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  • PC advice reqd!I have a Asus K7 mobo, Athlon64 XP 2.8GHz, 128MB RAM, Samsung DVD/CD Writer combo, and a 250W SMPS. I'm thinking of buying a Nvidia 6600GT 128MB AGP…

    ... on a file, 6 Giga-cycles later and probably 20 megs ...
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome March 2006 Chit chat
  • Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…

    ... brief/short impulses in repeated cycles or patterns which created "poured ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup March 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex 80 column display driverI subsequently wrote an 80 column font driver for 512x192 mode.

    ... use of those lost cpu cycles.


    [ This Message ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Development
  • Timex 80 column display driverI subsequently wrote an 80 column font driver for 512x192 mode.

    You can still save a few cycles in all instances of ADD HL,BC where C is loaded with zero by using 8 bit additions via A.

    LD BC,xx00 : ADD HL,BC = 21 cycles.

    LD A,H : ADD A,xx : LD H,A = 15 cycles.
    Woody Woody March 2006 Development
  • Bruce Lee is really easy stillNow I post this just for a laugh, for the simple fact that any speccy game that seemed easy years ago won't now. However Bruce Lee was easy anyway, a…

    ... of Your Sinclair i was counting the days till the full ...
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2006 Games
  • It's not you, it's me.how come in films and on the TV people always break up by saying this. but no girl has ever said that to me. i got dumped again on the weekend. (by …

    ... first girlfriend, 14 years and counting.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2006 Chit chat
  • PC advice reqd.My monitor/graphic card seems to be acting up! I get strange sort of flicker (similar to the ones you get at slightly low voltage) on the monitor at …

    if you can get it working chuck it, don't risk your eyes, you only get two of them. (not counting the one you sit on.)
    mile mile April 2006 Chit chat
  • PC advice reqd.My monitor/graphic card seems to be acting up! I get strange sort of flicker (similar to the ones you get at slightly low voltage) on the monitor at …

    [quote=mile]if you can get it working chuck it, don't risk your eyes, you only get two of them. (not counting the one you sit on.)[/quote]
    :confused:

    T-75
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton April 2006 Chit chat
  • Determining 50hz/60hz in softwareHow can you determine in software if you are running at 50hz or 60hz?

    ... we never know how much cycles will HALT take). Of course ...
    baze baze April 2006 Development
  • There's a Berlusconi hanging over me.Election day in Italy. This afternoon the exit-polls saw the left coalition ("Unione)" largely winning. Now, it seems, the evil dwarf has regained gr…

    ... the last minutes of the counting.
    The left-wing had ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2006 Chit chat
  • There's a Berlusconi hanging over me.Election day in Italy. This afternoon the exit-polls saw the left coalition ("Unione)" largely winning. Now, it seems, the evil dwarf has regained gr…

    ... not the honesty, of the counting of the votes. And he ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2006 Chit chat
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... seemed like a lot of cycles that could be put to ... . This overhead is about 500 cycles per char cell in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Best version of The Sentinel?Which version of The Sentinel is the best? I have tried the Spectrum, CPC, PC, ST and C64 versions, and of them I still prefer the Spectrum version. …

    ... the smallest value for CPU Cycles(that would be 500 here ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2006 Games
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... . With sp1 you should be counting the number of animated background ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... /> Maybe he shouldn't be counting our chickens before they hatch ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Development
  • ZXCF InterfaceI'm just trying to get an idea for the ZXCF interface, and to me, it looks a much cleaner design compared to divIDE (Of course, that's just my opinio…

    ... a limited number of write cycles before it fails and can ...
    MikeW MikeW April 2006 Hardware
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... to shot then for C, counting the time from the moment ...
    ant_222 ant_222 April 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... is the time in z80 cycles that SP1 takes to draw ... be as high as 1000 cycles per sprite character! though will ... draw functions are around 42 cycles or more faster than their ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Unknown UTPG game?well, maybe you know about it, but as I&#180;ve read about the [B]Ultimate Play the Game[/B] titles, never seen this one... surely this wasn&#180;t m…

    ... exclusively on Sinclair machines (not counting their modern handheld hardware/software ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton May 2006 Games
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... *(762+1223+650) = 79050 z80 cycles (just over one frame). Keep ... *3*3*439 = 39510 z80 cycles, a speedup of 79050-39510 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • M3 UnlockDoes anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "M3 Unlock"? Apparently it will allow the loading of Multiface 3 snapshots without having a multiface…

    ... amateur on the forums (not counting guesser of course)?
    Am ...
    Where's that AY chip gone... Where's that AY chip gone... May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • rather disturbing developmenthelp dunny seems to have got himself banned from wos due to downloading 80 files? today what a silly nana

    It was a double-counting issue, IIRC...
    NickH NickH May 2006 Chit chat
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... 0x38 takes at least 1000 cycles to execute - that's 1000 ... cycles per frame that the game ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... of left_frames[], right_frames[] etc. "an_index" cycles through 0,1,2,3 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…

    [QUOTE=48K]1/ Random number generator: I've started using a ld a,r command to grab a number from the memory refresh counter. Only problem is that if I do this in quick succession, the numbers are obviously not very random at all.
    [/quote]

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Why so many disk systems?Why did the Speccy have so many floppy disk systems like wafadrive, tr-dos, +3disk, and many more? As far as I can see, this did nothing but create …

    ... last 'original' Spectrum by my counting.
    piters piters June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... relied on the number of cycles instructions took to measure time ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 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…

    ... relied on the number of cycles instructions took to measure time ...
    obo obo June 2006 Hardware
  • Any news of FuseX?I was just wondering if there was any news regarding FuseX? I thought it was due to be released a while ago, but I've heard nothing since? I hope t…

    ... day, but don't start counting the days until then :)
    Luca Luca June 2006 Emulators
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