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chequered flagI have been playing one of the first games I played on a zx spectrum and even today its a very clever game for the time it was made and i still have …
Hmm, now which one had, 'The McFaster Special,' in it? Was that Chequered Flag, ... one.
Played both of them quite a bit, and ... !
But gimme the 128k version of Roadblasters, Wec Le Mans ... -
chequered flagI have been playing one of the first games I played on a zx spectrum and even today its a very clever game for the time it was made and i still have …
... ;391606]Hmm, now which one had, 'The McFaster Special,' in it? Was that ... one.
Played both of them quite a bit, and ... br />
But gimme the 128k version of Roadblasters, Wec Le Mans ... any day![/QUOTE]
the game your on about is ... -
some debugger in emulators that is able to brakpoint when a mem address is accessed ?Is there a debugger (disassembler) available in some emulator that is able to stop (breakpoint) when a particular memory address is accessed ? For e…
... true, the spectrum places the so-called "high" byte of the address onto the address bus ... a 16-bit port number! The spectrum itself uses this technique to ... 8 bits of which would depend on the value in A before the read took ... -
Obscure great games......Having recently received an old PC, I've transferred all my Speccy roms over to it off of my mums PC where they were previously stored, and have been…
... Only Memory and Spectrum games weren't stored in ROM of course as ... other emulators too..Thanks for the suggestion though, will check ... Sinclair. I had just completed Starquake, and in hindsight I probably ... it was the closest thing I had to that at the time.... ... -
Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…
... one of the most important periods in any game's development: if the ... of the loop until all lines are complete. Instead of programming a routine which ... /> The Spectrum has two methods of generating sounds. The simplest method involves toggling the machine ... -
The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... had the transexual story in Corrie which was unheard of before, now of course you have the ... gay muslim story in ... to shock. Shame the only gay character in Corrie is like someone ... -
Gaming Epiphany?!?!?Not sure if this has been asked before, but, here goes. I was wondering which games people had played on what ever system and thought 'WOW now that?…
... from School, they both had the game around about the same time). Needless ... had the whole game in there.
Castle of Illusion: This is one of ... take the wifes little cousing to Build-a-Bear, which is going ... -
Worst TV LicensesOK, I've only published the first so far - sludge-fest "V". I have another 9 in mind... Any suggestions, a few have appeared already on the worst m…
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The helicopter looked like the one from the series, and ... sea. Dan had a habit of writing FX code ... had already done a game called "Super Chopper" (again, full of FX) which ... had the Airwolf music in there too?
Airwolf (Elite) was one of the ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... or wait for God Of War 3!!! The reviews of FF have been ... :) ) where as God Of Wat 3 has had some 10/10 and ... also like the brutal fighting in God Of War 3. But which one should ... -
Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... Green Beret[/I] on the MSX had a neat trick - it ... the in-game characters on the screen. Then it overlaid the sprites in ... character scrolling, and the coloured bit of the sprites would still ... Maybe you could argue that the Spectrum had the better design by not ... -
cheapest pint?Paid ?1.80 for a pint of John Smith's before. Anybody get it cheaper?
... .8 (being involved with aviation which is dominated by US manufacturers ... a fault in the fuel lines in one of the engines, and the crew had crossfed the other ... tank there pumping the ... -
The Spectrum screenshot odd-one-out round - hard skill levelActually, more like nightmare skill level... If you don't know how to play, then go to the easy questions thread at: [URL="http://www.worldofspect…
... , because it's the only one which wasn't in the YS Top 100 ... (either Stuart Campbell's, or the ... it had the same thing in common as the other three out of the four.
in case the frustration gets too much for ... -
Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... language program you can think of.
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of a few people who did ... .[/QUOTE]
They had the Appendix A in the Spectrum manual, at least.
speccy colors ajnd pixels and stuffwhat are the speccy colours? specifically the RGB values of them. i suppose could just put a screen in photoshop and work it all out. also how big …
... interlaced fields which on the spectrum are the same picture twice. One of those fields ... 't actually ever use the in-between lines of the second interlace frame, unless ... bright on your TV, and the in-between lines are just lit ...Knight Lore on c64.. after 25 years..It seems that Knight Lore coming on commode a quarter century after speccy version. ;) Well, better late than never.. The game is still in developmen…
... the C64 and in KL's case a 256 wide screen so I had ... Beeb games on the Atari 800, a lot of which took only minutes ... Atari version of this stuff through the Altirra (Atari emu) profiler which has ...What's it like being a Dad?Well we've only 6 weeks until our baby is due and I thought I ask, what's it like being a dad, and how does it change you. Sometimes I fear that the…
... fertile then. She came off the pill for less than 1 ... was going to get months of 'action' ! ;) Told my mate it ... anything when he said they had been trying for 10 months ... either super fertile or just had a lucky hole in one!Silver speccy on the inside, you know what it is ?I was looking at one of my 48k speccys it has a label underneath with the serial printed on it and signed and dated, there is no permanent serial num…
... same silvery lining inside the case, and which included a metal ... TS1000 also has a small hole in bottom shell, and a switch ... "ch2 - ch3" on the outside (case bottom), which is for TV modulator channel ... of those, but AFAIK those also look different on the ...Any retail workers here with tales of idiot/time wasting customers?Having seen the tread about people smiling on supermarket adverts I could tell you that The customer is NOT always right. Where I work theres some r…
... to the customer...which we didn't do.
Some of the computers ... />
One had a bullet shot through the case and embedded in the motherboard
the in-store computer which just tells them the same.
Worst of all ...Possible Move to USA - Advice please.It is possible that I may be getting a Job on Oregon USA. I wondered what advice the expats of WOS might give me. [LIST] [*]For example is living …
... joking with us. The second time we had the most foul and ... considerate.
Everyone in the line he was either shouting ... up. Handed him the passports which still had the ticket stubs in. He says " ... at a security guard in the background and he shakes ...Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…
Here is the PC end of the serial cable:
[URL= ... today to attach the five crocodile leads to the Spectrum. I need to ... develop some Z80 port reading code with the ... out that I already had the code needed in an old project we ...Games that had hidden games built inAs thread title :) Booty is obvious, and I seem to remember something else (Motos / Zub perhaps?)
Not hidden but Joe Blade 2 had Pacman whilst loading.
I suppose you could say that JSW2 on completion had The Central Cavern in it, a room which you could teleport to with cheats.Spectrum +3 doesn't workMy recently ebay purchased +3 arrived today, so I was quite excited to have one again. I plugged it in and all was well, except for a slightly worry…
... ]the issue is getting the ribbon back in the right position under the board to screw the ... had no problems; not even with the internal disk drive! The bonus is the ... .
Is this sort of result consistent with Z80 and ...Opus discoveryGot hold of the OPUS DISCOVERY unit for my Rubber key, Seems a bit jumpy, it resets sometimes without warning but maybe thats me pressing to hard o…
... tape over the additional hole in the disk to trick the drive into ... that will do the trick of transfering software to ... knowing the start address and number of bytes long the machine ... which can aide in transfering software to disk.
If on the ...Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... good indicator if people coding Spectrum games today could post ... have the answer right in front of us.[/QUOTE]Well, I know the numbers ... actual game.[/QUOTE] By the way, the spectrum market isn't dead. ... conditions without real pay. Which might be a good thing ...DivIDE circuit/logic specsIs the hardware of the DivIDE documented, particularly the contents of the GAL/PAL chips? I'm looking to write a VHDL implementation of it. So far I…
... to allow the Spectrum to boot up in 128K mode. I had t ... , and the fault was in one of the chips that implemented the 128K boot ... mode, so I should have the ... details of it somewhere...[/QUOTE]
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... me for a date, which I was really expecting to ... just starting the "My Player" mode, which is like the "Superstar" mode in the [I ... tough though... I had my first game in front of the scouts last night ... their forwards open to score which happened to cost my ...Why do iPhone owners...?I know I made a joke about iPhone owners elsewhere, but really, why do iPhone owners feel the need to tell you that they have an iPhone? And then mos…
... shop with all their stuff, which is what I dislike about ... .. e.g. the different versions of phone..1 had the arial bit in the previous model ... .. just it wasn't fitted , but the ...Auf Weidersehen MontyBrilliant game, but how the heck do you complete it? I can't seem to get rid of the items I collect (mona Lisa) etc, eventually I collect so many I c…
... ? This was the last Monty game that had the Monty feeling in it. I ... loved it - was my favorite in the ... . you have an energy bar which decreases on contact with baddies ... 's not the same sprite
None of this is to ....com .net .co.ukAbout URLS. I'm going to buy some. I was planing on getting a .com one. But is it worth also getting the .net and maybe even the .co.uk of the same…
... are some $10 per year, which probably amounts to 0.025 ... the past 10 years and never had a single problem in all of these ....com .net .co.ukAbout URLS. I'm going to buy some. I was planing on getting a .com one. But is it worth also getting the .net and maybe even the .co.uk of the same…
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