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Happy happy joy joy.What was the happiest moment in your Spectrum life? (To narrow this down, this thread doesn't include recieving the Spectrum, or buying your best ev…
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I came home from school one day to find ... Willy on his way home from work. I think he just ... .
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How do I avoid BASIC becoming corrupted on returning from a M/C routine?I'm having trouble with my BASIC program becoming corrupted on returning from a m/c routine which sets all the registers (including the shadow regist…
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128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …
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Spanish GamesHello! I'm a spanish player and i wish to know how many spanish games do you know and what is your opinion about those games. Thanks!!
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BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…
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Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
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loading games +3I recently found my old +3 and I had a load of games on blank disks that my brother got. Does anyone remeber / know how to load these games coz they …
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loading games +3I recently found my old +3 and I had a load of games on blank disks that my brother got. Does anyone remeber / know how to load these games coz they …
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matthew smithHi speccies! First he arrived and made styx,manic miner and jet set willy.. after that he "vanished" and after a while he was back! but now he seems…
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New Speccy Image EditorHi, This is my first time in the forums at WoS. So 'Hello all'. I have written a little image editor over the christmas break, last 12 days or so. …
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emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …
... keys are on the EMUZWIN (from Vladimirs post I gather it ... machine code that takes over from BASIC when the game starts up ... -
Beta versions of Fuse 0.6.2 and libspectrum 0.2.1 availableDear all, The Fuse team is pleased to announce the release of a beta version of the upcoming 0.6.2 release of Fuse and the Fuse utilities, as well a…
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i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
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You learn Spectrum BASIC and get two commands; border ... with what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... where you make the transition from BASIC expert to novice machine code ... -
whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... where you make the transition from BASIC expert to novice machine ...
Yes, but the transition from BASIC to any other language is ... ! Witness the transition from BASIC to C! BASIC does things at a ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
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Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
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It's essentially your BASIC code efficiently translated into machine ... all the associated codes in BASIC (like INK, PAPER, BRIGHT ... would have thought using BASIC you'd be familiar with ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
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What Speccy software uses Kempston Mouse?I wanted to implement this feature in my emulator but did not find any Spectrum software to test it. I heard earlier that the Art Studio use it, but …
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No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…
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256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…
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My first attempt at Gigascreen interlacingWonderful. Did some research on the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC programme to switch pages 5 and 7 in and out of the scr…
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VSYNC FunctionI have written a VSYNC function, so that I can clear the screen before redraw without flicker on the screen, I do this by peeking at the address 2367…
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An intriguing question...Well, intriguing for me anyway. As we all know, when calling a Machine Code function from BASIC, we use the USR (address) function. But for this to …
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Spec on phones, plus spec, SAM to phone Do you think it`ll ever be possible to have a phone where you can use a Spectrum AY tune as your Ringone? I couldn`t really give a flying fart for …
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Program sizeI am typing a basic program into a ZX and I need to find out exactly how much memory it is using. Is there a way to calculate this? :confused:
... subtracting the start of free memory from the machine stack.
... the machine stack from the start of free memory.
This ... actually returns the amount of memory (including the 16K ROM) ... edit line (65536-) reduce free memory further.
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Highscore database?Have been playing Splitting Images all weekend and got 135,000 something, completing Marilyn Monroe. So a thought struck me - what about an online hi…
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This month's Retro Gamer - Cascade 50 honouredWell, after what seems like no end of Cascade Cassette 50 talk this month at WOS ("50 [I]great[/I] games on one [I]great[/I] cassette"), Retro Gamer …
... "good games using not much memory", a BASIC Challenge for "good games ... written in BASIC", a couple of others that ...
