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Bubbler for sale on EbayI am having a cleaerout of all of my retro collection. All that is left is my Spectrum & C64 collections. I have started by listing Bubbler on Ebay…
Starting price is way to high. People want to have some hope that they ... />
A better approach is to start the bidding for £1 ... . If you don't want to sell below a certain price ... did when I auctioned my copy of Bubbler a few years ... -
myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
... seems there are just way too many pills on ... If it was a fraction faster i would really like ... make you go a fraction faster ?[/QUOTE]
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The only way to approach the game I think ... It is very important to stick to this order of priorities ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... on a faster VIC emulator. I'd have to adjust the ... br /> JSR CHROUT
; Copy 64 characters (512 bytes)
; two pages to copy
LDY #0
LDX ...
BNE PAGECOPY
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Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... long and inefficient compared to the ZX ROM attempt. ... . I'm trying to keep to 16-bit (or ... is many, many times faster than the Sinclair ROM.
to be portable to suit various screen resolutions ... figure out a good way to plot lines of variable ... -
Lerm Transpack 3 - Microdrive versionListed on [URL="http://cgi.ebay.com/Sinclair-Spectrum-MicroDrive-Cassette-Lerm-TPack3_W0QQitemZ320294319441QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11994QQssPageNameZWDVWQ…
... , I don't have means to copy microdrive programs. So, that program ... 's[/URL] made it's way into the archive. It's ... -
Lerm Transpack 3 - Microdrive versionListed on [URL="http://cgi.ebay.com/Sinclair-Spectrum-MicroDrive-Cassette-Lerm-TPack3_W0QQitemZ320294319441QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11994QQssPageNameZWDVWQ…
... (but it's faster than it used to be dumping each ... 0 and read all the way to 256 in 4 chunks, ... !
Getting back to the auction, looks like we ... makes it very hard to know when to abstain when a ... for it. I guess either way, eBay/PalPal win.
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Lerm Transpack 3 - Microdrive versionListed on [URL="http://cgi.ebay.com/Sinclair-Spectrum-MicroDrive-Cassette-Lerm-TPack3_W0QQitemZ320294319441QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11994QQssPageNameZWDVWQ…
... (but it's faster than it used to be dumping each ... 0 and read all the way to 256 in 4 chunks, ... - and that's down to developing against [foolproof!] emulated ... it very hard to know when to abstain when a ... for it. I guess either way, eBay/PalPal win.
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Retro-X Alpha availableChanges from WIP 7 (Alpha 3) to Alpha 4 ( 1.5.08 - 14.5.08 ). Requested by and help by - in brackets. Bugfixes: * Viewer: o File list not displaye…
... looks like Vista trys to emulate DirectX-Overlay of ... managed to test your new painter, and it's much faster. ... used causes your tools to be hidden if you ... window (and no obvious way to get them back, as ... I still cannot get textures to draw - I choose the ... -
Help with references For WikipediaThere was recently a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum/GA1#GA_Reassessment"]review[/URL] of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.…
... the Spectrum were used to copy from cassette (which was ... slow and inconvenient) to other media such as ... method of handling colour ...". Interesting to who? Unusual?
way.[/QUOTE]
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Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…
... we placed the advert copy we had to guess in advance what ... that we never got round to using it ;)
... suppose it might make sense to have that linked there? ... couldn't think of any way to improve on SC and weren ... interested in selling a direct copy. -
Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
... reliable. So, putting faster RAM in machine will ... if there is some way to set faster RAM access (shorter cycles ... controller it will work faster (see some PC setup ... it may be faster with faster RAM if there ... couple seconds in some way. How exactly? Ask authors ... -
Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
... reliable. So, putting faster RAM in machine will ... if there is some way to set faster RAM access (shorter ... controller it will work faster (see some PC setup ... it may be faster with faster RAM if there ... saying XBoxes are necessarily faster, mind you, just ... -
Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…
... the Spin assembler trying to assemble SpaceInvaders (from ... standard icons for cut,copy and paste. Bug icon ... for "copy" isn't intuitive. Plus ... believe this is standard way to represent hex in some ... list is mostly related to user-interface rather ... -
Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…
... ]I've been trying to reproduce this since you ... non-standard icons for cut,copy and paste. Bug icon ... for "copy" isn't intuitive. Plus, ... toolbars to find a quick way of getting SPIN to work ... believe this is standard way to represent hex in some ... -
Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... that, you might want to figure out a way to prevent the 'Bytes ... :' messages from scrolling the screen away faster ... loaded/saved in - and trying to roll your own in Basic ... necessarily require machine code knowledge to use.) -
ANN: Spectaculator 7Spectaculator 7 is now available! More information is available in the [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/news?ref=wos"]news section[/URL] on the web…
... virtual tape and be able to copy or standard data files (headers ... pick up the way the data is sent out to save.
2. Would be cool to be able to play a csw/wav ... deck 1 and record a copy to deck 2, say if you ... users. I'd like to be able to double click on a ... -
Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…
... inferior to the Spectrum version due to inferior music and graphics, way to not ... and childish thing to say
Either way where this is ... but limits you in the way you can sit and general ... worth mentioning other than the faster enemy spawning which I had ... -
In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
... in between the OUTs to the ULA with precision ... interrupts would essentially have to take up the whole ... br /> I'd question as to whether interrupt-driven is entirely ... tries to do this, I'd think the way to go ... would be to have a different copy of ... -
Questions about the Nintendo WiiGreetings, I got myself a Wii for my birthday :) (My first console other than my atari 2600) and a 2Gb SD card, a second set of controllers, a class…
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WhizzBang,
You can copy all of the VC titles ... remembered I also can't copy to SD: any of my ... br /> Some retail games copy and some don't ( ... 2)
-Ask me 'copy to SD card?' click yes
to copy to SD card'
Is there another way I'm ... -
RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…
... that we have less work to do here than a general ... routine has to copy bytes around, and even the fastest way of doing ... -
Vector images of Spectrum models?A few years ago there was a website that had an image of every Spectrum model in vector format available for download. Has anyone seen this before? I…
... is a "cheap" way you might be able to do something similar ... end up with an exact copy of the original wax.
to wood.
The obvious way to avoid deformation in ... the walls is to sheet fabricate ... -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
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(link has to be copy/pasted in browser, dunno why ... I don't have a way of reading big files ... even if I had a way to read them, file2tap doesn't ... allow me to add files if they don ... stuck in time and prefer to use Basic.
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Attn: Dunny Re: Basin[QUOTE=Dunny;282407]Just out of interest, is there any demand on these boards for a standalone version of BASin's graphics tools? It'd be just the U…
... ) would make things faster. It's easier to switch between a pencil ... and eraser, but to do it the current way requires more clicks ... system to be able to do that - you need to be able to scroll ... windows? Right now the only way to switch between the Basin editor ... -
A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
... here is a 4-way scrolling version of the ... The stars go the opposite way to the key you press. ... it wasn't much faster at all in this ... ,64 ;add 64 to give offset to screenbase (16384/256 ...
;hl now points to required screen byte
PUSH ... -
I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
... as picture. To display graphics you need to copy bytes to this memory ... area. There isn't any other way ... You have to write a loop which will copy bytes to memory area ... . You must work harder to do ... -
I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
... as picture. To display graphics you need to copy bytes to this memory ... area. There isn't any other way ... You have to write a loop which will copy bytes to memory area ... . You must work harder to do ... -
Questions about registers, stack, etc.I was told that if I wanted to export code and create unprotected versions of games I should do the following: 1-Find the starting address by using …
... it easier for others to copy the game to their favorite media type ... possible, and make the jump to the start address from BASIC ... easier to those who want to add POKEs the old fashioned way (yes ... "unprotected" versions of games, just to find out that they were ... -
CronosoftIt's a bit of bad news, but I'm sorry to say that I'm probably closing up the Cronosoft label. I'm struggling financially at the moment, and Cronoso…
... the adventures I wrote to them (in the event ... not going out of the way to finish these..
to Codemasters (not being worthy ... for in return is a copy of the book (Paul ... announce plans to close the company just to generate a ... -
Analogue BeeperThere's been a discussion on foro.speccy.org about multichannel beeper stuff, and since I had the camera out and the scope set up, I set about demons…
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Fundamentally, the same way you make single channel sound ... 's actually a crude digital to analogue converter.
... probably not going to be able to make a ... d need a much faster CPU to do it).
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Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... one heck of a good way to complicate my life. I ... is a really good way to gain some serious speed ... memory space, and is faster too. Something like this:< ... only fooling around. Wanted to see the effects of playing ... :grin:[/QUOTE]
Best way to learn!! ;);)
