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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... thought the 128 had the AY? Or am I just ... two. Just saying the AY chip was a perfectly fine ... price $5 per port due to increase in board size, chip ... for another interrupt somewhere else in the same frame. I ... paging out any place in RAM is more expensive and ... -
Firefox (new thoughts)Maybe more people would use Firefox if there was a version for the Speccy! [code] 10 PRINT AT 2, 2; "Press F for Firefox or I for M$IE" 20 LET K$=IN…
[quote=Where's that AY chip gone...]Because can ... can't get your words in the correct order how ... you would be very limited in the sites you could ... find RAM wobble was back in the days of the ... mention flimsyness of the ZX81 port.
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Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... , the TS has a plain AY chip, that means three musical ... then you have a controller AY port to specify which channels will ... /> To create quality tunes for AY you can use Vortex Tracker ... ports are the same as in a plain ZX Spectrum you ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... the AY), joystick connectors (1 or 2 on MSX), cartridge port as ... very quickly. Changes are in character-cell size granularity, ... MSX1 games seem blockier in movement in comparison to the 2068 ... spectrum original because of differences in speed.
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EightyOne 0.43Hmmm, 'twas round about July I fell asleep and only came round t'other day - honest gov! Anyway, I thought I'd better whip out a quick release and p…
... of 'EAR' hardware and the bear it's been to port software ... /> You asked me about that in SPIN a few months ago ... -
I/O contention model questionHi everyone, Sorry for my poor english. Together with a friend we are working on ZX Spectrum 48k implemented in FPGA. We have found bug in the Spect…
... no SRAMs on it. Expansion port on that board can't ... be bought in Poland so I don't ... used as a slot in replacement for the AY.[/QUOTE]
some of my favourite spec games...Hi, I just found this board so I thought I'd register. I didn't realise there was a speccy forum on the net - I even looked for one before and didn't…
... it wanting. Quite seriously bad in places :-(
The sound ... is abysmal, and the AY emulation is very, very bad ... tried the 2x's Fuse port, will have to give that ...Adding AY music to your plogramI'd like to add some nice tune to my program written in machine code. I am not new to assembler programming but with music programming I have no expe…
... a guide to using it in an issue of ZXF. ... Compiler to include the music in your own programs.
... something simpler you could try AY Tracker (use the tap ... to set by writing to port 65533, then send the ... new value to port 49149. For some peculiar ...Adding AY music to your plogramI'd like to add some nice tune to my program written in machine code. I am not new to assembler programming but with music programming I have no expe…
... e.g pure C note in channel 1. That all ... writes to ay registers which is described fully in this chapter ... spectrums map the AY register select port to i/o ... the first SOUND command in that chapter lists this to ... to R7.
In assembler you would do the ...Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …
... from memory here) to read in port 254 bits (as one controls ... the border colour) , as in the same way (maybe) the ... do an IN on port 254, bit 6 is the EAR input and ...GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
... left it on a bus in Denmark so I lost it ... a bus while on holiday in Denmark.
Seriously tho ... a mate of mine to port AYLet to it, which may ... up for the reported poor AY sound in gp2xpectrum. Play the game ...GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
... GP2Xpectrum. GP2Xpectrum is based in Rlyeh's fZX32, which ... files, allowing fast advance in the games list, configuration ... must have broken something in the process, because most ... about it.
- AY sound is also bad. No ... .gp2x.org/wiki/Fuse]port[/url] of Fuse as ...Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... the DivIDE's I/O port and outputting them to the ... 4-bit downsampling, for better AY playback you should consider as ... already been mentioned in this thread - the best quality AY sample playback ... best possible transitions from one AY state to another (because you ...Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... digitized sound recorded via EAR and played via the beeper ... 't samples for the AY chip take less memory ... recorded on the Speccy in first place, I assumed ... used for all those samples in Robocop, for example. ... compliments you received both in css and your blog. ...Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... digitized sound recorded via EAR and played via the ... 't samples for the AY chip take less memory ... fit 8 1-bit samples in a byte)
- ... -bit samples in a byte).
In other words, ... at the same sample rate, AY sound will ...Making your own joystick interfaceJust spied the diagram for the kempston joystick interface in the docs section. For someone who has only made up cables, what is involved in constru…
... for the kempston joystick interface in the docs section.
in constructing the above?
port so users of the +D ... 's a market, it m,ay be worth getting some boards ...Making your own joystick interfaceJust spied the diagram for the kempston joystick interface in the docs section. For someone who has only made up cables, what is involved in constru…
... 's a market, it m,ay be worth getting some boards ... Kempston interface with a thru-port connector (the Kempston interface is ... sided board with the thru-port being on the back of ... way. The only complications in the thru-port is you need to ...ZX Spectrum 128+ problemsHello!I recently purchased and got myself a spectrum 128+ from ebay.The item did not have an original power supply so i got a power supply of 9volts …
... does output sound through the Ear socket, it has to as ... sound output via the RGB port, so folk with monitors have ... to connect to the EAR to get any sound at ... take milliseconds, found a site in google cache that talks about ...Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…
... 100% Pentagon, its memory expansion port is #1FFD and it is ... the hard to find wd1973, AY-8910 and the 30-simm ... memory .
in this day, I'm more ... interesting in simple things like respect-2 ...Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…
... directly to PC's parallel port and it worked! :-)
[QUOTE ... the hard to find wd1973, AY-8910 and the 30-simm ... can't get rid of AY. Well, you can replace it ... plenty of information, if look in correct places. :-) Just ask me ...PC TFT and Spectrum TVCan anybody recommend one of these? So I want it for dual purposes, plug a normal VGA PC into it and also have an aerial in for the spectrum? Portab…
... it into a standard VGA port on a TFT?
IN/OUT EAR/MIC no problem.
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... and Running and definitly NOT in circles !!!
i ...
#define R 65533 // port
#define S 49149 // data ... you can do is write AY music using vortextracker (Sergei ... Soundtracker and install the player in an interrupt routine. z88dk ...Trying to find one programA few years ago I had a program that showed moving bars while listening to the ear port. It used attributes to display the 16 bars, each bar was diff…
... did a simple one back in the day (never released).
AY chip, allowing a much more ... and tone). Reading from the EAR socket is less accurate as ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... and start on a port to another machine ... be different port assignments for the AY chip in the sound ... an intermediate language to port to other z80 ... record for the LONGEST PAGE in one tread (!)[/QUOTE]
in case anyone was wondering ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... be different port assignments for the AY chip in the sound ... was working on a port of SDCC but the ... 3d isometric engine written in 6502 for the Oric ... odd. It also results in a different aspect ratio. ... an intermediate language to port to other z80 machines ...AY-player from Rastan SagaHello. For what ports #3F, #5F in the given fragment of a code are used? They give What effect in sounding? ================================= F4C1 21…
[QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;227959]Timex machines map port $f5 to AY register and port $f6 to AY data.[/QUOTE]
so, what is port #3F, #5F used for ?
In this is AY-player.AY-player from Rastan SagaHello. For what ports #3F, #5F in the given fragment of a code are used? They give What effect in sounding? ================================= F4C1 21…
... is port #3F, #5F used for ?
In this is AY-player.[/QUOTE ... ;227757]Ports $3f (ay reg) and $5f (ay data) are used by ... on for the 48k with AY chip that was released before ...
