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eBay selling troubles.I seem to be having bit of a crap experience with eBay as of late. I've been trying to sell my scooter as I've brought a bigger bike. So thought I'd …
... go to the highest bidder. I ran the auction over the last 7 ... an account the very same day the auction was ending. Immediately after the auction the same ... winning bidder decided to cancel the ... -
How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... /> Since machine code isn't the main point of this tutorial, we ... the beginning of the game.
Then we print the score right after scrolling the ... screen.
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Covid in IndiaFollowing recent news about a upsurge of Covid in India and hospitals at breaking point, and after looking at global figures for COVID I was wonderin…
... India and hospitals at breaking point, and after looking at global figures ... has over ten times the population of Mexico, the latter would seem ... be harder hit? Compared to the UK (at about 130,000 ... -
New discovery on Z80 interrupts.This is to announce the discovery of a new, hitherto unknown, behavior of the RETI and RETN instructions. As everyone knows, the maskable interrup…
... EI instruction, but only after the one following EI is executed. ... can return without the danger of being interrupted immediately after re-enabling interrupts ... if the /INT line is ... -
The Cost of a Raspberry Pi These Days.I remember a couple of years ago being able to buy a Raspberry Pi for just under $40 (£34) in many places Amazon being one of them. I had a look a…
... . What gives? I thought the whole point was to be cheap and ... .
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ZXSpin "Out of Memory" errorI've used the Debugger in ZXSpin for years but recently it's developed a fault. When I select the Debugger from the Tools menu ZXSpin goes into "Not …
... . When I select the Debugger from the Tools menu ZXSpin goes ... mode with a 'busy' cursor. After about 5 minutes an "Out ... " [OK] message appears after which the Debugger window appears which seems ... a third time then the window appears immediately, but ... if I ... -
Standard Development LibrariesSo after some time away I decided to re-register after a Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/SpectrumNez/status/1578158361236963328) led me to a Visu…
... I decided to re-register after a Twitter thread (https://twitter ... be made simpler with the use of the macro functionality since it ... .
So to the main point of this then.
The question is if anyone ... -
Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
... In Love With The Girl On The Virgin Manchester Megastore ... a new version replacing the words 'The Virgin' with 'A ... is also available on the Spectrum - check the archive.)
the archive, I believe.
Almost immediately after this, ... -
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…
... find the entry to the third part. Finally completed it on an emu after ... (?) in the level with Montezuma, after traversing half the screen. After this the proggy loops ... back to the first ... -
line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
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Take the start point. Take the endpoint. Between these points ... the routine again with begin-half and half-end.
After ... returning PLOT the actual point and return.
the rest.
The basic computes ... -
line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... L) - the starting point coordinate,
; to the end point (x1,y1 ... ld (SGNX),a ; // The x-values are decreasing
The x-values are increasing
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; registers changed after return:
; ......hl/ixiy ... -
Missing in Copright List?Is there any list available covering all games that WOS have had to remove from the archive due to copyright issues (like the titles from Codemasters…
... , I'd like to point you to the site of Clive Brooker ... . He wrote the sequal 'One Man and his ... /> Now, in 2001, the game is released after all, by himself, as ... -
S.O.P. Save Old ProgramsHi ! Does anybody have any idea how can I save my old collection for the future ? I've lots of tapes full of programs. I use Z80 emulator (ver 3.50)…
... possible throught hours and hours. After one year my mother decided ... finally I had the ZX-SPECTRUM 48K+. After this point my life changed ... of program (firstly in BASIC, after I had to learn Z80 ... discuss about Spectrum.
After some dropped-out years I ... -
Brand new topic? Who used to map games?IS this a BRAND NEW topic? :) I doubt it. But what the hey? Who here used to MAP games? I hadn't heard the expression 'walkthroughs' back then but I…
The one and only map I ... all possible locations for the 3 parts of the key while I ... was at it.
The map spanned 5 seperate pages ... got it somewhere, probably in the same place my BIG K ... , and there was no point mapping after that because there were maps ... -
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 ... down the banister with the ignition keys
24 After what ... level number on Chuckie Egg was the bug duck ... "missile launched!"
Starglider bonus point to Mat Cazzer who said ... -
ULTIMATE SUCK!!I wonder what reaction there will be to this? I just wonder if there are any other ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as much enjoyment ou…
... the baddies". Unfortunately, this results in you getting killed 10 seconds after ... pressing start. After reading the previous comment, I went ... back to it, happened to hold the ... -
Emulation and Debugging functionality[Cut n Paste from the original CSS post] Hi all, I'm currently working on SPIN's debugger, which is coming along nicely. Mostly, it's been devel…
... the filename box, whereupon the entire contents of the directory is shown. After selecting the ... .
At this point, I'm beginning to wonder ... 2) I get ur point bout the high-res blocky pixel thingy ... to play the tape. Hope u r getting my point?
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Emulation and Debugging functionality[Cut n Paste from the original CSS post] Hi all, I'm currently working on SPIN's debugger, which is coming along nicely. Mostly, it's been devel…
... the filename box, whereupon the entire contents of the directory is shown. After selecting the ... option. I see your point - if al the files are available you ... 2) I get ur point bout the high-res blocky pixel ... to play the tape. Hope u r getting my point?
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... obvious it was him, especially after a post where he told ... .[/quote]
Sigh - the real point is that it's not ...Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
... other words,"I've played the game for 8 minutes and ... couple of years ago, then after reading the rave reviews, tried it again ...Scrabble De-luxe dsk image and SpinAnyone else tries loading the disc file of Scrabble De-Luxe into Spin? All I get is the loading screen keep appearing and disappearing - as if it kee…
... /> From the programming point of view, uPD768 is the same as ... /> And differs considerably when the programmers intent was to make ... command is issued *immediately* afterwards. The motor is still at ... t find it in the datasheet. The SenseInterruptStatus command (at ...Lloyd Mangram is back!There's a new magazine out in the UK called "Games TM" and it covers retrogaming in a section larger than any other magazine available. I could not b…
... it amazing though? The way that the layout of the whole 30-odd ... just like Crash? To see the Crash smash logo in a ... over again. After reading it, I looked around me in the newsagent just ... is just another step towards the inevitable- a full-blown 100 ...name this gameHelp can anyone tell me the name of this game. There were two main characters Olaf and Olga and you had to get thro various mazes. There were potions…
It is, at WorldofSpectrum archives. After reading your post i also felt the urge to play it a little. Enjoy!
/PedroQuestion on 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit...Hello, Sorry, this is probably a really dumb question(and something I should know by now :)). I tried doing some searches about this but came up only…
... so it's still about. The Pentiun II and UltraSparc II ... a good introductory read. Maybe the older editions would say more ... book like this instead of the latest console game he's ... have more of a clue after reading it.Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP)Hi folks, Most of you who will read this are probably already aware that there are many of the above titles floating around on Ebay. However I simpl…
... months, mainly in the computer retro scene. The only platforms I ... for the Spectrum all stored away in a garage. After reading through ... do not mind making the software available for someone else ... that after getting so much pleasure out of the Spectrum over the ...WOS and copright[url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29646.html[/url]
... the robot is in the first instance going after anything with the ... same name as one of the the ... , but that is not the point - anybody thinking "some ... underground they'll be going after emulators.[/quote]
< ...More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…
... not sure if I understand the idea of making 'fake' ... than none.
The amount of effort required to ... the work of the "Bytemaniacos"...
From what I assume (after reading ... a badly translated thread on the Spanish newsgroup) ...games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... etc. are added by the user. The 200 bytes I referred ... will it return to the point rihgt after calling the usr address? suppose one ... doesnt beat the game, ... back to the basic part of the program where the start screen ...Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... those make me lose interest after a while. It's not ... RE4 maybe like a year after layta prolly on PS3, and ... upgrading the hardware point of view, ( the same could be said for the Spectrum ... group of articles for the C64 but after that, funk them, I ...Do this names sound familiar ?Hello, Since i found WOS (about 2 months ago), i've been looking around for tapes with 48K software. I found some titles, that i've runned on Infosse…
... 'm sorry to say that after that, my Spectaculator does not ... mistake with one of the recording settings, but after a while, i ... ' ve also found (in the darkest corner of the basement) an original ... two game guides with detachable entry form's 'to win a ...
