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Some pages from Richard Branson' autobiographyNot sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I read this and decided to type it up for others.. Points made in this are probably already know…
... realise assets. In the aftermath of the Janet Jackson signing, ... would have sliced the value of the licence to practically ... 000 consoles.
The next year, 1987, Mastertronic?s sales ... Virgin Interactive. In 1990 the next wave of technology would be ... -
Can I load directly from tape to emulator?I've been trying to preserve [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0024371"]this MIA[/URL]. I've recorded it to WAV using audacity. …
... using audacity. Then tried loading the WAV into ZXspin. It loads ... part which is the instructions, but then when loading the next part it ... was a way to play the tape and load it directly ... .
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Problem with Dragon Spirit!Hi folks. I have a problem with Dragon Spirit (that shoot'em up game where you control a dragon instead of a spaceship). I destroyed the final enem…
... spaceship).
I destroyed the final enemy I found in ... don't want to load the next level! It says "Well done ... !", the "virtual loading" starts and when ... 8 it blocks. The loading screen freezes, the frames turn red and ... -
I want to see if a file exists. in CIs this what they call a lockfile? I'm trying to write some software that translates from one language to another (as some of you probably know, I …
... does some calculations, and puts the result into file A. (It ... it tries to interpret the language, finding the verb, looking up words ... calculations to file B for the next process to pick up, etc ... , information will be sent to the next process?
Am I ... -
various gameslisting time again, more doubles.. more over the next week. [url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/rhodesvibes/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686…
listing time again, more doubles.. more over the next week.
[url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/rhodesvibes/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686[/url] -
IM2 Loading on +3EHi there Speccy Guru's, As some of you know, I've spent a while building the ultimate image for +3e, it's currently at 6000+games and demos and i've…
... and/or animations while loading the next demo part. This has gone ... due to the floating bus, maybe the real hardware changes the value of ... , althoughI just looked into the ROM and the only interupt setting is ... -
Am I missing something here?Just been watching the snooker on interactive (the red button job). Now, I know that within the next couple of years or so all of the UK will be on …
Just been watching the snooker on interactive (the red button job).
... Now, I know that within the next couple of years or so ... />
I know that the Snooker World Champs are protected ... would have thought was against the Beebs operating rules??
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C&VG Book of Maps broken linksThe Infoseek links for these SPOT entries are incorrect: [code] KNIGHTLORE M CV 8511 905.0 Book of Maps DUNDARACH M CV 8511 …
... / which doesn't exist; the pages are actually in .../C ... cover (based on the contents page numbering), but the scans are numbered ... 0102 ... 0304 ... from the inside front cover. As SPOT ... 1; I'll correct the SPOT entries in the next update (due shortly). -
DAB Radio?I don't listen to much radio, though I should (it's better than TV for many types of broadcast, and you can get on with other things whilst listening…
... by the (British) industry.
The author of the article ... paramount! All the more so since aparently the DAB radio ... should get your book in the next few days with luck, ... take 100% of the cash) providing the smallest percentage of programming ... -
My emulator has a CPU bug, any ideas?.Hi all, I am writing a Speccy emulator in PureBASIC but have an odd bug. The spectrum interprets the odd numbers incorrectly whenever they are typed…
... have an odd bug. The spectrum interprets the odd numbers incorrectly whenever ... this is a problem with the integer or floating point ... conversion routines used by the spectrum.
I ... as does a real spectrum. The next test fails, as does a ... -
Krakatoa 2012I was working on some type-ins from Computer Gamer when I came to one which I thought I'd seen somewhere else, and indeed John Pitcher's game Krakato…
... is different) will be in the next TTFn update in a week ... -
Couple more joblots[url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/graham4054/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686[/url] Gonna list an Amiga CD32 and Snes in the next few days.
[url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/graham4054/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686[/url]
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Speccy Games - big list available for saleHi, my first post! I've had a large batch of Spectrum games loitering for a few years and want to get rid of them. They are mostly early to mid 80'…
... which I will list in the next post. I also have them ... something hard to find to the dedicated. I'm not after ... -
Calling all potential Pyskool moddersIt recently occurred to me that the example customisations distributed with Pyskool ('Skool Daze Take Too', 'Ezad Looks' and 'Back to Skool Daze' - […
... occurred to me that the example customisations distributed with ... come up with some for the next version of Pyskool (0 ... code][SitDownMessages]
CREAK, SIT THE EFF DOWN YOU EFFING EFFERS ... br /> [/code]
(See the [url="http://pyskool.ca/docs ... -
Colour BoxesWell, working title. I don't have a name yet. Imagine a field with ladders to platforms left and right from a huge block of attributes. On every pl…
... enough) in the block. By pressing the button the block collapses ... disappeared). With the new shape of the block the player can ... the other site to other colours and eliminate the next colour until the ... route to the exit is ... -
How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…
Look the next picture.
[IMG]http:// ... . For example in asm with the follow definition, how to insert ... some special characters but not the diagonal ones that are ont ... -
A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
... machine code trailing off the end of the [b]RAND USR[/b ... * PEEK 23636[/code]
The program looks like this, byte ... up executing byte 4 (the command in the BASIC program -- [b] ... b], or whatever). The first command in the Spectrum character set that ... -
TROOPER:Point5Well it's done!!! [IMG]http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/binman/Development/point5.gif[/IMG] CodenameV has just finished the frontend, keys/stick selectio…
... />
CodenameV has just finished the frontend, keys/stick selection, and ... /> collect the items to progress the waves, survive the waves untill the next level - can ... you get through the ... -
Help Lost GameI used to play a game but for the life of me can not remember it. Game Description: You were on a ship and water is coming in, you are a man who ha…
... the ship to pump the water
Also at the back of the ... ship you have the ... oil
The ... can also shut the doors of flooded ... you go on to the next stage.
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Maybe I'm Getting old...because I'm starting to sound like my grand dad, but I've been going to the movies and people are taking their children at a very young age to the mo…
... ), and aparently I was the retarded one, because everyone ... />
I remember the first few times I went ... movie was romancing "The Jewel of the Nile" in 86 ...
For some reason the next year my grand mother took ... nowadays? or am I the one wrong in this ... -
Just an idea (please read)After the devastating news that Jonathon "Joffa/Frobush" Smith had passed away, I started wondering how we could suitably commemorate him. I mean, we…
... Spectrum games, something to recognise the best Spectrum games of each ... s catagories next year, of course), but what is the earliest ... in the Spectrum fans sense) listing the Joffa awards.
The ... start on Feb 1st of the next year, and finish on March ... -
Film on Crash & ZZap magazines now free!NEWSFIELD YEARS FULL FILM NOW FREE! I would just like to say thank you to the huge support and positive feedback we had from buyers of our film ?Cla…
... film ?Classic Games Crusader ? The Newsfield Years?. We always made ... who haven?t seen the full length ?The Newsfield Years? then ... Crusader films are free and the next batch coming out very ... continue to enjoy the films.
Until next time,
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An Experiment.I go online quite a bit. Quite a lot to be honest!! I always enjoy reading the posts on WOS without exception (even though I do not post a great dea…
... honest!! I always enjoy reading the posts on WOS without exception ... other thingies, BUT.... would the sky really fall in if ... not have my laptop? In the next week or so, I'm ... I do- a return to the old life. My dvd ... has dust on it at the moment:p
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Flying Ant Day 2010They flew here yesterday, and two weeks ago at Worthing. Hows about elsewhere? This year there were more of em. I got caught while leaving the hou…
... . I got caught while leaving the house at 5:45pm.
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Adventure Gamebook Solver"It would take me ages to solve that adventure gamebook without AGES" - is what someone might say if they didn't have the [url=http://www.users.globa…
... routine to resolve that in the next day or two.
the way.
The archive contains the three AGES ... programs, plus the data files ... -
Optimize this assembly?Aiming for Variable*192 -> HL In the first case, I came up with the obvious method - *128 +*64: [code] ld a, (variable) ;13 ld h,0 ; 7 ld l,…
... -> HL
In the first case, I came up ... with the obvious method - *128 +*64:
the next pass I had a rethink ... came up with doing it the other way - by division:
Anco Software "10 Games"It's likely that Anco's 10 Games (MIA) and The Ultimate Experience (sub-titled 10 Games) are the same thing, as they're both from 1983 and Anco never…
... s 10 Games (MIA) and The Ultimate Experience (sub-titled 10 ... 1983 and Anco never advertised The Ultimate Experience as such (even ... though that's the main title on the cassette inlay).
the next SPEX update, although I'm ...Common pitfalls and solutionsLet's discuss some of the common problems in Speccy programming, and the methods we use to avoid them. For an example, here is a piece of code that …
... 's discuss some of the common problems in Speccy programming ... what someone else wrote, inc. the code itself.)
... all of the memory banks available.
;The reason they ... random corruption.
;
;The next program addresses this so that ...decoding speech in Creature of HavocI've been looking at the Fighting Fantasy gamebook "Creature of Havoc" for the first time, since it was mentioned yesterday in another place, and hav…
... vowel is replaced by the next letter in the alphabet.
* Spaces ... are replaced by the last vowel used.
* ... of ambiguity in distinguishing between the letters BFJPV which are ... br />
For example, the sentence:
"Jih bvf ebffne ...Haha! I've just got my first ever 419!After all these years of reading how much fun people have had wioth these but never having one myself here is my first 419. tbh It's a bit lame comp…
... account in your country as the real next of kin to one ... an indigene cannot stand as the next-of-kin. in order to ... and paid to you as the beneficiary next-of-kin. all documents ... to locate any of the declared beneficiary (next of kin) and more ...
