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Suggestion: Sinclair-related event calendarSometimes retro-events where Sinclair stuff is featured also, are listed here. But not always. One reason could be that we do not have a clear overvi…
... Wouldn't it be awesome to have a calender featuring ... Sinclair-guru's might want to take visit?
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< ... options that come to my mind:
- To list it in ... s also possible to create a sticky link to a real ... - Maybe there already is a WoS calendar? -
Laptop graphics issue: getting booted out of full-screenHi guys I have a relatively trivial but exremely irritating problem that's driving me nuts. In the last few days I've noticed that if I have an appl…
... X & Half-Life II via Valve) and updated ... Window Manager was unable to start because composition was ... linked with Windows Vista..? To add to the confusion, these ... reason.
To add to the confusion, I'm ... t I'll have to take it to a computer shop ( ... -
How to convert a .txt file (ASCII/PC) into a Tasword file?Short version: [B]How can I convert a .txt file (PC) into a Tasword file (ZX Spectrum)?[/B] Longer version: {Maybe I should first re-introduce mysel…
... announced that I was trying to put an educational project together ... kids, about how microcomputers started to enter our home lives back ... far I have tried to use Autohotkey to virtually type in texts ... Writer, that should be able to take in ASCII texts through the ... -
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]) …
... only joystick (a Quickshot II Turbo) I have owned ... screen was done intentionally, to give those magic glowing ... album that I used to listen to back then, and ... could think of was to go to my friends' home ... was telling me to take the computer to my grandmother's ... -
800+ Spectrum 128k & 48k original titles still availableHi guys, The original thread was a bit messy and has vanished from the front page, so rather than bump it, here it is again a bit tidier: All origi…
... so I've been unable to take them off the list. ... Double Dragon II
Down to Earth
Down to Earth
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II
Gilbert Escape ... Hunchback
Hunchback II
Hunchback II
Hungry Horace< ... -
Trying to use ZX Screen Snapper with Zero V0.5Great, another speccy problem... I'm using the Zero emulator and I'm using ZX Screen Sapper to take screen shots. Well, I would be using it, but Zero…
... 'm using ZX Screen Sapper to take screen shots.
Well, I ... -
Paid a visit to theCambridge Centre For Computing History today...Well worth a visit I'd say, plenty of Sinclair stuff, and lots of games to keep the children entertained for a good 2 hours or so. I dragged them off…
... stuff, and lots of games to keep the children entertained for ... them off the playstations to take this photo next to the rubber-key ... off a Divide interface, only to find that it had (of ... -
ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…
... it doesn't apply contention to take precedence as usual. Under this ... memory location (which still belongs to videoram), and a wrong ... , the first of which starts at 14368 on the 128K ... - Why the 'unaffected' columns seem to be pretty much literally unaffected ... -
Private Message InboxIs there any way of increasing the size of the Private Message inbox on WoS? Like, does it go up after 500 forum posts or can I pay a subscription to…
... the Private Message inbox on WoS? Like, does it go ... can I pay a subscription to increase it?
... no room for any response to my reply.
... so blindingly obvious and clear to me now that I ... at least I'm willing to admit it. Nay, even ... -
What to do when INT doesn't work?Due to the limitations of the Spectrum's floating point number format, two slightly different large numbers, or two slightly different small fraction…
Due to the limitations of the Spectrum' ... on the sort of precaution to take to ensure the expected result (usually ... ). In this example, with regard to INT.
The variable ... a base 26 number converted to decimal, so:
"abcd" = 1 ... -
Magic Knight Website UpdateNew thread, the old one didn't turn up after clicking "New Posts" and I'm interested in feedback so I made a new, slightly more relevantly titled thr…
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If anybody wants to take a look at the HTML ... about it, link to the WoS archive for downloading and ... link to a map ... s one available. Link to any related resources like ... a sort of, relevant to Spectrum, personal diary page ... -
Converting tzx/tap images to dsk imagesIs there a way to convert tap/tzx images to dsk? I ask as the emulator I use is ZERO which is prefectly fine in its own way and I do like it BUT it …
Is there a way to convert tap/tzx images to dsk?
to the start of a tape ... to reload the first level or ... be much easier for me to take tzx/tap images and convert ... them to a dsk so it can ... -
This week Joefish is disappointed by: Shutter Island [spoilers again]If you were to take away all the up-skirt cosplay, giant Nazi death robots and humongous explosions from [I]Sucker Punch[/I], would there be anything…
If you were to take away all the up- ... ], would there be anything left to watch? Ladies and gentlemen, ... but he has a reputation to rival Hitchcock. And yet ... -long stainless steel pick to be used in the ... lake, why does the ash and charring feature so strongly ... -
The future of WoSDear readers, I'm not sure, but at the moment, the maintenance of WoS seems to be inactive. I would be the least who won't be pleased about Martijn's…
... moment, the maintenance of WoS seems to be inactive. I would ... so important),
but WoS has been updated in ... and utilities (not only to keep ZX-Modules Central ... have not enough time to read all those forum ... really wouldn't lose WoS as the most interesting ... -
Drunk With Blood (Bible not boring after all)Flip! Not another religious thread from BB. How many's that now?! (... errrm ... two). I haven't forgotten about the Koran commentary (now that I've …
... writing), but that'll take me a few days yet ... epic. Of course, it starts with the big one, that ... Uriah off to fight, but gives orders to Joab to "Set ye ... [/i], as he wants to take Bathsheba as a wife.
take thy wives before thine eyes ... -
Progress on my next NovelHello, WOS :) I have finally made progress on my next story - "[i]Rubeus Imperium[/i]" ("The Red Empire" ) - following the positive reception of my …
Hello, WOS :)
I have ... assassinated, it is up to Vincenzo to fulfil his duty as ... ?s one thing I forgot to take into consideration, Nikolai: Who ... hadn?t expected it to be programmed to a level of ... think it?s going to take for us to get back home? ... -
Joystick PollDear WOS, I am currently building a home-made arcade stick for home use (and possibly mass production, if demand is high and if people like what the…
Dear WOS,
I am ... />
It is intended to be a general-purpose controller ... Happ, Sanwa Denshi, Seimitsu, just to name a few) - the ... when playing retro games is to use an older controller ... adaptor. I am trying to take into account as many genres ... -
No Christmas gift from WoSWas I the only one waiting and praying for a Christmas gift from WoS? Martijn left five weeks ago and I was really hoping for a WoS update to be rev…
... for a Christmas gift from WoS? Martijn left five weeks ago ... was really hoping for a WoS update to be revealed on Christmas ... ?t it be about time to let the people know where ... -
To claim or not to claim?Hmm.. Bit of a conundrum, lads.. Went out for dinner with my family. Parked on the street as the restaurant we went to doesn't have a parking lot. …
... other car - which they forwarded to me - and would be ... and probably a similar age to our current one.
... field, so I'm having to take low-end, low-pay jobs ... , so we were going to wait a couple of years ... even then, was going to hang on to this one and run ... -
Specbas new game PacmanWell I have been beavering away at this for a bit and I am now happy with it. (nearly) it's not bad (even if I say so myself) [img]http://i699.phot…
... i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv352/ASH-II/pac1_zpsfxulb03f.png[/img]
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to play.
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BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... modern age - its easy to learn like BASIC was and ... that makes it accessible to the kids of today...< ... least one or two people to try this themselves, fall ... in hundreds of listings) to learn... There's still a ... I find time will be to take an old Speccy game ... -
The Disslike of LikesCan anyone explain why we have a LIKE button they serve no useful purpose on WOS discussion forum. (cue everyone liking this post :( ) I read po…
... serve no useful purpose on WOS discussion forum.
(cue everyone ... /topics and I am starting to notice a trend of ....intimidation ... .
the posts starts fine but then it starts to get a bit ... can be hesitant from adding to discussion's and having there ... -
Minor updateWhilst there is nothing major to announce, be assured that a lot of work is being carried out 'behind the scenes'. We now have 3 developers workin…
... revealed when we are happy to switch to WoS 2.0
to help pay, firslty we won't ever take them ... as that is against the WoS ethos, and ... developers and have been central to WoS since the beginning. They are ... -
FTP Access to OPUS Discovery UtilitesI am trying to recover some old disks that I have from an Opus Discovery. I found some utilities under the http://www.worldofspectrum.org/opustools.…
I am trying to recover some old disks ... click them it tries to take me to an FTP download, which ... , or is this due to the revamp that is ongoing ... a link to else where to download, or email them to me ... /> I have tried google to find alternative locations, but so ... -
Chompston Mazes in SpecBASAfter the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked out the link there about generating 2D Pacman style mazes. This one was quite good fun, …
After the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked ... $="1234":
FOR g=1 TO n:
LET a=1 ... CODE (the opposite of CHR$) to convert back from characters (bytes ... a(f) THEN
GO TO 90
ELSE
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It's been a weird (and scary) Christmas...Hello folks and Merry (belated) Christmas. It's been a bit of a weird (and scary) one for me... My mum suffered a heart attack on 19th December…
... was sedated. They planned to take her out of sedation ... ready and needed to go to Leeds to have a stent ... just been able to speak to her and know ... regulates heartbeats and helps to prevent further attacks). She ... had a good one. Christmas starts here for me! :)
Latest link doesn't go to latest postUnder "All Categories", you can see the "latest posts". Selecting the title takes you to the top of the post. That's correct. Clicking the user n…
... /> Selecting the title takes you to the top of the post ... to the post is meant to take you to blah#latest, but instead goes to ...Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
Hello my fellow WoS'ers
I ... do not know how to take bytes from a memory ... animation that I would like to explore - but would ... ) that would allow me to write / experiment with AY ... />
I am attempting to write a small graphical adventure ...NEW RELEASE: "Willy's New Mansion" Special EditionOn the twelfth anniversary of the [url="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/manicminerandjetsetwilly/conversations/messages/4593"]release[/url] of my…
... on the SE was not to take anything away from the Original ... Edition (OE), only to add to it. Therefore, the SE ... , and it is meant to be enjoyable to most players.
shape of the game would not ...Spectrum +2 RGB to monochromeI would like to have a monochrome video output from my 2 grey but I don't want to go for the s-video modification, at least not right now. I seem …
I would like to have a monochrome video output ... but I don't want to go for the s-video ... />
I seem to remember a circuit designed to take RGB signals and ... but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
