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Bluray MadnessRecently I treated myself to a new PC. I decided to get a Bluray drive with it. As I've got a few PC's at home I use a KVM that uses the VGA connecti…
Such a pain in the backside. A mate of mine has to rip all his blurays to his hard disk, as he doesn't have internet, and most of them require a download/update to play in powerdvd.
And they have the cheek to put adverts on them too. -
BezerkI don't think that Bezerk was ever converted to the Speccy and I've always found it a playable little arcade shooter... And Android One doesnt count!…
Maybe i should learn to code in Z80 and make Berserk my 1st game! -
Questions ThreadThought I'd start a thread whereby people can ask a question that only needs a brief answer...instead of opening a new thread for trivial cack. I'll…
... ever matched a microwave and a ready meal thingy ...
How come in this day and age, we are being ... everything now seem to stay in standby and never comes with ... Only my big tv (and PS3 ) in the living room has ... a propper off switch and ... -
Modern life is rubbishI don't know if it's because I'm getting old (34 soon) but I've noticed I have an apathy to everything recently. Modern video games bore me as do fil…
... of my mates and girlfriend,.. just to do not to argue.
in argues,.. but actually I find pointless to argue. Like ... I win, people prefer to keep in silence and do not recognize I ... -
Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... if there is some advantage in using hexadecimal notation.
to mix decimal and hex. Some things are easier to visualize in hex and some in ... -
DRagon GameCan anyone help. I'm trying to remember the title of a game. It was in several stages. Stage 1 you were exploring a dungeon it was revieled only if…
Wouldn't it be smashing if questlore were to pop in now and say, "Journey's End? Nahh! ", and make the lot of us look right daft... :D -
Beta/Sam/Master basic as spectrum ROMWith emulators being trivial to use to insert new ROMs into - and even in the physical world, RAM in place of ROM by use of a modified multiface or s…
... trivial to use to insert new ROMs into - and even in the ... physical world, RAM in ... something very different together - and quite a few people have ... of ambiguous decisions to make in software and also in hardware. I do ... -
Beta/Sam/Master basic as spectrum ROMWith emulators being trivial to use to insert new ROMs into - and even in the physical world, RAM in place of ROM by use of a modified multiface or s…
... of ambiguous decisions to make in software and also in hardware. I do ... from having fewer screen and sound modes to deal with. Possibly ... as can be to sinclair basic compatible, and is a powerful ... been crammed in there. (I never expected someone to actually build ... -
books in Amazon by HephaestusDoes anyone know what the book ISBN : 1242968393 "ZX Spectrum Programmers" for sale on Amazon by Hephaestus Books is about?
... curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has ... Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain ... this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human ... -
Any portuguese in this forumHi my friends. Anyone in this forum is Portuguese? I?m interested to know if in this forum there are more Portugueses besides myself. :) J
... interest. Others just tend to stay in forums and groups where they can ... tend to stay away from anything in Portuguese but stay active in WOS and ... Speccy.org.
Glad to ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... only came to Britain in 1987 and that's laughable in comparison to GX4000, Master ... in 87? and changing memory costs actually pushed the price up to ?399 in ... 88 IIRC), and for console style ... -
UridiumWhat do you folks think of [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/07/zx-spectrum-game-uridium-zx-spectrum.html"]Uridium[/URL]? For me it is …
... it borders on impossible to react in time. And I could have lived ... stupid X things that home in on you too. -
Retro Gamer Issue 100 + Issue 1Okay then so issue 100 is going to be in shops today and it also includes a reprint of the original issue 1 Here's the content Developer Autographs …
... a type-in! Even if it is a C64 one and I ... have no idea how to save BASIC ... I'm going to have to try it out and see what it ... cover is considerably easier to type in though and runs on a better ... -
Detecting presence of AY?I'm working on my first little demo for the ZX Spectrum. At the moment I'm aiming to keep the memory requirements low enough that it runs on a standa…
... all you're trying to do is to detect an AY ... a different feature which happens to be somewhat correlated with ... all, just OUT to the AY ports and let the hardware ... ask for a way to detect the 128 and for that the ... best. You don't need to worry about the stack, ... -
How many full time users of Linux on the forum?How many of you on WOS forum use Linux as a permanent OS replacement (excluding casual duel boot users who also duel boot Windows?). I use Linux Min…
... and is typically much lower than the application actually wants to use in ... total, if it tries to use more ... these pages are forced to stay in memory and code pages that are ... a reasonably large swap space and monitor how much it' ... -
Pub meet, London, April(-ish) 2012It's once again high time that we had some sort of Spectrum-related meet. In the absence of any other suggestions, I propose that we once again congr…
You all have one month to get in shape and look your best. :grin: -
Pub meet, London, April(-ish) 2012It's once again high time that we had some sort of Spectrum-related meet. In the absence of any other suggestions, I propose that we once again congr…
[QUOTE=zxbruno;608138]You all have one month to get in shape and look your best. :grin:[/QUOTE]
I'd need a lot more than a month, unless the shape in question is "round with miscellaneous unexplained saggy bits". :lol: -
BezerkI don't think that Bezerk was ever converted to the Speccy and I've always found it a playable little arcade shooter... And Android One doesnt count!…
... i should learn to code in Z80 and make Berserk my ... and moving. I think it's an interesting game to ... learning, it has milestones to do i.e. displaying, ... by trade and have programmed in assembly in the past ... well, problem solving and getting it to do what i ... -
Best game ever?Not sure the best way to do this, thinking top 10s with a sliding scale of 10 points awarded to the game you vote 'best' down to 1 point for your 10t…
... to those who must have repeated a few years at school (and ... are unable to get the rules and play with ... br />
Highlandstew and Daren get the most matches ... it hard to put in order and reduce to just 10, ... on one point and Three Weeks In Paradise did :rolleyes ... -
Transition from porridge to muesli..All this talk of stew etc makes me think of the morning ritual ([I]no not that one[/I]). What day of the year does everyone go from a hot to a cold …
... few minutes to cook, but it exploded everywhere and ultimately it ... took me about half an hour to ... br />
I used to live in Scotland and none of the jocks ... , soaked raisins (sorry Greencard) and salted peanuts added, cooked on ... -
Transition from porridge to muesli..All this talk of stew etc makes me think of the morning ritual ([I]no not that one[/I]). What day of the year does everyone go from a hot to a cold …
... Tape;611874]I used to live in Scotland and none of the ... , I was expecting them to make it with water & ... I'm legally obliged to state that I love porr ... 've never eaten haggis either, and never would.
... just pulled up outside to evict me from the ... -
FacebookAnd I forgot to mention were on facebook too... ain't that special [url]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92014452749&ref=nf[/url]
... keep their garbage in their houses and gardens instead of ... news and encourage people to use Facebook "just to keep in touch".< ... br />
And ... a pain in the neck, and color schemes and background patterns ... -
3D Wireframe/vector animation creator and player?Is there any software that can help record wireframe 3D animations by creating a file that stores just the coordinates and lines? If the answer is "n…
... own routines. The one in ROM used by DRAW ... with too much vectors, and too much may mean ... animation would be to create it in some program on ... PC, save the points reduced to 2D in it and ... export them to some engine ... -
Name that font!One of my customers wants me to print his company logo on some labels, but he doesn't have a copy of the logo anywhere, not even on a letterhead, it …
... asked my manager to get in touch and ask for some ... erm, managed to pinch from our main competitor, and my manager ... anything remotely computer-related, and I don't know ... to me. I'd suggest getting a good photo and ... tracing the curves in a vector ... -
Name that font!One of my customers wants me to print his company logo on some labels, but he doesn't have a copy of the logo anywhere, not even on a letterhead, it …
... 've asked my manager to get in touch and ask for some sort ... , erm, managed to pinch from our main competitor, and my manager has ... about anything remotely computer-related, and I don't know loads ... he always expects me to be able to work miracles), so basically ... -
ROM switch on NMIHello! Please, help me or point in the right direction. I am building a project for 48k spectrum which must activate its rom (actually static ram) …
... , later enabled screenshot saving and snapshot saving to tape).
to NMI to happen and the control was transferred ... modification that enabled it to work in +2A and +3 models (maybe ... you'll want to see [url ... -
BezerkI don't think that Bezerk was ever converted to the Speccy and I've always found it a playable little arcade shooter... And Android One doesnt count!…
... ]Maybe i should learn to code in Z80 and make Berserk my 1st ... ]
An ideal person to link to:
[url]http ... ://goo.gl/4jPd5[/url]
and ... /> If you can already program in basic :) -
ANN: The ZX Spectrum on Your PC - Second EditionA couple of days ahead of schedule, the second edition of my guide to Spectrum PC emulation is now finished and uploaded to Issuu, where you can brow…
A wonderful book Colin - congratulations. One question if I may - is it supposed to be in black and white?
Paddy -
ANN: The ZX Spectrum on Your PC - Second EditionA couple of days ahead of schedule, the second edition of my guide to Spectrum PC emulation is now finished and uploaded to Issuu, where you can brow…
... may - is it supposed to be in black and white?
Paddy ... also I wanted to create something with the look and feel of ... -
ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 year - BBC News article[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17776666[/URL] [B]Warning[/B]: Contains obligatory [I]BBC Micro[/I] references... ;)
... ] Sir Clive sold out to Amstrad in 1986 and after a couple of ... addition of a built-in cassette player and then a disc drive ... - production ceased in 1990. There are ... still some people who continue to code ...
