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Are these really different ?What differences are there between the 1986 disk version and 1987 disk version for Gunship ? Obviously, I mean differences which actually count, not …
What differences are there between the 1986 disk version and 1987 disk version for Gunship ? Obviously, I mean differences which actually count, not something like "this block of bytes resides at address #xxxx instead of #yyyy"... -
Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…
... 256 elements) into only 400 bytes ?!
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Anybody wanna swap ???Send your dupe list or requested to :- [email="cornishdavey@dsl.pipex.com"]cornishdavey@dsl.pipex.com[/email] Quite a long long list, come very co…
Updated Swap List, some nice new ones anda lot gone walkies :- And if that dont float your boat, have a look at ebay :- [url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid…
Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…
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35-16C66: Bytes : Length: 19 Normal Speed ,Pause ... : 0.510s
37-18785: Bytes : Length: 19 Normal Speed ,Pause ... : 0.467s
5- 1505: Bytes : Length: 19 Normal Speed ,Pause ...Ok Dokey, ive got 700+ Dupes to shift ;) Swapsie??I will sell the below, but id rather swap for missing tapes i dont have on a 1:1 basis. if you would like to swap send a list of your dupes to me at …
Need_Help...*.SCR TO *.TAPPLEASE...NEED HELP... HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE??? In 'Taper' convert .z80…
PLEASE...NEED HELP...
HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE???
In 'Taper' convert .z80 to .tap don't work... :(Paranoid ramblings...Thus we near the end of October, and still not a whisper of news from the makers of RealX :( :( :( :( What could have happened to them ? Could th…
...Thus we near the end of October, and still not a whisper of news from the makers of RealX :( :( :( :(
What could have happened to them ? Could they have deserted the noble cause of ZX-dom ???? Is RS doomed to be yet another emulator ...[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…
... facility that will search for bytes, strings and words
(little ...TZXed without real tapeEverybody, who knows, answer please... I have lot of ZX games, which not presented in WOS database. But they are in PC format (as dat.files, for exa…
... .dat-168 bytes, screen.dat-6912 bytes, code.dat-40536 bytes). How to ...Deduggers in emulatorsI've used several emulators with build-in debuggers, and now I want to share my opinion. Debugger in Spectaculator 6.0 is great! The interface is nic…
... instructions are represented by several bytes, so disassembly depends on start ...Wanted Software to Swap for Rom Carts ;)Wot I have for grabs is 4 Complete ROM Carts which I will swap for my wants below Horace [url="http://www.cornishdavey.dsl.pipex.com/4.jpg"]http://w…
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Paranoia Complex, The Magic Bytes/
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Re ...Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... tile data is currently 8 bytes per tile, that is, 4 ...Dan Dare 256 colour project many may not be aware of.I still need/want to try Vladimir's emulator. But I think many people here aren't aware of another 256 colour project, which was mentioned on C.S.S. …
... game palette - 129*256*3 bytes, indexed as:
((attributeNo speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…
... ] the same length (48,732 bytes), and this might lead to ...Decimals, bcd etc in z80...Working bloody full-time on my Ragnar Revival game right now - just finished the basic sprite engine and before I go on coding the actual 3d engine (…
... with each decimals in separate bytes, it was however easy to ...IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... not been confirmed) put random bytes onto the data bus at ... a table of 257 identical bytes at 256 * I and use ... a table of 257 0xff bytes and place 0x18 (JR) at ... . However, hardware devices placing random bytes onto the data bus means ...ScanlinesHere's an excerpt from the FAQ: [quote] Now for the timings of each line itself: define a screen line to start with 256 screen pixels, then border, …
... if the ULA is reading bytes it does so each 4 ...need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... realtime, it just uses preshifted bytes table (4 kbytes
bytes for left and right ... a table with all bytes preshifted to all steps ... suitable part of preshifted bytes table to use in ... stored in BC' preshifted bytes of mask and sprite ...Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
... ; Increase H, thus moving 256 bytes forward in memory to FB0Ah ... screenaddress
; Low Bytes of screen
ORG 0FA00h ...IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... ; Increase H, thus moving 256 bytes forward in memory to FB0Ah ... />
; Low Bytes of screen
ORG 0FA00h ...Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
... ; INCREASE H, THUS MOVING 256 BYTES FORWARD IN MEMORY TO FB0AH ... />
; SCREENTABLE
; HI BYTES OF SCREEN
ORG 0FB00H ... ,0E0H
; LO BYTES OF SCREEN
ORG 0FC00H ...Smooth Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48k Part 2Ok, After all the suggestions in Part 1, which were all excellent (Thankyou), I opted on the following: I have 2 x 6k Offscreen areas (Yes, that's …
... ; INCREASE H, THUS MOVING 256 BYTES FORWARD IN MEMORY TO FB0AH ... />
; SCREENTABLE
; HI BYTES OF SCREEN
ORG 0FB00H ... ,0E0H
; LO BYTES OF SCREEN
ORG 0FC00H ...Checksums in Hobeta filesDoes anyone here have any experience with working with the internals of the Hobeta (aka .$b, .$c ...) file format, or failing that, checksum algorith…
Does anyone here have any experience with working with the internals of the Hobeta (aka .$b, .$c ...) file format, or failing that, checksum algorithms in general?
There's a checksum at byte 0x0e, which, according to [url="http://www.nvg.ntnu. ...Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... chars and takes up 320 bytes.
* Tiles are pre-shifted ... starting at
* 40960. Two bytes are used for each tile ...The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…
... could be smaller than 37 bytes.
[url="http://www ... and it is now 36 bytes,
(34 if loaded on ...
