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ZX-Uno first impressionsZX-Uno first impressions Hello: I received my ZX-Uno last Saturday and I wanted to give everyone my first impressions of this latest ZX Spectru…
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Vega KeymappingSo a zxk file is a self contained text file, that the PC actually sees as being a zxk file. And yet, when I make a word doc, or a simple text file a…
So a zxk file is a self contained text file, that the PC actually sees as being a zxk file. And yet, when I make a word doc, or a simple text file and re-name it as zxk, it's still recognised as a text or Word file. Gamesmaster, what am I doing wrong?! -
Name of writer?Bloody hell - trying to remember the name of a long dead, famous, probably Russian, writer. His stories were serialised on radio4 a few years back…
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Jet-Set Willy: The Text Adventure!!! :DSo, having been playing quite a bit of Zork, and Colossal Cave Adventure of late, I thought to myself, why not mix it up with another childhood class…
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SpinnakerWe (The Hungarian Sinclair Community) archived a pair of hungarian spectrum programs in the past few days and we found this title. First we thought t…
... name. VITORLA is a hungarian word that means fan-tail. The ... -
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…
... most proud of the database/word processor stuff.)
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Alien 8... what does its name mean?So, all of you know Alien 8, the game. Quite a few people in Spain seem to think that Alien 8 is called the way it's called because of the movie Alie…
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Ordered tapes and memory links.I did something a bit sad this evening... In the old days of Spectrum, I used to keep my tapes in those little plastic cases / racks from woolies.…
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Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
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Hidden message on Astro Marine CorpsI 've been toying with [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000295]Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic)[/url], and I've found a hidden mess…
... , but if you enter the word [B]FEATRIZ[/B] (it may ... be a word play between [b]FEA[/b ... ] (spanish word that means "ugly") and [B ... -
New here? Looking for a solution to a problem with your coding? Read onThis observation is for the benefit of newcomers especially those learning to program. This site - World of Spectrum - is a resource of immense va…
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Ebay Words that Turn You off a Sale.I have a love hate relationship with Ebay. Sometimes it's the only way to get what I want at the price I want. Sometimes its not the price I want, bu…
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Apropos of nothing...Apropos of nothing... but the Three Word Story thread turned 9 years old on November 22nd and is [b]still going[/b] (albeit a bit slowly...)
Apropos of nothing... but the Three Word Story thread turned 9 years old on November 22nd and is [b]still going[/b] (albeit a bit slowly...) -
Code optimisation! 16bit number to 5 digit stringJust for interest this one, any thoughts on how to make this as fast as possible? Little optimisations to this routine or a complete reimagining? …
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The Worst of WOS.Ok so we have quite a few threads discussing some of WOSes best bits. But.... what about our worst bits. I'm sure there are plenty to paw over. I…
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Which Tolkien game had this loading screen?I recall game name had a word "Mordor". Searching WOS using "Mordor" didn´t help. Looking at other Tolkien games screenshots, it´s not Lord of the Ri…
... recall game name had a word "Mordor". Searching WOS using "Mordor ... -
ZX Spectrum 48k issuesHi all! A couple of days ago I bought my first 48k Speccy off ebay (I already own a beautiful QL expanded with QubIDE interface and 640k ram). It was…
Translated manual for Games Designer (Quicksilva John Hollis)Hi There, Here is the translated manual for Games Designer (Quicksilva John Hollis) i.e. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=00…
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MS Word .docx
https://dl.dropboxusercontent ... the WoS Infoseek site to Word .docx then translated .docx to ... saved to .PDF in MS Word (as their .PDF translator produced ...SpecBAS 0.905 Released...I said I shouldn't have done it, so now I have to release an update to fix the bugs I missed but that my valiant testers discovered! Here's what's…
... -Order and Renumber not re-wrapping soft-wrapped lines
Fixed ...Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …
... you Peker!
One word of caution, there are no ...What am I doing wrong?Working on the idea of making a book type game I decided to start with a title screen. However I thought that the extension .scr was what the Spectru…
... tried - tried being the operative word - to use BMP2SCR to get ...Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... with an enormous list of word choices. The trouble with brevity ...Bought vs BroughtOn another forum which has a younger and more international (mostly Americans though) demographic than WOS, someone in the chatbox/shoutbox mentioned…
... purchased something and used the word "brought", so I asked why ... so you can pick a word.[/b]Does anyone play text adventures?I wrote a text adventure using The Quill waaaaay back when I was 16. It was released commercially by Kerian software and was available on here. It wa…
... invloved. "Try" being the operative word here. I'd try to ...Favourite hangover games?I am not actually in a hangover ever (swear!) but I think the word captures also the state of semi-consciousness during a fever for example :) Whe…
... (swear!) but I think the word captures also the state of ...Bloody Win10 Constipation Edition!I have this installed, only to find that it has broken MS Word 2000 by preventing three (or perhaps four) important DLL files from registering. Fortu…
... that it has broken MS Word 2000 by preventing three (or ... . :ar! Fortunately, I have got Word Doc Viewer from the Win10 ...The URL Ladder Game.Ok I'll put up a web url, and then the next person to post must enter a valid url that is only one characters difference away. This could be changing…
... maneuvered the rest and the word ladder is complete. We then ... start over with a new word. That player scores a point ...New Game - Biscuits in Hell.[img]http://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/gameimages/BIH_0.gif[/img][img]http://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/gameimages/BIH_1.gif[/img] …
... like the derivation of the word 'biscuit', the game is also ...
