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ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…
... fit an external 3.5" disk drive to a +3 Spectrum.
to do it, how to connect it, etc etc. In the ... too, including tools to transfer tape to disk, disk to tape etc. Also in the Alchemist collection are ... -
1MB EmulatorsI know emulators emulate 16k, 48k and 128k put could you create a emulator with 1MB of ram? I mean if you added in 256 colours (emuzwin)then you cou…
... much RAM you add to a Z80 machine you are still stuck ... of the space you have to use machine code. And the biggest program ... can reasonably written and maintained in machine code is about 50K.
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Starquake.Hi everyone I've just recently added Starquake to the HARP Database, if anyone should be interested in showing their skills in that game. For those…
... . Anonymous. I'm no expert in machine code programming, but if I understand ... you forget to visit one of the eight rooms in the lets ... than that he still needs to visit 50 screens.
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... handy pokes and stuff all in one place :)
to the question if THE WILD ... machine code, or just written normally in machine code.
I'd love it to ... BASIC and be able to add it to the list of good ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... give me an answer as to the question if THE WILD ... , compiled BASIC into machine code, or just written normally in machine code.
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to exit.Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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Valhalla was in basic? If Thats true, and ... cant be bothered to find the break key in the emu, then ... .
It's great to learn something new 21 years ... true, only the animation was in machine code.These "new" gamesI'm not sure about these new games coming out. Every dog has its day. The Speccy although legendary and magical, had its day. Call me a traitor. I …
... in machine code or BASIC!
It makes me gibber in wondorous rapture to ... still pushing and motiviating people to USE it.Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... was a BASIC program with machine code routines...
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to machine code was? For the purposes ... in that, as well as machine code. Simply press BREAK then GOTO 5000 to ... The menu screen was in machine code and I think the ..."Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... 20 school friends back then in the era. 10 had ... the year i was in at mine on the other ... single Speccy programmer working in BASIC on a text- ... working on games and tools in machine code, two of which were ...
So i'm struggling to see how your example (which ...PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
... I changed my code it worked fine to print the character ... a decimal number to little-endian format? Not in machine code, just by using ... 0x1601 conversion by translating it to binary, and took the ... apart and converted them seperatly to decimal, and then shifted ...help me identify this TYPE-IN for the Spectrum back in '83I've had an amazing time downloading some of the type-ins on this site and bring back lots of fantastic memories (I can still remember typing in Stas…
... Graphics' as this is mainly in machine code.
It is listed ... in the Software File section where ... 'Chaser' listed in Apr '83 and is available to download?
XFAWORLD Spectrum Games DownloadsI have recently put a collection of simple BASIC games created by XFAWORLD on my website. The address is:- [url="http://xfaworld.balder.prohosting.co…
... records or it was just in the proces of ?remastering? when ... .
wonder what?ll be in the bonus round...
in machine code than in basic due to speed and smoothness ... ... the picture of it was in the 48+ user guide ;)
Emuzwin / Spin AssemblerHello lads. Wondering if anyone can help. I've decided to look into playing about with some code using the Emuzwin or Spin built-in assembler. Are th…
... it where in memory to store the machine code program ... in BASIC before assembling.
Machine code can be called from basic in ... PRINT USR "address of machine code", RANDOMIZE USR "Address ...
To return to BASIC your machine code program must end ...After roughly 22 years can you help?Hi, A long one this but here goes. Roughly 22 years ago (i was 14 if i remember right) i got a 48K speccy for christmas of my dad it was awesome an…
... do it in laymans terms please :)..
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Machine code is ... bunch of numbers, but programming in machine code should not be taken literally ... number is value which goes to HL. LD is just abbrev ...After roughly 22 years can you help?Hi, A long one this but here goes. Roughly 22 years ago (i was 14 if i remember right) i got a 48K speccy for christmas of my dad it was awesome an…
... bunch of numbers, but programming in machine code should not be taken literally ... number is value which goes to HL. LD is just abbrev ... ... I've actually been trying to figure out the difference myself ... the words as it applies to one and then the other ...Magazine collectionsWhat game magazines do people collect? I have every Crash mag apart from 6 issues(with 2 binders) and every Zzap apart from 11 issues (with 5 binder…
... plus monitor /organ master in boxlots and lots of other ... stuff related to speccy/multifast 1 with ... with games and proggies on tape to tape,tape to disk.
Learm tasmantrans express. ... Sold all the crash in binders to a guy in hong kong and ...Transferring Spectrum Games onto tape or diskI've been told you can download Spectrum games in .TZX format and transfer them to a specci through the headphone jack. Can you only then save the ga…
... can transfer tapes back to a real spectrum in many ways.
tape player, to replay TZXs through your PC via sound out, which in ... you'd need some utility to transfer tape to disk, like Kobrahsoft utils or ... got on eBay from time to time. In fact I have 4 ...Looking for ramsoft MGT +D Software Compilation ArchiveOnce upon a time on the internet there existed a mgt +d archive on the ramsoft website with specially adapted multiload games as disk images etc. I …
... software in the Alchemist Software library to do the tape to disk, disk to tape stuff ... br /> The disk images that end .mgt will need to be put ... back to a proper disk by using RealSpec, and the disk ... Multiface 128 Disciple version to do what you want ...I, Ball 2Anyone else love this game as much as me? I used to play it a lot, despite never usually having much perseverence for platform-type games. It's one …
... the time, I HAD to keep playing until I ... JSW never hooked me enough to keep playing it.
... hard game I stuck to when it sounds like ... then, first in compiled BASIC and later in machine code, and the ... reduce the sampling rate (to save space) the quality ...Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... am working in BASIC - am planning to get into machine code and have ... the way.
Mastering Machine Code on the Speccy by Toni ... BASIC, but whose knowledge of Machine code is zero."
... I wrote a few routines to familarise myself with the screen ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... allows the user to choose their own machine code sprite drawing routine ... to prototype games in before going ahead and writing the game in machine code ... .
Now if BASin compiled the program to machine code, then hey writing in machine code ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... what order you choose to store them in.
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... When can see expect to see sprites working in BASin?
This ... to prototype games in before going ahead and writing the game in machine code ... are external to BASin, you load them in and use ...Checksum RoutinesHi there everybody, Does anyone have an 'off the shelf' assembler routine for generating checksums? Thanks Jim
... sum 48.rom.
In machine code the running total is rotated ... you don't own the machine and only have a few ... minutes at the keyboard to check it. Most emulators, including ...All my Machine Code Books Up For GrabsSee [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=139192#post139192]here[/url] for details. You too can learn to program the Speccy in…
[quote=robpearmain]You too can learn to program the Speccy in Machine Code[/quote]
But I don't want to :pIf you were a richman...Have you ever wondered what would you do with your Spectrum hobby if you were a millionaire and had a lot of money to spend? Would you hire some Russ…
I would finish writing my red dragon story, and instead of programming it myself I would get hundreds of programmers to program it for the Speccy in machine code! It would be the greatest Speccy adventure ever!What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?
I download it because I always tell myself that someday I'll get around to program a proper speccy game in machine code and would thus like a nice development environment but then I've never actually got around to it.Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... , solved, and programmed. In this way I don't ... boiled down to basic operations on a Turing machine, yes, ... but there are higher levels of organization and approaches to ... end up in machine code ALL languages are then resolved to movement of ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... end up in machine code ALL languages are then resolved to movement of ... getting at with the Turing machine comment.
[ ... of like in 1984 where big brother tries to control the ... by rewriting the dictionaries in order to eliminate unproductive lines of ...Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... have same vertical pos. relative to printed text (numbers).
... that Print to desired (vertical) pixel pos is possible in Basic - ... draw standard characters from ROM to desired vertical pos - can ... can be simpler made in machine code than in Sinclair Basic.Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
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The idea is to peek each row of the ... it to poke the right and left parts in two ... opitmized, or implemented in machine code.
Forgot to say: this is ... to the vertical by using four UDG and a bit more code ...
