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  • Exact emulation of the Snow effectAs the original post on another forum is outdated, and for those who don't know about that forum, I duplicate this info here: At the beginning of …

    ... half of T4 it cancels contention, but it proceeds keeping fixed ...
    weiv weiv October 2022 Emulators
  • RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …

    ... - there's very little memory contention, and a lot of the ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2002 Emulators
  • RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …

    ... hardware, make sure that memory contention is *on*. In Control, disable ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2002 Emulators
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... writing stuff to VRAM. RAM contention is off when non-speecy ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…

    ... above 32768 is sensible (for contention issues with ULA memory and ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • THE BEST EMU'I've beem using ZX32 for about a year now.However,certain ROMS such as Double Dragon 1 or Phantomas will not run with this emulator.Is there another,…

    ... ? That's one - needs memory contention disabled to work (which means ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle March 2003 Emulators
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... (or the fact that the contention model was utter crap and ...
    BN^2 BN^2 April 2003 Games
  • Blizzard PassThis is one for testing an emulator since it works with not many. Theres a notice on the inlay. Select 128 basic then enter out 32765,23 then J"".

    ... so maybe its a memory contention problem with emulators. They must ...
    Fraser Fraser April 2003 Emulators
  • TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…

    ... by the 128K ROM (barring contention effects, which the TZX format ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2003 Emulators
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... than SPIN, and has no contention, and the ROM is pretty ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2003 Development
  • Darkman on SpectaculatorI'm using version 5.2 of Spectaculator but am unable to get Darkman to load. I've tried it on Spin and it loads fine. Anyone else have this problem?

    ... be some effect or memory contention that only Real Spectrum does ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • ANN: Spectaculator 5.3 (Speccy Tour players - please read!) Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/…

    ... the lack of a memory contention effect.

    The Russian ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle November 2003 Emulators
  • an idea that could be very very good...but also very very bad...Hello all! I've been having a chat with some of my friends round here that once loved the spectrum (well...2...as they're all heathens round here...)…

    ... written gets 128k/+2 port contention right - and they're not ...
    BN^2 BN^2 January 2004 Emulators
  • an idea that could be very very good...but also very very bad...Hello all! I've been having a chat with some of my friends round here that once loved the spectrum (well...2...as they're all heathens round here...)…

    ... different z80 than the memory contention or ULA. There aren't ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... test):

    Your Memory contention is way off, if it ... accurate emulation, and proper memory contention is a real CPU hog ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... :)

    [quote]Your Memory contention is way off, if it ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... :
    Just turn it [Memory Contention] on, Dunny! More, you can ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Emulators
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... who's experimented with memory contention can comment.

    The ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Games
  • Spectrum 128 Graphics - A missed opportunity?The Spectrum 128 is my favourite model of the Spectrum - the pinnacle of the Sinclair miracle before it was hijacked by Amstrad. But I can't help thi…

    ... as much data (causing more contention) and probably have more pins ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... this routine, not counting memory contention during the pushes.

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2004 Games
  • 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…

    ... time?

    The memory contention (fast/slow RAM) of original ...
    gasman gasman March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... .

    [quote]The memory contention (fast/slow RAM) of original ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... .org/cssfaq/reference/48kreference.htm#Contention"]contended memory information[/url], thanks ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2004 Emulators
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... being a hellishly accurate 48k Contention model. Marko for his part ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2004 Emulators
  • SpecEmu 2.1 betaFinally I think I've cracked all the gory contention details required by those trendy multicolour demos (48K/128K modes only, +3 contention can wait …

    ... and all the extra opcode contention has now been corrected allowing ...
    Woody Woody May 2004 Emulators
  • Problem with RealSpectrumWhy am I having difficulty getting certain games to laod in RealSpectrum? The game seems to be loading ok then the screen goes black and nothing hap…

    ... I have based RealSpectrum's contention timings upon my own Spectrum ...
    Luca Luca May 2004 Emulators
  • Emulation accuracy and how it affects softwareHi folks. I was thinking of bodging together a rudimentary Spectrum emulator myself, not as a competitor to the other emulators, but as an integrate…

    ... just do not take a contention into account, some games/demos ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov May 2004 Emulators
  • ANN: Spectaculator 6.2[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.2 Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emul…

    I read. But I suspect that difference not in CPUs. Anyway it is ULA is responding for speed and contention (or to be more exact, CPU+ULA). Could be interesting how correctly to emulate megalomania in stable position.
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov May 2004 Emulators
  • Games and Programs written in BASinHi all, The new version of BASin is about to be released in the next few days or so, and I'm gathering up example programs to include with it. I se…

    ... does not "do" is memory contention, which is not necessary for ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2004 Games
  • Spectrum 48k benchmark program/resultsIs there any program (basic or assembler) to test performance of a Spectrum 48k? Want to compare results in my FPGA Spectrum 48k with real hardware …

    ... used for researching the updated contention and timing information in the ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall July 2004 Emulators
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