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Gaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
... for 2010 (after 2008 and 2009 were utter disgraces, esp 2008 ... the opposition get a goal back in the 89th minute followed ... -
Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…
... issue) was only ever 1 byte per number but does have ... am wondering whether a step back to two different approaches which ... -
Using the stack to copy memory blocksA [b]PUSH[/b] and a [b]POP[/b] instruction together take less time than two [b]LDI[/b], so long [b]POP/PUSH[/b] sequences are sometimes used to copy …
... to give much of it back as you move the stack ... about optimising a push/pop byte copier that uses a loop ... -
Using the stack to copy memory blocksA [b]PUSH[/b] and a [b]POP[/b] instruction together take less time than two [b]LDI[/b], so long [b]POP/PUSH[/b] sequences are sometimes used to copy …
... to give much of it back as you move the stack ... about optimising a push/pop byte copier that uses a loop ... -
Using the stack to copy memory blocksA [b]PUSH[/b] and a [b]POP[/b] instruction together take less time than two [b]LDI[/b], so long [b]POP/PUSH[/b] sequences are sometimes used to copy …
... five cycles for just one byte, where PUSH has SP on ... when it kicks in, and back to LDI afterwards. Has anyone ... -
Is this a bug in BASin?Hi Folks, I seem to be getting a lot of issues when trying to use functions with BASin. For example, the following: [CODE]100 DEF FN a(x,y,p$)=COD…
... /> I recently upgraded to Delphi 2009 (I'm gonna go up ... a Char type is one byte, but now that they've ... -
Chuck your speccy through the window momentsInspired by my recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a mission first try and then the game crashed. I then failed to do this mission fo…
[URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/05/zx-spectrum-game-airwolf- ... I was on my way back to the surface with the ... -
New RZX Block Type Suggestion -- AnnotationWho is maintaining the RZX specification at the moment? I'd like to ask for the feasability of the following request. Annotations embedded within th…
... .e., the time never goes back). (We might eventually change this ... width. I guess single signed byte can be used to hold ... -
Memenot MoriVictorian death photos. Erm. wtf? [url]http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/[/url]
[QUOTE=thx1138;470913]Victorian death photos. Erm. wtf?
[url]http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/[/url][/QUOTE]
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Spectrum lost upper memoryHi again, I have a Rubber key Spectrum(issue 4S) which lost it's whole upper memory. It's worked okay, but i forgot it on over last night. My son wa…
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Time function?How do you do a timer? Example: Start timer If timer = 10 seconds then reset timer Thanks
... saturation (when an incrementing byte goes from 255 back to 0) happens ... -
The Official Christmas 2010 ThreadThis is rediculous. With only 752 Days to Christmas 2010 and So Cruise has allready started selling holidays :x Will this crazyness never end?? […
... 2008 and Official Christmas Thread 2009. Both of which appeared as ... E-Bay, the moment your back is turned.;) -
Spectrum PackageHi all, I'm only new to this. My dad was a BIG spectrum fan years ago but unfortunately gave it up a long time ago. Going through some of his old st…
... (Silversoft)
Roboto (Bug-byte)
Confuzion (Incentive)
Rubicon (Bug-byte)
Hunter Killer Run Silent ... Agent XII : The Mad Profs Back (Mastertronic)
Hot Rasputin ... II (Mastertronic)
Back Packers Guide to the Univers ... -
Spectrum ZX Games For SaleHi all, My dad has recently came across his Spectrum ZX and games upon delving into his stash of computers. Does anybody out there still use them,…
... (Silversoft)
Roboto (Bug-byte)
Confuzion (Incentive)
Rubicon (Bug-byte)
Hunter Killer Run Silent ... Agent XII : The Mad Profs Back (Mastertronic)
Hot Rasputin ... II (Mastertronic)
Back Packers Guide to the Univers ... -
Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
... ; Put it in the High Byte
ld a,l ; We ... the Low byte
ld l,a ; Put it back in L ... -
Windows XP Service Pack 3 WTF??So yesterday I shut down my computers which was booted into Windows XP, and it installed its updates. Now what is was doing was instlalling Windows …
... might be difficult to go back but if you search online ... it in my new April 2009 AMD Quad 3.0Ghz I ... -
ccompletly baffeled machine codeHi everyone, BEFORE you ask i have not asked help for loads of problems i have recently now encountered and i figured the problems out myself, hones…
... ld (hl),a ;write byte to screen
inc ... de ;get next byte of Character "A"
back
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Machine code[CODE] OPCODE HEX ADD LD A,05 3E05 F000 LD B,00 0600 F002 INC B 04 LOOP F004 CP A,B B8 F005 JP NZ,LOOP C2F003 F006 LD B,00 0600 F009 LD …
... 34h then the 12. small byte first.
But it ... the low bit, then going back to the high bit if ... -
DIVIDE games crashingMy DIVIDE arrived today complete with 512K CF Card, ready to go. First impressions, really good - simple file browser works fine & games load no prob…
... my 128 - It always crashes back to the DIVIDE screen when ... /systems/fatware/fatware-0-12a(2009-01-16).zip[/url]
back and reset ZX. -
DMA interface for ZX Spectrum[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url] This is internal DATA-GEAR interface for any 8-bit computer with Z80CPU. Use Direct Memory Access…
... but it would be on byte boundaries since the hardware doesn ... of the screen from the back buffer over where you are ... -
what are the hardest speccy games.can members please post what they feel are the hardest spectrum games. there are tons of them. a few i think where hard. midnight resistance jet se…
... [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/09/zx-spectrum-games-stainless ... the scanner.
Being put back to the start of the ... -
Gaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
Well, getting killed in [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/09/zx-spectrum-games-stainless-steel-zx.html"]Stainless Steel[/URL], accompanied by that awful sound effect and being put back to the start of the level has always got on my pecs. -
Where are they now...I know Matthew Smith (God love him) has been found. But I often wonder where Mervyn Estcourt and William Tang are! It would be wonderful to think t…
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Keith Burkhill was back on the scene for a ... ([URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/05/zx-spectrum-games-missile ... -
Turbo EspritWhat a classic game ! (I feel guilty now, this is now the top ranked game and Fairlight has disappeared down the list!) I still play this a fair bi…
... /> [url]http://snap2grid.blogspot.com/2009/11/grand-theft-auto-via ... />
A couple of years back I asked Mike Dailly (formally ... -
Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…
... afternoon until not a single byte of Fuse is in the ... of the Spectrum emulator scene back to the days of Gerton ... -
Zero (aka Ziggy) 0.4.5The 0.4.5 preview build is available for er... preview. There are still some bugs and glitches to iron out but I have taken various suggestions on bo…
... on: there's one flag byte at the front (to distinguish ... from data) and one checksum byte at the end, so therefore ... a block which is one byte long? The latter case isn ... something which could be loaded back by the ROM tape routines ... -
The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... -Drive (aka Genesis) was awesome back in the day. If you ... ... As an example, the first byte of work RAM for the ... -
Spy HunterBeen playing [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/10/spectrum-games-spy-hunter-classic-zx.html"]Spy Hunter[/URL] again and added it to my s…
... - [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/09/zx-spectrum-games-stainless ... killed and also being sent back to the start of the ... -
Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... interesting and took me right back to the 1980s. Amazing to ... to jump through back then to save a byte here etc. Mind ... -
Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…
... before it could send correctly back to the PC UART. The ... site. I will need a back to BASIC option too as ... /> exx
inc hl ; Next BYTE
dec de ; Length -1 ... graphics I was working on back in day before the official ...
