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Coding for 128kHi all, I wonder if anyone can suggest any useful reading/threads/examples on the fundamentals of 128k coding. Chapter 24 of the +2 manual has prov…
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I'd like to have the full 64k available ...
Doing an OUT instruction to port 8189, in which bits ... screen by an OUT instruction to 32765 in which bit ... Each time I want to display this screen I re ... I want to make a change I need to page to BANK 7 ... -
Strider II (and others) + 3 disk versionsHello everyone, I've been working on converting some games to be able to load them from the +3 floppy. I started with single load games but now Im i…
... /> LD BC, 0 ; file 1, page 0
CALL DOS_READ ; read ... />
ld a, 16 ;restore page
call paging
to page 6, copy the disk loading routine to 23900, jumps to it ... hl, 23296 ;backup to
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harvard architecture spectrum clone.I got my first +2 before christmas. I'd never given the 128k spectrums much thought, always been a 48k rubber key tradionalist. :smile: I've been me…
... amount of glue logic to page the memory in and ... M1 cycle, (need to look in to this). This is ... would need to page this in too to store the return ... simplified programs. No need to worry about the stack overwriting ... .
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Who knows about ZR-UTIL Hendrik BROOTHAERS Marius van der Meer BetadiskI have one old un-identified 5 1/4 Diskette. I thought it was a Betadisk-Diskette, but my real Betadisk v4.12 won?t read it / just displays Sector-R…
... utility THIS PROGRAM ADAPTS ITSELF TO FOLLOWING T.R. DOS VERSIONS ... ]
BDUC-Issue6-Page01.jpg to Page 4
but nothing further ... Realdisk Mode.
To convert it to standard values,
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Threads with more than 32 pagesA couple of times now I've clicked on a thread with new posts and the link which looks like it should go to the latest post has taken me to page 32.
A couple of times now I've clicked on a thread with new posts and the link which looks like it should go to the latest post has taken me to page 32. -
Advanced Fighting Fantasy<p>I recently bought a couple of AFF books by mistake (Dungeoneer and Blacksand), thinking they were the easy 'dice roll and turn to page' origi…
... easy 'dice roll and turn to page' original FF books. I'm ... following the story you have to act & direct your own ... through them and they seem to require a huge amount of ... the dwarf will be likely to comment on the value of ... -
Emulating transfersI've been studying some games saved with transfers, and I'm surprised that almost no emulators have included those interfaces. This is my (incomplete…
... =http://hardware.speccy.org/]this page[/url] has preserved instructions, ... NMI (to mimic the behaviour of some interfaces that page ROM only ... when NMI).
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128k memory musingI've been pondering on the 128k memory thing a bit, and it's just bloody stupid. The 64k memory space is divided in four chunks. One is always los…
... . One is always lost to ROM, no way to page in memory there ... . Second chunk is "lost" to one of ... , no way to page it either, even to the other video page. Third is ... fixed to usable memory ... -
Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... Several suggestions were made as to alternatives and though my eventual ... creation requires, completely foreign to my way of writing and ... more solid structure and falling to earth. He collected every ... use that lame - now turn to Page 23 - sort of format. -
Detecting +3 / +2AWhat's a simple but reliable way to detect if code is running on a +2A/+3? My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking for the …
... My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking ... in upper page to test
out (c),l ; change to page 0< ... /> out (c),h ; change to page 1? (upper 2 bits ignored ... /> out (c),l ; change to page 0
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Magazines available as simple files, JPGs?Hi. Is it possible to download some of the old high-street mags (Crash, YS, etc.) as a package, like a series of JPGs or similar? I've seen some mate…
Hi. Is it possible to download some of the old ... I'd prefer just to be able to page through them in my ... -
Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
... , because you played it to get to the end. That's ... story went by turning to a certain page ("you see a ... you follow him? Then turn to page 53" etc etc) Once ... you would keep coming back to it long after MGS2. ... like that- they had to, because the graphics couldn' ... -
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... /> .org 40000 ; a reasonable place to have code
; ... Spectrum screen is organised is to the convenience of the ... /> ; screen data from left to right, top to bottom would be how ... br /> ; then need to align to where you've scrolled to
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A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
... you get the two screens to display side by side?[/quote ... even columns, each group allocated to page 5 and 7 respectively.
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A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
... even columns, each group allocated to page 5 and 7 respectively.[/quote ... Pentagons. They don't use page 7, but have the first ... a Timex hardware specification, intended to be published (soon?) in the ... mode).
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Spectrum Instructions ProjectAs we're all aware, WoS is great and has lots and lots of games on it. However, not all of those games have had their instructions uploaded to WoS, w…
... be as near formatted to the originals as possible. ... said not all can convert to pdf ( will look ... for a freetool to do this, i know ... it be worth a page to page copy like motherboard manuals?? ... that added thier own language to the english text?
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Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…
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Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... original 128 had the ability to page any of the 16k RAM ... paged in at address 0, to give the maximum 64k RAM ... would make it too similar to that [I]other[/I] computer ... -
Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... paged in at address 0, to give the maximum 64k RAM ... the point of being able to page out a ROM where there ... -
Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... 128 had the ability to page any of the 16k ... 'address space' chunk you want to page into.
[ ... in at address 0, to give the maximum 64k ... 'd need to add another 16Kb RAM to the original ... machine to make that useful; ... -
Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... original 128 had the ability to page any of the 16k RAM ... chips with only 16K accessable to cut the cost down.
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+D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…
... he did to the game snapshot to get it to work as ... s what I did to get this to work on the ... game data that is ready to save to disk by pressing enter ... the save/load commands to +D syntax to save the rtype data ... the "CALL 10; jp LLTRAP" to page in the +D disk RAM ... -
Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …
... with the basic having to page stuff around etc...
to learn, so hopefully you ... interupts, then Clear (to get rid of variables, ... data in String$ that has to be loaded.
< ... . This way I assumed to have less problems.
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AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…
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AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…
... 48k board in order to page this memory and the fact ... discarded it as garbage. Prior to this most buyers were sophisticated ... is also in place to allow DMA to work properly.
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Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
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New release of EmuZWinEmuZWin Version 2.6 Release 1.0 Beta? ? (30-Jan-2005): A lot of changes. Most important are: [+] Formats supported: RZX, SLT. [+] Sound devices sup…
... , such as the ability to type a letter, whilst ... various text files to copy and paste to your letter, ... don't tend to keep stopping to page into a letter ... that you're typing up, or to ... the flaws are too irritating to be ignored. Trouble is, ... -
New release of EmuZWinEmuZWin Version 2.6 Release 1.0 Beta? ? (30-Jan-2005): A lot of changes. Most important are: [+] Formats supported: RZX, SLT. [+] Sound devices sup…
... various text files to copy and paste to your letter, but ... you don't tend to keep stopping to page into a letter that ... you're typing up, or to ... certain tasks into multiple 'threads' to enhance performance.
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New release of EmuZWinEmuZWin Version 2.6 Release 1.0 Beta? ? (30-Jan-2005): A lot of changes. Most important are: [+] Formats supported: RZX, SLT. [+] Sound devices sup…
... you don't tend to keep stopping to page into a letter that ... you're typing up, or to ... certain tasks into multiple 'threads' to enhance performance.
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128k Shadow Screen?When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without canc…
There is no need to page the screen in. Think about ... Basically what paging allows you to do is change the address ... wire up from the Z80 to the RAM. Since the ... doesn't need the Z80 to fetch memory there's ... reason why it should have to use the same organisation ...
