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  • Largest TZXJust wondering, what's the largest TZX in the archive?

    ... ]Just wondering, what's the largest TZX in the archive?[/QUOTE]

    the largest program data in the archive (I suspect due to the Sam data in there ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2010 Games
  • Double Dragon II - Can Hackers Help Me?As you all know, I'm a bit of a Double Dragon nut and sadly the Speccy conversions of the first two games were a bit pants. [IMG]http://img.photobuc…

    ... data driven engine, or whether the code and data become inextricably entwined instead... In the ... former situation, a second remake would simply amount to feeding the ... existing engine new media and data, in the latter, it ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil April 2010 Games
  • +3 Disk image...What exactly is it? And how do they work? Thanks! Yes, I'm that much of a caveman!

    ... which contains a copy of data stored originally on cassette. It ... emulated spectrum must "load" this data in the exact way as real Spectrum ... 's most proud part was the disk drive.

    ...
    If you are interested in more technical details, other people ...
    Ralf Ralf April 2010 Games
  • +3 Disk image...What exactly is it? And how do they work? Thanks! Yes, I'm that much of a caveman!

    ... br /> Well, not really, but the info I found wasn't ... contains a copy of data stored originally on cassette. ... spectrum must "load" this data in the exact way as real Spectrum ... it has to simulate the load, as if it ... have to actually plug the REAL tape and load ...
    Danae's Fan #1 Danae's Fan #1 April 2010 Games
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... . It all seems to chase in circles in the buffer area.

    I ... out if the buffer holds the background behind the sprites, or includes the sprites. (I ... these tiles PDQ. The downside is that in the worst case scenario, we ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2010 Development
  • Optimize this assembly?Aiming for Variable*192 -> HL In the first case, I came up with the obvious method - *128 +*64: [code] ld a, (variable) ;13 ld h,0 ; 7 ld l,…

    ... bit of data in the carry flag from the first [B ...
    The least-significant bit is in the carry flag (where ... ]), and also in bit 7 of the [b]A[/ ... is correctly placed for the subsequent rotation and ... t preserve the contents of the carry flag anywhere in [B ...
    ajmoss ajmoss August 2010 Development
  • Knight Lore 128kHello everyone. The other day i got a VERY nice version of Knight Lore with hacked in AY music. This was not an ordinary hack like many others with …

    ... that creates a copy of the data in the Spectrum's memory.
    ... : their duplication machines loaded the install disk into memory, ... bound by the EULA. Apple won the case, but the judge ... the data on a computer, which would reasonably include pulling the data ...
    gasman gasman August 2010 Games
  • Knight Lore 128kHello everyone. The other day i got a VERY nice version of Knight Lore with hacked in AY music. This was not an ordinary hack like many others with …

    ... creates a copy of the data in the Spectrum's memory.[/QUOTE]< ... everything regarding this clearly defined in the laws:

    - ... - You can only load the software in RAM of a single computer ... use ONLY the backup, not the original...and the same applied ...
    Shiru Shiru August 2010 Games
  • Memory mapping: Pentagon compatibility?I'm writing something that will rely heavily on the Spectrum's ability to switch screen buffers in hardware (port 0x7FFD). The original Spectrum 128K…

    ... redraws most of the screen in every frame, and the only way I ... 5 will use, and the music tracker data, in RAM bank 0. As ... is drawing the upper border, I can place it in RAM 5 ... store the excess data in the other four RAM banks, and decompress it in the pause ...
    ajmoss ajmoss August 2010 Hardware
  • Memory mapping: Pentagon compatibility?I'm writing something that will rely heavily on the Spectrum's ability to switch screen buffers in hardware (port 0x7FFD). The original Spectrum 128K…

    ... to 16K. Write the program to run in the pages that are not ... contended on any of the 128s ... (0 and 2). Have the code page in the appropriate screen as required ... write to it, and store the data in the non-screen area of bank ...
    chev chev August 2010 Hardware
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0008031"]The Complete Machine Code Tutor[/ ... . Some examples change attribute data in the screen area, and you ... 17FFh = size of the Speccy's pixel screen data (not color attributes ... with the Z80 (outside 4000-7FFFh area), LDIR copies data at ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Could someone please help me adjust my personal picture?Not for this forum, as it displays okay on here, but the picture I use <---------------- could someone please adjust it so that it is [quote]- No w…

    ... a problem with one of the jpg files, trying to ... site and it didnt like the format, even tho 99. ... 9% of the other jpgs worked
    i ... its something to do with the data in the image, so php does not ... , but as you say in most cases, simply saving ...
    spider spider August 2010 Chit chat
  • nintendo 25just saw a LONG advert for it, featuring jamie cullum? , jonathan woss , Iain "marlon" lee and some more .. for mario and 25 years of it.. wonder how…

    ... most. Just to prepare the data in the quality required these days you ... of resources. In this regard, Wii is the least demanding console ... of the three.
    ... And to get to the original topic, the 25 is for Mario ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak September 2010 Chit chat
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... test data. Your final change to the calculation of the pivot ... unless you have exactly the same test data in the same order, there ... is going to be some variation. When the ... line numbers in an inner loop means the interpreter has ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…

    ... BAUD) to send the maximum of 48896 BYTES. The data also has CRC ... a header of 16 BYTES. The data follows once a valid header ... it as db (define byte) data in the x86 code... YUK!

    ASM ASM October 2010 Hardware
  • Help sought extracting dataAmong yesterday's TZX Vault update are all titles from [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=%5EPenguin+Study+Software$&loadpic…

    ... to include BattleBunny's extracted data in the Archive?

    EDIT:
    in any case retain Copyright.[/I] ..."

    mean that the extracted data ... may not be available in the WoS Archive?
    ZnorXman ZnorXman December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... sure Miguel had fun making the project and that's all ... that matters really. Speaking of the MSX I forgot to mention ... screen mode 8 on the MSX2 and stores the data in the same format.

    That was the V9938 apparently:

    [url ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... Anonymous;511112]Gaps always get in the way.[/QUOTE]
    No, ... you want to hold some data in the screen memory hiding it behind ... the 250 bytes of the core set of the spectrum's system variables in the ... look back at all the machines made in the '80s and see how ...
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... animation is a block sliding in from the right (over a background ... to go in front of, or after, any of the other ... to hold 12 bytes of data in the registers in preparation for rendering each ... line of the screen, which still ...
    joefish joefish April 2011 Development
  • Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…

    ... said that TZX got in the state it's in today by trying ... include it as data blocks at the start of the tape, using a ... kind of data in the middle of level data as long as the program does ... , Bug Byte would be encoded in the data block as follows:

    chev chev April 2011 Emulators
  • Tape preservation toolsIn the latest MakeTZX thread of doom several people said that it would be good to have active development of tape decoding tools. I needed tape file…

    ... inlay and instructions not being in the file, nowadays most emulators can ... access WoS and download the files (even Spud, new ... this will mean no zipped data in the file, why add an unnecessary ... complication for the sake of a few k ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2011 Emulators
  • Help with custom loader neededAs people here became active recently about MakeTzx and tzx format in general, I have thought that I would post it here. I have some .wav recordings…

    ... noticed that the data in the TXT DATA block macthed that shown in Tapirs Dump
    the hard work since the values were in the TXT file ... .
    Now the next turbo data block ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker April 2011 Emulators
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... with an AND before XORing the data.[/QUOTE]

    Yes, ... don't know if any data in the current character square which ... which is the first character being printed in any particular ... string. For the first character ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... don't know if any data in the current character square which ... which is the first character being printed in any particular ... string. For the first character ... any unused space on the left of the square, whereas all ...
    Timmy Timmy May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Now even Sega have been hacked[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="5"]"Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users[/SIZE][/B] Sega has confirmed that the personal data of 1.29 million …

    ... about getting their doors killed in in the hours before daylight.[/QUOTE]< ... folk.

    The real elephant in the room question though is ... are storing all this personal data in the first place? It's ... out what for exactly. In the mean time, you're ...
    AndyC AndyC June 2011 Chit chat
  • Now even Sega have been hacked[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="5"]"Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users[/SIZE][/B] Sega has confirmed that the personal data of 1.29 million …

    ... everyday folk.

    The real elephant in the room question though is ... are storing all this personal data in the first place? It's a ... figure out what for exactly. In the mean time, you're being ... developers will now be mandatory in the games industry.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk June 2011 Chit chat
  • writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…

    ... ]
    Another thing. I downloaded the Fuse emulator and compared values ... numbers, but it looks like the first memory location where my ... ]
    File->Save Binary Data in the fuse menu. Use a Start ... the ROM. It's probably one or two tiny little errors in ...
    ccowley ccowley June 2011 Emulators
  • Krakatoa not workingI can't get any of the Krakatoa files in the archive to load on spin or zxds. Anyone else had this problem?

    ... think.
    Looking at the WAV again in Adobe Audition, I've ... placed a ZIPed copy of the WAV in my dropbox account:
    the pause after the 16383 block and added the DRB in. Curiously ... that it also stored this data in the last few bytes and gave ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2011 Games
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