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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…
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DRAW x,y,a Algorithm - how does the ROM do it?Hi all, Getting on with SpecOS, and one of the things I would love to do is to preserve the original ROM's behaviour when drawing Arcs. This is don…
... of the explanation of the algorithm...
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[SpecOS] Question about OVEROk folks, this one has me (and a few friends) stumped. How would you implement OVER in SpecOS? Bear in mind that I'm after an algorithm which I appl…
... that I'm after an algorithm which I apply to each ... command, or graphics commands like CIRCLE, ELLIPSE, DRAW, PLOT etc), and ... -
Route Diagram Search Algorithm?With regard to a diagram of the sort of which the picture below is a simple example. Given that routes are restricted to those going down the screen,…
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Fuse too fast on karmic ubuntuI have tried various types of Fuse, including the .deb file from the Ubuntu site and binaries and source code, and the results are all the same when …
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A fast DRAW routineI was investigating how to speed up the line drawing for the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL]…
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Chase HQ Pseudo 3d road algorithm ?Hello, I'm new to that forum and to the spectrum. I'm developping games for Colecovision (may be you hear about : Ghost'n Zombie and Smurf challe…
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Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…
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enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
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fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …
... is possible to have a fast raster font engine on zx ... character width). this would enable fast 8-bit calculations for measure_font ... experience ... do you believe ultra-fast draw_text could be made using ... -
Z80 DOS Sorry this computer is too fast!I?ve tried the free Z80 Emulator v4.00 (DOS Version) downloaded from Gerton Lunters Homepage on my Intel Core2 Quad Q60 running at 2,40 GHz an it ju…
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Mazes and Tremaux's AlgorithmI've done a version of Tremaux's maze solving algorithm which solves my current test maze with 400 junctions and 715 connections in a reasonably quic…
... of Tremaux's maze solving algorithm which solves my current test ... solutions, or suggestions for another algorithm which can do that.
Fast Lane - Never released game from AnacondaAccording to "The games that time forgot", there was a game in early stages (Mock screens) recovered from the Anaconda development disks, called Fast…
... the Anaconda development disks, called Fast Lane.
Its a ...ROM switch on NMIHello! Please, help me or point in the right direction. I am building a project for 48k spectrum which must activate its rom (actually static ram) …
... ROMCS must be changed very fast. The time available between M1 ... i want.
But the algorithm seems like an overkill. I ...Name that Type-In! Game-Of-Life clone...Ok folks, get yer thinking caps on! It was a type-in. It used machine code to generate the display It used attributes to great effect Cells were rep…
... were represented by a filled circle, 6x6 pixels
Colours were ... conditions
It was so fast the colours would flow across ...L Break Into Program, 0:1 BlogThis is very much a work-in-progress but it's got a load of Z80 code I'm in the progress of writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (…
... writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (line, circle) and some Spectrum ...Fast n Furious and Interceptor in-game screenshotsare not consistent with the ones displayed in their own entries (not the compilations). As far as I can see, the screenshots displayed in the compil…
... .worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Fast+%27n%27+Furious+%2b+Thunderceptor ...Multicolor/RGB3/3color fast low flicker software available?After giving myself a near migraine looking at 3 colour image (3 frames, red, green blue) anim gifs in a test version of image to zx spec I'd like to…
... that can display these images fast enough along the lines of ..."Chronos": how fast should it really be?I was reading [URL="http://timfollin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Archive.htm"]Tim Follin's webpage[/URL] the other day and came across a curious remark abou…
... is not really twice as fast. With the fixed scroller the ...Some thoughs about fast scrolling on 128 modelPlease, consider this article as technically interesting concept not a proven algorithm. ONE The fastest scrollers use long sequence of PUSH inst…
... interesting concept not a proven algorithm.
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The ...Fast Z80Todays Spectrums are fast as hell and few software utilises this. Z80 in ReVerSE runs at 42 MHz, in Speccy2010 at 28 MHz, in Pentagon 2.666 and in N…
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Two options:
1. Fast Z80 on the mainboard. Plusses ... than second option.
2. Fast Z80 in NeoGS card, invisible ...Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…
... solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of sucessive divisions by ... bit numbers is far from fast). Printing the largest 2040- ... org/wiki/Double_dabble]"double dabble" algorithm[/url], which I didn' ... a hardware version of this algorithm for a school task, ...Math Quiz - MultiplicationThe topic is fast multiplication routines, from 8x8 to 32x32 and all points in between. These functions sit underneath floating point libraries, gen…
The topic is fast multiplication routines, from 8x8 to ... there's interest in being fast but not to the point ...CIRCLEHi, I'd like to draw a circle x,y,r using the BASIC-ROM subroutines. I've put x, y and r onto the calculator stack and used CALL #232D and RET. I g…
... 'd like to draw a circle x,y,r using the ... RET.
I got a circle on the screen but after ...Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…
... rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best ... which is even simpler) so fast in similar resolution.
Slow/fast games - change speedSome ZX games are too slow or too fast. Problem with speed is aslo in russian ZX games or thanks to different memory layout on zx128 and +2a models. …
... are too slow or too fast. Problem with speed is aslo ...For Sales: Crash Tech Tape, SuperCopier & Fast SaveThree utility tapes for Sinclair Spectrum, includes: 1) Crash Tech Tape (not currently in WoS archive). [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek…
Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…
... I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88dk ...Back into the scene and having problems !Hi Guys,<br><br>After a few years away from the retro scene, I'm back with an Atari 800XL, A C64 and - best of all arrived today, a lovely little 48K…
... there certain file types or fast loaders, etc that cause issues ... blocks unchecked with a red circle/cross (In most games I ...Fast load of multiload games on real hardware?I was wondering if there was a hardware device that could allow fast loading of multi-load games for real hardware? I noticed a good many of the b…
I was wondering if there was a hardware device that could allow fast loading of multi-load games for real hardware?
I noticed a good many of the best 128 games are multiload and I'm quite impatient and I don't have a +3!
