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ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 04 July 2005Monday 04 July 2005 June! (Oh, Terry? Ed)... Quite a large update this month, which I managed to get processed on time, despite being on holiday for…
... . I then didn't manage to get the update
page updated ... in a correction for the complete solution to Dizzy, as
well ... hint to using one of the POKEs.
* I was going through ... solution to
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ULA schematicsHi everyone. Some while ago I remember getting hold of some circuit schematics of the innards of the Speccy 48K ULA. Sadly I've since lost the files…
... circuit schematics of the innards of the Speccy 48K ULA. Sadly I've ... since lost the files and ... cannot seem to ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... , because when I went to the store to get the DS (at BestBuy) I ... should be able to use the touch screen to simulate the keyboard, with some ... me, it's not like going to school anymore , you know !!
?????????? - going rate?Hello. What's the going rate for a 48K rubberkey in perfect nick with cables but no box/polys? I've seen a few on Ebay where the lettering is coming…
Hello.
What's the going rate for a 48K rubberkey ... where the lettering is coming off the keys, the "ZX Spectrum" in the top ... . What's the going rate? I don't want to get screwed!!
Batman: The MovieThis is sort-of an emulation question. The AY chip music for "Batman the Movie" in WoS is great to listen to on its own, except that the fourth tune …
... for "Batman the Movie" in WoS is great to listen to on its ... own, except that the fourth tune ... - which plays during the ... or Ay Emulator, the music plays at high speed. The same is true ...No, this is THE conspiracy"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs." - [I]Astronaut Scott Carpenter. Carpenter…
... has still not released the photograph to the public)[/I]
... br />
"The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was ... />
"Behind the scenes, high-ranking military officers are soberly ... citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects ...Why Crashed fanzine closedMaybe the true story has never been told, maybe nobody cares! but at least this forum can hold its collective chin and say... ahhhh thats why... 200…
... into specialist retro shops on the high streets(of which there ... in London). It was all going to plan, I reached upwards ... the correct end to the 20th century but I would have kept it going ... issues had the situation been the same and then was going to go ONLINE ...The email game - Email from John RomeroBored a few weeks ago, I sent the following email to John Romero, co-creator of the game Doom: From: "Michael McLarnon" <bigbadmick2000@hotmail.com>…
... ago, I sent the following email to John Romero, co- ... />
To my utter astonishment, I received the following reply a ... day later:
Going great ...
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to various different famous people, and ...What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …
... 's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now ... an infinite lives cheat) hoping to finish it. I never did ... and eventually had to turn it off because the computer was ... dangerously close to exploding. :)
< ...Yay! Minuetz has appeared in the WoS archive!Huge, massive, unbelievably large thanks to whoever submitted Minuetz to the archive! I remember listening to this many, many moons ago (it must've…
Huge, massive, unbelievably large thanks to whoever submitted Minuetz to the archive!
generated music, a bent I still possess to this day ... 's been in the Archive as an "unknown" .z80 called Minu() since ...What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... /> I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my ... spectrum collection, this year probably. Its getting the ... oomph needed to photograph everything and find ...The 80's top 50 most Embarrising moments - Channel 5 Friday NightDon't know if anyone else watched this pap last night - but at number 30 we had '80's Computers' to which you had John Tickle going on about the load…
... Computers' to which you had John Tickle going on about the loading time ... Set Willy and most of the 'Sinclair QL' advert in this ... number 14 we had the C5 with the all the ingrates laying into ... was a visonary, just had the wrong visions!
Grrrr ...Mac2Spec 3.0 (Coming Soonish)I have been messing around with Mac2Spec in what little spare time I have and it is finally coming together. The major changes are: a substantial reo…
... : a substantial reorganisation of the code, Timex High Res support, and native ... video handling.
The code ... easier for me to understand what's going on. Returning to the code after ...Add the numbers?Yesterday morning (about 1am) I was flicking through cable to see what was on, and I turned to ITV and that boring space filler "The Mint" was on. An…
... so on. If they're going to twist the rules, then how can ... applying Stephen Hawking style maths to the question), and I was finding ... ". So what is
the answer to the question? As far as I ... think this is probably right) the answer to the whole thing is:
what's with hotmail?That's it. I've probably had enough -- out of the last four days, half the time hotmail has been unreachable to me. It's not just in high demand ho…
... been unreachable to me. It's not just in high demand hours ... right pain in the ass. I actually have to make bloody PHONE ... CALLS during the waking hours to get in contact with ... going down is not exactly out of the ordinary but the service in the ..."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... […
... the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the ... just sober enough to be able to phrase the necessary symbols and ... of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness ... families will be going out to new planets forever, the way we ...The Eurovision Song ContestWell, did anybody watch the programme tonight where the UK decided what song was going to represent the country in the Eurovision song contest? [url…
... where the UK decided what song was going to represent the country in the ... -in vote scandals going on at the minute they'd ... s on the up and up, going into rehab, only to emerge ... and declare your determination to represent the ...ANNOUNCE: Jet Set Willy: Party Willy [Special Edition 2007]Today (23rd April) is the third anniversary of the full release of [i]Party Willy[/i], Daniela Hantuchov?'s 24th birthday, Nicole Vaidi?ov?'s 18th bi…
... -inverted version of MM, generated by a program called MirrorMM ... -inverted version of JSW, generated by a program called MirrorJSW ... Further details of the above changes, and the changes to the TXT-files, are ... games, and I'm going to leave that claim in README ...Me, the party and a friends wife..deep do doI was very drunk at a party on Saturday night and so was a friends wife. To cut to the chase we were caught coming out the bathroom together. We did …
... was a friends wife. To cut to the chase we were caught coming ... holding party) read the riot act to me at the party and I ... woman, hubby and us were going to share a large multiberth tent ... woman had said she was going back to the tent and I said ...Another infinite death loop strikes!Oh, blinkin' bother and similar expressions of extreme exhasperation! Roller Coaster. Was doing very well on it, cleared 14 screens, which is more …
... was going to post a message concerning some crashed graphics on the screen ... that says, "Welcome to Roller Coaster ... re-sets my position high in the sky, and drops me ... free to use this thread to vent your spleen on the unfortunate ...Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
... (in the forums somewhere) and explained in very high level language ... With The ZXSpectrum" for her to work through. This is going as ... off the production line.
Questions
I am going to ... lend her a copy of the 48k manual but ...Disable onboard memoryWould this work...? Access to onboard I/O can be disabled by holding IORQGE high. Would it be possible to create a MEMRQGE in a similar way to disa…
... by holding IORQGE high. Would it be possible to create a MEMRQGE ... memory map?
Translating the IORQ circuitry would give:
insert resisitor
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Z80 MEMRQ +----+--/\/\/\/---+------>ULA, top 32K RAM
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…
... the value of the entire colony to be high in order to ... players competitively select one plot ... /> * mountains (randomly generated for each game)
... Run the tap file. The first test is the "32 column" string ... for the strange screen address manipulators ...Spectrum Diagnosis: Purple is not my colour!Hi, I thought the self-fault-finding amongst you might appreciate my learning experience this afternoon in fixing my home-made speccy 48K. Yesterda…
... Memory Controller... no seems fine. ULA board... again clean. RAM board ... continually resetting, and going magenta, try the inspecting the RAM pins for short ... can now get back to the paint job. Piccies to follow... :)
The PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) are fucking uselessShare your useless cop stories... Here's mine: I got out of the pub 1am Saturday night/Sunday morning in Belfast City Centre and was walking home w…
... a loud argument going on on the far side of the road. Several ... and fell back to the ground, unable to get up. Meanwhile the guy ran ... went over to the cop car and rapped on the window. The lady ... then proceeded to park the car ten yards further down the street ...A vexatious questionThis is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and hardware that I wrote in the development forum a while ago. To summarize that: certain ha…
... 0x0008 on the address bus). It also traps 0x0700 to page out. To prevent ... will check the state of ROMCS before nailing the signal high and paging ... shadow ROMs on the edge connector are just not going to work, at ...Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
... in any way to get stuff into the border, apart ... the border colour?
I believe the C64 used the border area occasionally to ... br /> When the loader's going, it changes the colour of the beam that ... be possible to send colour change pulses to the border so ...Compiling FUSE from source for a complete and total beginner...?[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b] A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Wel…
[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b]
going to need a barrel-load of ... knew damn well I was going to come up against a stumbling ... the masses of text generated by ./configure, I see it has failed to ...Adventures in Programmable Logic Part 2So, now armed with an Xilinx Parallel III cable, an XC9536 CPLD, a breakout board with power, a JTAG pin header and a 44-pin PLCC socket, I could try…
... the CPLD itself. (I'm probably going to end up with the XC9572 for the ... with A0 and A1 lines to select the register or function, a CS ... chip select) line, data bus input for loading the low and high 8 ... bits of the counter, and ...Old media is brilliant......because you never know what you might find on them. I've just been going through some second hand microdrive cartridges and found what seems to be…
... them. I've just been going through some second hand microdrive ... attacked by dark things from the south.The High King was lost but ... , while the enemy column flees for the Mueden Water in order to escape before ...
