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  • Results of Di:HALT (music/graphic/demo)Official Online Place Score Place Score [ ZX Spectrum AY/YM TurboAY Music ] 1 6.30 2 5.66 adversary - Cj Splinter […

    Official Online
    Place Score Place Score


    [ ZX Spectrum AY/YM TurboAY Music ]

    1 6.30 2 5.66 adversary - Cj Splinter [Trinitrocode/DL Corp]
    2 5.97 1 5.98 life movement - ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey July 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Assembly Programming for IDIOTSOk are there any websites guides for what opcodes do in a z80 or books... but for really really thick people like me :-) Something along the lines …

    ... />
    what does HLT do (HALT = Halts the processor )

    halt the processor your program would ...
    ASH-II ASH-II October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • contended memory...so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct …

    so memory contention on the toastrack and the grey +2 is in the wrong place compared to the documentation, yet the +2a/b and +3 it is in the correct place

    can it be altered on the toastrack and grey +2 to match the the +2a/b and +3?
    BiNMaN BiNMaN January 2011 Hardware
  • yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…

    ... generating dangerous code (such as HALT, IMn, EI, DI). Assembler shall ...
    tstih tstih January 2011 Development
  • Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…

    ... address
    inc (hl)
    halt ;just so I can see ... what's going on.
    halt
    ret
    sprite ld ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2011 Development
  • Contention: LDI vs LD (ss), rAccording c.s.s. FAQ: instruction LD (ss),r breakdowns as pc:4,[b]ss:3[/b] and LDI as pc:4,pc+1:4,hl:3,[b]de:3,de:1 x 2[/b] can anyone explain why …

    ... ] means that DE pointing to contended memory introduces 3 delays ?
    Fikee Fikee February 2011 Development
  • IM2 calls to player routine on 128k?Hi all, Apologies for being crap, and not even in a funky, skillo kind of way but it's been over 20 years since I last wrote anything in machine cod…

    ... calling the play routine before halt keeps munging my registers around ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve March 2011 Development
  • FAO: Maintainers of ZX Spectrum Technical WikiThere's some odd write-up in French (???) in the contended memory article [URL="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Contended_memory"]here[/URL]. I'm …

    There's some odd write-up in French (???) in the contended memory article [URL="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Contended_memory"]here[/URL].

    I'm guessing this has zilch to do with speccy in general and contended memory in particular. ;)
    Arjun Arjun April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Jet Set Willy Turbo edition!Improve the speed of the game with just a few pokes! Do the standard CLEAR 32767 : LOAD "" CODE to get at the BASIC loader (see Your Spectrum issue …

    ... -buffer wasn't kept in contended memory) The LDI instructions are ...
    Jimmy Jimmy May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Issue 3V - anyone got one?As the title says really! :) According to [url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr07/yr07_33.htm[/url] issue 3V motherboards have 64K RAM …

    ... - including one bank which is contended - is a major revision, and ...
    Spirantho Spirantho June 2011 Hardware
  • Anyone interested in a ZS Scorpion 256 Turbo+?[url]http://zx.pk.ru/showthread.php?t=16169[/url] This guy is producing PCBs and I'd arrange a mass order for europe if there's enough interest. I'd…

    ... onboard. Has 256k of non-contended RAM in this configuration (runs ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 July 2011 Hardware
  • 128K Contention - How to get it right?With my recent hardware hackery, I've built a 128K (toastrack) clone. I can't quite get the contention right though. What I'm lack is a clear descri…

    ... B0 implies odd pages are contended, however banks 5-7 should ... be contended on a 128.... or is ...
    csmith csmith July 2011 Hardware
  • 128K+2A/+3 RAM layoutDoes anybody know how physical RAM is mapped to ZX 128k+2a/+3 address space ? There are four 64Kx4 chips IC4-IC7. IC4-IC5 seems to be contended (vide…

    ... . IC4-IC5 seems to be contended (video RAM). It would mean ...
    kpuchatek kpuchatek July 2011 Hardware
  • Justin Beeper - new demo for the unexpanded 16K Speccy[img]http://pouet.net/screenshots/57726.png[/img] This was my entry for this weekend's [url=http://www.sunrisedemoparty.co.uk/]Sunrise[/url] demo pa…

    ... ROM. And doing everything in contended RAM means you're quite ...
    gasman gasman September 2011 Announcements
  • AGD 2.6 WoesThis was originally in the New Game Ideas section but thought this would be the best place to post this: I'm no programmer, hence i'm using the exce…

    ... on, then come to a halt at the other higher/lower ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi November 2011 Development
  • What paging scheme is the "standard" for 128K models?Sinclair implemented an arrangement so that even numbered pages are non-contended, and odd numbered pages are contended (quoting from memory, haven't…

    ... even numbered pages are non-contended, and odd numbered pages are ... contended (quoting from memory, haven't ... 0-3 to be non-contended, and 4-7 to be ... contended. So, regarding this difference, what ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix November 2011 Hardware
  • A 30th Anniversary ProjectHappy new year (belatedly...) So with the 30th anniversary approaching, I've decided to do a hardware project to celebrate it. Something hands-on (o…

    ... output gets halted every time contended memory is used (so isn ...
    Winston Winston January 2012 Hardware
  • 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…

    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 easy it actually is. (Actually I've already published this one some time ago, but this time the source is ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2012 Development
  • Precisely timed loops in assemblyI'm looking for a way to make my code stop until the raster has reached the lower screen border (right after having drawn the last pixel line). I und…

    ... ). I understand that I should HALT first to wait until the ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2012 Development
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... it would just need to HALT first to synchronize and avoid ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2012 Brand new software
  • Multicolour demo using z88dk + BIFROST* (+source)This is just a demo to show how to show multicolour using z88dk, using the BIFROST* engine (more info [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/sho…

    This is just a demo to show how to show multicolour using z88dk, using the BIFROST* engine (more info [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=608777"]here[/URL]).

    [IMG]http://www.image-share.com/upload/1337/164.png[/IMG]< ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2012 Development
  • Strange behaviour in real hardware but not in emulatorsWell, at least not in any emulator I've tried. I've been reported by fellow forum member Macc that both our Maritrini Monster Slayer and Retroworks'…

    ... crashes can happen if a contended RAM page is paged in ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2012 Emulators
  • 28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…

    ... /> LD B,L
    TSLP3 HALT ; Hang around, modifying the instructions ...
    AMW AMW April 2012 Development
  • How do you open a port for a game?Hello all I am trying to get a game running via multiplayer.It doesn't want to let me do this and the customer support has told me to open your port…

    ... have come to a shuddering halt!.

    This is not ...
    ladderman ladderman April 2012 Chit chat
  • What's wrong with this code ?OK, working my way through Jonathan Cauldwells 'How To' tome and I can't get the following to run in either spin or basin. ( iused the assembler in b…

    ... splayr ; show player.

    halt ; delay.

    ; Jump back ...
    Saboteur Saboteur May 2012 Development
  • JSpeccy v0.90Hi4all, A new JSpeccy version has been released at my project webpage. This new release have many corrections, some optimizations and a few new feat…

    ... between 0xC0-0xFF and a contended page is selected on the ...
    zx81 zx81 May 2012 Emulators
  • ULA TEST 3 results on real hardwareHi guys, I'm writing small spectrum emulator and I wanna implement precise emulation for different spectrum models :-) I found nice test for conten…

    ... /> I found nice test for contended memory - [URL="http://wizard.ae ...
    ZXMAK ZXMAK May 2012 Emulators
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