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by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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?
by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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
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The others must be from some other book though.
by djnzx48
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
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I'll keep looking to see if I can identify the others.
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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?
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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:

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by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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.
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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...
by djnzx48
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!