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Personal Gaming History in (very) Brief'79:PrinztronicMicro5500 --> '80:PlayedCoinOp(Space Invaders) --> '83:Spectrum(48K) --> '84:Spectrum+(kit) --> '86:Spectrum128 --> '88:AtariST --> '9…
[QUOTE=Jumping Stack;183378]1983-1986 ZX Spectrum 16K then 48
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2007 Emulated ZX Spectrum[/QUOTE]
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trdhas anybody any idea which emulator could one use for russion trd files like this one, please? (i cannot run it in spectaculator, spin, emuzwin)
It looks like the game isn't compatible with 128K mode, so you need to go to 48 BASIC and type the following to boot the disk:
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trdhas anybody any idea which emulator could one use for russion trd files like this one, please? (i cannot run it in spectaculator, spin, emuzwin)
... you need to go to 48 BASIC and type the following to boot the ... -
New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
... and removing those LDIR instructions to see if the screen contents ... the schoolboy error of forgetting to correct the R register so ... it allows the monitor to stay in memory. I could simply keep ... screen goes black simply switch to screen based monitor. So although ... -
New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
... if perhaps there was going to be a decrypter that, I ... moment; I'll come back to that bit later.
to stay in memory. I could simply keep ... screen goes black simply switch to screen based monitor. So although ... -
48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... willing to bet 20 quid that one of the 4116 lower memory ... 'd check the voltages to the 4116 memory to verify the Speccy's ... .
To verify the power supply to the 4116 memory:
memory. -
48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... is unlikely to have anything to do with memory since Big ... In case of dead memory he would see some ... ]
We need to measure voltages between pins ... and 16 of the memory, there should also be ... experience, different electronics tends to fail because of dead ... -
New Discussion Group? Sinclair Machine Code/AssemblyHello, What do people think about whether we should have a new discussion group relating to machine code for Z80? We have a Sinclair Basic discussi…
... 't too many posts to the development discussion so ... a lot of links to sites mentioned in the ... various forums to some excellent sites and ... all the sprite code discussion to hand, or who's ... />
I used to have a memory, sadly these days it ... -
Growing up... Jasmin supports 128/+2 nowHi, all. New version of Jasmin is available (v0.11). It supports ZX Spectrum 128 and ZX Spectrum +2 models. Try it [URL="http://www.dustedpixels.co…
... detailed information on what is memory and I/O contention ... when reading/writing to contended area of the memory - it does ... take place when writing to non-contended memory areas.
... I'd like to understand this ... -
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…
... You no longer have to declare anything to use the library. I ... should be moved lower (to address 53248; memory map details are always ... just went ahead and malloced memory for the independent struct_sp1_cs ... program you'd need to free that memory when done. You ... -
New Cronosoft Games.....I'm pleased to announce that several new (and recent) Cronosoft games are now available... IZZY WIZZY (Speccy, £2.99) - Jonathan C's follow u…
... a 128K only title (free upgrade to anyone who bought the 48K ... we provide in order to get the free upgrade?
I ... -
Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... should be able to run to clear the memory down (just ... 5v/+12v/-5v supplies to the 4116 memory, and check the ... the original destructive event to the coil (the ... in sync for contended memory (since the ULA ... trying to stop the ULA from accessing the screen memory. -
Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... +5v/+12v/-5v supplies to the 4116 memory, and check the +5v ... by the original destructive event to the coil (the TMS4116 ... perfectly in sync for contended memory (since the ULA will stop ... than trying to stop the ULA from accessing the screen memory.[/QUOTE ... -
Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
I would expect MREQ to go to 0v at the ROM - I ... line on the ROM chip to be less than 2.5v ... resistor too, to allow peripherals to be able to page in memory between 0 ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... ]xor[/B] opcodes from 168 to 175 they go:
[code ... .
This even applies to the [B]ld[/B] opcodes ... opcodes like this come down to how the [I]microcode[/I ... chip "decodes" instructions to do things to registers and memory etc... which is ... -
New Cronosoft Games.....I'm pleased to announce that several new (and recent) Cronosoft games are now available... IZZY WIZZY (Speccy, £2.99) - Jonathan C's follow u…
... we provide in order to get the free upgrade?
I ... -
A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …
... like
56 IF k=0 then go to 55
k$="i" THEN" lines to "IF k=105 THEN". You ... -
Woohoo for ME!!!!Well after 6 months of arsing around with immigration and stuff, I have a real job now (not helping the wife in the cafe), well actually including th…
... strong pair of scissors to my U.K.-Euro passport. Since I ... abjured all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, ... . Anyone born in the U.K. to U.K. parents remains a citizen ... takes some positive legal action to renounce his citizenship. This is ... -
The Non Randomness of Sam BasicHows about this for weird. Hardly ever bothered with such simple stuff before but this is what I just did on the Sam ( as in a real one now I've got …
MrCheese: indeed - that's exactly what my diagnostics rom does for the random memory fill test - to check the memory still holds what it was set with, the PRNG is just re-run with the original seed and compared against the contents of memory. -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... memory taken to hold c
int i; // 2 bytes in memory taken to ... hold i
long l; // 4 bytes in memory taken to ... poking a value to a random memory location. This would ... two bytes of memory to store a memory address whereas an ... -
Have you still got what it takes?Back in the day I could always win the final in Match Point. Now I can't. But also back in the day I was shit at Atic Atac and Gunfright. Now I can c…
... to pad out the small playing space enforced upon them by memory ... reduces the playing experience to a frustrating memory exercise.
... Spectrum games available to me, I choose not to play them, ... have some strong nostalgic link to them.
... -
Emulator Comparison ChartHi. In a similar vein to [URL=http://www.ppest.org/zx/zxse.php]Piters[/URL] comparison of various ZX emulators, I've been looking at adding some deta…
Depends what you're trying to test. For memory contention and display timings ... though as you're going to get (try in all of ... -
more Spectrum uploadsHI all, just to let you know I've added some more stuff, including a white spec +, more keyboard development sketches for Geoff, Alpha Numeric pad, …
... could someone enlighten me as to what a "wafer stack" ... it would have given to the Spectrum/QL?[/QUOTE]< ... whole 10cm silicon wafer to act as memory.
At ... whatever, the idea was to use the whole silicon wafer ... up to give you a big chunk of memory in ... -
Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
... through the lists here to try to jog my memory.
... And then some games, my memory fails me totally, like Centurions ... could dredge out of my memory...
Aliens
... of Bagdad
Seymour Goes to Hollywood
Shadow Warriors
MB02+ troubleI have been using my MB02+ with a +3 power supply for years now. For the last two months I haven't touch my speccy as I had limited free time. Yest…
... didn't want to try the HD upgrade kit for the MB02 ... my order. I am starting to believe that I should better ...Gryzor Preview, Combat School & Gryzor PreviewHello. I'm looking for these two ZX Spectrum games I once played on an emulator (EmuZWin). One of them is the standalone Gryzor Preview. I don't kno…
... know we were supposed to give one to Crash but Paul Owens ... demo of 'Gryzor' is going to be on the Crash Sampler ... ' instead.
I seem to remember a one level demo ... is one I'd like to know what bits it had ... away at the end due to lack of memory.Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS, with M3 cartridgeAny recommendations for a good Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS (using a M3 cartridge)?
... , since GBA ROMS refer to slot-2 memory addresses. If you want ... to play GBA homebrew/ROMS on ... advantages for homebrew, including extra memory.PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... file needs to be held in memory all at once to be processed ... (and also limits the file to ... are likely to be small, so easy to hold in memory all at ... once.
- Adding padding bytes is not likely to ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... file needs to be held in memory all at once to be processed ... (and also limits the file to ... are likely to be small, so easy to hold in memory all at ... once.[/QUOTE]
Easy to ...Z80 Developer ConsoleHi, This is a project I have meaning to do for ages, recently had a kid, had some time off work (as a software developer) and surprisingly had a bit…
... . I have written this to learn .Net more intimately, ... and VB6 professionaly. Port to java unfortunately not an option ... I also plan to create a memory map so you can ... see where memory is free.
to learn in detail too ...
