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  • Experts neededHi everyone :) Would anyone like to be interviewed in Retro Gamer about the Spectrum. You don't have to be involved with the machine in anyway, but …

    What about Mile? I'm sure he'd have a few intresting comments to make?
    zx1 zx1 June 2008 Games
  • Unprotecting games without knowning m.c.DivIDE or MB02 users don't need unprotected games, but those who still use the Microdrive, Wafadrive, Timex FDD, +3, Plus D, Disciple or use the new …

    - If Mc does not return to BASIC and sets own SP (LD ... code will get corrupted. Try to find another, empty adress in ... /> I usually use compressors to have free space to operate, and any ...
    LCD LCD June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Unprotecting games without knowning m.c.DivIDE or MB02 users don't need unprotected games, but those who still use the Microdrive, Wafadrive, Timex FDD, +3, Plus D, Disciple or use the new …

    ... quite a while converting games to run on microdrive, and made ... you the raw code ready to transfer to your particular storage device ... you the option of how to handle the code: uncompress then ... or uncompress and return to basic - poke to your heart's content then ...
    jp jp June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Unprotecting games without knowning m.c.DivIDE or MB02 users don't need unprotected games, but those who still use the Microdrive, Wafadrive, Timex FDD, +3, Plus D, Disciple or use the new …

    ... 't move to another address after jumping to the start ...
    I'll have to check the utils described above ... you decompress the code to a very low adress ... data, and then return to BASIC for doing something like POKE ... , as BASIC uses a lot of ...
    LCD LCD June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • oh my the old days :)programming on the speccy again here is a routine i remember of the top of my head to load screens or code without a header wow 5 Clear 27999 : Re…

    You can also save one byte by changing the 205 (CALL) by 195 (JP): ROM's LOAD routine's own RET will take care of returning correctly to BASIC. ;-)

    This way you may chop off YOUR final 201 (RET) byte. :-D

    Regards,
    Marcelo.
    Marcelo Marcelo July 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... of ways to tell if you're running from +3 BASIC are ... /> If +3 BASIC is running, you probably do need to take a ... different course of action to return to BASIC. It's not something ... I've ever had to worry about ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2008 Development
  • How to get a TAP directory listing?I want to be able to list a summary of the contents of a TAP file to a text file so that I can add comments to it. I've got several utilities and emu…

    ... Bunny;291208]I want to be able to list a summary ... so that I can add comments to it. I've got several ... feature summary. What's available to do that? (DOS or ... reader program to send to If.1 and save that to an ... )

    I need to find out which XXXX will ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2008 Emulators
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... 6.5K memory available for BASIC programs
    7680-8191 ...
    This adds up to 8K total RAM
    < ... br /> Then we also seem to have
    38400-38911: ... games? I only see reference to BASIC AREA.
    (Why ... you would built a BASIC-ONLY-EMULATOR you could ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... games? I only see reference to BASIC AREA.
    (Why this question ... : If you would built a BASIC-ONLY-EMULATOR you could run ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Now this is going to sound odd...But i distinctly remember playing a few speccy games where if you entered a rude word or phrase in the high score table then another comment appeared…

    ... for games that add different comments to the score table, try Dark ... /> I think Star firebirds used to do it, and maybe Specventure ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2008 Games
  • Now this is going to sound odd...But i distinctly remember playing a few speccy games where if you entered a rude word or phrase in the high score table then another comment appeared…

    ... for games that add different comments to the score table, try Dark ... /> I think Star firebirds used to do it, and maybe Specventure ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg September 2008 Games
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... /> ; and restored before returning to BASIC
    PTR1 EQU $FB
    BASIC would otherwise use
    ... />
    ;Set PTR2 to point to WORMPOS data
    LDA # ...
    ;Set PTR3 to point to colour nybble area
    LDA ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... possible you add little tools to basic listing which normally not a ... .

    It's neccessary to include a "reserved line listing ...
    Arda Arda September 2008 Emulators
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... friendly then I will attempt to port my VIC-20 ... /> Marko - don't take the comments to heart, Kickaha has got real ... you're going to get upset by his comments then at ... Would you have any objections to modified binaries (ie: the ... for other Spectrum users to try?
    Jimmy Jimmy October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... ]Marko - don't take the comments to heart, Kickaha has got real ... you're going to get upset by his comments then at least ...
    Marko Marko October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…

    ... I have one rigged up to my PC at Home and ... would be a natural device to support since many PCs have ... ZXAM with the AREXX scripts to jump to BASIC. Very useful for revering ... some Z80/SNA snapshots to TAP file ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2008 Emulators
  • ANN: Spectaculator 7Spectaculator 7 is now available! More information is available in the [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/news?ref=wos"]news section[/URL] on the web…

    ... I set ' hardware sound acceleration to full ' in the dxdiag ... use) works fine.
    To eliminate the problem ( after Jon ... have to set hardware acceleration to basic, which however gives more work to the ... back this topic once more to see if indeed anything ...
    Arm73 Arm73 October 2008 Emulators
  • Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…

    ... I've solved the how to expand Football Manager problem: If ... amount of room available for BASIC somewhat bigger. This requires a ... I still need to set up some routines to page out the ... almost a full 48K available to BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    I am ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    ... -level games level loader to work from BASIC, so it could be ... code loader with a call to BASIC to a certain line where something ... /> Can that be done (returning to BASIC to certain line from machine code ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s November 2008 Games
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    ... level games level loader to work from BASIC, so it could be ... code loader with a call to BASIC to a certain line where something ... /> Can that be done (returning to BASIC to certain line from machine code ... /> And yes you can return to BASIC and (re)load a piece ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2008 Games
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    ... And yes you can return to BASIC and (re)load a ... already modified) game made to load levels from tape, ... I would just edit the basic loader and replace
    to the initial loader caller). < ... replaced with a "call BASIC line 50". Is that ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s November 2008 Games
  • ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …

    ... I disassembled and added some comments to.

    It ... work5) ; Copy attack rate to attack count.
    LD ... LD (work7),A ; Set volume to 1.
    CALL subr ; ... LD (work7),A ; Switch to decay.
    JP labl5 ; ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …

    ... I disassembled and added some comments to.[/QUOTE]

    Excellent, thanks ... see the principle and try to code it myself, just need ... if I can get it to work. Thanks very much !
    jp44 jp44 November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…

    ... br />
    Press X to exit back to BASIC.

    The stars ... go the opposite way to the ... A,64 ;add 64 to give offset to screenbase (16384/256)

    ;hl now points to required screen byte
    PUSH ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Development
  • The ZX printer buffer in +3 modeI have a few programs on .DSK images that were transferred from Timex disks, but some of them have code starting at 23296. Most of the time the code …

    I don't know how to do that. :)

    ... But I do know how to load the code at a ... , copies the other code to 23296 and executes it, ... buffer code back to 23296 before returning to Basic. Would this work ... I'll probably convert everything to .TZX and use it ...
    zxbruno zxbruno December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…

    ... BASIC commands does it support? You're not likely to want to ... sense to a compiler.

    4. Which BASIC commands ... />
    5. What extensions to BASIC are offered? Some compilers are ... the most comprehensive support for BASIC commands. However MCoder 3 ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • The ZX printer buffer in +3 modeI have a few programs on .DSK images that were transferred from Timex disks, but some of them have code starting at 23296. Most of the time the code …

    ... and restore everything to its previous state prior to returning to BASIC. Paging can ... within machine code, just in BASIC.
    NaMcO NaMcO December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... so I can save it to BASIC and make it available for ... other people to use in their programs?[/QUOTE ... guess you have to put your data to the memory by "poke ... as CODE, then you have to provide write a seperate player ...
    Arda Arda December 2008 Emulators
  • Codemasters Cd Games Packim relatively new to using emulators and have discovered that some of my favourite games are still held by copyright and therefore not easily located…

    ... stripped it down to basic ROM and turbo blocks, to get a better ... all. I'm now trying to implement a generic clicky decoder ... />
    Indeed the utils available to date help a lot, and ... block TZX-like formats ;-) Hard to break
    a habbit of ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2008 Emulators
  • about ZXAM Amiga emulatorHello I have a question, ZXAM was shareware... do you know if Aminet ZXAM is shareware version or registered version. i am very interested in ZXA…

    ... NVG started converting some tapes to the TAP format instead of ... like CBSpeccy. Manny seemed to be a flash in the ... modified by Adam Hodson to allow jumping to basic if present. Was/is ... useful to convert some Z80s back to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker December 2008 Emulators
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