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Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
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A sped up pixel-shift routine for 1-byte–wide spritesHere’s an optimized (for speed) real-time sprite shifting routine for sprites that are one byte wide. It uses no memory variables for storage of inte…
... registers, and employs a dirty trick with the accumulator.
Debugging on ZEsarUX by reading the source codeHI New feature for ZEsarUX: https://youtu.be/z-TipWv0n9g With that you can associate an assembler source code to a program in memory so it w…
... showing the source code. The trick works by finding labels on ...Stuck on Runes of Zendos!Anyone remember this game? If not it is worth a few minutes of your time. Very basic adventure/D&D style game with a graphical interface, but somehow…
... think I am missing a trick regarding runes that sometimes appear ...Always chew your food!Well, I had a bit of an interesting Easter weekend while staying with my girlfriend in Filey. Warning: fairly icky medical stuff and ewgf lengthiness…
... I'd tried 'the coke trick'? Apparently drinking coke can help ...How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
... left 20. Is there some trick with VAL or CHR$ so ...TV programs that jumped the shark (then fell off a cliff)[b]Can one of the mods move this to the chit-chat forum, please? Sorry, I posted it whilst fixing another PC and my tiny brain can't cope with two th…
... scripts felt forced and one-trick, and didn't feel 'natural ...Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…
... startup or any other nice trick. Is that possible and where ...Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
... like watching a bewildering magic trick. The colours! This game absolutely ...Windows 10 v1709 is breaking external usb mice and kbThis started happening a few days ago. One or more cumulative updates caused my ext. usb devices such as keyboard or mouse to stop working after rebo…
... good configuration. Using the regback trick via command prompt didn't ...How to avoid flicking? IM2 help.Hi, I have started on a quest to make a demo for ZX Spectrum. However the display is flickering and I guess it is something about updating at…
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ld bc,16*one_line ...Making sound using the BEEPER in AssemblyI had a look at the the documentation but it doesn't make sense to me. To make music just the beeper all I have to do is send ones and zeros to one o…
... and 0s should do the trick but this doesn't seem ...Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…
... to remember there was a trick (or should I now say ... /> So, is there such a trick, and how feasible possible for ...Speccy snaphot to EXE I seemed to remember and reading at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Features.html I found[quote]Using the additional program ZXCOMP the Z80 …
... ] Of course it's a trick. If you have any knowledge ...O-EYESHi all I've just finished my last game: O-EYES, a ZX Spectrum port of the arcade game EYES. Don't know why but I like it to play some quick rounds…
... =1Z50BNc8NeJ0avTYn4SbfpatVRm4RAjOh]the ol' and cheap trick[/url] to print in the ...Deathchase - Complete disassemblyWell, I only post here about once every five years, when I've got a few days off but my brain's still in "work mode" and wants to pull apart some cod…
... .youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0"]trick you in a similar way ...Devils of the Deep - what to do?game is (very) slow, but it has its "charm"... manual is on WoS... 1st thing is to find a KNIFE, then you can chop seaweed and eat it to restore …
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hint: there is trick to faster reach screen with ...Funny stories from arcadesIt happened in Poland , in the city of Łódź (Lodz) , in the spring of 1986 . There was a small arcade in which I played pinballs and Invaders . This…
... , and decided to do the trick myself .
I came very ...Moritz The Striker for the 48k SpectrumDownload: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbb7n2ipv7ed4k1/Moritz%20The%20Striker%20-%2048k%20Release.zip?fbclid=IwAR2ZdaHdIFQEKGt5raugVaxeudTcQDJT-nQgSk…
... all of his football skills, trick shots and agility to score ...New Utility ZXSTLC[b]New Utility ZX Spectrum Tape (& Disk) Loader Creator[/b] I made this utility to easily create tape and +3 disk loaders for my projects and have…
... same as -n but uses trick to make Program: vanish (max ...ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 02 January 2021Saturday 02 January 2021 Happy New Year, Spec Chums! I was hoping to do this update for Xmas - but difficulties involving fermented apples got in th…
... , Trashman - Crisis Time, Treasure,
Trick or Troll?, Trixie's Quest ...Questions about microdrivesHi! Bought an Interface 1 and two microdrives along with around 10 microdrive cartridges. Installed (great but very expensive) vdrive zx into one …
... . Is there a "anti-multiface" trick how to get the programs ...Matchpoint ball algorithmAnyone has any idea how Psions Matchpoint ball algorithm works? Are they calculating the balls' parabola (floating point for just the ball doesn't se…
Anyone has any idea how Psions Matchpoint ball algorithm works? Are they calculating the balls' parabola (floating point for just the ball doesn't seem that calculation intensive) or do they use a known/common trick?Happy Hallowheeen / All Souls DayHappy Halloween or All souls day if you like. Despite many towns not doing nout because of Covid (US towns typically make Halloween a downtown event…
... , when my mother would somtimes trick the trick or treaters, only the ...Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
... only for a second, the trick is just to stand back ...
