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How to recover data from old Microdrive cartridges?I have 17 Microdrive cartridges that I filled with games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" section of this website) about 20 years ago. My or…
... games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" ... my original cartridges is the "CAT 1" command, which ... and one 4 line BASIC program.
Is ... have weakened and corrupted the recordings? Is there ... of the fixed resistors to turn up the gain on the head ... -
an idiot writes...I wonder if someone can help me - downloaded a couple of walkthrough recordings from the rzx site (i think thats what its called) but everytime i try…
... can help me - downloaded a couple of walkthrough recordings from the rzx ... but everytime i try to open the file i get a message ... i either want to select a program from the web to open the file. It's ... as if the file ... -
BASin Release 13 is now availableI'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is now available at [url="http://homepage.ntlw…
... now using copy/paste.
The rest is from the "What's ... ". This allows you to copy/paste code examples from the manual correctly.
the conversion from 48k to 128k!
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BASin Release 13 is now available[unashamedly x-posted from Emulators forum] I'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is …
... now using copy/paste.
The rest is from the "What's ... ". This allows you to copy/paste code examples from the manual correctly.
the conversion from 48k to 128k!
Added - Program compatibility in the Program Information ... -
The ImpossibleI just did an Infoseek for this one and it's not there. I don't remember who published this one (presumably a one-man back-bedroom operation) nor ex…
... 1986), but the purpose was to allow the user to attempt to solve the Three Utilities ... Problem, which either the ... actually dumb (desperate?) enough to buy a copy.??? Perhaps it's best ... -
Games that could do with running faster, without affecting the timer, the music or the controlsRegarding the topic on the emulation forum, what Spectrum games do you think would benefit from a speed boost? Nowadays, most of us play Spectrum gam…
... normal Spectrum program (game, demo, whatever) to switch the speed of the host emulator ... from real Spectrum speed to the maximum ... critical points in the program, so that, for example, The Sentinel would run ... -
Instructions image/background colour matchingI'm doing a PDF from one of the JPEG instruction scans; OCRing the text, cutting out the pictures, composing a document in Word 2000 and using Acroba…
... /R/G/B to match, the program changes some of the other numbers so ... might let me change the background colour of the inserted image to match the document ... Picture windows to apply to an existing image - when I select green the image ... -
+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
... it will give the user an interface similar to the 3.1 program winfile.exe ... , they will be able to quickly ... -
Extracting the Multiface ROM?Is there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface 128 ROM to tape, on a real spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emul…
... there an easy way to save the contents of a real Multiface ... spectrum, for the purposes of transferring it to PC for emulator ... able to copy to PC, but I don't want to risk damaging the original ... place and somehow use the Spectrum to copy it to file - can this ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... and I want to get them into the order "2,2 ... entry
ld e,(ix+1) ; e = next entry
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noswitch inc ... /> bit flag,h ; exchanged=1?
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Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…
... some +3e proms blown and copy the stuff to a HDD (I know ... .es/~amstrad/docs/fdc.html"]1[/URL], [URL="http://andercheran.aiind ... tad shorter, what's the best way to connect a standard "PC ... that, it only needs power to the drive - have it for free ... -
What the heck happened to Monkey Island?I wanted to play the original Monkey Island so I had a look on ebay and... WTF... ?80 for a white label reissue CD! Where did all the copies of MI g…
I wanted to play the original Monkey Island so I ... !
Where did all the copies of MI go? Why ... available for ?2 like all the other old PC games?
Why doesn't Lucasarts sell the game (or MI2) any more ... -
Add the numbers?Yesterday morning (about 1am) I was flicking through cable to see what was on, and I turned to ITV and that boring space filler "The Mint" was on. An…
... Hawking style maths to the question), and I was finding the program so irritating ... that in the end I ... was right. 44, 43, 1, 0, and just about any ... and everything else that occured to me, along with almost every integer ... -
How to increase the motivation to preserve?I've been thinking about this for some time now, and I think I may have an idea. Without hard-to-obtain knowledge, the only way to see if something …
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Without hard-to-obtain knowledge, the only way to see if something ... people don't want to submit to the preservation effort, because as ... It would be wise to use the placeholder for items which ... enough data to cover the important parts of the database, but ... -
PIC programmer for the Spectrum?Hi all, Does anyone know of a PIC programmer for the Spectrum ? ([url]http://microchip.com/[/url]) I'd like to program (burn) PIC chips (to be more …
... the Spectrum ? ([url]http://microchip.com/[/url])
I'd like to program ... (burn) PIC chips (to be more specific: 16C621A-04/P) from the ... spectrum.
I don't want to buy a ... PC for just that, besides, I really like the ... -
How to transfer a BASIC-Programm to PC and/or TZX?Hello there, I'm pretty new at WOS, but have already spent some time reading a small bit of the large amount of information here. I am trying to fin…
... neat "datasette"-like recorder with the proper cabling :-?
I ... soldering to connect my Speccy to my Hifi-Tapedeck, load my program from ... s also part of the Interface I, to connect to my PC and ... wouldn't save the source-code, but rather the byte-code ... -
MGT PlusD Manual CorrectionsI was just looking at the PlusD manual and noticed that the MERGE command is not actually included in the manual anywhere. I presume that this handl…
... ?;1;?file-name?
MERGE p(n)
The latter refers to the program ... number.
I shall have to try ... ";1;"" TO "m";2
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Who knows how to program a "pathfinder"?Hi all. I like to play games like "Colour Lines" and I think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy - until this "dam…
Hi all.
I like to play games like "Colour Lines" ... version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy ... A to a point B or doesn?t move, if the way ... or tip in Assembler for me? The pathfinder should work in a ... -
Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... anymore. Here's a copy of the e-mail I sent:
to 1-bit, 4-bit (ay) or ... the program instead of giving the error message.
I look eager to ... of my questions or give me some suggestions I would appreciate ... -
don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... available for Windows Vista beta 1, released in July, and ... shortcut to Firefox. So I select both icons and drag them to the ... without Microsoft. Now, the cheapest Vista is the copy that comes with ... university and they'll feed me the details about hardware and ... -
Hand-building TZX filesDoes anybody know of a utility which, given a text-file of blocks of data, can build the matching TZX-file? I know it's easy enough to join existing…
... of data, can build the matching TZX-file?
... to join existing TZX files by concatenating them via the COPY ... where I then want to strip the file-headers from ... if there was a program which could append a ... of data to a TZX file, with the appropriate tag ... -
More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
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1. What's the highest score anyone's ... R@re replica solid gold copy wristwatch, or a date ... 7, the best science-fiction program ever (just overlook the "special ... the words to describe how utterly wretched, depressed and suicidal is makes me ... -
Your views on...The Arc of Yesod[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Arc+of+Yesod%2c+The$&pub=^Thor+Computer+Software$&loadpics=on]The Arc of Yesod[/url] OK! Th…
... coloured up remake. The game seemed to be the same as before, but ... as interesting. Not to say that my copy of the game was always ... ] interupted by the game either crashing or "Newing" on me.
Scr to vectorBack in 1989 I saw 2 m.c. routines that impressed me. One could convert a certain area of the screen (up to 6144 bytes) to vector images. And the sec…
... impressed me. One could convert a certain area of the screen (up to ... 6144 bytes) to vector images. And ... the second routine would ... type-in or a commercial program.
If I ...RDS SoftwareThis is a short version of an Email sent to Andy Barker, over a week ago. Since it's not been answered I'll post it here in the hope somebody tells …
... it here in the hope somebody tells me what to do.
copy of said program. I was supposed to review it ... did due to the programmer messing up. First he sent me a tape ... that wouldn't load because the quality ...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…
... hate insomnia)...
1) Do jet packs actually exist ... there, if you ask me) has to be pretty thick anyway.
4) Since copy protecion costs the industry a fortune, and ... [/I]? It's been the best new program for years, and yet ...Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... POINT, PLOT and PEEK to store the data in the array, but I ... know this is not the right way to do it.
to read data from the m array and print the maze by reading the ... line BASIC program request. But I was unable to include the movement commands ...Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
... is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She ... has never written any type of program ... /> I am going to lend her a copy of the 48k manual but ... , books which will help to lay down the basics(1). It would help ...Transfer to tape from PCHi all, A few years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take a Spectrum game and save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player. T…
... years ago I had a program on the Amiga that would take ... save it out via the serial port to a cassette tape player ... /> However is there such a program for the PC? I am running ... on, I would like to transfer some to tape.
TIA ...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…
... :
1. A land grant where players competitively select one plot ... able to contribute to the game and see it to completion.
The game ... on the screen.
The code and a compiled test program can ...
