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Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …
... a mask that is ANDed with the 5 bits read from the port to pin ... can also find a generic interrupt service routine that is able to register any ... number of ordered hooks on a specific ... -
Freedom of Speechfoggy, I don't know why you locked the thread. a)insults: everyone on WoS has insulted someone - even you I'm sure. Anger breeds insults, it's a fac…
... caused MS. If you'd read all my posts on this ... 's spelt "researched" (with an a)
ditto "your" (no apostrophe ... )
I move that you should take a GCSE English course. (Although ... and/or spelling is the one thing that is guaranteed to piss me off ... -
EmuZwin27How does this thing work? I can't get it to load anything at all. All I can get it to do is show me loading screens and nothing else :confused: I'm p…
... format) can't be read in other applications(like Jasc ... fails....
Actually this is a problem that is getting worse with every ... very often that when I try to load a game(expecially ... This is something that I have been trying to tell you a couple of ... -
Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …
... well enough. I've built a few of these, and ... run them off a spare +2 (grey) PSU. ... PCB's that's great, but the unit is easy to build on ... the CD player by using a small DPDT switch.
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
... calls. RST, being single byte, is easy to spot by the hw when ... useless to a game and very, very likely to crash the system as that ... the table so that a jump is made to a junk IM2 routine that is doing garbage ... -
Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
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The Unicorn trap.Could anybody tell me the meaning of the words, "Within this book, there lies a trap." As mentioned in the 'Shadows of the Unicorn' novella? Played…
... a trap that you will needlessly read the novella from end to ... you the clue. The trap IS the Novella.
that it's a pure anagram. I ... found some curious ones that could/do affect ... Sorry, not a clue. It wasn't that popular a game, although ... -
Development advice I was an user of the Spectrum 48K in the old days. I arribed to learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler. The time have passed, and now I am …
... choice.
There is a SabreWulf project to show what can be ... to read the Getting Started Guide, there is a tutorial that shows how to create a ... br /> You can choose to use any assembler and emulator ... am yet to implement, but it is coming in a future version ... -
+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... unable to read the disk - hence no Amiga emulator to date is able to read/write ... that uses an unwritten sector on a track. When the system tries to read ... from it, garbage is returned. Read ... -
+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... is a trick involving 2 drives that allows standard Amiga disks to be read on ... that uses an unwritten sector on a track. When the system tries to read ... from it, garbage is returned. Read ... -
A hyperthetical Speccy FutureDo you think if the Speccy had've continued through the 90's or maybe up until present day, that maybe they would've made multi-button joysticks/pads…
... forced to make them do new things because there were no easy ... indicators simply seem to be that it requires a certain amount of time ... upgrade and more to do with the fact that most of them ... change if you buy into a system that is more static; you still ... -
Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …
... br /> The display layout is easy to understand at the binary level ... to go from #1 to #4. Here's a bit of code that does that ... Computes the attribute address corresponding to a screen
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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…
... to "customize.asm", which will be the customization file read ... when the sp1 library is compiled and ... entry in the table is a pointer to a UDG character indexed ... is treated as a character code that is used to index this table to ... -
Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... I now have a xor sprite that moves around with ... a routine that requires SPACE to become not pressed, before an additional bullet is ... s meant to work as follows:
shipfire is a stored variable ... /> in a,(254) ;read keys
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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…
... is a Win32 app for composing AY tunes. It is able to read ... ) redo the player such that a single player can play several ... The problem with LZ compression is that the size of the decompressed ... two versions: first a spectrum port that will offer almost 100 ... -
Atic Atac PC remake! Utterly brilliant!I haven't seen this plugged yet in these WoS forums. Pop into... [url]www.retrospec.sgn.net[/url] ...and download the great new remake of Atic Atac…
... firewall popped up a message asking for permission to connect to port 80.
to have done, is beyond me!
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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…
... king. A language is procedural if it supports a programming style that is linear and ... application of a heap is "heapsort", a sorting algorithm that uses a heap to insert random ... 'S CURRENT POINTER (this is easy to forget; to search the entire list, call ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... international companies (if you actually read what I said) (one of ... company distributors , turned it into a small publishing company , developer status ... /> The thing that is irronic to me is that the aim of Alten8 is to allow (not ... -
EightyOne and CF cardsInspired by obo & piters discussion regarding imaging of flash card, I've added reading/writing to real disks to EightyOne. Hopefully it should allo…
... to FAT-16 on my Mac, even thought there is a command that ... allows devices to be formatted ... Mac disk support to SimCoupe tonight, and ... is pretty much the same as under Linux, so it was easy to ... add. I've not got a USB CF reader to ... -
I Love Freecycle because .....I got a Boxed Amstrad CPC464 a green tube Amstrad Monitor a MP1 Modulator that allows you to use the 464 with a normal tv (bit naughty that you had t…
... the group that is nearest to you you will need to open a yahoo ... a ps2 and a gameboy advance and they keep posting the same message ... once a week.
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+3 soundhello there, just a quick-fire question today. i'm kinda keen on the idea of using my +3 quite a bit, particularly if i bother to to actually sort …
... have noted what each component is on the bag they put ... always match the colour bands that are normally used. Maybe someone ... end up with quite a tidy board. Its easy to get quite stressed ... out when you arent used to building ... -
WOS ChatlogsGood for a read this one, [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/chatlogs/technical.log.1.txt[/url]
[QUOTE=jp]Good for a read this one,
[url] ... :43] like.. theres a guy that i used to call to get cabling work ... cud do that as a side line, naturally... wed have to do that sort ... :48] nah see the idea is to talk to small businesses right? not ... -
What should I do with a Timex whose 'p' & 'j' keys don't work?Are there people capable of repairing a Timex 2048 with a punctured membrane (I assume that it shares this characteristic with the Spectrum)? It work…
... /> The 2048 keyboard uses a pcb, its really easy to fix. Open the ... this is the pain in the arse bit...you need to peel ... machine, try using a hairdryer to soften the gum that holds it on ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... (C) message. The only problem you have here is autostart - ... you'll have to specify a location to load to, but that's not ... is that you're trying to use sequential access techniques on a system that is ... not sequential, and you'll end up with a ... -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... make a Windows platform work adequately, but it's not that easy and ... that is considered to be basically nuke-proof. Various BSD dialects are close to that ... can easily construct a solid UNIX server backbone today that survives basically ... -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... rate is ?25 per hour. For that price you're getting a professional ... I've just remembered that Arjun wanted to read something of mine. I ... 'd like to proof-read something for me. OT for a sec...Is that okay ... -
Old trademark dispute !Funny as hell (someone posted this on Retro Gamer)..... [url]http://www.cpczone.net/boards/viewtopic.php?t=841&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0[/url…
... that kind of information is far more valuable than the polished image that is ... presented to the tourist. True understanding of a nation, I ... from time to time.
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Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... already know it is. He never wrote a game that was commercially published ... to make himself out to be bigger than he is -- that sort of thing is easy to ... else has done. That *is* a serious matter. If he continues to plagiarize (and ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... you have to sort a large amount of data that is in random ... good. A modified version of the bubble sort is easy to make that deals ... /> One nice thing is it's easy to implement without recursion.
to sort 80,000 records. But that is a huge dataset ...
