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ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…
... working on a ZX81 using PLOT I guess it would just ... if it equaled 1 to PLOT a point, otherwise move to ... addressable graphics available from BASIC, PLOT and UNPLOT just use block ... have to use machine code/assembly language if you want proportional ... -
ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…
... months ago I found an Assembly program from an early Your ... the information GReW about the PLOT/UNPLOT, still I'm a ... -
Flood FillHi Folks, Can anyone point me to a flood fill that I can call from ZX BASIC? I have looked through the archive and although there are posts about…
... contest there at the Z80 Assembly for the ZX Spectrum facebook ... /z80assembly/ ) and the topic was "fast flood fill routines, requiring as ... -
Flood FillHi Folks, Can anyone point me to a flood fill that I can call from ZX BASIC? I have looked through the archive and although there are posts about…
... "]Probably Alvin Albrecht's 'A Fast Well-Behaved Pattern Fill' is ... routines are all very fast because they plot entire screen bytes at ... -
Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
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Can anyone show a slight diagram of how pokes work in a jet set willy game for example?I know its kind of something to do with machine code and Memory addresses etc but would be nice to see a youtube video or some drawings etc ? .Many t…
... space so aren't particularly fast so the majority of games ... you actually start thinking in assembly language (or if you're ... are much easier ways of assembly language programming than typing in ... -
Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
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Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
... , but if BASIC had been fast enough so that (well programmed ... ???
If BASIC was fast, lots of people (myself included ... level required to program in assembly is a bar that prevents ... -
Just games or also "serious stuff"?Hi guys :) When a ZX48K entered our home in 1986, i started programming for it but mainly i used it for games. No other use was accomplished: no a…
... colorful, makes sounds and moves fast -> who cares if there ... to really get into Z80 assembly and all that, although as ... -
Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…
... POKEs, and be amazed how fast the code goes through KB ... used to one thing: With assembly, you'll usually spend 30 ... hardly ever code in Z80 assembly these days. But back in ... -
TommyGun updatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXFKYO5i1IlN2U4MUtrRVZZWUE/view?usp=sharing Hi, I have updated my TommyGun application and since we can't uplo…
... is great access to very fast graphics and even allows for ... very fast pixel access. The language is ... compiler is fast and generates very good code. Assembly can be easily ... -
TommyGun updatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXFKYO5i1IlN2U4MUtrRVZZWUE/view?usp=sharing Hi, I have updated my TommyGun application and since we can't uplo…
... designed to map onto underlying assembly instructions. Pascal (and derivatives), ... programming that is common in assembly language (and can often ... library is written in assembly language and includes sprite ... at code generation for fast and compact code on ... -
New game: ZoomBloxHi everyone, this is my first post here, so first off I'd like to say hello to the Spectrum development community :) I've been developing on an…
... was surprised the game plays fast enough for a BASIC game ... (like sprite drawing) are in assembly, the rest can be less ... -
IXL and IXHI don't know much about undocumented instructions but I get the impression that [b]LD A,IXH[/b] or [b]LD A,IXL[/b] (B, C, D, E also fine, HL not) are…
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Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... ;877687"]Machine code is naturally fast, but you should also start ... (defined in beginning of the assembly source, or read from memory ... -
Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... at least one other assembly language, the best way ... intimately familiar with another assembly language or how microprocessors ...
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Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... code is better than tiny, fast, unreadable code unless you have ... machine code.[/quote]
Small fast code does not have to ... -States.
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Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…
... /> People are usually scared of assembly and don't realize that ... progress pretty quickly. Given how fast you caught on in a ... -
Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
... time by writing it in assembly, but not possible to go ... the way to twice as fast but even with the same ... -
Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
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Lunar Jetman is rubbish i think Lunar Jetman id rubbish, a great shame as jetpac is one of my favourite games. on load-up Lunar Jetman looks fantastic but it is too diffi…
... the flowers in Sabre Wulf - fast+protection, protection, reverse controls, knock ... , take it back to an assembly point on the planet, as ... -
Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…
... : It's written in pure assembly and doesn't use any ... as I can tell. Blazingly fast though!
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Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…
... : It's written in pure assembly and doesn't use any ... as I can tell. Blazingly fast though!
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why does line length affect angle?I am using Plot Draw to make a V like drawing. It's part of an intersection on an isometric path. You would expect one half to be the inverse coordin…
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Still, this fast line drawing routines has a ... -x*d
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80 ... 90 IF y=0 THEN PLOT x2,y2: DRAW d2,-d ... 100 IF x=5 THEN PLOT x2+d2,y2-d: DRAW ... 120 NEXT x
130 PLOT 8,64: DRAW 0,50 ... 0,-50
140 PLOT 128,124: DRAW 0,50 ...ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…
... much the developer knows Z80 assembly.
Personally I don't ... much at all about Z80 assembly, if I did then I ... think. It compiles to reasonably fast machine code, and supports bi ...What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
... MOS had to change the assembly mnemonics to be more different ... 't think it's as fast as 6809 aficionados like to ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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"[b]Dralon Sladdomnac Fast Food Emperor of Grebignurk is ... after all it's a plot conceived by [b]Brian Bloodaxe ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... -game/i/InspectorGadgetAndTheCircusOfFear.gif[/img]Plot of the episode: Inspector Gadget ... /j/JudgeDredd.gif[/img]A fast split-screen platformer with colourful ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... capable of "fast searches from decades of assembly optimization" ... (perfected over decades of assembly optimization without using pointers ... All those "decades of assembly optimization" in the database ... how many decades of assembly optimization without pointers ...Elite clonesHi there Question. Is there any Elite clones out there for our Speccy worth playing? thanks!
... , that's how amazingly fast the Archie was, it ... ; before reimplementing them in assembly language. The BBC BASIC ... BASIC listing was mostly ARM assembly source code (taking advantage ... /> ...several thousand lines of ARM assembly language...
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