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In the market for a new computerThe last one about five years ago, is coming to the end of its useful life for me. I bought that and the previous one on ebay and was more than happy…
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In the market for a new computerThe last one about five years ago, is coming to the end of its useful life for me. I bought that and the previous one on ebay and was more than happy…
[quote=ADJB;305010]Why add vista to a perfectly good machine and ruin it ?[/quote]
Just comparing like for like and pointing out what was "missing" from the first bargain ?200 quote. -
One for the demo codersOn this occasion I forgot I had already asked the exact same question in another thread.
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ld e,(hl)
ld a,(de)
ld (hl),a
inc ... loop counter decrement and inc hl (to cross 256 bytes boundaries ... -
Spectranet now supports UTF-8!Or at least, a subset of it - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its putchar42 routine (the 6x8 character cell …
... meantime, I did a translation of the Spectranet ... /> Hi! Well. It's a very impressive job. Here's ... br /> - The fact that a word has tilde (Opci?n ... (Opciones). "Opci?n" is a "palabra aguda" and "Opciones" ... the rest, nothing to add. It's a very good translation :) -
Spectranet now supports UTF-8!Or at least, a subset of it - all of the 0xC3 characters, and a few 0xC2 characters (?, ?, ? and ?) in its putchar42 routine (the 6x8 character cell …
... too (Opciones). "Opci?n" is a "palabra aguda" and "Opciones" ... the rest, nothing to add. It's a very good translation :)[/quote ... ]
Great job! Let me add ... just a few suggestions:
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What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
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The school got a few ZX81s first, though. ... They started a Computer Club around the ... I had seen a picture of a ZX81 somewhere, and ... of computing, not a manual typewriter or a breadbin.
... and the worthwhile add-ons like a disc drive just ... -
Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
... when we'd go into a game shop and chose ... of the box. In comparison, a trip to the cinema to ... see a great film would cost you ... a couple of hours tops, add more for a delicious hot-dog. Watching a ... value for money.... if its a game you love that is ... -
Face booki have joined the herd. let me know if you want me to add you as a freind. you will get to see some pics of me. thats gotta be worth it.
... you want me to add you as a freind.
you ... -
A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
A combination of R register, Shift and Xor usually does the trick
LD HL,seed
LD B,(HL)
LD A,R
RLA
XOR B
LD (HL),A
something as simple as this may do the trick...or maybe not... -
New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
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So just add MCODER3 as a snapshot and let it ... the background? :)
But a basin based basic compiler can ... very hard to create a music (much like a painting), it takes ... know, I would look for a beep composer with following capabilities ... -
Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... SP seems one heck of a good way to complicate my ... the sensible methods like LD (HL),A. But abusing SP like that ... :-)
Now, EX (SP),HL is the instruction *I've ... -
Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... SP seems one heck of a good way to complicate my ... move around two bytes at a time. For example, this snippet ...
OR E
LD (HL),A
INC L
[/CODE ... /> POP HL
LD A,(HL)
INC HL
PUSH HL
OR A
Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
...
OR E
LD (HL),A
INC L
[/CODE ... really understand this. I guess HL points to an address in ...Assembler snippetsI was just thinking that a thread for small but useful assembler snippets to do useful things would be cool for people learning z80 coding. Not to me…
... /> [code]
xor a
ld hl,23560 ; sys var of ... last key pressed
ld (hl),a ; set it to 0 which ... to press
waitkey or (hl)
jr z,waitkey ; keep ...Am I beinga a bastard filled with prejudice?I just looked at my mail, and had a message from face book, from a guy, an old class mate and friend from highschool, with whom I havent talked since…
... were me I'd add him as a friend, and sod the ... of them. If someone's a decent person I couldn't ... give a stuff who they get intimate ... />
But I did get a good belly laugh out of ...User reviewsAs often requested (e.g. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18135"]here[/URL]), user reviews are now possible through the s…
... my understanding that there is a calculation in place that ... a game has received.
On a separate note I should add ... that reviewing a game for ... this site only takes a ...Fastest way to clear a screen.We haven't had an optimizing fun for some time, so let's have some: What's the fastest way to clear a screen (i.e., filling the 6912 bytes at 16384 w…
... ]
ld hl,5800h
Loop dec hl
ld (hl),0
XOR A
LD HL,$5800
LOOP DEC HL
LD (HL),A
Fastest way to clear a screen.We haven't had an optimizing fun for some time, so let's have some: What's the fastest way to clear a screen (i.e., filling the 6912 bytes at 16384 w…
... inbetween could be just a case of taking the ... [CODE] LD HL,5800h
LD SP,HL
LD H ... LOOP REPT 32
PUSH HL
ENDR
DJNZ ... hl,5800h
xor a
Loop dec hl
ld (hl),a< ...Fastest way to clear a screen.We haven't had an optimizing fun for some time, so let's have some: What's the fastest way to clear a screen (i.e., filling the 6912 bytes at 16384 w…
... solution you can make it a little bit faster without making ... ] ld hl,5800h
xor a
Loop dec hl
ld (hl),a
Fastest way to clear a screen.We haven't had an optimizing fun for some time, so let's have some: What's the fastest way to clear a screen (i.e., filling the 6912 bytes at 16384 w…
... /> Well, you right about XOR A, though it's not necessary ... case LD (HL),0 could be replaced to LD (HL),A:
[code] xor a
ld h ... ,#5b
dec hl
ld (hl),a
or (hl)
jr z ...Fastest way to clear a screen.We haven't had an optimizing fun for some time, so let's have some: What's the fastest way to clear a screen (i.e., filling the 6912 bytes at 16384 w…
[QUOTE=Shiru;333751]
[code] xor a
ld h,#5b
dec hl
ld (hl),a
or (hl)
jr z,$-3[/code][/QUOTE]
This one (with or without the L-trick) is perfect :)1K Minigame : 3D RacerLast year I started to code a 3D Racer in 1K. The print of the road was however quite flickery so I put it away to pick it up this week again. I deve…
... solve the bugs.
Also a version with the game in ... work so I added
a routine to copy the code ... 't know what to add (other than a longer city or more ...New website goodness - improved Speccy reviews!I could have sworn I stuck a post up yesterday, but the byte-bandits appear to have stolen it :lol: Anyway: I've revamped my website which (among ot…
... the ability to search by a specific tag (e.g. " ... on there.
Secondly: a set of new reviews: about ... /> Thirdly: the ability to add comments to a given review! This has ... : anything more interesting will require a proper relational database in the ...Spectrum +4 ProjectHello there my new forum chummies, Recently I have aquired a specy +2 (grey console) from fleabay after having a wonderfull time at the 2 day Byte B…
... was originally planning to add just such a device to the ... like I will be writing a Spectrum MIDI sequencer then ;) ... ROM, I'd just add an external jack for loading ... |CD) and have a slot for a CF card (or ... theres something about having a fliptop lid CDROM that I ...Spectrum +4 ProjectHello there my new forum chummies, Recently I have aquired a specy +2 (grey console) from fleabay after having a wonderfull time at the 2 day Byte B…
... been used (for a dreadful first attempt at a bug-free ROM ... Plus 4. Spectrum +5 has a nice ring about it though ... was originally planning to add just such a device to the Spectrum ... SE. The prices were a bit prohibitive 9 years ago ...Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... is done, i've ordered a copy to make sure its ... writing your reviews, should be a special book. Any games not ... know and i'll add them. Theres a lot of great homebrew ... to list them all in a book
ThanksRemeeting old friendsInspired by rubberkey's post on reuniting with first loves Has anyone reunited with friends they've not seen for a very long time? About four years…
... time.
There was a school reunion mooted on Facebook ... a few months back and ... I gave it a wide birth. No interest ... me, add me as a friend and then not say a word. A month ... or two back I had a massive purge and am ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... key pressed
xor a
ld (hl),a ; reset last key pressed ...
readkey or (hl) ; test on ... again
pop hl ; reclaim original HL
; A now holds the ASCII ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... key pressed
xor a
ld (hl),a ; reset last key pressed ...
readkey or (hl) ; test on ... again
pop hl ; reclaim original HL
; A now holds the ASCII ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... that.
[B]LD HL,23560[/B] means [B] ... a beginner actually.
[B]XOR A[/B] means [B]LET A = A ... XOR A[/B]. Assuming ... />
Now [B]LD (HL),A[/B] writes the value to ... address, like [B]POKE HL,A[/B]. So what we've ...
