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Honestly, this is the first time I've ever had this...I'm 33 and I've had a few girl friends over the years. Not very many, but more than a couple, but today is the first time someone has used the "I'm …
... a few girl friends over the years. Not very many ... a couple, but today is the first time someone has used ... in all my years, this is the first time anyone has used ... or is it just a woman thing?
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What is the best comic book reader for Android?A couple of weeks back I lost my Kindle (or it was nicked, but I think I left it on the train) so I bought a tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7") to use …
... rather not sorted at all, you just browse to the folder you ... on the tablet scan the entire memory card and present you with the hundred ... want, but for some programs this is the only way they work.
This is the bike that I am going to buy. Sale agreed![url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Car/bike.jpg[/url] A friend of mine is going to sell me his Honda 600cc, this is a picture of it…
... sell me his Honda 600cc, this is a picture of it. We ... other news I won on the play monday lottery yesterday, but ...In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
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This is the code I have so ... a ; d = current entry
ld e,(ix ... 1) ; e = next entry
cp e ; compare ... /> noswitch inc ix ; next entry
djnz next ; dec ...TV report of the morning at RetroMa?OK, so it's in Spanish, but the pictures really say it all. Antena 3, a national TV broadcaster in Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is …
... Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is held at the University of ... fun with a game, playability is the key.
[url ... 5 seconds :-) (right at the start of the video, I'm nearest ... lines and not much else. This is the 4th annual "Retroma??a", ...A 30th Anniversary ProjectHappy new year (belatedly...) So with the 30th anniversary approaching, I've decided to do a hardware project to celebrate it. Something hands-on (o…
... a triangle wave, this is so that at some point I can use it ... a way of directly reading the square wave. The values read can then ... the CPLD is fine (as is the memory, which won't be used in this design). The ...AA car insureance the B*******I have been with the AA for my car insureance and road side recovery for a year now and they sent me a rather attractive renewal quote and said I nee…
... they will cancel the policy. I phoned up immediately after reading the letter and they ... not match the quite for my renwall. Not only that, this means ... a payment problem.
Is this acceptable?? what can I besides ...Guess what this is.Went to a SCIENCE GALLERY today while walking around this I found this. I had to ask if it was what it said it was. guess it was. Ok lets see if an…
... today while walking around this I found this. I had to ask ... one knows what this is.
A clue This is the first yes [SIZE ... =5][COLOR=Red]the FIRST one ... work right but it was the first
[IMG]http ...Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…
... be enhanced with parts (especially at the edges) made up with bitmap ... or paper colour scrolled at 8 pixels matching the attribute scroller position ... wouldn't know. If this is the case, can someone point out a game?No one has mentioned this but when the Oil reserves run out .....Where will we get plastic from, there is lots of work being done to get electric cars and have wind power etc, but you never hear of any alternative …
... the change - it is us as individuals who have to do it. This is the ... problem at the moment - everyone is expecting the government to ... food production is that really, we're not at the moment ... do is stop wasting it, and we'd immediately have ...R-Type Loading HelpSorry this is a probably a dumb-arse question but I'm having a real issue's loading the R-Type game on my Spectrum +2 (Grey). I've purchased and trie…
... so yes, level 1 is right at the start of that side of ... yes this is the same as I have directly after the game loads the tape seems ... my guess what the level 1 would be directly at the start on ... never yet have got to the point where it shows "Loading R ...Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... include "47loader_simple_basic_embed_top.asm"
;;; this is the border theme to use. A ... equ 1
;;; this is the address at which the dynamic table will be ... all 47loader entry points, the carry flag
;; is set if the load ...How were game loading screens composed back in the day?I've often wondered while waiting for loading screen to materialise line by line how these were actually made prior to saving them as code or screen$…
... The Artist II. This stored the screen at another point in memory, (49152 if memory serves) and the ... screens were saved from there, meaning the ... seemed easier. This meant having a ... into the game at the relevant start ...I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
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I agree I think this ... works except for the cases mentioned. sdcc ... will still work with this scheme (the compiler, at some point, will load an ...+2A vs +2BFrom what I understand, the +2A like the one I have is black, while the +2B is grey. Logically, the +2B came after the +2A, but why is there a prefer…
... using this PCB were produced with tape deck, the top of the machine is ... is this PCB that is actually fitted in the vast majority of +2A cases. The ... of this model ran out.
At some point, possibly after stocks of the ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
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Is the ORG correct and is the entry point immediately after the ORG or is there data first ... ? If there is data ...Hangovers 'r' usSeeing as how bad a hangover I have from last nights drinking session, i was wondering, what's your fav way of dealing with it? I've been drinking l…
... takes longer to pass through the stomach, and will cushion ... food in the morning will thin out the remaining alcohol still ... this is the kind of advice I was after from the nurses I fraternized with at ... whilst in the game was done by the wusses but the fatty ...+3 Drive B ConnectorI've heard some people say the pinout in the manual for the +3 is incorrect and is actually in reverse. Does this mean that pin 34 on the connector i…
... in one of the plugs upside down. Usually, this is the plug at the 3.5 ... the "bar" is at the side furthest away from the red stripe.
Phew... this is ... will be ignored.
After that you should get MFORMAT ...A Spectrum that fixes itselfWell, the modulator on my 128K toastrack machine fixed itself. It used to drift horribly within the first half hour or so of power up, but now it's a…
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My theory is that after years of disuse, some components ...
Maybe this is the speccy equivilent of waking up after a seriously good ... a bit fuzzy at first, and then after a while all ... to build the first Terminator. You can test if this is true ...Temp employment law helpHi, I've been a contractor at the same place and soon my contract will end. They want to extend me, I want to be extended, but we can't do it becaus…
This is the sort of answer I'm after :) Can I sign up to this ... and simply continue there the ... they moved me into the company's internal temp ... option.
More to the point, if I can opt out ... t I opt out of this bullshit?
Oh ...z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…
... the CLEAR address directly below my own character set? (My characters is at ... , e.g. 65000, should I do CLEAR 64999?) Wil the ... ?[/QUOTE]
Correct - this is the custom, at least from what I've ...Small Machine Code Routines Which Maybe UsefulAs part of creating Flynn's Adventure in Bombland I created a lot of little routines to do all sorts of things. A lot of these I created based on inp…
... - change this with ld (_REDEF_smc0+1),a where a is the number of ...
ld a,4 ; 4t - this is the 5th key in a redefine ... hl,MEM_KEYS ; 10t - this is the memory location that you stored the keys in
Hisoft Devpac and the MGT Plus DI've got (potentially) a bit of an odd one here that might cut across a couple of areas so I thought I would put it in misc. I am trying to Hisoft's…
... of experimenting, and this is the disk record entry which DevPac creates for ... the assembly of "LD ... Microdrive file entry. I tried just patching the disk directly ... hex editor, and although the entry looked OK from CAT a ...Hisoft Devpac and the MGT Plus DI've got (potentially) a bit of an odd one here that might cut across a couple of areas so I thought I would put it in misc. I am trying to Hisoft's…
... of experimenting, and this is the disk record entry which DevPac creates for ... the assembly of "LD ... Microdrive file entry. I tried just patching the disk directly ... hex editor, and although the entry looked OK from CAT a ...The new Superfo cloneHi In the spanish forum speccy.org some guys and me have optimized the superfo clon to have less ICs. The actual design has 39 ICs versus the 45 ICs…
... produce this clone in a kit for sale? If so, at ... price?[/QUOTE]
This is the idea. At a similar price same price ... the components, without shipping. We can't supply the AY-8912 because is ... unavailable. The PCB's ...DLT trial, not guilty...[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1211154/dave-lee-travis-not-guilty-on-12-charges[/url] find it quite interesting how in this (and the ken barlow coro…
[QUOTE=karingal;752781]This is the issue I have with all this.
... I'm sure it's was all consensual at the ... /> I don't think this is the case at all. I think in instances ... willing at the time then no-one in their right mind is ...Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
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I understand that this is the problem at the moment. There's presumably not ... and the like where every cycle must be accounted for this is obviously ... problematic. Especially with all the paging and ...What was the FIRST game ever released for the spectrumive tried searching but cant find much info. :confused:
It looks like this is the first, at least the first announced that I've ... /> From a news article in the 1982/07/01 issue of ...ZX SPECTRUM VEGA+ RELEASE DATEhttp://www.retrogamesmaster.co.uk/vega-20th-october/
... hope this is the light at the end of the tunnel now for the Retro Computers team. After ... personnel/business changes, and scaremongering from the many trolls ... now and Christmas to make the number one Christmas gadget.
