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Level 9 Adventures in 80 columns for Speccy SEA new ROM for Spectrum SE, SE Basic IV, has just been released. SE Basic IV features a very nicely implemented 80 column mode, great for revisiting …
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Interview with Clive Townsend (Saboteur)Here you have at [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]www.elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] this exclusive interview with Clive Townsend. Don?t forget…
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Name the Vampire (?) Game?Can anyone identify this game from the description I've been given on another forum... "the vampire game would give you a brief look at the maze and …
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Game of 2000 and playing games of this eraHi all How do I set up spin to be able to play Pussy and Homer Simpson from 99? Is there a trick? And would there have been a game of 2000? I fee…
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How do I set up spin to be able to play Pussy and Homer Simpson from 99? Is there a trick?
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The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
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Screens and BasicA question about the ZX screens. I am using software to convert my own art and drawings to the ZX Spectrum. I have some tools to change .jpg files in…
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Keyboard TrickI know how to use the multi key in BASIC with IN you can get the keys [QUOTE]IN 254+256*(255-2^K)[/QUOTE] K is the keyboard's half row, comes from …
I know how to use the multi key in BASIC
with IN you can get the keys
[QUOTE]IN 254+256*(255-2^K)[/QUOTE]
K is the keyboard's half row, comes from 0 to 7
0: Caps shift,Z,X,C,V
1: A,S,D,F,G
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BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …
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Saving a file and removing the title (Program:)I remember when saving a program how I could construct a string such as: 10 let a$=chr$ 8+ chr$ 8+"name" 20 save a$ In order to remove the "Program…
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spectrum magic...out of the 1000's of spectrum games.. you'd think it would be impossible to do magic or telepathy.... to do this trick... you'll need the original …
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BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
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Fortunately there's a trick to minimize background restrictions: draw ... else. In this case, the trick was used to draw eyes ... -
Experience feelings of passionate love in dreams?!I had a dream this morning that I was the boyfriend (I think) of Liv Tyler. This is a little odd, because I have never really fancied her, even thoug…
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Nasty 'Gotcha' for multicolour timingI thought I would be better developing my multicolour routine on the 48K first, being the slowest, so it would then be sure to work on the 128K varia…
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Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…
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Halloween...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals? Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we liv…
...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals?
Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we live in a flat. As it's midweek it'll probably be quite a quiet affair. -
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…
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The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…
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Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…
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Windows 8 re-activation nightmareI hope no one has to go through this... Replaced a dead Asus motherboard with a new one on a nice tower that came with Windows 8. Didn't notice it as…
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UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
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Just seen X-Men: Days of Future Past and am a bit angry.As one of the things I'm wondering about all through the film is 'how come Professor X is still alive, after getting killed off in X-Men 3', and wait…
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1st interface in 30 years (update)Hi all, Just a wee update to my "1st ZX interface in 30 years" project. Main IC's: 82C55 three 8-bit port I/O (configured for 12 dig in, 12 dig out…
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Docking in EliteI was going to post this to the "games featuring relevant bugs" thread, but after tinkering with Klive I'm more confused than before. As a kid I use…
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Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…
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Fuse and DivIDEI'm struggling to get the divide option to work in fuse, I tick the box in options/peripherals/disk and then load insert a disk in media/ide/divide/m…
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am I missing a trick, using the windows port 1 ...
