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ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…
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any decent wargames produced on the speccy in the last 20 years?we are looking for strategy/wargames to review in the "Frontline" page(s) of the new Crash annual
[quote="Einar Saukas;910269"][quote="Timmy;910267"] ... requirements for my AI pathing algorithm are very different, which is ... the help of a pathing algorithm. Also, mine is a turn ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
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Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
[quote="Einar Saukas;904977"]PATHFINDER is efficient ... of implementing a path finding algorithm for the computer to use ... implemented the good old QAOP algorithm to have the human move ... -
Requesting permissions from authors!!![url="http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/"]Spectrum Computing[/url] is currently hosting ZXDB, however it has chosen to only distribute files after obtai…
... for NIRVANA and BI*FROST, Einar?
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KLIK: Z80 snapshot to screenshot converterWith most Spectrum emulators, you can save current game screen in original ".SCR" format. This will give you a 100% perfect copy of the Spectrum scre…
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Dan Dare 256 colour project many may not be aware of.I still need/want to try Vladimir's emulator. But I think many people here aren't aware of another 256 colour project, which was mentioned on C.S.S. …
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MazeBot: new BASIC game!Unlike Dash-it though, this is not a proper game. It's actually a you-draw-computer-solves maze program with a maze editor that allows you to save an…
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Checksums in Hobeta filesDoes anyone here have any experience with working with the internals of the Hobeta (aka .$b, .$c ...) file format, or failing that, checksum algorith…
Does anyone here have any experience with working with the internals of the Hobeta (aka .$b, .$c ...) file format, or failing that, checksum algorithms in general?
There's a checksum at byte 0x0e, which, according to [url="http://www.nvg.ntnu. ... -
ANNOUNCE: Resistor version minus 1.0.0Given the discontinued development of Taper and the vapourware nature of certain other products, there's a lack of a modern, up to date, maintained t…
Way OT ... Q on a word. DONEI am interested in languages and especially finding common roots of words i.e. such as "ransack" actually comes from Icelandic, meaning "to investiga…
... were terribly misunderstood ;) :
"Hey Einar Bloodblister, should we investigate those ...(Somewhat OT) Circular regression analysisI'd like to be able to regenerate the "Tunnel" image from [I]Jumbly[/I] (that's why this post is only "somewhat" off-topic), but to do so I need to b…
... list into a regression-analysis algorithm; unfortunately, I left school over ... tools to construct such an algorithm, and there doesn't seem ... need to understand the algorithm; it's an algorithm, I just need ...finding largest value (z80 assembly)suppose we have to write z80 program which requires to find the biggest value in a block of memory starts from the address 101h until address stored …
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…
... based on a differential update algorithm. It achieves flicker-free status ... future. Because of the display algorithm SP1 uses, it is best ...*WoS database feature request*Greetings, This message is primarily addressed to Martijn, but I've thought of making it public, so that other members may have input on the subject…
... its MD5 (or a similar algorithm) hash displayed by its side ...MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... them through a SECOND compression algorithm (ATRAC). And they all still ...New ZX81 Emulator appletHi! In case anyone's interested, I've added a new Java ZX81 emulator applet to my web site. Each program listed now has a "play" button that loads …
... into the emulator (thanks to Einar Saukas for prompting me to ...One-liner articleHi to all ZX Shed people. At Dr BEEPs request, Einar Saukas and I have put together an article about one-liner games. Tricks and Tips etc.. I'm unsu…
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At Dr BEEPs request, Einar Saukas and I have put ...New compression method: Exomizer 2After I finished working on optimizing aPLib's decoder, I was told that pucrunch did compress better, and while looking for info about pucrunch (it t…
... . Speed is slow, because the algorithm is complex.
[url ...New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get through to the end of the wormhole without being slowed down by the tears in the fabric of space-time. T-Y ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... function BIN with no argument. (Einar Saukas)
Fixed - Spacing of ...Fastest way to decide which pixel to paint in order to draw a straight line(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ask this in here) in fact, I want to accelerate a car towards a direct…
(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided ...Speech reproduction on the Speccy - 2009 style?Thanks to Chapter 33 of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000388"]Super Charge Your Spectrum[/url] by David Webb - "Speech Repr…
... full explanation of the required algorithm complete with pseudo-code (though ...Spectrum 2.0 (soon to be) updatedI've just pushed out a "beta test" of the next version of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url] to [url=http://staging.spectrum20.org/]stagi…
... to review
[*] The "smoothing" algorithm used to downweight games with ...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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Algorithm works with 4-bit nibless ...Post your best SCRs - Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1 and beyondI've been playing around with Image to ZX Spec's encoding algorithms and I've achieved a "half colour" floyd steinberg mode, that it, the image is pa…
... toying with writing a genetic algorithm that works on a known ...Bit of geometry doing my head inI have a 2D rectangle of known dimensions, its sides are parallel to the X and Y axes. I'm trying to find an algorithm which will take the rectangle…
... 'm trying to find an algorithm which will take the rectangle ... I can get is an algorithm which returns a perfect circle ...Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
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Choose a location in ...IDE emulation and delaysA few months ago I was told that IDE emulation, while perfectly usable, isn't accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on real hardware. On some e…
... be different implementations for the algorithm that converts a logical sector ...C Programming question*bangs head* So not a c programmer. I know bitshifts are << and >> But what does <<= mean? I'm trying to work out an algorithm to implement in z…
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