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The Sinclair ZX Microdrive Resurrection Project (long)Dear Spectrum fans! [Management summary: Download [url]http://www.bartheld.net/temp/mdv2img.zip[/url] and tell me what you think. All help very much…
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University ChallengeNearly two weeks ago Manchester University won the first University Challenge semi-final to get into the upcoming final against Pembroke College, Cam…
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ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday 31 March 2012Saturday 31 March 2012 Loads of maps and RZX Archive entries this month - and it nearly made it on time, too! * Archie Robins sent in POKEs for Foo…
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simplest method to pass a string to m/code?The statement "RANDOMIZE numvar+USR mc" is a simple way of passing a single numeric parameter to a m/c routine, as mc can retrieve numvar from the to…
... DEF FN statement using the DEFADD pointer; but that needs two ...Screen2StringFurther to writing that BASIC one-liner to redirect CAT to a string I thought that I'd do a general redirection routine for anything which normally p…
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REM 23563=DEFADD; 23631=CHANS; 23730=RAMTOP
DEFADD pointer to string definition
football gameswhen i was at school, we used to play these games with a football, everone seemed to know the rules. (not counting the classic rules of a proper matc…
... if you scored a hat trick, you swapped with the goalie ...Custom PC magazine - ZX81 articleThis months Custom PC mag - Issue 109, Oct 2012 - has got quite a good 5 page article on building a ZX81 from scratch using one of the original kits.…
... . Methinks they have missed a trick there as it could have ...DivIDE and custom RomsI've got a DiVIDe 57c that I bought of bverstee earlier this year which works with all my machines with the original roms, boots up, detects for driv…
A Miscellany of Dangerous TipsHere's a selection of ideas for using some of the more obscure system variables which I've found handy on occasion. They can be very convenient if us…
... be referenced by assigning the DEFADD system variable to point to ... the sub-routine by assigning DEFADD appropriately at some time beforehand ... . As the DEFADD area is searched before the ... resetting the hi-byte of DEFADD on return so that the ...Asking for help: ZXBC to ASM routine translationHallo, In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler [code] sub light(x as uinteg…
Hallo,
In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler
[code]
sub light(x as uinteger,y as uinteger,intensity as ubyte)
dim adr as Uinteger
if xMachine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …
... watch it doing the second trick yet, as it only seems ...Level 9 Adventures in 80 columns for Speccy SEA new ROM for Spectrum SE, SE Basic IV, has just been released. SE Basic IV features a very nicely implemented 80 column mode, great for revisiting …
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The trick that Sinclair/Amstrad missed. ( PI ...Interview with Clive Townsend (Saboteur)Here you have at [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]www.elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] this exclusive interview with Clive Townsend. Don?t forget…
... quality, and memory constraints. The trick is to balance them all ...Name the Vampire (?) Game?Can anyone identify this game from the description I've been given on another forum... "the vampire game would give you a brief look at the maze and …
... after a few first moves , trick being to plot route and ...Game of 2000 and playing games of this eraHi all How do I set up spin to be able to play Pussy and Homer Simpson from 99? Is there a trick? And would there have been a game of 2000? I fee…
Hi all
How do I set up spin to be able to play Pussy and Homer Simpson from 99? Is there a trick?
And would there have been a game of 2000? I feel like we are limping through to around 2006 when things got going on the homebrew?The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... -gal conversion could do the trick. It worked for divide users ...Screens and BasicA question about the ZX screens. I am using software to convert my own art and drawings to the ZX Spectrum. I have some tools to change .jpg files in…
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Do you know any trick in BASIC to load such ...Keyboard TrickI know how to use the multi key in BASIC with IN you can get the keys [QUOTE]IN 254+256*(255-2^K)[/QUOTE] K is the keyboard's half row, comes from …
I know how to use the multi key in BASIC
with IN you can get the keys
[QUOTE]IN 254+256*(255-2^K)[/QUOTE]
K is the keyboard's half row, comes from 0 to 7
0: Caps shift,Z,X,C,V
1: A,S,D,F,G
2: Q,W,E,R ...BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …
... and black colors only. This trick gives the impression that the ...Saving a file and removing the title (Program:)I remember when saving a program how I could construct a string such as: 10 let a$=chr$ 8+ chr$ 8+"name" 20 save a$ In order to remove the "Program…
... spaces, but doesnt do the trick properly as the filename is ...spectrum magic...out of the 1000's of spectrum games.. you'd think it would be impossible to do magic or telepathy.... to do this trick... you'll need the original …
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to do this trick... you'll need the original ...BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
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Fortunately there's a trick to minimize background restrictions: draw ... else. In this case, the trick was used to draw eyes ...SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…
... /> ScrDol: ld hl,(23563) ;HL=(DEFADD)
push hl
inc ...Experience feelings of passionate love in dreams?!I had a dream this morning that I was the boyfriend (I think) of Liv Tyler. This is a little odd, because I have never really fancied her, even thoug…
... it is just a bastard trick that dreams sometimes play on ...Nasty 'Gotcha' for multicolour timingI thought I would be better developing my multicolour routine on the 48K first, being the slowest, so it would then be sure to work on the 128K varia…
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The nasty trick is, if you perform two ...Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…
... vmem address table (using standard trick with two tables on 256 ...Halloween...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals? Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we liv…
...Anyone plan to do much for halloween? Pumpkins? Costumes? Parties? Strange rituals?
Don't usually get trick or treaters where I am because we live in a flat. As it's midweek it'll probably be quite a quiet affair.
