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unknown gamehi, could anyone help me out, iam after the title of a game but i can only give a vauge discription of it, it come out on various formats as far as i…
I think the Archimedes shipped with a Demo of the game which was called Lander.
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Sound / Kempston EmulationHi I'm working on a spectrum emulator and I need som help. i still have loads left with the Z80 (not fully implemented yet) but I'm trying to get a h…
... an emulator that allows you to use the mouse directly in the ... , it would be nice to be able to use the mouse even if ... the emulator isn't emulating a ... ! The emulator would have to use a filter to remove all the extra formatting ... -
Spectrum 48K ROMHi Can anybody help I have an Issue 6a Circuit Board which has a faulty ROM Chip. Is it possible to program a ROM Chip with the 48K ROM and fit it as…
... a direct replacement, If so which chip would be best to use ... and which links need to be changed. ... had to be able to select which half and manufacturer to use. This ... but I used a different approach. They use a jumper to select between ROM ... -
SWOS coming to 360 and PC in the summer :)I just found this i cannot wait the best football game ever , i hope they add a stadium developement segment to it. [url]http://www.digitalspy.co.uk…
... , it really needed a two-button controller to differentiate the "short ... 't work because it needs a joystick to play - joypads feel all ... I never got to play but which seemed to have caused ... horrified disappointment amongst a lot of ... -
How did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…
... need a Z80 on the source machine to assemble ... Atari were using VAXen to assemble coin-op code ... the hardware Imagine used to cross assemble in ... 't the Olivers use a CPC to write stuff and ... /> [QUOTE=Rickard;186611]Starting to read his log, does anyone ... -
48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... if your power supply works. Use a multimeter to do that. It should ... transformer died (this is unlikely to happen this way).
4 ... I expect it to contain 4 diodes and a large capacitor. It ... 's not difficult to find a failure ... -
48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... if your power supply works. Use a multimeter to do that. It should ... . I expect it to contain 4 diodes and a large capacitor. It ... 's not difficult to find a failure in it.[/QUOTE]
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UlaI remplaced an ULA 6c001-6 by an ULA 6c001-7 chip on issue 3B board. It is "crucial" to remove R32 and adding the 2x NAND gates ??? or not ? Thanks.
... by 4464s, with A7 tied to +5V. This is probably where ... the other way around, writes to the upper bank were being ... .
To answer an earlier question, a 4464 is a 4bit device ... data lines you could use a 4464 to replace a 4532.
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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…
... . Or maybe using a lookup table to quickly get the result ... programmer wouldn't normally use. A switch to globals would help. Getting ... memopd() can be used to scroll a pixel row on screen left ... will bring some relief to anyone having a hard time following ... -
68000 programming.Anyone here know anything about this? My question is: how does the programmer know how long hisinstructions are? Do determine the operands to branch …
... , in that usually you use a compiler to calculate all the operands & ... you. If you really want to do it by hand then ... -
In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…
... .We are presently trying to regain data from a tape cassette, the ... holographic capabilites, and you had to use a keyboard to input information. Yes when ... what is known as a "Television set" to display its picture. Further ... -
In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…
[QUOTE=zx1;205104]What was the BBC Doomesday project of 1986?[/QUOTE]
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Bad things you did as a kidOk, fess up. What's some of the worst things you did as a kid? For me: (1) Almost burning a neighbour's hedge to the ground. (2) Wiping a big dog…
... lunch break so stole a car to get there quicker. The ... flights. Put a nail in the end and use a shoelace to launch. Got ... some pretty good shots in. Until a ... [*]Hanging one handed over a railway bridge to write my name.[/LIST ... -
How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…
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Hello euronymous and welcome to the forums!
You ... finally dissapeared. (I did this to get past the short BASIC ... /> There's probably simpler ways to do what you want, but ... long term. You'd use a dissasembler to examine machine code games, ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... that we could possibly use it twice. Once to conditionally print something ... IF..THEN you can use a POKE to go to the end of the ... of both previous ideas: use a POKE to go to the end of the ... tail, and then use whatever space left to help improve performance.
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... IF..THEN you can use a POKE to go to the end of the ... of both previous ideas: use a POKE to go to the end of the ... tail, and then use whatever space left to help improve performance.
a good idea to use the remaining space to 'polish' the ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... of both previous ideas: use a POKE to go to the end of the ... tail, and then use whatever space left to help improve performance.
a slight advantage to red, and I can ...A spectrum game from 1977i didn?t know they made Spectrum games back in 1977 take a look at this :wink: [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1977-James-Bond-007-Spectrum-cass-g…
eastendersdont worry its not about the game. has any one been watching it? some lad has kidnapped and possibly killed ian beale. in last fridays episode he se…
... officers don't need to get a warrant to search a premises, they are ... entitled to do that anyway. ... because you have to pay a tv licence to watch non-bbc channels ... if I only use a TV to watch videos/DVDs/as a monitor for ...I've got a divIDE. Now what?I've purchased a divIDE and after a month it's at home. What can I do now with that? I've got a 48k+, a +2B and a +3. The +2B has the original ROMs,…
... no problems with people preferring to use a +D to any other system (I ... the +DivIDE is firmware for a DivIDE that emulates the + ... ). That "+" placement makes quite a bit of difference unfortunately.
to go harass people on a Star Wars forum ...Anyone got in painters and decorators before?I'm just wonderig how long it would take professionals to strip the wallpaper and then paint four rooms - any thoughts?
... painting. Paintings a piece-of-piss, use a small brush to do all ... then either roller or use a pad to quickly wallop. You'll ... probably need to go over it again ... when you've finished. To make it fly, put ... than-hell volume and paint to the beat! Oh, ...Anyone got in painters and decorators before?I'm just wonderig how long it would take professionals to strip the wallpaper and then paint four rooms - any thoughts?
... painting. Paintings a piece-of-piss, use a small brush to do all ... then either roller or use a pad to quickly wallop. You'll ... probably need to go over it again ... when you've finished. To make it fly, put ... than-hell volume and paint to the beat! Oh, ...SAM gets ethernetWhilst off topic - head over to [url]www.samcoupe.com[/url]. Colins got his ethernet board for the SAM available to buy and some interesting news ab…
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Additionally to that, it'll have a >=128K flash ... likely to be a bit memory hungry), plus a CPLD to control the ... it's going to be "interesting" to have the ethernet ... the complications of trying to be compatible with ... intend to do is come up with a set ...Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…
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Get Regular Expression. (A command I use plenty on Windows, too ... program added seems to follow the trend, never use ten letters ... . The GINA is a fairly tough thing to develop, especially if ... - so you can't use a debugger to debug it because the debugger ...Games on a D80 based systemHi everybody..... I need to satiate my urge to play Knight Lore. Never did finish that game. To do so I need a good way of getting it onto at least…
... program onto the disk as a snapshot so you can ... not in RealSpectrum) is to use a tape-to-disk copy program (one ... Then you just have to edit the basic loader ... code, you can use Dr.Disk to edit the sectors ... manually and adding stuff to the lines. I copied ...I've just bought a cheap PS2Well there we have it I've finally bought a PS2, after all I've only wanted one for about 5 years. Anyway couldn't get any Silent Hill games, so I bo…
... Fantastic game.![/QUOTE]
To kill 2 birds with 1 ... on PSX, never got round to finishing the second one, ... copy so I had to use a Smartcard to play it back home ... , I now have to replay it to get the good stuff ... . I'm doing a lot ...My PC keeps freezingEvery day it will eventually freeze, ther are 2 occasions when it will freeze 1. After i have been using it it will freeze even the mouse pointer st…
Use a hoover to remove the dust ... not something which just blows it about. (Use ... the attachments not the big floor roller!) :)
A ... does, knocking it back to 166 and it works ...
There is a multiplier in there somewhere...
Crash! - a pirate's best friend?Possibly a little controversial , but doesn't it seem odd that Crash! was the only mag to include an index of which keys did what in each game - very…
[QUOTE=Graz;241190]Having the correct key layout was essential back then[/QUOTE]
...surely you could just use a joystick if you didn't like the key layout? (Well, on most games.)Crash! - a pirate's best friend?Possibly a little controversial , but doesn't it seem odd that Crash! was the only mag to include an index of which keys did what in each game - very…
[QUOTE=neoncherry;241215]...surely you could just use a joystick if you didn't like the key layout? (Well, on most games.)[/QUOTE]
You could if you had a joystick, probley only about 20% of users did.How many float-em-ups can you name?Seriously, I am so seriously inspired by the last few serious threads I just had to ask this very serious question. I'll start with Magnetron and Qu…
... ]Pitfall II[/url] where you use a balloon to go upwards.
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