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Average loading times for Spectrum games?When you hear people talking about the Spectrum or other cassette-based computers nowadays, a lot of them claim the games took 15, 30 or even 45 minu…
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Chunky GraphicsI'm mucking about with chunky graphics at the mo and am wondering if it's quicker to just use the attribute's rather than the actual solid graphic bl…
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DMA interface for ZX Spectrum[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url] This is internal DATA-GEAR interface for any 8-bit computer with Z80CPU. Use Direct Memory Access…
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Simple calculation says that 25 fps is ... -
DMA interface for ZX Spectrum[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url] This is internal DATA-GEAR interface for any 8-bit computer with Z80CPU. Use Direct Memory Access…
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External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…
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Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…
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Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
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Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
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Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
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Delay routineAs some people are aware, I have recently starting writing a [url=http://fuse-emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fuse-emulator/trunk/fusetest/]autom…
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Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
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cant format answereHi all, I am writing a short basic program that will convert a frequency to a length. 10 print "Spectrum antenna length conversion." 20 let w = 468 …
Yes thats the line, its as far as memory goes now I see it again almost identical if not the same to the one I used.
I got my calculation from a ZX Spectrum basic book.
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text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
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a) This calculation is technically correct but too ... -
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a) This calculation is technically correct but too ... -
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... m$ array would make the calculation of 's' more complicated.
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That way, the calculation to be added to 'c ...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…
... used to improve the pricing calculation and make it less linear ...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…
... to speed up the score calculation would go completely unnoticed and ...Maybe you can help meybe you cantI am trying to programatically in Java convert a Java For loop to a VB one. I am building a translator automatically translate between Java to Visu…
... , but you then do the calculation for "x" in the Print ...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…
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When key "Q" do calculation.
INPUT "SAVE?";n ...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…
[QUOTE=Einar Saukas;217526]BTW here's my suggestion to check if coordinates are valid (the computer plays automatically otherwise):
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... using the standard ROM, the calculation a/10 will result in ...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…
BTW here's another optimization: instead of the complex calculation to update p, I think it would be shorter to use LET p=3-p at the beginning (in this case you better initialize p with value 2) and use something like POKE 23620,14-f*sOneliner 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…
... optimization: instead of the complex calculation to update p, I think ...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…
Instead of calculating v and then using 1+v*3 afterwards, include it all inside calculation of v.
Use the same solution for x.
This should provide the remaining positions you need.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…
... afterwards, include it all inside calculation of v.
Use ...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…
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The total cost calculation is specified in kroah's ... includes any graphical presentation and calculation of effects.
So ...Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …
... from there using a basic calculation given the file size and ...
