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Live 8 ... less than two days from now.I really can't wait to watch it. I plan on sitting in front of the telly with a couple of blank video tapes and (later on in the evening) a couple of…
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the power, the showmanship, the punk attitude, the brilliant guitar playing ...
the only new ... /> mainly cos its all the good (read punky) ones from GnR :p -
Live 8 ... less than two days from now.I really can't wait to watch it. I plan on sitting in front of the telly with a couple of blank video tapes and (later on in the evening) a couple of…
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On 2005-07-02 22:34, mel the bell wrote:
mainly cos its all the good (read punky) ones from GnR :p
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Harry Potter (New book)Just finished it. Enjoyed it, but was a mite bit dissapointed as nothing seems to really happen until the last fifth. The big event is indeed a big…
... br /> Yes i havent read one but i still ... for kids and seeing 'oldies' read it is worrying !
... read it then and put your mind at rest. The ... might think (like reading The Hobbit). Certainly from Book ... quote]
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128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…
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This is impossible. The Z80 cannot address that much ... loader; keep a count of the bytes read, and every 16384 bytes ... switch to the next memory bank ... a separate headerless 16k block. The save could look something like ... -
Help! +3 won't work anymore!I've just set up my old +3 and it just won't work - it used to a few months ago but now it won't :( I'm in need of some expert help so here's the pr…
search for the repairing speccys threads and send it off to the speccy dr :) -
Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…
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Still maybe now the new mag (due for November ... think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ... that used to sour the Live forum threads. In fact, every ... and your fanzine are the only thing worth reading ... to a review of The Black Hole movie like ... -
Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…
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Still maybe now the new mag (due for November ... think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ... that used to sour the Live forum threads. In fact, every ... and your fanzine are the only thing worth reading ... to a review of The Black Hole movie like ... -
he heh this is FUNNYif you are mindlessly pro-spectrum and enjoy laughing at the cbm read this: the names get confusing but let that slide. [url="http://www.alfonsomarto…
... and enjoy laughing at the cbm read this: the names get confusing but ... -
Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…
... i looked through the basic manual on the site but it ... talking about the 48k programming manual (ie, the Orange Book) ... how to create UDGs, operate the Beeper, read the keyboard...
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Whats the worst spectrum game ever???Heres a question: whats the worst game you've ever played on the spec? Mines was LA SWAT by Entertainment USA it was just AWFUL! the graphics were sh…
... my most disappointing game. Saw the adverts, read a "review" and bought ... tron.
Right up to the day I gave(doh) all ... getting other tapes out of the box.
ASpec.
Describe the person below you.The title says it all... The person below me smells strangely of empty ferrets and has a Spectrum keyboard-rubber fetish.
The person below me gets 'turked' ... :1[/url]
The auction read something like 'DIESEL BOY STRAP ... ' etc.
The winning bidder paid for the auction, but pleaded ... send it, as he misread the auction.
What on ...Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…
... got me thinking about the era after the Speccy and what games ... a version of Breakout whilst the game installed (not loaded). ... set the game speed to the processor speed (more to the cd read speed ... 1,2,4 at the ...RTC on my speccy?Hi guys, As much as I've not got much time to work on my Speccy (right now) I still like to come up with some funky ideas for stuff to do to it. I …
... to be displayed have the speccy read the current time that in ... the eprom as a string then display the ... in an eprom that the speccy can read info from (actually, ... just thinking about it, the Dallas ...Conceptual differences between Speccy and modern PCWhat are them? Here I mean not much faster, more bit CPU, bigger and faster hard disks etc. 1: Speccy is keyboard computer, PC has separated keyboar…
Is this one of the most ridiculous threads ever?
How can you compare a PC with a Spectrum on any level?xbox 360 faultcheck this out [url="http://www.muchosucko.com/video-xbox360discscratch.html"]http://www.muchosucko.com/video-xbox360discscratch.html[/url]
its the same with the ps2 though everyone ive met who owns one has either had to get it replaced or buy another one if out of warranty because of the disc read error that sony claimed were "isolated cases" even though it happens to almost every unit"Unknown disk format"-error on Spectrum +3Hi, I have just gotten around to changing the drivebelt in my newly acquired +3. I tried to format one of the 3" disks I bought on eBay the other we…
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While you can replace the drive belts, it sometimes becomes ... noticed that some of the drives read heads don't produce ... enough flux to read from the disks, when viewing the output with CPDRead ... bad sectors as it can read the data correctly.
...ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... I beleive this should be the 'MUST' have item for any ... speccy owner.
The gamemaker article sounds excelent.
the solution could be published in ... the following issue.
Keep up the good ...What new game to write...Now that Dominetris is out I'm wondering what to set about coding-up next... ...So I'm asking what kind of new games are people wanting to play? A …
... . He must have excellent friends in the business; he must be the must excellent bloke ... imaginable to have persisted for so long. He must ... have been gutted when the Shamen turned into ...Is it time to end this forum?The views expressed in this forum may not represent my present views.
How about getting rid of all the 'Top Tip' threads and the 'Why Did The...' ones?Is it time to end this forum?The views expressed in this forum may not represent my present views.
... of all the 'Top Tip' threads and the 'Why Did The...' ones?< ... Yep, they're the kind of threads we don't need ... . I've got no problem with the ... discussion. 'Top tips' threads have no place in a ... what was the point of all the threads when none ...Is it time to end this forum?The views expressed in this forum may not represent my present views.
... Arjun. And I think locked threads also give an indication/warning ... clear what was the problem.
Removing threads will go unnoticed ...Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …
... the bus is left floating when the z80 wants to read the identifier. Because the ... id bytes 0-255, the word read (and jumped to) will ... each. To read the keyboard, the lower 8 bits of the port address is ... that is ANDed with the 5 bits read from the port to pin ...What is an "Unknown Port"?Port FF is unknown and so can return screen data on a 48k/128k/+2 models. But what if no Kempston mouse is plugged in. Is Port DF classified as unkno…
Woody calls them "unattached ports" - if there's not hardware attached then the port read will return floating bus on 48k/128k based machines.
D.New JSW/MM game releasedHere's a download link to a new JSW64 game that's been written. [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/UltimateManicMiner.zip"]http://homepag…
... , but it's possibly the least enjoyable game I've ... , and instead have to pause the emulator, read this forum, a page ...Emus that support netplay?Go on then. Is there one? Which is the best? Thanks! :) Edit: Speccy ones, obv! [ This Message was edited by: Vertigo on 2006-03-02 21:14 ]
... se, but here are the more interesting threads:
[url="http ...I just did something very out of characterI was downstairs when i heard something come through the letterbox. It was a newsletter from the BNP as soon as i saw what it was i opened the door a…
... implies that the discrimination is for the benefit of the party ... that is also inherent. Nor the geographism.
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the theoretical person supports etc. ... him asleep, her awake. The caption read "[some brand] de-oderant ...+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... to be completely unable to read the disk - hence no Amiga emulator ... standard Amiga disks to be read on the PC. Writing can't ... lower signal strength, so the data read back would change each time ... fixed and varying patterns in the read data, and it has to ...+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... lower signal strength, so the data read back would change each time ... - something the protection would check ... to all areas of the disk, including the sector data fields. ... if that would set the values on the sectors too firmly.< ...Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …
[QUOTE=Malc74]Best. Thread. Ever.
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I would say that Gamestage and TKrap are right there on top of the Best Troll Threads ever, at the moment. But this one is getting there all right. :DWhen did Spectrum games "jump the shark"Sorry to use that hackneyed term, but there's no easier way of putting it. Basically, during the Spectrum's commercial life (roughly 1982-1992) when…
... house and seeing some of the stuff running on his Amiga ... I was working for at the time.
So, I ... and sound count for the majority (read: commercial viability), the Spectrum simply could ...
