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I share the Ultimate moonlighting project....I announce this here FIRST, I suspect this post might get deleted quickly, but it is right to come here first, WoS is after all the home for this kin…
... is re-released tomorrow, the rest of the Ultimate games are to ... br /> [LIST]
[*]All proceeds go to charity, a charity for ... when we played these games the first time around and some kids ... hardly anyone will purchase the apps, and the time and cash that was ... -
Alphacom 32/Timex 2040 PrinterHello again, Having resurrected my ZX Printer, I have now turned to an Alphacom 32 that is not working. However, I am completely in the dark with th…
... know where to start. I've tried checking the resistances to the voltage ... open circuit all the time, and nothing else.
Does anyone have ... any good ideas or advice regarding where to ... -
events of our time ?with regard to the mary rose really, I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers when it was lifted out of the sea..the 9 or 10 ?!? year old version …
... it was lifted out of the sea..the 9 or 10 ?!? year ... far better / complete version of the ship.
I ... with water.
where did the 30 years go though ? :)
we also saw the space shuttle ... -
Mojon Twins' Covertape #2Ready for TWELVE new games? [b]Sir Ababol 2 Demo[/b] [img]http://www.mojontwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/01-sir-ababol-demo-2.png[/img] We ar…
... /> - ?Let?s go!?
[b]Julifrustris in the City[/b]
the stadium? and got lost. Where? in the balls hell ... victorian assassin (!) who travels in time and space with her own ... our [b]Covertape #2[/b]. Go grab it while it's ... -
30 Years Later....Well it has been 30 years to the month that my brother and I were lucky enough to be bought a 48K Spectrum by our dad. At least I am pretty sure it …
... been some confusion over the years as to the time of our introduction ... ), and I thought it was the right time to buy another. So ... might sit and go through all the programmes on the Horizons tape, just ... ).
AAAAH! 30 YEARS! Where did they go?! -
DiHalt 2013Hello everyone! from 6 to 7 July in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) will be held openair demoparty "Dihalt 2013."The program includes the following competit…
... how and from where to start).*
The maximum display time - 10 min ... Maximum 2 entries by the author.*Go to the show will be selected ... 2 entries by the author.*
Go to the show will be ... Maximum 2 entries by the author.*Go to the show will be selected ... -
UPS power supply noise (odd one)I've got an APC Smart-UPS 700 Had it for about three years no problems with it at all. It was 'used' when I got it. Yesterday I powered it down fo…
... it down for the first time in a long time as I ... of minutes to work out where it was coming from. ... to pull the front off and unplug the battery to ... my CO alarm when the batteries go low in that it ... but high pitched noise all the time.
A cursory ... -
Space Invaders The InvadersJust playing on my lovely Turnarcade cabinet and enjoying Space Invaders. Back in the day, I remember one version which I think was called The Invad…
... Invaders.
Back in the day, I remember one version ... Space Invaders, and the wonderful thing was that the invaders went back ... machine does not seem to have the Zaccaria version. Was it the only ... one that saw the invaders go back up a ... -
quick RAM copy using LET in BASICI'm in the process of reviewing, revising and refining all the programming tips & utility routines which I've posted on this forum over the last eigh…
... a simple function call of the form: GO SUB FN q(a ... br />
The LH-side parameter is the destination and the RH-side ... parameter is the source, as ... it for large chunks where a substantial time saving can be made ... -
Games Club - July 2013Fisherman's Friend - JA Software Robo-City - Spectrum Computing Tintin on the Moon - Infogrames seeing as july is the international month of th…
... Computing
Tintin on the Moon - Infogrames
... as july is the international month of the friend these ... !!'
[B]Spend Time With A Current Friend[/B ... robot go fishing, except that TNG episode where geordie mentions the time he ... -
Childhood moments with my SpeccyHey everyone. The other day I randomly came across a tumblr page called "Me and My ZX Spectrum" ([url]http://meandmyzxspectrum.tumblr.com[/url]) …
... to back then, and begins the time travel.
... their place. The parents had finally had the time to figure out ... could think of was to go to my friends' home ... catalogs in the shop where the titles were listed and numbered. The customer looked ... -
Games/Programs making use of DivIDE featuresHello :) I have a question: I may be wrong, but it looks like the DivIDE and similar interfaces for the ZX Spectrum are almost exclusively used for …
... saw here on WOS some time ago, I don't ... a simpler version of the Amiga Workbench, where the CF card directory ... files load the snapshots or attach the TAP files to the ROM ... actually finding the time and motivation to write the software or does the DivIDE ... -
The Cambrian Explosion - 1st place demo at Chaos ConstructionsGreetings from sunny St Petersburg, where the Chaos Constructions demo party has just wrapped up! Obviously, getting to a Russian party in person was…
Greetings from sunny St Petersburg, where the Chaos Constructions demo party has ... /> I can't remember where I first encountered the clip of [url ... " compilation show - possibly around the time of the Micro Men / Electric Dreams season ... -
Diodes placed the opposite way in +2A/+3 PCB'sI was just going to report this as a mistake in the schematics drawn by Guesser, but I saw a real board and realize that the schematics are right. […
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The diodes that isolate the address bus from the keyboard row ... the same in the +3,... does this mean that the +3 gate array outputs the ... measured if the gate array actually does this inversion all the time or only ... -
Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…
... it is to make the Spectrum go out of control. ... minutes of tape loading time, and you re-type ... your code, this time save your source code ... mechanism that would prevent the whole system from ... time? Were there ROM cartridge based assemblers that made the ... -
MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …
... loops around MOVE_M most of the time, scanning the keyboard and moving things ... to be defined graphically from where the data tables can then be ... RESTORE USR DOTRAP: GO TO 15
14 GO SUB USR MOVEM ... : GO TO 14
15 ... -
Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... that I am ready to go.
First problem: I cannot ... )
Time to get used to the LEDs and the push button ... , so I push the button until the regarding LED shows the 'result' and ... shows that all the time there is one or the other ROM present ... -
guess the gameyeah its that time again where i cant remember the name of a game yet its bugging me. i used to play all the time on the speccy first level is a sub…
yeah its that time again where i cant remember the name of a game yet its bugging me.
i used to play all the time on the speccy first level is a subway where you have to fight punks with spiky Mohawks -
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…
... being fast but not to the point where it takes a silly ... ^6 - 1)/256 = 25% of the time. Perhaps surprisingly, this doesn't ... the 16-bit number is zero and if it is, it does ... an 8x8 multiplication and shifts left 8 bits.
The ... -
If!If I could press a button and go back to being 3 years old. I would. Modern adult life's too stressful. I'm thinking of home where I grew up though …
... press a button and go back to being 3 ... I'm thinking of home where I grew up though very ... long ago, yet at the same time I remember so much ... to school, the houses and neighboring streets where I grew up ... . It's about experience. The time we have on this planet ... -
Event: Play Blackpool 3/4 May [Including Gremlin Graphics Reunion!]Hello Everyone. I couldn't see anything on the forums about Play Blackpool ([url]www.playblackpool.com[/url]) and as we just made a big announcement…
... but cannot commit until nearer the time due to projects they are ... the attending Gremlins where you can ask the panel any questions about games, the ... /> - Mohicankids Charity Tombola - all proceeds go to GamesAid.
Plus ... -
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…
... At the time, I thought this was the limits to programming on the Spectrum ... "how did they make the games?") I just didn't ... how the &^%$ you know what it all means/does!
I have tried in the last ... I can't for the life of me get my ... -
Address bus contents (i.e. PC) during execution of HALTI'm wondering if anyone can tell me what's placed on the address bus during execution of HALT, beyond the initial M1 cycle. The Z80 user manual state…
... fetches were of the address of the HALT instruction each time, what need ... would there before for the Z80 to ... HALT as a special case, where PC would need to be ... expect that Spectaculator at least does the same as Fuse. Since SZX ... -
Spectrum-related musical entertainment![quote]This is a metal podcast. There will be no fluffy kittens. There will be no gender politics. There will be no straightedge dogma. No one will h…
... the total running time) as I explain the how, who, what, why, where ... more irritation the further up the nerd hierarchy we go, but ... overall I'm trying to spread the ... particularly infuriated me at the time of recording, it almost ... -
Venting....!!Grrrrr! Am convinved I'm being scammed by a past customer through Paypal. Apologies for venting and randomly banging on , but needed to get it out …
... it was older than the eBay resolution time frame.
... Further - and the bit I am ... sent the items, how does that help resolve a case where the card ... usual believe the customer 100% of the time and sod the truth or ... -
DivMMC EnJOY! I do enjoy!!!!!Hi all! Ok, so I grew up in the UK in the 80?s and convinced my parents to buy a 48k Spectrum ?to help with homework? lol. Well now I am older and ha…
... the Spectrum. It says its 9v at 1.4a, and it does ... work fine. Powers the Speccy, DivMMC ...
This is where things get interesting. When ... . But here is where Ben?s fantastic service ... for taking the time to make the thing in the first place ... -
Bob's "Save it from the Skip" hardware sale.Recently I mentioned that I'd skip any items I had been trying to selling if they didn't find a taker, so here is the full list of Spectrum hardware …
... item then I combine the postage. All bids exclude ... postage and packing. In the UK will be sent ... simply don't have the time to run around sorting ... couriers and the like.
So, here we go...
The Sinclair Shop'. Cannot test as ... -
Bulk clearance - 100's of tapes to goHi guys, Some might remember me from my 1,200+ list I posted donkeys ago on here of tapes. Managed to sell a good few hundred but with a new baby th…
... but with a new baby the time just wasn't there to ...
The Pyramid
Footballer of the Year
The Amazing Spiderman ... Road Runner, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom)
Subbuteo ... multiple boxes or the entire lot in one go although of course ... -
Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…
... picked up. The tape sound plays through the speaker, the machine beeps and ... everything is normal - except Bit 6 just does ... , it was remaining high all the time except for briefly at 1 ... input instead of the ULA's pin (by which time it's ... -
The Addams FamilyI have a tape image of this game and it loads and works well enough but wanted to ask is it a multi-load game on tape? I ask because it is a huge ga…
... very open world where one is free to go back and forward ... if that initial load of the game was all there was ... to it and that all the screens were loaded in the one go.
