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  • Spectrum Database ProgramsWhat would people recommend to be a decent database program for the emulators? I've been fiddling with SGD but the databases are outdated, and ZX Rai…

    ... br /> I would have to write a small checksum generator for the ... so that if you open a 'known' game, ZX- ... of ZX-Rainbow.
    A disadvantage would be the fact ... on the file type (a game in TAP would ... analyze games. But having a games database becomes more and ...
    Seejay Seejay January 2004 Emulators
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... equipment set up, get a new scanner and get on ... 'yea, but i want to write a sall game for starters, how ... want to check once on a weekly basis you never ... and mine happens to be a Radio Shack book from ... the USA. The book mentions a a companion book to this one ...
    Sadako Sadako January 2004 Development
  • clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…

    ... CODE was when I had a ZX81.

    I saw ... /> I thought that you could write a machine code program in BASIC ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Atari ST Diskshello again, forgive me for the format change.... some of you may remember i requested some *original* atari ST disks a while back for dumping to pr…

    k :)
    ill write a list of wot ive got and then you can se wot you might need
    amiga eh? i have tons of amiga disks too if you need originals ive got quite a few .......copies (if you do copies) i have hundreds :p
    mel the bell mel the bell January 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • New Speccy Image EditorHi, This is my first time in the forums at WoS. So 'Hello all'. I have written a little image editor over the christmas break, last 12 days or so. …

    ... not say that DirectX is a perfect solution for all speed ... better because you managed to write a very fast system without need ...
    LCD LCD January 2004 Development
  • So how many coders do we have here?Just out of interest, how many coders do we have here who are capable of knocking out a game? [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2004-02-02 15:…

    I can write a shitty text based adventure. :D
    JohnDoyle JohnDoyle February 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... actual addresses, BASIC is just a big program running, and ... the stack, and executes a CALL to your program, ... and waits for a RET.

    ... than I would have to write a HEX converter in BASIC, ... it out and give it a try.

    Also ...
    GBNvK GBNvK February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... to do to make a game a reality.
    This ... mainly because I believe a good arcade game should be ... TZX as TommyGun is not a compiler. It could compile ... its doing is automating a process the user can ... minutes themselves or by using a script.

    The ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... all really interesting, especially from a tools programmer perspective.
    ... the application. eg. Have a code editor in the ... could be saved and a script ran to compile the ... This makes the whole application a game development environment with maximum ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • Speccy modems and telnetDid anyone use a modem for the Spectrum back in the heyday of the British service telnet? I wish I had known a bit more about it at the time, that wo…

    ... summer holiday I have written a full-fledged VT220 emulator+telnet ... and my mate has built a very simple interface that connects ... a standard NE2000 ethernet ISA card ... . His next task was to write a TCP/IP stack and an ...
    Mikie Mikie February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy modems and telnetDid anyone use a modem for the Spectrum back in the heyday of the British service telnet? I wish I had known a bit more about it at the time, that wo…

    ... . His next task was to write a TCP/IP stack and an ... . However, I do believe such a thing should be written in ... /> There's what looks like a fairly good one written in ... 100% assembler on a Czech website somewhere and it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... redumping or somebody needs to write a tool to convert. Then everybody ... , etc, etc...

    Add a new block to the format ...
    Woody Woody February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... /> This is getting surreal. What a crap argument. Who cares whether ... you? Again - that strength is a weakness. Your computer may allow ... want to wipe your arse a different way? (Hypothetically speaking, ... need to do is to write a routine to change paper colour ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • All new to thisHi folks, I hope that somebody here can help me i want to play sinclair spectrum games on both my PC and PS2, but i have no idea where to start. (my…

    Cheers mate,
    will give that a go:)
    Also i have a chipped PS2 is there anybody out there that can write a spectrum emulator to disk that i can play on the PS2

    Cheers,
    kpa2_uk
    kpa2_uk kpa2_uk March 2004 Emulators
  • Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …

    ... ever make any progress on a 'brain dump' of all ... your Speccy coding knowledge into a document, btw? I get ... ve started getting a few ideas together for a couple of ... there won't help you write a platform game. If you ... I could knock out a 2-3K platformer later ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2004 Development
  • Dizzy Y helpI have in my posession: - Skull - A magic cross - Stone block - A key - An empty bucket I am in the Hall of Flames. I can't climb back to the surfa…

    ... (and after I'd had a bit of sleep!) :roll:
    write a solution soon...
    Jim
    jil jil March 2004 Games
  • Atari ST Diskshello again, forgive me for the format change.... some of you may remember i requested some *original* atari ST disks a while back for dumping to pr…

    ... wrote:
    k :)
    ill write a list of wot ive got ... need originals ive got quite a few .......copies (if you do ... no games. Have you got a list? If you have any ...
    monty.mole monty.mole March 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • TZX to MDRHow can I simply convert my TZX files into MDR files, because the original tapes were backup copies of microdrive cartridges. Is there anyone with a …

    ... all, there isn't such a thing as 1:1 conversion ... .

    Now, there is a manual method which shouldn't ... , then go to BASIC, do a CLEAR and load/save them ... />
    One could also write a sort of a BASIC+M/C 'copier ...
    GOC GOC March 2004 Emulators
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... that the drive of a C64 works in a completely different way ... why it is impossible to write a disk in your PC drive ... if you buy a Catweasel controller, you can write speccy, QL, c64 ...
    Akira Akira March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... expandable. I for instance used a different sna of ' cybernoid ' ... recreate the spec256 effect within a new emulator and Vladimir came ... was worth the effort to write a whole new emulator to emulate ... didn't even have to write a new emulator, just added some ...
    Arm73 Arm73 March 2004 Emulators
  • YSRnRY TV Show - 1982 now available for download[I couldn't wait until midnight to avoid the April Fools stuff!] After nearly 18 months of planning and preparing, the first chapter of the YS Rock'…

    [I][B]means ill have to wait about 5 years to burn all the parts onto 1 video cd lol
    [/B][/I]

    Ah, just do what I do and write a VCD to a CD-RW and then view on a big screen TV :)
    NickH NickH April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …

    ... of plugins is a big enhancement, but a typical user would ... editor as very much like a typical development environment, where you ... again if someone wanted to write a plugin to do this then ... the main goal of a plugin system. Write the core application and ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2004 Development
  • "TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …

    ... be more than happy to write a BASIC editor for TG. The ... rip that out and make a standalone snap/.bas/whatever editor ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2004 Development
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... [quote]The other thing is a graphical toolset. Vladimir has integrated ... more colour without having to write a program from scratch to ... game

    ... is a conundrum and contradicting.

    write plugins for TommyGun :p ( ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... Wrote:
    This is a hell of a lot of work even ... up Spectrum games would simply write a remake on the PC. And ... wanting to make a Spectrum game would make a game that could ... I've just spent over a year doing just that with ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2004 Games
  • Help needed with Disciple interfaceHi all, I really hope someone can help me out. I've recently bought a Disciple interface and have attached an internal Amiga 3.5" drive. (I've never…

    ... XP, we are developing a custom device driver for ... .

    To write a disk image (*.MGT/IMG) back ... to a real floppy, enable the ... RealDisk menu and select "Write image file to real ... the fileselector, then insert a 720K floppy into the ...
    Luca Luca May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Classical music in Spectrum gamesFollowing a point made by GOC, I would list the pieces of classical music featured in Spectrum games. As far as I can remember right now: - Manic Mi…

    Right... if I ever write a game, it'll have a version of NAPALM DEATH's classic song 'SCUM'
    chaosmongers chaosmongers May 2004 Games
  • New utterly crap game!Inspired by Andy Herbert's crappy game I decided that I should try and produce a similar if not better (or worse depending on how you look at it) eff…

    ... (well not entirely), but as a whole (notice the subtle play ... ]

    I think you write a crap game believing it's ... .

    In this case a smug satisfaction must have crossed ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous May 2004 Games
  • Sir Clive & PokerJust finished watching Sir Clive win the final of the Celebrity Poker program on Challenge TV, CONGRATULATIONS SIR CLIVE!! He won ?25,000 for his ef…

    ... /> Doh!

    Here's a good reason against people always ... I knew there'd been a couple about Sir Clive and ... posters would somebody like to write a Texas Hold 'Em game (with ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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