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Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?
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ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…
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Let's have an example text message output program ... ;771014]I'd rather an error report when a ... a regular assembler. Make an option to change a piece ... ability to list the T-States of each line in ... to put in all those t-states, but this has to be ... -
Currah ?Speech channelIt seems to me that it would be nice to be able to send words to the ?Speech with PRINT #5;"Speak English to me, Jimmy" or some such. There really i…
... gets more complicated is in writing a series of rules to ... directly into allophones. I don't suppose it would take as ... draw on. I don't know if an equivalent paper is available ... -
Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …
Provided the Pixel Address Table is aligned to an even byte ($00, $02 etc) then 2 t-states can be saved thus, correct?
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Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …
Provided the Pixel Address Table is aligned to an even byte ($00, $02 etc) then 2 t-states can be saved thus, correct?
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LD E,(HL)
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Show some love for the Magnum Light GunI remember the reviews were mixed, but in hindsight I suspect the negativity was a result of the quality of some of those initial six games. I recal…
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Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
... if it hadn't had such widespread support from emulator writers. When ... SE Basic, as well as an early adopter of ULAplus support ... the prototype ULAplus board in an issue 3 Spectrum. And thanks ... -
FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…
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A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... will have about 15K T-states available per frame, so ... 8 btiles "for free" every frame (during the top ... will save about 1.8K T-states. For instance, reducing ... a different color attribute every 2 pixel lines, and ... 8x1 means every pixel line. Thus it ... -
Windows 10Microsoft goes back to go forward... [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412[/URL]
... is remarkable, and 7 wasn't exactly a slouch. I thought ... 8.1 and hasn't had too bad an experience. I agree ... the wife. But every time you install an app from the app ... separately for each profile. Didn't we have a user wide ... -
Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…
... of specifics that I don't remember about that scrolling ... sense, and I don't remember what I did with ... quite unusual as it didn't use any kind of ... .
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How to close an HTML Input elementAs I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been work…
... once asked to take on an ASP.NET site that was ... realised to my horror that EVERY HTML element/control was built ... code behind. And I don't mean defining an object as ... -
How to close an HTML Input elementAs I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been work…
... once asked to take on an ASP.NET site that was ... realised to my horror that EVERY HTML element/control was built ... code behind. And I don't mean defining an object as ... -
Banked memory running slower?I've just compiled a TAP which includes bank6, it loads ok, but the routines that are paged in run slightly slower. The Z80 snapshot has no such pro…
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SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…
... and flip for right (don't forget the 256 byte table ... Bomb Munchies (cheap plug) that writing to a back buffer was ... second day because it didn't work properly and went back ... writing bits and here and there in the code, tweak 8 t-states ... -
SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…
... and flip for right (don't forget the 256 byte table ... Bomb Munchies (cheap plug) that writing to a back buffer was ... second day because it didn't work properly and went back ... writing bits and here and there in the code, tweak 8 t-states ... -
Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts ... always at the same T-state (related to the ... to last a number of T-states which is a multiple of ... portion of instructions that aren't HALT last a number ... sure you know that's an insane amount of work. ... -
Pixel level collision detection[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I need to do some pixel level collision detection. Assuming I have a byte of my ?player? sprite in DE and a byte of screen to t…
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Divorce, separation, etc...How many of you wossers have gone through it? With Kids, with no kids?
... a diet that doesn't make her an insufferable bitch. I' ... a lot) otherwise I'm an insufferable ****.
Separating ... total bitch to me at every turn.
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Detecting flash mode inversionsIs is possible to detect with certainty when flashing characters change from normal to inverted and vice-versa?
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Losing the will to liveThere were some games... and the longer I think, the more I remember ... some games that had me on the cusp of ending it all. Remember "[B]Circus[/B…
... so the dogs don't all attack you at ... so the blue knight doesn't see you coming), hang ... or arrows (again, don't advance on them), then ... jump button and every other parapet being an effective invisible brick ... further - even if you don't complete the level.
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64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... taking 21 T-states for each 2 pixels, plus some overhead every few ... repeated 32 times, taking 22 T-states for each 2 pixels without ... -
64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... taking 21 T-states for each 2 pixels, plus some overhead every few ... repeated 32 times, taking 22 T-states for each 2 pixels without ... -
after x years of marriageDo you go out and do fun things with your wife or do you just watch telly with her? Or do you go out and do fun things with your friends instead?
... the in-laws dog every night together for an hour and that ... other couples. I don't see my friends much these ... either. Bit annoying, but can't be helped.
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Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... and yellow we can't easily make an oval window any more ... a lot of fun when writing your own game - you must ... be creative, you can't just draw anything you think ... -
Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... and yellow we can't easily make an oval window any more ... a lot of fun when writing your own game - you must ... be creative, you can't just draw anything you think ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
Fizza: concerning those screenshots. They look nice. I can't get to an emulator right now - how is the playability of those games? I understand there may be a difference, speed / 'smoothness'..... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... look nice. I can't get to an emulator right now - how is ... /> Well, most of them weren't made for the spectrum. Maybe ... because the spectrum couldn't have successfully handled something like ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
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I haven't played Bangers & Mash on ...
