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Profile of a Spectrum user...Whilst watching Crimewatch on the telly, there was something on there about certain criminals fitting lifestyle profiles... Is there a profile of a …
... br /> (YES, Coke!)
3) Favourite music -
Metal (Iron ... Finland...)
6) Most likely to drive (if ... and very much so...)
Favourite time of the day:
2 ... format:
either vinyl or 8-track cartridge
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BASIC OptimisationsOk, BASin is maturing fast and now I want to add some more special "stuff". A guy called Chris requested by email that I include a REM killer, to s…
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DATA 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
DATA 9,10 ... />
DATA 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 ... />
This could apply to the actual program although I'd ... hard as things like all the GOTO's would have to ... , 1 SGN PI, 3 INT PI etc... and all other numbers go ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... included)
2. Best Software house (excluding ... Mastertronic...
3. Worst Software house
... br />
6. Worst colour clash ... br /> Pyjamarama (although the game is great)
and Tim Follin;
8. Best ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... Speccy!) ;)
2. Best Software house (excluding Ultimate ... Wakelin).
3. Worst Software house
... /> oh, and SQIJ.
6. Worst colour ... second)
8. Best 'AY' music in ... ] :mad:
and the bloke who wrote SQIJ in ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... . Umm, Gremlin.
[I]3. Worst Software house[/I]
[I]6. Worst colour clash in a ... [/I]
Those 3D snooker and pool games from Zeppelin.
The 48k version of the Saboteur 2 music.
[I]8. Best ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... and best. I like the 128K with the heatsink as well.
2 ... , Artic, Hewson and Psion.
3. Worst Software house ... />
Nebulus (Hewson), Alien 8, Micronaut One.
5 ... (Activision) ugh!!!
6. Worst colour clash in a ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... 2. Best Software house (excluding Ultimate)
Ocean and Codemasters
3 ... Ghostbusters II
6. Worst colour clash in a ... No Idea
8. Best 'AY' music in a ... Spectrum programmer
Dave Perry and The Oliver Twins
Very new indeedHi, At [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=5835&forum=4&1"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=583…
... differences are getting smaller and smaller all the time. Fuse for ... that you're running MacOS 8.6 which means you probably ... 1. Start Spectaculator
2. Choose in the Windows menu above: Close ... br /> 3. In this window click the picture of the tape recorder ...Top 10 Games - All Formats (Pre Playstation era)Without being biased only towards Spectrum games what are your favourite 10 games? (Apologies if this has been asked before) My favourites: 1 Sensi…
... )
2. Elite (multiformat although I prefer the ST version)
3. Midwinter ... /> 6. Gods (ST)
7. Mercenary III (ST)
8. Alien 8 (Spectrum ... not in any particular order and they are likely to change ...Top 10 Games - All Formats (Pre Playstation era)Without being biased only towards Spectrum games what are your favourite 10 games? (Apologies if this has been asked before) My favourites: 1 Sensi…
... games, and the original version of Super Mario Bros 2.
3 - Space ... I completed it
6 - 180 (Spectrum)
Just have ... )
8 - Super Mario Kart (Super Nintendo)
The ONLY racing ...InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... to place an 8-bit vector on the bus. Presumably ... the peripheral, followed by 3 cycles of memory write and another 3 ... the int acknowledge timing diagram, you can count those 6 cycles: 2 ... supplies detailed information. The newer the doc, the less detailed it ...Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
... the width of the screen
2. sprite coordinates are 8 ... The '|' denotes the edge of the screen at columns 0 and 31. The ... |
2 x------|----x |
3 | x---x ... | | x---x
6 ---x | | x----
IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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; Print a 1*8 char to the screen
; On ... this the sprite is moved and redrawn (Default 1, half speed 2 etc ... , 2, 5, 6, 5, 10, 13
DEFB 10, 13, 6, 5, 6, 3, ... , 4
DEFB 4,4,8,8, 8, 16,224, 0
...IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
...
; Print a 1*8 char to the screen
; On ... this the sprite is moved and redrawn (Default 1, half speed 2 etc ... , 2, 5, 6, 5, 10, 13
DEFB 10, 13, 6, 5, 6, 3, ... , 4
DEFB 4,4,8,8, 8, 16,224, 0
...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…
1) Richard Chandler
2) 40
3) Aylesbury, England
4) ... (Spectrum & PC)
6)Wife and son
7) Late 1982 ... (I think!)
8 ) My ... before Martijn updated the site.
9) Indian food and Jack Daniels ...15 Graphic Games for your spectrum - help!Can anyone list out all the 15 programs that were on this book? I had the book myself but can't find it anywhere. ADJB's website also doesn't have de…
... you like a scan of the book?
2 Graham the Grass Snake
3 Sub-hunt< ... br /> 4 Turtle Bridge
5 Madmax
6 ... High and Low
7 Dropout
8 Shoot the Moon ... Bomber
11 Race and Chase
12 Surround ...If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... br /> 2) The sound
3) The size/keyboard
4) The long ... 5) The memory capacity
6) Being compared to the c64
the clear and stable display? Rich and vibrant colours, ... colour combinations on the C64, Vic, Atari 8-bit. Lot' ...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…
... Cristian Secara
2. Age: 43
3. Place: Bucuresti, Rom ... ski, drinking coffee, ...
6. Family: single, but taken :roll ... clone, perhaps 1986 (?)
8. WOS: forum says "Joined: ... up in the mounains
10. Speccy influence: 6 and counting ...
Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…
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2
?j
3 mul
6 add locate
the colours"
8
?j mul ... moves the top value into the third"
;"space on the stack,and the ... /> you will need build 3 and the proc for the forth word "cr" which ...Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... .
2) The speaker diaphragm does not sit ... (8) = 3 bit DAC equivalent.
On the Spectrum, the ... the higher the sample rate, the fewer the distinct levels and vice versa. That 6 ... than half the sample frequency)
2. The audible buzz ...Reading the keyboardDoes anyone have a code sample to read the keyboard in machine code ?
... even can use it and alter the routine to scan for ... deal in cursor modes and fool with the system variables. Here's ... 2','3','4','5' ; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
defb '0','9','8','7','6 ... B
; the following are CAPS SHIFTed and SYM SHIFTed ("CTRL ...Read the joystickAnyone written a nice joystick reading snippet?
IF 2 Port 1 and 2 are just the IN's from row 1-0
Cursor also, but with bit 4 tested on first in and second in for key 5 and key 6
Bit 3 for 7 on second in
Bit 2 for 8
Bit 0 for 0
See the manual for the right IN.Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …
... 3 will only go if kids 4 and 7 go. Kid 2 wont ... go if 1 and 9 ... go, 10 is the commodore ... make 2, 1 and 9 turn up together! And as for kids 6 and 8...you ... />
.... I just play jetpac and let em get on wiv ...Scariest things ever.As a follow on from another post, here's several things that I used to find very scary or un-nerving. Anyone remember any of these? 1. The keyb…
... 3. Hammer House of Horror. The one with the bloke hitchhiker with the ... The intro sequence to The Tomorrow People.
6. The ... /gallery/directordvd/2.jpg& ... The Judder man in the Vodka ice advert.
8. The ... . Saphire and Steel. The one with the people in ...Retro scenes slowing down?There was a post last month about fewer people posting here, but is the entire retro scene in recession? I'm talking about fewer updates on websites…
...
The recent, and future release order should be ... /> out now
2. ZX FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 (Speccy ... )
around 3 weeks
6. ASTRO NELL (Vic ... after that
8. HELP INC. (Amstrad)
...Just remembered - Spirograph Effect. - Please ExplainJust remembered that we used to mess about with the Draw command to get a spirograph effect in Sinclar Basic. Squares 10 plot 75,75 20 draw 80,48,…
... , if cabbage, sprouts and cauliflower (all members of the brassica family) are ...
5. Seed beds
6. Runner beans
7. Cold ... frames & cloches
8. Potatoes (new & main crop ... /> 1st Year 1 2 3 4
2nd Year 2 3 4 1
OT: All hail the new princess!So Prince Charles is going to re-marry. I can't turn on the news without somebody making an analysis, insight or offering some plain bloody nonsens…
... especially love the mix of chocolate, caramel and hazelnuts. It ... 2. Learn to replace the words "I" and "ME" with the word "ONE"
3 ... man-servant.
6. Let a ginger bloke father ... Hill impersonator.
8. Call modern architecture a monsterous ...what is the worst ocean gamemayby it's knight rider. (what's with the k!)
... (4.33, 6 votes), Track and Field (3.88, 8), The Chinese Juggler (3.50, 4 ... (3.00, 1), Street Hawk - Crash Subscribers Edition (2.50, 2) and, last and least ... , Highlander (2.14, 12).
Starquake.Hi everyone I've just recently added Starquake to the HARP Database, if anyone should be interested in showing their skills in that game. For those…
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Start a game and look at the table. $A391 will be ... the room to the left of this one and look at the ... the block...
[code]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 ... a room in the top left row and it could be ... .
And if you understand that you ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... the keys 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 (left, right, down, up and fire, respectively) and ... Joystick 2 is mapped to 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 3) and can be used to set the BORDER color (bits 2, 1 and 0 ...
