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  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... without color addressable at the pixel level that's about the ... but the animation is so fast you don't notice unless ... Z180 would be *close* to fast enough since it's about ... 's how they made it fast enough.

    BTW, the ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... ]

    I've found four different 4-bit sampled instrument ... speccy's z80 is not fast enough to implement all the ... 4bit and you pack two four-bit samples in a byte ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Worst. Controls. Ever.Right... time to have a vote on the worst keyboard controls ever! Here's some suggestions to start you all off: (1) The standard cursor keys. Need …

    ... Battlecar has six steering functions, four 'fire' functions, throttle and brakes ...

    Each car has four 'fire' buttons - one for 'missile ... (right car).

    CAPS SHIFT and 6 (together) stops a ...
    Fred Fred February 2007 Games
  • Fixing Attribute Clash via emulationI'm sorry if this has been posted already, but is there a possibility to fix attribute clash via emulation? I'm not talking about RealSpec or any of …

    ... 512x192 monochrome mode, a 256x192 pixel 32x192 attribute mode (rainbow processing ... have provided clash-free four colours per pixel like on the Amstrad ... . HOWEVER, the higher colour and pixel resolution modes come at a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Emulators
  • Ultimate's greatest speccy gameOk, time to vote for UPTG's best title on the speccy. My vote goes to Knight Lore.

    ... , very hard to control, unfair pixel detection. Cookie, too borring. Pssst ... Am and press SHIFT, then lightly unpress SHIFT, then press SHIFT and unpress ...
    Hedegaard Hedegaard February 2007 Games
  • TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …

    ... I was looking at a fast way to export as scr ... /> [quote]
    Some palettes use pixel maps and attributes (eg. speccy ... colour is encoded in the pixel value.
    Remember TommyGun is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... `ve changed it to 'caps shift+x'.
    POKE 26124,246 ... the 3rd repeat make caterpillars fast instead of slow. I`m ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…

    ... ULA replacement - IIRC, all but four pins on the package are ... that an Atmega will be fast enough to do I/O ...
    Winston Winston March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…

    ... that an Atmega will be fast enough to do I/O ... fit in there reading of pixel and attr (at least 1 ... going much faster as the fast rise times will probably put ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.

    ... for developers, and taking over four years to get a low ... though the machine was relatively fast. A lot of early benchmarks ...
    JamesD JamesD March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …

    ... was utterly amazed at how fast it was. At that point ... filler that did things one pixel at a time but he ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …

    ... was utterly amazed at how fast it was. At that point ... filler that did things one pixel at a time but he ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Need advice choosing one of these optionsA few spanish friends are willing to help me build and program the ethernet interface for the Speccy. Here are the possibilities. Any advice would be…

    ... access, although a couple of shift registers could take care of ... has to run all that fast for a Spectrum, given the ...
    Winston Winston April 2007 Hardware
  • Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…

    ... (say) a man and his four wives want to come to ... is making your computer uber-fast and able to throw up ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2007 Chit chat
  • Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…

    ... it was shorter than Blue Shift (the commercial Half-Life 1 ... (say) a man and his four wives want to come to ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Chit chat
  • Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?

    ... routines to make them as fast as possible -- this add would ... layout for both its 6k pixel area and the 6k attr ...
    obo obo May 2007 Development
  • Challenge: try to survive more than ten seconds in this gameThe game "[B]Oriental Hero[/B]" is almost unbelivable difficult. Does anyone manage to stay alive for more than ten seconds? :-) [url]http://www.wo…

    ... (the ninja has not so fast reactions..)

    [QUOTE=Fred ... and kick, repeat three or four times and you have the ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Games
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... there seem to be only four releases using this loader in ... not required, but it supports fast loaders better. If i ... there is a reason, why fast loading Injectaload is rarely implemented ... proposal. So you could support fast loaders better _and_ save space ...
    Kio Kio May 2007 Emulators
  • PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…

    ... not required, but it supports fast loaders better. If i remember ... right, easier fast loading was one pro for ... for the grand total of four releases which used Injectaload is ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall May 2007 Emulators
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... doesn't need to be fast or fancy. In that case ... is divided by 2 to shift the bits one bit to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... advanced memory mapper. There are four windows (#0000, #4000, #8000, #C000 ... text mode, 320x200x16 (graphics, every pixel in own color, EGA-compatible ...
    Sonic Sonic May 2007 Hardware
  • Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…

    ... flash bit on pixel 10 and again on pixel 100. All 90 ... bits has color of the pixel which starts the FLASHing. Ironically ... setting two bits. Imagine how fast might be 3D solid vectors...
    omega omega May 2007 Development
  • Big BrotherHere we go again...zzzzz. Is anyone interested? Surely the novelty wore off about 4 years ago.

    ... lived in Puerto Rico for four years but are now back ...

    ?I talk too fast, I talk too much ... I ... .

    Nicky recently dropped four dress sizes and abseiled down ...
    Hern Hern May 2007 Chit chat
  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... bytes -- the byte of mono pixel data and the corresponding attribute ... then uses that info to shift out a paper or ink ... "plot" equals to a Spectrum pixel?[/QUOTE]

    Vertically, the ... spectrum's pixel is twice the height of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…

    ... could be upgraded and was fast as possible, so I could ... the next 4 years. In four years what would be more ... powerful - 1 four year old high spec machine ... today and get an uber fast hydrogen cooled rig, but is ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Chit chat
  • After Clive - why did computing go backwards?Just a thought on from another thread a couple days ago. 25+ years ago Clive made a tiny computer which fitted in your pocket (ok it had to be a lar…

    ... could be upgraded and was fast as possible, so I could ... the next 4 years. In four years what would be more ... powerful - 1 four year old high spec machine ... today and get an uber fast hydrogen cooled rig, but is ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk June 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... *buf, void *f)[/I] takes four parameters.

    [I]s ... address when moving down one pixel row. z88dk does not allow ... fat character in each vertical pixel row.

    For loops ... destination address for the next pixel row.

    We repeat ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... of the number. Multiplication by four is the same as multiplication ... /> This function tests the leftmost four bits of "bmp" (hence the ... for loop running four times) one at a time ... /> [/code]

    We first shift the result left two bit ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…

    ... the code would be as fast and short as you could ... to fetch 2 bytes and shift and mask them into the ... -versa), rather than the desirable, fast, 16-bit fetch/store that ...
    Laser Laser June 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... compute the screen address from pixel coordinates, screen address from column ... is an address in the pixel area of the spectrum's ... rewritten to do it a fast way where if there is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
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