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Should I buy this?Instead of buying a TS2068 for more than 100 dollars so I can have a compatible speccy and connect it to my ntsc tv, what if I buy this monitor? [ur…
... compatible speccy and connect ... I found the most affordable ... video
2. GND
3. Brightness
6 --------------------------------- 4
Blue 8 --------------------------------- 5
GND 2 ... -
Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... the number of people and the amount of money involved.
3 ... not yet played Half-Life (2) - Episode One, as I ... , though.
6) You know how in this ... language are the words derived from?
8) Since ... -
The WoS Top 20!I just discovered that you can arrange the members list by number of posts. The current top 20 is :- 1. karingal (6293) 2. mel the mell (5345) 3. Ar…
... that you can arrange the members list by number ... of posts. The current top 20 is ... (6293)
2. mel the mell (5345)
3. Arjun (5076)
5. psj3809 (4087)
6. Skarpo (3996)
7. ... mile (3688 )
8. Necros ([I]Who? - Ed![/I ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... a cult classic on the C64 and Atari 8-bit computers. In my ... of land.
3. Development where the player can develop his ... by 4 and decreases energy production by 2 along the row of ... economies of scale and learning curve theory.
6. Auctions where you ... -
Spectrum ethernet ... first stepsThe first thing I do when I get a strange and unusual chip to play with, is to make a breakout board. The breakout board basically contains the chip …
... ideal ground plane on a 2-layer board, because it ... to soften the paper, remove the paper and remnants, and throw it ... 8 mils (8 thousandths of an inch). Now the laser printer resolution is 3.3 ... to the spacing of the traces being slightly uneven (either 6.6 mil ... -
The most overrated games of all timeWhich games did the magazines say were really good, but are actually... um... not so good? By a combination of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/b…
... at the difference between WoS's score and the mean of those the magazines ... vs 9.00 by the magazines)
2. [url=http://www. ... [/url] (7.45 vs 2.00)
2. [url=http://www.worldofspectrum ... =0000467]Battlecars[/url] (8.50 vs 3.50)
3. [url=http://www ... -
One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... /> I have managed to get the "loader" and "runner" part into three ... and a bit lines, leaving me with 18.5 lines for the ... can move up and down using the "q" (down) and "w" (up) keys ... /> Char Used: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ... -
The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…
... , address 1 and 2 are the high and low order of the real address you ... want to access, and address 3 ... is used to transfer data in and out of ... a single instruction for an 8 bit register.
Bus ... -
So who needs a 3.5 GHz dual core Core 2 Duo......when a 6MHz Z80 will do for a multi-user server? After hacking about more with the socket library - I had 4 simultaneous users on ALIAC-2 via eth…
... are autogenerated when I assemble the ALIAC-2's ROM, rather than ... the best course of action for the real socket library, and then all the ... bit more robust, and change the code to use the W5100 in indirect ... get hold of a Spectrum +3 from somewhere, too). -
Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... />
3. Tales of the Unexpected is being repeated on ITV 3, and as ... Red, Blue, and [I]Green[/I]?
6. Why are private ... /> 8. What's the difference between an automatic, a semi-automatic, and any ... 't Valve released Half-Life 2 on-line at 50% of ... -
sinclair zx spectrum issue 6a (again) - how to repairHi All, Is there someone who may explain what these jumpers can be used for. [url]http://forest.no-ip.org/repair/jumpers.gif[/url] <- this is from …
Hi All,
Is there someone who may explain what these jumpers can be used for.
[url]http://forest.no-ip.org/repair/jumpers.gif[/url] -
BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…
... ,
such as the +2 and +3, the keyboards no longer featured the full selection of ... '
Cursor Right Caps Shift and '8'
Cursor Up Caps Shift ... Down Caps Shift and '6'
Delete Caps Shift and '0'
Edit ... -
Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…
... the code:
5 CLEAR : INK 2: POKE 23658,8: BORDER 6: PAPER 6 ... $(1)="NORTH": LET N$(2)="SOUTH": LET N$(3)="EAST": LET
2,8,2,"0:"+f$+",s,r":input#2,na$:input#2,rm:input#2,lz ... =0 AND V4 AND V7 AND V8 AND V>9 AND V6 AND N6 AND N -
Fancy a challenge ????I played one of my MINIGAMES from the 2008 competition and got a very hard game. It took me several days to find the solution. So if you want to gi…
... of my MINIGAMES from the 2008 competition and got a very hard ... me several days to find the solution.
So if ... who want to know the solution, read the spoiler
[spoiler]
6
3-6
9-6
8-6
0-C
0-3
2-3 ... -
Test your PC keyboardPlease test yout PC keyboards in ZX emulator. Searches for the appropriate keyboard for real ZX Spectrum / ZX emulator. This is keyboard tester: [url…
... in ZX emulator. Searches for the appropriate keyboard for real ZX ... +P+SPACE
6+8+0
6+9+0
7 ... +8+0
7+9+0 ... /> 1+4+5
2+3+5
2+4+5
and write type of tested PC ... -
Spectranet now supports UTF-8!Or at least, a subset of it - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its putchar42 routine (the 6x8 character cell …
... - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its ... a pic of my Spectrum +3 having a little dialogue in ... 've only been learning the language for 6 months!)
[IMG ... added this subset of UTF-8 (it should be enough to ... -
Return of the Triffids!Wow... the BBC (in full "remake everything that was moderately successful" mode) is doing another Day of the Triffids for TV: [url]http://news.bbc.c…
... , unless they are at least 2 hours each. You really need ... time to do the book justice.
The 3 hour (6 part) 1981 ... series was excellent though, I thought, and was ... faithful to a lot of the book. The 60's ... -
John Elliot does it again! Re: TOS disks.[url]http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit/browse_thread/thread/aa809b6f6b9c6f7f#[/url] It is now possible (and easier) to extract …
... Have libdsk and cpmtools installed.
2. Add the following definition to ... /> memcpy(p3dos + 16, timex + 3, 2);
memcpy(p3dos + 18, timex ... SYSGEN .COM 1K 8
XSUB .COM 1K 6
21 ... -
Some questions to pass the time1. What is the best 8 bit machine? I don't mean software range wise, as we all know that the Spectrum has the best games software (well, the people …
... etc), and which was/is the best non-commercial 8-bit ( ... br /> 2. Why are there different programs for spyware and viruses? Why ... . Why does the +3 have 64KB of ROM? The 48K Spectrum managed ... .worldofspectrum.org/archive.new.081130-2.html[/URL]
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... for finding the a,b,c parameters for n=8 and four seeds ... (I first verified the Marsaglia's ... ,1,3), (3,6,1), (3,3,2), (5,3,2), (1,7,2), (6,7,1). Of these, the first ...Help needed with quiz at work"A Quiz of many Colours" Basically, each answer has a colour in it, eg: Prime Minister: (6,5) (Gordon Brown) Here are some I'm stuck on, any help…
... Patrollers in spongy shoes (3,4,4,9,2,3)
... 8)[/noparse][/strike]
[strike]Velma and Franklyn's Offspring (5,3,6 ...
Spirit in the monastery (5,4,2,6)
... "Bungie" in 1915 (6,6,6)
The amorous adventures of Miss ...The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... and 2. Walking down a dark corridor, with a flickering light in the ... , GTA 3 doesn't look too amazing anymore, but at the time ... the DNA splicing that the inhabitants had mastered, and the difference between the rich areas and the ...Give me your Minigame ideas...I am working on a new MiniGame as I write this. It is a combined version of Snake and Bingo. On a full screen at the start the numbers 1 to 30 are …
... Snake and Bingo. On a full screen at the start the numbers ... fit 1 characterspace). At the bottom 10 numbers are ... all screens the game ends.
The score is ... is then 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10=55 ... screen with just finishing the game and when you get better ...The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
... Club 2, and GTA 3) I loved it back in the 80s, and I don ... 't think any 8-bit (or ... big (sometimes huge) enemies, and the icing on the cake is that it ... Willy, with his head down the toilet, and the penguin waiter looking through ...BigBadMick gets all the great RPGs in one dayI just downloaded the ten day free trial from the World of Warcraft website this morning. After playing for about 8 or 9 hours straight I've now got …
... &sr=8-6[/url]
Contains World of Warcraft, the first ... expansion pack (Burning Crusade) and the Bradygames strategy guides ... Edition for a measly ?3.87 from amazon.
[ ...Your top five lists...If you're bored, skiving off work, or just want to increase your post count, then feel free to post your top five lists of anything at all here. I am…
... /> 5. Gorden Brown
6. Hazel Blears
7. Jaquie ... Smith
8. Yes, it's only supposed ... of the Daleks,
2. Genesis of the Daleks,
3. The City of ... /> 3. Creatures (and Creatures 2),
4. Get Dexter (and Get Dexter 2),
Machine Code Microdrive File LoaderI've been experimenting with transferring games to run from microdrive. Typically I like to see a loading screen while things are happening, and I li…
... the decompressor
2. Load the compressed screen
3. Decompress the screen ... /> 5. Decompress the game
6. Start the game
< ... equ $5cd6 ; 2 byte drive number 1 - 8.
s_str1 equ ... return
push hl ; and preserve
;
call ...The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... !) but that would be cheating :-8,
[B]Conkers' Bad ... Row 2 and GTA 3's own sequels. Many people still say that the ... to the fun of the firefights. And the game levels were so repetitive AND you ... game like Doom 1 and 2, Quake 1 to 3, Duke Nukem 3D ...
