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Shock Horror, Spectrum mentioned in MAME Forums Anyone else here a member of the Mame forum? Got the Spectrum mentioned today, and someone mentioned Sabre Wolf... felt really good seeing an old g…
ive heard rumours and hints that theyre getting "somewhere" (other than fookin nowhere) cracking the evil protection on turbo outrun (and other similarly protected games)
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maketzx problemsDoes anyone else have problems running maketzx v2.33 (with or without the GUI) on Windows 2000 Sp4? I've just changed my OS from Win Me where i've m…
The only problem I could forsee, is that it could fix a duff checksum and you'd be none the wiser ?
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Speccy AY versus 64 SIDWhich is best?
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'Square Head' not working in SpinI've been trawling through a bundle of files that were uploaded to WOS and discovered a TZX version of this game: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.o…
... have authentic pauses or use turbo loading blocks ?
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3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
What hardware Sinclair and not related has everybody got?Just had to try to list all my clutter in the attic and my dads garage (this has got a bit out of hand), anybody else got as much Retro as this (boug…
... Entertainment System "Street Fighter II Turbo Pack" Boxed No Street Fighter ...Games that are more fun than they should beI've just been playing Gnasher, my fave pacman clone on the speccy. And it occurred to me, that i could easily play the arcade original pac-man on ma…
I love Turbo Esprit - it's so open-ended and varied, there are so many different challenges oyu can set yourself without even trying the main game. And it looks fantastic and moves really well - and the C64 version was rubbish....Long awaited dissapointmentWhat games were you looking forward to, be it sequels or much hyped newbies, only to be utterly digusted and dissapointed with the tripe you had boug…
Jet Set Willy
Renegade 3
Robocop 2
Robocop 3 (the Amiga version was cool though)
Chase H.Q 2
OutRun Turbo
OutRun Europa
Skool Daze 3 (because it never did arrive)Fun with games!Does anyone have nonstandard ways of playing any games? On Heathrow ATC, I found the first two exercises a bit easy, and the third just about imposs…
* Running over pedestrians and street workers in [I]Turbo Esprit[/I]
* Shooting refugees in [I]Zzoom[/I]Spectrum Joysticks...Hi, this is probably a really obvious question to most of you but I just needed a little advice about joysticks. I never owned a Spectrum back in th…
... the tape type one (RAM TURBO, Interface 2 etc.)I forgot the name of this gameOn a Spectrum I used to play quite a cool game but I don't remember how it was called. In this game you ride in a car and you should run over your op…
Not much to go on there... but at a guess
"Turbo Esprit" or "Chase HQ"
??zx32 and Windows XPI like zx32 and I use it for all the games I download from WOS. But does this emulator work under Windows XP ? You see, I am going to upgrade my comp…
Well, just tried and SPIN has quite a bit of aliasing on the loading noise (especially the high frequencies found in turbo loaders)
Perhaps you forgot to include loading noise in the anti-aliasing code :)
Jon.Screen$I wasn't sure where to put this! Has anyone got or does anyone know where I can download a load of Speccy Screen$ in 1 file. Let me explain..... I …
Well, there's a screen saver that simulates spectrum SCREEN$ loading.< ...Screen$I wasn't sure where to put this! Has anyone got or does anyone know where I can download a load of Speccy Screen$ in 1 file. Let me explain..... I …
... /> Well, there's a screen saver that simulates spectrum SCREEN$ loading ...i know theres a list ..but wanna your opinionbest games...,give me your top10 ,please... theres a lot of good games that i don?t remember the names ...so this could help. thanks. [ This Messa…
... RPG player)
Commando
Turbo Esprit
Among many ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... I do know that the Turbo Tape program on the Crash ...Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... (Jan '91)
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 90% Iss. 84 (Jan ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... looking at examples of other turbo-loading blocks, the only values ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... wrote something very similar - a 'turbo loader builder' program which made ...New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
Even though all my 'real' Spectrums are dead (or at the very least pining for the fiords), I still find this interesting.
Pity there doesn't seem to be a way to get emulators to save turbo loaded files.New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... . Spin will quite happily save turbo data to a TZX as ...Elite owe me...Way back in the 80s sometime, I was reading Crash (as you do) and came across an advert by Elite for Frank Bruno's Boxing and International Basketbal…
Hey! Turbo Esprit was from Durell, not Elite!New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... the speedloader. I just turbo-loaded the version which ... , but I usually use Turbo Imploder these days - search ... see I load the turbo-load code and execute ... onwards (rubbing out the turbo code!). Line 40 is ... start the game. The turbo-loading code isn't ...New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
Turbo Imploder. I'll check it 0ut. Thanks again. I'm not sure if I had an MM3 tap, but I noticed a lot of other tap files you did similarly used a compression routine.
Oh, & I recreated my speedload version of Sweevo anyway.SpeedloadersSince I read Lee Tonks' post about the speedloaded version of MM3 he did, I've been playing around with various speedload routines I found on TTFn & …
... and tried to produce a turbo-loaded version of Jet Set ... compression or data shifting the turbo loader could only live in ...New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... an example, I produced a 'Turbo Imploded' version of Sweevo using ... my turbo loader. It weighs in at ... compressing as you can by turbo-loading. It's well worth ...