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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…
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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 ... -
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 …
... clear that this was the case.
[quote] In ... is most certainly not the case.
[quote] ... signals! Not a usual case for Amstrad) and the ... allows for RAM in the lower 16k of the memory ... program with the instructions for BASIC etc? Or is it ... -
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…
... remember the 2068's BASIC uses more lower memory and may overlap ... will work, and absolutely pure BASIC will work as well. ... UDGs are in upper memory, or assumes BASIC starts at a ... Routines" in lower RAM below the BASIC program. Thus the BASIC program started ... -
Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…
... lower 16k of RAM. Which would leave us with the usual upper ... memory. In that case, whether or not ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... the heart, in which case there really is no wrong ... music vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games vs ... and run away to a lower resolution mode where i ... why again, i liked the basic better, think it is ... bashing. and in this case the CPC users were the ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... to know the difference between upper and lower screen just try this ... />
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An intriguing question...Well, intriguing for me anyway. As we all know, when calling a Machine Code function from BASIC, we use the USR (address) function. But for this to …
... BC, but the call from basic can also affect the output ... the upper screen
RANDOMIZE USR will display at the lower screen ... =USR will display at the lower screen
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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... not
; be applied in case of a near jump (for ... repeatedly fills and clears the upper screen third
repeat:
lower third and it advances fifty ... 3 bits of l with lower 3 bits of h.
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... a panel for the lower part of the screen ... they also made a Basic Lightning for doing games in ... think the Spectrum needed a Basic Lightning, since IDEAL can ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.
[ ... and in WL's case you had to learn another ...Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... press any key? In that case it's most likely to ... ULA, dead Z80 or dead lower 16K RAM.
If you ... have come loose in which case just re-attach it.
upper 32K may still be duff.Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... .
And also, in case it's of any help ... I'd replaced _all_ the lower 16K RAM chips in my ... with (!) by one of the upper RAM chips! A quick replacement ...You all know this, right?Type 10 PRINT "DIXONS IS SHIT" 20 GOTO 10 RUN when it says: Scroll? Press BOTH SHIFT KEYS then ENTER see what you get. I want to know what thi…
Yep, I just tried it.
?=23
?=8
There is still no distinction between lower and upper case, so ?=?.
Strings work too, as do longer variable names.
?$="Hej?"
??=5ZX-81 Ram Pack problemHi! I know this is a ZX Spectrum forum, but I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out... I have posted this to c.s.s. but noone was able…
... , for the upper 15k (I just left the lower 1k for basic) :
Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... wrote:
And also, in case it's of any help ... I'd replaced _all_ the lower 16K RAM chips in my ... with (!) by one of the upper RAM chips! A quick replacement ...Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... lower 16K at the moment, but as usually you can use BASIC ... to work out the upper RAM....Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …
... in the upper half on 7 chips and the lower half on ... />
I'm on his case+3 disksok i got a question here. Can i put the +3 disk images that i use on the emulator back on to a proper +3 disk ? If so how would i do it and what wo…
... a list of file names, basic start lines, bytes and start ... in the first file - the basic loader. Say the CAT "T ... the +3, all filenames are upper case, and are converted to uppercase ... /loader if this is the case.
Download the +3 ...files on +3 discHello! I have question. As you know, when Spectrum +3 loads CODE file from tape, you can get by CAT command from audio header to which address it…
... you come to save the BASIC loader, it's best to ... the filename in the loader BASIC does not match the name ... (+3 converts all filenames to upper case), but ARE from tape.
What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…
... of factors. It had the basic capabilities of colour graphics and ... came in at a much lower price than the BBC, Dragon ... , it wasn't just a case of being the earliest/cheapest ...Problems with my +2A DatacorderHey folks, Bought a speccy from ebay, but i think its fucked. What do you think? Basically it turns on fine, but when i try load a game nothing wor…
... on another machine, in which case you may need to "tweak ... of the slots on the lower half of the machine.
case. Check the circuit board for ... circuit-board from the upper section of the case. Heck, I'll ...Xenon TriOxide (Xeo3)I just wanted you all to know that a new cross platform game has started development (well the +4 version has been around a while, but my colleague f…
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basic idea is pretty simple. both ...
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the first case is just skipped
case 3 is handled by this< ... down), LD L,C (restore lower byte of pointer), AND A ...Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
... is the upper screen,
stdin(0) is the lower screen and ... " command is executed from BASIC prior to running your program ... correct call to the corresponding basic function:
[code ... br />
; enter call to basic OPEN here
; ...Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... the upper half of the address bus. If you use the lower ... have the device read the upper half of the address bus ... that's a rather special case and isn't something you ...Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... lifts will be problematic in BASIC, so I am thinking of ... these graphics to display the upper lift.
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I ... , your program could draw the lower one with a gap of ...TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... as if there is bad lower RAM or TR3, ZTX313 ... lower 16K only working. Ramtop gets set at 32768 etc, no upper ... - if I run a small BASIC test program, which pokes 0 ... a 48K machine, yet BASIC can read and write the ... think) in every location in upper RAM - so it's ...Anybody fancy coding this?blah de blah de blah Please ignore, poting error.
These days, use flash - don't bother with eprom. You can replace the ROM by making an external board that connects to the edge connector, and nails ROMCS high just like ZX Interface 2, so that the on-board ROM never gets selected. Simple decoding logic ...On a 48K issue 6A......how can i isolate the 32K block? I want to test if there is any fault on the 4116's , leaving the 4532's out of the equation. Will removing the …
... tracks of upper ram just in case something was interfering with lower ram ..."Lost" 48K expansionToday I dug up my Speccy after more than 10yrs of inactivity. I bought it as a 16K in 1983, than I had expanded to 48K and never had problem. Until t…
... a Spectrum (given the case of a chip that's ... two sets of chips: lower memory (address 16384 to ... 4116 RAM chips, and upper memory, from 32768 to ... byte of upper RAM) which indicates either upper RAM is ... 8 chips for lower memory and 8 chips for upper memory - ...Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…
... at a lower address than 2068 basic can allow (2068 basic has a ... TS one is a British case/inlay/tape but does not ...
