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Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... use OUT to control the beeper but you can't do ... -
Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …
... 'll need to be in Interrupt Mode 2).
Again ... -
Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …
... to setup the vertical blank interrupt, and read the keys (plus ... -
Speccy 48K Sound EffectsHow did programmers of old get the more digitisy sounds out of the spectrum, specifically the 48K machine so no Yamaha sound chip to play with. They …
... producing music on only the beeper, using various tools. May be ... -
Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …
... when the ULA's vbi interrupt occurs, the z80 reads a ... can also find a generic interrupt service routine that is able ... hooks on a specific interrupt vector. When an interrupt occurs, each of ... hw responding to the same interrupt. Each hook is the ISR ... -
Speccy 48K Sound EffectsHow did programmers of old get the more digitisy sounds out of the spectrum, specifically the 48K machine so no Yamaha sound chip to play with. They …
... is fantastic.
The beeper thing has been discussed before ... -
Speccy 48K Sound EffectsHow did programmers of old get the more digitisy sounds out of the spectrum, specifically the 48K machine so no Yamaha sound chip to play with. They …
... Beep to find the best beeper music from a game. I ... -
Speccy 48K Sound EffectsHow did programmers of old get the more digitisy sounds out of the spectrum, specifically the 48K machine so no Yamaha sound chip to play with. They …
If you wanna hear a true musical master at play with the speccy beeper, download for your emulator Chronos, Agent X 1 and 2, Raw Recruit, Vectron 3D, Future Games, Sentinel.
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Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …
... ") then you'll overhear the beeper-noise for the other games ... -
128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…
... going to change. If normal interrupt code is to run, then ... -
128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…
... on 49152
wait for interrupt
set bank 7 to ... both banks
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Games that crash because of contended memory.I find these are really annoying. You load up a game like Astro Marine Corps, Fantasy World Dizzy, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk and so on (the init…
... Cisco Heat by moving the interrupt table (years ago, before I ... -
Games that crash because of contended memory.I find these are really annoying. You load up a game like Astro Marine Corps, Fantasy World Dizzy, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk and so on (the init…
... , LDIR it into the old interrupt table, poke a couple of ... data bus and cause the interrupt to read from 0x03?? instead ... -
Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
... 't noticed is that an interrupt is about to occur (the ... I=47665/256=186. The interrupt vector table will be located ... the byte is 'X', the interrupt will jump to address X ... -
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... BC (or whatever) then... Another interrupt crashes in!
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Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... the end of Basic's interrupt routine reenables interrupts and there ... 't happen because of pending interrupt. Probably not the cause here ... -
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... make the assumption that the interrupt will jump to the address ... -
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... of info...
When the interrupt occurs, the I register is ... -
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... of hardware could cause an interrupt and put a certain value ... -
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... mouse. I usually park its interrupt handlers on vectors 0 and ... -
How can I tell if 128k in codeIs there an easy way in code to check if the Spectrum has 128k, rather than 48k so I can display a message "Must have 128k" etc
... this, set up an IM2 interrupt which does, something like XOR ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
I once used OUT (well, to be exact I think it was OTIR) in a short machine-code routine (12 bytes or so) to give an "earthquake" effect to a BASIC game, by rainbow-striping the border and sounding a short burst of white noise on the beeper... -
Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
Another vote for the AY chip being superb, I like the beeper too but the 128k Speccy had some great tunes! -
Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
... writers were more creative with beeper and got almost impossible output ... -
Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
... of avalon, dragontorc and quazatron beeper tunes as well.
did the 8bit music make you listen to electronic music?as a kid I listened gladly to BadBoysBlue and other strange bands from my father?s LP collection - and just didn?t know why. only after years found t…
I liked the 8bit music from the speccy beeper but I'm still a metalhead :pWhich ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
... can. look at the ZX beeper ;)
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BEEPer was crap. The Lord God ...Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
... , but I never said the BEEPer was crap.[/I] The Lord ... a moment... ;)
yes, the BEEPer is.... no, there?s no ...
