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  • Problems with SpinHi, took this emulator for a spin, loaded a hacked version of JSW and willy keeps jumping. Tried another version of JSW and again, he constantly jump…

    ... that causes the problem, and I can implement a fix ... 't recall) of a floating bus, which is one of ... the stick is there and so tries to read ... the game will read the floating bus, which amounts to pretty ... irc.astrolink.org, and /join #spin - and you can discuss it ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Emulators
  • Problems with SpinHi, took this emulator for a spin, loaded a hacked version of JSW and willy keeps jumping. Tried another version of JSW and again, he constantly jump…

    ... is to do with the floating bus implementation on the 48k/128k ... /> It didnt work for me, and if I was to send ... WOS archive. Now, stop, think, and please, please let Dunny speak ...
    MontyMole79 MontyMole79 April 2005 Emulators
  • Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …

    ... author rarely has both software *and* hardware knowledge. Take a look ... and count (on one hand?) how many correctly take care of contention and ... display timing.



    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2005 Emulators
  • Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …

    ... and count (on one hand?) how many correctly take care of contention and ... display timing.
    [/quote]

    contention and just plot the display as ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2005 Emulators
  • Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …

    ... and count (on one hand?) how many correctly take care of contention and ... display timing.[/quote]

    Memory contention is very easy to ... ....

    And to answer the original question ...
    Spirantho Spirantho May 2005 Emulators
  • Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?

    ... and joystick input, but crucially for some games also includes the floating bus ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2005 Games
  • Emulating the SamRAM on the ZX Spectrum SEGerton Lunter gave me permission to reuse the code, but so far I have not been able to get the software to work in paged RAM banks.

    ... issues - I just highlighted RAM Contention as it's something that ... for the machine type and alter their timing routines accordingly (shock megademo ...
    icabod icabod October 2005 Emulators
  • Speccy + issues?There was a topic somewhere regarding the different issues of the Spectrum keyboard and how it had some subtle effects on programs. Just wondering …

    ... getting Renegade 48k, Short Circuit and Cobra to run on my ... rubber keyed 48k and on the +2A, yet they ... be the absence of a floating bus in the +2a doing that ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2005 Hardware
  • Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…

    ... work perfectly in current SPIN and Spectaculator 5.xx under WinXP ... ]

    It requires accurate floating bus emulation to run properly.
    Jon Needle Jon Needle November 2005 Emulators
  • Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…

    ... work perfectly in current SPIN and Spectaculator 5.xx under WinXP ... ]

    It requires accurate floating bus emulation to run properly.
    floating bus effect before, and knew it was used ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2005 Emulators
  • Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…

    ... SPIN, Select "Tools" -> "Pokes and Tips" -> "Poke Now"
    and play under Pocket Clive
    floating bus probe", and install the HALT instruction at ... for putting me onto the "floating bus" issue - I would never ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2005 Emulators
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... /> The 128k (sinclair) looks lovely, and has that "sinclair" feel to ... usable RAM in one configuration) and a complete disk operating system ... they no longer work, and that to load from tape ... games which take advantage of floating bus behaviour on the 48k/128k ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2005 Hardware
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... I've ever encountered the 'floating bus' bug. Everything I've ... Bought a +3 mainboard and a +2a keyboard off ... programs between the PC and the Speccy. I changed ... sounds out of it and added stereo RCA ports ... could get any Spectrum and have a great fun ...
    KeepGood KeepGood December 2005 Hardware
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... :43, Dunny wrote:
    The floating bus was an effect that meant ... /> ph33r my l33t c0ding ski11z. And my possibly inaccurate post.
    Dunny Dunny December 2005 Hardware
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    I did the "floating bus" or port $FF fix with ... the resistor is not connected and the games once again don ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat December 2005 Hardware
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... wrote:
    I did the "floating bus" or port $FF fix with ... the resistor is not connected and the games once again don ...
    cyborg cyborg December 2005 Hardware
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... br /> There's that damn floating bus again!

    ... floating bus is not implemented in hardware on unmodded +2a/+3 systems :(, and ... the discovery that many earlier emulators do not emulate the floating bus ... posts,I think floating bus code can pretty ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2005 Hardware
  • Beginner InfoI have trying to find some hardware information for use with assembly coding but havn't had much luck. For instance. How do I redirect the vertical …

    ... on all 8 data bus bits, a floating bus means 255 is ... properly designed and could throw garbage on the data bus when ... for reading several joysticks, mice and the keyboard.

    ... key presses, sym shifted keypresses and caps+sym shifted keypresses. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2006 Development
  • Spectrum Game CompatibilityHi, At the moment I have a spectrum 48k. I am planning to get a 128k +2, but I have a problem. Will my 48k games work on 128k +2? Because some of the…

    ... high score table in Paperboy and the countdown in Starion.Both ... the frame timings. Both Cobra and Arkanoid run fine on a ... due to the lack of floating bus.
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2006 Hardware
  • Z80 vs. 8080.[QUOTE=obo]... because 8080 is pretty much just a cut down Z80.[/QUOTE] Really? So what's been cut, and why? Hang on, didn't the 808 evolve from the…

    ... trouble with Motorola) and the z80 has different bus transactions. From what ... I remember of 8080 bus timing I thought it was a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2006 Hardware
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... a nice scrolling effect though, and it ain't (directly) ... CPUs from different manufacturers, and does vary with temperature after ... cycles followed by 32xNOP (and repeating every 224 cycles, ... first display byte on the floating bus appears after 14339 cycles ...
    Woody Woody July 2006 Emulators
  • Papaya Labs shop open for DivIDE pre-orders.Papaya Labs are now taking pre-orders for DivIDE interfaces and other DivIDE accessories. Find their shop at [url]http://www.papayalabs.co.uk/shop/[…

    ... has nothing with power, but bus timing. For instance I couldn't ... lines, putting terminating resistors and similar. And that card is not from ...
    piters piters August 2006 Hardware
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... slack incorporated in the bus timing. The timing for memory and i/o cycles ... to interface to typical RAM timing.

    I would ... instructions in specialized hw anymore and I don't think ... a load n store architecture and a small efficient instruction set ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... support ICs - byte copy and byte fill routines I mentioned ... seems like a more restrictive and less flexible environment than ... idea. But regarding the 6309 and processor comparison in general: You ... I think the change in bus timing would have been a problem ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…

    ... registers -- have been documented and included in the ez80 ... it since the bus timing is totally different. And as mentioned the ... of standard spectrum peripherals. And as any spectrum emulator ... flag behaviour correct and getting the z80 timing versus raster ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…

    ... it since the bus timing is totally different. And as mentioned the ... The CoCo3 GIME had different timing than the original 6847 ... flag behaviour correct and getting the z80 timing versus raster ... />
    The flags and timing will sacrifice what % of software ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Arcadia - by ImagineArcadia, by imagine. I thought I'ld play this last night, but its pretty awful to control Anyone know whats with the random movement and occasional…

    ... (port 127) which contains the floating bus value when read outside of ... does then switch it on and the jerking should stop.
    Jmk Jmk April 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... 189870]Excellent news. However, memory contention isn't all that important ... code.

    Besides, wrong timing can make a game faster ... more than broken sound. And even more, timing may have a direct ... glitches aren't due to timing problems before I start ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2007 Emulators
  • Growing up... Jasmin supports 128/+2 nowHi, all. New version of Jasmin is available (v0.11). It supports ZX Spectrum 128 and ZX Spectrum +2 models. Try it [URL="http://www.dustedpixels.co…

    ... bus, which is both why you get contention only for contended memory, and ... get things like IR contention and I/O port contention, neither of which ... with our best knowledge of contention: if you want the ... philip (at) shadowmagic.org.uk) and I'll send you the ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2007 Emulators
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