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- Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4754
Re: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
THE - Lords of Midnight
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:33 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4754
Re: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
REM - Manic Miner
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:07 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4754
Re: Friday quiz - letter from a madman.
BOB - The Hobbit
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:12 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: An impressive way to crash the Speccy?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3151
Re: An impressive way to crash the Speccy?
You might get some interesting effects by messing around with the I and R registers, for example setting I to point to contended memory.
I think Tomahawk also has some screen corruption effects for when you crash.
I think Tomahawk also has some screen corruption effects for when you crash.
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Floppy Days 85 - Interview with John Grant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 832
Re: Floppy Days 85 - Interview with John Grant
Nice, that was interesting. The part about having a hardware addon in the ZX81 to override a memory access and fix a ROM bug sounds pretty crazy.
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:09 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz - backstories
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5644
Re: Friday Quiz - backstories
No. 1 isn't Sqij is it?
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:00 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Standard ROM entrypoints?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5831
Re: Standard ROM entrypoints?
I don't think the 48K ROM really changed that much, but the Interface 1 ROM at least had a lot of routines shuffled around between versions. This article has a brief summary: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p ... r18_27.htm
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4220
Re: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
That's pretty neat - though you have a couple of errors. You have two line 160s, and you're not doing hidden surface removal as in the original - though that would slow things down a lot more on the Speccy. Whoops! Well that makes more sense now - it looks like GMODE 2 is basically like INVERSE 1 a...
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4220
Re: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
Nice looking images [mention]stformatjez[/mention]. Were they ever in colour originally? Maybe we could even start a colouring competition thread here. ;) Sorry if I'm hijacking your thread, but I've had this small BASIC listing lying around for a while and I'd forgotten where it was from. I was goi...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:09 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4220
Re: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
I didn't manage to find what the other ones are, but I found two games that look kind of similar. Maybe they'll at least jog a memory or something. Dodge : https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/Dodge.gif Missile! https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/m...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:54 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4220
Re: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
Here's another one, from the same book, Computer Games:
Sorcerer's Steps
The others must be from some other book though.
Sorcerer's Steps
The others must be from some other book though.
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:49 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4220
Re: Help identifying spectrum hand coded games
Is it time for the Friday quiz thread already?
I managed to find one of them: Alien Invaders
I'll keep looking to see if I can identify the others.
I managed to find one of them: Alien Invaders
I'll keep looking to see if I can identify the others.
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:20 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: X-Magazine MIA?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3154
Re: X-Magazine MIA?
[mention]Alessandro[/mention] You don't need to use DOSBox to run RealSpectrum any more, there's a version I use that runs on modern Windows. I think this site is where I got it from.
- Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:43 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Role Playing Games
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3313
Re: Role Playing Games
Just given Mindstone a go and it seems quite good. It looks nice and the control scheme isn't too bad either.
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:05 am
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Bug with special characters in titles
- Replies: 1
- Views: 827
Bug with special characters in titles
If you search for certain games with the character '+' in them, you get an error like the following in the results page, seemingly related to invalid characters in filenames: Warning: getimagesize(pub/sinclair/screens/load/b/scr/Buzzsaw%2B(FoxtonLocksMix).scr): failed to open stream: No such file or...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:55 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Musical tape loaders
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8743
Re: Musical tape loaders
I found a thread on W*S about this loader: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/22295
It's a shame about the dead source code link. No one happens to have a copy of the source (musical_source.zip) do they?
It's a shame about the dead source code link. No one happens to have a copy of the source (musical_source.zip) do they?
- Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:56 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Musical tape loaders
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8743
Re: Musical tape loaders
So what exactly makes this 'not a loader' then? It looks like one to me.
- Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:43 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Musical tape loaders
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8743
Re: Musical tape loaders
Maybe I'm not quite getting what you're saying here, but the 'Oh Susanna' thing definitely loaded something for me:
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:27 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Arcade marquees
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4939
Re: Friday Quiz: Arcade marquees
20. Golden Axe
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:10 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Arcade marquees
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4939
Re: Friday Quiz: Arcade marquees
8. Outrun
17. Commando
17. Commando
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:15 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games for Spectrum+
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2074
Re: Games for Spectrum+
Also Surfchamp is one game that might not have worked on the Spectrum+, due to requiring a surfboard keyboard overlay designed for the rubber key model.
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:03 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6161
Re: AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
I wasn't really hoping for any specific result, although I admit I am a bit surprised that no one here uses stereo at all. I just made the poll to find out what people use and see if there's any point in doing games with stereo sound. Looks like I got my answer.
- Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:11 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6161
Re: AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
Heh, well this poll turned out even more skewed than the Manic Miner one did. Strictly mono for me. The AY chip was not meant to be a stereophonic sound source; channels were meant to be mixed together internally, much like they are mixed down in analog synthesizes. I think it's going a bit far to s...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:28 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6161
AY sound chip: mono or stereo?
When you're listening to AY music or playing games with AY sound, what do you use, mono or stereo? The original 128K machines as released by Sinclair and Amstrad were of course mono, but stereo hardware mods are common and most emulators have a stereo sound option. By 'hard-panned stereo', I mean th...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:20 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1216
- Views: 197366
Re: Spectrum memes
That's me even when I'm looking at my new Z80 code!