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SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... Although Taper and VOC2TZX won't be updated soon. VOC2TZX might ... .
The tapes don't always need resampling though, look ... redecoded those with no loss of timmings ;).
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Rescue on FractalusI'm trying to find instructions for the Spectrum version of this game, with particular reference to the keyboard controls. Could anybody help me?
... First, we toss you out of the Mothership, straight down ... stranded pilots. They won't be jumping up and ... Whatever you do, DON'T switch your engine back on ... you as they don't take kindly to being ... levels 2 and 3 have a number of gun emplacements. The higher ... -
Best joystickWhat was your best joystick to use for the Speccy? Mine would have to go to the Atari VCS original. This was a joystick that could live thru just ab…
... I tried a number of joysticks, some of which were horrible, a few were slightly ... outstanding.
It's a mystery why modern consoles are ... had joystick technology down to a fine art in the ... />
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The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... face it: it doesn't matter a single bit what you ... CD's generated a number of sales and therefore a profit equal or ... The publishers hardly are a reliable source of information when questioned about ... the sales of their own products, aren't they? ;)
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Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP)Hi folks, Most of you who will read this are probably already aware that there are many of the above titles floating around on Ebay. However I simpl…
... everyone.
A couple of you out there might have ... moment I have quite a number of tapes that are MIA ... dont I just bundle a load of tapes up and ... don't show up as missing from a tzx point of ...
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Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP)Hi folks, Most of you who will read this are probably already aware that there are many of the above titles floating around on Ebay. However I simpl…
... I'm sure he won't mind either :)
a number of tapes that are MIA ... don't show up as missing from a tzx point of view ... are liststed, but obviously are't available to download.
... ages, didn't even realease you haven't joined us ... -
Se-Kaa of Assiahthis is a strange one - I have the 'Mastervision' version which looks very much like a mastertronic tape - I'm guessing this is the forerunner to the…
... the News pages, so don't take it as gospel.
t list a price, but says that ... and Les Hogarth, who wrote a number of other adventures, including the very ... I don't think that ever saw the light of day. It ... -
How often do people here really play emulated spectrum games?Just curious really....i'm the kind of person who still gives the odd game a good hour or two's play here and there, but most of the time it's a few …
Well,
I don't actually play games for hours, ... hours trying out all kind of games on the real Spectrum ... will probably be programming for a number of hours at the meeting in ... -
WANTED: Drive belt for +3 fddor recommendations what I can use instead of the original? Thanks
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Well GP has made a number of floppy adaptors to dump +3 ... batch and they are of good quality build IMHO ... .
All of them are accounted for already ... names so we may make a batch order.
... far.
Don't worry Thomas, you're already ... -
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... hold of a manual for it - as it's a bit of a sod ... without.
A number of damn good ... know i have tried a couple of SCADS games and ... the compiler. I don't think it's incorporated. ... , which maybe they shouldn't, i'd still purchase ... -
NEW CRONOSOFT RELEASES: HOP 'N' CHOP & GLOOP! Now availableTwo new Cronosoft releases for the Spectrum are now available for purchase online, or by mail order: [url="http://www.cronosoft.co.uk"]www.cronosoft…
... has to chop down a number of trees in each level ... crazy Fish gag, wouldn?t you? (No. A reader) Pah. There ... times, but it doesn?t hinder the game in ... level (which isn?t so much of a bad thing really). ... Hop ?n? Chop isn?t a barrier-breaking, show-stopping kinda ... -
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... hold of a manual for it - as it's a bit of a sod ... without.
A number of damn good ... I think Sam Basic shouldn't be hard to pick up ... it turns out I don't have SCADS after all ... able to point me to a download of SCADS ( seeing that ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... is. Why don't I prefer a C64? Because it' ... because of the weakness of the 6502, you couldn't do much ... graphically that the chip didn't let you do.
t measure up in either ... look great though, and a number of them look better on the ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... a lot on what you think a good computer is. Why don't ... I prefer a C64? Because it's ... . The C64 versions just don't measure up in either look ... think look great though, and a number of them look better on the ... -
Do this names sound familiar ?Hello, Since i found WOS (about 2 months ago), i've been looking around for tapes with 48K software. I found some titles, that i've runned on Infosse…
... br /> I've been TZXing a number of Portugeese titles for Steve Brown ... to the bad quality of duplication. Many are simply ... then decoding with one of the decoders ? Also ... this as I don't transfer tapes with this ... may try and make a windows sampler and perhaps ... -
Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…
... , I expected a bit of a more radical redesign. And don't think I ... don't know how ... I think there's quite a number of users that are WOS regulars ... , I hope you guys don't mind a bit of friendly advice :). -
Are there any talented speccy programmers out there?Whats happened to all of the spectrum enthusiasts? There are very few new releases for the spectrum and remakes for new platforms don't interest me. …
... /> Yet another version? I can't keep up.
... true 3D or that a 3D look can be ... when there have been a number of FP games made for ... />
retrogod: one of them has a similar intro and options ... much to do and half of them are especially annoying, ... -
Elevator Action font queryDoes anyone know the name of the font used on the title screen of Elevator Action?
... typeface in Skooldaze didn't suffer from this. It ... True. There are quite a number of examples of proportional spacing on the Speccy ...
There are a few examples of Speccy fonts which have ... "American Uncial" in Lords of Midnight/other Mike Singleton games ... -
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There are a number of people / organisations at fault here ... spring up, they obviously don't care. If that's the ... , and why not? I don't actually play the games, they ... my duplicates, I haven't given up ownership of anything....
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There are a number of people / organisations at fault here ... software i can't find for the life of me and rarely ... , although I can't give you a %, don't come from here or ... Back for which you don't you a permission granted or denied ...Can you be 100% certain you have listed anyof the software house completely accuratly? Wot i means is :- Are all the titles there for any particular software house you can say, yeap thats all…
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Nobody Has a definatve list of all the releases made ... br />
Quite a few titles had a number of different covers and hence ... that if the information doesn't come in its difficult to ... still the most accreate source of information out there so ...Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
... then. I had some of those listings-for-all-comps ... kinda books. Some of them were good, but ... of you are dusting off some of the old tapes of ... future! There were quite a number of cool BASIC games in books ... would be a pity if we couldn't resurrect them ...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…
... isn't my project or idea. Martijn already had intentions of ... doing this one (thanks to a number of requests), but ... needed somebody to deal with it on a ... "chosen" one. ;)
Of course, now that it's ...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…
... a number of different formats would be good so as to allow use of ... my earlier example (which wasn't hex anyway, but this could ... br />
Is there a standard way of generating checksums? It's ... of the 8 bytes, isn't it? Even if there wasn't, examining a ...New SpeccyDo you think someone should go about creating a new spectrum computer? I'm talking about a spectrum compatible (not an emulator) with the capabiliti…
... waveform - and all of the effects that you ... triangle+sawtooth generator with a little help from the ... sound AYish but it can't replace an AY.
... br /> The SID may have a number of interesting features, but I do ... 't stop the SID from being recognized as one of ...Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
... screen flipping (first 6912 bytes of each)
... LD BC, #7FFD; OUT (C),A :)
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... one frames-worth of t-states to render on a +3? Could ... (but the screen pages are, of course).
...Spectrum LpatopSo I'm sitting at work board as normal I've already played klass of 99 3 days today and have nothing left to do. So after setting up 5 laptops today…
... saying was I had a home made custom speccy ... DOS ( I think ) It had a number of emulators ( zx81 and Speccy ) ... C++ ( again, I can't confirm this ) and all the ... out more about that side of things :(
... who too... Did have a website on demon about it ...New Spectrum Games?Having read the latest issue of "Edge", I found an article about a competition whereby the competitors have to create a game for an "older" console/c…
... for those who only have a 16k machine!
< ... say, there hasn't been a commercial release for this ... 48K there simply isn't much you can run ... RAM which makes it more of a challenge.
... fora?) I've received a number of suggestions and it looks like ...Z80 to TZX Converter !Hey Everyone ! I have a bit of time lately and I coded a little utility that can convert the Z80 snapshot (any version, 48k and 128k supported) to T…
... it back, somehow the T-States get a little bit prolonged and the ... a real ZX. I will try and find the best combination of T-States ... on monday I will have a patched version.
... it featured compressed/selective loading of pages... also mine is FULLY ....P filesAs this appears to be the standard for ZX81 files for the near future can anybody point me to the required tools and if possible a tutorial on how to…
... 't know how much it would be, is that a limited number of ... ve seen one of two tapes that aren't standard, I ... .
I don't have a PSU for my ZX81 ... use of TZX for ZX81 tapes. I don't have a single ... this. Tony and Paul have a number of them, so maybe it' ...
