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ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
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Oh no! Not again! (Serious PC probs)I was upadting my graphic drivers (NVIDIA MX440 GeForce 4) and my sound drivers (Realtek AC'97 for VIA (R) audio controller), but when installing the…
... find files during the file copy (right at the beginning of ... the time it's a memory problem. If this is whats ... -
Microsoft vs the WorldSo what operating system are you using
... it. My wife's 1st copy simply refused to do anything ... crashed shorty afterwards. Our latest copy Showed us its lack of ... crashed (Touch-wood), and is fast and laden with easy to ... -
Problem with rotating procedureHi folks! I wrote a proc in z80 asm, based on: x' = x * cos (z) - y * sin (z) y' = x * sin (z) + y * cos (z) I used a precalculated table of sin a…
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As for fast math... there are many ways ... - the more speed, the more memory requirements. For example, you could ... remember correctly), which is really fast (I don't recall any ... -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... drive for it's virtual memory file give a Windows " ... Out of Memory" error?, and yes I ... error, not a DOS expanded memory error), or sometimes leaves ... the fact that when you copy files and you get ... , when you tried to copy a file into a directory ... -
Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... drive for it's virtual memory file give a Windows ... "Out of Memory" error?, and yes I ... error, not a DOS expanded memory error),
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Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... routines need to be as fast as possible (that goes ... br /> Remember the memory speed too, low memory runs considerably slower than ... upper memory so make ... routines are all in upper memory
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Battle Of The TrollsHello and welcome to WoS Gardens for the inaugural 'Battle Of The Trolls' Sporting Event (?). Tonight, squaring off against each other are two legend…
... called Gerald)
Amount of memory in his Spectrum: 598Mb
copy of Razzle, a 598Mb Spectrum ... /> Things under his bed: A copy of 'El Nakedos Senor' with ... the pages stuck together. A copy of Horace goes Skiing, with ... -
SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…
... reading sectors into a specific memory address. As you suggested, in ... will zero fill the specific memory address. After issuing a * READ ... :address
e.g. copy sector 127 from drive 1 ... .
3. Drive to copy from? ( 1 to 8 )
Battle Of The TrollsHello and welcome to WoS Gardens for the inaugural 'Battle Of The Trolls' Sporting Event (?). Tonight, squaring off against each other are two legend…
... called Gerald)
Amount of memory in his Spectrum: 598Mb
copy of Razzle, a 598Mb Spectrum ... /> Things under his bed: A copy of 'El Nakedos Senor' with ... the pages stuck together. A copy of Horace goes Skiing, with ...SupadriveHere's an MDR image of Supadrive. Works with Spectaculator, but I haven't tested it with any other emulators. [url="http://www.superfudge.demon.co.u…
... on the cartridge, which each copy occupying 4 sectors.
Things ... Trans Express into thinking each copy of "Supadrive" is 40746 ... copies these parts out to memory.
As a final check ... :-
[CODE]/A4 SHADE COPY (4 copies)
.A4 SHADE ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... clean and well documented memory layout, a fast CPU, a decent manual ... better than some...), a fast and reliable casette storage system ... (well, fast and reliable compared to the ... realised that BASIC wasn't fast enough for games, and so ...The best ever side scroller on the Speccy.We've seen a lot of threads on this so why not a poll! :) Zynaps by far is the best imo! It's got the colours, the quality and polish, the smooth sc…
... , as the game scrolled too fast for you to avoid them ... the gameplay too reliant on memory, if you ask me.
Spectaculator QuestionsI've been messing around with this great emulator, and was surprised how easy it was for me to load a game from minidisc into Spectaculator as if it …
... should[1] contain a nice fast-loading version of the snapshot ... add-on (Multiface?)
Split memory in 2-3 segments, put ... , and restore registers.
Making fast-load version hovewer requires extra ...Pimp my code...Erm, this is just the result of a mental exercise - I wanted to repeatedly display a UDG but decided against using a ROM routine and UDGs! Any sugges…
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LDIR (and LDI) is fast for copying bytes but not ... of memory. It is compact for that purpose, yes, but not fast ...GP2X handheld - ZX Spectrum emu goodnessIt's probably been covered here before, but I've spent the last week going crazy over the GP2X Linux-based, dual-core handheld that can emulate somet…
... the memory contention emulation, and now Manic Miner is still too fast ... to 50fps, to show the fast changing colour effect in Aquaplane ...In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... , uses few memory, and - more importantly - it is very fast for almost ...In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... , uses few memory, and - more importantly - it is very fast for almost ... works well and is pretty fast. For something as small as ...Bipboi Beta 2007.10Hello, I am nearing the end of the gameplay to Bipboi. I have made changes to the gameplay and would really like your opinions (Is it too hard etc)…
... a combination of skill and memory: They are playable enough that ... that little bit further, and memory will help to get there ... , upside down bipboi, slow bipboi, fast bipboi, no longer wrap movements ... . If the AI was good/fast enough, it could become a ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... . They barely update the screen fast enough to fit between refreshes ... make it appear rather than copy the entire thing like many ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... the 48K Spectrum. The extra memory was nice (though if they ... playing games (though not for fast typing of text files) than ... data from anywhere else in memory, when it reached the end ...PS3 Launch Delayed Till March 2007 in Europe and AusAnyone whos been waiting for november will have to wait even longer now unless they live in the U.S of Japan
... slowly (the speed of a fast 386, aparently, so you can ... with the XBox's limited memory, and it's limited speed ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... also say that typing that fast makes it easier to type ... the keywords into your muscle memory, they wouldn't slow you ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... =JamesD]The 6502 was very fast compared to the Z80. I ... internal clock doubling and faster memory access, but anything more than ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... without microcode back then. (remember, memory was expensive when it was ... 64180 you can see how fast the Z80 could have been ... you can also see how fast it is when you fix ... instructions that could be executed fast.The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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The 6502 was very fast compared to the Z80. I ... the 6502 about twice as fast as the z80 early in ... the cost AND twice as fast it should have demolished the ... in a second buffer and copy it over? What if you ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... bus timing. The timing for memory and i/o cycles has ... 64180 you can see how fast the Z80 could have been ... in the ez80. Since each memory fetch was 16 bits wide ... that making instructions operate as fast as possible still doesn't ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... TK-95 even implemented a fast mode so it would be ... /> Or that you could just copy tapes from all your buds ... owners waited for a cracked copy to come out on disk ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... as a compiled binary in memory. Of course, you could have ... that would have reduced available memory even further.
The ... is there, while not particularly fast is surprisingly robust and has ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... as a compiled binary in memory. Of course, you could have ... that would have reduced available memory even further.
The ... is there, while not particularly fast is surprisingly robust and has ...
