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  • The latest build of Specemu?The latest version of Specemu (a fantastic emulator, BTW) I have is SpecEmu-3.1.b150912.zip, which is a year old now, but knowing Woody he's probably…

    D’oh. The floating bus on the +2A/+3 is broken in this build. Build 271021 is fine, so I’m sticking with it.
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore December 2021 Emulators
  • How many interfaces can be paired up together (as a combo) on the Speccy's back edge connector?Well some would say none as it puts too much of a power strain on the Speccy's power supply . So ignoring this aspect the same question can be asked …

    ... plane and buffers on the address, control and data bus lines. ... Interface 2, ZX Printer and a ROM cartridge in ... an Alphacom 32 printer and a µSpeech. So IIRC ... board, Alphacom 32 printer and a µSpeech connected up ... powered from the backplane, and no longer used it ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK January 2022 Hardware
  • The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…

    ... similar business in London and spread out a bit. ... catered for my skills and the sectors I work ... be happy to change and walk / bus into work instead ... pandemic I've grown older and lazier)

    ... of instant communication, deliveries and the internet, I see ...
    Luny Luny March 2022 Chit chat
  • 48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…

    ... is used the bus is left floating and will pick ... games display "SPECTRUM" and "PLAY" all over the ...
    7) Z80 timing differences. The Z80 in a ... RAM contention models are different between the 128/+2 and ... +3/+2A machines. This would only cause timing ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2008 Games
  • New Version of MAME Emulator out with enhancements on Spectrum-EmulationNew Version 0.216 of MAME Emulator out with enhancements on Spectrum Emulation: [url="https://www.mamedev.org/?p=476"]https://mamedev.org/?p=476[/…

    ... “floating” interrupt. [holub]
    - 9640: spec128.cpp, specpls3.cpp: Added initial bus contention ... Spectrum drivers: Improved timing for screen and border updates, and simplified calculations. [holub ...
    Luzie Luzie May 2022 Emulators
  • I/O contention model questionHi everyone, Sorry for my poor english. Together with a friend we are working on ZX Spectrum 48k implemented in FPGA. We have found bug in the Spect…

    ... /> in 40 - 7F? | Low bit | Contention pattern
    ------------+---------+-------------------
    No | Reset ... valid during whole
    T2 and Tw cycles)
    During _reading_ ... right as Z80 probes data bus during T3 (fourth) state. So ...
    brian-82 brian-82 February 2007 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…

    ... of the 0x7ffd, 0xbffd and 0x3ffd port contention behaviour.

    With ... /umbrella.htm[/url] and apply contention if ULA14 = 1 and ULA15 = 0.
    timing?
    3. What is fusetest ...
    csmith csmith July 2011 Hardware
  • ZX80 and 81 hardware questionsI'm finding a lot of the documentation that is ostensibly about the hardware of the ZX80 and 81 to be primarily about the software. I was hoping some…

    ... spirits the value on the bus away and forces a 0 off ... sources diverging on the exact timing - can anyone help?

    and will autonomously trigger more if ... are triggered by horizontal sync and are enabled or disabled by ...
    Thommy Thommy September 2011 Hardware
  • Timing in loading routinesJust for curiosity I have done some experiments with SAVE command in accurate emulators, and then analyzing the generated WAV and I have obtained lit…

    ... don't take account the contention. There are two instruction ... and 736 instead 735 for second one.

    All this timing ... is for 48K machines. The different is between 0.15 and ... 0.20 per cent compared with the teorical (without contention ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2013 Development
  • Nasty 'Gotcha' for multicolour timingI thought I would be better developing my multicolour routine on the 48K first, being the slowest, so it would then be sure to work on the 128K varia…

    ... even throws up timing differences between the 128K and the ordinary +2 ... hit all the most awkward contention.[/QUOTE]
    I think ... cycles (extended to 16 by contention). But then I should ... to get ahead on the contention cycle. Assuming that writing those ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Development
  • ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…

    ... instruction fetch), and it doesn't apply contention to take precedence ... address put on the bus by the CPU interferes ... in the last 4T the bus is idle (0xFF). ... so it leaves the bus idle for the remaining ... once borked up the timing somehow such that it scrolled ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2014 Development
  • TV Pal, odd and even framesI have been researching, but haven't found any real interesting information on this subject, so far. What I mean is, since TV PAL signal is interl…

    ... , so there are odd and even frames, which means ... processing all lines (odd and even) on every frame ... the ULA snow effect, and maybe prevent us to ... read something from a floating Z80 bus or similar.
    ... NTSC outputs (in USA, and maybe some other countries) , ...
    RMartins RMartins August 2015 Development
  • Question of contentionI'm not desperate to go digging through technical descriptions in depth, but one thing bugs me about the Speccy's video contention model - and that's…

    ... about the Speccy's video contention model - and that's the amount ... CPU?

    And then there's the contention pattern where the ... 16, so that means the contention pattern covers a run of ... there some odd stop-start timing thing going on between pairs ...
    joefish joefish January 2016 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48+ 4S - Upper RAM issue, and now a self-created problem!I recently picked up a known-flaky spectrum off eBay, to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. It was labelled as 'keyboard duff, shows…

    ... check all ICs). Poking and peeking suggested that it ... replaced IC17 with a socket and 4164.

    and white, or sometimes coloured ... one of the data bus lines. The soldering & ... the way of info floating around on this version? ...
    Paulcatchpole Paulcatchpole December 2016 Hardware
  • InterruptsCan someone help with providing some info or a link about IM 2. I know I need to create a vector table and want to store this as high in memory as po…

    ... for its interrupt routine address and this would conflict with ... z80 reads whatever is floating on the bus at the time, ...
    Recall that mixing even and odd peripheral ids means that ... bus and this fools the ula into thinking there is a memory contention ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • The new GP2Xpectrum releases threadYeah, I know the thread title isn't exactly too original, but I've decided that just one post to hold all updates makes more sense than a lot of smal…

    ... instruction timings
    - Added bus contention for IN and OUT
    - Replaced the ... memory contention emulation using a more ... />
    With all of this timing has improved a lot (Aquaplane ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2007 Emulators
  • The new GP2Xpectrum releases threadYeah, I know the thread title isn't exactly too original, but I've decided that just one post to hold all updates makes more sense than a lot of smal…

    ... instruction timings
    - Added bus contention for IN and OUT
    - Replaced the ... />
    With all of this timing has improved a lot (Aquaplane ... />
    Excellent news. However, memory contention isn't all that important ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2007 Emulators
  • Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…

    ... /> [I]"I think contention occurs whenever the address bus contains 0x4000 - ox7fff ... for a Address Bus = 0x4000 - 0x7fff AND MREQ high contention selection?

    timing isn't too sensitive.
    csmith csmith September 2007 Emulators
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... of mantissa and exponent bits each micro uses to represent floating point ... own floating point library by default (not the spectrum ROM) and its ... may also suffer from some bus contention caused by video refresh that ...
    JamesD JamesD December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Is this the infamous Dead CockroachCan anyone help me. I have an issue two spectrum that I want to list on ebay, but I want to know if this has the dead cockroach ULA fix. I would have…

    ... contention to IO instructions, which made their read or write data bus ... the more conservative memory contention model instead of the ... />
    To maintain timing compatibility, the later ULA versions ... of the intended IO contention model, and so the "cockroach" ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak March 2011 Hardware
  • WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…

    ... I/O request to itself, and after contention (if necessary), it sends ... separated inputs, form the address bus contents.

    Then, the ... an excesive number of floating wires crossing here and there, right?
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix March 2013 Hardware
  • Some thoughs about fast scrolling on 128 modelPlease, consider this article as technically interesting concept not a proven algorithm. ONE The fastest scrollers use long sequence of PUSH inst…

    ... B]14335[/B]. The instruction timing table indicates this instruction behavior ... [*] [B]4[/B]: After the bus is finally available (at cycle ... by contention. Since we are now at cycle 14345 and, according ... [*] [B]3[/B]: After the bus is finally available again (at ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2013 Development
  • 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, …

    ... happening between pixels and attribute fetch goes unnoticed and ULA always fetches ... may be due to subtle timing differences, or because the +3 ... the screen address on the bus. But in either case the ... not really needed for the contention, it is perhaps just an ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak March 2014 Emulators
  • Video fault on issue two ZX boardI've trawled the Internet and drawn a few blanks as to where to look to resolve the fault with my issue two board. I'm hoping a few of you knowledgea…

    ... outputs derived from floating inputs onto the address bus.[/QUOTE]:o:confused ... is to alter the addressing/contention of the ULA. Now depending ... are lifted from the PCB and then wires are soldered to ... fit into the socket normally and make sure that the wires ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2014 Hardware
  • No contended memory?Sorry if this is a stupid question. But I'm trying to learn more about the ZX Spectrum. If I had a stock 48k Speccy and I could wave a magic wa…

    ... + is another clone without memory contention.

    Given the ... point to RAM) and display issues (128K timing but a ridiculously ... the lack of memory contention was probably about the ... with some fairly clever bus buffering/arbitration logic. Apparently ...
    zub zub November 2015 Development
  • How feasible is it to add a second CPU to the ZX Spectrum?Today with IDE, and USB, and TCP/IP and other wonderful technologies arriving on the ZX Spectrum, I'm beginning to wonder if we'll run out of CPU tim…

    ... long trying to juggle the contention or communication between the processors ... job (such as sound) and give it its own memory ... and program code, and just communicate with it over a simple bus ... had co-processors to do floating-point maths, which could work ...
    joefish joefish December 2016 Hardware
  • What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…

    ... edges of the clocks for timing, while the Z80 divides the ... .

    But the memory bus arrangement of the 6502 means ... memory mapped display without memory contention.

    It was easier ... /> This list could go on and on and on, but I think ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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