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Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …
... /> PrepareMap_Mod1 ;63872
;change copy tiles to buffer in loop code
;jump here ... /> PrepareMap_Mod2 ;63892
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Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... I transfered the code block from the tape to disk where it executes ... correctly so I took the code ... file from the disk image to the pc ... of the game code. Assemble the depack code to 24576, it should ... -
Help a small machine code game.Hello all you clever wossers are there any GOOD?? games that are in machine code (no basic apart from the loader,rnd usr bit) but are very small ma…
... any GOOD?? games that are in machine code (no basic apart from the ... /> I seem to have coded some ZX Spectrum games in less than ... games require 48K due to the coding in upper memory.
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Blocky
Return to Mazeddy's Castle
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How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
in machine code?
Well its ... />
First you have to learn what bits and bytes ...
then print one to the screen
then ... works
then learn how to do colors
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Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... published unprotected in the compilation "Frank Bruno's Big Box" (disk 2 ... own tape to disk conversion.
P.S.: It's working in my ... triggers only on tape versions or if this disk version is also ... /> Also, it was released unprotected in 6-Pak Vol 3, but ... -
Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... published unprotected in the compilation "Frank Bruno's Big Box" (disk 2 ... own tape to disk conversion.
P.S.: It's working in my ... triggers only on tape versions or if this disk version is also ... /> Also, it was released unprotected in 6-Pak Vol 3, but ... -
ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…
... !! So, I have given in to sensibility and recoded most of ... a casual coder, to have all this running in machine code, it's something ... (well, it is for me). Running the code ... add the identifier to an address stored in DE to give me ... -
New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…
... multi-colour border effects in BASIC. To be honest, it took ... to the attributes in machine code.
It was used in a few games in ... 1985/1986 to ... a lot in the demo scene, getting up to 16-wide ... -
Learning Machine Code the +2a wayHello again all, I thought I'd ask in this forum as the other categories seem less relevant. I keep re-reading the thread below with the advice given…
... done well you have to do it in machine code. Especially with midi over ... about the +2 in that book. According to the Crash review of ... It said: "nothing about writing to the MIDI and the Serial ... should have posted this question in "Development" instead, but that' ... -
New IF2 Cartridge: Manic MinerI want to release some IF2 cartridges for ZX-Uno. This is the first one. [url]http://zonadepruebas.com/download/file.php?id=2668[/url] I am not gra…
... 3D00 and change the first line in PRCHAR:
[CODE]
... PRCHAR: LD H,$1F
[/CODE ... exomizer, with twice better results in decompression time.[/QUOTE]
... Wow! :o I'm honoured to have been able ... -
Game code view DebuggerHi Is opening up a game such a manic miner in a debugger such as spin going to give me a true view of the code used in developing the game? Cheers
... the like would have had to have all the spectrum op ... on paper then convert to machine code and punch it in.
Or ... them routines in machine code?
Its would be interesting to see how ... -
Playing AY musicHi I'm looking for a piece of software to play AY files or beeper files on my 128k toastrack. What is a good place to find those AY files also the ni…
... in it to save a module as .tap file, together with player code ... . Then you would need to write and add a short program in machine code ... 't know any easier way to convert a file with AY ... idea, I'd be happy to learn :) -
RS232 on Spectrum 128KDoes anyone actually use the RS232 port on the Spectrum 128K? Is there anything useful that can be done with it? I know about the keypad with the Sp…
... , with correct timing, appear to be RS232 to other devices. The ROM ... use RS232 through BASIC... but in machine code you should use the ROM ... be used to input hex codes (like those in type-in listings).
Best book for learning assembly programming on ZX Spectrum?Hello, I'm currently learning BASIC programming from ZX Spectrum BASIC programming manual. After I learn BASIC, I would then like to learn assembly…
... William Tang.
Just in case you've got games ... in mind I wouldn't restrict yourself to old resources ... ]
I used these in tandem with Tang's book ... I never got around to inputting the machine code Frogger program at the ...Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…
... , it's taking so long to draw the main char that ... so you could change the draw order in the code to draw the character ... of the main character draw to a scan line that is ...48K: Half of copyright message in the middle of the screen?!Issue two. Has 74LS08 over the Z80, but the ULA is 5C112E-3 (I think this should be a 5C102E??? - I have one, but I'm not sure if it is working, at l…
... is storing the data byte in the correct location?
Now you need to run a test program that ... , most of these are written in machine code because the run from a ... one that loads and runs in the "lower" RAM. But as ...fastest Sound FX methods in ZX BASIC?Right now I'm doing an alternating footstep sound in my game using this following Beep statement. [code]beep 0.008,-4 + tog+tog+tog+tog : let tog=1-…
... on a 48K is to use higher pitched tones, ... shorter periods.
In machine code you can manually tweak the ... but you still have to do it several times ... frame for it to be even audible. To do the same ... from BASIC would pepper your code ...Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
... and spent hours trying to figure out machine code without a reference or ... for nostalgia.
In the absence of the front ... code or artwork to a project if I could watch it develop in ... real time and respond to constructive criticism.< ...Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... watch a SCREEN$ loading to visualise the pattern. ... try POKEing specific addresses to find your way around.< ... each chunk, to move one character to the right ...
Within a character, to move down a pixel row ... 256 (which is easy in machine code as you just do ...Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... a sh**ty music demo in machine code (lost the master tapes)
4. Failed to label/catalogue duplicate/triplicate copies ... games
5. Loaded EVERYTHING in USR 0 mode
6 ...Film recommendations please!I've hardly watched any films, but would like to get into the genre. Seems to me though most films nowadays are all about kung fu and explosions. Has…
... I'd love the chance to discuss how I think it ... ]
I challenge you all to resolve this impenetrable puzzle and ... to watch this if you can't read a type-in written in machine code ... or in case you didn't ...Jetset Willy ATTR Buffer 2Does anyone understand how Jetset Willy uses the system vars area as screen ATTR buffer 2? H5C00 D23552. Thanks
... pure machine code loop doing fancy stuff but whenever it gets back to ... system's vars to be anything else to stay operating in the sane ... />
When you're programming in machine code the whole RAM area is ...Zx Spectrum Football ManagementHi, Has anyone played any football manager games from World Of Spectrum? What ones have you played and what do you think of them? I'm still playin…
Kenny Dalglesh has proper graphics and is written in machine code and is fun for a while but starts to become a bit 'samey'.ZX81 software and Spectrum compatibilitySorry for the newbie question ? can the Spectrum load ZX81 software?
... could. You'd still have to convert any system variables used ... to the Spectrum equivalents though.
I doubt anything written in machine code ...Please explain Spectrum FPGA-clones to meI've been using the great ZXDS-emulator on the DS XL so far, which is great. But I kinda missed toying around with hardware. I've tried bidding on a …
... the same job, in an almost identical way, to a ULA. But ... you'd care to explain what the 'P' in 'FPGA' stands ... with a different CPU to interpret Z80 machine code.
The word ... radio and television shows (as in programming the VCR / DVD recorder ...Which emulators support ULA+Tried ZX Spin 7.0, but its unstable. Tried to drag and drop .scr files onto it, but it comes out all wrong. Don't understand the TAP file that's sp…
... for each of the colours in the look up table. The ... want to set the palette from within your own program in machine code you ... just need to export the 64 ... bytes and put them in a ...Which emulators support ULA+Tried ZX Spin 7.0, but its unstable. Tried to drag and drop .scr files onto it, but it comes out all wrong. Don't understand the TAP file that's sp…
... each of the colours in the look up table. ... to set the palette from within your own program in machine code ... you just need to export the 64 ... bytes and put them in ... file, I'm beginning to think my version of ...Horace you smooth mover!Just wondered, was Horace the first character to move smoothly around the screen - rather than in a blocky, character space by character space fashio…
... these aspects in machine code.[/QUOTE]
No, it's being able to draw ... by storing the sprite in memory in a number of pre ... -shifted horizontal positions, aligning to the ... because he was the first to move in four directions? (different ...GameBaddie's Art project...Hi Guys, I've recently revived my old 48k for a (just-for-fun) art project. I have about 4 weeks of spare time to accomplish my goal, and the plan i…
... has answered Q2 (but even in machine code border stuff wouldn't fit ... you're doing). Just wanted to say that it looks very ... the image you're trying to recreate?SPIN AssemberHi, I'm in the early stages of learning assembler, and am now looking at some tutorials from Toni Baker in ZX Computing: [url]http://wos.meulie.net…
... , this now works:
[CODE]
TVFLAG equ $5C3C
jr LOOP
[/CODE]
What still rather ... the transition from entering HexCodes in machine code books to pure assembler quite a ...
