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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…
... them hard-coded into the program? Of course not the difficult ... ]
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question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?
... /> Obviously if anyone were writing an MC program then they would use ... -
question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?
... /> Obviously if anyone were writing an MC program then they would use ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... compile, you're better off writing the code for the compiler ... than trying to adapt the program later.[/QUOTE]
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Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... ) figure out what in your program is breaking the compiler and ... if you want to start writing in Machine code, I've ... -
Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... ) figure out what in your program is breaking the compiler and ... if you want to start writing in Machine code, I've ... -
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…
... input (eg keyboard) and writing output (eg to the screen ... include directives leading every C program. The actual code for stdlib ... can be included in a program. Things like graphics commands, ... warning but will allow the program to compile. Sometimes things ... -
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…
... prototypes for library functions the program calls. I built up ... the '&' operator while the program runs ("&std_seed").
< ... one complete pixel row by writing bytes to the display address ... write one pixel row by writing bytes to the buffer address ... -
8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... (badly phrased) question! I'm writing it in Java for mobiles ... know was, in a typical program running on a Spectrum will ... -
First ever gameHi all, I sat there the other night trying to remember the first ever Spectrum game. I racked my brains, then I remembered it was Psssst I ran it on …
... do what, Kill Dando or program Stonkers[/QUOTE]
No ... a GBA project he was writing (Looney Tunes - Back In Action ... -
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…
... and see if I could program a simple 32 column character ... " actually get concatenated together. Your program should not require linking to ... printf or writing to +3 disk). Without the -lndos this program won ... -
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…
... makes the rest of the program simpler. So the idea ... the original string by writing 0 bytes where it ... you run this test program once you'll see multiples ... string the first time the program was run.
program runs; it is fairly ... -
Edge top 100 gamesIt's [url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6231&Itemid=2]the top 100 games of all time[/url] from the last 15 years
... forgotten how pretensious Edge's writing was until I bought that ... list Perfect Dark as an adventure! Even if you can class ... a FPS as an adventure (as in an experience, rather ... than the traditional meaning of "adventure") then surely Half-Life or ... -
Edge top 100 gamesIt's [url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6231&Itemid=2]the top 100 games of all time[/url] from the last 15 years
... forgotten how pretensious Edge's writing was until I bought that ... list Perfect Dark as an adventure! Even if you can class ... a FPS as an adventure (as in an experience, rather ... than the traditional meaning of "adventure") then surely Half-Life or ... -
Eprom blowerdoes anyone know a site with plans for an eprom programmer project that'll blow 27C256s. I attempted to build one called Kisseprom, but the software …
... my website - designed just to program stuff for the Spectrum :-)
writing your own driver code should ... -
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…
... idea is to split the program into logically independent pieces. In ... (s)" which means we are writing this ascii number at the ... -
68000 programming.Anyone here know anything about this? My question is: how does the programmer know how long hisinstructions are? Do determine the operands to branch …
... =aowen;204041]You're not writing a QL emulator for the ... 'm trying to make a program that will run pdp-8 ... -
Worm In Paradise/playing text adventuresHi folks I've seen this game highly lauded in many sections of this website and I've been dabbling with getting back into text adventures recently. …
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Playing and writing. Had another bout on Lancelot ... part one of a Pawed adventure thats been a squillion years ... -
Worm In Paradise/playing text adventuresHi folks I've seen this game highly lauded in many sections of this website and I've been dabbling with getting back into text adventures recently. …
... they were featured in 2 adventure games. :oops:[/QUOTE]
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Don't shoot me...Definitely off-topic, and most possibly dangerous... There's a preview of the first chapter of the c64 book available online at: [URL]http://www.c6…
... unusual approach to the text adventure format[/QUOTE]
Yep ... then again I'm not writing the book. :-)
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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…
... GPL into a closed source program). The GPL is only really ... licenses that forbid you from writing a competing language with the ... BSD licensed. If I were writing a compiler, probably the GPL ... -
What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... said above, most of the program and especially games, that people ... /> That's for ease of writing, rather than because the PC ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... different. I have saved your program. Hopefully I may find it ... , if I ever do start writing full-size programs!
IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…
... writing an interface that looks similar to The Pawn for an adventure ...Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... 14341 is uncontended. Every test program I run says that the ... is confusing this with actually writing the pixels out to the ...I'll have this for Christmas peeps, thanks.[url]http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1060499/Blade-Runner-The-Final-Cut-Ultimate-Collector-Edition/Product.html[/url] Blade Runner: The Final Cut - U…
... " (if you can call it writing) didn't even realise that ... personally count the Virgin New Adventure books as canon, and so ...I'll have this for Christmas peeps, thanks.[url]http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1060499/Blade-Runner-The-Final-Cut-Ultimate-Collector-Edition/Product.html[/url] Blade Runner: The Final Cut - U…
... " (if you can call it writing) didn't even realise that ... personally count the Virgin New Adventure books as canon, and so ...IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…
When I was writing my first assembler routines I ... IY register, it made my program to crash .
My conclusion ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... that if you wrote a program to draw graphics in MODE ... complex, I can't imagine writing assembly code for the Beeb ...
