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When was the last time someone did a bat'n'ball game?in the vein of Araknoid/Batty/Krakout etc... pretty sure I haven't seen a new one appear since I've been registered with WoS (maybe there was one in…
... count)
With the general standard of games coming ... be something that has the immediacy and playability of ... Arkanoid and Batty, minus the ridiculous difficulty level (perhaps ... complex background and perhaps having the ball a different colour ... -
How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…
... .
At the time, I thought this was ... the limits to programming on the Spectrum, but ... "how did they make the games?") I just didn' ... assembly code and wondering how the &^%$ you know ...
I have tried in the last few years on a few ... -
TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…
... Spectrum emulator model which supports the TAP file format.
the next text fragment would overflow the buffer the file as far as the last ... and formatting continues at the start of the next line.
the last punctuation point.
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The Spectrum Show 28 + moreEpisode 28 of The Spectrum Show is now live on YouTube ([URL="http://youtu.be/8kbvQf35uKc"]Link[/URL]) and this episode marks the two year anniversar…
Episode 28 of The Spectrum Show is now live ... this episode marks the two year anniversary of the show!
The Spectrum Show Magazine issue 1 ... /> Thanks for staying with over the last 24 months... more to come. -
Yay! Another two fingers to us paying customers from the gaming industryThe (to me, hateful) trend of games companies selling their modern AAA titles in various editions, as opposed to earlier times when when you bought a…
... new plateau of greed and "**** the customer" attitude.
... in[B] Metro: Last Light[/B], or [B]The Last of Us[/B ... ]) was bad enough, but have you see the ... forego any draconian DRM systems the commercial purchases will probably have ... -
Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
I have found out in the last months, that despite of having ... have gotten there, to the situation where we achieved everything ... easier to make, where the information about the Spectrum is more than ... create something new? Maybe the lack of updates are affecting ... -
Albert the wolf: A "make your own platform" open-AGD gameSo here it is you can find it within the usual dropbox folder (there is also a rzx to see how the game works..sort of.. and a TAP for the real hard…
... pick the one you like the most
The dog or the bats ... single, two or three (only the last level as a matter of ... to do with the graphics of the explosions
the other makes your ... -
The Spectrum Show 30[URL="http://youtu.be/tIXkFXgWrhA"]Episode 30 now live![/URL] In the last episode of the series, I take a look at the news and top selling Spectrum g…
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In the last episode of the series, I take ... a look at the news and top selling ... a look at probably the best known game publisher ... on the Spectrum, Ultimate Play The Game.
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Thanks for watching the show. I'll be back ... -
A Tale From The Other Side : Commodore Format PP62Those who dabbled in the black arts of Commode usage back in ye olden days, might be interested to know about this.... [img]http://commodoreformat.f…
... about Commodore Format, it was the covermounted Power Pack games tape ... RIchard Bayliss approached us with the idea of doing a new ... ? which would be the 62nd ? we found the idea hard to resist ... appreciated by you guys over the last year ? consider this a thank ... -
Parallax scrolling - Shadow Of The Beast tech demoHi there folks! I thought I'd post what I've been pottering around with for the last couple of weekends. I've been experimenting with doing multi-la…
... been pottering around with for the last couple of weekends.
the humble 48K. I decided to ... replicate the classic Amiga "Shadow Of The Beast" intro as ... especially when we all know the Speccy is a much more ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold ... /90 and moved on to the Atari ST, but I recall ... -
Starquake 2 for the Atari ST video.Here's my long lost demos of what was done for 'Starquake 2' on the Atari ST. I did the graphics and Paul Hughes programmed it. There's 3 versions sh…
... 'Starquake 2' on the Atari ST. I did the graphics and Paul ... version and moving along to the last demo before we gave up ... game heroes for the high score table too! (the music was nicked ... -
games where all the levels are different?I was just playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002673]Kane[/url] and wondered what other speccy games there are where each…
... each level is different from the last
on Kane you ... />
the 2nd and last level are quite similar, but the last has the added ... thing of beating the ... -
What board issue was the last in rubber key case?Just picked up another rubber key case and upon opening it i found an issue 4 board.I thought the board number was a bit high as though it should be …
Just picked up another rubber key case and upon opening it i found an issue 4 board.I thought the board number was a bit high as though it should be in a +?:confused: -
Why does the snapshot button on a +D sometimes not work well?Over the last days I played a lot with my +D. From most of the games I loaded from tape, I could make a snapshot to disk by pressing the button and k…
Over the last days I played a lot ... my +D. From most of the games I loaded from tape ... snapshot to disk by pressing the button and key 4. I ... then.
What?s the reason and is there a ... -
The complete Stormbringer (48k) RAM disassemblyIt's finally time to unveil the last of my Magic Knight disassemblies - [URL="http://community.dur.ac.uk/philip.anderson/disassemblies/stormbringer-4…
... 's finally time to unveil the last of my Magic Knight disassemblies ... -
Trantor - The Last StromtrooperA couple of questions about this game: 1) Do you think Trantor would benefit from a map? (not a thing people would use back then, but that seems a "…
... Trantor Game coming out, although the end game message says to ... anyone knows what plans the company had for the character? 87 was ... remember jumping from speccy to the gameboy, and one thing that ... " me in the handheld was the fact that all the games had a ... -
Head the BallThis game: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002262[/url] We discussed it on forums before. Our member Bandit even did disassem…
... ", you can see it in the reviews (not previews) of it ... replaced by another game at the last moment:
[url]http ... on WOS, neither in Head the Ball or 4th Dimension record ... -
Hallowscream! Issue 6 - Tribute to Scream! Horror comic from the 80sIt's that time of year again folks! My brother and his fellow freaky scribblers have put together the 6th issue of [b]Hallowscream![/b] [img]http://…
... freaky scribblers have put together the 6th issue of [b] ... Page 23 : Bestiary of Beasties : The Ghost Bustard by Malcolm Kirk ... /> Page 37 : Hair Scare III : The Last Strand Story & Art by ... /> Page 60 : Terror of The Sheep : The Secret Origin of Doctor Lupus ... -
'QL SuperBASIC - The Definitive Handbook' ebook OUT NOW!Jan Jones? "QL is 30" contribution. She surprised with the republication of her 1985 book 'QL SuperBASIC - The Definitive Handbook'. She says: ?Retyp…
... " contribution. She surprised with the republication of her 1985 book ... 'QL SuperBASIC - The Definitive Handbook'. She says: ? ... Retyping the book was an eye-opening ... far we have advanced in the last thirty years without even ... -
Looking for the New Spectrum Games website/blog pageI've just had a hard drive pack in, and fortunately most of the stuff on it was backed up anyway, but it had some emulators/roms on there, including …
... in, and fortunately most of the stuff on it was backed ... /roms on there, including the Spectrum, and the last full Spectrum backup I ... 'll have to go through the forums page by page, looking ... find that thread (why is the WOS search engine so good ... -
The Complete Through the Trap Door RAM DisassemblyAfter chipping away at this for the last few years (!), my disassembly of Don Priestley's [I]Through the Trap Door[/I] is finally "complete"! You ca…
... chipping away at this for the last few years (!), my disassembly of ... Don Priestley's [I]Through the Trap Door[/I] is finally ... -
The best Tetris game on the Speccy?The recent [B]Tetris Ultimate[/B] debacle on the PS4 and XBox One* made me wonder what was the best version of Tetris on the Spectrum. I'm not famil…
... interesting Tetris variation on the Spectrum (can't remember ... new (well, made in the last ten years...) games that are ...
* If you missed the hilarity/disappointment**, Ubisoft (who have ... speed, let alone register the player's attempts at ... -
The last Spectrum titles producedby the "big" software houses, what were they? Is there a list?
by the "big" software houses, what were they? Is there a list? -
Vote the Best Game of 2014! [MULTIPLE CHOICE]You can read the title of the thread, can't you. Remember, it's a [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]MULTIPLE CHOICE[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] poll, vote how many g…
... (s) [specify]" option, which is the last one.
To retrieve ... kind of programs], and keeping the Spectrum alive.
... B] (platform game)
by The Mojon Twins
release date ... ][/SIZE][/B] option at the bottom of the list to vote for ... -
Playing AY music on the SpeccyCan anyone help with playing AY ripped music on the Speccy? So, let's say I want to play some ripped AY music, such as: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspect…
... .zip[/url]) to split the file into its constituent parts ... .
The ini file output it produces ... /> NewSong
Name=Trantor The Last Storm Trooper - Title (Beeper)
I gather the tra_0_1.BIN file is the data you should ... -
THE DISTRIBUTION - Word is out!<p>As the Forum was not available for a while, there wasn't a good possibility to post the news to the WoS community. Here it is:<br></p><p>Lucerne, …
... good possibility to post the news to the WoS community. Here ... /> QL IS 30 2014 - THE DISTRIBUTION for public download. This ... is
the successor to the QL Today 2013 The Final DVD ... created or preserved
during the last few months. Altogether there are ... -
What's actually happened while the forums where down?Anything of note happen to anyone while the forums were down? They were down long enough and I kinda had a gut feeling of when they would come back.…
... note happen to anyone while the forums were down?
... a day).
So - the missus and me have been ... seeing eye to eye for the last few years and she ... finally decided - when the forums had just gone down ... ......which I did and the forum came back within ... -
Bug in the game "Bronx" which makes it resetI just found a nasty bug in this game from Animagic. If you hit the last enemy, from level 6, with the upper punch, the game starts getting a lot of …
... from Animagic. If you hit the last enemy, from level 6, with ... the upper punch, the game starts getting a ... like reseting, Could anybody investigate the reason why and if there ... my +2A and un the 128K model in the emulator.
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The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
... storage interface for the ZX Spectrum for the last decade.
...
Although the DivIDE has ... he is preparing the release of the API to the public.
the DivMMC interface based on the (at the time) state of the ...
