, thanks to BT building a mobile phone mast 100 yards away from my …

    ... spectrum, thanks to BT building a mobile phone mast 100 yards ... every time a car someone living nearby (or even just passing by in a ... actually chewed my mobile phone in disgust on discovering this, I ... lip on the shattered screen in the process)

    ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie June 2004 Games
  • Bought my Dad a spectrum for his 60th birthday.My Dad's 60th in a few days time, and I sent him a 48k rubber key, and some CD-R's with games on, amongst over things. How times have changed, wasn'…

    ... 's 60th in a few days time, and I sent him a 48k rubber ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Decimals, bcd etc in z80...Working bloody full-time on my Ragnar Revival game right now - just finished the basic sprite engine and before I go on coding the actual 3d engine (…

    ... numbers in Z80, such as score and time counters?

    On a ... 10's, 100's etc) in a separate byte and then when ... variable as well as a time counter. The time counter, counting downwards, ... only decrease with one at a time. The score variable however ...
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…

    ... br /> LD B,TOTALSPRITES ; And loop for the total number of ... moving 2 pixels at a time (3 colums * 3 char, 9 ... ; Store the X char accross in a, eg.A=20
    LD L ... thus moving 256 bytes forward in memory to FB0Ah
    LD ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…

    ... /> LD B,TOTALSPRITES ; And loop for the total number of ... :
    ld a,07Fh ;Trap Space key
    in a,(07Eh)
    ... Store the X char accross in a, eg.A=20
    LD L ... moving 2 pixels at a time (3 colums * 3 char, ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • A bug in Z80 V4.00Yes, from what I've heard, this emu has plenty of bugs (though I've never heard what they actually are), but this one is my contribution to the bug l…

    ... list. :)

    In a DOS prompt, use the SUBST ... />
    Within Z80, in the "Load Spectrum snapshot" window ... the virtual drive (Z: in the above example).
    ... that since you're in the root directory of ... even though you're in a subdirectory of the actual ...
    robert@fm robert@fm September 2004 Emulators
  • Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…

    ... /> * The background data is arranged in rows of 128 tiles starting ... ) ;two chars (16 lines) at a time.
    OR (HL)
    LD ... )

    DEC IXL ;decrease loop counter
    JP NZ, MODHLB ... of next
    LD A,L ;row in background data table
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2004 Development
  • Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation in Chile. What you think?Hello specmates, Maybe some of you - european people -, read in the news about the APEC reunion of the 21 presidents of the more important economies…

    ... - european people -, read in the news about the APEC ... or Bush guys were in Chile, discussing about terrorist ... Clive Sinclair utopic (not in an communist point of ... can be this world in a Sinclair way of DO ... GWBush. It's just a waste of time.

    ...
    Motomono Motomono November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Idea for a new feature to compliment a debugger in an emulatorI had an idea for an emulator feature yesterday. Don't recall having seen this idea before, but I'm sure you'll correct me if it has. :) In that cas…

    ... it has. :)

    In that case I wouldn't ... still be a good idea and could come in handy if ... - all represented using colors in a window where each pixel is ... . And if a word was used as a counter instead of ... a byte, to keep ...
    Sokurah Sokurah December 2004 Emulators
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