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"This is a screensaver that do not save the screen"Which was a quote from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001. Little did he know that, against the best judgement of myself and my peers, I…
... will likely grind to a halt with this one. But I ... -
Help needed to convert TZX/CDT format to buffered dataHi together, I registered today because I could need some help from ZX-Spectrum emu-coders. I am developing an Amstrad CPC emulator in JAVA, which …
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What happened to...A thread for the old ideas that are still hanging around on the forum somewhere. I'll start with that Zelda-esque game that somebody drew a nice map…
... were used in a sprite routine demo or something too, possible ... -
Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
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Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
Is it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint without the need to study the loading routine via the debugger. Thanks. -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... ] was, for example, 256, the routine would skip PLOT, DRAW a ... planning on using a FILL routine for now. [I]That[/I ... -
PC Format is CRAPI've been on the World of Spectrum forum for a while now, and absolutely everybody is brilliant, really friendly, willing to help, funny and witty an…
... for several years (whiskey=time delay in life). I logged onto ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
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;Main interrupt routine:
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interrupt_main
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Any decent video editors for free?I'm having trouble with my videos going out of sync after uploading them. When they're uploaded they get automatically compressed, and way out of sy…
... being able to set a delay. Trouble is my camera saves ... -
Jumping to BASIC after importing 23296,1703Sorry for the confusing title. :-D Now that I've learned how to stop a game from starting after loading (in Fuse and Specemu), I have a few more que…
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Getting started with ... part II (help needed)Hi to everyone. I just founded simple wiki to solve usual problem "how to do [placeholder] in asm?". Check it on [url]http://zxsnippets.wikia.com[/ur…
... nice to have your Bezier routine there.
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ZX music for *TWO* BEEPERS :)Hi there. :) For some time I was thinking about making for ZX Spectrum an additional sound-card playing BEEPER music without Spectrum's CPU time. I…
... to achieve effects of reverb/delay - then you can hear 2 ... -
Spectrum +2 tape playerHi all, the tape player on my +2 has gone silent on me. There's power getting to it but there doesn't seem to be any sound getting to the computer, e…
... was getting a strange tape delay effect on the loading noise ... -
Thinking ahead...Just mulling something over for the Project After The Spectranet (which seems to have become never-ending...) Would anyone (except for me, naturally…
... , IORQ, MREQ, M1, INT, NMI, HALT) writing the values of each ... -
More 1-bit music from Mr BEEPGot an e-mail this morning but didn't see a thread, so here it is: [url]http://berlin_hq.micromusic.net/bhack.html[/url] [QUOTE]BHQ001 MISTER BEEP …
... be done. ;) Also, to achieve delay and reverb effect that you ... this way I can achieve delay effect (with 2 levels of ... -
Tips on (dis-)assembling Z80 instructionsedit: Naturally I managed to post this in the wrong forum. I'd much appreciate it if any moderator would move it to the development section. For the…
... interested in optimizing the assembly routine for size and the disassembly ... routine for speed if that makes ... -
Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
... table of characters, and a routine which reads the grid and ... 8x8 tiles.
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Full .TAP file loading over the networkDevelopment of the Spectranet ROM modules continues... Courtesy of the new filesystem layer, the experimental TNFS (Tiny Network Filesystem), and th…
... excution inside the LD-BYTES routine in the Spectrum's main ... -
Channels and streams - reading dataThe FAQ here - [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm[/url] - seems to be just a touch inaccurate when it comes to readin…
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It says "The input routine must return data in the ... seems. If I write a routine to return data to a ... the ROM's ADD-CHAR routine, at least that's how ... -
GAC QuestionThere is probably a really simple way of doing this but its driving me up the wall. In GAC is there a way of ending the game ( you get killed ) if y…
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animated GIF questionAfter trying a couple of different GIF animators (currently using Ulead's free program), I haven't been able to work out how to do what I want, which…
... want. Then there's the Delay setting on Ulead's main ... -
MIDI-out disassembly?Does anyone have the disassembly of the MIDI-out routine or understands how text strings in PLAY commands are converted to a MIDI stream? I'm assumin…
... disassembly of the MIDI-out routine or understands how text strings ... understand how the MIDI-out routine works we create a new ... -
A typical sprite listing to analyse, please?Hi all, Would anyone be interested in helping out with my ongoing Assembly studies by posting up, posting a link to or mailing me a typical sprite l…
... , I'm looking for a routine that would show the 'mechanism ... -
Dragon Spirit creditsDragon Spirit credits can be more precisely if we include next: Code: Cristian f. Urquhart Grafix: game says P.Johnson ( I sure its database Paul Jo…
... Paul "I did Cobra scroll routine" Owens.
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Renumbering routinesI sometimes modify programs that either I or others have written and sensibly renumber them - usually 10/10, to make future alterations easier and ma…
... 3.5 has a handy routine for this, with me only ... have not found a renumbering routine that can handle line numbers ... but is there a renumbering routine which can handle it?
Some ever noticed that +2A/+3 halts Z80 using WAIT?I mean: Anyone ever noticed that the +2A/+3 halts the Z80 using WAIT? All documentation I've read about contention state that the ULA halts the Z80 …
... mount ULA) uses WAIT to halt the CPU. I haven't ...Doubling the Spectrum's resolution?Before the advent of digital, PAL TV sets had a resolution of about 702x576 pixels. It was overscanned (i.e. the edges of the broadcast picture would…
... page with an IM2 interrupt routine, it should be possible to ...
