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  • The 80's top 50 most Embarrising moments - Channel 5 Friday NightDon't know if anyone else watched this pap last night - but at number 30 we had '80's Computers' to which you had John Tickle going on about the load…

    They can make fun of the Speccy loading times all they want, they were still better than that WWE game on the PSP. What was it, 8 minutes from startup to gameplay?
    udgoverload udgoverload September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 80's top 50 most Embarrising moments - Channel 5 Friday NightDon't know if anyone else watched this pap last night - but at number 30 we had '80's Computers' to which you had John Tickle going on about the load…

    ... can make fun of the Speccy loading times all they want ... would it load? What would the loading screen be like. HOW would ... that built different parts of the loading screen, some even had animated ... play a game whilst loading.

    The last game I ...
    Vampyre Vampyre September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…

    ... still like to use the real hardware etc. Not ...
    Whilst most of the TZX files will easily convert ... then load normally after the WAV has been put ... D) some of the more popular games in the "loader, SCREEN$, ... on how to hack the various loading schemes to add ...
    DEATH DEATH September 2006 Games
  • TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…

    ... />
    Oddly enough, the first code block after the loading screen is loaded ... the whole of the Spectrum ROM followed by the first $B43 bytes of the loading ... screen. I didn't investigate the actual loading ...
    StuBruise StuBruise September 2006 Games
  • Sixth SenseOMG! Bruce Willis was dead all along! lol. Anyway, there is a scene near the beginning where the vile child is in the kitchen & his mom comes back…

    ... he also wrote the truly creepy "The Rats" on which the Speccy game of ... the same name was ... get my hands on from the local lending library. Read ... yet. But I particularly enjoyed the mystery and enigma that surrounds ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2006 Chit chat
  • MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…

    Does this mean that the Spectrum loading signals can be passed allong the internet from one computer to a remote computer?

    I did some tests with MSN Messenger a few weeks back but had no Joy..


    Andrew.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk September 2006 Emulators
  • MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…

    ... loading tones boosted. Obviously our sound hardware wasn't up to the ... is what the Speccy wants you to do with loading sounds. Old ... the increase in information and say "piss off - I'm not loading ... players. It's perfect for the Spectrum loading sounds, and I'm ...
    Spector Spector September 2006 Emulators
  • Screenshot display per default?Now that we have a good amount of screenshots available (as well as draw some more attention to it as a side effect), how does the WoS populace think…

    ... preferences option when you entered the archive index so you ... could have the option to have the listings with screenshots ... my only worry is getting the page cannot be displayed message ... you had not only the screenshot/ loading screen thumbnails, but also ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screenshot display per default?Now that we have a good amount of screenshots available (as well as draw some more attention to it as a side effect), how does the WoS populace think…

    ... option when you entered the archive index so you ... could have the option to have the listings with screenshots ... you had not only the screenshot/ loading screen thumbnails, but also ... the cassette inlay thumbnail as ...
    mheide mheide October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Longest Loading TimeWhat game do you blokes think had the longest loading time My vote is for "Driller"

    ... thread for my measurements of the longest loading times (for single loaders ...
    Daren Daren October 2006 Games
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    Monty On The Run has an advert for Crash, then followed by the real loading screen.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan October 2006 Games
  • Question for the tzx dev guru'sI'm almost finished with a batch of adventure tapes which I've got on loan.. The final tape, is a development version of Birthday Surprise, which ha…

    I'll have to rewrite the loader a bit to handle ... this loader does is start loading bits from anywhere on a ... my emulated case), then when the tape edges end it works ... manage to rebuild most of the Amaurote loading screen after I deliberately ...
    Woody Woody October 2006 Development
  • Which Emulator?I?m interested to know which emulator people use! Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading e…

    I use the full (paid for) version ... to it.
    The tape loading is perfect, the look and 'feel' ... is going on in the computer at the same time.
    ... to pay for the latest version. I like the tape recorder too ... do you get that from? The web site is still on ...
    itsallgood itsallgood November 2006 Emulators
  • Is the full moon......exceptionally bright where you are tonight? Went out for a crafty fag and the back garden was lit up. Thought it was a neighbour with their secu…

    When we were kids.... wi were sooo poor that the rats started setting traps for us!!

    Our house was so cold in Winter the windows steam up on the outside!!

    Damp!!!! the house was soo damp, we didnt have a bath.... we had a Jetty
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2006 Chit chat
  • Mango Jones Z80 file incomplete (?)Hi there. I was trying out [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=%5EMango+Jones$&pub=%5ECrash$&model=spectrum"]Mango Jones[/URL]…

    ... game, it's in the Alchemist Software library, so ... TZX" from the coverdisk, as supplied by the library way ... drives, I'll leave the +D loading syntax in place.
    the TZX file to you ... did have permission from the author to distribute their ...
    DEATH DEATH November 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... .

    Yer the coloured loading bar is absolutely fantastic ! I ... but what are the differences between the 3 following modes and ...
    I prefer using Fast loading, which I believe loads a ... any special tricks such as loading straight into memory (Flash ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2006 Emulators
  • Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…

    I`ve been looking over the tape loading schemes here [url]http://newton ... is not a mention of the Hewson Slowload scheme. I would ... by Speedlock Associates for both loading and saving. Not sure which ... , red/black border stripes on loading.
    FrankT FrankT November 2006 Development
  • The IT Crowd DVDSurprised not to see anything on here about the new The IT Crowd DVD, in relation to the menus, anyone else seen it?

    ... the Speccy related menus, from the copyright loading screen complete with the lovely loading screeching, The ... Manic Miner episode selection screen, and the Head ... channel 4 comedy night at the moment..
    Cult_of_Clive Cult_of_Clive November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I got it bad!Just noticed the speccy Loading sounds on one of the menu selections on the Mutant X DVD. I got excited and played it a few times. Oh dear!

    ... noticed the speccy Loading sounds on one of the menu selections on the Mutant ...
    rwap rwap December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    ... Force II has only one loading screen. Tank&chopper one ... which shown after loading is complete. it was the first multicolour picture ... />
    (actually I'm converting the game into 256 colour mode ... has a shot of the 1st loading screen on the top-right
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 December 2006 Games
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    ... Crash, then followed by the real loading screen.[/quote]
    ...
    There are probably more verisons of the ...
    Not sure about the loading scheme tho...
    My question ... it even had a loading time left countdown IIRC...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 December 2006 Games
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    ... a shot of the 1st loading screen on the top-right
    the man who kicks a door) is a loading screen ... and it's ok. But the second one ... (tank&chopper) is not a loading screen ... it's not showing while loading. because it's a ...
    Arda Arda January 2007 Games
  • Point-and-Click AdventuresI was just rooting around some of my old ZX tapes and I stumbled upon (more like "picked up") a couple of "point-and-click" style adventures. That's …

    ... put me off playing the game. Otherwise the game design & ... then you should also consider the Magic Knight "Windymation" games ... , Knight Tyme, Stormbringer) and The Young Ones (for example), which ... WIMP control. Then there's The Rats, which had a combination ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2007 Games
  • Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…

    ... responsible for producing the product from the source material provided ... inconsistency on the inlay card in the use of the apostrophe, ... its primary title. The SoSB loading screen title and copyright ... notice, the title screen ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2007 Infoseek database
  • Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…

    ... responsible for producing the product from the source material provided ... its primary title. The SoSB loading screen title and copyright ... notice, the title screen ... (different parts of the inlay, loading, title or in- ...
    mheide mheide January 2007 Infoseek database
  • Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…

    ... I think Chase HQ used the AY chip, which gives you ... can't do it with the "flash-loading a TAP file full ... you're limited by the speed of the Spectrum's data ... bus - my routine on the DivIDE was only playing at ... , you can just downgrade the sound quality a bit to ...
    gasman gasman January 2007 Development
  • a dumb question?Well, I have been confused with all these interfaces so I have the following question which will make things clear for me... ;) Is there a "device" …

    ... do this.

    The one that's causing a ... of interest at the moment is the DivIDE. The standard board is ... it traps tape-loading routines, and how the tape-loading is interpreted ... depends on the firmware you ...
    icabod icabod January 2007 Hardware
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    ... remix/trainer of Batty in the following way (using RealSpectrum ... . Now load the original disk loader and the breakpoint should trigger ... starts at $D00F, where the registers are set as follows ... $D023 which skips over the disk loading routine. Finally, we start ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2007 Games
  • R Tape Loading ErrorWhat, for your money, was the best and worst loading routine on a Spectrum game? For me: Best: Bugaboo - totally cinematic, built up a real sense …

    ... satisfy myself by listening to the tape loading information on a cassette ...
    netallstar netallstar February 2007 Games
  • R Tape Loading ErrorWhat, for your money, was the best and worst loading routine on a Spectrum game? For me: Best: Bugaboo - totally cinematic, built up a real sense …

    ... satisfy myself by listening to the tape loading information on a cassette ...
    zx1 zx1 February 2007 Games
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