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What happened to EmuZWin?Does anyone know what happened with the emulator EmuZWin? This Windows based emulator was very feature rich, and very easy to use, and didn't need to…
... very easy to use, and didn't need to much in the way ... .net/apps/EmuZWin_Eng.htm[/URL] ) to see if there's any ... he just another name to add to those who left WOS under ... -
Jonathan CreekI meant to post about the Jonathan Creek episode from a few weeks ago, but never got around to it, and since no one else did (as far as I know) then …
... gas would have to have been in that tiny space to have killed ... were (a) to pretend to be in trouble so as to steal his car ... , and (b) to try to ... unable to carry the guilt of the murder she'd been involved in ... -
Pyskool 0.2.4: Back to Skool Daze[url="http://pyskool.ca/?p=264"]Pyskool 0.2.4 has been released[/url]. Pyskool, as I'm sure you're all sick of me stating by now, is a (mostly) fait…
... of Skool Daze and Back to Skool in Python and Pygame, with ... a new example customisation: Back to Skool Daze.
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An evening in with the Speccy emulatorAfter a day at work which didn't exactly go according to plan, and after three weeks of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a…
... of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul ... left and no bullets in the onscreen counter. If ... , it was time to flick back to 1987, back when ... own sofa again due to fumes in the bedroom, but I ... while since I was in the mood to play Speccy games - ... -
KING OF PONG: Pong revisitedHello everybody. I'm proud to announce you that my last personal project for the ZX Spectrum, "KING OF PONG" is available to download here at WOS si…
... is an errata in English instructions' PDF file. In section "III. ... emulators" there is a paragraph in Spanish. I apologize for ... the Spectrum emulators available. To see it properly an emulator ... it will be uncomfortable or unable to play with it."
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Worst default key configurations in a gameSomething I used to hate in a lot of early Spectrum games was the bizarre key configuration that was set for some games. What made matters worse is t…
Something I used to hate in a lot of early ... Some of these used to give me cramp in my fingers, and ... mid game resulting in some desperate keyboard prodding to try to regain control ... ,Right - Alternating keys on CAPS to SPACE row
Fire - ... -
"Programming the Spectrum in Assembly" series in Micro MartI see that Shaun Bebbington is starting a series of articles in Micro Mart magazine on how to program in assembly for those who might know a little b…
... articles in Micro Mart magazine on how to program in assembly ... about programming but want to try and develop it. ... week with some examples to try out. Should be ... since we've seen that in a magazine!
One point made in this week's overview was ... -
Kempston joystick in Spin & FuseI was wondering what the trick was to getting Kempston joystick emulation to work in Spin (v0.666) & Fuse (vJan'09). I've searched the Emulator forum…
... the trick was to getting Kempston joystick emulation to work in Spin (v0 ... random movement. In Fuse, selecting 48k + Kempston in both Peripherals and ... that's due to suitable values returned by IN A,(1f).< ... br />
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Stuff to Clean Old PlasticI read somewhere, it might have been here even, about a chemical that can be used to restore aging plastic to it's former colour. I have been workin…
... that can be used to restore aging plastic to it's former ... on a project to fit a mini-ITX motherboard in to an old ... eBay). I am also going to use the Keyrah device so ... you can get it all to fit in a rubber key or ... it is possible to get an ITX board to work on the ... -
hundreds of Spectrum gamesHi Spectrum-fans, I got here a list of incoming games which are not listed in our shops yet. However, we can maybe save the work and sell them alrea…
... already before we have to upload them in the shop.
in Euro and include VAT. There ... postage. As we have offices in UK, Germany and Czech Republic ...
As we are unable to list every country, please ask ... -
ZX Quantum LeapJust for fun. Imagine this. This very evening, you are visited by a kind wizard known as Roland. At first you believe him to be a nutter, but after …
... will send you back in time back to the year 1982 (inside ... computer with you but unable to show it to anyone or else your ... then given 28 years to exploit the knowledge in your laptop, what ... will likely be completely different in design).
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decoding speech in Creature of HavocI've been looking at the Fighting Fantasy gamebook "Creature of Havoc" for the first time, since it was mentioned yesterday in another place, and hav…
... since it was mentioned yesterday in another place, and have encountered ... replaced by the next letter in the alphabet.
* Spaces ...
The first thing to bear in the mind is that the ... presents a problem of ambiguity in distinguishing between the letters ... -
Does anyone recall a transvestite restaurant in Loughborough?!That may sound like an improbable question, but I have a clear memory of visiting a pizza restaurant (or possibly general restaurant selling lots of …
... lots of pizzas) in Loughborough in the early 1990s where ... proportion of the 'waitresses' were in fact transvestites.
to revisit the place, you understand, but in conversation ... colleague who went to university in Loughborough in the mid 90s ... -
Wav to tzx problemPlease could someone tell me how to convert wav recordings to tzx files to play in spin.I have successfully sampled my tapes to wav,and they load in …
... how to convert wav recordings to tzx files to play in spin ... .I have successfully sampled my tapes to ... wav,and they load in spin fine ... work as they appear to be old dos programmes ... there a program to work in vista.New games ... -
RIP Benoit Mandelbrot[QUOTE]'Fractal' mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies aged 85 Mandelbrot had been highly critical of the world's banking system Benoit Mandelbrot, w…
... said he had died in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
in Poland but moved to Paris at ... Fractal mathematics also led to technological developments in the fields of digital ... was unable to cope with its own complexity.
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I'm scared to death!I've posted on here before that I'm not very well. I've got a genetic kidney condition (Polycystic Kidney Disease...PKD) and it's fast getting to the…
... came in at 14% and I've now been refered to the ... questions in a certain way etc, but I like people to decide ... 'll need somoeone else to train in how to use the machine too ... (they take 2 people to operate ... -
In colour all these years laterYou know what? Even though I've been playing the Spectrum for more than a decade via emulation and thought I had played everything I wanted to play …
... played everything I wanted to play but I am ... that I am seeing in full technicolour for the ... for tuning in. So it still a delight to come across ... - they still get played to death, but games like Tiler ... Blagger, Specventure are fresh to me in colourville :) -
making a tzx in win7?as it says most programs dont seem to want to run in gui? - any recommendations on what i am doing wrong!
as it says most programs dont seem to want to run in gui? - any recommendations on what i am doing wrong! -
I'm writing a library for "running" co-processorsCrossposted at [URL=http://amibay.com/showthread.php?p=117391#post117391]amibay[/URL] and [URL=http://forum.classicamiga.com/forum/showthread.php/436…
... example is being developed in parallel by me that ... Z80 and translates syscalls to the native ones ... and flash etc implemented in hardware or FPGA).
to the pope.
to have a log in to download it). This ... -
Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…
... recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text ... I'm not sure how to use them for my needs ... Basic on Spectaculator and intend to write the program for the ... -
Where to buy HardwareHi All Can anybody recommend a good reliable site to buy Spectrum hardware, I only know of Retrogames but they never seem to have to much in at any…
Hi All
Can anybody recommend a good reliable site to buy Spectrum hardware, I only know
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Getting ones own site on to the search engines?So ... long thread-title but it basically says it all. What's the best free way to get ones site to the search engines? I've googled around and got…
... to "attract" search-engine crawlers/spiders, without having to type in ... all the words in the dictionary as ... the best way to get crawlers/spiders to index specific ... service of propagating ones site to search engines ... but what ... -
Games for WindowsI got a new PC during the summer cos my old one packed in, i just managed to get a graphics card 2 weeks ago after running on integrated graphocs onl…
... one packed in, i just managed to get a ... . Anyway i managed to install GTA 4 and ... to be a problem with Games for Windows.
Everytime i log in ... for Windows cannot connect to the internet'. My connection ... their applications installed just to save my game!
The Speccy Tour - How to improve it and encourage participation?[This will be posted on the HARP board as well, to encourage debate.] The Speccy Tour is, as many of you know, [U]the[/U] worldwide championship for…
... is true, but also to show in another way that the Spectrum ... improvements can be made to promote participation in the Tour:
< ... of 8 scores[/u] in order to leave the least liked games ... squeezing them to the last drop, whilst being interested in the ...Adult Titles in InfoseekI can't view any adult game in Infoseek. The adult opt in feature does not appear to work in the config panel. It does not appear to save this settin…
I can't view any adult game in Infoseek. The adult opt in feature does not appear to work in the config panel. It does not appear to save this setting.
I'm using IE8 on Win 7.Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…
New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's the fastest way to program in BASIC in a Windows environment?Similar to Scotties thread......I too am suffering with severe bouts of depression (not diagnosed, I just feel really down sometimes). I haven't finished a big project or anythi…
... left noddy bugs in there, ranging from spelling mistakes to logical errors ... for haven't come back to me...in fact questions I could ... br />
I keep wanting to work for myself, doing anything ... convincing myself everything will turn to shit.
I' ...New To Group....Hi All, A quick introduction as this is my first post. I am a Scarborough, UK based chap who is quite heavily into retro computing, more specificall…
... decided that sitting in its box in the attic is ... not where it should be, so want to ... the second column of pixels in each character is "Missing", ... of the spectrum to be able to work out which ... ok, as I managed to load in "Skool Daze", and let ...Hi everybody! Need help trying to rescue a ZX 48K...Hi, since this is my first post, a bit of info about me: I'm an Italian guy, now living in Poland (Warsaw), informatics and electronic geek since…
... Italian guy, now living in Poland (Warsaw), informatics ... in '88. I moved then to Amiga 500, 1200 and to ... m interested mainly in connecting them to VGA or DVI ... have it connected to Video-IN of my VGA ... maybe expanding my Spectrum collection in future.
