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» zsock
21/05/12 18:22 from Cambridge Z88 Forums
Replies: 0 Views: 1 Last Post By: xelalex ON: Mon May 21, 2012 6:22 pm Topic By: xelalex ON: Mon May 21, 2012 6:22 pm Hello, has anyone running zsock on the Z88? http://www.rst38.org.uk/zsock/ I tried to install it to RAM, but that didn't ..

» Another Day Another load of MIA's and UMIA's :) Spin-Out Daton
21/05/12 17:40 from World of Spectrum Forums
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» Jaguar playing games in black and white?
21/05/12 16:46 from Atari Systems Forums
Hello all, I recently picked up a Jaguar at a garage sale with 2 games and no power cord. I bought an official jaguar AC adapter off ebay and hooked everything up to 2 different tvs and im getting the same issue. The jaguar will play both g..

» The Welcome Area • Re: Hello from the North West
21/05/12 15:53 from The Sinclair QL Forum
I think its fans of retro computing like me finally getting the computer they wanted at school. I am running a user group meeting in September and will have the QL on display so should get some people interested (that's if I ever get the M..

» ONLINE external Z80 assembler "ti-calc" asks info&tips
21/05/12 15:29 from World of Spectrum Forums
Hello ZX developpers, Via an email i got a question above my knowledge so i like to drop it here. Its about an Online z80 assembler but for a Texas Instrument device They are from the (gedit) z80,lang language support http://www.ticalc.org..

» R.I.P. Donna Summer.
21/05/12 15:22 from World of Spectrum Forums
I mentioned it in the Robin Gibb thread, and so did Beans. Donna Summer died of cancer last Thursday. The sun ran the headline, 9 11 Dust Kills Donna Summer.

» The Welcome Area • Re: Hello from the North West
21/05/12 14:54 from The Sinclair QL Forum
Welcome to the forums - the main issue with microdrives is the felt pad on the cartridges themselves disintegrating. Next to check is a) the tape head - clean it with some tap head cleaner b) the rubber roller on the left hand side of the ..

» Change it! missing author
21/05/12 14:02 from World of Spectrum Forums
As per the screens of the game, "Zoo Soft". I wonder if that was the former name of Weird Science Software...would have to try the game when at home to check that out.

» Dizzy and ZX wrong year of this russian mod
21/05/12 13:42 from World of Spectrum Forums
This mod of the original Dizzy is listed as from 1986, but the original Dizzy is from 1987, so I cant see the original modifying the mod :P Dont know the real year, though, as Im at work, but I will try to load the game and see it ;) EDIT:..

» The Welcome Area • Re: Hello from the North West
21/05/12 13:34 from The Sinclair QL Forum
Hello and welcome. Seems like there are quite a few people getting a QL for the first time and finding their way here, which is great. Statistics: Posted by Sparrowhawk — Mon May 21, 2012 1:34 pm

» HSC-Knockout Notes
21/05/12 13:23 from Atari Systems Forums
First off I would love to thank Jacobzu7zu7 for putting together and running the HSC-KO Challenge! You did an outstanding job! The time you spent crunching numbers is really appreciative! Thanks! Next, I would like to say I had a great time..

» Is there a Playstation emulator?
21/05/12 13:18 from Gaming General Forums
And by that I mean an emulator that emulates the Playstation itself, not an emulator that runs on a Playstation. And by Playstation, I mean PS1.

» The Welcome Area • Hello from the North West
21/05/12 12:58 from The Sinclair QL Forum
Hi all Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I recently got a QL up and running having always wanted one when I was a kid (back in the 80s) Next I need to try and fix the Microdrives Ian Statistics: Posted by iand — Mon May 21, 201..

» Sound Coder - a 32k sound codec demo released at Stream 2012
21/05/12 11:36 from Atari Systems Forums
Something me and Knoeki threw together for the oldskool demo competition at Stream 2012 - placed 2nd. It uses the 1-bit ADPCM compression technique I've mentioned in the coding subforum. http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59283

» Hardware • Re: Pascal Dongle (offered up for preservation purposes)
21/05/12 10:26 from The Sinclair QL Forum
Hi Rich, Just a quick note to say thanks for returning it so quickly and via registered post. It's all safe and sound. Cheers Andrew Statistics: Posted by aminor — Mon May 21, 2012 10:26 am

» iYM2151
21/05/12 10:24 from MSX Resource Center
Ever wanted to hear a Yamaha CX5M on your iPad? Now you can! read more

» Speccy Bros by Climacus (ZX Spectrum)
21/05/12 09:48 from World of Spectrum Forums
At last, "Snow Bros" conversion to ZX Spectrum is a dream come true. Now available for download and play. Thanks to climacus, Radastan, Shiru and rest of collaboratos for a great work. :-) http://www.bytemaniacos.com/?page_id=1968

» Wanted: white ZX spectrum
21/05/12 08:14 from World of Spectrum Forums
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» Spectrum 48K - upper memory problems
21/05/12 07:35 from World of Spectrum Forums
Hi I have a ZX Spectrum 48K issue 3B which does not see upper memory. On PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 i got result 32767. POKE 32768,85 and PRINT PEEK 32768 gave result 95 POKE 32768,170 and PRINT PEEK 32768 gave result 170 POKE 32768,0..

» Aircraft collection question (eighties stuff)
21/05/12 05:11 from World of Spectrum Forums
Back in the early eighties I used to love bubble gum, not because of the gum itself but because each wrapper came with pictures and drawings of World War 2 aircraft, Leonardo Da Vinci drawings and some other exciting stuff that was enough ..

» Big Five - Activator Cart
21/05/12 05:07 from Atari Systems Forums
Has anyone seen one of these before, or know what it's supposed to do? The shell is the same kind used on the Bounty Bob carts. When I insert the cart and turn the machine on, it shows a rainbow type Atari screen, but the screen is rolling...

» Big Five - Activator Cart
21/05/12 05:07 from Atari Systems Forums
Has anyone seen one of these before, or know what it's supposed to do? The shell is the same kind used on the Bounty Bob carts. When I insert the cart and turn the machine on, it shows a rainbow type Atari screen, but the screen is rolling...

» Good Emus for Nintendo DS lite?
21/05/12 04:20 from Gaming General Forums
I'd love to hear some recommendations for good emus I can load onto my flash card for the Nintendo DS. I've tried a couple and never had very good results except the NES and Game boy emulation. I would love to be able to emulate Atari 8 bit..

» MakerBotting an Atari 2600 Cartridge
21/05/12 04:16 from Atari Systems Forums
Atari 2600 Cartridge Housing by Joe Grand

» Atari ST hard drives
21/05/12 02:54 from Atari Systems Forums
Are there any hard drives available for the Atari 1040STe? If so does anyone have one for sale?

» How is the Flashback 2 video output?
21/05/12 02:24 from Atari Systems Forums
It's been a while since I had one, and was wondering. Is the video output like a modded original Atari, where there's still bleeding because of the TIA? Or is it like the Stella emulator, where literally everything is as sharp as can be?

» Activision 2600 Master Cartridge - Test Cart
21/05/12 01:44 from Atari Systems Forums
This is todays flea-market find. It appears to be some sort of homebrew test cartridge in an Activision case. Anybody ever seen one?

» Activision 2600 Master Cartridge - Test Cart
21/05/12 01:44 from Atari Systems Forums
This is todays flea-market find. It appears to be some sort of homebrew test cartridge in an Activision case. Anybody ever seen one?

» The Block Cartridge - Protronics
21/05/12 00:13 from Atari Systems Forums
This was on eBay this week and AtariMania doesn't have it, and I can't find anything on AtariAge either? eBay Auction -- Item Number: 190678857198 The only thing on it that I can find is: http://www.atariarchives.org/creativeatari/SelfModif..

» Daily Retrospektive - 21/05/2012
21/05/12 00:01 from Retrospekt
Daily Retrospektive - 21/05/2012: - MoMA ‘The Game as an Art Form’ exhibition - Huge...

» BBS via Linux Terminal?
20/05/12 23:33 from Atari Systems Forums
How do I connect to bbs using a linux terminal and telnet and mgetty. I'm in Fedora 14 with an atari 800XL and a sio2pc and aspeQt

» R.I.P. Robin Gibb
20/05/12 22:47 from World of Spectrum Forums
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18140862

» Is Thunderfox worth purchasing?...
20/05/12 22:20 from Atari Systems Forums
Or is it just incredibly frustrating and impossible, as this video seems to suggest?: My one issue with this video is that the guy playing Thunderfox didn't have the manual for the game. If it is a solid shooter, then I'll get it-it's certa..

» From Bedrooms to Billions (UK Games Industry film)
20/05/12 20:17 from World of Spectrum Forums
Recently went up for funding on Indiegogo and they've just added a $25 funding tier with a download copy of the finished film. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/78873?a=155934 Quote: A 90 minute feature length documentary film telling the ..

» Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel compo: help required
20/05/12 19:06 from World of Spectrum Forums
Hi! The start of this story is described in this topic: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forum...ad.php?t=38955 At the present moment I can clearly say that the printed images from a Microhobby's compo Pixel A Pixel can be converted in a rea..

» Why No Decent Indiana Jones Games?
20/05/12 18:58 from Gaming General Forums
Just wondering why Lucasarts doesn't make a decent Indiana Jones game for the current gen of consoles? Look at the success of the Uncharted series. IGN even had Harrison Ford playing the third Uncharted game and he thought it was awesome. W..

» VintageGamer.com Relaunch... Facebook, Videos, etc...
20/05/12 18:52 from Gaming General Forums
Hello everyone. My how time flies! VintageGamer.com is having a soft relaunch on 5.23.2012 with our first video review... "AirAttack" by Art in Games for the Mac. Since PopCap Games returned the VintageGamer.com domain to me I've been tryin..

» Avatar Titles?
20/05/12 18:38 from Atari Systems Forums
Hey, does anyone know what the hierarchy of the website avatar system is? Right now I am a "chopper commander", but I did not start out that way... What are the titles? And what is the highest one can attain? Sorry if this is the wrong spot..

» atari rom question
20/05/12 18:01 from Atari Systems Forums
i downloaded some atari 2600 roms. there are some that have 32 or more different game titles in 1 rom. how can you switch to a different game? i keep getting the same game. thanks for the help jaime

» What's best for backing up home data?
20/05/12 16:30 from World of Spectrum Forums
What's best for backing up home data? I'm not talking about anything too important (if I even had anything like that I'd use multiple DVDs, with some stored at mates' houses so a fire here couldn't destroy them, plus a USB copy, plus copie..

» Fusetest port 0x7FFD test results
20/05/12 16:00 from World of Spectrum Forums
Hi, I'm adding the Spectrum 128K emulation to my FPGA core running on the V6Z80p platform. I'm doing some tests; running Fusetest, the machine is seen as 128K and the contention offset is 0x08. All the tests pass except the 0x7ffd one, whe..

» How do touch lamps work?
20/05/12 16:00 from World of Spectrum Forums
You know the 'touch' lamps? These are table lamps that you leave plugged in, and you touch their base to turn them on/off (and sometimes they have multiple brightness settings, that you cycle through by touching their base). Like these: ht..

» question re. STR$ bug
20/05/12 15:59 from World of Spectrum Forums
Could someone point me to whereabouts in the ROM this goes wrong? Code: PRINT PAPER 5;1;STR$ 234 (Only the "1" prints in cyan.) It's not the missing "delete" literal after $2E24 as it never goes there.

» CLI utility for creating tap-files
20/05/12 15:59 from World of Spectrum Forums
Can anybody advise a command line PC utility which is able to create *.tap files and add the files to the existing taps? Thanks in advance. Edit: the purpose is to create automatically tape file from some batch script (tap or tzx) which ca..

» Which mappers used by which games?
20/05/12 15:53 from Atari Systems Forums
Is there a list somewhere of which mappers/bank-switching techniques are in use by which games? Or is there an emulator that tells you?

» Any hardware differences between heavy and light sixer?
20/05/12 15:48 from Atari Systems Forums
I tried searching for years back and couldn't find a definitive answer. I'm wanting to know if there's anything different on the motherboard or switchboard in the heavy vs. the light. I know of someone who is offering to upgrade a light to ..

» Question about Outlet electronic magazine
20/05/12 14:45 from World of Spectrum Forums
Did this publication come with cassette inlay back in the day when published? If not, all its entries could be already tagged as "Does not use cassette inlay" and the number of entries in the archive tagged as "cassette inlay not available..

» Retro Coruña 2012 (fecha a confirmar)
20/05/12 14:44 from Retro Invaders
Fecha: 08/09/2012 Tipo: Reunión Lugar: A Coruña > Sada Mas información: visitar página web Buenas.   Estamos preparando la 4ª edicion de RetroCoruña para Septiembre, aun no sabemos el día definitivo, p..

» Excellent Article on Sega
20/05/12 13:14 from Gaming General Forums
Here is what I consider an excellent article on Sega and the innovations it brought to gaming that are in use today: http://www.ign.com/a...-games-industry Speaking for myself, I've always believed that Sega was the most innovative and imag..

» Using a TEC for cooling...
20/05/12 13:03 from Atari Systems Forums
Just wondering what the pitfalls and/or advantages would be, using a 5v TEC (thermo-electric cooler) , with thermal adhesive/glue on a CPU? Would it be as efficient as a fan? Would there be condensation? Thanks!