Spectrum Computing

Blerkotron wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:06 pm Apparently I can't use PMs because I haven't posted enough yet

Oh, I don't remember selecting that, I'll change it.

7 - Booty

HARD!!!

I always end up using the same spot effects, usually nabbed from the DKTronics SoundFX tape. I know we've got BeepFX for the more elaborate ones, but I thought this would be a good place to share shortish beeper routines people can use. Here's a simple zap. ; zap: ld d,16 ;speaker = bit 4 ld e,0 ;di...

Yeah the Ocean forum around that time was one hell of a read.

Spud wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:43 pm I did wonder, is it Berk from Trap Door?

Yep that's the one, and blame me for the current ranks, just cobbled together quickly.

Hello!

1024MAK wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:18 pm Err, I'm not at all sure about joining a forum that is full of err, "Berks" (see the Rank on the membership list...)

We're after new suggestions for that.

Berk.

I might be wrong, but I get the impression that Simon Butler chap likes to speak as he finds.

Wait and see sounds good to me too (bearing in mind we don't have a single post there yet!) My preference is just to have 'Programming' though, I've always found it easy enough to find the threads needed, there is often a lot of crossover anyway, and it caters for weirdo fringe stuff like Specbas. O...

Hello all!

Alessandro wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:25 am Hi everyone, I just found this forum and decided to join in!

I have been a proud Spectrum user since January 1984, wrote a 702-pages book about it, and every now and then produce some games to boot.

Cheers!

But you're slacking a bit these days aren't you?

I'd like to see more Demos, but my two pence is that for now they belong under Brand New Software. If loads get posted then create another forum but only then.

Shocking to think that the Western Europe demoscene is comprised of gasman as far as I know, and I think he's otherwise occupied these days.

Like it Ralf. Was going to say "you never see fighting games or big sprites these days", but Sword of IANNA keeps spoiling it every time I want to say something like that! Is there a lot more to do on the player's moves? Unless you're sticking faithfully to Hippodrome I'd like to see a Spe...

Thanks for the tips Joe and Hikaru, they'll need some processing time (in my head not the z80). If you need the AY routine to be called at 50fps but don't want to wait for HALTs, why not just call it from within the interrupt handler itself? Your music might go iffy I suppose if you DI for too long,...

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:07 pm If you don't visit Facebook

Haven't succumbed to it yet.

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:07 pm or ZxArt

Oh yes.

All fantastic SCREEN$, if push came to shove I'd say Kong was my favourite.

The current set up is the phpBB default. When the dust settles the plan is to change the header and overall look of the forum to something more Spec-friendly.

I agree this should be there.

We'll make a list and sort them when we can.

Hi! I'm Juan, from Málaga, Spain. I'm a proud Spectrum owner since 1985. I've been posting on WoS forums from more than 10 years and now also here. Seems another cool place to talk about our beloved little computer. I love posting about Spectrum games and I think we'll have a great time here! Sabre...

Hi all, Ex preservation team member from a different era on a different site. Used to run the preservation team shop. I can be found on farcebook under the moniker of "Ruskin Roader" which I use for my music and photography interests. Present retro hobby is OCRing all my magazines into se...

It's a really good engine. You have a chance to make a second Zynaps :) :shock: There was definitely some talk of how you could do it, back when the game originally came out for the C64 and CPC. Don't remember anyway actually starting it though. Looking forward to seeing how it comes out. :) Cheers...

Or shall we just not do this here? I'd really rather we didn't. We don't want SC to turn into a place to slag off WoS or the Vega. The forum guidelines, and the whole drive of Spectrum Computing is to set a positive tone. I'm here because we have a site that is hosting new software, not enough of i...

Yep I'm a backer. I deliberated until the deadline loomed and went for the Next Accelerated. I'm looking forward to having something close enough to a real Speccy that I don't (at least I bloody hope not) have to worry about plugging in. I think my ideal product would be essentially be a mock 128k s...

Working for me too, no errors. Hopefully that's that, well done.

I have no idea if it's relevant, only that Mike mentioned it, but the last one is the only page with 'www', though the problem was the page before that.

Cleared all history again. I type spectrumcomputing.co.uk, takes me here no problem: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ I click the forums button, takes me here no problem. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/ I click login, takes me here no problem: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/ucp.php?m...

Here we go. Microsoft Edge.

I didn't have any problems all day, then in the last hour I started to get the certification error. Just cleared cookies and I can log in without the same warnings but it still says certificate error at the top of the screen. Weird.