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  • Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…

    ... monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character ... output routines?

    The reason I ask is that ... breakpoints shouldn't be a problem).

    All the debuggers ... seen so far appear to use the standard RST 10 for ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2007 Development
  • New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…

    ... driving me mad, or rather the game designer is.
    ... /0ByxiMYbPnlUdaHlpcnF6V2dRU00/edit?usp=sharing"]The curse of Oddville can ... and get to the final chamber of the castle. Hopefully it ... />
    *[SIZE="1"]CGD doesn't use the ROM print routines, so it will ...
    R-Tape R-Tape July 2013 Brand new software
  • Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…

    ... keyboard and Joystick... the speed of the game isn't quite correct but ... could be the ROM. If the Spectrum ROM overheats I guess it can't run ... , when I play jetPac it doesn't use the ROM (except for interrupts).

    Korinel Korinel October 2014 Hardware
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... makes even less sense. The Spectrum doesn't really have a BIOS in ... any other connected to the Z80 - it doesn't care what it is ... refering to the fact most software doesn't use the ROM, and that the ROM is actually SLOWER ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • .P filesAs this appears to be the standard for ZX81 files for the near future can anybody point me to the required tools and if possible a tutorial on how to…

    ... still question the need for tzx facilities for the ZX81. Was ... any commercial software that didn't use the standard ROM routimes?

    I can see the limitations of the ... out there that doesn't use the ROM.

    MikeW
    MikeW MikeW January 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Need som help with fuse code.Hi I'm working on a fuse port for the xbox. Nearly done actually, but I have a question. I would like to see the whole loading cycle (when using .tap…

    ... is 20ms (I don't have the code in front of me ... , and I never wrote the PocketPC timing bits anyway.
    doesn't use the ROM loader, you need to switch ... asking (with specific problems!) on the [url="http://lists.sourceforge.net ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall June 2004 Emulators
  • Music BoxHas anyone disassembled "Wham! the music box" (48k Spectrum version) ? I mean the routine that plays your own tunes. I had a quick look but thought I…

    ... switches quickly between the two freqencies, but certainly doesn't use the ROM, just a lot ... time itself exactly against the tempo. If you use it as-is ... could be put to good use on a front-end, or ...
    bobs bobs October 2005 Development
  • Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…

    ... RAM and doesn't use Spectrum RAM, it may also not use the ROM routines since ... they are not paged in at the time ... but unfortunately even if it doesn't use the ROM routines, it still runs in ... -16K area which is the bit I'm wanting ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2007 Development
  • Spin rom labels for debugger?I remember having a file with Spin that had some rom labels, I`d very much like to have it back, although the Import Labels.../Export Labels... optio…

    No, the assembler doesn't use the ROM labels, you'll need to add the ones you ... your source as EQUs. The assembler can of course send ... its own labels to the debugger, if the appropriate checkbox is ... something I had planned (hence the menu options) but just ...
    Marko Marko March 2007 Emulators
  • 2 part game in an emulator questionThis question is just theoretical... Lets say you have an adventure that loads in 2 parts (I think Mindshadow would be an example but of course I ca…

    ... no way to save the data as a tap ... when you get prompted by the game, you load that ... front of it so can't check the menus.[/QUOTE]
    ... It depends on the game - if it use standard ROM routines, then yes ... or .tzx. If it doesn't use the ROM then you're going to ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2008 Games
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... at Deathchase - it actually doesn't use the ROM once it's started! ... LIST=1]
    [*]It uses the ROM character set
    [*]There's ... the Deathchase machine code checks that $5AE0=$24. If it doesn't ... it was ROM dependent by switching the ROM image in use whilst ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…

    ... bit confused though. My code doesn't use the ROM at all. Once it's ... in IM2 it won't use a single byte. (It will ... [I]write[/I] to the ROM though - I use it as a 'nul ... the OUT problems in the debugger)

    Is the ROM call the reason for the ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2008 Emulators
  • FUSE fails to save "Bytes:" files that can be converted to .tapI have been running FUSE with the OCP Assembler loaded. When I save the Assembly listing from OCP, I see border colour and noise of a proper save. So…

    There are two possibilities: either you have tape traps switched off, in which case the correct action is to read the Fuse manual, or OCP Assembler doesn't use the ROM saving routines, in which case there's not much you can do.
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    A lot of the code mentioned here so far uses ROM routines to ... do the work, which is ... a key is pressed which doesn't use the ROM or system variables.

    bobs bobs April 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... lot of the code mentioned here so far uses ROM routines to ... do the work, which is ... a key is pressed which doesn't use the ROM or system variables.


    I think the original poster wants you to ...
    frobush frobush April 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... a key is pressed which doesn't use the ROM or system variables.[/quote]

    The question is, does that make ... more research indicates that the contents of the accumulator are put in ...
    szeliga szeliga April 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... lot of the code mentioned here so far uses ROM routines ... to do the work, which is ... a key is pressed which doesn't use the ROM or system variables.
    < ... br /> [/CODE][/QUOTE]

    Doesn't rely on Interrupts being Enabled ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    [QUOTE=Mister Beep;378342]2068 or 2048 too?[/QUOTE]

    Anything that can do the 8x1 mode and has mass storage. It doesn't use the ROM.
    chev chev August 2009 Development
  • Would anyone be interested in......Hi, I'm wondering if there would be much interest in an expansion card for the speccy that gives a VGA output with enhanced gfx & sound capabilities…

    ... way around most of the ROM like the back of my ... not very familiar with how the calculator actually works -
    the ROM and perform those jobs ... />
    Software which doesn't use the ROM wouldn't lose anything; BASIC would be ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2012 Hardware
  • Tape emulation on expansion portHello! Maybe one some one knows how tape emulation is done (in general) from devices connected on the expansion port? Like how divIDE loads tap fil…

    ... it is done via trapping ROM procedures then custom loaders ... />
    Right. Anything that doesn't use the ROM loading routine, even if it ... uses standard speeds, won't work with DivIDE and several ...
    And that's because the TZX format is rarely supported ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix May 2012 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... use in a program then:

    [CODE]
    REM Print the ... to basic for the bits that you can't get your head ... adding this to the zxb library routines on the website shortly :)< ... generator inbuilt, and doesn't use the ROM one; though I think the period is 2 ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2012 Development
  • 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…

    ... generator inbuilt, and doesn't use the ROM one; though I think the period is 2 ...
    boriel boriel May 2012 Development
  • New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…

    ... *.

    *[SIZE="1"]CGD doesn't use the ROM print routines, so it will ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2013 Brand new software
  • DivIDEI recently started using a DivIDE interface and, for the most part, it's been fine, but I've been having trouble getting some of the games to run. M…

    My experience is the opposite: when a TAP file doesn't work with DivIDE ... 's a game that doesn't use the ROM, except for reading the character font. It ... for another CF card that doesn't put too much load on ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2013 Hardware
  • Chloe 280SEHi all, Could somebody tell me how far this project is to being complete? [url]https://github.com/cheveron/sebasic4/wiki/Chloe-280SE[/url] Im ver…

    ... the FPGA used in the ZX-Uno isn't large enough to support the ... co-processor. However, the ... that doesn't use the ROM math would run at the same speed. The most ... ?[/QUOTE]
    The idea behind the X80 would work ...
    chev chev May 2014 Development
  • 2K11 firmware helpHi, I have a Divide 2K11 from Lotharek. I have used it for a while, and it's worked great. Now I want to use it together with my peripheral: RAM Mu…

    ... /> Yes, you need to redirect the tape output to a .tap ... /> Although if the program doesn't use the ROM routines to save it won't work - it ... to see a list of the options.
    phoenix^ra phoenix^ra November 2014 Hardware
  • maths help 'JSW'JET SET WILLY uses a lookup table to play the opening tune (Moonlight Sonata) this is the table [code] 34299 DEFB 81,60,51,81,60,51,81,60,51,81,…

    ... delay loop before clicking the speaker again (out 254 ... mini routine to put the shorter octave-shifted ... in the data.

    The lower the note, the longer ... you delay pulsing the speaker and because JSW doesn't use the ROM ...
    Zoep Zoep August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Can spectrum games be stand-a-lone ?Is it possible to make a spectrum game run without going through an emulator?... that is... still open through emulation, obviously, but without open…

    ... .
    Commercially, it does mean the ROM is also included, so no ... the game really doesn't use the ROM and can run from a snapshot of the Spectrum the ... moment the ...
    joefish joefish May 2020 Emulators
  • Can spectrum games be stand-a-lone ?Is it possible to make a spectrum game run without going through an emulator?... that is... still open through emulation, obviously, but without open…

    ... the game really doesn't use the ROM and can run from a snapshot of the Spectrum the ... moment the ... 't use any of the original code, just enough for most games that use ROM ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty May 2020 Emulators
  • Recommend games that don't need the ROM ?I'm looking for a few games that: * Are freely available as .sna files * Do not need the ROM at all * Have motion on screen after snapshot resta…

    ... files
    * Do not need the ROM at all
    * Have motion ... to press a key
    * Use fairly simple coding (e.g ...
    Mr X Mr X October 2016 Games
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