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Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
... unbeatable, and it works in constant time too.
Here's my ... lookup table will save some time
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sound sample rangesIf 0 is the midpoint for a range such as 127 to -128 then should the value -128 not be used for the sake of symmetry? Is this the way it is done wit…
... sample from this encoding in constant time, though, so in that respect ... -
sound sample rangesIf 0 is the midpoint for a range such as 127 to -128 then should the value -128 not be used for the sake of symmetry? Is this the way it is done wit…
... an infinite length stream). A constant time algorithm which takes up 2058 ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... a sequential read remains a constant time operation however.
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Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... hard disk was growing with time, then yeah it's O ... N is bound to a constant, in which case both O ... ) and O(n^2) are constant time, i.e. O(1). Which ... -
Delay routineAs some people are aware, I have recently starting writing a [url=http://fuse-emulator.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fuse-emulator/trunk/fusetest/]autom…
... CALL and RET take a constant time, it's not really a ... there will be a minimum time; at the moment, I've ... -
Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... sprite routine that took a constant time to execute, so it would ... 's assuming there's enough time to draw enough sprites to ... this squeezes your remaining processing time right down to maybe a ... the runtime. The only processing time you'd have spare for ... -
Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... sprite routine that took a constant time to execute, so it would ... sprites can be written in constant time. a game sprite will be ... -
Graphics mode:64x48x8 colors possible on Spectrum?That multicolor River Raid demo inspired me to make this question: If we filled all the screen with chessboard pattern [code] 00001111 00001111 00…
sure. possible on 128, you have at least 18% of CPU time and posibly more if you careffully design code to run in constant time -
Graphics mode:64x48x8 colors possible on Spectrum?That multicolor River Raid demo inspired me to make this question: If we filled all the screen with chessboard pattern [code] 00001111 00001111 00…
... program calls a sequence of constant time tasks to tick off the ... time. Tasks include drawing sprites, lines, ... -
River Raid Tech DemoJust a little something to look at. Enjoy. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_01.tap"]Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_…
... off the height will save time, but the more you take ... free up the top border time for drawing more sprites.
constant time (for when we're waiting ... -
Graphics mode:64x48x8 colors possible on Spectrum?That multicolor River Raid demo inspired me to make this question: If we filled all the screen with chessboard pattern [code] 00001111 00001111 00…
... program calls a sequence of constant time tasks to tick off the ... time. Tasks include drawing sprites, lines, ... -
shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…
... take the same amount of time to draw the sprite. This ... already mirrored, to balance the time taken.
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wow ... and even lines to get constant time for mirroring but i missed ... -
How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
... example if I had the time I would complete another sprite ... . If the entire TV draw time was consumed by a wait ... code gets a list of constant time tasks to run which are ... -
Which games had the best music?Well? I always loved the music you heard upon dying in 'Zombie Zombie'. Also, are there any sites that have mp3s of Speccy music. I've seen the ones…
... music player has non-constant running time, and the time can differ greatly ... ). So you have to design constant-time player, and this is not ... -
Which games had the best music?Well? I always loved the music you heard upon dying in 'Zombie Zombie'. Also, are there any sites that have mp3s of Speccy music. I've seen the ones…
... music player has non-constant running time, and the time can differ greatly ... ). So you have to design constant-time player, and this is not ... -
Arkos TrackerHi all, I'm proud to present you my Windows-based Tracker : Arkos Tracker, for you to compose for Spectrum, CPC and MSX. It requires .NET 3.5 at lea…
... player, with more or less constant execution time (because there is no ... ). If the player takes non-constant time, you can't make it ... make a module player with constant time. Much easier to do that ... -
Arkos TrackerHi all, I'm proud to present you my Windows-based Tracker : Arkos Tracker, for you to compose for Spectrum, CPC and MSX. It requires .NET 3.5 at lea…
... player, with more or less constant execution time (because there is no ... ). If the player takes non-constant time, you can't make it ... make a module player with constant time. Much easier to do that ... -
Arkos TrackerHi all, I'm proud to present you my Windows-based Tracker : Arkos Tracker, for you to compose for Spectrum, CPC and MSX. It requires .NET 3.5 at lea…
... ] If the player takes non-constant time, you can't make it ... all sorts of other variable-time routines, precisely because it isn ... last job, after the variable-time stuff has completed, so even ... -
playing sound samples from Boriel's zxbasic-compilerfirst of all, sorry if it sounds confusing if i'm posting this thread here instead instead of at Discussions:SinclarBasic it's because this is more …
... zero. One loop iteration takes constant time which sets the carrier frequency ... -
Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…
... X cycles, or do various CONSTANT time routines and wait for when ... -
BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…
... routines take a non-constant amount of time to complete. A HALT ... 100% of the time on all models with a constant-time frame, then ... -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... as significant time consuming operations and ignore time consumed in ... of items shrink, the constant time spent in the housekeeping becomes ... sorting. Will the extra time spent on two comparisons + ... pivot selection plus extra constant time code due to code ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... it. It remains constant during the whole time, so it is ... as significant time consuming operations and ignore time consumed in ... of items shrink, the constant time spent in the housekeeping becomes ... pivot selection plus extra constant time code due to code ...pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…
... operation as a whole takes constant time.
- when ... makes the amortized time the lookup takes constant. However, as the ... lookup and turns it into constant time. The same would be ... , each of these operations takes constant time.
Now, ...pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…
... /> [QUOTE=Patrik Rak;699944]takes constant time.[/QUOTE]
The problem ... could take a very long time to finish.Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
Just wondering whether it is possible to change the ULA+ scroll position during frame refresh? That would allow, with some simple timing & constant time using code, having a static area at the top of screen.Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... , with some simple timing & constant time using code, having a static ...
