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Speccy collection prepping for sale - Pics includedHi guys, I made a post a while back about having to shift my sizeable collection due to incoming sprog. I gave up typing up the names, so I'm going…
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S.T.O.R.M
S.T.O.R.M
Safari ... Ceti
Tau Ceti
T-Bird
Tempest
Terminus ...
Vu-Calc
W.A.R
Wacky Darts
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Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …
... graphics as the browser won't print the graphic symbols. I ... around so that I didn't need a separate check for ... of bounds. The GOSUBs weren't helping so they've gone ... -
Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …
... graphics as the browser won't print the graphic symbols. I ... around so that I didn't need a separate check for ... of bounds. The GOSUBs weren't helping so they've gone ... -
800+ Spectrum 128k & 48k original titles still availableHi guys, The original thread was a bit messy and has vanished from the front page, so rather than bump it, here it is again a bit tidier: All origi…
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S.T.O.R.M
S.T.O.R.M
Safari ... Ceti
Tau Ceti
T-Bird
Tempest
Terminus ...
Vu-Calc
W.A.R
Wacky Darts
Wally ... -
display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... 61" was changing 'bp' to 'e'; the name's shorter so ... p):
IF INT (w/e)-INT (w/(e*2))*2 THEN RETURN
7 POKE hl,w+e: RETURN
10 LET x ... INK 6: CLS :
LET e=0: LET b=0: LET ... /> 1000 LET t1=FN t(): LET t2=FN t(): LET t0=t1 ... -
display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
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[b]IF INT (w/e)-INT (w/(e*2))*2 THEN RETURN[/b ... ]
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[b]IF w=e ... OR w+e>255 THEN RETURN[/b ... was breachable. Surely there can't be much more to save? -
My Rendition of Horace to the RescueHi Spectrum World, I have spent the last 2 month writing my rendition of Horace to the Rescue. Horace to the Rescue was a planned game but it was ne…
... know people have mentioned the keys - they're OK to play ... Horace keys - Q, Z, I & P. I guess you wouldn't actually ... in other games to these keys after playing the Horace games ... -
My Rendition of Horace to the RescueHi Spectrum World, I have spent the last 2 month writing my rendition of Horace to the Rescue. Horace to the Rescue was a planned game but it was ne…
... know people have mentioned the keys - they're OK to ... Horace keys - Q, Z, I & P. I guess you wouldn't ... in other games to these keys after playing the Horace ... But I didn't think about the keys being the same ... . But I used the keys that I thought would be ... -
My Rendition of Horace to the RescueHi Spectrum World, I have spent the last 2 month writing my rendition of Horace to the Rescue. Horace to the Rescue was a planned game but it was ne…
... link as before. Now the keys are traditional and the bug ... know people have mentioned the keys - they're OK to play ... Horace keys - Q, Z, I & P. I guess you wouldn't actually ... in other games to these keys after playing the Horace games ... -
Test your PC keyboardPlease test yout PC keyboards in ZX emulator. Searches for the appropriate keyboard for real ZX Spectrum / ZX emulator. This is keyboard tester: [url…
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Keyboard ghosting isn't my strong point, but on ... spectrum, if I hold down E + R + F, why does 'D' not ... 3 (since you are holding E and R). When A9 is low ... that if any of 4,R,F,7,U,C,J ... -
Mighty MagusMighty Magus Anybody out there played this game? I remember it well.
... :) then I discovered I can't do any harm... back on ... there is "magic", keys 1 to 9... didn't use it, back ... />
1. I didn't collect any ITEMS, so I ...
[1] i.e. there is 20 chests and ... items, my guess: Dragon won't be happy when I visited ... -
Game loopJust working on my first ever Spectrum game, and am struggling to work out what the game-loop should look like. I've got interrupts enabled (mode 2)…
... state changes.
So e.g. for a pure tone ... multichannel sound, several methods exist, e.g.
1) Using ... values so that they don't interfere with each other and ... 'middle signal state' of sorts - w/e it's called - by flipping ... -
SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…
... #FE for the beeper, and w/e ports these other devices use ... AY register selection (it doesn't produce any sound per se ... -
Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
... a nod to the classic Ultimate keys... The weird thing about the ... keys is that I've always ... lose energy, and it wasn't obvious. Also the sprite moves ... move through (sometimes I didn't seem to be carrying a ... -
Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
... a nod to the classic Ultimate keys... The weird thing about ... energy, and it wasn't obvious. Also the sprite ... through (sometimes I didn't seem to be carrying a ... screen so they didn't appear inside a block.< ... suppose that designers didn't get feedback like we do ... -
Here comes the sunAnybody ever finish this? Theres almost no help out there anywhere for it. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006427[/url]
... (or up) when you don't want to be the next ... ,
E,S,S,S,E,S,S,E,W,E,W,E,N,W,W,W,W,S,W,E,W,E,W,N,N ... ,N,N,W,CLIMB ... ,S,S,S,E,E,E,S,S,N,W,W,
Battle Bunny
February 2014
Games
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Mercenary 1+2 CompendiumDear all users of +3 disks, I am an eager fan of Mercenary game, in which I made a good deal of progress years ago. I was looking for some standart …
... month, so I don't know if I'll have ... a +3 version, it can't be copied to a +3e ... BASIC loader. Sadly, it can't load/save from disk. Mercenary ... don't use ROM routines to save ... />
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1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... the fact that you can't shoot] zombies, flying blazing skulls ... right keys being magically one over the other [q + a], which doesn't ... -
Python script to scrape Amazon.com book reviewsI've been meaning to read the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks (roughly 40 books) and Sci-Fi Masterworks (roughly 100+ books) lists for a while now, but …
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Fevre Dream George R.R.Martin (161, 76, 29, ... 279)
The Worm Ouroboros E.R.Eddison (42, 10, 4, ... 47)
Half Past Human T.J.Bass (6, 3, ... 27)
Mistress of Mistresses E.R.Eddison (5, 0, 0, ... (0, , , , , )
R.U.R.and War with the Newts ... -
Assembloids for the ZX Spectrum in the makingAfter coding Assembloids for the C64 and having basically finished Assembloids 2600 for the Atari2600, I will continue to work on Assembloids ZX ;-) …
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Yeah, I recall q,w,o,p from Elite :)
Thanks alot for the feedback[/QUOTE]
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Why don't some games take advantage of the full screen?Putting the game play into a smaller box does it improve the speed of the game? I noticed a lot of games especially arcade conversions that a lot of…
... .worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38433&highlight=scrimpy+screens ... . My favourite is Martech's W.A.R. That one really took ... devices...
(And couldn't they have used some space ... .cgi?screen=screens/in-game/w/W.A.R..gif[/IMG] -
Play Space War On-line FreeJust found this cool link for one of my favourite retro games from 1962! [url]http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/[/url]
... away from the WASD keys. That doesn't happen with the arrows ... 'm touching some of the keys lower down)
Much ... , thumb = down. These were my keys of choice when my Speccy ... uncomfortable, I use EDIOM and Q/P for any additional fire ... -
Mimzoid Death Dudehow to play this, what's going on there?
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With keys Q/A player can change 'layers' i.e. depth in ... , you get different 'maze' i.e. have to paint new square ...
