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  • If you think Dan Brown/Terry Pratchett/JK Rowling/Tolkien/whoever is crap...I've had some good stuff (including books) from Poundland, but one book I've bought recently is [i]The Emperor of Ocean Park[/i] by Stephen L Carter,…

    His name was 'Wordy' I think..

    He used to introduce bits of stories like 'Dark Towers' or 'the Fairground'
    I vaguely remember some scary thing called the magic pencil being involved too.
    thingley thingley June 2007 Chit chat
  • Better start mangling email addresses in postsBe aware that posts to these forums are now being mirrored to a private Usenet news server - there is a possibility that some of these posts will be …

    ... parsed by certain bits of client software. Those bits of client software ... be screen readers and newsreaders used by real people with valuable ...
    gasman gasman June 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Delay routineAs some people are aware, I have recently starting writing a [url=http://fuse-emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fuse-emulator/trunk/fusetest/]autom…

    ... my delay routine. It is used in Qaop tests.
    [/QUOTE ... br />
    And we have bits 4..0 of the delay ... states, working off 32T for bits 15..5. So far so ... -BC". This negates the top bits 15..5 of the delay ... 5 which is good since bits 4..0 have already been ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... of the commands I've used in the article.

    bits and bobs from the +2 ...
    +2MAN +2MAN June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Better start mangling email addresses in postsBe aware that posts to these forums are now being mirrored to a private Usenet news server - there is a possibility that some of these posts will be …

    ... my tongue to flip the bits on and off.
    [/QUOTE ... ? Bah! You were lucky! We used to post via messages in ... . Since paper was expensive, we used papyrus like parchment made from ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • AstroBall (Sam CoupHi there, Does the full version of this game for the Sam exist in a preserved digital image format, as I have searched hight and low to no avail. I…

    ... tell.[/QUOTE]

    I used the standard 'Report Post' option ... 's a couple of my bits and pieces of mine out ...
    Quazar Quazar June 2007 Games
  • After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…

    ... "instant-on" like the 8 bits, you can't just start ... stuff.[/QUOTE]

    PCs used to come with BASIC (sometimes ... clunky compared to the 8-bits is backwards compatibility. If you ...
    John Elliott John Elliott June 2007 Chit chat
  • Kempston printer interfaceHi all, I won an Kempston Printer Interface from eBay and I am awating the arrival of it. At present I got hold of a Spectrum Plus2B today working or…

    ... some checking and all the bits you need to make a ... easily.

    The socket used for the other interface dictates ... IDC edge connector plug, as used on the Amstrad port, or ... way D type plug as used by just about everything else ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Hardware
  • Low Sound output + Sound distorting pictureHi, I am having a problem with my Grey +2 at the moment while trying to use RGB output. When I load a game the loader tones are fine but the actual…

    ... in this episode! Because I used such a thick scart cable ... to take it all to bits to fix that, double sided ... but as I've never used it it may have even ...
    +2MAN +2MAN June 2007 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... 'll see some of these used in MULE as well.
    bits and bytes in memory. C ... value but are most commonly used to store ascii characters.
    used.

    Strings in C ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…

    8 bits are done more for the ... 8 bit command can be used beside a 18 bt command ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... function tests the leftmost four bits of "bmp" (hence the ... will have all zero bits in bits 6..0. Bit 7 ... we write two "1" bits into bits 0 and 1 of the ... we added two "1" bits into bits 0 and 1 in ... this multiplication making room leaving bits 0 and 1 empty ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Anyone got a Pioneer record deck?I need a bit of advice...I just got a Pioneer PL-990 turntable off the net. It plays fine however the Cartridge thing that the stylus slots onto does…

    ... helps my PL120 has three bits - a metal bit (2 & ... ago. I know that mine used to belong to my uncle ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Chit chat
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... sp1_update.tile is now 16-bits; if the most significant byte ... sprite draw function to be used, and just above this ... above). The graphic address used when drawing a sprite is ... frame graphic plus the offsets used in the sp1_CreateSpr() / sp1_AddColSpr() ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…

    ... co-ords into the appropriate bits in H & L registers ... can either be ignored or used for other 1 byte variables ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain July 2007 Development
  • Anybody in the printing trade?I'm after the name of the object created on plastic film containing an extremely contrasty image, used to photo etch the printing rollers. It's like…

    ... in the day when I used to work on a magazine ... the local community centre, we used to get these nice photo ... . I can't use two bits of board as it'll ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2007 Chit chat
  • It's dropped off!Bleaurgh! I stubbed my lil toe this morning, and its just started feeling a bit numb and strange. Okay, so I haven't lost my toe, but the whole nai…

    ... and have the nail growing bits sealed and killed off.
    used to it. LOL
    caffeinekid caffeinekid July 2007 Chit chat
  • It's dropped off!Bleaurgh! I stubbed my lil toe this morning, and its just started feeling a bit numb and strange. Okay, so I haven't lost my toe, but the whole nai…

    ... and have the nail growing bits sealed and killed off.
    used to it. LOL[/QUOTE]
    mile mile July 2007 Chit chat
  • So long and thanks for all the fishIm off now. Alot of the chat here reminded me too much of of the chat in the school yard etc.... Not bitter, as my sig says just bored. Its been f…

    ... that you and you alone used the words "free sex" and ... dont reflect quite a few bits of feedback I have had ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk July 2007 Chit chat
  • Gryzor Preview, Combat School & Gryzor PreviewHello. I'm looking for these two ZX Spectrum games I once played on an emulator (EmuZWin). One of them is the standalone Gryzor Preview. I don't kno…

    ... know what bits it had in it that weren't used in ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones July 2007 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…

    ... oneliner game (moon lander type) used INKEYS, and therefore had the ... posts, the keyboard reading method used in the spaceinv game (although ... then reading successivly lesser significant bits off in order from MSB ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... global variables that can be used as needed declared in " ... * (puchar). These global variables are used to occaisonally pass information between ... . An unsigned integer, 16 bits, can hold a maximum score ... see how rand() is used yourself inside u_rnd()'s source ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • +3dos BASIC Headers - Char and Number ArraysHi. I'm almost ready to release the first beta of "3eExplorer" my utility for extracting files from a +3e HDD/CF image. It's actually going quite w…

    ... variable, but rather the encoding used by the Spectrum for the ... />
    where xxxxx=lower 5 bits of ASCII code .

    glancaster glancaster July 2007 Development
  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... short binary codes (5 bits) and less frequently used ones (QXZ etc ... ) had longer (8 bits). In addition ... they stored the first and second most frequently used ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 3eExplorer releasedHi. As you may know from some of the other threads, I've been using Garry Lancasters excellent [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/]+3e[/URL…

    ... (only 8 bits of each 16-bit word is used). When 3eExplorer ...
    icabod icabod August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... plainEBC[] array can be used to look up the production ... this mountain info is used to determine if a ... its 2 least significant bits equal to 00 in ... Those two least significant bits will count 00,01,10 ... " tests the least significant bits and repeats the loop if ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Flat for rent in SloughHi, i'm applying for a temporary occupation in Slough and i need some info. Since i am currently living in Portugal, i have no idea about the month…

    Well my friends used to rent places in windsor ( ... />
    There are some crappy bits in Slough which will work ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2007 Chit chat
  • Three feet later...Three feet of solder wick later, that is, after clearing the holes where the 4532 (upper 32K) memory was on the issue 4B board I've finally got aroun…

    ... the bits from the sucker melted together :)

    I've used ... was skint etc. I've used a sharpened matchstick to remake ...
    DEATH DEATH August 2007 Hardware
  • A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…

    ... manuals say it *outputs* address bits in A8-A15 while doing ... Zilog intended to use 8 bits from the go, but later ... to the BC register being used as a BYTE COUNT like ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A Tale Of Two TV ShowsTwo allegedly big US TV shows started on British TV this week, both trailed to be unmissable. BBC2 had "Heroes", More4 had "Studio 60 on the Sunset S…

    ... as good as Doctor Who used to be, pre-R. T ... of old shows' plotlines on bits of paper, ripped them up ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2007 Chit chat
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