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Direct drive LCD screen - looking for information on previous projects people may have attempted.Hi All, My first post, so please forgive and guide if I've posted in the incorrect section. I'm a speccy user from way back in the 80's, but m…
... the 80's, but my time with the machine came to ... as to build a second copy of the video memory area ... to set it up each time.
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ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 02 January 2021Saturday 02 January 2021 Happy New Year, Spec Chums! I was hoping to do this update for Xmas - but difficulties involving fermented apples got in th…
... , and found I'd copy/pasted the same
... Still Stealin`,
strangel, Time Hole, The, Utility Cubicles, The ... , Tiki Temple, Time Lords Amulet, The,
Time Quest, Tizpan, ... Tower of Despair, Trashman - Crisis Time, Treasure,
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Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…
... some space for shadow screen buffer
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Keyboard Encoding. Would like to gather thoughts on it.Hi all, I've almost finished the first part of my open-spectrum design, and wanted to bounce one of the ideas I'd incorporated off people prior to…
... this with IO through a buffer using A0 to build a ... be scanned at any one time, except when doing things like ... -
Questions about microdrivesHi! Bought an Interface 1 and two microdrives along with around 10 microdrive cartridges. Installed (great but very expensive) vdrive zx into one …
... formats to 85 all the time just fine. Note: all the ... it? I'd guess the copy protection is pretty trivial to ... -
Whats the smallest amount of time to precise emulate a Spectrum?Whats the smallest amount of time to completely emulate a Spectrum? Maybe the ULAs timings as mentioned here: [url="https://opencores.org/projects…
Whats the smallest amount of time to completely emulate a Spectrum?< ... -
Travel Through Time Volume 1We finally get a game that could well have beaten Chase HQ as the finest scaling racer for our machines with Travel Through Time. Have a gander at th…
... our machines with Travel Through Time. Have a gander at the ... -
How to copy games to a Spectrum +3 floppy? [HELP]Hi you Guys, Can someone please explain, how can i copy a game from a pc to a +3 floppy disk? Or its also possible, to copy to a floppy using a …
... please explain, how can i copy a game from a pc ... /> Or its also possible, to copy to a floppy using a ... -
pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
... dont want to have to copy each frame of a sprite ... same sprite at the same time walking at twice the speed ... -
Sound emulation methodsI am working on a little emulation project for fun and also with the 40th anniversary of the 48k shortly followed by my Issue 2. I have the video and…
... scanline basis with a double buffer with code rendering one scanline ... a per-frame 20ms audio buffer. As scanline is rendered IO ... workout index into the 20ms buffer. Basically assembling the square wave ... advance! BTW Sorry for long time lurker ... I feel out of ... -
Spectrum +3 - Copy games from external 3.5 to internal 3 inches floppy disk [Help]Hello, I've bought a kit to connect an [b]external 3.5 floppy disk[/b] to +3. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/jdYRQD8T/kit.jpg[/img] I'm using [b]…
... .5 floppy, i want to copy that game to a original ... ?
I've tried [b]copy "b:*" to "a:"[/b] the ... copy was sucessful but it didn' ... -
is a arduino uno / nano fast enough to talk to a specie ?my current project is to load games onto the specie via SD card / Arduino uno / nano although i suspect that the micro controller will not be able to…
... respond to the Z80 in time.. but i calculated that a ... as the activation on the buffer chip but then it only ... -
Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…
... 1 (edit) clears the input buffer.
I also ... /> ld a, c
; copy HL into BC
ld ... a ; put it in the buffer
inc l
... these handlers require the buffer pos to be set< ... br /> ; work out buffer insert address
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PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... I won't forget next time!
4) Martin: As ... />
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Where to get CodeMasters games?Prompt sites, where it is possible to download original games Codemastres for ZX Spectrum in the format tap or tzx.
... probably have a much worse time trying to collect a full ... the useless and annoying disk copy protection schemes they used for ... -
INPUT ArchiveHowdy folks. I'd really appreciate some help in this. I'm planning on creating an online archive of the old coding mag INPUT (having recently acquir…
... ), but it would take some time. JPEG scans could turn out ... much to spare. As well, copy and paste would be denied ... -
That Nostalgia ThangI was bored sitting waiting on a bus the other day and it was bucketing down with rain. As it does in gloomy situations like that, my mind started t…
... past and at the same time overlooking gems of the recent ... limits. Now, where's my copy of Midnight Resistance? [img]/__forums ... -
mercenary: what did u think?mercenary was a fantastic game and i just started playing it again, it wasn't everyones cup of tea though, it had fast graphics (thx to the small scr…
... , and have probably spent more time playing these than any other ... given and then spent my time hurtling around the solar system ... as I never saw a copy anywhere? -
Games cracking...A question for the crackers out here.... What was your very first game you cracked and for how long were you 'in clouds' of it? My very first progr…
... unprotected to be able to copy, but sometimes the custom loaders ... memories... Maybe I spent more time with the disassembler than playing ... -
48K protectionWhich games were 'protected' by loading a full 48K block of code so that no copy program could fit in to memory? I know of 2 by heard. Pole Positio…
... use the polish programm called COPY COPY by Tadeusz Wilczek to split ... which will set stack pointer, copy the system area code to ... a Kill (all parts) long time ago, and it was easy ... -
what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…
... , mostly compilation packs. It was time to decide to buy a ... Austria, but I decided to copy the borrowed games and buy ... -
Plus 3 Disk ConversionIf anybody wants any commercial +3 disks converted to .dsk format, I've rigged a +3 up to my PC and can make .dsk images of nearly all commercially p…
... 's CPDread to read the copy protected
disks from DOS ...
microdrive for reliability, and copy protected disks are even worse ... a while it'll take time
to warm up, so ... /> copy protected disks. The disks don't stand the test of time ... -
Anyone need help TZXing for MIA/MIS ?Hiya folks, A lot of chat but no files yet [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] So does anyone have any of the titles in the MIA/MIS li…
I thought about that, but I don't have a soldering iron and I'm afraid the quality wouldn't be good enough.
Anyway, I actually managed to find a cable so all I need now is a copy of Taper and some spare time. -
what made the spectrum.........what in your opinion made the zx spectrum's so popular in the 80's and why? [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] octave
... naivety of the publishing houses - copy protection on the mag tapes ... any games if I can copy the game you've just ... , the games were at the time amazing and the unit was ... -
what are in your opinion........what were in your opinion the best magazines for the spectrum and why? [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] octave
... remember the first time I actually found a copy of Crash on ... -
PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... block of memory and then copy this data into the screen ... I don't have the time to write a decent programme ...
