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Car boot PricesYesterday i went to a well known car boot sale up here in lancashire , i spotted a box of speccy games on a table , its ages since ive seen any at a …
... spotted a box of speccy games on a table , its ages since ... or 7 games out of the box of roughly 50 games , i ... -
Poll: How many would buy FPGA ZX Spectrum board?Sad this old version of phpBB doesn't support polls (o; So I ask the normal way here...how many would buy a ZX 48k/+ replacement PCB with: - Standa…
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Wanted: scans of CRASH posters (the ones sold separately from the mag)At some point CRASH began selling posters based on Oli Frey's artwork. (These were separate from the ones published in the regular magazine.) If anyo…
... posters, featuring
the best of Oli Frey's artwork! Red ... Moon, Zombies of the Night, Kepler
of Mars, Metro Force ... , well, not shown, and Zombies of the
Night is, err ... , a picture of zombies.
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Emulator That Runs Directly Of TapesHi! I need an emulator that'll run directly from tapes via my input on my soundcard. I have a ton of tapes to test and i really cant be bothered …
... soundcard. I have a ton of tapes to test and i ... AND reads tapes via input of the soundcard (just to make ... -
Best version of FroggerI was on Atariage asking about what the best version of this game was on the 2600. There are two, and most agree that the tape based game is the bett…
I was on Atariage asking about what the best version of this game was on the 2600. There are two, and most agree that the tape based game is the better of the two. On the Speccy, I'm sure there were a million clones back in the day. Which one is the best? -
IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
... sync screen drawing (dumping of offscreen graphics that is) ... this snippet of code.
(The table with pointers ... to place the pointer table at 254*256+254, ... I made the table a couple of bytes too large ... ,58880 ;Building up a table with
ld de ... -
An unofficial conversion of City ConnectionLurking in the depths of the WoS archive I found what looks like an unofficial conversion of the Jaleco coin-op [I]City Connection[/I]. The authors a…
Lurking in the depths of the WoS archive I found ... looks like an unofficial conversion of the Jaleco coin-op [I ... clues about this mysterious piece of Spectrum gaming? -
An unofficial conversion of City Connection (reprise)I hope Martijn and Andrew won't mind if I post this topic once again, but in the STP/MIA section it had no reply so far. I post it here because in th…
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Lurking in the depths of the WoS archive I found ... looks like an unofficial conversion of the Jaleco coin-op City ... clues about this mysterious piece of Spectrum gaming? -
Lord Of The Rings Beginner's AdventureCould this actually be 'completed'? Does anyone know how to get out of the barrow or what to say to the Green Knight when he wants to fight you?
Could this actually be 'completed'? Does anyone know how to get out of the barrow or what to say to the Green Knight when he wants to fight you? -
Issues 2 & 4 of Retro Gamer for sale on EbayI have a couple of issues of Retro Gamer being auctioned on Ebay - No 2,4 if anyone is interested. Finishes Sunday evening. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co…
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Wracking brains to remember title of game...duh!Folks The only things I can remember about a game I would like to find is that it was set in space and that you had to go around collecting password…
... things.
And that one of the important codes you had ... can't for the life of me remember what it was ... -
Mysterious bit of codeHi everyone, I found the follow piece of code in a game and was wondering what it does. ld bc,40ffh ld e,40h loop ld a,r …
... /> I found the follow piece of code in a game and ... then returns.
A delay of some kind, I guess. Does ... -
Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…
... I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy means ... is, those three big blocks of interlaced lines? Is it easier ... currently working on a piece of (non-Spectrum) electronics that ... quickly arrived at a resolution of 256x192 pixels with roughly the ... -
Issues of INPUT wantedDoes anyone have and is willing to sell any of the following issues of INPUT magazine, from Marshall Cavendish. 1,7,8,14,17,18,20,21,25,32,33,35,36,…
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lots of speccy hardware software on offerHave the following available from "breakup" of my speccy system and peripherals Microdive with cable, numerous microdrive catridges plus manual Int…
... the following available from "breakup" of my speccy system and peripherals ... I have many cassette tapes of a friends containg an ... absolute mass of Games software and Utilities, ... these at all given vagaries of cassette loads.
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List of best selling games?Does anyone know of such a list for spectrum games?
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Tons of games for sale....I'm trying to get shot of my duplicate tapes, this is the first batch that I'm selling... Typically 10-12 items per lot, loads of classic Spectrum ga…
... 'm trying to get shot of my duplicate tapes, this is ... -12 items per lot, loads of classic Spectrum games starting from ... a buy it now option of ?7.50.
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I'm looking for one specific gameI'm searching for one game that camed with my Zx Sepctrum. It was a wall of bricks, to destroy with one kind of ball that kept bouncing in one table.…
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It was a wall of bricks, to destroy with one ... kind of ball that kept bouncing in one table.
It ... was a very simple game that had layers of ... colours. In Portugal, the name of the game is "parede" wich ... -
RZXs of games completed - fancy a go?I notice that as Daren and Andy C's RZXing continues, there's a couple of people saying they might want a go at doing some themselves. To this end, …
... continues, there's a couple of people saying they might want ... , if anyone wants a copy of SPIN with the new rollback ... -
New TZX files of already TZX-converted tapes - why?I noticed that with the last update of the TZX Vault, many TZX files of games that were already present in TZX format have been introduced. I can eve…
... that with the last update of the TZX Vault, many TZX ... files of games that were already present ... even remember that for some of them it is the third ... -
Has anyone tried the last TZX of Basil the Great Mouse Detective?It refuses to work on almost [I]every[/I] emulator I've tried it with: the only one which can run it is EmuZWin. Some time ago there was a long debat…
... Spectaculator because my trial period of the 6.25 version has ... present I have no intention of registering it. -
need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... it just uses preshifted bytes table (4 kbytes
long ... ;precalculated table, needed for left and right sides of sprite.< ... /> LD HL,DRTABL ;table with preshifted mask bytes for ... finding a suitable part of preshifted bytes table to use in draw ... -
Can anyone help me find the title of this game......I remember a game i liked on the spectrum but i cant remember what it was called, so i cant find it to download. In the game you were some kind of wi…
... game you were some kind of wizard or witch with a ... a compass at the bottom of the screen so you knew ... -
A strange influence of Spin upon the Windows menusI disable the animations of menus and windows in Windows 98 because I want my menus to be as fast as possible and without useless frills. To make the…
I disable the animations of menus and windows in Windows ... find that the animation effects of my Windows menus and windows ... -
Halls of the Things 2 - I've broken it :( I confess to being one of those players that panics under stress, my hands get clumsy, and half the keyboard gets whacked by accident as I fumble t…
I confess to being one of those players that panics under ... ... So, I'm playing Halls of the Things 2, (halls2.SNA ... -
Lots of Crash magazines for saleClearing out stuff from parents' house, found issues 1 to 26 of Crash in pretty good nick. Can't really be arsed selling them on eBay - anyone make m…
Clearing out stuff from parents' house, found issues 1 to 26 of Crash in pretty good nick. Can't really be arsed selling them on eBay - anyone make me a sensible offer for the lot?
PS They're bloody heavy so it'll have to be postage on top. -
Tears of nostalgiaI have to say, playing games again like Fued, Head over Heels, Where time stood still, arkanoid 2, heavy on the magick (list could go on forever), ma…
... those days as the finest of my life. I used to ...
