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  • Spectrum Noob! Please Help!!!i just bought my spectrum with 3 games and was realy looking forward to playing on it but i cant seem to load any games!!! i have the zx spectrum +3…

    ... seems to freeze loading before it gets to the option screen...[/QUOTE ... ]chuntey effect[/i] interfering with the loading process. Do ask your mom ... to stay away from the speccy during the entire loading process. If that ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Hardware
  • Spectrum Noob! Please Help!!!i just bought my spectrum with 3 games and was realy looking forward to playing on it but i cant seem to load any games!!! i have the zx spectrum +3…

    ... ]chuntey effect[/I] interfering with the loading process. Do ask your mom ... to stay away from the speccy during the entire loading process. If that ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2007 Hardware
  • Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…

    ... Manic Miner had the clever loading screen thing with the flashing attributes, but ... coding trick to update the screen very quickly so ... there were colours onscreen beyond the Spectrum's palette, like ... than LDIR) to get the flicker-free graphics by building ...
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey February 2007 Games
  • Dead forum?I can't believe it's 12 and a half hours since anyone posted in this forum...

    ... ;173965]i was thinking the other day about the average age of ... wife gold jumpsuits or whatever the future of fashion will be ... what you can do during the 5min loading times.
    beanz beanz March 2007 Chit chat
  • Dead forum?I can't believe it's 12 and a half hours since anyone posted in this forum...

    ... what you can do during the 5min loading times.[/QUOTE]

    the thing across the floor just as you ... attempting a tricky leap across the Banyan Tree and that would ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2007 Chit chat
  • Hints for a better life...PLEASE DON'T START ONE THREAD AFTER ANOTHER BASED ON THIS....POST HERE!!! Right, lets lighten things up a bit... looking for tips for a better lif…

    ... />
    Or would that make the love potions too potent?[/QUOTE ... /> Possibly it may even scare the rats away!
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Chit chat
  • C# emulatorHi, I wanted to branch out and get a little better with C# so I think I need something meaty to do to keep me going....so an emulator seemed a reaso…

    ... seeing as I'll put the Z80 parsing and implementation ... the memory class working fine, along with write access and the ROM loading ... etc,, the screen class is ... just a stub at the moment. ...
    polomint polomint March 2007 Emulators
  • WOOOH nice find today :)all my retro game goodness came today :P nearly orgasmed in a charity shop today as i came across all the following .....boxed a gamegear (with powe…

    ... robbed not long before Christmas, the rats who turned it over broke ... and kicked a hole through the floor. They then dropped ... into the shop through the ceiling and took everything ... Sikh fella. It opened the day I left the country (bad timing ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Chit chat
  • WOOOH nice find today :)all my retro game goodness came today :P nearly orgasmed in a charity shop today as i came across all the following .....boxed a gamegear (with powe…

    ... robbed not long before Christmas, the rats who turned it over broke ... and kicked a hole through the floor. They then dropped ... into the shop through the ceiling and took everything ... Sikh fella. It opened the day I left the country (bad timing ...
    dekh dekh March 2007 Chit chat
  • Another Brick in the WallMartijn, actually this game doesnt exist, the only one released was "Another Brick in the wall 2", that was an entry for the 2004 bytemaniacos compo.…

    Btw, the following screenshot:

    screens/in-game/a/AnotherBrickOnTheWall2.gif

    is taken from the prequel (And Other Brick On The Wall).

    The current loading screenshot is fine as it is, though.
    jpablo jpablo April 2007 Infoseek database
  • Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…

    ... is this happening. Surely the Spectrum (albeit through an ... QUOTE]

    No. The Spectrum is deterministic. Its [i ... depend exactly how it emulates the tape loading process.

    ... 't touch the controls the computer would score the same goals ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2007 Games
  • CluedoI cant seem to get cluedo to load in spectaculator. Ive tried the version on infoseek and tried recording my copy but it gets stuck at the first spee…

    Thanks for checking guys. I doubt its the tzx because I also tried recording my own direct from cassette with the same result.

    Whats interesting is Monopoly which uses the same loading process works!
    RND RND April 2007 Games
  • divIDE ProductionJust to let everyone know that we have made further progress with the updated divIDE. Board design has been completed and changes have been made to …

    ... TAP) support to ResiDOS at the moment; it should be available ... to those files which use the standard loader, as it would ... will be made available for LOADing using the standard loader (or for ... format even though they use the standard loading system and so could ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2007 Announcements
  • WOS Server under heavy loadJust got a couple of "System Load Too High" responses - I guess a lot of people have heard about the 25th Anniversary and discovered WOS through the …

    The site loading has improved slightly from 2 hours ago, but a one legged arthritic tortoise could still type War and Peace on a mobile phone quicker :-P
    VincentAC VincentAC April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.

    ... just samples of the [b]sound[/b] of the games loading up, obviously ... .

    the "Girl/Boy ... artwork as well, with the colored stripes logo [url] ... it also had the tracks written inside with the rubber keys effect.
    def chris def chris April 2007 Games
  • Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…

    Ninja Hamster and Loads of Midnight by CRL also use the Injectaload loading scheme.

    Steve
    Gilby Gilby April 2007 Emulators
  • 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 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2007 Games
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... the emulator to maximum speed when loading and tricks to "short-circuit" the ... bit loading loop (eg detect a loading ... loop, see if the next ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2007 Emulators
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... better then waiting even the 40 seconds the mac book takes, ... seconds does it include the emulator loading and you starting to ... play/load the game?

    the gp2x emulate the spectrum keyboard?) and the straight plug ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex Sinclair stuff wantedI will pay 500USD if someone can sell me all of the following items: 1 Timex Sinclair 2068 1 Timex Sinclair 2090 command stick 1 " " …

    ... is a cartridge connector for the zx81/ts1000/ts1500, for ... ever sold.

    The 2068 has a cartridge port ... COMPLETELY crap, as were the 4 for the TS1510 (Flight Sim was ... the time).

    The good part was the instant loading .. I always hated the ...
    jboatno4 jboatno4 May 2007 Wanted
  • How did games started with LOAD "" CODE auto-start?Some early games (l remember for example [B]Galaxians[/B] from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading…

    ... block first loaded the loading screen, then rest of the game code ... in memory (due to the game loading both screen and code ... together), but where/how does the ...
    Simply put, Galaxians loads the system variables as well as ...
    ghbearman ghbearman May 2007 Development
  • You're going to hate this...May I first point out that I'm wearing flame-retardant clothing, and whilst it *is* a concrete overcoat (presumably to save time...) it chafes a litt…

    [quote=NickH;191772]The massive database of loading and in-game ... used different palettes to represent the Spectrum colours.[/quote]
    ... rather than .gif files (the other reasons being FLASHing ... 99% of the screenshots, loading or in-game, use the same palette ...
    mheide mheide May 2007 Support files
  • Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …

    Was at work today, when it suddenly dawned on me... The scariest Speccy game..

    THE RATS!

    Fantastic, and heart-pounding... James Herberts story really comes to life. Honestly a chilling game. Play it tonight!
    Graz Graz June 2007 Games
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    In the basic loader there's ... RANDOMIZE USR 0'. I know the real values are stored in ... the 2 bytes after each ... calculate those. It calls the tape loading routine that's stored ... in that REM.

    The ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2007 Games
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... and I plan to distribute the game via Alchemist Software. However ... that'll do exactly the same). Load the TZX into your ... sure your emulator makes the sound of the tape loading, and simply record ... free (apart from the postage costs). In the meantime, use a ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Games
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... you want the tape version, you will get the normal loading speed version ... AND the faster turbo loading version. The game ... on the padded bag
    5) Put the tape into the bag, the padded ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Games
  • The new GP2Xpectrum releases threadYeah, I know the thread title isn't exactly too original, but I've decided that just one post to hold all updates makes more sense than a lot of smal…

    ... , here's the new version that fixes SNA loading[/QUOTE]
    ... , cool! Yes, that's sorted the SNA loading nicely. :)

    ... . For example, Return being the default position instead of Screen ... "Y") meaning "press the button and exit the keyboard mode" (as ...
    Laser Laser June 2007 Emulators
  • The best Spanish Game??This is a post to all non-spanish specchums of the forums : Which was the spanish game you liked the most back in the day? I know many games never r…

    On my opinion, the best spanish games for ZX Spectrum are: 'Sir Fred', 'Fred' and 'Abu Simbel Profanation'.
    The best loading screen (and cassette inlay): 'Game Over';)
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez June 2007 Games
  • So what's everybody doing this weekend?I'm paying off wedding cars (getting married next year), scouting possible venues in which to take wedding photos, and picking up the three Ken Bruen…

    ... drew pictures for the rest of the day.
    ... what to do for the rest of the day.



    Is the screen bright enough for you ... , but with the dark background of, 'The Rats' there wasn' ... t any trouble. So, the Count ...
    Graz Graz June 2007 Chit chat
  • best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…

    Krakout has easily the best loading screen, possibly of any speccy ... cichlasoma* that Thru The Wall is easily the best game in this ... genre;) It has all the right basic qualities.:-)

    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack June 2007 Games
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