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Announcing Renegade mod - my gift for Renegade fansYou know that I'm playing a bit with existing games code, adding colour here and there, changing this or that :) This time I'd like to announce my m…
... all to reverse engineer it to figure out where to put ... search for the code writing to screen memory.
... Then of course you have to draw the new graphics. ... takes me some time to draw something and fit ... go deeper and try to create some new attack ... -
Brazilian TK90X and TK95SpecEmu provides explicit support for Brazilian TK90X. Other emulators provide indirect support (perhaps the "Spectrum 48K NTSC" option in Fuse?). Al…
... I do not know how to measure contention time. Is there already ... any utility to do this? Where ... can I find info about contention patterns ... length as well as the contention patterns of various things ... -
BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... TO "b:": COPY "a:" TO "b:"
16 COPY "f1" TO SCREEN$: COPY "f1" TO ... LPRINT: COPY "f1" TO SPECTRUM FORMAT ... LOAD "f4" SCREEN$: LPRINT: MERGE "f5": MOVE "a1" TO "b2"
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ReRun - Speccy OutRun done better[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Swainy_boy/outrundelux_zpsb772e8cd.gif[/IMG] Any takers? Smaller sprites, faster game.
... small sprites/graphic, game screen must be generated some frames ... All graphic, parts of screen or sprites can be in ... up to 20kB of graphic data for each screen. CPU ... read graphic data direct to screen area Ula slow down ... CPU during access to videoram, but we ... -
ZX-Assembler in progress...Dear readers, I just want to announce that ZX-Assembler is not longer only an idea in my mind. It's just alive. Unfortunately, it's too early to mak…
... "routine to print tile to screen", and addresses 64000 to 64256 contains ... 53200: comment "routine to print tile to screen"
64000: mode- ... enough people is interested to understand [URL="http://www ... perhaps export it to SkoolKit to generate a HTML version ... -
ZX-Assembler in progress...Dear readers, I just want to announce that ZX-Assembler is not longer only an idea in my mind. It's just alive. Unfortunately, it's too early to mak…
... comment "routine to print tile to screen", and addresses 64000 to 64256 contains graphics ... "
53200: comment "routine to print tile to screen"
64000: mode-graphics ... , then perhaps export it to SkoolKit to generate a HTML version.
Contended Memory woes...Hello All, An iccle problem I have and was hoping one of you fine WoSers could bail me out again... :) I've noticed that my emulator is running sli…
[QUOTE=introspec;708067]Do I understand correctly that this is only relevant when IR points to the contended memory?[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. The ULA isn't going to apply contention when the address on the bus isn't one it thinks is contended!Contended Memory woes...Hello All, An iccle problem I have and was hoping one of you fine WoSers could bail me out again... :) I've noticed that my emulator is running sli…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;708069]Absolutely. The ULA isn't going to apply contention when the address on the bus isn't one it thinks is contended![/QUOTE]
Good. This is one more excellent reason to never do this in my software!Contended Memory woes...Hello All, An iccle problem I have and was hoping one of you fine WoSers could bail me out again... :) I've noticed that my emulator is running sli…
... doesn't appear to be the right way to go. It's ... behaviour but I have much to learn.[/QUOTE]
Have ... .htm"]Spiffy[/URL]". It aims to emulate a speccy at the ... of special rules tacked on to handle contention etc.
Obviously ...Contended Memory woes...Hello All, An iccle problem I have and was hoping one of you fine WoSers could bail me out again... :) I've noticed that my emulator is running sli…
... .htm"]Spiffy[/URL]". It aims to emulate a speccy at the ... of special rules tacked on to handle contention etc.[/QUOTE]
This is reason why contention can be learned very easy ...20-column multicolour: a half-baked ideaI was writing an email reply to one Mr Jowett about multicolour routines, and in that way that explaining something to someone else makes you think "…
... the only opportunity you have to do actual game logic when ... because it's sitting waiting to draw the tiles, which it ... by carefully arranging our PUSHes to minimise contention[/quote]
That ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... it the way I want to do it, so I uploaded ... 's not too hard to change the code to do that.
dec hl ; alter lfsr range to include 0
; 020-column multicolour: a half-baked ideaI was writing an email reply to one Mr Jowett about multicolour routines, and in that way that explaining something to someone else makes you think "…
[QUOTE=aowen;714506]ULA contention will iron out kinks between ... .
Delays due to memory contention in a Spectrum 48K follows ... br />
Delays due to memory contention in a Spectrum +2A/+3 ... a lot more accesses during contention, so I'm afraid a ...20-column multicolour: a half-baked ideaI was writing an email reply to one Mr Jowett about multicolour routines, and in that way that explaining something to someone else makes you think "…
... not updated fast enough due to (different) contention. Because of this, every ...How to write self-relocating code using Pasmo?With z80asm, I can write code like this: [CODE] org 0 ; a total lie, but makes the reloc sums work .dest: equ …
... $0400,X // store at screen mem
0902 INX ... $400 // relocator now shifted to screen mem ($0400) ... start it ... part you want to relocat it to where it ...Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... they both produce the full screen horizon effects correctly however ... must update the screen by popping bytes to the screen memory.
... which takes turns to process the z80's writes to screen.
< ... better approach would be to go back to one cog looking ...Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... and I wonder if the screen write algorithms are where you ... written to screen.
I think I need to add some screen captures ... :smile:
games seem to fall into three clear camps ... 'm overclocking the clashbasher's to 104.85Mhz
...Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... on offscreen before being written to screen.
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I ... did too, to look at how it worked ... . I was half expecting it to be a trail as far ... future software may well go to the trouble of set attributes ...Code execution logging/profilingAs revealed in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41666"]this thread[/url], I'm adding support for reading code execution l…
... profiling, I think a ring buffer, preferably of configurable size, could ... . I've used this technique to debug Solaris kernel problems.
buffer to be saved out to a file. The ... captured and analysed to show what led up to that point.
Youtube DumpI think there was a thread containing only Youtube vids before but I can't find it so here's a new one. To start, here's my current favourite Mighty …
... the atari (how you draw to screen etc.) it's decent enough ... .
I was tempted to buy one of these , but ... 's awful.. pity, I used to like playing nam 75 in ...The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…
... the registers that control the screen display, mode, sprites, scrolling, etc ... 53270,0-8 (9 returns to full screen..) will give you the ... 0-255 to cover the whole X position on screen. so if ... .. much like you write direct to screen on speccy. you can also ...RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
... if a routine would move to screen adress SCR1 #C000 aswell ... drops in place' , so to say.
so probably i ... step 1 and moving to the correct screen is step 2. ... But it is an advantage to ... it the same screen source, but copied to $4000 and $ ...New game: JanosikI have a pleasure to announce my new game: Janosik In case if you wondered, Janosik (spelled Yanoseek in English) is a mountain folk hero,very popul…
... had a short play. Got to screen 7.
Old school ... /> Will likely use some snapshots to finish the game. My temporary ... so twitching games are hard to play for now.LOOK at the size of my Rom/EmulatorOk, we have 16k, 48k, 128k, even a 256 odd k Rom/Emulator But I want more :p Is there anything out there now or been worked on to give more, as the…
... this infamous doohickie referred to as [timing] "contention" all aboot, ... br />
Can contention be done away with in ... br />
Contention is due to the fact the ULA ... contention, in fact most emulators (Spud included) have an option to turn contention ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... the sprite clumps around from screen to screen..
[QUOTE= ... a while. Might get to try it if someone buys ... a bit of a struggle to keep plowing through. I ... 'm only up to the second murder scene so ... couldn't get back to without restarting/loading an ...SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…
... sa_scr_str:
cp tk_screen_str ; SCREEN$ token?
jr nz, ... ld hl, 49152 ; point to alternate screen address
.endif
ld hl, bitmap ; point to screen address
.endif
SCREEN$
jr sa_all ; ...New game: JanosikI have a pleasure to announce my new game: Janosik In case if you wondered, Janosik (spelled Yanoseek in English) is a mountain folk hero,very popul…
... a tv program,I got to screen four with the two fish ... For some reason I decided to go backwards and you ... the bear on the previous screen!,not only that If i ... correctly I walked back into screen two died and respawned on ... the left side of the screen lol.I know it ...Significant machines by yearI'd roughly divide Spectrum's hardware history into four periods: Sinclair (1980 to 1985), Amstrad (1986 to 1988 ), Russian (1989 to 1996) and Homebr…
... up with something better due to no contention. Lucky. Pentagon originated as ... . Adopted because it was easiest to hack'n'copy. Best DOS ... /+D. Just Defacto because easier to copy the hardware.
to counter until 2001. I suspect ...
