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128K Contention - How to get it right?With my recent hardware hackery, I've built a 128K (toastrack) clone. I can't quite get the contention right though. What I'm lack is a clear descri…
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To correct the excessive contention, I replicated ULA14 ... someone describe accurately the contention behaviour for the 128K ports?
the 0x7ffd, 0x3ffd and 0xbffd ... 128.... or is that the "bug" fixed in later Amastrad ... -
Fired up my Speccy today...It's true, after more than 20 years, I dug my 48k Spectrum out of the cupboard, popped out to Maplin to buy a suitable PSU, set it all up and tuned i…
... my 48k Spectrum out of the cupboard, popped out to ... began focussing on digging into the box to source my ... don't have the pach to fix the bug in Jet Set ... Willy? Did I really need 'Wham! The ... do I get the last item in the corridors of power ... -
SAM Coup? version of SophistryAs a few of you might know, the ZX Spectrum puzzle/action game [I]Sophistry[/I] (probably best-known for being released on a CRASH cover-tape) was [U…
... few of you might know, the ZX Spectrum puzzle/action game ... /> From what I can gather, the original Spectrum version had bugs ... couldn't be accessed (although the game could still be completed ... ). Does anyone know if the bug was fixed in the SAM conversion? I ... -
Some stuff I'm after...Anyone help with any of these? A 128 Spectrum (Amstrad version, preferably a grey one). The box ONLY for a rubber key 48k Spectrum. And some games:…
... games:
Fairlight - The Edge (128 version).
The Hulk - Adventure International ... 2 covers, but am missing the Bug Byte 'cheekyman & ladder' version ... /> Games Machine - March 1988 (with the 'Rare' interview).
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ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday 31 March 2012Saturday 31 March 2012 Loads of maps and RZX Archive entries this month - and it nearly made it on time, too! * Archie Robins sent in POKEs for Foo…
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ZX Willy the Bug Slayer.
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Apostrophe, The , Arithmetic Tutor , Astro Maths , ... Bingo , Empire Strikes Back, The , Englishskills I ,
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"Chronos": how fast should it really be?I was reading [URL="http://timfollin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Archive.htm"]Tim Follin's webpage[/URL] the other day and came across a curious remark abou…
... the program was running at half speed because of an assembler bug ... . Ha![/QUOTE]
Now, I spent, literally, weeks in the ... . This is the very core of the game, the most intensive computation ... of an assembler bug. This must be the bug that Tim Follin ... -
R.I.P. Jonathan BristowJust heard the sad news of the death of Jonathan Bristow (Twilighte) from the Oric world. One of the most talented and intelligent, warm and friendl…
... news of the death of Jonathan Bristow (Twilighte) from the Oric ... world. One of the most talented and ... friendly people I've had the pleasure to meet. I met ... 's when we put together the Oric fanzine Rhetoric.
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Manic Miner - Loader And Screen DifferencesThere are some changes between the various releases and re-releases of Manic Miner with both the loader and the loading screen itself. Here I'll deta…
... four* official versions:
The Bug Byte release (this comes in ... -release
The Ventamatic release
[B]Loader (Bug Byte) original ... of the game on the Warehouse screen and the 'typewriter' version of the screen ... -
Sorting BusinessThis is a little bit different from the usual game-related fare but I know there are a few people here who like this sort of thing. This is about so…
... three sorting algorithms -- the [URL="http://z88dk.cvs ... /> {
printf("\nFilling the array with random numbers.\n ... hours tonight looking for the "bug" thinking it had hung ... still unacceptably slow compared to the others two implementations.
ZX-Paintbrush 2.6 publishedDear readers, today I released a new version 2.6 of ZX-Paintbrush. Before I will go into the details of all changes I made, first let me say thanks …
... Bugfix: Einar Saukas found the bug of all three inverter tools ... the 'M' key.
[*]Iznogoud suggested: The zoom factors of the ... reported that the mouse wheel should control the zoom combobox ... Added GIF animation support. The picture converter now contains a ...Journey to another world<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight:…
... the left
(O) to escape the bug, jumping to avoid falling into the ... br /> reach the length pointing to open the exit. Passing ... counted, if they reach the minimum the door will open. ... ga0bdlqc5m89fnn/ANOTHERWi.tap
The code:http://www.mediafire. ...Version 1.3 of Dingo released.Updated version of Dingo for the ZX Spectrum released (v1.3). Earlier in the summer, Mark R. Jones, who did the graphics for the Spectrum version …
... too.
The changes in the 2015 version are;
the bug-bear for many people with ... which was the bonus fruit during the game so the current bonus ... />
Mark handled the duplication of the cassettes (in 3 different ..."Henry's Hoard" - completable at last![[i]Please scroll down if you just want the links where the bug-fixed files can be grabbed![/i]] "Henry's Hoard" is a game released by Martyn Brow…
... if you just want the links where the bug-fixed files can be ... info.
I believe the bug-fixed versions are exactly as ... !
RZX walkthroughs of the bug-fixed versions are available on ...Always chew your food!Well, I had a bit of an interesting Easter weekend while staying with my girlfriend in Filey. Warning: fairly icky medical stuff and ewgf lengthiness…
... me of Neo having the 'bug' removed in The Matrix or any part ... it might damage the oesophagus and the team who used the bendy tube ... was still sitting on the chair by the bed when I noticed ... have to 'enjoy' the endoscopy/gastroscopy in the morning.
XaviorThe copy of Xavior.TZX in the database is corrupt; the DNA fragment which is supposed to be in room (31,39) (co-ordinate symbols green die-face 5, ye…
... Xavior.TZX in the database is corrupt; the DNA fragment which is ... is it in any of the other 15 rooms it could ... be completed even if using the bug-fix POKE contributed by @Mr ... I still have the .Z80 file created from the tape of this ...Vote for your favourite Jet Set Willy mod!As part of the 35th anniversary of Jet Set Willy event at this year’s Play Expo in Manchester on Saturday May 4th, there will be an audience vote to …
... favourite mod of the game. Paolo, the director of the film Willy: 48k ... will be screened on the day has shortlisted the following 5. As ... ]
2. ZX Willy the Bug Slayer Year of release 2002 ... [/url]
3. Join the Jet-Set Year of release ...Best joystickWhat was your best joystick to use for the Speccy? Mine would have to go to the Atari VCS original. This was a joystick that could live thru just ab…
the bug and the atari original.... other than that most joysticks were pants inc the quickshotBest joystickWhat was your best joystick to use for the Speccy? Mine would have to go to the Atari VCS original. This was a joystick that could live thru just ab…
My favourite was the Cheetah 125+.
I used The Bug for Sensi on the Amiga.Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
... the Attic bug, but you still need the three other POKES to fix the ... wrote to them complaining about the bug, and received a standard fob ... -off letter saying that the Attic bug was a 'feature', ... designed to make the game more challenging ...Help making TZX filesHi. I've just found about 10 games that are missing perfect copies and i've tried using maketzx but i can't do it. When i run it it says 'searching …
... already have (on the TZX Vault):
The Quill (most ... Election (Unless it's not the Bug-Byte release ?)
Chronos< ... manager (Unless it is the rerelease on The TZX Vault ?)
... compatability
better for the said emulators. Once you have ...What were the most difficult, and pointless, games you ever played?1) Jack and the Beanstalk - incredibly difficult, a system of losing lives that seems to have designed by a certified lunatic, and no real sense of a…
... Alien Highway were solid to the point of frustration.
Basically if the game made me swear at ... :-
Dragontorc of Avalon, the tug o war level on ... Jet Set Willy (especially without the bug fix pokes)
[ This ...THE SPECTRUM QUIZ IS HEREOkay folks, here are 30 questions. The person who EMAILS them to me with the most correct is the winner. No cheating, use your memory and not the W…
... What is the FULL name of the character in the Nodes of ... br /> The passcode to obtain the level skip in Manic Miner - Bug Byte ... Pyjamarama.
Slide down the banister with the ignition keys
the bug duck released
8< ...Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... layout;
---> the version of "Chuckie Egg" with ... YS);
---> the bug-fixed version of "Starion" which ... possible to complete the game(sorry, I forget the source of ... (published in Crash) to improve the game loading/saving;
< ...RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …
... keyboard layout did nothing. The icons at the bottom are squashed. ... with the readme then? Or thought to mail me a bug ... report?
SPIN has issues, hence the low version number. The ... found a way around the bug yet. As the readme also states, we ...Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... me the biggest bug I found was in Tai-Pan. In the very ... . Fun game, but discovering the bug early in the game made me not ... , only the 48K.
Matchday 2 also had a bug or ... two, not least of which was the ball trapped between the ...Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... never liked Thro' the wall thanks to the very same problem ... not BREAK into Thro' the wall and fix the bug yourself?
the Character Generator in Horizons ... /> And what about the keyboard trainerthat took up the whole of side ...Spin 0.3 BugI have found a bug in Spin, some people on CSS seem to have the same problem. In the spin.ini file under the [System] heading and the Placements ent…
... refreshing when you report a bug in piece of software, and ... , but he actually admits the bug and lets you know what ...ZX Spin 0.3 ReleasedStandard Cut'n'Paste from CSS post again! I can't get to my webpage, so I've uploaded SPIN0.3 to WOS, Alt.Binaries.Comp.Sinclair, and also Daren Pea…
... them from uspeech.dll in the Spectaculator 3 beta 1 package ... them into SPIN before the next release though - the bug fixed version should ... doesn't change his mind, the uSpeech emulation will be in ... your chance to listen to the most dreadful speech emulation ever ...Another Spin problem game?Anyone else tried loading Doomsday by Relion software? Doesn't seem to want to load.
... fine in all loading modes. The bug turned out to be an ... code that was superceded when the new speedloading loop was written ... very long pauses were allowing the B register to go over ...
