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  • Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…

    ... bytes against the lack of compression on previous it's nothing ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN September 2009 Development
  • Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…

    ... be compensated by the screen compression now.
    BiNMaN BiNMaN September 2009 Development
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... a *little* bit with some compression but, again, the timing (and ...
    evilpaul evilpaul September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... /> It's due to the compression used to get it into ... same demo but without the compression
    evilpaul evilpaul September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... (in speccy terms). With png8 compression, it tooks 78kb. Well, unless ...
    Arda Arda October 2009 New game ideas
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... ).We could also use graphics compression so, let's say 4kB ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2009 New game ideas
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... ).We could also use graphics compression so, let's say 4kB ...
    Graz Graz October 2009 New game ideas
  • szx to real spectrum?Hi, I could not find something about this, but is there any tool that can convert the szx snapshots to tap (for example) or any other way to load th…

    ... would struggle to handle the compression. Uncompressed SZXs might be doable ...
    chev chev October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • szx to real spectrum?Hi, I could not find something about this, but is there any tool that can convert the szx snapshots to tap (for example) or any other way to load th…

    ... the picture). And it uses compression, selective loading of pages (if ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Coming soon...[IMG]http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/binman/trooper1.gif[/IMG] and [IMG]http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/binman/gbomber.gif[/IMG]

    ... also..[/QUOTE]

    screen compression has now been built into ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN October 2009 Games
  • Magnetic Scrolls Adventures...Look at that: [url]http://www.mobygames.com/game/guild-of-thieves/screenshots[/url] all of the platforms evil c64, little brother cpc, even crappy a…

    ... they also had some image compression, I mean the normal 40 ...
    fog fog November 2009 Games
  • PC200 bootdisk and monitor connectionI picked up a PC200 today and it seems to work when connected to a TV set. There is one 3,5" disk drive, but what does it need to boot? CP/M? DOS vX,…

    [QUOTE=Muzer;398300]If you only have 1.4MB floppies, most drives can format them to 720k by covering the right hand hole (the one without the plastic slider) with a piece of tape (but not all, some drives might have some special protection or something, ...
    georgedb georgedb November 2009 Hardware
  • PC200 bootdisk and monitor connectionI picked up a PC200 today and it seems to work when connected to a TV set. There is one 3,5" disk drive, but what does it need to boot? CP/M? DOS vX,…

    [QUOTE=georgedb;398761]That actually surprises me, as in the end a floppy is just a disk with magnetic material and the format process creates a structure. So why would the "1.4MB-ness" be there after formatting?

    I'm waiting for [frood42] to ...
    Muzer Muzer November 2009 Hardware
  • which one bit of hardware would people want re-made?I'm just curious in the sense of I see interface 1's go for a fair bit on ebay and also multiface units etc.. so whats the one thing that you don't …

    RetroTechie, looks like pentagon after compression? Lol,
    zaxon zaxon November 2009 Hardware
  • AY programming and notes frequencyHello everybody, I'm Targhan from the french CPC group Arkos, perhaps you've heard of us. I'm currently working on a music tool and I'd like to k…

    ... have the correct tables, the compression used to store it in ...
    chev chev November 2009 Development
  • AY programming and notes frequencyHello everybody, I'm Targhan from the french CPC group Arkos, perhaps you've heard of us. I'm currently working on a music tool and I'd like to k…

    ... have the correct tables, the compression used to store it in ...
    gasman gasman November 2009 Development
  • Magnetic Scrolls Adventures...Look at that: [url]http://www.mobygames.com/game/guild-of-thieves/screenshots[/url] all of the platforms evil c64, little brother cpc, even crappy a…

    ... must have been using some compression etc.. and the engine for ...
    fog fog November 2009 Games
  • packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…

    ... better results with general-use compression. I also use [url=http ...
    chev chev November 2009 Development
  • packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…

    ... maps, char packers etc also.. compression in general and perhaps things ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2009 Development
  • packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…

    ... suppose you could apply algorithmic compression to any of that data ... , and so-on. Do most compression algorithms allow you to unpack ...
    joefish joefish November 2009 Development
  • packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…

    [QUOTE=joefish;401334]Do most compression algorithms allow you to unpack ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2009 Development
  • Graphical Amusementsstefano (another z88dk bod) has been working on something interesting: run them with the usual LOAD "" [url]http://stefanob.webs.com/rabbit.tap[/ur…

    ... a lot of opportunity for compression. Streaming pictures off disk or ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Development
  • Anyone else have a fanboy problem?Over the past 18 months or so, there's been one individual (don't worry, I don't think he posts here, he has a very *ahem* "distinctive" writing styl…

    ... . it completely ignores any hardware compression my itu t v 42 ...
    Roger Jowett Roger Jowett November 2009 Chit chat
  • When would you use LD A,R ?Can anyone tell me a practical use of LD A,R and LD R,A I am confused when you would need to use it? Cheers

    ... need a little bit of entropy so you don't get ... that way to increase your entropy and seed the rand generator ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Development
  • transfer microdrive cartidges from emulatorWhat would be easiest way to transfer the microdrive images from emulator to real cartridges? BTW, is there some tutorial on transfering games .tap…

    ok, thanks for the info.

    I know this is asking too much, but what do you think about using compression?
    it should help fit 2 or maybe even 3 games on one cartridge, decrease loading time and tape wear.
    orange orange December 2009 Development
  • transfer microdrive cartidges from emulatorWhat would be easiest way to transfer the microdrive images from emulator to real cartridges? BTW, is there some tutorial on transfering games .tap…

    Compression? Sure, that's [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26055"]exactly[/URL] how I do it!
    jp jp December 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Microdrive File LoaderI've been experimenting with transferring games to run from microdrive. Typically I like to see a loading screen while things are happening, and I li…

    Oops, forgot to mention where I got Hrust 2.1 - it's available [URL="http://hrumer.chat.ru/bin/hrusttap.zip"]here[/URL], plus there's loads of [URL="http://hrumer.chat.ru/"]other compression stuff[/URL]
    jp jp December 2009 Development
  • many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…

    ... with the data stream, like compression - because not only is your ...
    gasman gasman December 2009 Development
  • A little teaseProbably dangerous me doing this, but I think it'll be done in time. [center][img]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/soon.png[/img][/center]

    ... the resolution using DVD/MPEG2 compression (so, higher bitrate too ...
    NickH NickH December 2009 Games
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