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Retro Computers/Gaming Movies & TV ShowsThere's some really interesting retro computer/gaming related movies and TV shows out there at the moment, with some others in production. I've put t…
... together. Does anyone know of any more?
[b]The King ... few were packed into warehouses where they remained, largely forgotten, for ... whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time.
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games where all the levels are different?I was just playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002673]Kane[/url] and wondered what other speccy games there are where each…
... there are where each level is different from the last
L4: beat the train on your horse
the 2nd and last level are ... quite similar, but the last has the added thing of beating ... the train so it's ... -
Why does the snapshot button on a +D sometimes not work well?Over the last days I played a lot with my +D. From most of the games I loaded from tape, I could make a snapshot to disk by pressing the button and k…
Over the last days I played a ... my +D. From most of the games I loaded from tape ... the button and key 4. I just wonder why this sometimes does ... then.
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Do you remember the Great Gaming Crash?Assuming you were in England (well, anywhere really, except the USA) in 1983/1984, were you effected, or even aware, of the 'global games crash"? Thi…
... (well, anywhere really, except the USA) in 1983/1984, were ... effected, or even aware, of the 'global games crash"? This ... or British machines. Maybe the magazines at the time touched on it, but ... the Great Gaming Crash didn't have much effect in England, where ... -
the internet.. and the truth...it has come to my attention some people are "gobbing off" about me elsewhere , facebook.. that's fine if it is 100% factual, but sadly it isn't. I d…
... actually prove from the date the item sold to ...
mark j. at the time you got blocked on ebay ... a long time since 13-Nov-11 (checked the email ... you an ocean thing, considering where you worked)
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Been reading The Holy Qur'an ...... just to see what all the fuss was about. I've got the Wordsworth edition, translated into English by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, authorised by the Islami…
... Yusuf Ali, authorised by the Islamic Propagation Centre and Islamic ... post has been withheld (for the time being, unless there's ... will have read the Koran). The tone of the post is (mostly ... s only counting those killings where the Bible actually gives an ... -
Games that didn't pass the test of timeI was reading an old brazilian comic book (spider-man) from late 80's, early 90's, and noticed an ad for a game system called "Phantom System". Phan…
... were promoting, as being the "Major launch": Rolling Thunder ... /> I can see that the late ones, being movie licenses ... would be on the list, but the first 3 games ... thunder Speccy version, and the game has been on ... of other games at the time that seemed like huge ... -
What do you do for a living?In another thread ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49352[/url]) Karingal said: [QUOTE=karingal;801168]Funnily enough wh…
... and each other all of the time. Plus I do often mention ... do on another forum I go on (seriously, if Karingal thinks ... attack if he saw the detail I occassionaly go to on there ... traffic warden (which is where he got the people skills he brings ... -
Photos from the Cambridge Centre for Computing History and from the Baron of Beef pubFor several weeks, I've been adding new photos every Sunday to my Flickr space because I am publishing a selection of pictures from my trip to London…
... /> Yesterday it was the time of the photos I took at the [URL="http ... www.flickr.com/photos/alessandrogrussu/"]the photostream itself[/URL], together ... interior, of the Baron of Beef pub, where I had a ... .
Captions for the photos are in both Italian ... -
Spectrum games on Ebay - Is it worth it?I was thinking of selling my spectrum games on Ebay, but is it actually worth the time and effort to do it? I do have a lot of original games and sta…
... but is it actually worth the time and effort to do it ... original games and started to go through them and test ... and those that do only go for 99p, which given ... make about 30p!
Does anyone know of a list ... before I make the decision to chuck the whole lot in ... -
I broke my 48k Speccy!!!!Hey guys, I am looking for some advice, I hope you can point me in the right direction. So, I went about replacing all the capacitors on my issue 4…
... something I have done several time before without any issue on ... />
I am at the point where I think I should remove ... />
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Cooking toastrack... the dreaded smellI powered up my Spectrum 128 (heatsink model) yesterday only to see what looked like an out-of-tune picture on the television. I'm using a scart adap…
... I became aware of the familiar burning electronics smell that ... is the harbinger of vintage computing ... />
Plugged into the Spectrum at the time was a Ram Turbo ... I get the feeling something else may have smoked. Does anyone ... -
The ZX Spectrum on The Saturday Show in 1983So, one morning on ITV, Tommy Boyd demonstrates the power of BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, with a screen depicting "London is the capital of France (true…
... announces a televisual first. The Saturday Show (basically Central ... I remember watching this at the time, and I've now got ... quite go as planned. They had to replay it the ... wiki/The_Saturday_Show_(ITV_TV_series)]the Wikipedia article for the Saturday Show ... -
Fuse tests - INC BC causes contention delayHi all, In the FUSE test suite it has the following for the output of opCode 0x3 (INC BC): 0 MC 0000 4 MR 0000 03 4 MC 0001 …
... /> 5 MC 0001
Where this is defined by:
is simply the time at which the event occurs.
is ... contentions - does it need to read the memory to update the registers??
Vulcan expansion pack expansion - now with even more contentDownload link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxhNrntzyp5hMXBLdVFlVHFZRTQ/view?usp=sharing (REMEMBER: READ THE README. Its a beta and ha…
... allied AI crashes during the El Alamein scenario, go to 2 player ... his troops, then go back to one player. The problem should be ... work in progress at the time, and was the only planned scenario to ... around. Its tight, but it does allow for some very interesting ...Fix for the DEF FN bug of zmakebasSome months ago I discovered a bug in zmakebas: it does not include the 5 bytes required after every parameter of a DEF FN. By the time, the WoS f…
... bug in zmakebas: it does not include the 5 bytes required after ... DEF FN.
By the time, the WoS forum was still closed ... ;t=4376]about this on the speccy.org forum[/url], and ... the same day Antonio Villena fixed the bug in his ...RA 130: The Bitmap Brothers[img]http://retroasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/130.png[/img] The Bitmap Brothers were UK gaming’s first Rockstars. They appeared in our co…
... but also the charts and award ceremonies of the time.
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We couldn’t let such legendary game makers go ... by without marking the occasion as ... br />
Download The Episode
http://traffic.libsyn ...Buying the anual Christmas Crap!!I like Christmas but one thing I hate is buying all the small gifts for the various small gifts for those not in the immediate family and for the var…
... those not in the immediate family and for the various secret Santas ... of my money, the worlds resources and the time taken to get it ... , naff chocolates, smelly candles and the like.
This year ... to go to a car boot sale (flea market in the USA ...Way of the Burgle (2008) - Incomplete XFAWorld Game + DownloadDownload: http://1drv.ms/1IN8l3M Hello there everyone! ^_^ I doubt many (if any) of you will remember me, but once upon a time I used to post h…
... but once upon a time I used to post ... tonight and I found the most complete (but still ... I made, the final part of the "On the Burgle" saga ... content. However this does mean that the entire game is ...
Thank you for taking the time to read this post and ...Question of contentionI'm not desperate to go digging through technical descriptions in depth, but one thing bugs me about the Speccy's video contention model - and that's…
I'm not desperate to go digging through technical descriptions ... .
So can the ULA access memory faster than ... And then there's the contention pattern where the memory is only uncontented ... .
So why does the ULA appear to fetch data ...Remaking Special Operations - some thoughts and questions.(Edit: Sorry - long one!) Special Operations is one of my favourite titles and, despite them being very different, is up there with Halls of the T…
... in a generic WWII scenario, where you lead an unlikely team ... t look great (even for the time) and is mostly written in ... on a games dev forum where the conclusion seemed to be - " ... an immensely difficult time getting into this game. It does the classic loading ...Games with a timer where you just need to surviveGames in which you don't have to do anything to progress except wait for some sort of timer to reach zero. As opposed to most games with a timer, whe…
... games with a timer, where you lose a life ... they are rather than clearing the whole group
the hang of the cannon elevation, so ... tended to just avoid the diving enemies rather ... scrolling. A lot of the time the objects are tempters which ...z88dk TutorialHi, Could anyone direct to to a recent MS Windows based tutorial on getting started with z88dk. I know a small amount of C, so it's more the comp…
... I tried to compile for the first time).
http ... I copied one of the examples into the bin folder, changed folder ... br />
Also, what does the -lndos flag do? Its not ... these projects in there own time, and for no rewards, ... people giving it a go.TommyGun with Debugginghttp://goo.gl/HfSXev?gdriveurl Ok, so this is a pretty big release for me and I have added a lot of stuff into the code editor. Mainly of course …
... [i]Please Note:[/i] The debugger DOES NOT support [b]self modifying ... /> These buttons control the time lapse replay feature of the debugger.
That ... /project.xml)
2. Go to Code Editor
3 ... br /> You can go back and forth in time, up to 5 ...So were the 80's really that great?I should imagine that most of us on WoS were kids during the 80's. I was 6 at the start of the 80's and obviously 16 at the and. Now that is one he…
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10 - VHS became the norm in the UK
11 - Cartoons ... centre being a no go area because of the Subway Army!!
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8 - Long cold winters ... it had grunge, emo, the end of the rave culture, but, by ...Future of WoSSo, time is up! When I announced I was leaving, it prompted quite a few people to get in touch offering help. Of the most serious offers, there w…
... , it was clear that the time and resources needed are more ... with people wanting updates and the time needed to maintain infoseek.
Where does that leave us? Well, the admin is largely ... 2 in the case of a tie. The last time we had ...Different graphics in Jetset Willy 2Earlier today whilst avoiding work (I have it down to a tee!) I was flicking through a walk-through of Jetset Willy 2, and noticed that one of the gr…
... , go to the time of around 37:30 (the time of the video ... I mean, not in-game time) ... and you'll see The Chapel has a different pattern ... for the floor/wall:
< ... are more differences. Does anyone know why this ...The day you unboxed your brand new SpectrumI was at junior school for much of the Spectrum's heyday, yet never owned a computer in that time. I was fascinated by computers back then, they were…
... of Oink comic (at the time my favourite publication, which ... and the game would be on screen ready to go. An ... t entirely sure which to go for. My mother was ... plain. They stated to go into 48K mode, which ... this Excalibur-like challenge a go. I can't remember ...The Test - Adventurehttp://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015648 Just a bit of info. This is authored with The Quill (this is not listed) :) I would st…
... as 'The case of the obscene mural' as the way the Basic is ... almost identical. Given the permutations of where to put pokes and ... the 'messages' this seems likely as does the ... indication is they share the same custom character set ...The secret of success is failure32 years ago when I first started learning to program thanks to the Speccy, I didn't worry about not getting the anticipated results. I wasn't confi…
... to me because the only time I learned anything ... error. A lot of the time its 'punctuation' or only ... experiments and revelations are the spur to my ... so it doesn't go to waste and gradually ... and small programs that demonstrate the principles learned.
