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Microdrive units with weak (not dead) ULAs...Hi everybody, I've got a Microdrive unit here. It didn't work. It does now (actually, it was the ribbon had broken and the ground had lost contact, …
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PS2 Slim for saleI have a PS2 Slim for sale with a brand new laser installed. It also comes with all cables, Sony Silver Controller. Everything works as it should an…
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Tap-format, multiload and fastloading?I'm having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around the tape-loading process, and the .TAP format. I have a +2A and load everything via a laptop…
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Magnets and torrents...?In respect of bit torrenting, what are magnet files? How are they different from torrents files, both to the person seeding, and to anyone leeching t…
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3D Wireframe/vector animation creator and player?Is there any software that can help record wireframe 3D animations by creating a file that stores just the coordinates and lines? If the answer is "n…
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ASCII shoot'em-up. Work-in-progress video #1.I've posted up my first WIP video of the ASCII shoot'em-up game: [URL="http://www.facebook.com/bobs.stuff"]http://www.facebook.com/bobs.stuff[/URL] …
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Embarrassing MHz question....(Hangs head in shame; you may throw tomatoes and mouldy fruit at me.) What is the standard speed (exact please!) of the Z80 CPU in a 48K ZX Spectrum…
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A Question for you AY musicians out there...As some of you may or may not have noticed, Iv been tinkering away on a script to convert music data from OpenModPlug Tracker to Vortex Tracker... My…
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Games with time travel mechanics?What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don't mean games where time travel is just part of the story (i.e. it's…
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3D Deathchase on the Commodore 643D Deathchase has been ported to the C64, at least according to Micro-Mart. According to this week's MM, the port is called Hell Racer, and here's a …
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Your 8-bit micro preferencesWell, I kinda love [U]all [/U]8-bit machines. Yup, I've not found one that I haven’t warmed to in one way of another, but obviously there are …
new Loading Scheme, test in real spectrum this weekendThis weekend i will test a loading Scheme real Spectrum, i make a demo, to test it, and record video in a given mobile. I did some calculations, and…
... calculations, and the error of speed can be -8% and + 8 ... .5% for the most speed load.
I test ... runtime at speed 1095 Bytes/s, 737 B ... this video "decicoder" load at speed of 4.000 baudios. = 500 ...Speed tip - "e" notationHi Folks, Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is use…
Hi Folks,
Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is used to calculate the current time in hours, minutes and seconds.
Orginal code:
...ROM switch on NMIHello! Please, help me or point in the right direction. I am building a project for 48k spectrum which must activate its rom (actually static ram) …
... not need any special processing speed, i can do everything in ...Inefficient code in ROM, from ram-check to RAM-DONEHere is the inefficient code: [CODE] ;; ram-check L11DA: LD H,D ; Transfer the top value to the HL register LD L,E …
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Another difference other than speed is that modifed one show ...Optimize this: Distance CalculationBased on a taylor series expansion, suggested by NA_TH_AN, I've got this so far, which is far far faster than SQR(X^2+y^2) Formula is: in a right an…
... it must be possible to speed this up by making it ...about Dan DareHi all, I not think this is for MIA forum but want to ask and I will be grateful if anyone help me with answer. I get from ebay dandare tape, origi…
... is this? this loader and speed not look original ? I have ...Deathchase improvementsI have spent the last couple of months bringing out an "enhanced" version of Deathchase which I called "Deathchase 2012". Unfortunately because it us…
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[*]Support for 3 speed levels (original, fast and OMG ... original game. Same colours and speed
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This ... sky and plays at 'fast' speed.
[*]BMW reliability
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...ZXDS 0.9.9 beta 1OK kids, here we go: Let me announce the latest and greatest [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]ZXDS release[/URL]. Mouse emulation, tape recording, stats …
... recording, stats tracking, text viewer, speed slowing, I hope there is ...KO99 ZX Spectrum rather old WIP version.Alas, I have nothing new to release on this special anniversary... But I have decided to release my last work in progress version! I recommend you …
... that can boost the CPU speed by 3 or 4 times ... to get the proper speed.
Most of the ...Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
Best player movementWhat games had the best main character movement and control? I'm thinking here of games where the programmer designed in something more advanced than…
... just simple directions and linear speed of movement which had a ...quick loadingapart from using a speed loader, whats the cheapest way to get games to load into the spectrum the quickest ?
apart from using a speed loader, whats the cheapest way to get games to load into the spectrum the quickest ?BRITISH TELECOMI'm getting slightly infuriated. Twice in the past two weeks, I reported my crap, slow internet connection to BT. I'm getting download speeds of a…
... I could check the broadband speed which was back down to ...At long last i got the speed loader to work.Been trying for almost 3 weeks on getting this speedloader Otla (or whatever it is) to work on my spectrum and tonight I found out how to get it goin…
Been trying for almost 3 weeks on getting this speedloader Otla (or whatever it is) to work on my spectrum and tonight I found out how to get it going.
My old PC i had Windows XP installed and this was being used as the main PC to spew the ...Good free games (for any machine)?Like everyone here (I imagine), I've got too many games vying for my too limited free time, and the backlog isn't helped by my spending so much of my…
... much prefer that game's speed and features, so I'd ...Another Roger Jowett oneHello guys, I want print here the conversation with Roger Jowett. He is spamming all e-mails he can get hold of. Especially for the Spectrum30 show…
... hardware compression at the full speed the
modem can ... 't you show the speed that your users are ... v92 modem at ? the speed it was designed to function ... trouble of installing a hi speed 921600bps serial port in ... a quarter of the speed an older slower itu ...Quick question regarding contended memoryIf I've read the documentation correctly, the following applies: 128k/+3 "Memory banks 1,3,5 and 7 are contended" +2A/B/+3 "RAM banks 4, 5, 6 and 7…
... code that runs at full speed on all machines, only bank ...z88dk vs. sdccI've just read this article (in Spanish) [url]http://www.cpcmania.com/index2.asp?urldest=Docs/Programming/SDCC_vs_z88dk_Comparando_tama%F1o_y_velocid…
... tests comparing the size and speed of binaries generated by z88dk ...OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
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* Optimized for speed. The original ROM was mainly ...