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Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!
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The return of the properly large open world that ...
There's no mention of the character's social lives. A ... I'm honestly getting a bit tired of the fact that Rockstar, with ... take a bit of a risk and do something along the lines of GTA ... -
Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!
... I'm honestly getting a bit tired of the fact that Rockstar, with ... take a bit of a risk and do something along the lines of GTA ... a Beatles concert in one of the missions. The country would become almost ... in Britain, then in the first part of the game (GTA games ... -
Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
How can I check the state of the flag register?
Example the zero flag.
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Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…
... the two bytes of each sprite line left or right by using bit ... shifts of the bytes to put 2 ... checking at the start of the sprite routine and then editing the inner loop ... to do the ... -
Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…
... the two bytes of each sprite line left or right by using bit ... shifts of the bytes to put 2 ... with the number of blank pixel columns on the right of the sprite.
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Reverse engineering Sinclair's 1974 calculatorInteresting read: [url]http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html[/url]
... you were talking about the 4-bit ALU of the Z80, then it would ... .com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-how ... -
Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... choosen set of 'command codes'. The available commands and the layout of the 'Command Block ... Status' plus the fact that bit 6 of the 'Status' byte holds the ready flag ... , are found in the ... -
New Game: 'Axel K. and the Lost Bills'Hi guys. My first title for ZX Spectrum is out there and I would like to share it with all of you. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aI1qcKIVCdg/UnZAV…
... the blocks lined up where I wanted them on a lot of the ... screens. The player in the YouTube walk through ... an expert at that bit..!
Some of the rooms have a ... lot of spikes, but I did ... -
New Game: 'Axel K. and the Lost Bills'Hi guys. My first title for ZX Spectrum is out there and I would like to share it with all of you. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aI1qcKIVCdg/UnZAV…
... the blocks lined up where I wanted them on a lot of the ... screens. The player in the YouTube walk through ... an expert at that bit..!
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Worst examples of "Attribute Clash" (Colour Clash) in a gameHi all, you all know the spectrum's attribute clash / colour clash issues (I personally liked it, and thought it was interesting). I'm just wondering…
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Despite loving the games, I thought [B]Avalon ... Dragontorc[/B] suffered quite a bit. Some of the colour schemes (e.g ... it worse combined with the different colour of objects, chests and ... I would prefer the existing colour and the clash that comes ... -
SNES versus Megadrive (yet again...)One of the most debated things on the Internet is which is best between the [B]Super Nintendo[/B] and the [B]Megadrive[/B] (we've even covered it on …
... play on the Megadrive at the time because of the speed and ... probably my first taste of the Nintendo way of doing games.
bit jealous of the layers of colourful parallax scrolling, ... but not so much of the ... -
SNES versus Megadrive (yet again...)One of the most debated things on the Internet is which is best between the [B]Super Nintendo[/B] and the [B]Megadrive[/B] (we've even covered it on …
... play on the Megadrive at the time because of the speed and ... probably my first taste of the Nintendo way of doing games.
bit jealous of the layers of colourful parallax scrolling, ... but not so much of the ... -
SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…
... doesn't use any of the note information for AY, ... the beeper, for example, it just send the top bit instead of the top ... 4 bits of the mixer output ... 1 bit.
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ZXDS 1.2.0Hello, after two taxing months full of all-spare-time work, [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/"]new ZXDS release[/URL] is out. Better than ever, it brings…
I'm a bit out of the loop with the Speccy scene but ... with an R4 card the first thing I did ... probably only just scratched the surface of what I can do ... got a warm feeling of nostalgia watching demo's such ... -igniting my passion for the greatest computer I have ... -
Using the stack to blit bufferI was using a ldir to blit my back buffer to the screen RAM, and it was working pretty well if not rather slow. After reading about using the stack …
... such case you can clear the background really quickly, for example ... a few sprites, clearing only the data at their position could ... /> I'm a bit scared of the interrupt stuff at the moment. I've ... me to some material regarding the interrupts that's helpful for ... -
Using the stack to blit bufferI was using a ldir to blit my back buffer to the screen RAM, and it was working pretty well if not rather slow. After reading about using the stack …
... I'm a bit scared of the interrupt stuff at the moment. I' ... think of them as a custom function that the z80 ... similar to how the z80 scans the keyboard for input ... you need if you want the z80 to "service" ... to some material regarding the interrupts that's helpful ... -
THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…
... an EGA* style colour scheme! The EGA games I saw all ... , vastly inferior to the 8 or 16 bit versions of the same game on ... the Spectrum/C64/CPC/Atari ... -
DIY Issue 1 Internal 32K RAM expansionFollowing on from the information in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40173"]this[/URL] thread, I finally figured this ou…
... 8 of the 16 way header being 2mm from the bottom left of the ... />
Pin 7 of the 14 way header is 127mm right of the previously mentioned ... pin 1 of the left IC socket and pin 16 of the right ... .5mm.
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Joystick Interfaces on +2AJust found out that my DK'Tronics joystick interface doesn't want to play with my +2A (black). The Kempston port works OK, but not the Sinclair port…
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Make use of data bit D7 of the "Kempston" interface.
... every time the Spectrum does an IN. The state of the flip- ... flop determines which joystick is read.
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Fixing/modding my new +3Hi, In december I won an auction for a working +3 with a dead floppy drive, + a Multiface 3, some disks and tapes, for a very low price (I think nob…
... : and B: selects out to the floppy port and have 2 ... easy. If you've removed the internal drive then you don ... 't even need to cut the drive select lines etc, just ... between pin 4 of IC15 and the lower pin 7 of the external floppy edge ... -
Fire n' Ice, is it possible to convert it tp tap. or tzx?Wathching a little bit the video from this game in rzxarchive, and it is really outstanding. So I was wondering if its possible to make the trd file …
... hours ago. Thats 18 hours of solid hacking. I actually hacked ... .
(3) Show the contents of the A register in the debuggerer. (fnuur) Having to ... is getting very long in the tooth. Showing RAM paged in ... -
Fire n' Ice, is it possible to convert it tp tap. or tzx?Wathching a little bit the video from this game in rzxarchive, and it is really outstanding. So I was wondering if its possible to make the trd file …
... ago. Thats 18 hours of solid hacking. I ... /> (3) Show the contents of the A register in the debuggerer. (fnuur) Having ... getting very long in the tooth. Showing RAM paged ... , and it that the game seems to play ... and the music too, is it consequence of the trddos to ... -
Fire n' Ice, is it possible to convert it tp tap. or tzx?Wathching a little bit the video from this game in rzxarchive, and it is really outstanding. So I was wondering if its possible to make the trd file …
... hours ago. Thats 18 hours of solid hacking. I actually hacked ... br /> (3) Show the contents of the A register in the debuggerer. (fnuur) Having to ... is getting very long in the tooth. Showing RAM paged in ... have an unique debugger, best of all (by its features, not ... -
Fire n' Ice, is it possible to convert it tp tap. or tzx?Wathching a little bit the video from this game in rzxarchive, and it is really outstanding. So I was wondering if its possible to make the trd file …
... hours ago. Thats 18 hours of solid hacking. I actually hacked ... .
(3) Show the contents of the A register in the debuggerer. (fnuur) Having to ... is getting very long in the tooth. Showing RAM paged in ... -
HORACE MINER 2Hi folks, Horace Miner 2 is now available. Please use a 48K Spectrum to run this. [url]http://stevebroad.x10.bz/spectrum/download/HoraceMiner2rele…
... out the best routes round the screens yet.
Some of the ... you. It's a bit reminiscent of the first two stages in Horace ... & the Spiders where jumping ... can seem a bit erratic, and ... -
Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…
... their 8-Bit lines around 1985 and 1990 because of the strength of the market ... -Bit system would still be cheaper than an Atari ST/Amiga of the ... what was offered on the early 16-Bit systems of the time.
Machine Code in 30 minutes - car gameWotcha folks, 30 years on and I'm still struggling with Machine Code. I'm going through the 30-minute tutorial on the Chuntey blog and it's all made…
... ? My best guess from the ZX Manual is that we ... 'peek'(ing) the Accumulator with the contents of the C register ...which doesn't ... make sense![/QUOTE]
First of ... which address is in BC register.
Yes, it ...Spectrum sometimes boots with graphic issuesA while ago, my Spectrum 48K (issue 3B) broke down after fiddling with a brand new joystick interface in combination with DivIDE. Today I tested the …
... program to display text across the entire screen, you should be ... tell from that exactly which bit(s) of the character cell are being ...Jet Set Willy Walkthrough with commentaryHi All My latest walkthrough is on your tube: [URL="http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo"]http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo[/URL] This time it is Jet Set Willy, w…
... is Jet Set Willy, with the official Software Projects pokes applied ... , take a look at the Atari 8 bit version of the game. I reviewed ... s astonishingly bad. One of the worst ports of any game ever. You ... Any play tips applicable to the Speccy and CPC versions don ...Jet Set Willy Walkthrough with commentaryHi All My latest walkthrough is on your tube: [URL="http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo"]http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo[/URL] This time it is Jet Set Willy, w…
... , take a look at the Atari 8 bit version of the game. I reviewed ... 's astonishingly bad. One of the worst ports of any game ever. You ... . Any play tips applicable to the Speccy and CPC versions don ... me wonder how difficult some of the real nasty screens might be ...
