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AAAARRRRR DIV-MMC ENJOY againIve recently been posting trying to get to the bottom of problems with my +48 not working with this rechid addon.Now ive finaly worked out theres not…
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QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED!1.Why did the Spectrum die? WHY! 2.Why has the WOS Forums been quiet for a few years now? WHY! 3.Why can't I have my RUBBERKEYS name back on this f…
... retro revival? WELL!!!
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Problem Reading the KeyboardHi Folks, I'm working my way through Toni Baker's rather good book and thought I'd write some code to scan the keyboard and store the results so tha…
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I'm working my way through Toni Baker's rather ... /> LD BC,0x08 ;Loop through 8 keyboard segments
_keySegmentLoop ;Looping ... /> _keyboardSegments ;the value of the 8 keyboard segments
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1st interface in 30 years (update)Hi all, Just a wee update to my "1st ZX interface in 30 years" project. Main IC's: 82C55 three 8-bit port I/O (configured for 12 dig in, 12 dig out…
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Oh for an easy way to speccify the likes of ... 0xFF; // Take just the lowest 8 bits.
byte high = VALTOSEND ... >> 8; // Shift the integer right 8 bits.
Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... video memory
ld b,8
BucScan:
... for a block of 8 by 8 pixels, like the ZX ... oriented too: the first 8 bytes of video memory ( ... have arranged the display this way? The well-known POKE ... video memory
ld b,8
BucScan:
...Best way to have multiple characters in AGDHi Guys Can someone please tell me if you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that span multiple screen sort of like the way Enigma Fo…
Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…
... ZX81 codez recently to an 8-bit machine which has a ... the Carp Gaming Compo. That way, no one will notice how ...Drunk With Blood (Bible not boring after all)Flip! Not another religious thread from BB. How many's that now?! (... errrm ... two). I haven't forgotten about the Koran commentary (now that I've …
... it turned out). (By the way, note that God was not ... order of:
2.8 million
Being a ...Arcade conversions, automatically convertedHi! My first post, be gentle with me :smile: I was creating for a hobby project of mine (a completely non-speccy-related, unfortunately) a postproce…
... results 8*8=64 pixels should be read but that is way too ... like this before, and probably way better than what I've ...8-bit Artwork including SpectrumJust saw this pop up on Twitter. [img]http://38.media.tumblr.com/2cfaa58145f1111a7b3a62bcb87b5ef7/tumblr_nakmi1Fy4y1s335jfo1_500.gif[/img] There's…
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There's more 8-bit computers and consoles on ...Dumping Microdrives (to a PC, not to a skip)Morning/Afternoon/Evening chaps, What do people use for getting their data off a microdrive quickly? I know of at least one project which does it ra…
... I doing it the hard way? Probably. It does allow me ... /> Attach probes to ground (pin 8 ), Data 1 and Data 2 ... /> Export the analyser data using 8-bit data, and only exporting ...LOAD "" CODE in machine code/store 128 bank dataHow do you LOAD "" CODE from machine code? I have written the following MC routine that fits into a REM statement in a basic program. I want to cal…
... colours.
xor a ; quick way to load accumulator with zero ... 2.
ld a,8
ld (23658),a ;caps ...Spectrum preservation/clean up questions.I’m sorting out my 5 Spectrums trying to make them look a bit better, and to package them up how they should be, and to get them to be reliable…
... /> [3] What’s the best way to remove stickers and their ... square ones), is there a way remake them, as buying them ... to put back?
[8] My toast rack has no ...Tinkering with DMASo, some afternoon tinkering... [img]http://photo.alioth.net/tmp/dma_small.jpg[/img] The purpose of this all is to see what's possible using the Xi…
... /> On the Z80, the fastest way is using PUSH HL, which ... thing with changing the upper 8 bits of the port address ... Xilinx recommend no more than 8 simulataneous switching outputs (and this ...Zombie Apocalypse 8-bit weaponry!So its all kicked off outside and undead are roaming the streets, you look around for a suitable weapon but can only see (and indeed use) an 8-bit ma…
... see (and indeed use) an 8-bit machine to defend yourself ...New Game: Escape from Colony 8[I]I can't really tell what happened, when they first attacked our base or where they came from, but Colony 8 is lost. My only chance is to get to ha…
... they came from, but Colony 8 is lost. My only chance ... />
[B]Escape from Colony 8[/B]
[IMG]http ... /jjm/colony8/"]Escape from Colony 8[/URL] (get the .tap ...AGD* A question about sprites type of movements/behaviourI also posted this in the AGD forums, but maybe it helps to post it in 2 sites so more people can see it ;) I have a problem with one Little game I …
... selected the type of behaviour/movement/control of the sprites bud ... to code, is there any way to make the easy selection ...Masterfile 8Another item I am seeking: Masterfile 8. This is another part of my "might have been" system - and Masterfile 9 is, on the face of it, unsuitable.
Another item I am seeking: Masterfile 8. This is another part of my "might have been" system - and Masterfile 9 is, on the face of it, unsuitable.Simple sprite inertiaDoes anyone have or can anyone point me to any good examples of sprite inertia (in assembly)? I'm not after anything vector related, just simple x,y…
... inertia table is the best way to go, but the various ... the requested direction and actual movement. Perhaps seeing some other code ...My FREE kindle bookOk so in no way Spectrum related but I'm a member here - and excited by my own news ! So just sharing... My self published short story collection '…
Ok so in no way Spectrum related but I'm ... &qid=1418463388&sr=8-1&keywords=unforgotten+tales ...Pagan influences in speccy gamesPossibly due to its Englishness, the Spectrum seems to have quite a fair share of games that have pagan influence. Obviously the sword n sorcery tol…
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[CENTER][B]BY THE WAY
I have a[COLOR ... &qid=1418463388&sr=8-1&keywords=unforgotten+tales ...10 line contest (until April 8)The ABBUC people in Germany are hosting the fourth BASIC 10 liners contest this spring. No machine code including calling ROM routines directly, cert…
... 11, which effectively means Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64/128 and ... for remote entries is April 8.
Even if it ...Help for beginner with z80Hi chaps, I'm reasonably new with z80, but had a fair amount of experience with 68000, so decided to give a few things a go. One little thing I'm t…
... take away 32, multiply by 8 (bytes per char) and offset ... make a copy of those 8 bytes using ldi to ... to lsa left shift those 8 bytes and test bit 7 ... ll then scroll the top 8 lines of attributes. Well that ... />
Is there a better way of doing this? It feels ...ArcadiaHi folks, new to the forum, but as old as the rest of you when talking about the spectrum :-) I downloaded Arcadia (using Fuse until my speccy is so…
... help get out of the way. To add to this, the ... become jittery in it's movement. I think that effect is ...More SpecBAS funHere's a neat little effect I lifted from a thread about displaylists and stuff from an Amiga forum - although SpecBAS has no hardware to assist, it …
... GRAPHIC circles
20 CLS 8: LET b=0: FOR a ... TO 1: CIRCLE INK b*8;160,128,10*a FILL ... c=SIN d*((MOUSEx/SCRw)*8): LET e=SIN d*((MOUSEy ... /SCRh)*8)
120 IF a+e ... of PEEK$ and POKE$ - lovely way to bang pixels around!
Scrolling colourful graphicsHi,<br>I'm experimenting with scrolling colourful graphics. I'm keeping 8 pixel empty gap between colourful blocks to avoid colour clash.<br><br>But …
... colourful graphics. I'm keeping 8 pixel empty gap between colourful ... /> Can you think of any way to shift the attributes correctly?oooh new speccy game but not at the same time!!<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYNHJMxntc</span><br><…
... think, they've got character movement a la r-type and ... laid out in such a way that it takes into consideration ...New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
... , due to the character-based movement... but this time I like ... cursor-joystick:LEFT = 5 / RIGHT = 8 / FIRE = 0
Keyboard controls ...Chromium / Iceweasel screen shotsFogartylee asked me in <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50633/the-magic-s-gone/p3">this thread</a> to post a screenshot. Pos…
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way to scroll through the rest ...Multiplying. Again.Is there a faster way of hl=a*32 than doing add hl,hl 6 times?<div><br></div><div>I get the feeling that working with 8 bit registers for most of it …
Is there a faster way of hl=a*32 than doing add hl,hl 6 times?
I get the feeling that working with 8 bit registers for most of it would be faster, but can't quite see the route...
