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The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... aren't. It's true. They still have a shout of winning ... something, Arsenal don't. It's not a question of ... league is paramount, but for a number of seasons Spurs have been contesting ... both occasions, yet couldn't do a damn thing to prevent ... -
Monty Python's Life of BrianMy favourite ever film is Monty Python's Life of Brian, and a lot of people seem to agree. So who here agrees with me, and if not, what is your favou…
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I have a number of favourite films, among them Lord ... was satirical of Christianity, and not Islam. You wouldn't be allowed ... to post this sort of thing in ... blasphemous (which it certainly isn't), then so what? If the ... -
Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... difficult and if you have a lot of that then your graphics ... not been around in a while, don't expect an answer.
a number of scrolling games but I can't recall who ... and returns the ascii code of a single keypress (in_GetKey uses in_Inkey ... -
Arcadia - by ImagineArcadia, by imagine. I thought I'ld play this last night, but its pretty awful to control Anyone know whats with the random movement and occasional…
... daze) , zzoom wasn't bad and i actually really ... like stonkers. The rest of imagines games especially pedro ... it. It was one of a number of games (I'd add ... just wasn't much to the game; a simple shooter ... being able to (accidentally, of course ;-)) gun down the ... -
16-bit WarsDoing a 8-bit war is a bit of a no-brainer but what's your 16-bit fave, Multiple votes are allowed
... chips couldn't help out much (e.g. pure number crunching or ... 3D graphics) it even had a slight ... it wasn't necessarily that far behind, although given a number of poor ports ... using STs and even a lot of professional studios used the ... -
TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... Why did you choose "Number of Bits in the DataStream" ... ).
Don't want to sound smart or ... future proof, this isn't. The first block could ... loaders which (I THINK) won't work whit this :
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Interest in a beeper music editor?Alone Coder (he of UnrealSpeccy fame) is currently weighing up interest in a possible new editor for 48K beeper music, most likely a tracker-style ut…
... compile Z80 code. Having ripped a number of Follin's beeper tunes, I ... can see that this won't be easy - the routines are ... -term) if you analysed a large portion of AY beeper files, you ... could probably narrow down the number of 'techniques' down to perhaps 5 ... -
Bloody USA Wide Web......well, that's what the so-called "World Wide Web" appears to be, most of the time. I've spent a lot of the time on IMDB today, and even if one sel…
... hate how, and I don't know if it's, Firefox ... short, because of that fateful selection last year, a number of services I subscribe ... one occasion when I wasn't allowed to get support through ... same time I wasn't allowed to contact a local provider because ... -
Why design a new Spectrum?Every so often, someone posts up about designing a portable Spectrum, or a new Spectrum with improved hardware capabilities, but I don't see why. I m…
... in emulating something that doesn't actually exist, which is why ... Once there was a real hardware SE a number of emulator authors expressed an ... the company, and don't use even virtual Spectrums any ... more, I don't much bother with emulators myself ... -
divIDE & SD Cards?Can someone tell me if the divIDE interface can read SD cards or if support for them will be added in the future? My entire game collection is backed…
... between them, but I wouldn't like to bet on it ... (and MMC) cards. This isn't available *quite* yet, but should ... (plus quite a number of extras). TAP/TZX support isn't released yet, but ... -
Mask 1 - Level 2I try to map great game Mask 1, but I stuck in the level 2. Do you have any tips how to get into the unmapped part? [url]http://maps.speccy.cz/Mask…
... /> Yer, all the Tape versions of Mask we have load in ... ?
I know there's a number of Gremlin releases on +3 disk ... 's possible. I just can't confirm it at the moment ... -
a database omission?Hi I've recently bought a compilation tape that doesn't appear in Infoseek. It's Gauntlet and Gauntlet: the Deeper Dungeons. (it isn't Gauntlet I & …
Certainly...I've a number of these to do, some MIA tapes etc. I'll do them all in one go. (EDIT: Hmm, I don't have a scanner, but I can type the text up) -
Mmmmmm Fish & ChipsJust to rub it in to all you ex-pat WOSers I'm sat here with a nice steamy plate of Fish & Chips complete with an eye watering amount of vinigar. Go…
i used to get a giro once a fortnight for a number of years, till the stupid goverment wouldn't let me have them anymore. FACISTS!!! -
Mmmmmm Fish & ChipsJust to rub it in to all you ex-pat WOSers I'm sat here with a nice steamy plate of Fish & Chips complete with an eye watering amount of vinigar. Go…
... a giro once a fortnight for a number of years, till the stupid goverment wouldn't ... n'all if she wasn't a job centre girl, probably looking ... anyway since I was one of their statistics at the time ... do Kebabs/Gyros. There's a one about 20 mins away ... -
Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
... .html[/url] which points out a number of them, for example that yoga ... their rivals' views of the action); why can't said rivals simply ... so-called "British" journalist, isn't a Brit; he's an American ... -
Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
... ? Considering singing up but don't want to be too disappointed ... 's very much a PvP game. You can't avoid fighting other ... 's upholding the law in a number of systems.
Almost all trading ... can't do much on your own.
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Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... seen a list of the op-codes together with the amount of t-states they ... use, does anyone has a link for ... -
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... seen a list of the op-codes together with the amount of t-states they ... use, does anyone has a link for ... .info[/url] - there's a chart of timings there if you want ... a quick reference.
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Mad Martha 1 & 2 incorrect type?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002963"]Mad Martha[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002964"]…
... in Infoseek for games of type Arcade:Adventure and ... the listing has it of the correct type Adventure ...
I haven't look at all of them ... if I ... I assign myself, from a rather [URL="http://www ... />
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eBay Advice?I ordered the special edition of Porcupine Tree's new album from a German eBay shop about two months ago but still haven't received it. I emailed him…
... here, they really don't give a monkey's, just as ... at that point it didn't matter.
... far no scams. Funny isn't it....
... your point. I wouldn't count your chickens till the ... money again. (there are a number of documented cases on the net ... -
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…
... potential there but I can't get to enjoy it. ... I understand that it can't be done if there are ... were coming out I wrote a number of magazine travel features for which ... nothing for them. I don't fight for any money because ... be sent on a CD? My kit can't run disks ... -
I could have been worth millionsIn the 1980's I came up with a number of inventions (not working models just ideas), but never got them patented :-( - A teletext to brail TV inter…
... s I came up with a number of inventions (not working models ... to get a patent you have to have a number of designs, prototypes ... , specs, blue prints etc. ie you can't ... copyright the idea of a hover board. -
I could have been worth millionsIn the 1980's I came up with a number of inventions (not working models just ideas), but never got them patented :-( - A teletext to brail TV inter…
... 's I came up with a number of inventions (not working models just ... , home hi-fi or plugged a pair of headphones into it.
a newspaper.
This idea hasn't happened yet ... got to thinking why can't you have little cameras looking ... -
horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
... chance of drawing up a few screen$ / roughs of what it could of looked ... the cart 'cos I don't have the equipment.
< ... bottom of the screen). They were 'Aztec' based and didn't match ... I also remember doing a number of 'big end of level baddie' graphics too ... -
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…
... what MULE does; a fairly important bit of info there I ... also have the first batch of code (~1200 lines) which ... just copy over top of the existing one you ... wasn't correct for all cases) and there are a number of other ... using the same set of libraries so that we ... -
Job Hunting and slave tradersI went into work on Monday and packed my job in (home before 10.00, not hanging around) so I have been talking to the slave traders this week. Why i…
... IT contractors get employed for a number of reasons and for considerably ... br /> This doesn't mean it won't get renewed but come ... t renewed the company must have the ability to lose a lot of ... everything like that) doesn't directly employ many IT contractors ... -
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…
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Isn't there a quicker way of doubling the characters?
a queue of some sort, plus a scroll behaviour ... could be scrolled a number of times and perhaps even a certain speed, say ... like to ask all participants of this project to please ... -
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…
... and to extract from that a number of useful subroutines that perform tasks ... function for example); simply don't include it in the header ... largest of two integers "a" and "b". The "?" syntax we haven't ... heads (outcome = a number from 0-6) 70% of the time and ... -
AftermathAm I doing something wrong, or is there a problem with both the TAP and TZX of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005934]Aftermat…
... correct settings - I've tried a number of emulators and had the same ... . I wouldn't have expected Aftermath to crash because of an incorrect ... could just as easily be a bad dump, or even some ... -
Just curious to see if anyone knowsBefore I worked at Ocean (aged 16) I had a page devoted to some of my (crap) Spectrum graphic work in a well known Spectrum magazine. It mentioned th…
... had a number of interview features on graphics designers, but you weren't one of ... possibility, as they printed several of your early programs, but again ... I don't have any specific Mark Jones ...
