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Which Emulator do you use the most? and whyI currently use ZX32, it's free, which is great but it's not as fast as I'd like. Please everybody, tell me your fave emulator and why. I'm quite …
... to come by with the Spectrum - the CSS FAQ is loaded ... that a speccy ran at 3.5mhz (ish) and how to program ... -
Any programmers interested in writing for a more powerful machine?Apparently not.
... resolution and still runs on 3.5MHZ (do you really think that ... speccy?).
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... how you can say spectrum color implimentation was better ... disk drives available to the Spectrum, which incidently had more ... Spectrum ran a lot faster than the C64.
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... how you can say spectrum color implimentation was better ... disk drives available to the Spectrum, which incidently had more ... Spectrum ran a lot faster than the C64.
Z80 @ 3.5mhz ... complex operations, basically the Spectrum pissed all over the C64 ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... the Spectrum ran a lot faster than the C64.
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ZX Spectrum BogoMipsBogoMips value gives some indication of the processor speed, and is one of the most used way of comparing diferent systems. The definition of BogoMi…
How is this measured?
If a spectrum runs at approx 3.5Mhz then that is 3,500,000 tstates per second.
A NOP (no operation) takes 4 tstates to execute. So that is 875,000 NOPs / sec, or 0.8 million.
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Emulating the SamRAM on the ZX Spectrum SEGerton Lunter gave me permission to reuse the code, but so far I have not been able to get the software to work in paged RAM banks.
... be quite small. ZX Spectrum SE/ZX Spectrum +3/Pentagon/Scorpion.
[/ ... at the same clock speed (3.5Mhz). And the Pentagon is nothing ... original machine than either the Spectrum 128 or the Pentagon. ( ... do that on any other Spectrum or Spectrum clone. It's a ... -
Which Speccy is the best to buy...I'd be using it for games really, and thats about it. I'd like a 128k but I seem to remember people saying 128k +2's had problems playing some games.…
... TV Game, which requires a 3.5Mhz Z80 and won't work ... on the Spectrum SE though, which is clocked at 3.5Mhz."
You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... to make a significantly faster Spectrum, 4 MHz Z80s were practically ... which is why it's ~3.5MHz.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…
... run the ULA slower in 3.5MHz mode, with contention, rather than ... life.[/QUOTE]
The spectrum lasted as long as any ...Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... active scrolling projects in the Spectrum scene so those who ... to speak from experience. The Spectrum has pretty much zero hardware ... since it's only a 3.5MHz machine, getting a nice scroll ... />
However, many nice scrolling Spectrum games were for the 48k ...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…
... that after 25 years of Spectrum existence we should already pretty ... it can be expressed in 3.5MHz time units. So it is ...New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... a Spectrum will take away what the Spectrum is.
A Spectrum will ... of colours.
Keep the Spectrum to its original colours.
3.5Mhz to say 14Mhz
10 ... .
But keeping the Spectrum to its original colour, what ...Interface extension cable ?I'm wondering if I can make an extension cable for the Speccy's expansion port. It's not the part of making it I'm uncertain about, but wether the l…
... probably the case for a 3.5MHz bus. But inductive noise + distorted ... do something similar for the spectrum by looking at ic datasheets ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
The spectrum *does* have separate float and ... is significantly faster than a 3.5MHz z80. BBC basic was efficiently ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
[QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;215207]The spectrum *does* have separate float and ... is significantly faster than a 3.5MHz z80. BBC basic was efficiently ...MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... . In fact, not only ZX Spectrum can gain benefit of Z80 ... , SAM Coupe, Sort M5, MSX.... Spectrum SE[/QUOTE]
Yes ... , it is necessary in a 3.5MHz z80 system if you are ...another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... :
1) as two classic spectrum screens
2) combined in ... one 512x192 monochrome screen
3) combined in multicolor screen where ... (1MHz 6502 is comparable to 3.0-3.5MHz Z80). Which is pretty ...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…
... selecting scrolls by 1,2,3,4,etc pixels easily at ... scroll time of 192/50 = 3.84 seconds from the top ... /50s there are about 70000 3.5MHz z80 cycles. So an equivalent ... below 16k on a 48k spectrum. The 16k-32k area however ...Spectrum skin coloursShame the speccy did not have a pink,....but wait, bright magenta may have sufficed!? I don't recall any games using this though. Which colour wa…
... are as per the original Spectrum at 3.5Mhz and the screen areas ... />
Timex=normal/128=normal : Spectrum screen area at #4000.
Beeper octave range...A dumb question, I know, but I've found two conflicting sources of information on the octave range of the Sinclair beeper. I suppose I'm being a lit…
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But this is the spectrum beep command, not the octave ... speaker is driven by a 3.5MHz cpu there is much greater ... is 40 cycles and at 3.5MHz corresponds to a tone at ...Multiplayer online Speccy gaming - an actual technical proposalAs is so often the way, [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=274215&postcount=121]trying to put into words why something is impo…
... much more accurate than a 3.5Mhz quartz crystal... (well, I suppose ... need to keep timestamps in Spectrum time because determining whether an ...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 SAM and ZX Spectrum +3.
I use a ... version will
be the fastest (I think Simons because he ... and 5K expended memoryversion
3) option to select keyboardreading frequency ...Speccy AY-3-8910 vs. C64 SID ChipI thought I'd open this up for debate. Having owned both a C64 and a Speccy +2, my vote goes to the SID Chip; it is by far the superior sound synthe…
[QUOTE=Code Monkey;293336]The Spectrum has an extra beeper which ... can't hear anywhere near 3.5Mhz frequency ;-) hehe) but it still ...Speccy AY-3-8910 vs. C64 SID ChipI thought I'd open this up for debate. Having owned both a C64 and a Speccy +2, my vote goes to the SID Chip; it is by far the superior sound synthe…
... can't hear anywhere near 3.5Mhz frequency ;-) hehe) but it still ... of the reactance of the Spectrum's speaker circuit to produce ...Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... in 1983. It had a 3.5MHz Z80, a slightly butchered colour ... ROM and hardware of the Spectrum.[/QUOTE]
Yes, totally ...Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... in 1983. It had a 3.5MHz Z80, a slightly butchered colour ... a bit similar to a Spectrum, but the graphics capabilities of ... looks similar externally to the Spectrum, you could try the [URL ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
[QUOTE=aowen;314497]A 3.5Mhz Z80 processor and direct write ... a lot out of the Spectrum programming wise than the later ...HelloI reckon the spectrum was shit The C64 was better So was the amstrad I would love to smash a spectrum to pieces and crap all over it Rubbish games…
... matters of opinion. 16 colours, 3.5MHz, 8 sprites or whatever are ... show me anything on the Spectrum as sweet as this eye ... demos are big on the Spectrum, but they're what's ...
