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best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…
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You can use a compiler to turn a BASIC program into machine ... />
Typically, you can get a 10x speed increase by doing ... this. However, compilers take up a lot of RAM, often only ... work with a limited number of BASIC commands ... -
best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…
... Matt_B;249390]You can use a compiler to turn a BASIC program into ... /> Typically, you can get a 10x speed increase by doing ... didn't want to look like a div, and have ... a bit like a cheat for people who can't be arsed to ... learn assembler but haven't used up a ... -
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
... would have taken me a looong while to finish that game, I ... hard and I needed a POKE to do some of the screens ... alike. I don't hesitate to use a POKE to get my way through ... was able to "finally" figure out how to get through a particular screen ... -
2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
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IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …
... to get the code to run in ROM though, you just use a routine to ... block copy it to RAM. That's ... fact, the "main loop" is a series of CALLs between 0019h ... -
Removing keyboard overlayI've got a new membrane to fit to a lovely Issue2 16K machine. The keyboard overlay is in pukka condition, so I want to get it off without any creas…
... to take the two halves of the spectrum apart and then use a ... hairdryer to heat the keyboard overlay ... to slightly melt the glue. However, ... /> If you don't have a hairdryer, you can soak it ... -
Removing keyboard overlayI've got a new membrane to fit to a lovely Issue2 16K machine. The keyboard overlay is in pukka condition, so I want to get it off without any creas…
... to take the two halves of the spectrum apart and then use a ... hairdryer to heat the keyboard ... If you don't have a hairdryer, you can soak ... /> I was going to soak it in hot ... /> I'll experiment on a particularly bad spectrum first with ... -
ResiDOS v2.07 and +3e ROMs v1.37 releasedThese new versions just contain a few bugfixes. See the websites for details.
... but I'm about to swtich to ResiDOS. Previous posts in ... under a real DOS enviroment. Jose Leandro, for example, had to ... were a hard drive, boot with Windows 98 and use FDisk to partition ... a format utility at some point, thus eliminating the need to use a PC to ... -
ResiDOS v2.07 and +3e ROMs v1.37 releasedThese new versions just contain a few bugfixes. See the websites for details.
... was actually talking about getting a card to be recognised by FATware ... point, thus eliminating the need to use a PC to format media.[/QUOTE]
to add a FAT-formatting utility. I ... going to be using a PC, then you may as well use its ... -
ResiDOS v2.07 and +3e ROMs v1.37 releasedThese new versions just contain a few bugfixes. See the websites for details.
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On a side note, I always wondered ... point, thus eliminating the need to use a PC to format media.[/QUOTE]
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myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
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this site looks good,i will add my own score later.but for now how do you use a joystick when playing the games?.thank you
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PSU polarityHi! I have a speccy+ psu and somewhere there is a loose connection.I suspect the end to the speccy side. I need to cut the wire and put a new socket.…
... PSU!), you can then use a multimeter to measure the voltage and polarity ... intermittent, so you can also use the trick above (with ... a multimeter... Ok, you can use a LED and a series resistor of 1K to ... see polarity, but you'll have to ... -
Your favorite Joystick (fnar!)Following on from another thread.... What was your favorite Joystick? Was it cheap and nasty or almost indestrcuatable? Did it have autofire? Your …
Used to use the Cheetah+ (i think it was called). I still use that joystick to this day. Most games had this in the main menu. Although i think Kempston was the most popular. -
Firefox 3.0 Final todayFirefox 3.0 Final will be released today at 6pm (GMT). Mozilla want to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hour. A n…
... and other crap. I use a TV to browse the web so ... so clean and great to use like this you wont ... that really needs to be used to see what it ... offer. Subtle, great and easy to use.
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Frank Sidebottom on the speccyi didn't know that the comedian who played frank sidebottom also wrote a couple of speccy games. Frank doesn't seem to be in them. http://www.worldo…
... I bought suggested to children that if their ... got a bit smelly, they should use a teaspoon to pop ... him out of his shell and give it a ... I was listening to quite a bit of radio ... for a while...
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How to run assembled code in emu?Sorry for the complete newbie question, but I can't figure this out anywhere. I've assembled a very simple program using z80asm on linux. Now I hav…
You can use a tool to create a .tap file from the ... /metalbrain[/url] , go to Links and look for the ... />
Now you can use:
bin2tap input ... will output a tap file with a BASIC program to load ... to have just the bytes block and no BASIC at all, use ... -
Classic British TV[FONT="]So, as I live in U, S of A now I find myself often reminiscing about TV shows from when I was a child in blighty. Now I know that some o…
Region free players are a lot harder to find in the USA (mostly ... />
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Classic British TV[FONT="]So, as I live in U, S of A now I find myself often reminiscing about TV shows from when I was a child in blighty. Now I know that some o…
... ;288732]You can always use a computer to play them though, although ... you possibly need a sufficiently old ... in hardware (or find a new one that doesn't ... cheap enough).[/QUOTE]Just use AnyDVD to solve that particular problem. -
Plugging a 48K rubberkey into a VGA/DVI monitor: doable?I'm sure this has been answered before but searching for "monitor" and "vga" gave me a squillion results, none of which appeared relevant. Simple ye…
... worst results) would be using a TV-Card with your PC ... there would only small difference to using an emulator on PC ... not neccessary if you would use a CGA to VGA converter. In this ... -
+2a datacorder problemsHelloooo, how's it going? Reason I'm posting is that 1) I'm a massive speccy fan, it was the first range of computers I ever owned 2) I'm having rea…
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Actually, 'hell to replace' is relative :)
to help the solder to flow). Then, use solder braid to suck ... the pins together. Then use a multimeter to check for shorts, and ... aligned. (These days I use solder paste and hot air ... -
A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... emulates the execution of a cartridge binary, to analyze it and find ... should be rewritten to make it work in a TMS9929-capable Spectrum ... ). It may sound exagerated to use a V9958 to execute code intended for TMS9929 ... -
ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
I have one of the old 15 pin joystick sockets. A wild guess about the access violation might be that Spin expects a joystick to be plugged in. -
ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
... of the old 15 pin joystick sockets. A wild guess about the ... might be that Spin expects a joystick to be plugged in.[/QUOTE]
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desert island...cassettesokay, you know the deal... you're on a desert island and you're only allowed 8 speccy games... you're also allowed some reading material, but you can…
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desert island...cassettesokay, you know the deal... you're on a desert island and you're only allowed 8 speccy games... you're also allowed some reading material, but you can…
... plays badly, and is a git to control), but there might be ... it doesn't play a particularly good game or have ... only one available as a ROM cartridge but seeing ... probably your best bet for a good game, although some ... would probably give it a run for its money ... -
dirty games?hi guys, after a fit of nostalgia i dragged the speccy out of the loft ready for christmas. i do remmember i used to have problems loading games norm…
... br /> The best thing to do is use your laptop (if you ... data cassette recorder, and use PlayTZX (available from this ... onto MP3 players and use an MP3 player like ... you would a tape recorder, again, ... here as a TZX, and use a tool to convert TZX to WAV ... -
Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
... is that you either use a lead to connect the output of ... your soundcard to the input of your speccy and use a freely ... downloadable program called
PlayTZX
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R.I.P. spectrum 48kRecently one of my 48k rubber key (issue 4) machine bit the dust the other day when I tried to power it on. When powering it on, it gave a weird 'bee…
... and also a spare ULA. But I want to make sure ... US, so I have to use a 120v to 220v transformer. It works ... Also, I did buy a 120v to 9v DC 1.5A power ... , and a spare ULA. Just don't want to start pluging ... love to get the diagnostic board along with a good ... -
Your views on...Delta Wing[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001337]Delta Wing[/url] Never got round to playing this game even though it got a Crash Smash…
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Never got round to playing this game even though ... you not like it? To me it was pretty good ... anywhere with. It seemed to have a bleak lonely atmosphere ( ... bonus of being able use a gun to waste some alien ... 't figure out how to dispose of the warlord ... -
Your views on...Delta Wing[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001337]Delta Wing[/url] Never got round to playing this game even though it got a Crash Smash…
... get anywhere with. It seemed to have a bleak lonely atmosphere (no ... added bonus of being able use a gun to waste some alien thingy ... , I will do a Marsport thread. Just wanted to break up the ... Gargoyle ones a bit, otherwise ...
