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  • What Spectrum-related name would you give a band?As a purely hypothetical question, if you were in a music group or recording as a soloist, and wanted to give them a Spectrum-related name, what woud…

    ... ... a goth band

    Gyroscope/Eidolon/Sentinel/Redhawk ... good names ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton November 2004 Games
  • Games that won't work with the +2a/bIs there a list of all the games that don't work with the +2a/b? Like Fairlight for example. Ta :)

    ... depends massively on timing and interrupt tricks.

    If it ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann November 2004 Games
  • MemoryI am writing a game for the Spectrum and need to store a lot of map data. What is the lowest address I can start to store the data at ?

    ... - and that goes for the interrupt routine too, so if you ...
    gasman gasman December 2004 Development
  • What speccy game or games did your parents or siblings like?Just thought this might be an interesting topic over Chrimbo... My older sister was never really into games in a big way, but there were a few games…

    ... with Steve Lamb (Made Typhoon, Gyroscope, etc) And I think he ...
    Trinity Trinity December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Z80 register decoding document error?Hi, I've been working on a disassembler using the following document written by Cristian Dinu (aka GOC?). [url="http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm…

    ... out whether to accept an interrupt or not. Therefore it must ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall December 2004 Development
  • Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …

    Going slightly off the post I still think one of the best toons ever for a speccy game was one of the toons on the menu page for Gyroscope. It was apparently the first simulated stereo music ever done for a Speccy and that was done for a 48ker!!!
    Humbug Humbug January 2005 Games
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 31 January 2005Monday 31 January 2005 A dose of Chickenpox meant I FINALLY had time to put this update online. And very good it is, too.. The update, not the Chicke…

    ... Beret , Gremlins ,
    Guerrilla War , Gyroscope 1 , Hamte Damte ,
    Hobgoblin ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2005 Announcements
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ... . You may need to adjust interrupt mode and int falgs also ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned February 2005 Development
  • Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…

    ... be the start of the interrupt just for convenience; there's ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2005 Development
  • InterruptsCan someone help with providing some info or a link about IM 2. I know I need to create a vector table and want to store this as high in memory as po…

    ... a table of vectors of interrupt routines that service different devices ... the low byte of the interrupt vector is generated as FF ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2005 Development
  • InterruptsCan someone help with providing some info or a link about IM 2. I know I need to create a vector table and want to store this as high in memory as po…

    ... get the address of the interrupt service routine that is ... 256+1 to store its interrupt service routine address. A ... odd peripheral ids means that interrupt service routine addresses overlap in ... call address $fefe whenever an interrupt occurs in im2.
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • Suggestions for games to test emulators?I'm going to be doing a comparision of a few different emulators, and was wondering if anyone had good suggestions of games to use as a 'benchmark' t…

    ... /infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Gyroscope$&pub=^Melbourne+House$"]Gyroscope[/url]

    Jon Needle Jon Needle February 2005 Games
  • Port 0x7ffd Partial DecodingI'm trying Pitfighter on my emulator and it runs in +2A/+3 mode but crashes in 128k/+2 mode. I traced it down to an OUT instruction which sends 4 to …

    ... the I register =0x7e in interrupt mode 2. Not a problem ...
    Woody Woody February 2005 Development
  • Hypersports problem - freezes before 1st event?I am using Fuse on Mac OSX, have tried a few of the available Hypersports in the archive now, but each one appears fine until I start the first event…

    ... reveals that the "improved" retriggered interrupt code in 0.7.0 ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2005 Games
  • Hypersports problem - freezes before 1st event?I am using Fuse on Mac OSX, have tried a few of the available Hypersports in the archive now, but each one appears fine until I start the first event…

    ... reveals that the \"improved\" retriggered interrupt code in 0.7.0 ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2005 Games
  • Interrupt timingsHow long does the ULA hold /INT low for on interrupt on each of the Spectrum models?

    ... from executing before the next interrupt occurs. I suppose it's ...
    Woody Woody March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    I'm using the colt... Interrupt-driven sprites and fast math. ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    This is what I've compiled so far:

    [quote]Resources
    =========

    * Make all caps
    ---------------

    You can turn CAPS LOCK on or off using a simple poke to 23658:

    POKE 23658,8: REM CAPS ON
    ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    Won't PAUSE 1: LET f=PEEK 23672+256*PEEK 23673 do the trick as PAUSE ends just after an interrupt?
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Flicker on my scrolling demo, any ideas?I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.z80"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.…

    ... wait about 14500 T after interrupt and then start scroll routine ...
    Fikee Fikee May 2005 Development
  • The BIGGEST Speccy ebay auction everdon't believe me? go looksy [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8176797909"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…

    ... Gun! )

    Melbourne House - Gyroscope
    Melbourne House - Mugsy
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan May 2005 Sales
  • The BIGGEST Speccy ebay auction everdon't believe me? go looksy [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8176797909"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…

    ... Gun! )

    Melbourne House - Gyroscope
    Melbourne House - Mugsy
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty May 2005 Sales
  • Isometric 3D gamesFor today's chore, I'm trying to list all isometric 3d games. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Isometric+3D+Graphics$&phras…

    ... released)
    Glider Rider
    Gyroscope
    Magnetron
    Marble Madness ...
    Fil Fil May 2005 Games
  • Worst Game Music And SoundWhat do you think was the worst speccy music and sound. My vote is for "Miner Willy" great game but the music at the begining was like nails on a cha…

    ... effort (48k only) but was interrupt driven (like JSW I imagine ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree June 2005 Games
  • First game you REALLY wantedOK. I searched but couldn't find a thread like this so why not start one. So, I'm interested in what was the first game you really, really, really w…

    ... />
    The very first was GYROSCOPE - as much to do with ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2005 Games
  • "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]

    ... 7 cycles, and thats an interrupt or BRK.
    [quote]
    devnull devnull July 2005 Games
  • Key press to ASCII valueI need a bit of code that will give me an ASCII value when the key is pressed. I only really need a-z. I tried using the following code but it only s…

    ... GetKey is part of an interrupt service routine
    ; then time ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2005 Development
  • New horizontal scrolling gameI have just been working on this for the last months. Heres a snapshot, let me know what you think. [url="http://www.geocities.com/ruijtunest/rtun…

    ... screen update routine, in an interrupt routine if need be. The ...
    gasman gasman August 2005 Development
  • Z80 QuestionCan the instruction EX DE,HL be prefixed with DD to give EX DE,IX? Derek

    ... 's description of the IM2 interrupt acknowledge as being different from ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2005 Development
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