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  • ANN: Tipshop updated Wednesday, 31 July 2013Wednesday 31 July 2013 I've been VERY busy for the last couple of months (in Real Life), so I missed creating last month's update. So here's 2 months…

    ... of these were in a text format which didn't HTML ... 've put links to the text. Hopefully I've not cocked ... ZX Striker.

    DATABASE SIZE: 18061 ENTRIES FOR 4772 GAMES
    hackersanon hackersanon July 2013 Announcements
  • SpecBAS 0.780 releasedHi all - Back again with a new SpecBAS release! It's all been about arrays this time around, and to add to those lovely associative arrays from las…

    ... array. Subscripts can be any size, and varied in number. They ... />
    Will draw text in twice the size. The first parameter is ... SCALE command will change the text size (duh!) which will affect all ... ,2;"Hi!" will display 2x text size. SCALE 2,3 will do ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…

    ... multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that ... [/IMG]


    [B]SIZE[/B]

    It's ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2013 Development
  • Scrolling TextI've being trying to find a simple basic way of scrolling some text on a single line, My method is ridiculous, I've been using the print statement fo…

    ... basic way of scrolling some text on a single line, My ... the same line, where the text is staggered given the illusion ...
    nonsenceinbasic nonsenceinbasic September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Yet another Prisoner (spanish) text adventure!Had you guys a good time playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=mansion+kali&loadpics=3]Mansion Kali[/url]? Then, from the v…

    ... ' The Prisoner, a brand new text adventure simultaneously released for the ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi October 2013 Brand new software
  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... ]

    I've added text extent queries.

    [B ... , uchar c);[/B]
    Get size information on a single character ... to specify how wide your text window is and use this ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Announcements
  • Help identifying a Text adventure!I have the feeling that this Spanish text adventure: [url]http://computeremuzone.com/ficha.php?id=307&sec=spectrum[/url] is actually the translatio…

    ... the feeling that this Spanish text adventure:

    [url]http ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx December 2013 Games
  • [New game] BrunildaHi! We at RetroWorks just published "Brunilda", a new Speccy little_game ;-) . It only works with 128k models. In the begining it was planned as te…

    ... begining it was planned as text adventure, but finally it was ... (and there is indeed a big lot of texts), because, as ...
    Benway Benway December 2013 Games
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Tuesday, 31 December 2013Tuesday 31 December 2013 Happy New Year, all! I hope Santa was good to you * Andy Ford sent in POKEs for Back to Skool and Skool Daze. * Flavio M.…

    ... .T.A.C. , Ali-Bebe , Big Trouble In Little China , Brunilda ... and ZX Mines.
    DATABASE SIZE: 18225 ENTRIES FOR 4846 GAMES
    hackersanon hackersanon December 2013 Announcements
  • Private Message InboxIs there any way of increasing the size of the Private Message inbox on WoS? Like, does it go up after 500 forum posts or can I pay a subscription to…

    ... any way of increasing the size of the Private Message inbox ... download as XML, CSV or Text option. I've done that ...
    David Jones David Jones January 2014 Chit chat
  • What's the deal with hash tables, anyway?As there's nothing in the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/0-surc-contents.htm]Compendium[/url] about hash tables, and as I've …

    ... range 7-19, so the size of the hash table could ... 't have to be particularly big before some advantage can be ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Math Quiz - MultiplicationThe topic is fast multiplication routines, from 8x8 to 32x32 and all points in between. These functions sit underneath floating point libraries, gen…

    ... , reduced_tail_0

    ; two full size multiplicands

    ld a ... , reduced_1

    ; two full size multiplicands

    inc e ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2014 Development
  • AVENTURA GAME - More spanish text adventures!From spanish author Miguel A Mat?as, actual worker at the Technical Support Service in our local GAME chain store, we have a new text adventure where…

    ... store, we have a new text adventure where you'll have ... of listening about foreing-language text advs? Wait for the oncoming ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi February 2014 Brand new software
  • Tools and map editors[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Whilst digging around my hard drive I found a copy of my Iron Sphere Map Editor. I put together a short video of it: [/SIZE][/F…

    ... short video of it: [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://youtu.be ... /ae_oFQAio0I"][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0563c1]http://youtu ... be/ae_oFQAio0I[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] Does anyone ... a text editor and a lot of cut and paste?[/SIZE][/FONT ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside March 2014 Development
  • What's on this magazine cover?I've wondered about the cover of this Big K magazine for years: [url]https://archive.org/stream/06-big-k-magazine/Big-K-Issue-06#page/n0/mode/2up[/u…

    ... about the cover of this Big K magazine for years:
    big-k-magazine/Big-K-Issue-06#page ... on the left under the text, it looks like some cockpit ... guessing the 'After the Crash' text is significant, but I just ...
    tolls tolls March 2014 Chit chat
  • TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…

    ... prepare each 6kb block of text. Hah! So it's in ... 6kb buffer. Whenever the next text fragment would overflow the buffer ... example as it has a big series of nested FOR...NEXT ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Under development: COUSIN HORACE - with playable demoHi fellow Spec-chums, for the first time ever, I am publicly disclosing some details about a game I am currently working on. It is an epic adventure…

    ... The Tower (platform game)[/b][/SIZE]

    Current ... />

    [SIZE="4"][b]Chapter 3 - Sleepyville ... (exploration arcade adventure)[/b][/SIZE]

    Current ... game logic and puzzle defined, text lines, some sprites)
    ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2014 Announcements
  • Python script to scrape Amazon.com book reviewsI've been meaning to read the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks (roughly 40 books) and Sci-Fi Masterworks (roughly 100+ books) lists for a while now, but …

    ... # read list of books from text file
    book_list_file = open ... current binary data line to text.
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
    text file named 'book_list.txt ... Wyndham (799)
    Little, Big John Crowley (766)
    ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick April 2014 Chit chat
  • Wanted: New/Newish text adventures for Monument MicrogamesSo we have general games in card-box packaging with added goodies, and we have compilations in new long-boxes. I'd like to begin a third and final r…

    ... and final range for Monument... Text adventures.

    I know ...
    Graz Graz April 2014 Wanted
  • FZX ScrollI wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44088"]FZX[/URL] fonts.…

    I wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, ... . Feel free to use FZX Scroll.

    The [URL="http ...
    TK90XFan TK90XFan June 2014 Development
  • Repton ManiaHi all, I am the creator, and look after, the Repton Resource Page ([url]www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk[/url]). For the site, I have written a freely …

    ... Loading screen colour data (0x300 size)
    --------------- REPTON 1 ... Repton Loading screen (0x1800 size)
    0x04600 Repton Loading ... unknown
    0x0AB82 0xD967 Text labels
    0x0AFCF ... unknown
    0x143DF 0xD6DB Text labels
    0x147BC 0xDAB8 ...
    geraldholdsworth geraldholdsworth June 2014 Games
  • Less MIA - Judge Dredd (1990)(Virgin Games)[+3 disk]Hi All, I don't see this is WOS archive ... so .. box top [IMG]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/jd/box_top.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/jd…

    ... and side b: (have some text at track 39 .. THIS IS ... etc., they are in this big 226mb archive
    [URL="http ...
    gorski gorski July 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Best text adventure?I'm looking to revisit a text adventure, and I was curious what people would recommend as one of the best text adventure games on the Spectrum. Not …

    ... 'm looking to revisit a text adventure, and I was curious ... as one of the best text adventure games on the Spectrum ...
    SteveSmith SteveSmith August 2014 Games
  • Less MIA - Mail Master + Text Master (1982) S&B SoftwareHi all :) -2 in MIA list :) this time thanks go to Rich Mellor - RWAP Services for original tape :) [IMG]http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/s&b/inlay.jpg[/…

    ... .org/wos/s&b/Text%20Master%20(1982)(S%26B ... .org/wos/s&b/Text%20Master%20(1982)(S%26B ...
    gorski gorski August 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • JAWS The TEXT Adventure ??While surfin the web this caught my attention: JAWS The TEXT Adventure: [url]http://games.usvsth3m.com/jaws/[/url] Why isn't this one on the WOS a…

    While surfin the web this caught my attention:

    JAWS The TEXT Adventure:
    [url]http://games.usvsth3m.com/jaws/[/url]


    Why isn't this one on the WOS archives? :lol:
    XvarZ XvarZ August 2014 Games
  • Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…

    ... the buffer matches the screen size.
    #
    #Enter ... /> def doPrint(self,text):
    self.printBehaviour.doPrint(text)

    ... :
    def doPrint(self,text):
    print(text)


    ...
    KrazyKattapilla KrazyKattapilla August 2014 Development
  • Good, free, useful programs for Windows usersI was asked to recommend a couple of programs (which happens enough to make me wish I had a fiver for every time!), and I didn't know offhand either …

    ... has severe limitations on the size of the drives it will ... (well, maybe not the long text itself (I never do), but ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2014 Chit chat
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to ... copy a back buffer of size 4096 bytes to the top ... do, which is basically a scroll.[/SIZE][/FONT]
    Mr Millside Mr Millside September 2014 Development
  • Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…

    ... trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to ... de with new start of text
    call attr ;call colour ...
    daveysludge daveysludge September 2014 Development
  • 'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…

    ... /> I -INVERT (P )
    K -SCROLL (P/C)

    CPS ...

    T -TEXT MODE :INSTR IN TEXT MODE

    CURSER ... THE CHARACTERS
    IN MDRAW TEXT MODE ARE AFECTED.

    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones September 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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