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  • DD/DS Floppy disks!Another problem facing this day and age,dd/ds disks are getting scarce,anyone know a place in uk/europe that sells them?,i aware of the sellotape ove…

    Some people like yourself appeared to have luck formatting HD disks,personally myself i done it before and had the dreaded read errors days later.
    JACK98 JACK98 August 2010 Chit chat
  • 'Classics' you've never playedSeeing the list of games on the 'World Cup' threads over the last few days got me thinking that with a few of the titles I'd heard a lot about the ga…

    ... of games on the 'World Cup' threads over the last few days ... JamesW;469925]The problem I have with The Sentinel on the 8- ... of course, the speed of the game on the Spectrum does feel ... Miner, Skooldaze, Cobra, The Sentinel, Psion Scrabble, The Great Escape, etc, ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2010 Games
  • it's only an electrical item.. but stillafter MANY years (maybe 18?) , my tv just popped.. when I say many years, I've had this tv since the days of Snes.. just prior I remember playing mad…

    I prefer CRTs over the newer thin ones ... ... also prefer it if the TV I'm watching has ... ... love that feature ... mute the box, read the CC ... it's ... it ... subtle things lurking in the background of movies/shows ... signs have names of the directors and other odd ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman September 2010 Chit chat
  • Our Failing Tapes - what to do with them.So, I've been testing out various tapes with a view to putting some of them on Ebay. Some of them do not load on either side and I've tried it in a f…

    ... pretty resilient. My copy of The Ship of Doom, which my ... .

    Go forward to the Amiga, and I've got ... stuff that now throws up the wonderful read/write error.
    roberthazelby roberthazelby September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is this a ****ing windup or what???Seriously WTF is happening to my country??? [URL="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39265847/UK_Proposes_All_Paychecks_Go_to_the_State_First"]Is this serious??…

    Just read that CNBC story again, dont really see the fuss. For anyone ... paying the right amount of ... if my paycheck goes to the government first, I dont believe ... . If some idiot in the UK read about some american law which ...
    psj3809 psj3809 September 2010 Chit chat
  • emulatorsplease help can we see clearly which emulator emaulates which hardware is there any that has a pc function key for the mulitface nmi button and the +…

    ... ?!)file support and cant even read a real hdf atom lite ... particular lcd screen how does the emulator read the monitor driver to find ... out? how does it know the vga ... to feed the tv output from the vga back into the video input ...
    Roger Jowett Roger Jowett October 2010 Emulators
  • You've done a man's Job Sir - NickH YSRNRYI guess you're through, huh.... I&#8217;d just like to take this opportunity to thank NickH for the years of wonderful service over at the Your Sinc…

    Heya - if you enjoyed the Official Christmas threads and the Advent Calendar I did ...
    NickH NickH October 2010 Chit chat
  • Manic Miner/chuckie egg style gameI've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I was wondering does the world need another Ma…

    ... proper, I was wondering does the world need another Manic Miner ... game?[/QUOTE]

    The world (read Spectrum-scene) needs games! Any ... /> If you like to make the game ; why wouldn't you ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2010 New game ideas
  • Why doesn't my loop work?Can anyone help me understand why my loop doesn't work? Is it to do with how DEC HL affects the flags? [code] ; Read 32k bytes from port 191 as fa…

    ... reg,(C) sets the sign flag (the "IN A,(port ... if minus) without doing the AND test in between. ... A,(C) ; bit 7 read from (port) sets sign ... and you still have the 1st reading where that ... the value read in another register (in the wait loop), that way when the ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie December 2010 Development
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... as its one of the more interesting threads on here; theres ... accepted Spectrum upgrade/replacement for the future.

    There ... a new Spectrum considering the relative simplicity of it ... blatantly crying out to the communities technically minded for ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar December 2010 Hardware
  • The Speccy Tour - How to improve it and encourage participation?[This will be posted on the HARP board as well, to encourage debate.] The Speccy Tour is, as many of you know, [U]the[/U] worldwide championship for…

    [QUOTE=Alessandro Grussu;501346]
    There are simply no excuses.[/QUOTE]

    My excuse is that speccy games are boring. My other excuse is that the last two threads about "The Speccy Tour" are the first time I've even heard of it...
    guesser guesser December 2010 Games
  • The Speccy Tour - How to improve it and encourage participation?[This will be posted on the HARP board as well, to encourage debate.] The Speccy Tour is, as many of you know, [U]the[/U] worldwide championship for…

    ... is that the last two threads about "The Speccy Tour" are the first time ... /> Where have you lived in the last 10 years, if I ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2010 Games
  • 128+ and Divide+ not working togetheri think theres something wrong with my 128 (toastrack), divide+ just wont work on it, corrupted screen on bootup and with big thick black bars rollin…

    ... memory (the other side of the resistors that divide the bus between the Z80 ... ) many times the peripheral just won't see the instruction read. I had ... to make quite a few changes to the ...
    Winston Winston December 2010 Hardware
  • Spanner seeks helpHello, and HNY, all. I am presently writing a game in BASIC. It's a bit - a lot - crap, but I'm enjoying it! Anyway, a couple of questions, if you …

    ... possible to make the computer read at random from the list, rather that ... something like:

    10 Read a$
    20 Print a ... example, you could load the values in the [B]DATA [/B]statements ... [B]RESTORE [/B]prior to the [B]READ[/B].

    Hope ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Ikari Warriors...Just been thinking while browsing the web slightly drunk... How the heck do you pronounce the name of this game? The choices are: 1) Ik-ar-eye Warr…

    I assume it's from the Japanse so it would be< ... /> I as in the first letter of the word Indian - I(ndian ... />
    Ri pronounced as in the word read (re)ad

    so, both the options are wrong in the ...
    weesam weesam January 2011 Games
  • Ikari Warriors...Just been thinking while browsing the web slightly drunk... How the heck do you pronounce the name of this game? The choices are: 1) Ik-ar-eye Warr…

    ... assume it's from the Japanse so it would ... I as in the first letter of the word Indian - ... /> Ri pronounced as in the word read (re)ad

    so, both the options are wrong in the ... to phonetically write for the second option, but hey ...
    The Starglider The Starglider January 2011 Games
  • Ikari Warriors...Just been thinking while browsing the web slightly drunk... How the heck do you pronounce the name of this game? The choices are: 1) Ik-ar-eye Warr…

    [QUOTE=weesam;506965]...Ri pronounced as in the word read [B](re)ad[/B]...[/QUOTE]

    Past tense or present?
    ZnorXman ZnorXman January 2011 Games
  • Elite to release a new Spectrum hardwareIt seems a rumor to me, but they say Elite is going to release a new Spectrum-like gadget for the 30th Speccy anniversary. It seems a ZX Spectrum-Li…

    Oh now I am shamed..... How the hell did I miss the other two threads!

    Oh well.... I said it before and I'll say it again....

    SQUEEEEEEE!! :lol:
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy February 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Enjoying Gaming Again:cry: Why oh why.... I work with computers all day.... and I come home and work on computers some more. I used to enjoy gaming, perticularly games …

    ... that I was not using the time to learn something ... as i'm not giving the baby time....' but you ... for a job, go down the pub, read a book, others have ...
    You may then have the best paid job in 10 ... Totally agree with ZnorXman, leave the work at home, have a ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2011 Chit chat
  • Enjoying Gaming Again:cry: Why oh why.... I work with computers all day.... and I come home and work on computers some more. I used to enjoy gaming, perticularly games …

    ... as i'm not giving the baby time....' but you have ... for a job, go down the pub, read a book, others have ... />
    You may then have the best paid job in 10 ... /> Totally agree with ZnorXman, leave the work at home, have a ... so my child can have the chance of a good ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk February 2011 Chit chat
  • A confessionI've never read the Hobbit. There, I've said it. I did try to read it when I was about 16 but I found it a bit boring and never got that far into it.

    ... have the patience, read bits of the lord of the rings / hobbit (specially the ... book i got with the ... />
    i enjoyed the lord of the rings films tho, amazing ... one of the best scenes in the lord of the rings films ...
    mel the bell mel the bell March 2011 Chit chat
  • modded zx81[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Modified-ZX81-Working-/200586397378?[/url] thought it might be of interest, no I'm not gonna bid

    I notice a large bid has been retracted with the reason "can't contact the seller" - more like the bidder read this thread then thought twice.

    [url]www.ZX81Museum.net[/url]
    ZX81Museum ZX81Museum March 2011 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum +3 Query...Hi all, As common, I brought down my Spectrum from the attic the other day to have another stab at getting it running. I knew from the past it was a…

    ... turned on, the voltmeter read 0.5V across the header pins.
    [QUOTE=Zetr0;520777]Once the FDD has been completey disconnected ... br /> So I tried disconnecting the FDD completely - Still 0.5V ... across the header pins.

    Crimbo Crimbo March 2011 Hardware
  • Retro Gamer Issue 88Good issue this month, fair bit of Missile Command. I 'presume' Rainbird Rich is the guy who wrote the article on Firebird this month, looks really …

    ... only for the Speccy stuff (and the early (read: 320x240 VGA ... "and up" PC era). I've switched to the ... PC right after the Spectrum. It ... already be found on the internet, and what ... RG does for the Spectrum is unique.
    Timmy Timmy March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "Video games cause rape" - Fox News[COLOR="Red"]"[I]Bulletstorm, a violent new video game released on 22nd February, could turn players as young as nine into rapists[/I]", says US 'new…

    ... a human being. The difference being the Citizen rights are ... get a birth certificate. The children (read 'we/us'), are then ... picked up by Maritime Law under the ... which relinquishes the title of the property being registered to the state. ...
    FrankT FrankT April 2011 Chit chat
  • Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…

    ...
    i kinda got the impression people wanted perfection no ... and the eventual death of the tapes[/QUOTE]

    The difference ... then it may break the "perfect" (read ideal) experience. It ...
    I personally prefer the neat and simplified structure of ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2011 Emulators
  • Xbox (original) problemI've borrowed a mate's Xbox to play Stranger's Wrath and ToeJam & Earl 3. It's annoying they're not 360 compatible :( First problem, everytime I sw…

    ... else to load the game. If the game disc (or the DVD drive ... updated XBox actually contained the update on the game disc) and I ... to the lights on the XBox when booting and when you get the "must ... update" screen, as the lights tell you ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Small Machine Code Routines Which Maybe UsefulAs part of creating Flynn's Adventure in Bombland I created a lot of little routines to do all sorts of things. A lot of these I created based on inp…

    ... is where you put the routine address to be ... I take it that the latter two chunks of ... right, THATKEYPRESSED will be the specific routine & MEM_KEYS ...

    For the key read in FAIBL I created a ... new byte with each of the ...
    TomD TomD April 2011 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.646 now available.Yay! Here's another round of bugfixes and additions to the Program. Not so much of the extract coding features, but more back-to-basics this time: […

    ... is the new "READ LINE strvar" basically the equivlent of the old ZX "READ strvar ... "?... if so, why add the extra ... "LINE" word in the command?... Does this mean READ has ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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