Tag: PSSST
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Where’s my Water? Vs PSSST
Having kids has opened up my eyes to many things There I was cooking tea for the kids and my young daughter asked to borrow my Surface to play ‘Where’s my Water?‘. This game is pretty much regarded by almost everyone as a good game. I found it dull. My daughter was completing the game…
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Sound – Getting it perfect…
Like most games, Ultimate’s games only do three things: Emulating the graphics was largely trivial, but the sound was far more problematic. To make sounds on the ZX Spectrum, the developer would literally just switch the power to the internal speaker very quickly, on and off. There were no sound samples per se and all…
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Removing the Sinclair ROM from the emulator
The Spectrum has a 16K ROM. The ROM being the primitive operating system (monitor) for the computer, one of the first tasks was to reverse engineer it so a complete understanding of the machine could be gleaned. The exercise was largely trivial as it was well documented, as shown here in The Complete Spectrum ROM…