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by ZXDunny
Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:19 pm
Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
Topic: Head Over Heels (Next)
Replies: 3
Views: 274

Re: Head Over Heels (Next)

I'm loving the extra rooms on the map, less so the changes to the graphics like the toasters when difficulty levels are set lower. As far as HoH games go I gotta say I prefer Tomaz Kac's remake over this one, but it's a close finish.
by ZXDunny
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Design/Ideas
Topic: 1D Pac-Man
Replies: 8
Views: 1179

Re: 1D Pac-Man

Mcoder2 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:33 am Game could be more fun, if you could also go up and down. :mrgreen:
Agreed. Maybe walls that constrain where you can go, like a maze, and more ghosts.
by ZXDunny
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:35 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: New multi platform emulator - Speculator
Replies: 12
Views: 790

Re: New multi platform emulator - Speculator

It's looking promising, certainly. Getting a few errors in the test suites but if this is an early stage of development, it's going real well so far.

I do hope the author decides to join the speccy discord, the emulation chat in there is incredibly helpful.
by ZXDunny
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: That thing with the blue and magenta ladders (OUT)
Replies: 39
Views: 891

Re: That thing with the blue and magenta ladders (OUT)

AndyC wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:37 am I said the hardware can't trigger something like that from a single OUT, but changing a paging register probably causes the machine to crash and display what you remember. Which sounds right to me.
Yeah but the BASIC can and well... it did, y'know? With a single OUT.
by ZXDunny
Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: ZX Spectrum Raytracer
Replies: 17
Views: 926

Re: ZX Spectrum Raytracer

I seem to be doing something wrong... :) I copied the text, save it to a file, tried to load it into SpecBAS, got error 31 LOAD failed, 0:1 I tried to copy and paste into SpecBAS editor, I choose RUN from the menu, I get this window: Your version of SpecBAS is too old. Grab a new executable from he...
by ZXDunny
Fri Jan 26, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: ZX Spectrum Raytracer
Replies: 17
Views: 926

Re: ZX Spectrum Raytracer

Sure :) 2 origin flip: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS : let TME=MSECS: LET SW=SCRW/2: LET SH=SCRH/2: GO SUB 8000: GO SUB 7000: DIM C(64): DIM L(64): LET DZ=(ScrW/800)*2: FOR X=0 TO scrw-1 STEP 8: FOR Y=0 TO scrh-1 STEP 8 40 LET DX=(X-SW)/256: LET DY=(Y-SH)/256: GO SUB 1000: LET CTL=PC: LET LTL=PL: LET DX=(X-SW...
by ZXDunny
Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: ZX Spectrum Raytracer
Replies: 17
Views: 926

Re: ZX Spectrum Raytracer

320x192, 8bpp in SpecBAS:

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by ZXDunny
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Crash magazine 16bit special.
Replies: 8
Views: 613

Re: Crash magazine 16bit special.

Vampyre wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:32 am It was that issue and article that finally convinced me I needed to upgrade to 16-bit. November that year I got an ST.
Same. Saved up my paper round money over the summer and bought my stepdad's A1000 off him. Best purchase I ever made.
by ZXDunny
Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Crash magazine 16bit special.
Replies: 8
Views: 613

Re: Crash magazine 16bit special.

Issue 55 August 1988 Great Giana Sisters cover Pages 70,71,74,75 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=70 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=71 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1022&page=74 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/p...
by ZXDunny
Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Crash magazine 16bit special.
Replies: 8
Views: 613

Crash magazine 16bit special.

Hey you lot -

I recall Crash did a special in one of the issues where they look at 16bit games (Amiga mostly) and featured F/A-18 Interceptor and Ferrari Formula 1. I can't find it though; google is heavily polluted these days.

Anyone got any kind of clue here? Cheers :)
by ZXDunny
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: What does ZX mean?
Replies: 21
Views: 1173

Re: What does ZX mean?

There was an intern working at Sinclair, kind of a work experience kind of deal, and Clive said to the guy "We need a name that gets us to the top in any list, you know like how Google chose a name that would appear at the start of an alphabetical list of websites" - but the poor sod didn'...
by ZXDunny
Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:58 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: New snap format that convenient for view/modify
Replies: 59
Views: 1209

Re: New snap format that convenient for view/modify

I would like to ask why you're not using an emulator that has a decent debugger/memory viewer built in which lets you examine RAM and make changes and then you can save your stuff out as whatever snapshot format you want.
by ZXDunny
Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:16 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Sinclair Basic compiler IDE ?
Replies: 2
Views: 193

Re: Sinclair Basic compiler IDE ?

Yes, BASin was never finished and likely, as a compiler, will never be; I've moved on to pastures new I'm afraid - Spectrum BASIC on a PC is way more fun than it ever was on a Spectrum - but you should be able to compile with a native compiler. Don't expect amazing m/c performance though, you're sti...
by ZXDunny
Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Anyone else hate zxspectrumgames4 ?
Replies: 43
Views: 1978

Re: Anyone else hate zxspectrumgames4 ?

Lee Bee wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:11 pmif you make more videos on a wide pool of topics then naturally you're going to get more traffic, which converts to subscriptions.
Hmm, maybe I should do that to boost my numbers. 260 subs, 92 videos on my channel :D
by ZXDunny
Sat May 20, 2023 5:22 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Zx Omni what is it? Is it any good?
Replies: 53
Views: 4932

Re: Zx Omni what is it? Is it any good?

kpuchatek wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 6:45 pm KWF is right - you can, probably it depends on ZX-Omni version. Two left switches are working, UP,DOWN makes the trick.
That's great since in my Omni AT28C256 is soldered.
I have a Rev 4, it can't bel flashed in-situ. We tried.
by ZXDunny
Wed Apr 26, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Zx Omni what is it? Is it any good?
Replies: 53
Views: 4932

Re: Zx Omni what is it? Is it any good?

Hi, Anybody found a way to update ESXDOS in ZX Omni ? Issue 4 is based on AT28C256 (compared to AT28C64 in standard divMMC), as I understand it contains two version of ESXDOS and two of UnoDOS. Unfortunately EEPROM is soldered, so any jumper configuration to enable flash ? You cannot flash the EEPR...
by ZXDunny
Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:07 pm
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works
Replies: 6
Views: 473

Re: Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works

It's a fun routine. Converted to SpecBAS:

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And with formatting:

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Set it to loop forever. Wonder if I can make use of this...
by ZXDunny
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:40 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 670
Views: 178773

Re: Introduce yourself!

PeterJ wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:01 pm Don't go trying to tempt away our new members with your new fangled technology @ZXDunny :D
Oh good heavens I wouldn't dream of it!
by ZXDunny
Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 670
Views: 178773

Re: Introduce yourself!

Goodness me, Jon North. Our crew of enthusiasts would appreciate your joining the Speccy Discord if you are that way inclined: https://discord.gg/45W4bUB

Hope to see you there.
by ZXDunny
Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:24 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: ZX Spectrum +3 Manual as you've never seen it before
Replies: 50
Views: 1194

Re: ZX Spectrum +3 Manual as you've never seen it before

Section 19, the PLAY chapter, is missing a diagram and instead has an ascii representation of the stave etc. It's badly broken on a couple of lines.

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by ZXDunny
Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:23 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Are the YS writers still "around"?
Replies: 34
Views: 1618

Re: Are the YS writers still "around"?

Bear a Grudge did not deserve to have such a bangin' AY tune.
by ZXDunny
Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:10 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Swan
Replies: 12
Views: 822

Re: Swan

I accuracy is your bag then you probably should join the discord: https://discord.gg/45W4bUB

Our emulation chat has probably the biggest set of tests for all models of Speccies on the net by now, and it's very active with emulator development chat.
by ZXDunny
Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:05 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums
Replies: 153
Views: 5227

Re: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums

Thanks guys, it's working. Feel a bit of a tit with the wrong theme selected though.

FWIW, I did a load of icons for WOS years ago (new post, active thread/forum etc) and if anyone can find them they're welcome to use them for the topic/forum lists.
by ZXDunny
Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:26 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums
Replies: 153
Views: 5227

Re: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums

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Not here, logged in and everything.
by ZXDunny
Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:41 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums
Replies: 153
Views: 5227

Re: NEW THEME! for the Spectrum Computing Forums

No link here in Chrome?