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"TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …
... Console all use plugins to extend the original functionality ... seems to think you do not have to know how to program to ... well thats upto someone to either convert BASin to a plugin or change ... it to accept command line ... -
"TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …
... top of an accurate emulation to test your creations in!< ... might look at allowing BASin to use some of the ... the BMP import option left to do, and it will ... and I'm going to lift SPINs AY emulation along ... /> You really couldn't convert BASin to TommyGun. It's not ... -
Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... mp3. You'd have to convert it to WAV data to play it.
to emulate GeneralSound. That is much ... addon that enables games authors to rip Amiga music out and ... nerves, especially as people seem to be utterly wrecking my favourite ... -
Management type gamesWhat is everyones top 5 management style games, this isnt just soccer management, this can be anything such as the interesting Software house from cu…
Spectrum Tapes To Audio CD?Hi there, I'm new to this forum, I've got a shed load of games in the loft but I'm sure that a good amount of them will be suffering from print throu…
I convert a .TAP file to .VOC using TAPER and then use VOC2WAV to convert that to WAV file I then use Nero Express to burn this to a CD.
You can find VOC2WAC doing a search in Google. Any probs let me know?tzx to mp3? or tzx to wave?Is there such a prog that can do this? (would be handy to make up a cdrom that can be used to hold games on it to load in a real speccy from a porta…
I convert a .TAP file to .VOC using TAPER and then use VOC2WAV to convert that to WAV file I then use Nero Express to burn this to a CD. Voila!!!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 …
For TAP/TZX to WAV, you can always use WinAmp using the TZX plugin and the WAV-out plugin (or was that diskwriter)....
Not sure if it does TAPs but it's easy to convert TAP to TZX anyway.
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AndyMemory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
... Basic you can place up to 256 bytes of machine code ... . My advice would be to stick to addresses above RAMTOP until it ... all comes back to you.
I assume ... every time you clear the screen to blue but that uses #5b00 ...Remember the Hi-Score competitions?You know, the ones run in Crash/Sinclair User. Am I the only one who "cheated" by getting to a certain stage of a game, leave something heavy on the …
... platform fire off the screen to the right..)went to a party came ... that we tried very hard to get a legit score for ...Proxima user programs wantedCzech company Proxima software made/published a bunch of _very_ high quality user programs in 1990-1993 (in Czech), but they seem to be missing from …
It's nice to see Czech language here, but ... that they are too lazy to send them at WoS. I ... recommend you to ask about it at Czech ... format, it would be better to convert them to TAP format (if it ...what is this? help! (may be a micro drive, im not sure, im confused).hey, i was at a car boot today and i found a tape drive that said "computer program data recorder" so i snapped it up thinking it could be of some u…
... my pc hooked up to my stereo from the ... soundcard, to the aux of my ... to tape from there should work just like a tape to tape. convert ... them to wav first, or ... and record the output straight to tape
...what is this? help! (may be a micro drive, im not sure, im confused).hey, i was at a car boot today and i found a tape drive that said "computer program data recorder" so i snapped it up thinking it could be of some u…
... to tape from there should work just like a tape to tape. convert ... them to wav first, or you ... and record the output straight to tape
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and thanks to Na_th_an, thats what im gonna ...Games that are easier due to bugsThis is a similar type thread, how many games are made easier due to bugs? I remember being able to bounce past the guardians in Underwurlde without…
... rather than running around trying to find stone for it.
to stand next to on the screen to the left of ...SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... afraid you will have to subscribe to the whole process ... use. We can always convert them to whetever format can handle ... case the something happens to the disks in the ... or you have to give them back to the owner. ... if the disks need to be treated and redumped ...EmuZWin 2.5.0.1Version 2.5 Release 1.0 (10-Jun-2004): a lot of changes and fixes in ??? Map Builder ??? GFX Editor ??? Loading & Saving ??? Sound & Video ?? Speed…
... [-] Problem with no responding to mouse/keyboard when 100% of ... just can not switch to thread handling mouse/keyboard ... Quality Magnification + Direct-X full screen + desktop resolution = True ... emulator crashed switching from full screen to a window. Fixed.
Survey: buying new games?Hi all, I'm steadily progressing with my Ragnar Revival isometric game for the Spectrum 48k and if I keep working as hard as I do now, it'll probabl…
Oops i messed up there ! Cheers for telling me that, i'm sure last time i looked they didnt.
Once i get the TZH i can easily then convert it to a z80 cant i ? Its only because the emulator i use only runs z80's or sna's.Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... aiming to draw your screen fast enough in order to avoid ... a buffer than to decide what to draw to the screen and do ... enter IM2 routine
new screen to draw - draw it
update ... /> exit IM2
--back to screen drawing function
finished drawing ...Spindizzy: good or horrible?Spindizzy is definately a much-loved old speccy game but is it actually any good? I played it a load back in the day, but i played every game i had …
... pokes of interest to warp you around the current screen...
screen at breakneck speed right ... are in the second screen to the right of the ... are in the second screen to the right and then ... are in the third screen to the right and then ...Moblie phone gamingWhich of the new mobile phones are good for emulating Spectrum games, if indeed any are good at all? I heard a while back about a good C64 emulator c…
... and found the vertically squashed screen to be a big annoyance. The ... Megadrive emu, Picodrive has a screen rotation feature and looks amazing ... joypad contols are not rotated to compensate).
So, ... would anyone care to do a run-down of ...I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…
... a Spectrum Emulator and appears to be getting code written and ... operating to a degree, yet cannot differentiate ... , cannot understand binary, cannot convert hex. to decimal and is struggling with ...I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…
... a Spectrum Emulator and appears to be getting code written ... and operating to a degree, yet cannot ... cannot understand binary, cannot convert hex. to decimal and is struggling with ... because I have yet to find a good explanation after ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... a dos command line program to put screen$ together so I could ... you also need to understand how to build each screen to get the right ... colours, etc. This is what i try to ... using 1/3 of the screen approximately to have anything playable.
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
If I went to an Amstrad or C64 forum ... , I wouldn't expect to convert anyone to the ways of the Spectrum ... and register a membership just to argue his case.
Game ProtectionHowdy. New kid alert. Looking through the archive, I've been downloading 'perfect' versions. However some of these have protection systems I've be…
... a special lens on the screen to unscramble the code.
Tomahawk ... about it. There's supposed to be a lenslock utility (for ... Windows) in the archive to help you out.
Otherwise ...Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... the diaphragm will move to minimum or maximum deflection ... control the speaker diaphragm to 90 unique positions. This ...
To convert this to a digital form conducive to handling by computers ... bandwidth for practical purposes. To the ear, higher bandwidth ...Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…
... sprites you will be able to do in 40000 tstates is ... sprite routine should be able to manage at least 8 16x16 ... top 2 thirds of the screen to be used. One way you ... gain more time, would be to prioritise the drawing of the ...Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…
... harddisk and loaded the next screen to get it animated.
< ... br /> We compressed the first screen with an RLE-method and ... changes from the first screen to get the next screen.
... By this we made it possible to load ...Playing .tzx filesCan anyone recommend a good windows programe that plays .tzx files that is as easy to use as 'Taper' is? I'd like it to play .tap and .z80 files too!…
Use Z802TZX to convert snapshots to .TZX format then use the WinAmp TZX plugin to play them back...Vanished without a trace.Hi everyone, I've just noticed that ENERGY4UK's posts have been deleted in their entirety. That's great. Hopefully our beloved administrator will co…
... just would like to be able to go about developing ... project without causing offence to any member or author ... life easier for people to acccess thos nostalgic ... is adequate. Spectrum speaks to me "my first computer ... yes perhaps, so convert me to the ways of ( ...
