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Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... 's a long way off. Just because we have ... less interested in rushing out to buy Doom 3 ... trying to work out what object this switch operated etc - and ... that activate another object/door/switch etc - or sometimes ... imaginatave one by going out the front door than ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... minutes at a time then switch it off. Nowadays, hours can go ... would have you pulling them out of your collection 2 years ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... minutes at a time then switch it off. Nowadays, hours can go ... would have you pulling them out of your collection 2 years ... -
The Specchum DatabaseThis evening I was going through the bygone topics that were discussed on the WoS forums, some extending to the very beginning of time (2001 to be so…
... I'd been a Dragon 32 owner in 1984, I'd ... Favourite haircut?
Limahl out of Kajagoogoo
14 ... ) Rubbish most likely bought off EBAY when drunk?
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... might strike a chord and off I go again. I ... . I only wish a switch had gone on at the ... anything you said to come off in a bad way ... moons, then suddenly jumps out from the woodworks because you ... toothless mountain inbreds come rambling out from the bush when ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... you just slagging the colours off?
I think I ... not fantastic. Keep an eye out for Tandy CoCo emulators rather ... than Dragon 32 ones, as the machine is ... UK (or rather Welsh) knock off.
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Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... not fantastic. Keep an eye out for Tandy CoCo emulators rather ... than Dragon 32 ones, as the machine is ... UK (or rather Welsh) knock off.
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I ...How can I scroll a line of text and wrap perfectlyI know this is easy for most of you but for some reason I am messing it up. In Assembly Language I want to do the following: I have 1 line of text …
... SP to where you left off and continue in this fashion ... doing 32 bytes worth of this) is place the carry out from ...Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... dig the sinclair clasics list out and people can compare ...
Dan Dare 92% Iss. 32 (Sep '86)
The ... Boggit 90% Iss. 32 (Sep '86)
The ... Adventure Creator N/R Iss. 32 (Sep '86)
... (Nov '90)
Super Off-Road Racer 90% Iss. 82 ...Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
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As has been pointed out, the hardware information is in ... a +3, the emulator can switch to +3 emulation automatically.
off with an emulator that can ...The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
... a life mate and piss off you pr!ck, your views ... here but it pisses me off when an idiot who is ... supposed to be a 32 year old bloke comes onto ... interest's off!
**SLAMS DOOR ON WAY OUT**
Why I like Atari 8-Bit and Amiga and respect the SpectrumI mentioned this on my other topic already, but I like these two computers because they were designed by an absolute visionary in the computer field,…
... Amiga totally kicks the pants off of the ST (well up ... Amiga came out, Atari got very very scared, and went off into ... Ami-like as possible using off-the-shelf components (instead of ... slightly better than their 8mhz 32-colour chap.
A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... /> On 2004-12-21 21:32, Vampyre wrote:
Gotta ... /> Personally I wouldn't write off Nintendo just yet. Okay N64 ... does happen Sony better watch out.
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I ...A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... , Nintendo only have one console out, the Gamecube, which is coming ... 's and BBC's, not 32 or 16bit stuff ;o)
Y r u slagging off the c64 it was 21 ...Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…
... 're not interested in squeezing out every last byte and t ... then you really are better off programming it in C.
Check out:
[url="http://www.geocities ... is stopping me from a switch -- I want an assembler that ...Best games 89-92I sadly left the Speccy in the late 80's (i know i know i'm sorry !) but lately its been cool looking for Speccy games round that period (89-92) that…
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Ivan Ironman Stewart's Off Road Racing
Robocop II ... the Mirror of Death
Switch Blade
Lords of Chaos ...
Crack Down
Turbo Out Run
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Earth ShakerIm stuck on a level. Can anyone help me if i tell you the level number/name?
... it yet.
Now switch the tape source over to ... save off the screen data. Answer with "y" and save out to ... />
Once you have saved out the screen data you can ...Game endings..which are your best / worst ones?I'm not sure how valid this is on a spectrum site considering the memory capacity of the machine,but were there any games out there with any good gam…
... HQ[/B] ... (Excellent drawn-out ending with animations. Some effort ... off the top of a building until his money runs out and ... didn't
bother in Out Run...)
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[B]1942[/B] ... (After 32 virtually identical and very tedious ...Miscellanous forum change?In the last year or so there has been a change in the pattern of posts in the miscellaneous forum. In the past, it was a forum for Spectrum related d…
... /> On 2005-05-26 12:32, Arjun wrote:
Obviously someone ... />
*Cue to go WAY off-topic, I realise. oink!*
out of the remit. That is ...Saving BASIC code as CODE... can't start programHi guys! I'm trying to create an adventure game for the Speccy in BASIC, called The Legend Of The Red Dragon. I'm using the excellent BASin to code…
... right now, no need to switch to a 128k model as ... might have to implement 128k paging afer all... And of course ... upcoming release - that's coming out as soon as the manual ...So it's only denied FOR US! :>(This is freaking incredible! As you all know, codemasters made a point of not letting anyone play their silly games. But it seems only the speccy com…
... and still moraly rip us off with new releases later, because ... WoS archive so... only taken out the newer denied games. Don ... on 2005-06-11 18:32 ]MASK - is it working yet?Hi everybody, I've been playing with the MASK tzx trying to get it to load... which it doesn't... and I found an old thread saying there was a new d…
... like to check this game out.
When I start it ... problem. First you need to switch Spectrum model to Pentagon (eg ... alternative)
Z - map on/off
H - game info
Why emulators are not as good as the real thingI think I remember thx1138 saying before that emus didn't cut it for him. Well, I agree. They are good fun, and I got into the Speccy for a second ti…
... , you felt compelled to figure out how to play it, and ... 10 seconds, can't figure out how to redefine keys, get ... "intro" sequence, can't work out what i'm supposed to ... so on... i just switch it off and try a different game ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... 2nd still isn't fleshed out, but its aim is to ... and it is still far off. It would be great to ... that the BASIC trick of "switch to the graphics charset, draw ... the background; switch to the font charset, print ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... know your lib in & out. I'm saving this post ... you'll get 4 colours out of every character cell - I ... 2nd still isn't fleshed out, but its aim is to ... and it is still far off.[/quote]
Do you ... when I manage to add paging to a splib2-driven engine ...Amstrad CPC464I bought myself a CPC464 today, ?5 at a local car bootie thing. So, I went home, plug everything in, with that curious power-supply-modulator-adapte…
... changes when I switch the computer on or off, but it's ... so bad I can't make out ...OT: Graphic Card problemAhem. It's me again with a computer problem! Last time I posted with a problem I was pleasantly suprised with some insightful answers that helped fix…
... thing you should notice at switch-on is the copyright of ... card bios should sort that out itself, using system RAM, so ... silicon soul a good send off.
Maybe some cleaning ...
