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2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
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2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
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8 pixel scrollingJust been playing Gunrunner (always forget how much I love this game, probs cos it's VERY hard) and wondered what other games use 8 pixel scrolling A…
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Trying to read in a list of items from DATA statementsThus far I have: data "cherry","apple","banana","grape","orange" But when I read it in using this: FOR X=1 TO 5: READ n$(X): NEXT X It only reads…
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Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…
... game working now (including the "scroll?" message being eliminated). Here's ... or errors.
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SAM Coupe' questionsHello everyone, As of yesterday I'm the proud owner of a Sam Coupe (yeah! also, a mint Vectrex and also waiting for my Z88 - this is my month!), how…
... nothing. Can you suggest a routine that would utilise the full ... work right. RGB is the best video signal to use from ... though - it does give the best quality picture though. The RF ... -
Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…
... /> It's looking like the best way to go about things ... with this to find the best compromise among speed, code size ... the 42 column putchar/print routine available to C programmers via ... ROM console print routine)[/QUOTE]
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Spin problems/issuesI am running Spin 0.666 and have noticed a few issues (some are bugs, some might be just me). I am using Vista sp1 (yeah I know!), and I've seen Dunn…
... guess is the Amstrad test routine).
Now select emulation -> ... try again - this is the best method I had to reproduce ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... ), best visual effect MC routine, best useful original MC routine, Best MC game, Best Spectranet utility, Best ... DivIDE+ utility, Best ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... ), best visual effect MC routine, best useful original MC routine, Best MC game, Best Spectranet utility, Best ... DivIDE+ utility, Best ... -
Things that just aren't the same anymore...Just drank a can of Tizer... It used to be such a gorgeous drink, and now it's crap!! Had a Slush Puppy a few days ago, raspberry, and that didn't ta…
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Jack Dee did a routine about them once, which I ... a lot.
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Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... it was the only fill routine on the BBC B (it ... be inputted it calls OSWORD routine 0. I just trap these ... because my screen write and scroll routines are quicker than the ... to write a correct OSWRCH routine. It is complicated as it ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... to write a correct OSWRCH routine. It is complicated as it ... ]
It's probably best to split up the task ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... has also been modified to scroll the window only. Just ... to re-write CLS, scroll the attributes and do bound ... fast divide by 15 routine to convert BBC OS ... t implemented a LINE-DRAW routine, it doesn't do ... allow me to test OSCLI routine later
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Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... discovered that the DRAW-LINE routine is described in much detail ... really got into the CIRCLE routine and that was definitely written ... sides divisible by four worked best. -
The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…
... now thinks it's the best thing for me so I ... a loader or a PRINT routine together these days :(
Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…
... I think it had the best game play of anything we ... , or thought about the next routine, or waited to pounce on ...ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
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You're best bet is probably just to ...QL and gamesWell,I am bit off topic but I cannot understand why the QL had no arcade games made for it and if it had, would they be vastly technically superior t…
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The best example of what the machine ... lot of speed optimization and routine unrolling. IMHO, QL is just ...I just learnt that Spectrum has 1kB of unused ROMWell, man learns through all his life. I have just discovered that Spectrum has over 1 kilobyte of unused ROM memory, from address 14446 to 15615. Al…
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Yup - always best to roll your own...Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... , writing your own SAVE/LOAD routine is a matter of taking ... -black, which most often looks best with a nice loading screen ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... number of ways how to scroll a window, another number of ... you don't need to scroll content of videoram ==> you ... direct part of the drawing routine. I would further optimize it ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... I need a FOUR ways scroll, do not forget. ... window four-ways text scroll at the same time ... sprites for letters for jumping scroll in your example, it ... four ways and the scroll window must be dynamic.[/ ... into memory and do dynamical routine (or set of routines) ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... need a code for window scroll not from myself. From you ... website, there might be such routine in some application. You only ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... is a left to right scroll. I talk about the up ... /down scroll. What we should do in ... overhead because you want universal routine for various widths. Demo scrolls ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
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do you know this routine? It calculates new vram address ... is the common task, to scroll a window. Why no one ... avoiding a need for such routine as much as possible (all ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... order (effects like plasma, zoom, scroll), source address could be video ... only one register and the routine could be pointed to different ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... /> I typed up the example routine from the article.
routine to scroll the Spectrum screen.[/b]
Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... . Write a very short interrupt routine that just does a RET ... . This probably isn't the best idea for compatibility reasons with ...How would you make Cybernoid a better game.Following on from the Cecco thread, it might actually be quite interesting to hear people?s views on how they would improve the recognised ZX Spectru…
... /> Try to get it to scroll, or at least allow you ... is still one of the best Spectrum games...imho...
