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50Hz on PC?Hi, do you know of any emulator for PC that can switch monitor refresh rate to 50Hz or closest possible and sync ZX interrupt with monitor refresh?…
... Then demos will run 20% faster, but it is small price ... is crap is with regard to the vast majority of ... sat on it. The only way to get your nice crisp pixels ... art in full screen is to allow the game or ... on HD televisions to any degree, other than to say that it ... -
Spectaculator Problems on VistaHi, Does anyone else have the same problem whenever they run Spectaculator on Windows Vista? Im using Spectaculator 6.3 and after a while of playing…
... itself and the only way to play again is to close it and ... to stop this from happening?
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What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…
... you can change the resolution to 256x192 with appropriate ingenuity.< ... , impractical unless you move to a kludgier bankswitched scheme.
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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... logic would have to be restructured. Here's one way to do it ... what's the best/shortest way to do it. It would take ... essential, making the game much faster in the earlier stages of ... techinically when you POKE NSPPC to jump to a statement within a ... -
The new C5?[url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308636,00.html[/url]
... . This is probably the only way to survive as a company like ... fit person can go further/faster/carry more/travel on worse ... road surfaces/more visible to other traffic ... on a bicycle ... size of a Smart - that way, it has reasonable utility and ... -
Top banned video games......as per Yahoo: [url]http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/video-game-nasties-hottest-banned-games/535678[/url] :D
... the only way to play it was to obtain an illegal copy of the ... -
A little help with info on Dual Core processors...Tomorrow I will be getting an Intel Dual Core processor. i'm new to these things and have a few very vague questions to ask. 1) Can single core co…
Windows XP is more tolerant (modulo product activation) than Win2K or heaven forbid >=Win95 -
DVD-RW questionI've made up a DVD-RW disc with various old VCR clips, but when I come to copy it onto my PC's hard drive as backup, it comes up with a message after…
... , but when I come to copy it onto my PC's ... or so:
"Cannot Copy VTS_01_1: Invalid MS-DOS function ... got to do with it anyway, and is there any way ... -copying in windows (cut/copy and paste) is done by ... . DVD-Shrink can also copy copy-protected DVD's, and ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... a=a*a" is noticeably faster than "let a=a^2 ... still has the option to do it faster by choosing "let a ... is certainly not the fastest way to go about things.
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splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
... sp_Initialize() is fixed so I copy what's generated in my ... though unless you find another way to do the following:
< ... ROM, and I have just to write to sp_TileArray (in RAM) accordingly ... that loop code with calls to sp_TileArray() that would initialize ... -
Finally...Yes :smile: I've finally reached one thousand posts. And yes, I know that many other people have reached that august figure too, but for most of t…
... by the way - I'd have hated to think you ... this back to me
the finished copy of Klass ... Anyway, I carefull navigated my way around the room, collecting ... objects I made my way to the now flashin exit. ... to see if any of them were the stolen, complete copy ... -
Does anyone have the CD codemaster pack?Hello [sorry for my poor English] I'm studding the cable of codemaster cd pack [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/73/cd.htm[/url] I have some pr…
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The only way to solve this question is to know the pin ... ] here; it is almost a copy of Atari's Joystick port ... -
Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... not true the other way around though, since PAL ... stereo has gotten to your TV that way for well ... was not only much faster than dial up (whilst ... equipment, instead it goes to a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber ... Dollars) - what's the best way to do it?
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Beanz for president!After hearing yet more about John Mcain, Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama in the race to be president of America, I've decided that I'll be voting fo…
... Initiate government research on a way to open one's favorite .TZX ... all software made prior to 1995. That way, the general populace ... free Spectrum, with an included copy of Zynaps - it would only ... , especially when it's pointless to begin with?
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CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... gather there is no way to call this emulator using ... HTML APPLET PARAM tags to change the hardware type ...
So, I repackaged a copy of the emulator JAR archive ... get the tape loading to work (I think the ... it's current form to run submitted ZX80 games, ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... purely about scrolls, the fastest way to move data around on the ... ; number of bytes in total to copy
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to copy all 32 bytes in the ... +11+10 = 543 cycles. So to copy 32 bytes takes 34.2 ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... about scrolls, the fastest way to move data around on the ... +10 = 543 cycles. So to copy 32 bytes takes 34.2 ... is not bad compared to the best we could hope ... code [/I]book refers to [I]Z80 CPU instruction ... Don't we need both to copy a byte, hence 21 cycles ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... the row in the next copy operation.
The destination ... destination address needs to be done for the next copy operation as ... the stack is already where it needs to ... I think the only way to achieve this is to hard code the ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... Then, use the Edit menu to "Copy Listing". Then I want you ... you have made by email to paul.dunngmail.com. I' ... I didn't really want to hassle you with this ... think I've figured this way round the problem, it's ... I hope you were able to make sense of my babbling ... -
z88dk 1.8 releasedSince I am the most regular of the z88dk peeps to post here I might as well let you all know that v1.8 has been released. [code] A little later than…
... that would be nice to add to the spectrum target. ... there would be a way to separate out the W5100 ... of that (interface to BASIC, interface to C) will go ... suspect there needs to be a way of associating socket ... license so you can just copy anything you need - ... -
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
... a games designer trying to explain them to a team of programmers ... games, and nobody would want to copy them, but at least they ... the freedom to throw unrelated elements together in a way that nobody ... have to keep their spirit alive in the best way we can ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... Einar, would you like to pursue post #346 further ... ;254255]I would like to see this one developed ... found a way to make it 2 times faster by adding ... one more statement (to inverse ... have also started to adapt this algorithm to fit into ... -
z88dk 1.8 releasedSince I am the most regular of the z88dk peeps to post here I might as well let you all know that v1.8 has been released. [code] A little later than…
... license so you can just copy anything you need - just check ... network games there has to be some way to signal the TCP push ... be fantastic. There would to be a way to select i/o port ... far enough ahead to figure out the best way to go about this ... -
Dead Pixels.I wandered into Comet today to look at their laptops. Not my favourite shop, but it beats next/boots/mothercare on Silverlink. Last time I was in …
... the source isn't going faster?
There ... 's a very expensive way to have a fancy monitor.< ... about increasing the picture quality to 1080p (which is a ... many lines it takes to draw the picture. Again ... 1080p TV and also to another similar spec TV with ... -
Issue 3Is now available to download [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/ZXShed/ZXShedIssue03.pdf"]here[/URL] As always, comments wel…
... /> If they find a way to have such quality magazines (and ... he shows me the easy way to do it. :)
... way to have a cleaner, easier-to-read layout, and they do it faster ... me it's easier to help with preservation efforts ... still hope to be able to get some stuff ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... think of an easy way to position the INK 7 ... , I was considering to draw the doors inside ... /> NEXT g:
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... but it was much faster to implement the example above ... calculating the exact coordinates to avoid color clash.
I've just bought a cheap PS2Well there we have it I've finally bought a PS2, after all I've only wanted one for about 5 years. Anyway couldn't get any Silent Hill games, so I bo…
... a fiver), and a copy of Art of Fighting Anthology ... the Dreamcast. It seems to be following the same story ... factors mean he has to look pretty impressive on ... through 2 (all the way to the bad ending no doubt ... I was like "Bollocks to that!". They had XIII for ...CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …
... or what?), so the only way to realistically increase the speed of ... more cores over faster clock, but that is not to say that ... enough circuits within the chip to achieve the desired clock ... would never know when to delegate anything to the secondary core(s ...CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …
... older hardware becomes easier to emulate. It just ... who'd love to see a viable way to emulate (say ... over faster clock, but that is not to say ... outperforms the other in one way or another).
to benefit from multiple cores ...CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …
... will be of benefit to emulation, assuming that the ... get out of the way if the z80 emulation ... , and never has to stop to get a display picture ... mean that things will get faster. If you take an ... one core is definitely the way to go now.
