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Instructions image/background colour matchingI'm doing a PDF from one of the JPEG instruction scans; OCRing the text, cutting out the pictures, composing a document in Word 2000 and using Acroba…
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Land fillAbout 6 years ago (Cue wishy-washy timewarp effect) I received a letter from a company claiming that they had a steel container 15' x 15' containing …
About 6 years ago (Cue wishy-washy timewarp effect) I received a letter from a company claiming that they had a steel container 15' x 15' containing 8bit games from various formats that was due to be used as landfill. It was stated that all interested ... -
How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…
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When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that? -
Checksum RoutinesHi there everybody, Does anyone have an 'off the shelf' assembler routine for generating checksums? Thanks Jim
Hi there everybody,
Does anyone have an 'off the shelf' assembler routine for generating checksums?
Thanks
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Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... 've written a simple sprite routine that draws a 8x8 pixel ... sprite? Currently, I have no routine. It leaves a nice pattern ... -
The nice little temper tantrum !Lee, my old fruit, i couldnt give a toss if your fed up. Bottom line, delete my membership fill your boots, i could of wrote this in public but no ne…
... . Bottom line, delete my membership fill your boots, i could of ... -
Didnt realise somebody was fighting for me :)So thanks, but no need ! Tis wonderful this spectrum politics, dont u think, its more contrived than the 33th Degree of the Scotish Rite. Now boys,…
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Basic Programming Routine Needed . . . HELP!Hello there, I though i would try and redo an old classic (pacman) in basic . . . BUT . . . I can't remember how to write the code to see what chara…
Hello there,
I though i would try and redo an old classic (pacman) in basic . . .
BUT . . .
I can't remember how to write the code to see what character is next to my pacman . . . i.e. if there is a dot - then pacman eats it, if there is ... -
Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…
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Sam Revival magazine issue 15 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 15 of 'Sam Revival' magazine is now out! Issue 15 starts off with the regular news section, which looks in detail at the completition of the …
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Self Relocating CodeOn page 47 of [url]http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80/doc/ldosq1-3.txt[/url] is an article about relocating code. The documented routine that performs the…
On page 47 of [url]http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80/doc/ldosq1-3.txt[/url] is an article about relocating code.
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Free Spectrum StuffI have a Spectrum +3, +2 for parts, 100's of magazines, and 100's of original games all boxed and with instructions. Basically, I am moving house an…
... just now and will easily fill it.
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Ann - The Preservation Team Shop is now openWe are proud to announce the Grand opening of the World of Spectrum Preservation Team Shop [URL]http://www.ptshop.co.uk[/URL] In the shop we are of…
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Pimp my code...Erm, this is just the result of a mental exercise - I wanted to repeatedly display a UDG but decided against using a ROM routine and UDGs! Any sugges…
... decided against using a ROM routine and UDGs!
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Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …
... i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet ... /> Authors of article, calls this routine "bit-loader" and she load ... screen must be at 49152, routine start at 65024 and she ... and here is link and routine listing:
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TZX format questionProbably a daft one, but I like to be sure of these things! For a block type 10 (a standard speed data block), the text states that all values in s…
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My final day at workAs the title said today was my last day at work. I went to work as normal, did my shift as normal, and at the end of the day nobody said good luck in…
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…
... replace the Basic style sub-routine that relied on easily corruptible ...These sounded great...Torstum's post about a hypthetical new micro-computer (on this forum) reminded me of something, but rather than post in that thread, I thought I'd ma…
... image would be 3D and fill up most of your vision ...Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…
For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initialise the stream, then PRINT #4; AT y,x; etc. Probably the odd bug here and there but I really can't be ...The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... is having an interrupt service routine which calls the player each ... add a hook to my routine to the BASIC ISR. I ... would create a small routine which would just call the ... have no problem creating the routine, I just don't know ...tips on optimizing assemblyI wrote a small routine to rotate right a whole screen character line complete with attributes. This is my third ever assembly routine, so I guess i…
I wrote a small routine to rotate right a whole ... is my third ever assembly routine, so I guess it utterly ...info needed from Pop.Comp.Weekly 14&21 Nov'85Does anyone have the Popular Computing Weekly issues for 14th & 21st November 1985? There should be a listing for a Spectrum turbo load/save routine …
... a Spectrum turbo load/save routine on pages 21/22 of ...Trivial Pursuit -- incomplete TZXs?Hope I've posted this in the right place... I've noticed that the following Trivial Pursuit TZXs seem to be missing the question sets: [url]ftp://f…
... have had the question load routine hacked to use the standard ...YSRnRY Documentary - 1987 chapter now available for downloadMerry Christmas! After a slightly longer development period than I had anticipated, the 1987 chapter is now available for download! Go get it from: …
... wouldn't be able to fill a half-hour, the projected ...Patch for Platform Game DesignerTwo minor bugs in the block designer have recently come to light in the Linear Game Designer, version 1.2. It appears that blocks 0 - 127 appear cor…
... second bug exists in the routine which checks that you are ...