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What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
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Opening my new game projectHi I am working to a new game (tentatively called "Donkey Kong Reloaded Done Better"...i was not happy with the graphics of Donkey Kong Reloaded) whi…
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Elite Dangerous: The origin story[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlufM-XQsI[/url] Here's a nostalgic trip back to the original elite and some information on the new version, to…
... thought the Speccy had the fastest, smoothest of the 8 bit ... pixel area is by the way it seems to flicker.
Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…
... bad route (walking all the way around the screen before moving ... version cos it sacrifices the fastest path for actual program speed ... put the walls in the way to try to slow down ...Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... , or 64*8=512 microseconds. Way within the datasheet required time ... 's not by far the fastest method, but my point is ... and pixel routines, given the way they written them. I wonder ...Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... 's not by far the fastest method, but my point is ... and pixel routines, given the way they written them. I wonder ...Please explain Spectrum FPGA-clones to meI've been using the great ZXDS-emulator on the DS XL so far, which is great. But I kinda missed toying around with hardware. I've tried bidding on a …
... /> Also, I'm enjoying the way people are trying to counter ... not get you the smallest, fastest, lowest power implementation. However with ... is not changing, only the way it is drawn on the ...Pixel level collision detection[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I need to do some pixel level collision detection. Assuming I have a byte of my ?player? sprite in DE and a byte of screen to t…
... , it's not exactly the fastest game on the Spectrum. It ... a fairly robust and efficient way of doing it though - the ...Doom 2 - Faster Than a Speeding (shotgun) Bullet!Awsome speedrun [url]http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/18/7241769/doom-2-speedrun[/url]
... game is completed in the fastest possible time. To quote from ... running means aiming for the fastest time you can, not just ... .
By the way, the free version of Internet ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... it's fun in a way, I'm too much on ... weaknesses by not having the fastest cpu, although architecture differences between ... /isometric games that rely on fastest cpu, it wins when it ... definitive one, so the best way to cover all bases is ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... it's fun in a way, I'm too much on ... weaknesses by not having the fastest cpu, although architecture differences between ... /isometric games that rely on fastest cpu, it wins when it ...can you make .dsk files?Hi all, Does anyone know of an emulator or prog that lets you save a tap,tzx or z80 file to a +3 dsk file? I have access to a friends pc that has an…
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The fastest (and dirty) way to convert 48k games ...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... skipped and you get the fastest possible pixel-only printing.
I can see an easy way to double the horizontal width ...Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…
... , and load the game that way. That means that instead of ... 's code, but at the fastest the emulator can run on ...Serial comms - duzzit work?Has anyone ever successfully got two 128K Speccies (of any variant) to communicate with each other over the SERIAL / RS232 / MIDI / AUX ports? I can'…
... custom protocol would probably be fastest. (Although if the cables aren ... bytes or so. All one-way, so all controls would actually ...Serial comms - duzzit work?Has anyone ever successfully got two 128K Speccies (of any variant) to communicate with each other over the SERIAL / RS232 / MIDI / AUX ports? I can'…
... custom protocol would probably be fastest. (Although if the cables aren ... bytes or so. All one-way, so all controls would actually ...A few hardware questions regarding Z80 and eZ80Hi Guys, Maybe some of you could help me with these questions: I would like to know what is the actual file size limit that can be used by z80 …
... disclaimer is out of the way my initial thoughts are:
fastest you can get with custom ...Elite - Galaxy Creator Pokes.So 8 meagre galaxies are not enough for you? Tired of visiting the same old 2048 planets over and over? Say no more, these "Galaxy Creator" pokes wil…
... and very fast, probably the fastest across all 8-bit versions ... that, the tube version is way faster than every other 8 ...Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
... order data structures in a way that the program accesses the ... . The ix addressing is the fastest method to access and mix ...Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…
... crazy IMO. It's the fastest route possible, record a macro ... get things done... the best way to learn is with a ...New ZX-Uno Spectrum CoreFor those who haven't noticed, a new Zx-Uno Spectrum core has been published: http://www.zxuno.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=406 Those lucky e…
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- The way the scanlines are generated in ... be a 21MHz CPU mode? (fastest Z80 available)New game: ZoomBloxHi everyone, this is my first post here, so first off I'd like to say hello to the Spectrum development community :) I've been developing on an…
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Actually the easiest, fastest, most efficient way to draw things using ... instance, this is the best way to draw the "vertical ray ...Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... other assembly language, the best way is to learn it all ... , use of ix in this way is uncommon and if does ... the 8-bit accumulator, the fastest register to use for anything ... code that needs to be fastest. So not only do you ...z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
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It's the fastest if the items can be ... C compilers do things this way because they are not smart ... .
There's another way you can do things manually ...greedy bastards or time for a dose of reality?zx1's disappearing pictures hosted from photobucket brought this topic to mind, that and my previous remark about refusing Chrome because of the like…
... a few bucks Wikipedia's way? How many still rely on ... a few bucks Mozilla's way (I did). If She knew ... phone lines, 1400baud is the fastest you can reasonably hope to ...A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…
... ;923799"]EDIT: Actually, a third way of doing this would be ... ] works, therefore it runs the fastest possible "key-polling" routine. Moreover ...Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
... really is in a bad way and has been since the ... most up to date and fastest moving news gathering service about ...Sir Fred - How many endings?[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004518&loadpics=3"]Sir Fred[/url]. I freely admit that I am awful at this game. I always w…
... ="F_Clowder;56082"]Is this the fastest it can be done in ... suppose it can go either way. I seem to remember you ...Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
[quote="dmsmith;948883"]By way of another comparison (albeit in ... BASIC is one of the fastest BASICs there is on 8 ...50+ FPS GAMESHi guys) Which was the first Speccy game with 50/60 frames per second? And what was the main reason? Thank you
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