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BASin Release 13 is now available[unashamedly x-posted from Emulators forum] I'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is …
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How do I get noticed on search enginesHaving just launched my own feeble website to support my own feeble business... [url="http://www.newromneymowers.co.uk"]www.newromneymowers.co.uk[/u…
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TommyGun 0.8.5 available0.8.5 has been uploaded release updates include: * Heaps of bug fixes :) * A getting start guide on how to use TG Please try it and give me your f…
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New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
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New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit ... has changed.
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Added - Re-wrote the UDG editor. It now handles sprites ... of any size, and multi-UDG editing in the main grid ... -
There's a Berlusconi hanging over me.Election day in Italy. This afternoon the exit-polls saw the left coalition ("Unione)" largely winning. Now, it seems, the evil dwarf has regained gr…
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John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
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Pimp my code...Erm, this is just the result of a mental exercise - I wanted to repeatedly display a UDG but decided against using a ROM routine and UDGs! Any sugges…
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Programs detecting Spectrum modelsHi. I'm curious about knowing how some speccy games detect if they are runnning in a 128k or 48k model. What tricks can be used to make this in a Spe…
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Fun with MAMEI'm having a look at history.dat, an add-on for Mame containing history, trivia and tricks about the games. Here are some funny/bizarre bits I found …
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Xevious release dateI swear I played the Spectrum conversion of this arcade classic during Christmas 1986, and there's an advert for it in 1986 Spectrum magazines, but o…
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Little Britain the Computer Game wouldnt be out of place on the speccyI was told that a little britain was coming out on the PC/PS2 and had a search and it is indeed. After reading what its about it is in fact just 8 m…
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Another name-the-game (that helped destroy...)Mention of games which never got reviewed, and hence disappeared, recalled this one to my mind. I think it was a combat game set in a maze (or somet…
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don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
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Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…
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UDG creator?Anyone know if there is such a beast for running on a PC to play around and create UDGs rather than mess around on a speccy or graph paper? I'm doin…
Anyone know if there is such a beast for running on a PC to play around and create UDGs rather than mess around on a speccy or graph paper?
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Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…
... same speed to PRINT a UDG in this way, relative to ... control character # that switches to UDG mode in the PRINT statement ... , how do I get into UDG mode? I am coding the ... in memory location in a UDG type format. Currently I shift ... -
Name the (Board) GameWhen me and my brother were kids (so it must have been mid 70's) We used to have a Board game (although I don't think there was a board as such) that…
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Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
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Going to see Derran Brown tonight.I'm off to see Derren Brown tonight in Cardiff. Anyone seen his live shows, and know what they are like. We are going with a blind friend and it's…
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Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
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Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…
Why I Hate PES online...first time I tried PES online (PES5) I was really excited with the idea of playing with somebody else that was not in my close group of friends... a…
... all: first of the dirty tricks it chosing brasil...only sissies ... who turn all the downloading tricks of theyre broad band so ...I wonder why I started this....Hi I was bored today, and have for some time now been speculating about making a Spectrum game in Basic. As said today I was bored, and started on i…
... I in basic check what UDG character is placed just below ...Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... would like to export sprite/udg data in the form of ... currently have. e.g. Currently UDG sprites containing no data is ... doesn't happen in the UDG editor.
Its a ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... letter 'A' or a fancy UDG graphic you've designed. Unfortunately ...concerning soviet graphicsis there any game using a similar tricky technique how to let colorful objects move fluently with no color clash as soviet? (the colorful tops of bui…
... /> more generaly - what other clever tricks were used to "eliminate" color ...One-liner articleHi to all ZX Shed people. At Dr BEEPs request, Einar Saukas and I have put together an article about one-liner games. Tricks and Tips etc.. I'm unsu…
... article about one-liner games. Tricks and Tips etc.. I'm ...
