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Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... 14 secs; using the ROM loader.
The only bit ... is including the Z80 loader in the basic loader, but I think I ... ] (which includes the z80 loader int the basic loader) although I understand if ... -
Stupid things you've done to get a specy game?Here's mine. It's must have been the winter of 1984, I remember it was the release of Ghostbusters the game and a good friend of mine was bragging h…
So you had to write a basic loader to load in all the bytes of the game first, without starting the game?
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Stupid things you've done to get a specy game?Here's mine. It's must have been the winter of 1984, I remember it was the release of Ghostbusters the game and a good friend of mine was bragging h…
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Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... compiled adventure, then modify the BASIC loader to load in the font ... , then point the BASIC CHARS System Variable at the ... -
Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
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I remember the BASIC loader of another ultimate game (Knight ... normal cassettes, so the loader could detect if a copy ... ).
- The loader is embedded in BASIC and encrypted (in Alkatraz ... some seconds to decrypt the loader).
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Pietro Bros [DEMO]Hi People. I wanna share with you a game that I'm working on, since a month or so... [img]http://i.imgur.com/kOoPGzU.png[/img] [url="https:…
... pietro_bin
copy /b loader.tap + pietro_bin.tap pietro_release.tap ... pietro_bin
copy /b loader.tap + pietro_bin.tap pietro_release.tap ... as you want because your basic loader still has to function. ... the area occupied by basic by placing data down ... -
ZX Dandanator! Mini - Cartridge system for SpectrumsHi All, I'd like to present a little HW I've developed during the last three months. It's aimed at providing a console-like usage experience for a…
... the game just like the BASIC loader does. It wouldn't even ... -
ZX Dandanator! Mini - Cartridge system for SpectrumsHi All, I'd like to present a little HW I've developed during the last three months. It's aimed at providing a console-like usage experience for a…
... guess you took apart the BASIC loader and replaced it with your ... can play around with your loader code and maybe make something ... -
Secret message in BattyI decided to reverse engineer my favorite speccy game and found some interesting code that was never used... Load the game, with multiface or emul…
An earlier Elite game (or possibly the same game) had a message in the BASIC loader that thanked Prince for making the best music ever! -
Secret message in BattyI decided to reverse engineer my favorite speccy game and found some interesting code that was never used... Load the game, with multiface or emul…
[quote="RobeeeJay;871496"]Checked Batty loader, no mention of Prince. :( ... it crashes when merging the loader. Any others that spring ... Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's crazy ... /> [quote]If you read the basic loader for one of Elite's ... -
Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... pair with auto-started basic and some M/C ... It also contains the basic and m/c for saving ... help of a custom loader almost exactly copied from ROM ... code to parse
BASIC lines (with the help ... Finally comes a header/program basic loader that can read the ... -
bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
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Sample loader
[code] 10 REM loader by bin2tap1.3 ... you to define your own BASIC loader, so that it can do ... : I usually define my own BASIC loader, save it as TAP, then ... a TXT file with the BASIC loader text content, and then convert ... -
bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
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Basic program
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bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
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NOTE: this tool would be even better, if it allowed us to provide a TXT file with the BASIC loader text content, and then convert it to TAP :)
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ZMAKEBAS can do this. -
bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …
... , linux) which offers handcrafting tap basic contents in your .asm file ... (to the metal) on that Basic loader generation :D
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Help with converting a SL3 based wav/csw to tzxGreets. :) I was trying to build some high speed tapes using Kobrasofts SL3 > http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017148 On its hig…
... sample' if required. Its a Basic loader (normal tzx) then the actual ... use (for instance) the Durell loader. I guess all I really ... -
Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... was loaded with a small basic loader. You would then pass on ... data into banks needed in basic before the C program starts ... way anyone can modify the basic loader to run on their disk ... -
Hacker QuestionHello hackers, as some of you might know, I am supervising the work on converting games from TR-Dos or TAP to the +D or Opus disk format for our SC…
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Sinclair BASIC holds numbers twice in two ... to find hidden numbers in BASIC loaders, as a form of ... of saving bytes in the BASIC loader?
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Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
... almost everything was made on BASIC. Then, most people realized ... began to submit programs with BASIC and machine code mixups ... from most BASIC with machine code helpers to BASIC loader plus 100 ... dumps. They still published BASIC programs and utilities (mostly ... -
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…
Searching for the perfect Spectrum emulator (Android)I'm searching for the best Spectrum emulator to run on my GPD XD, which runs Android. I've got several thousand TZXs on a flash card (I own all the o…
... by conventional means, using standard BASIC loader. Custom tape loaders will load ...WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …
... no loading screen (just a BASIC loader and the code), awful graphics ...Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…
... the following line to the BASIC loader, then take a snapshot once ...Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…
... the following line to the BASIC loader, then take a snapshot once ...Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…
... the following line to the BASIC loader, then take a snapshot once ...Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…
... the following line to the BASIC loader, then take a snapshot once ...Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…
... set instead. But since the BASIC loader won't run without the ...how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…
... entering this directly into the BASIC editor? The Spectrum doesn't ... a built-in assembler, the BASIC interpreter doesn't understand any ... program yourself and use a BASIC loader to POKE the opcodes and ...A few Speccy loading questions.So I want my program which is mostly BASIC to automatically run after it's loaded from .tap file. How do I do this ? Also how would I add a loading …
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1. your basic loader as Grew describes (if you ... , as you did with the loader
Then you can ...
