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  • Help remembering a game...Hi guys, maybe someone can help me here, although it's a difficult one. I'm trying to remember a game I tried to play when I was younger, but have…

    ... , I played it on a black&white TV :-w [/quote]
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2016 Games
  • Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…

    ... , Red = 4p, Green = 8p, Yellow 12p and white 24p. or something like ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2016 Chit chat
  • Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…

    ... , Red = 4p, Green = 8p, Yellow 12p and white 24p. or something like ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob November 2016 Chit chat
  • Essence of the ArcadeAs some of you know, one of the reasons I will always be eternally grateful to WOS is to have helped me with its database and all my friends around h…

    ... , Red = 4p, Green = 8p, Yellow 12p and white 24p. or something like ...
    Richey Richey November 2016 Chit chat
  • A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…

    ... OUT port that controls the border colour. If you do OUT ... 7 it will change the border colour. That's the first ... run. (It also turns the border black).
    joefish joefish December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... among and along all these black and white corridors and place a ... : maze/shooter.
    graphics: black & white and clumsy.
    ​sound: nice ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel February 2017 Games
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... bytes gets used depending on Black/White, or do these actually get ...
    Hikaru Hikaru March 2017 Development
  • More from Timex Computer corp. (U.S.A.)I'm hoping this will be of interest to some of you. Bruno: For many years we've been told a 48K Spectrum had been modified to work with NTSC but did…

    ... software test platforms were the black & white Sinclair computer as well ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Web loading animationsYou know on some websites there is a loading "spinner" or something similar to show content is loading? I'm looking for a set that can be used at …

    What about something based on the actual Speccy loading - you know, the blue and yellow border striped stuff.
    Vampyre Vampyre April 2017 Chit chat
  • Disabling the ROM without removing the whole thingHi! I've got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. I suspect the ROM may be bad, but other things may be faulty as well. I've read that in an otherwis…

    ... shows a typical screen. The border is white.

    [img]http ... squares, but does change the border color, most often to red ...
    Mikelone Mikelone April 2017 Hardware
  • Bad use of colours in Spectrum gamesI'm preparing an article about colourful Spectrum games. I have many examples of good use of colour but I also need examples of bad use of colours. …

    Some Dinamic games (After the War, F. Hardest in South Manhattan, Satan, ...) use only black & white in the playing area in spite of the use of overall good graphics.
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez April 2017 Games
  • Moving HomeI had a call today from the estate agents that represent my landlord, they said he wants to sell the property to 'make improvements to his own house'…

    ... , then we still had Black & White when nearly everyone else had ...
    grey key grey key May 2017 Chit chat
  • PC knackered, help needed?So, with an hour of my show yesterday afternoon, mi main pc cut out without warning, as though there was a powercut but i dont think there was, and i…

    ... it is a massive thick yellow and black corded thing.

    mel the bell mel the bell May 2017 Chit chat
  • ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …

    ... . The colours are different yellow or black and some have plastic "overcoat ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio June 2017 Hardware
  • Repainting stripe on rubber-keyed faceplate?Is it possible to repaint the stripe on an original 16K/48K rubber-keyed Speccy? My one currently looks like this: [img]https://i223.photobucket.com…

    ... - it's just the stripe, especially the yellow part, that's bothering ... the whole of the yellow bit of the stripe, even the non ...
    pelago pelago June 2017 Hardware
  • Very tricky guess the game from description.I found this game on WoS a few year's ago. For some perverse reason I'd like to play it again, if only to work out what to do. -Not well known. …

    Well,
    - player sprite is not yellow
    - border is not green
    - no big panel on the side

    So you didn't give us a chance ;) But it's great that you've found it.
    Ralf Ralf July 2017 Games
  • ZX Spectrum 48K it only shows colored barsHello, I'm new to the forum and I need help with a ZX Spectrum 48K which I bought recently unfortunately defective. I want to mention that before t…

    ...
    __________________________________
    => bars black/white https://ibb.co/ngtjKv
    Trafic Trafic August 2017 Hardware
  • Does anyone actually support the "A white man mustn't play a non-white role" drivel?Regarding the recent political correctness hypocrisy (the one where a bunch of morons started complaining about a white actor, Ed Skrein, being wrong…

    ... />
    A white man being racist to a black man is racist ... , a black man being racist to a white man is racist ... Rappaport's character) tells a black man that something he says ... ignore the obvious here) very black & white. A comment or statement ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2017 Chit chat
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... level is extended into the border area (won’t be featured ... ).

    Desired effect: the yellow border should remain more or less ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... infinite lives and no flashing border:
    [url="http://sky.relative ... for the same thing: the yellow border is free to flicker occasionally ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... single iteration of the yellow border strip flickers around the ... [b]1.[/b] Two yellow border strips flicker around the moving ... single iteration of the yellow border strip flickers around the ... single iteration of the yellow border strip flickers around the ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... ]

    Damn straight! The yellow border stripes also appear (albeit very ... only appear in the top border area.)
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • What's going on inside this ZX Spectrum? [Newbie]Hello folks Last year I got hold of a ZX Spectrum. At the time it appeared to boot up fine, but more recently when I've tried to boot up I've had…

    ... /> Does the picture's border turn white at power on? If it ...
    Zorn Zorn October 2017 Hardware
  • Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…

    ... in this order: background (regular black / white flash) by PUSH instruction, stars ...
    catmeows catmeows October 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... the attributes were maybe white on white then it could reside on ... /> The pieces are represented thus Black/White

    Empty square 00 ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed October 2017 Development
  • Computer Gamer, Feb 87'Does any have scans of pages 67-82 for this issue? They are missing from the online archive of this issue on archive.org. Thanks.

    ... first (mostly white) page to 10mb for the last (mostly black) page ... around 7.7mb (mostly just black & white, although some are overlaid ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2017 Magazines
  • Computer Gamer, Feb 87'Does any have scans of pages 67-82 for this issue? They are missing from the online archive of this issue on archive.org. Thanks.

    ... of the pages are just black/white/grays. If it would take ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2017 Magazines
  • Swimming Pools.Went swimming today with my son and was thinking how much new swimming pools have changed since we were kids in the 80's and 70's. Odd details I re…

    ... to the outside. Where the white panels are above the windows ... the glass is was yellow brick. The white paneling on the far ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2017 Chit chat
  • Christmas games/memories...So, with Christmas fast approaching, what games remind you of Christmases of old? Horace Goes Skiing/Horace and the Spiders are the first that spr…

    ... long on our spare portable black & white TV. After having it ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum December 2017 Games
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