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Has anyone tried to compose any C64 soundtracks on an AY chip?There is no doubt the SID chip was an excellent soundchip and was used heavily by great composers such as Rob Hubbard. One of my favourites is the Mo…
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12V missing on an issue 3I’ve been working on an issue 3 Spectrum +. It shows thin distorted vertical stripes on bootup. +5 and -5V are all right but the 12V line measures ro…
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New DBOk, time to clear this up. After god knows how many pages of discussions, nobody from ZXDB has contacted me at all. Firstly, there will never be a…
... Firstly, there will never be an agreement as to what happened ... , there will never be an agreement. I will however ... t forget - we are an archive. It's a lot ... database.
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An Xmas ProjectI'm looking for a small project to do while I'm off this Christmas and I quite like the idea of improving an existing game in the way some of the guy…
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Program directly on an speccyHi guys! I just bought a couple of spectrums and want to code assembly directly on the Spectrum. Don't want to use an emulator. On my C64 I use…
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ZX Spectrum BASIC "non UK" titles that can be easily translated to make an "easy" English VersionIt was the 16K German version of LEMONADE STAND written in BASIC that made me think about this . Really , I suppose this translation aspect just…
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Extended Art Studio (probably) isn't an alias for Advanced Art StudioCurrently infoseek shows [i]Extended Art Studio[/i] as an alias for [i]Advanced Art Studio[/i]. However, I suspect this isn't the case. Crash [ur…
... ]Extended Art Studio[/i] as an alias for [i]Advanced Art ... microdrive and Kempston interface owners an extended OCP ART STUDIO at ... EXTENDED ART STUDIO and includes an extra shape, [i]Arc[/i ... STUDIO os also available as an upgrade for £12 inc. P ... -
Was there an Emulator featuring RamTurbo Interface?IIRC, there was one Emulator which offers an Joystick Interface Hardware Option as "RamTurbo Interface" from Ram Electronics Ltd (UK) [url="https://w…
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Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... actually not that hard to calculate where a sprite should be ... solve this problem, you had an overhead.
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line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... improved?
There is still an overhead for unnesessary calculations of ... is an incremental algorithm, so we don't need to calculate arbitrary ...random numbersCan you write a piece of code that gets you a truly random number from the Spectrum, or is it only capable of generating a pseudo-random number (ie. …
... back to an interesting question. Turing machines can calculate all the functions ... well. I talked about this an afternoon with a colleague, trying ...Machine Code ChallengeHere's a challenge for all you Z80 programmers. Points to be awarded for elegance and brevity. (I haven't got the solution either) HL addresses the …
... good ones.
i am average. i don't know how ... . because such problems depend on an algorithm you choose, not on ...Machine Code ChallengeHere's a challenge for all you Z80 programmers. Points to be awarded for elegance and brevity. (I haven't got the solution either) HL addresses the …
... good ones.
i am average. i don't know how ... . because such problems depend on an algorithm you choose, not on ...Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…
... uSpeech enabled, for example, load an .sna/.z80 of a game ... emulated speccy crash :( How are average users supposed to know to ... format. You can happily save an .szx file part way into ...What made a good games reviewer?Hi all, I've been quite a regular visitor to this fine web site for any Speccy interested ones. One of the qood things I've noticed here is that you…
... makes it a better than average game! Or what about STUN ... more a great read than an accurate reviewing magazine.The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... superior to that of the average PC game of today... or ... had Amigas here. If such an operation would have been carried ...Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…
... tell your assembler where to calculate jumps and whatnot from. In ... the AY is to do an OUT control, register to access ... refer to sound properties), then an OUT data, value to write ...Crash CD'shi guys, any of u received the Crash CD's yet? about to order them and wondered what they were like.. regards
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each page have about an half megabyte size and is ...Question on 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit...Hello, Sorry, this is probably a really dumb question(and something I should know by now :)). I tried doing some searches about this but came up only…
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The 8088 was an internal hybrid like the Z80 ... is weird. It's an improved 32 bit core, ... but the 68030 had an MMU and the 68040 had ... data bus and is called an 8 bit processor. The ...What exactly was this all about?I remember this advert appearing in magazines: [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/l/LADrugsBust.jpg"]ftp://ftp.worldofsp…
I acquired the tape when I bought somebody's game collection, so I don't know about whether it ever had an inlay (mine doesn't), but I can confirm that it's a rather average Operation Wolf game.Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... displays on the screen in an instant. the idea is ... ! :D ... besides Multitech is an almost perfect way to mimic ... do in 8x2 in an area of regular 16x16 ... approach it differently, in an unorthodox way. then if ... be nice if it could calculate and divide the darker ...Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... displays on the screen in an instant. the idea is ... ! :D ... besides Multitech is an almost perfect way to mimic ... do in 8x2 in an area of regular 16x16 ... approach it differently, in an unorthodox way. then if ... be nice if it could calculate and divide the darker ...games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... learn a proper programming language, an approach which required more than ... things that would drive the average person nuts in machine code ...Can somebody help me with this?One of my "friends" shoved a piece of metal into the back of my spectrum (48k RAM) and now whenever I try to use it theres nothing but weird lines an…
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ok - average cost is usually ?6-7 - ... - in fact that's still an option anyway, as (1) you ... I can replace it with an identical one.
just ...Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... never meant as an educational machine.
An inexpensive processor ... the mid '70s when the average 8 bitter cost about $ ... market transitioned from being an educational hobbyist market to ... hand, was intended as an inexpensive hobbyist machine from the ...
