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Joysticks on Amstrad boardsNever mind the oddly wired connectors for this post... as we all know, the joystick ports on the +2 and +3 are Sinclair Interface II equivalents. Is…
... joystick interface was the early version of the RAM Turbo, which had two modes for ... I had to include that in most of my menu programs - in the end, I ... included it in all of ... -
The inanity of your officeOK, so apparently the Government has told us to only eat 5 fruit and veg a day coz any more than that makes you sick and you get diaorrhea. It's ok t…
... coffee machine installed in our office (of 8 people) which "will be great ... hot or cold water out of it and not have to ... supply in this part of the building and we've already had the facilities lot in ... it in.
Oh yeh, did I neglect to mention, the nearest ... -
Olympics - blimey...Computer-generated fireworks, pre-recorded fireworks, little girls miming to songs because the original singer wasn't pretty enough, and now pre-trai…
... except on a couple of occasions, when they had a CD or ... you have, and this is the case in just about all socialised health ... built that is
the problem (which far far outstrips their construction ... -
wierd dreami had a wos related dream last night. there was a big paintballing tourny in some woods that we were all participating it, and our oppoents were the…
... /> he was sleeping in the kitchen, and some people had to walk through ... there to the toilet.
had a big hole in the crutch of my pants, and ... one of my balls was ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... cd of flux :)
today i had The Enid - 1976 - In The Region Of The Summer ... Stars (Re-issue) on
the replays, inner circle, black lace ... -
Video nasties!!Ok so, following on from a couple of posts in the "I'm currently watching" thread, and to save derailing the thread further... What are some really g…
... a 3rd which wasnt very good though[/QUOTE]
The 3rd ... -Animator 2000, and it had the original guy in it, who looked exactly ... -
In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…
... million miles ahead of the 8-bits in terms of technology.[/QUOTE]
In terms of the consoles I miss the big leaps that ... After reading that, put a Spectrum next to a Dell XPS ... group policy which wouldn't surprise me in the least.[/QUOTE]< ... -
What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
... cousin had got the game and as he was a bit of a ... whizzo programmer had ... already hacked apart the (unreliable) fastloader so that the ... his ZX81 had a big hole in the top with stuff coming out of it ... -
US Elections: It's going to be McCain/Palin, isn't it?Surely the Palin gimmick won't win McCain the election? But it's looking that way :(
... energy independence (which, incidentally, is something that lots of people in the US seem ... capital we may have had. Why did the French have to broker ... 't have the moral authority to tell Russia they had been bad ... -
What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…
I traded the Spectrum for the PC sometime in the early 90s. Probably 1989 or ... 7 or 8 years out of spectrum-mania which helped shape my adolescence ... , to the point of me being able to program in Assembler in front of the emulator ... -
Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…
... 've had to jump through so many hoops and modify the code ... I have abandoned the COLT version in favour of the MCoder3 version which requires only ... minor changes in my original ... -
BossBeen playing dead space, and really been enjoying it, then i got to the first boss last night (the first big one anyway). it was such a let down, i j…
... one has brought up the boss fights in Legend of Zelda series. Some ... -type had some fantastic bosses to fight at the end of levels ( ... something to break up the gameplay a bit, which could be either ... />
I loved Shadow of Colossus as the game is primarily a ... -
ZXDS how ?Hi Where can I go to find out all I need to know and need to run ZXDS on a DS ? Same for FUSE on the PSP. Totaly new to this DS & PSP emulation t…
... auto dldi patched them and had/has AR cheats, no more ... updates (R4 hasn't had an update in 7 months and is ... is a bog feature in todays cards which the R4 doesn't have ... can also find hacked versions of the DSTT firmware to run on ... -
ZXDS how ?Hi Where can I go to find out all I need to know and need to run ZXDS on a DS ? Same for FUSE on the PSP. Totaly new to this DS & PSP emulation t…
... known due to been one of the first slot 1 (ds games ... auto dldi patched them and had/has AR cheats, no more ... is a bog feature in todays cards which the R4 doesn't have ... the most of the newer cards from fake/clone R4's to DSTT which ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
... version of one of those blow-up dolls in comparison. I think the background ... Molecule Man by the same programmer.
In terms of gameplay, it ... had to have come very late to the Spectrum and/or been living in ... -
resident evil 5got this on friday, and i must say i am really disapointed. 4 was a great game so was expecting this to be a real step up as it was appearing on the …
... . in resi 4 you had the shop keeper in the game and in previous games you had the ... crates and the ... the right equipment. which was handy, but it wasn't in keeping with the ... -
Record 419 letterI've just got a 419 email (first to get past my shitfilter for ages) and I must admit I am impressed. Yes the crap tale of woe is there (money alrea…
... in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; Moser died intestate. In ... supervises the eventual outcome of the investigation.You had unfortunately declared that you are in ... my to my private email which is ( [email]cynthiahayton@inMail24.com ... -
Multi platform games developmentWe all know there are a lot of multi platform games. For example, Boulder Dash, River Raid, Exolon, Zynaps, Flying Shark, AMC and so on which were av…
... one hand you had the massive leap in performance which I'm sure every ... on the other you had the commercial reality that the 8 bit machines still had the ... massive user base which had ... -
Multi platform games developmentWe all know there are a lot of multi platform games. For example, Boulder Dash, River Raid, Exolon, Zynaps, Flying Shark, AMC and so on which were av…
... one hand you had the massive leap in performance which I'm sure every ... are written in a kind of strange way, from the point of view of the Assembly ... Language. It looks like the ... -
Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…
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I had the same problem in 1995 and with the help of Psion Software ... , even then we could not get in ... occasions. He is a man of mystery!
Ps. ... of the Warhawk C64 game onto the DS. Sadly there was never a Spectrum ... -
Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…
... featured Delta compression, which allows up to 50 ... in USR0 mode of Spectrum 128).
The Player is in Assembler and very small, the ... compressor stores only the ... for small areas of memory, as in 32x24 pixels - ... -
building a PCIv'e decided to get my old PC and try and get the thing working again. not really sure what went wrong with it, and instead of buying a new one i pre…
... had more things running on my PC at home than on the ... via a WUS server, which removes the burden from the PC. WUS over ... !
Since the CPU is in charge of firing up Windows and ... -
DVD regions, why?Why do we have to put up with DVD region encoding? I mean, I know why they were invented (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incident…
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In which case, why do they persist in putting region codes ... distribution of the cinema material is no longer the issue - then surely the entire raison ... d'etre of region codes ... -
DVD regions, why?Why do we have to put up with DVD region encoding? I mean, I know why they were invented (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incident…
[QUOTE=Winston;368322]In which case, why do they persist in putting region codes on ... distribution of the cinema material is no longer the issue - then surely the entire raison ... d'etre of region codes ... -
Did NASA put man on the moon in July, 1969Discuss :)
... equations in A-Level Maths, but may have been GSCE (had the same ... English teaches you the definition of the word 'perfect' and the previous two subjects ... drag, which is related to the forward and surface areas of the moving object ... -
Loading screenI was reading the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26571"]loading screen thread[/URL] and was a bit insipired. I went to…
... understood) which I remembered had no loading screens - in fact I remember the LOAD ... , the entry turns up in the search query you used.
Of course, in ... this case things ... -
Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…
... you've loaded it on the Spectrum SE. Being based on Timex ... suffer from the audio loopback problem of the Sinclair and Amstrad machines which means ... on my 128, which doesn't have the beeper mixed in. (I was ... actually hoping we could feed a bit of ... -
Things wat they did have in my day!.I was talking at work today about things that were quite common when we were kids but arent realy around any more. My co worker mentioned how many ar…
... ASDA in the 90's and I had 2 stolen from in front of the store. The ... bikes were locked with one of ... just inside the staff entrance which was actually in the building but the nazi ASDA ... -
Things wat they did have in my day!.I was talking at work today about things that were quite common when we were kids but arent realy around any more. My co worker mentioned how many ar…
... ASDA in the 90's and I had 2 stolen from in front of the store. The ... just inside the staff entrance which was actually in the building but the nazi ASDA ... /> Mine got nicked from the front of the shop, which was inside a shopping ... -
HTML Transcription of Mastering Machine Code on Your ZX81Hi :) I've spent the last couple of months transcribing Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code on Your ZX81 or ZX80" from a PDF to HTML. The freely do…
... Code on your ZX Spectrum" by the same author in HTML too? ;) There ... programs. My friend had a Speccy at the time it was released ... rather than transcription. Interestingly the structure of the book is almost identical to ...
