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Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
... magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in ... rather quickly the program listings turned into hex dumps of assembly programs with ... minimal BASIC loaders, and the listings in magazines thus ... -
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TYPE INSanyone got any type in scans that need to be coverted into the games i would gladly do them 4 u and this site. if u have e-mail them to: [email="smok…
Are u offering to type-in program listings from the scans? If ... ! There are hundreds of program listings in the scans of CRASH, Your Sinclair ... this site (look in the Magazine section of the Archives!). < ... you have typed in from these listings (see this page ... -
Scans of program listings.Hey everybody. I have some old Finnish computing magazines, which include listings for Spectrum software, and I was wondering if there was a method o…
... some old Finnish computing magazines, which include listings for Spectrum software, ... there was a method of scanning the listings straight to some ... sort of converter that would wizard up a working program? I ... 'm lazy as s**t at typing the listings ... -
Getting basic program listings into a text fileHi - can anyone tell me if there is an easy way of getting basic program listings out of an (any) Spectrum emulator and into a text file on your PC? …
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Scan of two type-in books from Interface PublicationsFor those who may be interested, I thought I'd just point out two book scans on a mainly Commoodre based site that have Spectrum listings in them. T…
... based site that have Spectrum listings in them.
The first ... s Return
The Siege of Doune Castle
Third World ... National Hero Game
Corridors of Power
[B] ... B]
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Indie spectrum games advertised in magazinesDid anyone ever buy a spectrum indie game that was advertised in magazines? e.g. [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/lguide17.htm[/url] What was …
... indie game that was advertised in magazines?
e.g.
Looking at screenshots most of them seem to be text ... where you just type in a bunch of numbers, e.g. how ... -
An alternative method of input...Does anyone know of any software for the PC that will take text from its keyboard and output tones from the sound-card that are recognisable to the c…
... but more of a suite of development tools, with built in assemblers.. ... an assembler built in too, plus an array of other tools. ...
Hope that lot helps in some way...
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Input MagDont know if anyone has posted this before bu here is a link to the Mag Input. [URL="http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/input/input.htm"]ht…
... /> [quote]COPYING PROGRAM LISTINGS
It's absolutely vital that program listings are copied ... at all. Because of this, all the program listings in INPUT are designed to ... permission to put the scanned magazines online which did not revoke ... -
"The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" in 2006As you may know, Thalamus Books will be releasing "The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" in 2006. The book now appears on Amazon where you can pre-order an…
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Name of a type-in adventureBit of a long-shot this one, but you never know! I'm trying to remember the name of a type-in adventure that I spent many a frustrating hour typing …
Bit of a long-shot this one, ... to remember the name of a type-in adventure that I spent ... many a frustrating hour typing in and playing for a bit ... but may have bought it in a shop)
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Experience feelings of passionate love in dreams?!I had a dream this morning that I was the boyfriend (I think) of Liv Tyler. This is a little odd, because I have never really fancied her, even thoug…
... with her dad, who, in this dream, was Christopher ... used for one of the sets in Lord of the Rings. ... behind on of those statue-in-the-middle-of-the-street ... type of things.
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Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.
Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it?
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The Story of the Spectrum in 10 GamesIf you had the tell the story of the Spectrum in just 10 games what woukd they be? Your choices should be games that have absolutely defined the shap…
... the tell the story of the Spectrum in just 10 games what ... have absolutely defined the shape of the Spectrum and dictated the ... -
Usage of HDF Manager in ZX Spin - And: Creation of small +3 HDF-imagesHi, can someone explain me the usage of "HDF Manager" in ZX Spin (available under Tools / Options / Files / Hard Disks - it´s greyed out here by m…
... explain me the usage of "HDF Manager" in ZX Spin (available under ... with a very small size of about 128MB card-size? -
The oldest pair of shoes still in regular use.Shoes these days are not built to last. in 2006, nine months after meeting my wife I brought some Sketchers work/ outdoors boots at a discount shoe s…
... the back of a shovel several thousands of times. The ... br /> Second to the longevity of these was an expensive (90 ... pounds) 90s pair of DCShoe Co trainers which I ... looked fresh for most of those years. I was ... the oldest pair of shoes still in regular use on ... -
new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
... z80s had to be saved in z80 format - now I understand ... probably preaching to the choir in here...but there is a ... with how I loaded the program?)
Finally, I was ... there was an archive full of program listings from Sinclair Programs somewhere on ... -
The WoS Type-Ins ProjectGood folks of WoS! Lend me your ears (figuratively speaking of course)! At long last, the kind and noble Martijn has cleared the Type-Ins project for…
... seen some ZX81 and Spectrum listings in magazines like YOUR COMPUTER, but ... br />
Most of the programs in that magazine use hefty ... which prints out in a shaky version of the Sinclair font.< ... This leads to the problem of distinguishing the letter B from ... -
booki dunno if peeps are interested but i just bought a book from the charity shop today for 50p in very good condition...its called "The family computer…
... and is adapted from articles in computer answers magazine. It was ... hardback book and has one of those horrible slippy slidey ... .183 pages.
Sections in it feature bits on hardware ... and theres not really many program listings in. and its in tip top shape :) -
ahm ... what is "Type-ins" ?On 24 September, the what's new page tells me "The next Type-ins update!". But what is Type-ins ? Cristi
Magazines and books had program listings in them for people to type into their Spectrum and RUN it.
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Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
... case, accepts the isbn number of a book and returns the ... .
With a bit of head scratching I also managed ... , which will return all the program listings in the book. Should be simple ... now, selecting the book results in another window opening with the ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... to read things directly in front of me (providing there's ... involved). Does anyone know of a decent resource for how ... you could consult the program listings in Chapter 14 of "Mastering Machine Code on ... your ZX80 or ZX81" (PDF in ... -
What was the first Spectrum program/game?I'm curious about this. I know Horizons didn't come out till a few months? after the Spectrum. Was there any commercial software at launch?
That's going to be an almost impossible question to answer as there was probably program listings in early magazines and various BASIC stuff creeping onto the market. Maybe 'Flight Simulator' or 'Chequred Flag' are contendors? -
Turn OCR-ed listings into Speccy filesHi! I do not know whether I have posted this in the proper subforum... If not, I am sorry. We have a site that we scan/preserve Greek computer maga…
... everyone who's tried OCRing program listings in the past has come to ... of time. OCR software is tuned towards reading human language, not program ... 't have a chance of doing that in a Basic line, and ... computers are a lot less forgiving of ... -
Turn OCR-ed listings into Speccy filesHi! I do not know whether I have posted this in the proper subforum... If not, I am sorry. We have a site that we scan/preserve Greek computer maga…
... everyone who's tried OCRing program listings in the past has come to ... of time. OCR software is tuned towards reading human language, not program ... t have a chance of doing that in a Basic line, ... mode and BASIC language recognition of Abby Finereader I got pretty ... -
Computer Science not being taught in UK schoolsI uploaded this to youtube from a broadcast last night on Newsnight. [youtube]MkSEUb2LWX0[/youtube] Its shocking that schoolchildren no longer lear…
... shocking... that suggests some sort of surprise - like it's not ... the hobbyist boom of the 80s and reading program listings in Your Sinclair and ... taught to a reasonable level in a week or two - ... they doing with the rest of the time?
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Computer Science not being taught in UK schoolsI uploaded this to youtube from a broadcast last night on Newsnight. [youtube]MkSEUb2LWX0[/youtube] Its shocking that schoolchildren no longer lear…
... hobbyist boom of the 80s and reading program listings in Your Sinclair ... and Crash.[/QUOTE]
Were these things taught in ... do you know lots of electronics? mechanics? quantum ... with the rest of the time in Geography lessons ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... because their music reminds me of my Speccy-playing days...
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are there any assembly games listings with mnemonics?hi, i would like to get hold of some assembly games listings (that i dont have to type in (copy/paste,etc)) with mnemonics (i think thats what u cal…
... Machine Code" series. Some of the listings in that were heavily commented, ... series is at the bottom of this page:
program from ZX Computing was ... />
One of the most thorough examples of commenting an assembler ...
