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  • IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…

    ... -A15 during an I/O bus cycle.

    What I ... Z80 wants to initiate a bus cycle that might affect contended ... Z80 can only read FFh (floating bus).

    Convinced myself about ... only contends the I/O bus cycle if A8-A15 falls ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2009 Hardware
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... memory not emulated yet
    [*]Floating bus not emulated yet
    [*]Quick ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 February 2010 Emulators
  • IM2 Loading on +3EHi there Speccy Guru's, As some of you know, I've spent a while building the ultimate image for +3e, it's currently at 6000+games and demos and i've…

    ... 's not due to the floating bus, maybe the real hardware changes ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae April 2010 Development
  • Tricks with IN 31It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ap…

    ... start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ...
    ajmoss ajmoss April 2010 Hardware
  • Contention detectionJust a thought, based on discussion elsewhere... Is there any way of telling if reads/writes are being contended around the time that they happen? L…

    ... .

    There's the floating bus method, for telling whether the ...
    joefish joefish April 2010 Development
  • Emulating the 128KeIt occurs to me that I wasn't frequenting WoSf when I created the 128Ke standard, which means some people haven't heard of it. Here it is: [url]http…

    ... plus software that requires the floating bus. 128 software that requires the ...
    chev chev April 2011 Emulators
  • Shadow ROM partial decoding not implemented in emulatorsOr at least, not implemented in Spectaculator, and it seems that not in Fuse too. [URL="http://www.speccy.org/foro/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=408&start=53"…

    ... from the main ROM, not floating bus (ULA/FFh), of a mirror ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix June 2011 Emulators
  • ZX Spectrum 48K clone and test resultsHi! This is my first post, so, first of all, I'd like to say hello to the whole community! I am Alessandro Dorigatti from Italy and I'm developing …

    ... aligned with the sea, Arkanoid (floating bus version) works fine.

    adorigatti adorigatti July 2011 Hardware
  • Timing of Timex Computer 2068Is the timing of the Timex Computer 2068 fully documented yet? I have one here with the ZX Spectrum Emulator cartridge and have downloaded a few test…

    ... on the Timex not a floating bus. I'm wondering how to ... only part of the SCLD bus is coupled to the Z80 ... bus via resistors. I have seen ...
    rga24 rga24 April 2013 Hardware
  • Enable 128kB paging in emulatorFrom Zx Spectrum documentation ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/128kreference.htm[/url]) [CODE][SIZE="1"]When memory is being pag…

    ... 0x7ffd produces no special results: floating bus values will be returned as ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2013 Emulators
  • Tricky ZX RepairHello guys, This time I put my hands on a very nice Issue 3 16K, upgraded to 48K. To bertter explain "nice", it is absolutely mint, not a scratch on…

    ... to switch on the scope. Floating bus seems to behave okay. DMM ... 's nothing else on the bus. Logic levels on the Z80 ...
    Falco-F8L Falco-F8L December 2013 Hardware
  • ****ing Awesome Spectrum Engine (FASE)This is a new engine (sprites, tiles, map) for all ZX Spectrum machines. The engine set ups a runtime enviroment that leave between 24K and 30K byt…

    ... diferent implementation for each machine (floating bus in 48K, shadow screen in ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena January 2014 Brand new software
  • Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…

    ... high byte of the address bus is used to select ... be any contention on the bus because that's the ... on a spectrum with a floating bus it should be fine shouldn ... through contention on the data bus? Are there othere models of ... having done away with the floating bus.
    Basher Basher January 2014 Hardware
  • New test for finding missing +2A/+3 ULA timing detailsHello, having added the +2A/+3 emulation recently, I want to make sure I got the ULA timing 100% right. We know when the contention pattern starts, …

    ... the screen bytes. Obviously the floating bus can't be used to ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak March 2014 Emulators
  • Smokin... more 48k woesHi, it looks like I've converted another Spectrum 48K+ into a smoke machine. I'd been rebuilding an Opus Discovery unit and everything looked good. …

    ... , as is the NMI and floating bus. The ROM checksum is also ...
    rune rune November 2014 Hardware
  • [NEW] Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 for OSX released!!!!Here it is! Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 RELEASED!!!! Many thanks first to Patrik Rak for the PZX format and for their Z80 tests without which RVM…

    ... % accurate).
    Emulation of the ‘floating bus’
    Emulation of the contended ...
    jcgamestoy jcgamestoy September 2015 Emulators
  • New stable version ZEsarUX-4.2Hi everyone! I have uploaded a new stable version of ZEsarUX emulator, version 4.2. You can download it from: https://sourceforge.net/projec…

    ... symbol (*) is shown
    Improved floating bus value
    Updated Z88 OZ ...
    chernandezba chernandezba December 2016 Emulators
  • Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…

    ... case someone suggests using the floating bus - that's what I'm ...
    evilpaul evilpaul August 2017 Development
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... the mystery of the elusive floating bus on these machines, and no ... if I can fetch a bus value from it. Now, I ... this anyway), and skip ULA/bus polling on a +2A/3 ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • New emulator - Spectramine v.1.0b releasedI post the first release of my Spectramine emulator, with minimal functionality, for public testing of emulation quality and compatibility with games…

    ... to him for that!). Also, floating bus of +2A/+3 is emulated ...
    weiv weiv September 2017 Emulators
  • Programs with strict timing requirements.Hi, all, I am a bit stuck about the timings of my SpecIde emulator. (https://github.com/MartianGirl/SpecIde) The thing is, I think that the tim…

    ... , the programs from the +2A floating bus thread, shock, overscan, mda, hercules ...
    TheMartian TheMartian April 2018 Emulators
  • SpecIde updated!Hi, all! In these past months I've been brushing up a bit my emulator, SpecIde, a.k.a. the least efficient emulator in the world. At this momen…

    ... (Issue 2/3, contended memory, floating bus, snow effect...)
    - Pixel-perfect ... /+2. (Also with contended memory, floating bus, snow effect...)
    - Pixel- ... 've implemented the contended memory, floating bus port...)
    - Kempston and Sinclair ...
    TheMartian TheMartian May 2019 Emulators
  • ZXDS 2.0.0Hello, after few months of intense work, I am finally ready to announce [url="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]new ZXDS release[/url] for Nintendo 3DS. The …

    ... WPA instead of WEP, or floating bus emulation for +2A/+3 machines ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak December 2019 Emulators
  • Inkspector 2.0 (final) releasedI’ve just released Inkspector 2.0 final (there was a preview version released before Xmas). It’s a new emulator for Windows with all-new code (non ca…

    ... behaviours including the +2A/+3 floating bus) it has a built-in ...
    inky inky May 2020 Emulators
  • Compatibility of Spectrum 128K and +3I wondered if the are any compatibilty problems between software running on the 128K and the +3. e.g. if I would connect a disk drive to the 128K wou…

    ... to define the lack of floating bus as an extension, in which ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ArcadiaIt's been bugging me for years - why does your ship in Arcadia wobble all over the place with a tendency to veer to one side? Was that intentional or…

    You need to play it in an emulator (such as SPIN or Spectaculator) with the Fuller joystick attached. The game assumes that there is one, and the lack of one combined with floating bus behaviour produces that effect.

    D.
    Dunny Dunny July 2003 Games
  • Detecting +3 or +2AIs it possible to detect whether your BASIC program is running on a +2A/+3 or a proper 128?

    ... /+3 don't have a floating bus effect so you'll always ...
    Woody Woody August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • bug in spectaculator? Hi Jon, While testing the AMX mouse emulation in Spectaculator I noticed that the mouse buttons don't work. My program reads port $df to detect mo…

    ... only puts bits on the bus when you press a button ... of screen and attribute bytes (floating bus effect).

    [quote]
    Jon Needle Jon Needle August 2003 Emulators
  • One Man And His DroidPosted a few days back about control probs with a few games, after a bit of getting used to what to look for controls-wise and all the .txt files und…

    Looks like the game ignores the keyboard if a kempston is attached.

    So you either need an emulator with kempston joystick support or, for keyboard, an emulator that gives floating bus behaviour on port 31.
    Woody Woody April 2004 Games
  • One Man And His DroidPosted a few days back about control probs with a few games, after a bit of getting used to what to look for controls-wise and all the .txt files und…

    ... keyboard, an emulator that gives floating bus behaviour on port 31.
    bus floating over port 31. It will ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2004 Games
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