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JSW1 - The Attic Bug In ActionThe well known "attic bug" caused by invalid arrow data. By applying a couple of extra pokes in addition to the usual lives / fall height to remove s…
... 't play anything much in the way of modern games. However, my little ... than I ever did in the day.
As far ... patches issued either - but given the format, I guess that's ... -
JSW1 - The Attic Bug In ActionThe well known "attic bug" caused by invalid arrow data. By applying a couple of extra pokes in addition to the usual lives / fall height to remove s…
... 't play anything much in the way of modern games. However, my little ... than I ever did in the day.
As far ... patches issued either - but given the format, I guess that's ... -
Playing Fifa 2014 for 20 minutes, and already EA has ruined the game for me...I bought FIFA 2014, wanted top play it for a long time now. mostly I just Play Fifa & PES for the Master League/ Career mode I've noticed that most…
... your own players get in the way of what your doing and it ... feels like an on the rail game at times. Also ... they added a tussle for the ball system, but it ends ... edit options and a bunch of unofficial team names and such ... -
SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…
... get much in the way of promotion.
These are the 100 new features ... down repeatedly to jump to the end of a line.
[*]Cursor ... up repeatedly to jump to the start of a line.
[*]Cursors ... for software that uses the first two bytes of the ROM as a ... -
Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!
... making comedy customs now, just the most appalling looking paint jobs ... br />
little disappointed with the loading times associated with replaying ... in and out of cars, and out of the way of cars when on ... t chase them all over the map, they just kept ... -
Which Syndicate to play?For years, one of the many games I've been meaning to try is Syndicate, which everyone says is really good. The trouble is, there are a lot of versio…
[QUOTE=Graz;732669]Not for me. I got it on a variety of systems, but I find that the A1200 version just plays better.[/QUOTE]
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Which Syndicate to play?For years, one of the many games I've been meaning to try is Syndicate, which everyone says is really good. The trouble is, there are a lot of versio…
... have much in the way of enhancements over the A500 one?[/QUOTE ... for improvement, and be the best version of Syndicate ever?
of the bug fixes promised, and ... />
Quite possibly the start of the backlash against Peter Molyneux with ... -
PCW 9512 Information RequiredHi, I've just acquired a PCW9512 with printer, keyboard, some disks (locoscript/basic/cpm utils etc), tractor feed paper and around 8 ink cartridges…
The PCW doesn't have much in the way of a ROM. It needs a boot disk. Either CP/M or Locoscript. After that John Elliot is the man to answer all your questions. -
Nintendo 'defends' high prices of downloadable gamesSatoru Iwata (the President of Nintendo) says in an interview; Quote ?[COLOR="Blue"]Although the mainstream idea regarding the digital business in …
[QUOTE=ewgf;735067]The SNES was the last Nintendo console to ... support. Every Nintendo console following the SNES (N64 and onwards) ... even very bad. And the N64 and Gamecube especially suffered ... expect a lot more in the way of third party development for ... -
If the Wii is a GameCube 1.5 ...... What does that make the Wii U? The Wii was described a few times as a GameCube 1.5 in terms of power, so are Nintendo now operatining one genera…
... are a tad nuts about the brand.
the games make the console.. e.g. ... /> you'll notice the build quality of the xbox 1 was great ... .. and the 360, ... doubt nintendo will go the way of sega, but still.. I ... -
Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…
... , assuming it would work of course :D The biggest contributor to gate ... use an RST instruction take the place of what other processors typically ... this restart become the way of making system calls (the benefit of using RST to ... -
Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…
... ]Me too, but in the 1980s it would have still ... (requiring quite a lot of board space if implemented in ... use an RST instruction take the place of what other processors typically ... this restart become the way of making system calls (the benefit of using RST to ... -
Spectrum CP/MHello.. Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually used +3 CP/M for any practical purpose? I remember booting it up a couple of times years ago, jus…
... so the MMU logic would sit between the z80 and the rest of the system ... . Sitting between the memory and ... this restart become the way of making system calls (the benefit of using RST to ... -
Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…
... 's actually called "stepping out of the way of the idiot".
[QUOTE ... br /> Again, it's the difference of actually having done something, ... said he "probably" shorted the ground and +12V lines
Something on the +3 board is fried, ... -
Speccy Christmas MemoriesGiven the time of year, I was getting a bit nostalgic for Christmases past - and in particular for the ones that really meant something - when I was …
At the first christmas with my Spectrum (1985) I got a Quickshot II joystick, played 'The Way of the Exploding Fist' a lot with it. -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... I think is the most technically novel part of it.[/QUOTE]
In fairness, the sprite movement ... people didn't even notice the multi-color when you released ... possible to do anything in the way of a beeper sound effect while ... -
WTF is this and whySee this video. Last year I say a video on generating electricity in just this same style. I don't have the knowlege to refute it, but why? [url]htt…
... having to do much in the way of exercise in their day, ... fall in to the bad habit of eating too much ... you will loose weight. Of course, you should have ... in order to get the natural vitamins and minerals ... that the body needs.
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Best Spectrum game from 2013 PollThe time has come. This year to avoid personal attacks towards me :P everybody can select a maximum of 3 games. Every person who votes for more than …
... so far out in the poll. The rest of the titles on here ... really good and over the coming days I will ... end of year polls are going to turn out, the results ... seriously, just be glad the Spectrum scene is so vibrant ... 'd have thrown one the way of Gem Chaser too. -
DisarrayFor the sake of having some clarity [COLOR="Silver"]for once[/COLOR] I have the project data in several source files according to their types. E.g. t…
... way of dealing with this sorta situations while preferably still staying within the ... domain of typical (cross-)assembler ... or something along the line is the way to go; ... rather simple here in the way of organizing things/'good practices ... -
Cleaning a Currah microslot,Odd one this, I guess... For my main spectrum (my original 16k Issue 3 upgraded to 48k and put into a + case), I am hoping to set up the following c…
... no problems with the If1bis on the back of my Spectra, but ... I did go for the ... causing my problems with the Alphacom and ZX Printers ... both have some sort of ROM chip on board ... nothing complex to get in the way of any signals, so my ... -
Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…
... is getting in the way of this project at the moment. I might ... from Doncaster to Sheffield in the next month or so, ... end up taking loads of stuff that I don ... year and found loads of old Spectrum stuff, which ... if not significantly over) of other stuff in there ... -
My new Spectrum +3 has no start menu.Hi all, I recently took delivery of my 'new' Spectrum +3 from a Fleebay auction. So I serviced the drive on Saturday as it had a snapped drive belt …
... floppies, perhaps it's the floppy controller that's ... , then came up with the word 'Drive' and hung ... control chip on the motherboard? One of the soldered in one ... looks like one end of the floppy cable. I only ... else that got in the way of my fist. This for ... -
My new Spectrum +3 has no start menu.Hi all, I recently took delivery of my 'new' Spectrum +3 from a Fleebay auction. So I serviced the drive on Saturday as it had a snapped drive belt …
... control chip on the motherboard? One of the soldered in one ... either one of those, i guess. However, the only way to ... be sure, that i can think of ... looks like one end of the floppy cable. I only ... else that got in the way of my fist. This for ... -
Help with 1-bit sampled soundHi all, I've been sent over this way from the CPC Wiki forums as you guys may be able to help me more specifically with a programming query. Firstly…
... has lots of 1s in it, the voltage that reaches the speaker ... voltage will be about half way between the two extremes.
of a low pass filter (the Spectrum doesn' ... much in the way of one between the ULA and speaker), just the fact the speaker ... -
SCF/CCF flags - new discoveryI can't believe that no one is interested in discussing the additional, previously undocumented internal state of the Z80 CPU I have discovered recen…
... just a broader concept along the way of analyzing this. While it conceptually ... I have taken the opportunity and simplified the explanation to the bare minimum ... .
The ZEXALL2 was ... -
SCF/CCF flags - new discoveryI can't believe that no one is interested in discussing the additional, previously undocumented internal state of the Z80 CPU I have discovered recen…
... just a broader concept along the way of analyzing this. While it conceptually ... 're right, it's simpler the way you've phrased it. I ... that's an implementation detail of the emulator and I realise this ... register in such a way that Q takes the value 0 if ... -
Elite : DangerousAh, the years I spend playing Elite on the speccy! And still only ever made deadly rating, meh. So, Elite Dangerous coming out on the PC, could my c…
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When I saw the "docking video" all I could ... 'll be tired of that before the first day is over ... bit about putting down the landing gear and having ... t really add anything over the old style docking procedure, ... but never got in the way of enjoying the game. -
TXT2EMU enhancementI was looking at the encodings supported by BAS2TAP for entering graphics, print controls, etc. as plain text. Basically, there's only one needed, be…
... more in the way of corrections, relating to a couple of bugs in ... handle programs which go above the $C000 page boundary, change ...
To correctly handle resuming the load after a syntax error ... /> jr KEYFIND
The new version is here:
Gamesfaqs top 10Check out todays top ten on [url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/top10/1875.html]Gamefaqs[/url], somebody's went and done a top 10 Speccy games....O…
We're never going to agree on Top 10 lists but that gamefaqs one is a bit too 'safe'. Too many licences/coin-op conversions (good games, mind) and not enough in the way of quirky games (Skool Daze etc) that made the speccy special.EXX ProblemsWondering if any other coders have had problems using the EXX instruction in FUSE... I am calling the BEEP routine from within my own code and prese…
... br />
Yep - this is the way of the coder!! :lol:
Sometimes ... :-x
Thanks for the responses, guys. Now working fine ... and the text handler for ZX Alien ... -retro style as you get the next mission update!
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