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Speccy Game on PS4 shocker!Well, not exactly! I've just found a game called [b]Rock Boshers DX[/b] on the PlayStation store and it's every bit a Speccy Game! It's even got a Sp…
... got a Speccy loader and loading screen :-)
It' ... case of getting the keys and getting to the exit. It plays ... was unlocked by sitting through the full loading process :-)
It ... 's a cross buy with the ... -
48K Not booting properlyBought another faulty spectrum from Ebay. This one, when you turn it on, it looks like it's going to boot OK, but when it gets to the point where it…
... K in the middle of the screen and ... a low constant beep from the speaker.
I entered the command 'PRINT PEEK 23732 ... then tried to load the memory test program from ... the end of the first part of the program loading.
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DivMMC Enjoy! and ZX Spectrum 128k +2 GreyHi guys,<br><br>First time poster but a long time Speccy enthusiast, from Canada. :)<br><br>I just obtained a DivMMC Enjoy! expansion, and I am using…
... is, and I am loving the fast loading feature.
... related to either the keyboard not responding, or the kempston port not ... would allow me to bypass the menu screen. Pressing buttons ... % compatible fast loader that the cartridge utilizes and all games ... -
New Manic Miner Remake written in AGK Basic and available on Mac OS X and Windows.<div style="font-weight: normal;">Hi,</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">I've released a re-write of …
... -write I did in the 90's for Manic ... new version with 40 levels (The original 20 + 20 more) ... you press F1 on the piano loading screen, the game will show ... to gain his approval for the remake, do you have ... wordpress.com where I update the tutorials as and when ... -
ZX Spectrum issue 2 has only blue tintsRecently I've bought a 16k speccy and ran into some issues with it. Faulty keyboard, broken caps, no stable frequency, faulty lower RAM chip, it bein…
... only have the blue tint issue and loading issue. From the research I ... chip deals both with loading programs and the video output as far ... with no luck)
The not loading issue might be because of ... -
Manic Miner (slightly) Updated1. The new loading screen I put together [url="http://jswmm.co.uk/topic/68-alternative-loading-screen-software-projects/"]here[/url] has been used. …
1. The new loading screen I put together [url=" ... .co.uk/topic/68-alternative-loading-screen-software-projects/"]here[/url ... real machine) and for tape loading fanatics too. This is [b ... cut down loading time from approx 3m15s to 2m30s. :) Only the game ... -
Spectrum 128Ks, disk interfaces and unique and very rare disk softwareI am a 72 year old ex enthusiast who put all his equipment in the loft 30 years ago which was fully working at the time. From memory I have a couple…
... which was fully working at the time. From memory I ... programmers who overwrote the tape loading routines with disk loading data. Some are ... a large tape collection too. The whole equipment was connected to ... would love to see all the equipment up and running ... -
New Retro Virtual Machine v1.1.0Hello everyone, a new version of Retro Virtual Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXHnelI49A Change Log: Added the ZX Spectrum+ with s…
... for the ‘warp mode’
Added Drag and Drop support for loading ... between threads, improved the stability and the performance.
With the ‘Open’ (CMD ... circumstances. Fixed a bug in the TZX loading (Super Wonder Boy works ... -
Remaking Special Operations - some thoughts and questions.(Edit: Sorry - long one!) Special Operations is one of my favourite titles and, despite them being very different, is up there with Halls of the T…
... based games appeared on the shelves, cashing in ... real operation from the War as the basis, so I ... . Bogey is with the British from the WWII era?
... feel uncomfortable with it, the French amongst others, have ... game. It does the classic loading of BASIC as code ... -
Found a random tape at home.Whilst looking through some tapes at home I found one that I know for a fact is not mine. It's got Paperboy written on the one side (this is what ma…
... nothing on the other side. When I load the tape the Paperboy side ... then loads a very odd loading screen. I think it's ... game on the tape has TE in the bottom right of the loading screen ... loaded it before. This is the Petrat loading screen.
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ZX Dandanator! Mini - Cartridge system for SpectrumsHi All, I'd like to present a little HW I've developed during the last three months. It's aimed at providing a console-like usage experience for a…
... from .POK files or freezing loading screens for a while. 128k ... game loading is under development now.
the system loading games from the menu
[url ... for jumpers or user configuration. The system detects what kind of ... -
Rituals to get your tape to loadI found this comment on the internet regarding the 'human sacrifice' video from cern : I get where they are coming from [quote]Back in the days o…
... my Spectrum and cassettes, if the the cassette recorder was having a ... was repeatedly was getting the 'R Tape Loading Error', I had a ... that static was bad for the tape loading. So I'd go ... and find the cat, hold her flat ... -
New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
... to find was the BASIC file; the rest of the assets—the loading screen, music ... headerless BASIC file to reduce the overall loading time (an entirely useless ... —the history of the revival project and some beginner’s tips on loading ... -
New turbo loader: SetoLOADFor anyone interested in turbo loaders, here is my contribution: SetoLOAD, the fast loading scheme I developed for my [url="http://www.alessandrogrus…
... is my contribution: SetoLOAD, the fast loading scheme I developed for my ... .
All of the available schemes have been successfully ... 48K, 128K, +2A) by feeding the input either from a PC ... img]
[i]Sample file loading (Multi version 1)[/i]
Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…
... games crash as soon as the loading finishes; then there's Cray ... using fast loading or have it set at the original loading speed.
the other hand, I tried loading Castlevania: Spectral Interlude ...TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... signal, but it disappears during the loading blocks so it's not ... yellow stripes for the turbo loading blocks... at least the tape works enough ... WAV, loading it into the +2B and routing the sound out of the TAPE ...New Utility ZXSTLC[b]New Utility ZX Spectrum Tape (& Disk) Loader Creator[/b] I made this utility to easily create tape and +3 disk loaders for my projects and have…
... buffers, especially for disk loading on the +3. This utility can restore ... each of the 128k memory banks, while using the ROM loading routines to ... maintain compatibility with the new SD ...DivIDe doesn't bootHi! I have a DivIDE 57c motherboard with a 256MB Sandisk CF card. I haven't used it in about 2 years. I put on a ZX Spectrum +2 the gray version I've…
... to boot and gives the message "Loading ESXDOS.SYS ERROR" and ... then resets to the screen ... anything or reset, the browser from which the games were selected ... tried to reinstall esxdos088 from the audio cassette, everything went ...Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …
... copies another loading screen onto the display
3. The main game ... relocated to $F000 if the second loading screen is done away ... bank. The solution was to rip out the tape loading routine and ... replace it with the ROM ...PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... "up the board", from the bottom to the top of the screen;
the numbering at the edge of the board scheme ... second.
Loading/saving:
(I'm not ... quite figured out the saving/loading yet. I thought the "S" options ...PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... the "full rosy nostalgia" settings (complete with loading/ ... saving border patterns), and the "Sn" functions ... seemed to be the only ones that exhibited the tape loading ... off my chair when the background colour changed!! ...That Nostalgia ThangI was bored sitting waiting on a bus the other day and it was bucketing down with rain. As it does in gloomy situations like that, my mind started t…
... rather remember only vaguely) the tape loading errors, the badly written
games ... /> white screenshots on the cheap paper of the early magazines, the badly
the original games, the true classics, the amazment of seeing ...what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…
... the programs from the Horizon tape. Wot really got me was the beautiful loading ... patterns and the 7 colours!
The computer itself took a ...speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
... no doubt have noticed the sound the tape loading produces bears little to ... the simple sinodual tones that BEEP ...Spectaculator 2.0 availableHi, I've just released a new version of Spectaculator. It should be on WOS in a few days. Here's a cut 'n' paste from comp.sys.sinclair: Spectacula…
... heard. On other emulators the music in Gyroscope has ... horrible noise in the background but this is ... the real thing! :D
The cassette deck feature with the fast loading ... toggle and loading sound is fantastic. ...Gaming MythsLike mentioned in earlier threads - we have games like Mire Mare, Lunar Jetman and Scooby Doo. Does any other ones spring to mind. They need not be…
... circulated about games. Seeing as the Spectrum was such an amazing ... in games, as well as the fabled Loading Superstition.
Hey ...Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…
... this position for the entire duration of the game loading.
A ... adjust the tape heads with!
Hmmmm...Loading Way of the Exploding ... Fist all the way to the end of the tape ...Where are you from / who are you / do you still use the real SpectrumJust three questions to see how divers the Spectrumworld is and how many users are still around. If you want to stay anonymous, just answer the last …
... in that time.
The last time I loaded up ... basic and play the odd game but the long loading times put me ... /> I like that story about the Spectrum being used for a ... linked up my Spectrum to the video recorder and made a ...Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... ;
---> the version of "Chuckie Egg" with ... );
---> the bug-fixed version of "Starion ... (published in Crash) to improve the game loading/saving;
... ---> Fraser's version of "Shadow of The ...Can someone help me found those games...... that seem to do not work ? I downloaded them from WOS but for many reason they don't function with my zx32 emulator: Androids, Boxing Manager 2,…
... u might want to put the tape loading speed to slowest mark ... (accurate emulation).
2) Check the ... load game with accurate tape loading emulation. If that doesn't ... to run all games using the above two techniques. If it ...
