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worcestersource wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:16 pm Slightly Magic had more screen furniture on the 128k.

Yeap, the difference is obvious

128K images:




48K images:

I've had a similar problem on a Windows 10 laptop and could only fix it by right clicking on the loudspeaker icon on the taskbar and selecting "Troubleshoot sound problems" and eventually re-installing the current sound driver through the options in there It works :) Thank you textvoyage .

Spezzi63 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:32 pm Stop the “audiodg.exe” service via Task Manager

I don't have audiodg.exe service running but the stranger is when another app that uses sound (like an emulator or winamp) is running, FUSE starts fine without that error message.

Hi PeterJ Thanks for your help. This is something new, never happened before and I use FUSE for about 8 years. All other apps including other emulators like FUSE for Linux (under WSL) work perfectly with good sound. I didn't change my hardware. I don't know if this is relevant but before this happen...

Recently when I run Fuse for Windows I always get this message: "Couldn't play sound" and the Sound Enabled Option on Options menu is unchecked. Then I check the Sound Enabled Option and I get sound but after a while I get the same error message and the sound is desabled again. I already u...

I played the CPC version and I liked it but don't love it.
But as I can see in the video, the Spectrum version seems to be much better and very promising.
I can hardly wait to play it

Yes. First a big black and white TV from 1986 to 1990 and then a color TV until 1996.

I tried different emulators and different configurations (48K, 16K, 128K, 128k usr0, Timex 2048, etc) and like you I can't load the game.

I found this video and someone has the same problem:


Maybe the game wasn't correctly emulated.

Written in BASIC.
The Tape version uses LOAD!"" and SAVE!"" to access the RAM Disk.
The Disk version uses LOAD"M:" and SAVE"M:" to access de RAM Disk.

I tried waiting ages in Fuse with side B inserted after loading side A, it didn't work. I tried SpecEmu in 128 mode, it didn't work. I tried Spectaculator and... it did work! It's the only emulator I have that has no problem with it. I recall that Samurai Trilogy from Gremlin Graphics has always a ...

Trying as hard as I can, I can't actually get to play Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz . I don't have a working physical Spectrum, so I usually emulate on a Windows PC, using Fuse. Yeap, I have the same problem when I try to load the game on FUSE. Use the Spectaculator Emulator and the game loads fine :)

Great

Well, Slightly Magic from CodeMasters, beside the AY music, has a lot of new background graphics when loaded on a 128K. 128K images: https://i.postimg.cc/gwHN3WG4/128-01.png https://i.postimg.cc/r0ygJPmT/128-02.png 48K images: https://i.postimg.cc/VJM7LtTx/48-01.png https://i.postimg.cc/DWTxWZ38/48-...

Hi there;

Try this:
In this case 50 means 1 second. Hope you find this usefull

Regards.

Hi there!
Maybe teaching the alphabet to the kids

It's not a game, it's a demo but Sgt Pepper 5 from Sgt Pepper it's a good example of smooth animation and beeper music during the action
https://demozoo.org/productions/13705/

Very nice, thanks for sharing

Mort wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:16 pm Hi Jose and Peter,

I have uploaded my set to the internet archive under the zip files section ****** tapes.zip. I pulled these out of the dvd i made in the early 2000s.

Think all the missing material is there, loaded both cosmic chaos and also Crash 89

Fixed
Thanks [mention]PeteProdge[/mention]

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:35 pm Ah, Crash issue 78...

You've captured the Mel Croucher Computer Fun Line audio as an MP3, but you've labelled it Cosmic Chaos.

Cosmic Chaos appears to be a reader game, and that's missing from your ZIP file.

Fixed
Thanks for the information [mention]zup[/mention]

zup wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:50 am Crash Issue 89 tape dos is an invalid ZIP file.

Ta
José Mário.

Hello dear friends; From an old backup from 1998 I found the covertapes from the three major magazines (Crash, Sinclair User and Your Sinclair). You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w1NxV942RlBoX0JKTnlTg9J4ZVbJvtDt?usp=sharing I think they are complete but maybe some iss...

Hi, greetings to everyone. After the releases of Sardonic for Speccy , Amiga and Atari , the MS-DOS version is finished :D Hope you like it. http://sardonic.planetaclix.pt/ http://zxtech.planetaclix.pt/imagens/msdos/sardonic_02.png http://zxtech.planetaclix.pt/imagens/msdos/sardonic_03.png Best Rega...

It's just my opinion but I love the maps from this games: Saboteur: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/s/Saboteur_3.png Saboteur 2: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/s/SaboteurII_4.png Dynamite Dan: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/d/...

Hi, greetings to everyone. After the releases of Sardonic for Speccy and Amiga, the Atari version is finished :D Hope you like it. http://sardonic.planetaclix.pt/ http://zxtech.planetaclix.pt/imagens/atarif/sardonic_01.png http://zxtech.planetaclix.pt/imagens/atarif/sardonic_02.png Best Regards and ...

Dan Dare Dynamite Dan Ah, I should clarify - we're talking about games released in the Speccy's post-commercial period, so homebrew stuff after mid-1993 really. We did cover 'D' games from the commercial era in a poll, both games you mention were up for votes. Deathchase won it - see the results he...

Dan Dare
Dynamite Dan