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Am I being over-sensitive here...?I'd just like a general consensus on this. The wife thinks I should just ignore it, but she suffers from a lack of empathy so I'm not taking her wor…
... to my first born. Now, when he got married a couple ... to be best man. He didn't. In fact he said absolutely ... owed something here. I don't want to lose a good ... -
Super Wonder Boy in Monster Land (BUGFIX)Please add the following "known errors" description for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005053"]Super Wonder Boy in Monster L…
... code was left unfinished.
[*] When falling down through hole in ... in 48K models.
[*] Pause didn't work on boss screens.
Judge DreddSaw the movie DREDD tonight, on the free trial of Nowtv from Sky on xbox. I liked it. It was better than the Stallone one, though I did actually lik…
... early Judge Dredd comic, I didn't have the original it would ... any official back story of when police were fazed out in ...ABCs of Death - horror shorts competitionhi folks, this is kinda halloween themed at this moment, which is good :) - for those who fancy horror movies and stuff, there's ongoing compo at bad…
... , I guess.
wouldn't even know about this little ... if my friend and colleagues didn't actually make a contribution - and ... was working all the weekend when it was shot, just few ... the zombie tunnels, and couldn't accompany them zombies in the ...Another way to add audio input on a +2 - No more low level sound problem !Hi all, Last week, with 3 friends, we participated to a modelism / games / hobbies meeting, and we made a retro computing stand... (big succes, I'll…
... , I could see the bars when putting the sound at its ... on an Amstrad CPC 464, didn't want to kill one of ... +2A too (can't see why it wouldn't), I'll try ...LAN Games.I've never really been big into PC gaming and didn't have a PC back when multiplayer over a LAN was big. But me and the eldest lad went to playexpo …
... PC gaming and didn't have a PC back when multiplayer over a ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... name [B]"bicolor"[/B] when referring to "multicolor 8x2" ... org/forums/showthread.php?t=44932"]Snake Escape[/URL ... btiles"[/B] that I didn't have time to finish ... NIRVANA ENGINE[/B] doesn't animate tiles automatically (like ... also, I just didn't have time to finish ...Had any Pre-Conspiracy-Theory Suspicions of Your Own?I'll give you an example. I was off sick from work on 11/09/01 and happened to turn the TV on just after the first plane hit the first of the towers.…
... were witnessing.
Anyway, when the first tower collapsed later ... those towers went down just didn't make sense to me.John Carmack leaves id!Blimey! John Carmack has resigned from id Software, the company he helped form and push into the stratosphere. I thought he'd never leave id Software…
... day, but only play Q3 when other people want to (i ... at work).
I didn't like Quake, or Quake 2 ... /> Also, I can't play Wolfenstein 3D, as when I try, it ...Hedgehogs Review[quote]Unlike the last review which was not the best I have tried to cover all bases here. If there is anything you feel that has been left out pleas…
... when I loaded hedgehogs in 128k mode I really didn't ... game changed for me when the menu appeared ... and the controls are tight when playing.
... end even though it didn't feel like it. I ... .worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=45479[/url]
< ...World cup statistics (I've started to bore myself now)I never thought I'd start a thread about football, but since this was discussed at work and someone on WOS must have a life outside of computers (any…
... of the seventy-nine teams when you compare the average points ... , which surprised me, as I didn't think America bothered much with ...Assembly code auto optimiserFor my Finders Keepers Plus project I'm considering writing an Assembly code auto optimiser. Way back when I wrote the original FK I considered optim…
... code auto optimiser. Way back when I wrote the original FK ...
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I didn't want to write the code ... Zeus supports macros I don't need to do that now ...Speccy Christmas MemoriesGiven the time of year, I was getting a bit nostalgic for Christmases past - and in particular for the ones that really meant something - when I was …
... that really meant something - when I was a kid.. ... on the Christmas Morning when I got 'Back 2 ... which quite upset them when they came down to ... of wrapping paper that they didn't watch me create.. (As ... sibling.. (Which is - great when you're getting along, but ...SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…
... replaced
Graphic banks, when rotated, were displaced on their ... SPRITE FLIP and SPRITE MIRROR didn't work correctly for sprites of ... br /> SPRITEw and SPRITEh, when called with a spriteid that ... to END CASE properly after WHEN
The constant "PI ...Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…
... spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input port ... this way? It won't conflict with reading the ... volume into the EAR didn't interfere with my reading ...
There shouldn't be any contention on the ... it should be fine shouldn't it?
Will ...name a game (help!)I'm trying to find the name of a game I played when I was a kid. I have very little memories about it. The player controlled a little astronaut and t…
... of a game I played when I was a kid. I ... idiot" (in that time I didn't read or speak english and ...middle management and working with friends...So as you guys probably remember for the past year I've been working as a scriptwriter. I've never been so happy with a job, or felt so fulfilled and…
... br />
I don't know how people handle middle ... where equally good. And when I become the coordinator, ... Ever since day one, things didn't really worked perfect, I ... had told me) that when he was a father, ... he realised that he didn't have tallent for writing, ...Did no one watch Sherlock?I've just finished watching last Sunday's episode of [B]Sherlock[/B] ('His Last Vow'), and it was *fantastic*. How come no one's mentioned it yet? Y…
... ?
Yet when [B]Big Brother[/B] or ... them. We really don't deserve quality programing...
... watch all three episode!!!), don't you agree;
when we see the (very ... was awful, so I didn't watch it. A terrible ...An interesting Gamecube articleIf you're a fan of the Gamecube, or curious as to the reasons surrounding Rare leaving Nintendo and going to Microsoft, or want to know what Nintendo…
... you missed it (or I didn't post it) there's a ... ]
which isn't just of interest to CBFD ... size segments, for easy watching when you're supposed to be ...What to do when INT doesn't work?Due to the limitations of the Spectrum's floating point number format, two slightly different large numbers, or two slightly different small fraction…
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PRINT t-INT (t/69)*69 35
PRINT t-INT (t/69)*69 35.000031 ... t-INT (INT (t/69)*69) 35.000031 (!?)
LET m=t-INT (t ... + 4)
PRINT t-INT (t/69)*69 35
...Bletchley Park / National Museum of Computing[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/28/bletchley_park_sacks_elderly_volunteers/[/url] Apparently in the latest row, CEO of the Bletchley Park …
... pay ?100k a year lease when it's the only thing ... . Someone so dreadfully unpleasant he didn't just sack a veteran volunteer ...Math Quiz - MultiplicationThe topic is fast multiplication routines, from 8x8 to 32x32 and all points in between. These functions sit underneath floating point libraries, gen…
... exact multipliers (stuff that doesn't overflow) and unsigned below.
when the smaller multiplicand has at ... time. Perhaps surprisingly, this doesn't pay if I accept the ... it.
I can't really see any other way ...Graphics card adviceHi guys OK the problem started about 3 months ago when i noticed blue squares on my desktop,in browsers,and now some of the graphics of the in game …
... started about 3 months ago when i noticed blue squares on ... my grapics card driver.It didn't help,still getting the same ... .Does this mean i can't use a Graphics card that ...DivIDE / SD / CFNow I've never managed to get an SD card reader to work with a DivIDE - which may be something to do with powering it right - but I can use CF cards …
... my cheapo CF / USB reader; when I plug it into the ... I'm using, as I didn't know there were two types ...Puzzled about transferring games to tapeI was trying to transfer a game to a tape by using tapir and VLC. I opened up the tape file in Tapir and then converted it to a .wav file. I then pla…
... on the computer.
When I played the tape in ... a red border and didn't stop. It didn't even stop once I ...opiinions requiredI'm currently writing a science/fanasy tale with the theme being based on the sins of the father being passed down onto the daughter (Jeremy Kyle'd h…
... the business [B]AND DIDN'T KNOW THAT SHE WAS A ... the circumstances the former king didn't know[/B]. he tells ... be the same year when Brazil hold the World ... art armour but don't forget that they're ... when she gets back (don't forget the circumstances and he didn't ...Help identify a (new?) TV show.Yesterday I heard a fragment on the radio about a TV show. It sounded like a new show and the guys talking were very enthusiastic about it, but I did…
... enthusiastic about it, but I didn't get the actual title of ... a plane had crashed and when some people went to check ...DivMMC with other components..Having transferred my loyalties from the IF1bis to the DivMMC, I have finally been able to spend some time trying to set mine up on my ZX Spectrum. I…
... ROM slot, primarily because I didn't think I would need either ... DivMMC will not start-up when I use my SPECTRA interface ... anyone know why it won't work with my lovely SPECTRA ...How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…
... I did, I don't know anything about programming.
when I was a kid, and ... the Spectrum, but I remember when this fabulous resource (WOS) ... make the games?") I just didn't have a clue.
< ... , circles and beeps! So when and how did you all ...Witness Video Game History: Attend Atari Landfill Excavation on April 26When Atari couldn't sell the ultra-awful E.T. game (for the Atari 2600) they then allegedly buried the unsellable millions of cartridges in the deser…
When Atari couldn't sell the ultra-awful E.T. game (for the Atari ... of the long-rumored ?E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial? video game ... the first place. I mean, when Ultimate Play the Game found ... 'd never sell it, they didn't admit defeat and dump the ...
