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  • 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 ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris September 2006 Development
  • 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 ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Development
  • 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 ...
    48K 48K September 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... could get disk drive interfaces, memory expansion (64k and beyond), CP ... . They barely update the screen fast enough to fit between refreshes ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Chit chat
  • 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 ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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.
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    ;YES. EXCHANGE ELEMENTS IN MEMORY
    PHA ; BY SAVING LOW ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... had a small amount of memory - or no disk drive support ... C64 & was designed to fill the void between C64 in ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... computers having very fast processors and lots of memory and disk space ...
    NickH NickH September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... the value in non-contended memory above RAMTOP, i.e.
    Forget about trying to escape memory contention in BASIC. You can ... better and can be as fast as normal numbers in some ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... 2 to 4 times as fast and added additional commands. They ... system.

    Now, FLASH memory or MRAM can do the ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... ] Yes, modern chips are cheap, fast and OBSCENELY ENERGY-HUNGRY. Have ... power chips are designed to fill this niche but this will ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... memory from the other Timex modes. Yes, it wouldn't be fast ... that don't depend upon fast screen updates.

    Another ... modes to be just as fast as the original one. But ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... is just a smart DMA memory move. It would be part ... modes to be just as fast as the original one. But ... a major rework of the memory and video timing unless you ... to the standard speed for memory accesses. But that's only ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... memory from the other Timex modes. Yes, it wouldn't be fast ... full 12k of video memory gets you a 256x192 ... the DMA device to memory and more contention with ... for the larger video memory is a good idea. ... as many cycles during ULA memory access.

    [ ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…

    ... , preservation will move on as fast or slow as we can ... each update, I for one fill Archive Info's in and ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... the appropriate place in screen memory. You can then alter the ... />
    [code]
    1 REM fast
    10 BORDER 0: PAPER ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... to draw everything in upper memory area, but what about other ... $7ffd,...)
    4. Use a fast m/c program to copy ... that you still need a fast copy in step 4 which ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…

    ... use a large amount of memory to store state for ... you try pixel & fill it, move left, try pixel ... & fill it, move up, try pixel ... a spectrum, for a fill that uses pixel steps, this ... like a breadth-first fill which does not pursue ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... for testing a tape, but fast:
    * Edge
    * Flash

    I prefer using Fast loading, which I believe loads ... a tape fast by as if normal withough ... such as loading straight into memory (Flash).

    Cheers
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... , which would look at the memory surrounding an IN, and try ... iirc.

    Byteloader (or fast mode) is a different beast ... .

    Both Edge and Fast utilise a faster emulation speed ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Emulators
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... pointer, but doesn't actually fill out the space in the ... to be moved elsewhere in memory - very handy).

    Looking ... two ways to fill in a block of memory, and that's ...
    icabod icabod November 2006 Development
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... pointer, but doesn't actually fill out the space in the ... to be moved elsewhere in memory - very handy).
    [/QUOTE]Output ... ...) will assemble code to virtual memory (as native ZX-Spectrum assemblers ...
    aprisobal aprisobal November 2006 Development
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... just runs the emulation as fast as possible during the loading ... /> [1] Actually, it does disable memory contention to save a few ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle November 2006 Emulators
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... on the 2068, the display memory is mapped into the z80 ... on the msx the display memory is owned by the vdp ... 2068 about twice as fast to manipulate screen memory as the msx ... possible by the quick display memory access, but msx scrollers tend ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
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