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  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... they might incur a huge CPU penalty, or perhaps use esoteric ... spare - even though the emulation speed is only a fraction that ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Atom CPU's vs Other CPU'sI wonder how the Intel Atom CPUs perform against other cpus. How would you describe the performance of an Atom compared to a Pentium or AMD clocked a…

    ... the Intel Atom CPU's perform against other cpu's.
    How ... AMD clocked at the same speed ?
    ( I ask coz I ... .tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-cpu,1947-9.html[/url]
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2008 Chit chat
  • Messages in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchas'I searched the forum and checked the [URL="http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/eggs/"]Easter eggs page[/URL] but couldn't find any reference to the messages I …

    ... time generating noises with the CPU after all the trouble I ... on the right hand side speed up. Then they put the ...
    kickaha kickaha September 2008 Games
  • Messages in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchas'I searched the forum and checked the [URL="http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/eggs/"]Easter eggs page[/URL] but couldn't find any reference to the messages I …

    ... time generating noises with the CPU after all the trouble I ... on the right hand side speed up. Then they put the ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack September 2008 Games
  • Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…

    ... - what is actually max. speed at which it works reliable ... machine will not change overall speed at all. Only if ... speed.

    By Spectrum RAM speed depends strictly from ULA and CPU ... clock speed, so no speed ...
    piters piters September 2008 Emulators
  • Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…

    ... - what is actually max. speed at which it works reliable ... some setting of RAM controller speed.[/quote]

    Oh, ... RAM speed depends strictly from ULA and CPU clock speed, so no speed ... ).


    [quote][Speed]
    Not from RAM, no ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Emulators
  • QL and gamesWell,I am bit off topic but I cannot understand why the QL had no arcade games made for it and if it had, would they be vastly technically superior t…

    ... tougher contention between ULA and CPU comparing to ZX. Accessing contended ... in 128kb) is at ~60% CPU clock speed.

    Some interesting ... that it's speeds-up CPU - less contention with ULA as ...
    omega omega September 2008 Hardware
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... !

    Changing the CPU core speed (Tools -> BASin options , emulation ... make no difference to the speed of the running program.
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Emulators
  • Question about something I don't know what is called.I am interested in reading about something which I don't know what is called (duh). I am looking for (online/offline) reading material which explain…

    ... keys changes the colours and speed as well.
    [/QUOTE]
    CPU is jumping out of your ... keys won't affect the speed at all.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz September 2008 Hardware
  • In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…

    ... 306422]No we're not. CPU technology hasn't advanced that ... spread the processing over parallel cpu's extra the overheads of ... make it inefficient.

    CPU technology has come allong way ... :

    I think the speed of technical advancements we have ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2008 Chit chat
  • In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…

    ... what? If the memory and speed are there, then Vista should ... storage capacity rather than larger CPU capacity) and so on, but ... in it's on-paper CPU specifications.
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • JSSpeccy: A Speccy emulator in JavascriptTo think we've always mocked clueless journalists for saying that WOS lets you play games online with a "Javascript Spectrum emulator". Well - aha! T…

    ... at a just-about playable speed though. It's somewhat reminiscent ... , and I'm sure that CPU power will catch up given ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2008 Emulators
  • My next toy?That Asus Eee Box looks very much like a good replacement for my home web/file server, especially when coupled with a 500GB NAS... Quiet, low powered…

    ... to play avi files at speed at large resolutions, seeing as ... . Since it's the same CPU in the a whole range ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde October 2008 Chit chat
  • Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…

    ... confident he would solve the speed problem. I thought this was ... leave for time for the cpu to do other things.
    zxbruno zxbruno November 2008 Development
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... the same in terms of CPU power; although the latter is ... it might have in clock speed. It does generally have twice ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... console user must have high speed internet access. One solution would ... you control a little tiny CPU who can't move fast ...
    Lockett Lockett November 2008 Chit chat
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... done in finite time. so CPU says "scroll by 2 pixels ... position, you get paralax. so CPU has not so much work ... 2 pixel > 4 pixel speed change you described. The C64 ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... /> [quote]
    Changing the CPU core speed (Tools -> BASin options , emulation ... make no difference to the speed of the running program.
    Dunny Dunny November 2008 Emulators
  • Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…

    [QUOTE=Matt_B;317630]The CPU on the Oric isn't ... , at less than half the speed of the Spectrum, having to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?

    ... get a decent amount of speed in the game. It's ... as it consumes too much CPU time and there will be ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • about ZXAM Amiga emulatorHello I have a question, ZXAM was shareware... do you know if Aminet ZXAM is shareware version or registered version. i am very interested in ZXA…

    ... to some incompatibilities with the CPU :([/QUOTE]

    Do you ... :) ) ZXAM was running with full speed.
    PopoCop PopoCop December 2008 Emulators
  • Emulator speed?I'm guessing a few forumites use an emulator to get their speccy fix. I use one, and interestingly on a few speccy games find it hugely entertaining…

    ... very interesting effect where the CPU (or something) was made to ... increase the CPU rate, but keep the Spectrum's speed at 100 ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2008 Games
  • Emulator speed?I'm guessing a few forumites use an emulator to get their speccy fix. I use one, and interestingly on a few speccy games find it hugely entertaining…

    ... then make the emulator switch speed, and these opcodes could be ... on could run at normal speed when performing most tasks, but ... or other CPU intensive code could run at a faster speed?
    speed increase) but it would benefit ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2008 Games
  • Emulator speed?I'm guessing a few forumites use an emulator to get their speccy fix. I use one, and interestingly on a few speccy games find it hugely entertaining…

    ... talking more than increasing core speed in an emulation environment. This ... RAM, that plugged into the CPU socket. Sounds simple but I ...
    John Elliott John Elliott December 2008 Games
  • Emulator speed?I'm guessing a few forumites use an emulator to get their speccy fix. I use one, and interestingly on a few speccy games find it hugely entertaining…

    ... make the emulator switch speed, and these opcodes could ... could run at normal speed when performing most tasks, ... CPU intensive code could run at a faster speed?< ... work but have no speed increase) but it ... stay at 100% nominal speed throughout. Just a suggestion. ...
    Scyphe Scyphe December 2008 Games
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... a 1 MHz 6502, the CPU was quite a bit slower ... the Spectrum (about half the speed). So the hardware sprites weren ...
    Winston Winston December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... a 1 MHz 6502, the CPU was quite a bit slower ... the Spectrum (about half the speed). So the hardware sprites weren ...
    Lockett Lockett December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... 256 bytes (yes bytes!) of CPU RAM! The users BASIC program ... (if fitted) which doubles the speed of your programs. With the ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Keyboard routinesI'll ask here first - since this must be a long-ago solved problem, and hopefully I can avoid re-inventing the wheel... I need a keyboard routine th…

    ... CPU delay, but the results aren't great (especially when you speed ... the CPU up...)
    Jimmy Jimmy January 2009 Development
  • What to write next...?Having not being blessed/cursed with such a mad & rampant imagination as Mr. Cauldwell I'm always after ideas for new spectrum games to write. It's …

    ... you can get much lower speed.

    About Wolfenstein 2004 ... it had 64x24 attribute graphic). CPU usage in Wolf'2004: raycasting ...
    Shiru Shiru January 2009 Development
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