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Calling all coding munkeez...Having spent the last 8 years as a Windows application developer I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of Z80 speccy coding - something I missed out on …
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certain amount of memory which makes it a thrill ... Bytes needed for Spectrum systemvariables + BASIC
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www.zxspectrum.itHi Speccy Friends, My URL Speccy4Ever is moved, the old adress: [url="http://zx.siliconpark.it"]http://zx.siliconpark.it[/url] is down, update your …
... DOS user (and Speccy BASIC programmer) whose memory was always of a ... -
PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... gives the starting address in memory of the variables PAW ... ,22526 ; point to the attribute memory
LDIR ; continue loading ... page the memory for a start...
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Best way to codeHi, I've been using Zeus Assembler to code MC programs so far. Nothing fancy just the odd scroll left or animation stuff. Wot I'd like to know is, …
I use HiSoft Basic 1.1/1.2, USCHI ... has non-masked sprites). Laser Basic is nice, but the compiler ... music, even in a different memory bank or lace screens on ... -
Screen$ +3 disk to tape helpHi, I have several full screen pictures of my +3 disks (Screen$). How can I transfer these pictures onto tape without losing the last to lines beca…
To do this from Basic use an adaptation of the ... at a higher position in memory.
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WANTED: tape replacement for +2?Any tape replacement possible for a +2? My +2 works wonderfully but the incorporated datacorder is simply worn out and won't load ANYTHING. Dirty sig…
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The BASIC program used above is relatively ... 254 is typed at a BASIC prompt, the speaker is called ... lets the processor access lower memory through the resistors. A very ... -
Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…
... the screen then a complete memory dump from 24576 to 65535 ... the memory dump, compress where possible and then save
a BASIC ... poke back to main spectrum memory and then continue loading the ... -
Microdrive woesHi there! Just managed to pick up a 2nd hand Microdrive and interface one... Came with an introductory program which doesn't seem to load. Since its…
... a large basic program when there is insufficient free memory hung the ... -
Microdrive woesHi there! Just managed to pick up a 2nd hand Microdrive and interface one... Came with an introductory program which doesn't seem to load. Since its…
... in three or four files (BASIC, SCREEN$, Machine code and UDGs ... or seconds.
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Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…
Answers and results.
1: What came free with the Nov 87 issue of Your Sinclair magazine that provoked outrage by many parents?
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A 16 page issue of Viz magazine.
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Viz- TheComputerGame - I think ... -
Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... that had been written in Basic at the time. They really ... 'sequel' though "Beyond Horizons: Spectrum Memory introduced" (at least I think ... -
new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
... of the hole system (registers+memory+other bits probably), so from ... as you're entering a BASIC program (a sort of faster ... -
What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
... other memory I have is of writing my first game in Basic ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... know nothing about addresses and memory.. basic instructions likes peek and poke ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... only use BASIC, you don't really need a memory map.
Just state in BASIC the next ...
you have the memory reserved. Your BASIC-program may grow up ... is reached
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My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... near because the extra memory adressing commands use the ... IMO.
Now BASIC - that's a bit old ... I'm not saying ditch BASIC - I'm saying have ... going 16mb also because the memory is cheap, and you ... soldier the solid state memory directly onto a board ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
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Preliminary ideas for memory structure
Three ... res modes.
The basic idea is that the ... is used as Spectrum contended memory.
D1 - selects ... entire 64k video memory.
64k video memory probably won' ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... is where devices can access memory WITHOUT having to use the ... original machine due to a memory configuration that was designed for ... the machine to so little? Memory costs very little compared to ... program with the instructions for BASIC etc? Or is it some ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... . Actually it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... programming tip to compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to my ... been posting about things like memory management.
BIOS on ... 're writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... well ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... has written a BIOS in basic, and expects us to ... out-compiles any of the basic compilers for the spectrum, ... 64k of ROM using a BASIC compiler - I think he ... space, if he chucked out BASIC, but then what are ... leave a large amount of memory after a language is ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... a BIOS programmed in compiled BASIC, of the use of a ... -cut, slower spectrum, with less memory. Still, if *I* did, I ... can compile something else than BASIC. :)
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Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…
... (for contention issues with ULA memory and all that if you ... in your assembler jumps and memory refrences may have labels machine ... code into the point in memory where the assembler started compiling ... nothing about interrupts).
The basic way you'd access the ... -
TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... built in bank selection memory management unit with the ... the included hardware. This memory management hardware made cartridges possible ... to move BASIC up above the two screen memory locations. All ... BASIC commands like FREE to get the amount of free memory ... -
TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... in unused memory (remember the 2068's BASIC uses more ... lower memory and may ... are in upper memory, or assumes BASIC starts at a ... stack before the BASIC program in memory and the UDGs ... only things in top memory. In addition to the ... -
SPIN-Lite (Working Title) test availableHi all, I've been having a break from SPIN, pursuing my original goal of a BASIC interpreter. Well, I took SPIN's main core and hacked it around…
... basic programs? (Creating .exes with built in emulator with already programmed memory ... with basic. When someone click exe ... it starts basic program without editor. (break will ... -
speccy emulator on OS Xhi there i am trying to use ZXSP on OS X but it won't load TAP files, and that it only supports .SNA and Z80 files. can i convert TAP files to .SNA o…
... the file in memory, but before returning to BASIC or from LOAD ... -
Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... that can be setup through BASIC statements to play music. For ... read straight from the BASIC area of memory from DATA statements for ... -
Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... a humble 27 year old basic programmer. When I was ... I just playing with zx basic to have fun and for ... your ASM routines to memory and maybe execute them ... machine code and run basic commands at the same ... command that it wont halt basic program while playing, it ... -
A New RPG?I'm trying to make my own RPG for Spectrum but I'm an awful coder so I can't get the Assembly program right :(. Will anyone be interested in translat…
What the hell are you doing developing Spectrum games in Blitz Basic?
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University DissertationI'm in my second year of a Computer Software Development Degree, and have to produce over the next 13 weeks a mini-dissertation that leads in to my d…
... machine emulated must have lower memory.
3) The machine ... can do this (see the BASIC-Spectrum emulator)
Ad ... only reason there IS a BASIC-Emulator is that the really ...
