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Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…
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The mad magician is at it againYes. David Blaine is about to start his latest trick. [url]http://showbiz.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1241319,00.html[/url] Is he a great magi…
... about to start his latest trick.
[url]http://showbiz ... London when he did that trick. He looked bored shitless. Not ... -
128k Page FlippingOver on adverts, AOwen wrote the following: [quote=aowen]The trick, as I understand it, is to redraw the whole screen each time at #c000, but point…
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Best replacement for ZTX650?What is the best replacement transistor for the obsolete ZTX650? I've read that TIP31 will do the trick. Is there a decent equivalent from the BC or …
What is the best replacement transistor for the obsolete ZTX650?
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Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
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"The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he ... -
Quick method of fixing TAP parity byte?Quick question: are there any DOS/Win32 utilities (or at least, something in C/++ I could compile in Windows) which fix the broken parity byte of the…
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Crash Smashes doc'sTo celebrate the 25th year of the Speccy (and also inspired by Andrew Rollings book) i've gathered every Crash Smash scan and put them into several w…
... with Word) but does the trick. Tempted to put all the ... -
Sam Revival issue 18 now out [Sam CoupIssue 18 of Sam Revival is now out, and it's a jam packed issue! Let's kick off with what's on the disk. First up are the three brand new emulators …
... . To finish off his hat trick Simon has also released an ... -
Another newbie and a questionHi guys Just thought id say hi Got myself the spectaculator the other day and have been playing all my old games. At first i thought they would see…
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Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…
... the old POKE 23739,111 trick.
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speccy 128 problemsHi everyone, first post on here, so first better say hello..hello :) Anyhow I just recently got back into gaming so a Speccy seemed just the thing t…
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It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
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Vedic Maths Trick!So you don't have to learn your 11 times table. For any 2 numbers multiplied by 11, add them together and insert the answer between the multiple dig…
So you don't have to learn your 11 times table.
For any 2 numbers multiplied by 11, add them together and insert the answer between the multiple digits.
11 x 43 = 4 (4+3) 3 = 473
But what if the answer is more than 10?
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Sci-Fi Movie with everything written backwardsMy work place has started this campaign to remind everyone to lock their computer when they leave their desk, for security reasons. One way of remin…
... you have done this. The trick is that they are written ... -
How does she do it (NSFW)How does this woman make the hankies disappear? It's a very good trick, although no-one would watch this video for the trick: [URL]http://youtube.c…
... ? It's a very good trick, although no-one would watch ... this video for the trick:
[URL]http://youtube ... , how does she do the trick, so no sneaky moderating this ... -
How to avoid paging (scroll message)After 22 lines, the Spec asks if you want to scroll or break. I want to avoid that message and what the program to go on and produces lines on the sc…
After 22 lines, the Spec asks if you want to scroll or break. I want to avoid that message and what the program to go on and produces lines on the screen without stopping for this message. Is there a trick? -
Suckered by screen shots on the packaging?Who got tricked into buying some junk like Yi Ar Kung Fu on the basis of the graphics on the back of the box, which, quelle surprise, turned out to b…
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Ebay lieBought a few things on ebay recently, new small PC and a 19 inch monitor so its not your usual 10 quid type of thing. Both are going into a MAME bar…
... a policeman' (I'm not) trick i'll use again if ... -
10 top tricks for your Xbox 360You may or may not have already seen this one but I'm gonna post it b'cos they are quite good, really: [url]http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/cons…
... that most intrigued me was trick #9 - streaming media from the ... was also quite hoping that trick #4 would pan out but ... -
Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
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BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
... anyone knows any handy BASIC trick.
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Busy soft (demos and whatever)Back in the '90s, I remember being amazed by the demos by a group (or person?) called Busy Soft (or Busy Software), like the border effects in MDA, o…
... , or the amazing (though one trick) Stop Reset.
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Don't get towed awayHere's a neat trick to turn the tables on those rogue car-clamping firms. [youtube]OlLC1Iy1UkE[/youtube]
Here's a neat trick to turn the tables on those rogue car-clamping firms.
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"Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... , it doesn't - so that trick doesn't work. But what ... -
Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…
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Diary of an Englishman in ScotlandOld but funny....... 20th DECEMBER The first snow we have seen in many years. My wife and me sat in the porch with our hot toddies watching the fluf…
... by and did his little trick again. Much of the snow ...
