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The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…
... in hardware is likely to conflict with memory needed by the ... eZ80 can be switched to a 24 bit mode ... that is much easier to support in a compiler.< ...
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Ultimate's greatest speccy gameOk, time to vote for UPTG's best title on the speccy. My vote goes to Knight Lore.
... of arcade quality and in 16K to boot.
Sabre Wulf ... a little too close to Atic Atac to be considered truly innovative ... the right side of difficult to be playable but with less ... didn't really have much to it. Pssst and Cookie were ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... . Can I point it to the memory area containing the graphics? What ... read out and poked to the screen memory by the PRINT routine ... by pointing CHARS to some other area of memory (your choice where ... ) you can have up to 96 ... -
Lunar EclipseLunar eclipses are not rare but last night's was spectacular because of the clear skies across Europe and India. The BBC has a collection of photos f…
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Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... FOR variable (which has to contain additional info such ... line and statement to loop back to) still maintains the ... though more space has to be allocated e.g ... never be freed from memory unless you perform a ... when you can to maintain less memory and faster variable ... -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
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i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
Got the first Boston album turned up all the way to 11 in memory of lead singer Brad Delp who's just been found dead.
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Feel my pain......or sit back and laugh yourself sick. Recently upgraded to XP Pro. Getting intermittent crashes/reboots - nothing in event manager. OK reinstall …
... problem, nor did it help to find my friends who did ... down what turned out to be a memory-related problem of mine ... -
Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
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Actually, for memory contention - my own Z80 project ... will be designed to read the memory when the Z80 ... CPU is not wanting to use memory at all which ... is ample time to latch the ... from screen memory, and then push this to the LCD ... -
Dead Spectrum +Hi all, I've recently dug out my old Spectrum + with the idea of repairing it. When I last looked at it, when I was much younger, I was soldering a …
... air paint stripping gun to melt the solder. He ... heat the board - enough to get the solder properly molten ... , it still might lead to problems. However, I think ... mode of RAM is to just return bad values ... it doesn't need to use screen memory to display stuff. I ... -
The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…
... when I was small, used to get beaten up on the ... , I controversially switched allegiance to M.K.Don's! Glory hunting I ... -
Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…
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I'm referring to the free memory for use with BASIC ... to have 4**** available for BASIC, I wondered about how much memory ... if you include the memory used to boot it up for ... -
Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…
... machine is said to have a total of ... /> I'm referring to the free memory for use with BASIC ... to have 4**** available for BASIC, I wondered about how much memory ... you include the memory used to boot it up ... overlapped by ROMs (or better to say 'overpagged' :D )< ... -
Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.
... should be going to an upper memory chip the program ... 0 to 255
The tested memory would ... logic here is simplified to ignore the first few ... be wise to write 0 to all memory and the ...
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Best looking Speccy?So, we've had the poll for the best Spectrum - but how about the best looking one - and why? For the best one, I voted the rubber 48K, because of it…
I think the 16/48 k is the best looking ones. Sexy, smooth edges. Better than any damn woman I know, and way more reliable.
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Best looking Speccy?So, we've had the poll for the best Spectrum - but how about the best looking one - and why? For the best one, I voted the rubber 48K, because of it…
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ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... for details of the new memory map. The only visible ... != 0 indicates an absolute memory address where background graphics are ... much easier (and less memory intensive) to achieve special effects like ... before, in order to release more memory to the program if the ... -
Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
... press having a large part to play to some respect. Meeting people ... never had that much advertising to establish itself as a brand ... interest because it seemed to offer a natural upgrade from the Speccy ... (and to be fair, the ... -
Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
... interest because it seemed to offer a natural upgrade from the Speccy ... (and to be fair, the compatibility ... long for the real ROM to appear in PD emulators! :D ... -
Fuse for Mac OS X 0.8.0-pre2A new public preview of the next version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.net/pr…
... but the Poke finder, Memory Browser, and Preference pane ... The memory browser in particular would be useful to behave ... a "Refresh" button, to update the memory listing (and hopefully ... without changing the memory area being viewed).
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Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
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Dead Spectrum +Hi all, I've recently dug out my old Spectrum + with the idea of repairing it. When I last looked at it, when I was much younger, I was soldering a …
You may want to check out one of the ... that you can use to sniff around memory.
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Anyone else having problems with www.worldofspectrum.org?Is anyone else having trouble accessing [url]www.worldofspectrum.org?[/url] I can reach worldofspectrum.org (without the www) OK but I can't get to …
... . If you can use it to upgrade pm me and Ill mail ... it to you.
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However, I'll need to replace the lot, including motherboard ... part, the time to actually do the upgrade is more of a ... -
"Lost" 48K expansionToday I dug up my Speccy after more than 10yrs of inactivity. I bought it as a 16K in 1983, than I had expanded to 48K and never had problem. Until t…
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To sum up how to find duff memory in software on ... sets of chips: lower memory (address 16384 to address 32767) which ... chips, and upper memory, from 32768 to 65535 which consists of ... ROM routine tries to determine how much memory the computer has ... -
Need advice choosing one of these optionsA few spanish friends are willing to help me build and program the ethernet interface for the Speccy. Here are the possibilities. Any advice would be…
... thing is going to require extra memory to be of any ... up with a flexible memory banking scheme included. So ... want the 8051 to be able to optionally generate mode ... 2 interrupts to indicate arrival of frames ... road I would like to write a complete tcp ... -
Monty Python's Life of BrianMy favourite ever film is Monty Python's Life of Brian, and a lot of people seem to agree. So who here agrees with me, and if not, what is your favou…
... word that springs to mind here....... Things unique to religion? HOLY ... Republican party that uses them to gain power. The republican ... poor. These issues appeal to the evangelical Christian right who ... it ok for her to relive the memory of that attack every ... -
Monty Python's Life of BrianMy favourite ever film is Monty Python's Life of Brian, and a lot of people seem to agree. So who here agrees with me, and if not, what is your favou…
... word that springs to mind here....... Things unique to religion? HOLY wars ... chemical and other weapons to said tyrants to keep them in power ... it the total failure to even try to deal with the Israeli ... it ok for her to relive the memory of that attack every ... -
Personal Gaming History in (very) Brief'79:PrinztronicMicro5500 --> '80:PlayedCoinOp(Space Invaders) --> '83:Spectrum(48K) --> '84:Spectrum+(kit) --> '86:Spectrum128 --> '88:AtariST --> '9…
1983-1986 ZX Spectrum 16K then 48
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Possibly a little OT: Exporting ROM function addresses to the Z88DKOK, so I'm using the Z88DK. It's entirely possible that some documentation has bypassed me. But assume I have a function in ROM, say, at address 0xF0…
... heap info and requires memory to be allocated out of ... add available memory blocks from around the memory space to the heap ... position in memory and then make calls to mallinit() to zero the ... do that yourself) and to sbrk() to add some memory to the heap. The ...
