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Did anyone forsee the internet?I was just wondering, given how much the internet has changed everyday life, did anyone actually forsee any of it in the pre-internet days? I mean, …
... I mean in the sense of the real internet, i.e. something ... offered the things that the real 'net does.
It ... -
What happened to ZX Spin?I've been absent from the forums until recently. What happened to ZX Spin?
... booting from a disk image rather than a real disk.
How ... configure RealSpectrum to access the real disk directly and boot from it ... /> When I use the real disk in my real PlusD and 128 it ... -
Hacking a Joystick InterfaceI have a DK'Tronics twin-port joystick interface that does Kempston and Sinclair 0-6 keys. I know it has only 14 lines connecting it to the edge con…
... been discovered that some sort of collision is possible if using ... the most abysmally designed device of recent years and to ... it's damaging the reputation of the real divIDE which suffers none ... of the problems associated with the ... -
The c64 threadOK, I don't want to compare the systems, it's been done to death and I really really don't care. But - there's great games on the Speccy that were pa…
... game either.
Times of Lore, the disk version, Martin Galway music ... again, the last minute of the ... time its played, it sort of improvises.
I ... remember the feeling of getting my money's worth ... -
Why didn't you want a NES?I'm trying to work out why consoles didn't make much of an impact in the UK in the 80s. At school in the late 80s, I knew one person who had a NES, …
... and compared to the likes of Space Harrier, Rocky, ... thanks to its out- of-this-world arcade games like ... games for ?1 a disk at the carboot on sunday ... were roughly half the price of MD and SNES carts. ... than that. The price of a blank disk, to be precise. -
I cant get this listing to run!Ive read this through so many times my eyes are misting up! [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/DUC/Issue08/Pages/DUC0800039.jp…
... adapts to the disk. (After stipulating the format of the disk the data ... held in the bootsector of that perticular disk, will be copied over ... follow directly (on a fresh disk of course). A CAT from such ... -
contended memory...so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct …
a lot of developers I know switched to + ... testing, with the casing of the +3 disk being so robust they ... -
contended memory...so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct …
... =BiNMaN;526380]a lot of developers I know switched ... with the casing of the +3 disk being so robust ... can say, by way of illustration, is that it ... that the original release of Losing Victoria worked on ... written on a version of SPIN that erroneously followed ... -
GNU/Linux FUSE-TRDa very simple read-only [url=http://fuse.sourceforge.net/]FUSE[/url] module for .trd/.scl disk images. written in a hurry, so don't expect much from …
... to the actual arrangement of files on disk (if indeed they exist ... on a physical disk at all...) and the only ... of doing that is to construct an in-memory FAT-formatted disk ... layer that treats network and disk file systems equally (i.e ... -
GNU/Linux FUSE-TRDa very simple read-only [url=http://fuse.sourceforge.net/]FUSE[/url] module for .trd/.scl disk images. written in a hurry, so don't expect much from …
... /> HDF is a dump of a hard disk, with a header. It ... emulation, and esxDOS or one of the other divIDE OSes. -
Spectrum - Show in London area, April 2012Hello Folks, we have been already discussing in another thread. Here I simply want check the interest.So the question is easy: If we will organize a …
... I want have the opinions of the real Spectrum users first. At ... a later point, of course every visitor ... is of course welcome. -
Last few attribute challengeI'm likely to be away a bit today and not answer for ages so the filename is the answer (so no cheating unless you're really stuck) :) I don't think…
... pics include 1 vertical line of the real pixel data per character ... much easier!
Most of the games are well known. -
Magnificent Seven - OceanI am looking for this rom - can anyone help? [url]http://flashbackgames.co.uk/shop/Item.asp?Title=Magnificent_Seven_Ocean_Sinclair_Specrum_+3_Disk&P…
... have two .DSK image files of The Magnificent Seven in my ... , one for each side of the original disk. I don't remember ... -
So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…
... +2 is most compatible of the real keyboard models even if it ... -
So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…
... believe it have some kind of memory paging like TS2068 because ... it must have some kind of DOCK bank.
[QUOTE ... +2 is most compatible of the real keyboard models even if it ... don't like the feel of Amstrad Spectrums keyboard. Feel too ... -
looking for games similar to...the kind of left-to-right arcadey scrollers that Hi-Tec put out such as [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004368]scooby doo an…
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Sword of the Samurai - Shinobi derivative
Soldier One - I actually quite enjoyed this game, and was really disappointed when I found out how short it was :( -
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I'm one of those "real life got in the way ... immerse myself in the delights of French Canada instead... Time to ... -
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handgunwas on an american forum i frequent and they were discussing how to keep a handgun secure from youngsters. not one answer suggesting not having a gun…
... 's one of those huntin', shootin' fishing kind of guys, real man's ... to own a gun, bit of a cowards trinket. Bare knuckles ... -
handgunwas on an american forum i frequent and they were discussing how to keep a handgun secure from youngsters. not one answer suggesting not having a gun…
... 's one of those huntin', shootin' fishing kind of guys, real man's ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... all the boring bits. Of course, first you have ... want to run any of the "real" tests and to load ... how are these chunks of memory mapped into colors ... it looks exactly like the real thing. Almost. However, to ... they are just snapshots of the speccy state including ... -
ZXDS questions...Hi Folks, I am hoping someone on here knows something about [B]ZXDS[/B]. I have downloaded the program to my daughters [B]DSi[/B] (for testing purp…
... down to match the speed of a real Spectrum otherwise the shackle ... -
ZXDS questions...Hi Folks, I am hoping someone on here knows something about [B]ZXDS[/B]. I have downloaded the program to my daughters [B]DSi[/B] (for testing purp…
... down to match the speed of a real Spectrum otherwise the shackle ... -
Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... " disks. As of today I only know of 1(!) disk that has survived ... capable of emulating the +3 could be used to handle TOS disk ... the use of WD1770), any IBM-PC compatible floppy disk drive can ... a floppy disk!)[/QUOTE]
Maybe the ease of use? The ... -
Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... the use of WD1770), any IBM-PC compatible floppy disk drive can ... in the undocumented but supported disk format 640K. Well it ... a bunch of TOS disks that were preserved as disk images ( ... Spectrum allows the creation of folders on disk?[/QUOTE]
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Looking at getting a tablet computerNot an iPad, they're awesome but have a price to match so I'm looking at a cheap Android version. Basically I want one for, amongst the usual gubbin…
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In terms of iPad competitors and what I ... to "bargains", what kind of warranty they include, etc.
of months later and millions of units later, other ... right now. Reminds me of the floppy disk confusion of the early 80s. -
ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboardHi all, Now that BT keyboards are dropping in price and there is more to select from... I've put one together and it works really nice and at a fair…
... can get to the feel of the real hardware (stupid US TVs ... -
DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…
... do the standard practice of having a disk access module, an ... s only possible because the disk access is done through ... , crude method (requesting ranges of sectors, rather than treating the ... and deals with the details of buffering and packet reconstruction all ...
