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  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... in a frame and no contended memory! pirating rocks. %-)

    Ketmar Ketmar April 2011 Development
  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... in a frame and no contended memory! pirating rocks. %-)[/QUOTE]
    joefish joefish April 2011 Development
  • Time difference for jumps and calls?Just interested (and possibly trying to distract myself from the more pressing problems in my sprite routine) and willing to risk a potentially daft …

    ... the last few bytes of contended RAM. Naughty :P

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2011 Development
  • Time difference for jumps and calls?Just interested (and possibly trying to distract myself from the more pressing problems in my sprite routine) and willing to risk a potentially daft …

    ... JR is faster than a contended JP.
    chev chev April 2011 Development
  • Time difference for jumps and calls?Just interested (and possibly trying to distract myself from the more pressing problems in my sprite routine) and willing to risk a potentially daft …

    [QUOTE=aowen;527791]I have a cold so I had to have this explained to me, but the point Woody is making is that an uncontended JR is faster than a contended JP.[/QUOTE]

    Gahhh! I need a pint.
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2011 Development
  • FAO: Maintainers of ZX Spectrum Technical WikiThere's some odd write-up in French (???) in the contended memory article [URL="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Contended_memory"]here[/URL]. I'm …

    ... -up in French (???) in the contended memory article [URL="http://scratchpad ... with speccy in general and contended memory in particular. ;)[/QUOTE]
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE questionsHi All, I'm the proud owner of two DivIDE interfaces, that I have just "inherited" from a friend. One of them is the original one and the other one …

    ... chip then all roms are contended with all devices. All with ...
    velesoft velesoft April 2011 Hardware
  • Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!.Hi all Just got up and heard this on the news,still can't beleive this.After all these years he got his come-uppance.Wonder what will this mean for …

    ... policy of building settlements on contended land and has time and ...
    takapa takapa May 2011 Chit chat
  • enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…

    ... port #FF and timing (including contended memory) and on the real ...
    Ketmar Ketmar May 2011 Development
  • Upgrading the Humble Spectrum 128 +2 (Grey)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers I am at a subtle in-pass in my wants for one of my +2 motherboards. I received this mobo, DOA in a job lot from fleab…

    ... or not. I'd have contended I/O etc (original 128 ...
    chev chev May 2011 Hardware
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... all the I/O is contended on the 128 and +2 ... +2A/+3 do not have contended I/O and so are ...
    chev chev May 2011 Games
  • Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …

    I can only assume its not emulating some form of ULA timing ( not my area :-? ) accurately. Would contended vs uncondended memory be an issue as the 'real' machine has it emulators might not emulate it accurately.
    spider spider May 2011 Games
  • RAND USR that doesn't work in emulators and clonesEons ago, I "discovered" a strange RANDOMIZE USR. This is it: [b]RANDOMIZE USR 46578[/b] Using it on a genuine ZX Spectrum rubber key or Plus model,…

    ... bus cycle to refresh non contended memory, but all and every ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix May 2011 Emulators
  • Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…

    ... fit within 500 bytes, in contended memory, as I used a ...
    Timmy Timmy June 2011 Development
  • Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…

    ... fit within 500 bytes, in contended memory, as I used a ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler June 2011 Development
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... create sections within these for contended-code, code, data, sprites, screen ...
    csmith csmith June 2011 Development
  • 128K Contention - How to get it right?With my recent hardware hackery, I've built a 128K (toastrack) clone. I can't quite get the contention right though. What I'm lack is a clear descri…

    ... banks 5-7 should be contended on a 128.... or is ... />
    Correct. Odd pages are contended on the 128, whatever the ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall July 2011 Hardware
  • 128K Contention - How to get it right?With my recent hardware hackery, I've built a 128K (toastrack) clone. I can't quite get the contention right though. What I'm lack is a clear descri…

    ... between 0x4000 and 0x7fff are contended just like the 48K
    contended (eg 0x7ffd).

    ... between 0xc000 and 0xffff are contended iff the page mapped at ... address 0xc000 is contended.

    [quote]The 0x7ffd ...
    csmith csmith July 2011 Hardware
  • 128K Contention - How to get it right?With my recent hardware hackery, I've built a 128K (toastrack) clone. I can't quite get the contention right though. What I'm lack is a clear descri…

    ... two /PHICPU pulses aren't contended and last four /PHICPU pulses ... can be contended. The fifth a the sixth ... possibly contended pulses are missing. The contention ...
    vranik vranik July 2011 Hardware
  • Challenge Sprint 4x tape recorderHi, I noticed a [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000051"]Challenge Sprint[/url] on eBay, and checked out the WoS entry for it…

    ... , so it loads entirely into contended memory, which might cause a ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix August 2011 Hardware
  • Emulation of ZX Spectrum 128+2 (grey)Please read this thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35523[/url] result: exist 3 (or more) versions of grey ZX Spect…

    ... why ? Adress 7FFD is slow (contended):

    - if ula show ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2011 Emulators
  • Justin Beeper - new demo for the unexpanded 16K Speccy[img]http://pouet.net/screenshots/57726.png[/img] This was my entry for this weekend's [url=http://www.sunrisedemoparty.co.uk/]Sunrise[/url] demo pa…

    ... achieve all of that in contended memory alone.
    [QUOTE]
    ccowley ccowley September 2011 Announcements
  • Help with Spectrum 128k reparationHi! I have the following symptoms with a 128k unit version 6U - On power on, black and white bars (one char width each), white background - Once po…

    ... fault RAM is in contended or non contended area is to force ... the fault is in non contended memory (and you will have ... , then the fault is in contended RAM, and the special tester ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Hardware
  • Help with Spectrum 128k reparationHi! I have the following symptoms with a 128k unit version 6U - On power on, black and white bars (one char width each), white background - Once po…

    ... ,4 and 0 in non-contended memory doesn't behave as ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Hardware
  • Dead Spectrum+Hi! Any suggestions where to start finding what's broken: Spectrum+ with issue 6A motherboard and nothing on TV. Top row of the upper memory chips g…

    ... or more chips in the contended bank (low 16K RAM) are ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Hardware
  • 16k versions of 128k games?After seeing the thread about Double Dragon 2 and the crappy cut-down versions of 128k games, I'm wondering if they are some 16k version of a 128k ga…

    The main problem in 16K machines is that they only can manage roughly 8 Kb of free RAM unless you use part of the screen and the printer buffer, and all of it is contended. So I find it hard that something commercially released from 1984 onwards would fit.
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2011 Games
  • New game: BozxleHere is a new game called BOZXLE which has been written within a week. The screenshots are of the game running on a 48K. This runs also on the 128 …

    ... RAM, you could stored in contended RAM a set of tiles ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2011 Announcements
  • Help with Spectrum 128k reparationHi! I have the following symptoms with a 128k unit version 6U - On power on, black and white bars (one char width each), white background - Once po…

    I cannot tell you from memory, but if IC6-IC13 belong to contended memory, then yes, you can boot your Spectrum in 48K mode (with the trick I explained before).

    And no, you don't need to remove any extra capacitor.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 Hardware
  • New feature: titles featuring Multi-colour GraphicsYesterday I added a new feature to accommodate Buzzsaw+: [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Rainbow+Graphics$&phrase&loadpics=1…

    ... a 1K game running in contended RAM, without the benefit of ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2011 Infoseek database
  • Dead Spectrum SocietySo I'm getting back into real Sinclair computers rather than emulators. During the summer months I was lucky enough to buy a working ZX81 and was giv…

    ... . The usual suspect is the contended RAM bank, but there's ... DRAM chip in the non-contended bank).

    PAPER: if ... if any chip from the contended bank is failing.
    The ... in a byte from the contended memory bank is stored in ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 Hardware
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