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The Compact Disc - Your First or early Memories and Experiences.I've been getting very passionate about my vinyl collection recently, but that has also got my thinking about CDs and casting my mind back to when I…
... family were a lot better off than us had ... , and (mostly) I usually listened to everything on my Walkman, ... against each other due to the movement of the ... they end up scratched to buggery and jump or don ... (Remember that crap they used to push back in the day ... -
(Collected) Darkhog's noob question about z80 assemblySince when I'm learning new language or library, I tend to ask lots of stupid (for any advanced person) questions and I don't want it to have mess up…
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Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…
Maybe a better process of selection, would ... />
It's usually easier to select what we don't ... rule, for removal would have to be defined.
to post whatever logo and ... user, and allows you to edit previous "like"s, ... -
Those AY-3-8912X on EbayWas searching Ebay for an AY-3-8912 to use in a small project of mine, and a few questions popped up. What is the version of the 8912 that the 128k a…
... , I use a crystal oscillator to drive the PSG. I've ... function generator. Either way, I usually drive them at the 1 ... other than it just "sounds" better to me. I'm not sure ... -
Cleaning Vinyl recordsWhen i buy albums and singles from my local market they are always really dirty and inside the sleeve is usually some grit or dirt, a good way to cle…
... and one set to black to remove excess fluid. To clean inside the ... , then an old duo-pad to dry the grooves.
better to leave them on if you ... as well !
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We need to talkInstead of bitching and sniping on here, how do people feel about an IRC chat next Saturday? I'm sure I can highjack a channel somewhere...
... state. It's certainly better than the original WoS archive ... you can wait to freeze the database, the better it will ... maximum scalability and performance is to simply process everything in memory. About ... queries can be avoided by simply adding Apache cache in ... -
Future of WoSSo, time is up! When I announced I was leaving, it prompted quite a few people to get in touch offering help. Of the most serious offers, there w…
... reviews, etc), it would be better to just reimplement support for information ... custom cache system, why not simply turn on Apache Cache? Instead ... database content into memory, then simply refresh it periodically (perhaps once ... -
Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... are better but you don't have to know cycle times to do ... the cpu and that's usually easy to guess right from the ... language program, you'll write better code if you write the ... code that's better, you have a place to start with simple ... -
Best burger everHere's what you need: 1 George Foreman grill 1 burger bap 2 burgers 2 cheese slices pate mustard margarine Instructions: 1. Slice and butter the ba…
... that I would get round to using it !
Those ... as these store bought are usually terrible. I might also do ... and they are usually better that shop bought and easy to make and ... -
Sharpshooter by KobrahsoftI've uploaded a WAV of Sharpshooter to the WoS Facebook group at [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/WorldOfSpectrum.org/1796577180616946"]https://…
... at all. It's simply that I couldn't say ... simple CRC XORed value to throw a good result ... that that it's important to notice about the pling ... converting. It normally comes to signal that it's ... oppinion, sometimes it might be better to think twice.
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Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…
... you feel any better Shadow of the ... Beast 2 is slightly better, but only just, ... s reboot is miles better than the original game ... bosses range from inventive to simply terrible. A beautiful ... *Review in quotes credited to Retrogamer Magazine Load: 156...
The state of source level debuggingI was just wondering if we can put on a table everything we collectively know about source level debugging for ZX Spectrum to get an overview of curr…
... as when reading memory block to simply send these bytes as ... [b]- jump...jump to command[/b]
Simply jump to address and continue ... address. The monitor would execute a jump to that address. And ... the program would execute until ...RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
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This is similar to what I tried first, except ... quick enough, but it seems to be faster than decompressing a ... level, it may be useful to use the following trick:
usually better this way.
You ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... ;888552"]I would just like to point out that "RELEASE_PRICE" ... br />
Maybe it's better to name them "No cost", "None ... it exactly what we want to indicate?
Notice ... games marked as "Freeware", I simply imported this information into ZXDB ...WOS Starts to take shapeCheck it out http://live.worldofspectrum.org/ Looking good (when can we start adding all the info?)
... roles table links people to roles a lot better and yields quicker ... person that isn't related to the publisher. There are ... position where I have to consider whether to spend additional hours ... plan which is already written to simply export data into CVS if ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... I can't seem to get anyone to come on a mission ... 't think it's possible to "one man" main missions ... I'm finding the grinding to be really enjoyable. It' ... the gear you craft is usually better than the stuff you ... missions). I was able to take a lot more damage ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... they'll write something better than systems which have ... niches where this can work better.[/quote]
... It would be much easier to simply read the entire content of ... * Web server caching would work better than database caching anyway, since ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... with an almost certainly better feature set (accommodating misspellings ... would be much easier to simply read the entire content ... assumption you'll do better than the RDBMS programmers ... Web server caching would work better than database caching anyway, since ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... and imprecise. It would be better to extract the data into an ... It would be much easier to simply read the entire content of ... structure in memory, then simply traverse this already organized data ... will be able to quickly build this webpage simply traversing a ...New game: Sam Mallard - The Case of the Missing Swan[img]http://i66.tinypic.com/o8z6vd.png[/img] [code] Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan. Version 1.0 by Ersh in 2016 The clock had tur…
... I have one last suggestion to improve this game. Almost nobody ... . It would work much better to present the opening story at ... need to make any changes to your current program, if you simply ... program finishes loading, you can simply decompress this screen, wait ...I am currently reading...Haven't noticed one of these threads, so here goes... I'm currently reading (depending on my mood...!): - [B]The Jesus Papers[/B] - Michael Baigent…
I find that Stephen King books tend to ramble on a bit but some are good such as Carrie or Christine.
The films are usually better.I am currently reading...Haven't noticed one of these threads, so here goes... I'm currently reading (depending on my mood...!): - [B]The Jesus Papers[/B] - Michael Baigent…
[quote="zx1;900515"]I find that Stephen King books tend to ramble on a bit but some are good such as Carrie or Christine.
The films are usually better.[/quote]
I found Salem's Lot quite thrilling to read, as cool as the TV show.Jump AlgorithmAfternoon all, trying my hand at a liitle basic coding ( it's a quiet work day :) ) and wondered if anyone has coded a platformer type jumping routin…
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- - - - - - < ... that's what people are usually trying to imitate in the games ...wanted zx-style graphics / remake in the workswell, I`m not so sure where to put this, it is to summon people here at wos to join me at the graphics side of my project, a remake of one of the mos…
... you will have a better chance to find an artist whose art ... were planning a remake identical to the original you wouldn't ... artist, it would be enough to simply copy the original graphics...
to demonstrate you have the necessary ...z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
... be simply popped. Further back in this thread I linked to a ... you will have to decide whether it's better to use stack gymnastics ... or move to an index register to index ... are not smart enough to do better in general cases. As ...I'm getting to old for this Sh$%&...So I got a gig at teaching writting for TV at a masters course at college. (Miserable pay...). My class is mostly millenials, and the final work …
... button on form from left to right? It would be ... ]
No, it's better on the left :)[/quote]
to simply label the boxes with an ... and fully intended to then dump on me to do it. B ... private project which was promised to do wonders for the ...Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... be better off starting from scratch instead of trying to use ... so much simpler to add some pictures to the story and ... would be so much easier to do it in HTML ... put that long sample in to show the sort of ... I'd allow the reader to simply continue, it would not be ...KLIK: Z80 snapshot to screenshot converterWith most Spectrum emulators, you can save current game screen in original ".SCR" format. This will give you a 100% perfect copy of the Spectrum scre…
... for Twitter, then you better save it directly from the ... for archive purposes, it's better to use SCR instead. This is ... Martijn demanded all screenshots to be submitted to WoS in SCR ... use multicolor. Therefore you can simply save the screen directly as ...KLIK: Z80 snapshot to screenshot converterWith most Spectrum emulators, you can save current game screen in original ".SCR" format. This will give you a 100% perfect copy of the Spectrum scre…
... 't decide the best way to do variable interrupts (Tumult uses ... ). The neatest I got was to store the interrupt inside the ... />
Maybe a better check is just to detect IM2. I suppose ... of calling NIRVANA_stop I now usually prefer to stay in IM2 and ...KLIK: Z80 snapshot to screenshot converterWith most Spectrum emulators, you can save current game screen in original ".SCR" format. This will give you a 100% perfect copy of the Spectrum scre…
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Maybe a better check is just to detect IM2. I suppose ... of calling NIRVANA_stop I now usually prefer to stay in IM2 and ... too... I will probably need to implement checks for specific games ...
