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OT: I hate modern music!Sorry for this off topic thread, but I've been subjected to one hip hop/ r'n'b record too many when out tonight. Why do we have to listen to this? …
... samplers and keybords and obviously the darkness who are shit, ... once started by bands like the dead kennedys/decendents/operation ...
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At the end of the day, you never see ... one in the charts. The very best music always sells big, even if ... -
Use MakeTZX to make perfect TZX filesI own the "Heise Sammelkassette 2" with many Spectrum programs, among them the utility "Super Loader" to record files with a higher speed. On this ta…
... that into a TZX file the 3,600 baud file "INFO ... /> (If I load the WAV file directly into the Spectaculator it works ... can use the WAV file only, but it's VERY BIG!!! Is there ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
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If you understand the basic programming concepts they translate ... reinvented the wheel everytime they did something they'd never get very big ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... imperative languages) show up very early. The raison d'etre for ... students will know the subset of the C++ language that ... level, leaving behind the connection between the computer hardware and ... the wheel everytime they did something they'd never get very big ... -
Re-release of Speccy or C64? Hi all, i remember reading an article earlier this year that proposed the re-release of the commodore64 computer, and quite possibly the spectrum a…
... popular. I was in the town centre the other day and there ... for 35 pounds.
The Atari joystick over at [url ... "]www.firebox.com[/url] sells very well and that only has ... .
Retro gamings very big and the first company to offer some ... -
Atari ST Diskshello again, forgive me for the format change.... some of you may remember i requested some *original* atari ST disks a while back for dumping to pr…
@ dave, cheers - winstons the one i tried eons ago, ... my atari st games (not very big :( ) tell me if you need ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... Binary in the actual addresses, BASIC is just a big program ... running, and PRINT USR just ups, PUSHs PC to the ... 23657437 compared to 168FBDDh? The only way decimal is convenient ... /> Decimal is not convenient for the very reason you have touched on ... -
infocom gamesi was looking at the text adventure achive and can't beleive that infocom did'nt release any games for the speccy. i thought they would've at least h…
... ."]www.the-underdogs.org.[/url] It's a very nice graphic-adventure game ... -
your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…
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1-The Hobbit (my first adventure game)
2-LOTR ... -Runestone
4-Bored of the Rings (very funny)
5-Terrors ... -in from Sinclair User....its the bollox!!!!)
Adventures I ... there are about 7 in the entire world!!!) :) :) -
What's the best emulator......for running under Windows XP? I recently upgraded (grudgingly), aonly to find the emulators I had (Z80, Gleck, RealSpectrum) didn't work, or said …
Yes, XP is certainly very stable. In the 18 months I've ... a big but), I really object to the bloated nature of the ... You could control the hardware directly without the need for multiple ... operating system.
At the very least, my old Amiga 1200 ... -
Program that looked like ceefaxOkay... Got a bit of a poser for you here as this is doing my head in bigtime. There was a program that looked and functioned like Ceefax, for the l…
... on you could get for the speccy that would let you ... was going to be the next big thing in the eighties, I saw ... show, it seemed like a very ropey forerunner to the internet. -
Program that looked like ceefaxOkay... Got a bit of a poser for you here as this is doing my head in bigtime. There was a program that looked and functioned like Ceefax, for the l…
... going to be the next big thing in the eighties, I saw ... it seemed like a very ropey forerunner to the internet.
[/quote ... two different things, the Teletext adaptor was the VOLEX TTX 2000S ( ... which was pretty much the forerunner to the internet as we know ... -
Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…
... code text adventure (converted from Tandy) and complex for the time, in ... was tough and I bet very few finished it!
I ... !
By the way, The Hobbit was one of the very few games released ... for the Dragon 64 (they ... -
Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
... songs on AY sounds not very cool. Especially they are ... via AY (doesn't sound very nice, that's true). ... Covox/SoundDrive's schemes on the Internet and connect them to ... ZX all over the world, not only behind ... think it's not a very big problem. (Or am I ... -
Retro Gamer issue 3Seen this? [url="http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro3.shtml"]http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro3.shtml[/url] Looks like they've off…
There's a very big difference between your CD and ... site (such as WOS or the Vault) for making CDs because ... queueing up at the door the second the magazine hit the shelves and someone ... -
EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…
The server where I have space ... 1 db 'cause someone forgot the root password and can't ... you want it, and the site is not very big, I offer hosting ... -
Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
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the way the graphics are recoloured in the other method i ... gradient fill (directional) option at the very least. It does have a ... st versions, ie. Dizzy the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, and i wouldn't ... -
Tower of despair - part 2 ?I've this snap called "towdesp2.z80". It has the exact same interface as 'tower of despair' and it keeps saying 'PLEASE LOAD YOUR CHARACTER'. Loading…
... the reviews mention 2 tapes, then the TZX is quite certainly incomplete. The ... from the very end of part I, as is common with many adventure ... if it makes it into the archive. -
Is Gunfright by Ultimate: Play the game any good?I only ask, as I have seen it recently on sale for ?10...
... shop mentioned earlier in the thread with all the retro gear. Gunfright ... 8 was, in the original big box and with the quality instruction booklet ... interesting titles too. "Sherlock", the old adventure game was there, as were ... -
Is Gunfright by Ultimate: Play the game any good?I only ask, as I have seen it recently on sale for ?10...
... mentioned earlier in the thread with all the retro gear. Gunfright ... was, in the original big box and with the quality instruction booklet ... titles too. "Sherlock", the old adventure game was there, as ... think Spector picked up the only good item there with ... -
Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
Yep - it's gotta be. And you lot fall for it all over again :)
From the very first few words, along with the spelling mistakes it was obvious that the 13 year old with no friends and big ambitions is back. -
Top 10 Games - All Formats (Pre Playstation era)Without being biased only towards Spectrum games what are your favourite 10 games? (Apologies if this has been asked before) My favourites: 1 Sensi…
... Paradise (Spectrum. Possibly the greatest sci-fi adventure of its time)
5. The Price Of ... above, it didn't sell very well.
7. Eternal ... /> 10. Myst Series (PC) - Adventure gaming for the thinking man/woman.
Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …
... :), and Geoff - cheers for the very extensive help and information :)
The prblem is SAM related, although with pageing Will be very ... when a program got big the corruption happened just as ... code mouse driver for reading the mouse coordinates (although I ...???? 2Anybody here know how to program z80 ???? Anybody here know assembly / machine code ??? Anybody here know how to locate cheats / pokes ???
... , probably at least half of the posters on here know Z80 ... `s plenty of documentation in the docs section :-
[url ... />
You will also need the Jockey Wilson song from YS ... Z80 is a cult (a very big one nonetheless).need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... be any quicker than shifting the bytes in "real time", ... have to look up the table for every byte, ... 256 bytes long. In the very beginning I'm writing into ... no actual looking through the table. The only weak point of ... planning to use a big variety of middle-size ...Any Windows based Spectrum Progam makersHi. I am looking for a game maker that i can use to make spectrum software. If possible could it not be a code typing in program and Windows based. T…
... the other hand, the available arcade game creators sucked big time ... . I suspect this is because the technical aspects of adventure ... when compared with the best commercial offerings; ... The difference between these construction kits and adventure writing ...This month's Retro Gamer - Cascade 50 honouredWell, after what seems like no end of Cascade Cassette 50 talk this month at WOS ("50 [I]great[/I] games on one [I]great[/I] cassette"), Retro Gamer …
... should have adjusted the layout better and made the not-very-good low ... phone numbers/rude words at the end, Big Ben Strikes Back has ... a "Monty" mentioned at the end, ... of errors already - the worst of the two Firelord endings was ...Realspectrum's romsThe Realspectrum's site [url="http://www.romsoft.bbk.org/realspec.html"]http://www.romsoft.bbk.org/realspec.html[/url] doesn't load from 28 aug. 2002…
... was a real microdrive, the only diference is that ... compatible with none of the existing formats (I've ... that they are the same for the real IF1 RS232 ... very big ammount of data.(hours and hours of recording... and at the ... you see.)
The programs I want to save ...Retro Gamer #7: The MegaTree / Matthew Smith interviewIssue Seven of Retro Gamer magazine has two items of interest to the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy community: 1. The data from the MegaTree developmen…
... time - plus the fact of the dire Jet ... the man (The MAN ?) deserved more.
At the very least a healthy big ... time continuing role in the ... indusry, (I never have heard explained the ...Sparky eZX-BASIC Project in need of FPGA ExpertYou probably are not familiar with this project, but it is a computer system based on Zilog's new eZ80 chip and the OS is a superset of ZX BASIC. Ju…
... a very big difference between the those retro game designs with the T80 ... interfacing. However, the eZ80 is nothing like the Z80, even though ... , once fetched, execute at the same speed, one cycle. ... to complete, the display hardware must generate the BUSRQ at ...
