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Word ProcessingHello, Does anyone know of a Spectrum word processor that allows bold and underlined on screen? I can see Tasword has the facility for this when p…
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The computer's memory was treated as a ramdisk ... , programs, etc stored. The more memory you had the better (I ... if it worked on the 128k or not but I used ... wysiwyg preview of the printed page. You may not have been ... -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... screenshots above where the memory test is active concern ... screenshot is for the normal 128K mode (04) but ... is in fact the contended memory page 4. Moreover, the value ... the fact that the memory test uses just one ... Let's try just the memory test next time. No ... -
Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…
... for a user-defined interrupt-routine - the Interrupt system would include ... .ext" +[ENTER][/i] ), Trace, Free memory, a Clock display, and possibly ... code tucked away in Page 4* or Page 7 as possible and ... appropriate - by using
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Chibi Akumas - Spectrum Port Planned!I'm planning to port my CPC game, Chibi Akumas to the ZX Spectrum! I will be targeting the 128k disk based systems - as this will be the best (and mo…
... of info to the official page here: http://www.chibiakumas.com ... the game around the available memory,
but I think I ... game - it will still need 128k, but maybe it will help ... are available on the download page:
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Bomb Munchies - preview releaseBomb Munchies Preview release Version 12th Jan 2014 [URL=http://s979.photobucket.com/user/MatGubbins/media/bmsix_zpsc33279a2.gif.html][IMG]http://i…
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Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…
... them happens it's conversion routine is called, this is ... and 30% of Speccy 128K programs run on them, ... Is it significantly more memory hungry or slower to ... screen mode was more expensive memory wise - is that ... .rom that runs the 128k Spectrum emulator for the ... -
Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
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... address from that point in memory, and jumps to that ... jump to your real interrupt routine.
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... register values into memory. Once you use common routine memory storage (not instance ... code in the original fzx routine but the one in z88dk ... lot of memory which is a problem even on a 128k because ... to its code but the memory footprint is large because it ... -
The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…
... , as well (well, duh) on page 205. It’s falling apart ... bank contains what inside paged memory would seem like an odd ... want that in a fixed page (and preferably in BANKM/BANK678 ... don't call a ROM routine that assumes they are up ... -
Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
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Camelot Warriors (Ariolasoft) Now FixedNot exactly sure where to post this, but, hey, it’s a game, right? ;) @Alessandro Grussu mentioned a few days ago that the Ariolasoft re-release o…
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2. On a 128K/+2, in addition to #1 ... graphics corruption when launched in 128K mode. Not strictly speaking a ... with the new keypad polling routine added to the ROM on ... ). It seemed to corrupt some memory/registers.
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Final Fight for 48K spectrum?The original release by US Gold and the Re-release by Erbe state that it's only 128K, but the 2nd re-release by Kixx mentions Spectrum 48K. Was th…
... sound as expected on a 128K machine has good chances ... them in 48K mode (on 128K machines, obviously) is sloppy ... architectural changes in the original 128K Spectrum and subsequent models). It ... require more than 48K of memory, and page in different RAM banks ... -
Bit of fun - one change onlyI also posted this on another marque's forum (for their products) to see. Its just a bit of fun really. OK, if you could of made one change to a S…
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Tape to +3 disk transferWhen the first basic part was merged from tape, to be saved to disk, and it looked like this: [img]https://i.imgur.com/UQx1hc2.jpg[/img] how di…
... (there is where every 128k has the paging routines), ... won't work in a 128k.
Using ... you look at the memory tab and go to address ... There is a small routine that relocates 14000 bytes from ... 48k mode, because that routine at 23296 will probably ... -
Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …
... game keeping stuff, so 128k games can have, for ... still use a lot of memory for 'nothing'.
page to hold the 128K BASIC/DOS cr ... purposeful usage of the 128K that serves the game. ... of being pressed for memory) and anything else in ... -
Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …
... differences between 48k and 128k versions (i.e.: ... 128K games. The extent to which they use the available memory ... working on its individual page on[url="http://www ... JSW128 memory". As indicated, the game actually uses 128K, ... a screenshot of its memory as seen in ... -
New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
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New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
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New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
... +3s memory banks I've redesigned the 48k snapshot routine a ... routine later
║ -h: make the loader code, autorun basic & 128k ... force 48k + paging. Works on 128k & 48k snapshots. Only banks ... 48k no paging. For 128k snapshots as this is default ... -
Z80onDSK now compatible with +3e with ZXMMC or similarJust updated my utility to work on Spectrums equipped with +3e ROMs and IDE storage. I've tested this with ZXMMC at the moment but don't think there …
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║ -h: make the loader code, autorun basic & 128k ... 4 : @16384-32751 user specified memory location
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im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
On the subject of 2x2 pixels, the sprite in The Muncher is 1x2 though. I'll assume the routine to draw the sprites is slightly faster this way and it may not have been for memory reasons as the game needs 128k anyway. -
Any other ROM cartridge / Interface two software produced for the SpectrumI just recall from the ZX Spectrum catalogue a few games were also produced on ROM cartridge, but was there any other stuff - utilities, languages or…
... only offered 16K bytes of memory, this replaces the BASIC ROM ... in the Z80’s memory map. So games either had ... was room for a copy routine, copied to RAM and ran ... an eye to the future, 128K ROM chips and beyond. Now ... -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
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What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…
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What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…
... unpack a PNG inside ZX memory.
part 5 of 'streams ... zero, then with that little routine its possible to UNpack images ... larger then a standard ZX memory, once unpacked ....
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What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…
... unpack a PNG inside ZX memory.
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