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Maritrini and Cray 5 loading problemsHas anyone else here had issues loading either of these on a 128k? No matter what I try, both these games refuse to load properly. I can get both t…
... you start a 128k machine in 128K BASIC, and then you switch ... ROM (ROM 1 in 128K machines, ROM 3 in +2A/+3 machines), I think ... and go back to the BASIC loader. That is, to directly ... -
Music cassettesWas there ever a utility on the Spectrum which when you to play an audio cassette in the player enabled the loading border stripes 'move to the music…
... ago I made a program in basic that received audio signals via ... Out (or was it In) and on screen was a ... crap, it could only have 3 states off, med freq, high ... high.
If done in machine code, I guess I ... -
Hidden Spectrum emulator discovered in Goldeneye (N64)Commence ewgf's mind being blown in 3...2...1... [url]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770288[/url] [url]http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread…
... larger than the entire basic N64 library, and that ... snippet to type stuff in BASIC. (That's not ... removed from PAL. In NGEE 0x10835C starts the ... 2 2 PLAYER GAM?3 KEYBOAR?4 KEMPSTON JOYSTIC ... 2@@@2@PLAYER@GAME...3@@@KEYBOARD....4@@@KEMPSTON@JOYSTICK ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... website. Type USR0 in the +3 BASIC prompt before loading. ... in +3 BASIC prompt before loading the game.
[*]Terramex: Type USR0 in +3 BASIC ... prompt before loading the game in order ... -
Speed tip - "e" notationHi Folks, Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is use…
... checking, as once a BASIC line has been passed by ... be the ones used in calculations at run-time ... . So, apart from the differences in lengths, I now don't ... any other reason for the differences in speed at run-time.< ... to +65535 are held in a short form unless an ... -
Z80 emulation C source with a permissive license?Could anyone recommend a good (all opcodes, proper timings) Z80 emulation code in C with a simple permissive non-viral license? Something without a w…
... a webpage explaining the intricate differences for us mere mortals?[/ ...
[QUOTE]And all software in all three categories MUST NOT ... removed[/QUOTE]
Wrong in the case of PD, and ... financial profit[/QUOTE]
Wrong (in all 3 cases).
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Something a bit like Jetpack Joyride in flavour?Jetpack Joyride is a fairly simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has one control. That control applies power to the jetpack as long …
... very good, and usually written in BASIC, as it's really easy ... button games released released in the last 3 years. 3 of them are ... -
30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectr…
... been replaced with a +3 as the tape drive ... to its version of BASIC which, although limited, was ... that my dad wrote in BASIC back in the late 80s/ ... the buildings (just like in the VIC-20 original), ... into machine code using HiSoft BASIC :-) I also compressed ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... with OpenSE BASIC 3.06?[/QUOTE]
I test it in emulator ... /download[/url]
In file browser not work auloload ... for loading and jump to basic command line. After write ... loading work. Problem can be in fast reset emulation.... different code ... -
The most powerful 8-bit machine, and CPU?Further to the discussion in: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=621787[/url] What actually is the best 8-bit ma…
... it was set at 3.5 Mhz it would ... this one does it in 2x cycles") because they ... feature size of transistors in the current technology. You ... to compare cpus manufactured in the same generation to ... br />
Putting aside differences in speed, there are a lot ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... /> Micky[/QUOTE]
hey, in esxdos there are 2 slots ...
2) in basic cmdline enter: .tapeout simsave.tap
3) enter nmi ... auto loading it)
11) in simcity menu find and execute ... -
Stuff the Speccy can do but we all thought it couldn'tHey all, Does anyone have any good examples of stuff the speccy can do - graphically, sonically, etc that we thought it wouldn't be able to do? Che…
... possibly...
1) Back in the 80s when I first ... /> 3) The final one is Battle Bunny's Memory Move Routine in BASIC ... chunks of memory around from BASIC using just 9 bytes. Totally ... -
ISO-Copy - Individual Software revisitedHi folks In another thread about Supertape: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36203[/url] ... we touched on ISO-Copy by th…
... TZX[/URL]. Trailing data in BASIC is built as a ... 1.
3. Quicksave II (version 1.0 ... the trailing data after BASIC contains custom info to ... custom block in TZX, so a test BASIC program encoded ... clean' because timings described in TZX are already computed ... -
Arcade Game Designer 3The latest version of the arcade game creation tool for the 128K Spectrum. AGD 3 now boasts pop-up menu and inventory facilities for arcade adventur…
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;624615]OK i've ... I place a ladder - 3 blocks wide. 2 blocks sort ... either :( (except using the 3 block wide ladder technique)[/QUOTE ... FALL on it's own in levels and ladders games ... (although you could in the initial releases of AGD ... -
BREAK from GOSUBHere's another one. Just in case you wanted to break out of multiple GOSUB levels with a single command, here's a routine to do it, tested on all mod…
... an even simpler version, all in BASIC. To use:
[code]< ... ): IF FN p(gs+3)>9999 THEN RETURN
...3 NEXT b: IF NOT break ... 2 actually goes to line 3 after removing one level from ... that the redirection technique used in line 2 could be ... -
Internal ROM expansionHas anybody designed a multiple-ROM interface that plugs into the internal ROM socket instead of plugging onto the edge connector? It would be useful…
... /> 1-128 basic
2-48 basic
*3- Opus Discovery ROM ... Also 128rom can be emulated in extended ram 1MB. You ... can connect (also from basic) in same time this ram pages ... 0 to adress 0 in emulated zx rom). All ... device as BIN/CODE in ZX basic to extra ram page ... -
ZX Spectrum 12K +2 (gray version) made in UK?Quick question: Does anyone know whether the 128K ZX Spectrum +2 (gray version) was produced in the UK or just in Taiwan? All models have so far had …
I also have +2 gray model made in UK, it's issue 1. By looking at board I see differences in this issue component assembly to issue 3 which I also have -
MacSpecEmu 3.0For Intel Mac owners who want to run SpecEmu but don't want the faff of installing WINE, here's a standalone version: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1…
... was informed of the bug in OpenSE BASIC 3.06. This is yesterday ... -
MacSpecEmu 3.0For Intel Mac owners who want to run SpecEmu but don't want the faff of installing WINE, here's a standalone version: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1…
... was informed of the bug in OpenSE BASIC 3.06. This is yesterday ... -
Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... to compare doing the scrolling in BASIC, out of curiosity. Assigning the ... />
The simple versions copy in fixed steps, so the bytes ... /> ret
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The BASIC demo routine.
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Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... Joe Blade: Type USR0 in +3 BASIC prompt before loading the ... Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... Joe Blade: Type USR0 in +3 BASIC prompt before loading the ... in +3 BASIC prompt before loading the game.
[*]Terramex: Type USR0 in +3 BASIC ... -
Lame BASIC BEEPer editor - alphaI like music, like BASIC and find all current music utilities complicated. Since I enjoy Sinclair BASIC so much, I came up with a simple BEEPer edito…
... editor together - no small challenge in BASIC, perhaps the hardest part of ... in BASIC. It's horribly slow. That's why GarageBEEP 3 is in HiSoft BASIC ... -
Brazilian TK90X and TK95SpecEmu provides explicit support for Brazilian TK90X. Other emulators provide indirect support (perhaps the "Spectrum 48K NTSC" option in Fuse?). Al…
... Hz, maybe there are some differences in timings.
... timings at different positions. In this test, you should ... the "border cursor". Positions 3,4,5,6 are ... point, but positions a,3,7 and c,5, ... further than marked in the picture). In practice, you won ... -
Transferring to +3 disks again - sorryHope some nice person will lend me a hand... I have a +3 and a divide, blanks disks, speccytape to load from the iPad and everything works great, ho…
... the header, the starting line in basic, the length of the data ... , the length of the code in bytes
just load ... tap file onto you're +3 and save to disk
basic loader starts at line 0 ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
Incidentally, because Boriel's ZX Basic allows 32 bit 16.16 ... print as a decimal, like basic's random number:
print ... bits that work well in assembly, to basic for the bits that ... />
Or prototyping code in Basic, and rewriting in assembly for speed and ... -
PrometheusJust came out of it: WOW just WOW!!!
... t rise above that very basic stupidity and that's ... established universe. Mythology established in Alien 3 are here, and built ... script. It's predictable, unrelenting in its forward storytelling momentum, and ... The 3D, while good, is in no way needed for anything ... -
How to stop the +3 disk motorHi Folks. I was reading this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32069[/url] and in post #17, Macc mentioned that the…
... , to stop the drive motor in the +3, I just do the ... put the machine in normal page mode, ROM 3, and motor off ... . Normal page mode and ROM 3 is the normal state of ... +3 just after finishing to load a program from disc using BASIC. -
Spectrum +3 External 3.5 driveHi All, I made a 3.5 external hard drive for my Amstrad CPC & it works a treat. I would like to use the same drive on my +3 but I dont know what co…
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I made a 3.5 external hard drive for ... my +3 but I dont know what command to use in basic?
All the commands are in the manual, to catalogue the ... won't work on a 3.5" drive, certainly to make ...
