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Activision has joined the DENIENCES sessionHello everyone! Activision has stated that their games are not allowed for free distribution, as well as Electric Dreams games! Go to [url="http://…
... not insult them because they are the ones loking for authorisations ... saying that half of the site is not working! 20% of ... it is not working! I guess that you ... Gamestage! They are so far I've seen the best speccy ... /> I ask once more, where is the proof... -
Who will you vote for in the UK General Election?The miscellaneous section used to be mainly about miscellaneous Spectrum things, but since its now changed, I'll break with tradition: Just out of i…
... in society. If people are penalised for working hard then they will ... of thousands of hardworking taxpayers are abandoning the UK each year (abandoning ... to places where hard work is still rewarded, leaving the rest of ... -
UK Daily Mail There is a 3-column technical article on how the ZX Spectrum loads computer games in today's UK Daily Mail (Answers to Correspondents Page 55). I am…
... a country where services (like buses etc.) are decent, and where people ... it.
The "Daily Mail mentality", and their ... I disagree with. "Stuff the poor working class - I don't ... having enough money to send the kids horseriding."
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is my ZX Spectrum + finished :(When i turn it on the screen i get the usual gray border all around but in the screen area i get yellow and some orange lines with a black background…
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The ICs 15-22 are the upper 32K which - even ... if they're not working ... - won't stop the Speccy booting ... but that's certainly where I'd start looking. ... though is to run the Spectrum a few minutes ... -
FFSI sent this to Trust:- [quote] I am very disapointed that I have a PC that I purchased from a shop that no longer supplies 32bit systems. The shop …
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where does the PC disapoinment come into this ... a store and are trying to return to the manufacturer a better ... be relegated to near the bottom of the list until you supplied ... -
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... m/c when I was working for Applied Systems Group ... favourite speccy games are the Cybernoids, Sabre Wulf, Where Time Stood Still ... and Explorer. My favourite PC games are the ... Thief series and the Thievery Unreal ... -
+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
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So called "long" formats where a certain track is given ... /> Icabod, you are welcome to a copy of the program I have ... , peek the variables out and write to the screen the details of the disk (number ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... /> 1. Choose where in memory sp1's data structures are located. This ... bytes in size. This is where all the "struct sp1_update"s for ... -305 for the MSB.
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Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…
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I have a working SabreWulf engine that can be ... can we estimate the cost of the game resources? Answer ... with how we structure the drawing routines to help ... at 3.54Mhz - those are the real world memory and ... like on the GBA versions of Zelda where you don' ... -
When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
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Well most the optimisation techniques I know are for improving register ... allocation; but the Z80 instruction ... that you're only using the variables you need but you'd ... to be sitting in registers where they can be used ... -
When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
... =cyborg]Well most the optimisation techniques I know are for improving register ... that you're only using the variables you need but you'd ... to be sitting in registers where they can be used ... done by the compiler. On the other hand, there are definitely ways ... -
+3 soundhello there, just a quick-fire question today. i'm kinda keen on the idea of using my +3 quite a bit, particularly if i bother to to actually sort …
... dont worry about it not working (yet). Projects tend not to ... in one of the docs). The ULA connection on the +3 is ... pin.
Where are you connecting the power from? (the 12v connection).
are different from the ones I used).
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... on many occasions (usually the occasions where Steve Jobs has any input ... business' claims come from good working practices and other people screwing ... open source.
The there are the $5b donations to charities and ...Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... on many occasions (usually the occasions where Steve Jobs has any ... ' claims come from good working practices and other people screwing ... source.
The there are the $5b donations to charities and ... meeting in the middle at some point, where it will ...Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... tight hold of the copyrights. They are basically still working in the same industry ... a perfect marriage! The console is after all where they cut their ... not too unusual though. Anywhere where something made by Microsoft is ...Stupid SuperstitionFive minutes ago in the office, one of my female work colleagues was working away at the desk opposite. I was just in the middle of typing a reply on…
... luck to get married in the first place...?
the misfortune to implement changes ... company practice to prefix the variables with the letter V followed ... the working storage with V13, V666 etc.
In general, computers are ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... ? to the point where several QL users report their Microdrives working perfectly even ... 68060 CPUs respectively, are much more powerful than the original QL and ... Ace etc.
Spectrum clones? Where are they from power of one ...Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca
... uses them? Are TZX creators to be to blame? The emulators should ... example, there are a lot of games that are not working with ZX ... the polarity of the block, I still do not fully understand where's the ... point. As far as I have read in the ...Election of the new maintainer of the TZX formatHi folks, the topic says all, let the discussion begin :) Luca
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About the discussion about keeping or deprecating ... example, there are a lot of games that are not working with ZX ... the polarity of the block, I still do not fully understand where's the ... point. As far as I have read in the ...Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... command. So variables are supported now.
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The ... to the variables area. The way they are stored is the same (arrays and variables with ...DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... so when choosing solutions for the compatibility issues, disabling 128k BASIC ... around.
1) where's the problem? here: divide maps at ... ). that's the way how all firmwares are done and why ... to keep the original idea. You will get all things working on ..."The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
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"True. Since all Galaxies are the same."
"Not all ... to some unknown point where the Universal AC kept itself ... wrong?"
"The stars are dying. The original star is dead ... keep working on it?" asked Man.
The Cosmic ...basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... the actual variables a program uses and embed an index into the table where the variables are ... used in the code. If interpreter ... and variables should cut execution time drastically.
At the ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... well structured. Starion and Starquake are the ones that stick in my ... LDIR that to a working space, then add the sprites, then LDIR ... it's hard to know where to start listing them...
Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... well structured. Starion and Starquake are the ones that stick in my ... LDIR that to a working space, then add the sprites, then LDIR ... it's hard to know where to start listing them...
Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... well structured. Starion and Starquake are the ones that stick in my ... LDIR that to a working space, then add the sprites, then LDIR ... it's hard to know where to start listing them...
Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... well structured. Starion and Starquake are the ones that stick in my ... LDIR that to a working space, then add the sprites, then LDIR ... it's hard to know where to start listing them...
MyspaceDoes anyone here use it? If so, then feel free to add me. My profile is at :- [url]http://www.myspace.com/nomen_luni[/url] I'm waiting. :)
... if the waitress did the "gee, you've got a cute accent, where are ... for "water" (usually mexican restaurants). The best one was when some ... , put our order in - the waiter went away looking confused ... br />
The best(worst) was when I was working at Compaq ...Head over Heels remake!!!Just took my daily stroll over the retroremakes.com and it looks like retrospec have released their version of HoH, looks pretty good too. I may have…
... between the wall and the blocks in the room where he picked up the ... LOT of time working on the engine (and the engine can do ... be so sure that all the speeds are the same. For example, Heels ... can't move against the conveyor ...
