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Done the unthinkableI bought Spectaculator today because I am sick of how unstable ZX Spin has become. I have to admit it looks great on my laptop plugged through to my …
... playing games and writting stuff in basic.
I wasnt going ... worth it as there are free emulators about but i was ... have downloaded SpecEmu, it's free and the most accurate ZX ... -
whoo hooI bought an Atari 520STFM on ebay from a guy i know for ?26 this week is going to be awesome. Its just a pitty that this week my electric is being cu…
... You can run most games in 512kb, but some do need ... I stopped using my ST, in 1996 (when I bought ... and think there's no free memory or something - I know ... a torrent with them all in (they did something like 114 ... won't take long, even in bulk), so if you ... -
Second Hand SpectrumHi just joined the Forum. I have picked up a Spectrum at a s/h shop and would like some advice please. I have had two ZX81's packed away for severa…
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99% of Spectrums in Britain use UHF - all the ... British ones in other words. Channel 36.< ... looking for. When you're in BASIC type
CLEAR 65535 ... Spectrum with a bad memory chip, so effectively 16K ... />
Plug it in, and press a key. You ... -
New ZX81 game: "Aahku al Rescate"Hi everybody! It has been a hard work, but here we go with a new release; our first port for (not so) little brother of Sinclair machines: ZX81 vers…
... is entierly and only written in ZX81 basic. It's amazing what ... ZX81 do in GFX and speed with only the basic language.
in basic and need help, contact me ... ***
[url]http://zx81.ordi5.free.fr/andre[/url]
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New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…
... /> Specbas, for your security, runs in a sandboxed mode. It makes ... a directory for you in your users hierarchy.
On Vista/Win7, it's in "c:\users\ -
ZXOOM, does it work?Another game now on the run, but I got some trouble. I've tried to make it run with Spectaculator as well with ZX Spin but it clashes once loaded and…
... it is very unpolished (release in a snapshot format, seriously?), and ... completed, and there is no free memory for anything else, even for ... the problems that were seen in early WIP versions of the ... variety without a lot of memory (megabytes) by the design, ... -
Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…
... thousands of primitive games, often in BASIC, from the early years (say ... I mean, a 1983 type-in listing can perhaps be forgiven ... a 1984 Quill-ed, where memory was very limited. But a ... -
Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…
... written in basic to poke the code for the game into memory because ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... random number from 0-255 in A.
You can ... copy it up or down in memory once it is assembled.
in BASIC is the Speccy ROM copies ... the routine exits, whatever was in the BC register at the ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... random number from 0-255 in A.
You ... copy it up or down in memory once it is assembled.
in BASIC is the Speccy ROM copies ... routine exits, whatever was in the BC register at the ... values of Patrik's code in to any address and ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... binary, like a CODE file in basic, containing a bunch of bytes ... need to be poked into memory. If you add the '-create ... tap file with a default basic loader containing a RAND USR ... a raw binary load option in their file menus. You can ... -
How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... capital letters, which saves on memory. In [I]Buzzsaw+[/I] I only ... the characters 32-95 (64 in total) which is SPACE, numbers ... my symbol shows up, when in terms of ASCII codes it ... screen into what was the BASIC area when your program starts ... -
Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
... , then we're talking. Although in BASIC you couldn't redraw anything ... it to really be flicker-free. -
Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
... , then we're talking. Although in BASIC you couldn't redraw anything ... it to really be flicker-free.[/QUOTE]
As I ... -
Rubber 48k troublesHi. I've just got a 48k to add my collection, but it seems doesn't working well. The computer starts ups finely, but it doesn't load the games. So fa…
... some program in BASIC. I don't know nothing about memory and so ... -
Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
[QUOTE=joefish;596486] Although in BASIC you couldn't redraw anything ... it to really be flicker-free.[/QUOTE]
So make it ... use Double Buffering written with BASIC!:
[url]http://www ... -
Interesting speed increase...Hi Folks, You may already know the following but I found it "interesting". I have been developing a model railway timetable program in BASin for th…
... on the Speccy in BASIC, the numbers are stored in ascii first, followed ... looked at the raw data in a speccy program ) the ascii ... />
Yep, it certainly saves memory Baggers.
Paddy -
AY-interface for ZX81 (at last ;) )Hi, it exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX. [url]http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Brand_New_Sinclair_ZX81_MrX_A…
... samples are usually placed in non-contended memory. I don't ... about the ZX81's memory map or if it ... even has non-contended memory!
Edit: ... to store an entire sample in memory. Gasman's WAV player ... the reading element was in basic it was a bit slow ... -
BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…
... when I wrote my programs in BASIC... [/QUOTE]
+1 here ... it appeared in one of those articles in SU 'back in the day ... '.. I used to get into all sorts of memory ... trouble trying to create multiple screens for my BASIC games ... -
Games won't load from tapeHi all, I have fitted my replacement motherboard but I can't seem to get a game to load. I've tried it with several and it gets past all the loadin…
Sounds like the upper 32k memory is broken.
In BASIC type CLEAR 49152 and press enter.
Do you get "Ramtop no good" error?
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Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…
... that to one end of memory or the other, as it ... you a larger contiguous chunk free for whatever you might think ... then you want to manage memory in 16K blocks for paging, so ... or 48896 to fit it in the middle block. -
stuck on recursive functionI want this function to PEEK 'l' bytes from memory starting at 's' and return them as a string, but however much I fiddle about with quoting and pare…
... ... it should have been "stuck in ...". Yes, better much would that ... is why I get "Nonsense in BASIC" more often than not until ... ) returns the addressed byte from memory;
* ("FN j$("+STR$ (s ... still fail with "Out of memory", as each iteration creates a ... -
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... be referenced by LET from BASIC afterwards. Also, if shifting ... to a DEFADD destination string in free RAM which I'll summarise ... destination, thus giving a "Nonsense in BASIC" error when the "(" is encountered ... '1' is so that the free RAM string is [b]not ... -
raspberry pion the bbc news at the moment..
... choices, use the built in basic or hard code in assembly. But now ... and the countless versions of BASIC. ( i know i've missed ... of other programming languages about in the 80s; they were mostly ... straight away. It's also free of the lengthy pre-amble ... -
LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... s an assembler listing, a BASIC listing of the test runner ... /> [code]
Memory usage:
PROG -> 27099 : BASIC
27100 -> ... output will just be stored in memory at the location & ... although this part is still in BASIC and is rather slow.
Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…
... Trooper Point 5 (also displayed in Binman's post) but the ... screen size to try to free up memory in the designer as i ... was saying in my earlier post (it ... area and freeing up enough memory to have a large interesting ...3D Wireframe/vector animation creator and player?Is there any software that can help record wireframe 3D animations by creating a file that stores just the coordinates and lines? If the answer is "n…
... can come up with something in BASIC just to get it going ... drawn, or does it save memory by drawing a line when ...RAM disk interface for 48kDoes anything like that exist?
... RAM disk from 48 BASIC. Battle Bunny would probably ... However I did find this in the archive (which works ... was a construction project in one of the smaller ... that let you page in extra memory in the top 32K, overlapping ... away to get it in focus, the lettering is ...Stuff the Speccy can do but we all thought it couldn'tHey all, Does anyone have any good examples of stuff the speccy can do - graphically, sonically, etc that we thought it wouldn't be able to do? Che…
... possibly...
1) Back in the 80s when I first ... is Battle Bunny's Memory Move Routine in BASIC. I still find it ... move large chunks of memory around from BASIC using just 9 bytes ...
