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  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... per pixel row (this includes left and right border, horizontal flyback ... of the memory is done when the TV is drawing or is it even ... the new. This last problem is much less annoying but can still ... help you depending on how complicated the logic is. In the SP1 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…

    ... 3D, it`d be too much memory, especially with the extra bit ... ).

    2) One turn (left or right). Turning the other ... many ways shown in magazines how to compress large numbers of ... much memory, and remember, attributes would not need to be stored, nor is ...
    The Starglider The Starglider July 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... . It's easy to miss how much an impact such a small ... memory space. A nibble lookup table is only 16 bytes so memory savings is ... the screen scrolled left one pixel, the task is to plot a ... a pixel row on screen left one pixel (adriaan's rl ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... to it through a memory address. This is what is happening here in ... plots so that is what much of the code is all about. We ... /> }
    [/code]

    Exactly how the function "f" called by ... in row major order (that is left to right, top to bottom ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…

    ... , although for shorter period... Is it because neither RD/WR ... for normal opcode fetches and memory access (saying the contention ... those others when some left overs are left on the bus.< ... states were contended and by how much, nor how many contended T states ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak September 2007 Emulators
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... requires timers; exactly how many is unknown at this ... is there is a limited amount of free memory available and if that memory is ... These we'll worry about much later.

    ... // scroll scanline left using operation #8 (rotate left source)
    ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... that no garbage collection is necessary, thus amortizing this ... slicing as opposed to LEFT$,MID$,RIGHT$ used by ... I'm not sure how much this slows things down ... code makes more frequent memory accesses than regular code. ... y where y is an integer is a special case), ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... colour clash issues depending on how much the sprite was rotated horizontally ... (althought to save on memory it's best to algorithmically ... output order I chose is intended to go left to right then ... the first frame (top left char, bottom left char) which should ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... for task manager because flash memory does not allow infinte numer ... time ago that so much attention is paid to MB02+.[/QUOTE ... coder:). And also there is not much of space left in SRAM. We ... residos. i just cannot understand how is that posiible to depack 110kb ...
    Hood Hood April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    Version 0.8 is now up.

    ... address of the score string is now returned in USR ... becomes absolutely huge. The memory left indicator on the menu screen ... you a rough idea of how much text the editor can ... screens, and I've left in the code to progress ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • Messages in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchas'I searched the forum and checked the [URL="http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/eggs/"]Easter eggs page[/URL] but couldn't find any reference to the messages I …

    ... point you are missing is that the high score ... has to be some space left after the default entries. ... " you are talking about is loaded into that spare space ... not reduce the amount of memory available for code at ... they have in common and how much of it, if any, ...
    kickaha kickaha September 2008 Games
  • Peter Moore ( Xbox boss ) says Chris and Tim Stamper are rubbish ( apparantly )[url]http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31795/Peter-Moore-Rare-is-not-applicable-in-todays-market[/url] By that he means they didn't follow the heard and do …

    ... Perfect Dark needed an expensive memory enhancer (the expansion pak) ... on it), and then left Nintendo and moved to Microsoft ... would sell massively. The trouble is that Rare's post-Nintendo ... haven't evolved much.

    And how much did the Stampers ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Chit chat
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    ... into a snapshot, you are left with a short bit of ... to find out how much machine code is loaded up into memory and where ... code is loaded into memory after the CLEAR statement, but how much data there is ...
    SteveP SteveP January 2009 Emulators
  • The Joy of Upgrades.Well, this weekend I am working on upgrading my computer and its gunna be a beauty. 3Ghz Quad Core, 4GB Ram, 16000 DDR2 Ram, 1 TB HD. ATI Radeon GT4…

    ... now the new hard drive is currently formatting and its takinng ... each one (with some slack left over).

    I ... how much RAM your graphics card has against your memory and that's how much ... you'll have left.
    The Starglider The Starglider March 2009 Chit chat
  • The Joy of Upgrades.Well, this weekend I am working on upgrading my computer and its gunna be a beauty. 3Ghz Quad Core, 4GB Ram, 16000 DDR2 Ram, 1 TB HD. ATI Radeon GT4…

    ... against your memory and that's how much you'll have left.[/QUOTE]
    how much my graphics card will have on system memory. All I kniw is ... 1GB.

    The 4GB is for things like Windows 7 ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2009 Chit chat
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... don't know how much space there was left in the original ... that size. This is so impractical that external memory would have been ... amount of external memory may be required, or FPGA is used instead ... , as this will have the internal memory ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…

    ... so everything is choppy.

    EDIT2: Here's a memory map ... to give you some idea of how much space I have left ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Games
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... you from the right, facing left. My memory is bad though ;)


    How much buffer space are you gonna ... the gfx, huffman compression is pretty straightforward but fiddly to ... rather than a byte level) is even easier to do, ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Development
  • Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…

    ... The reason the memory is so high is because of the ... you wouldn't gain much from switching it off ... preview window on the left? That way we wouldn ... just want to see how the selected settings are ... br /> [QUOTE=zxbruno;432286]
    How's the AVI processing going ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Development
  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... way words are stored in memory is backwards.

    The ... known as DMA (Direct Memory Access) is used to transfer data to ... codes to the top/bottom/left or right of the playfield ... /60hz) regardless of how much data it is displaying. That is the benefit of ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... /Q as jump and O=LEFT, P=RIGHT.

    is no universal agreement on ... the art of using memory efficiently in the C ... per level and each is 16x16 pixels (actually 16x24 ... could calculate more precisely how much RAM this would need, ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2010 Development
  • New Game: Forest Raider CherryJust a game I've just finished this morning. Consider this as a Christmas present. Help Cherry to find the treasure in the Mysterious Forest. [URL=…

    ... had a quick go, how many screens are there?[/ ... , I don't had much memory left for the map, and ... thing I would recommend is to do short invulnerability ... though explain why it is categorised as "Arcade: Action ... game. And the music is gorgeous too! :)[/QUOTE]Thank ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Games
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... memory left.
    [/quote]

    The spritepack code itself is ... of game and how much a game is planned before the ... both consumes more memory and is slower. This is because local variables ... the Sprite pack eats too much memory (for the speed), but ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2010 Development
  • A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…

    ... cool. It looks so much better with a proportional font ... hard to fit in though (memory problems).

    But ... assume the runtime is larger than the original, but how much?[/QUOTE]I ... free left for compiling, than you realise that the interpreter is not ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2011 Development
  • Sinclair Programs uploaded.I've just uploaded a ZIP containing all the 'Sinclair Programs' programs and the instructions for each one. (Well all the ones from 'The Type Fantast…

    Oh, I didn't realise how much work it is to add these to ... the archive,
    or how many ... ) - Christopher Price - Jun'85
    Memory Boxes - R Manga - Jun'85 ... Bennett - May'85
    Right/Left Pixel Scroll (aka. Smooth Screen ...
    Neil L Neil L August 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... tape not helps much; and some amount of memory is always occupied with ... partial product just to see how things look on the ... the programs yourself to understand how something works.

    ... so how is this done? Or is this something that's best left ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • Newbie says 'Alreet?'Hiya dudes, Just dropping a line to say hello as i've decided at 33 to try and fulfill a long time ambition to write a speccy game in machine code..…

    ... ++ experience, but i dont know how much difference exists between c++ and ... is selected. That's right, since loading a byte into pixel memory ... routine is doing something much simpler: stepping through the sprite data left to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    ... need to take is understanding how the display memory is decoded by the ... the display memory the top left corner of the sprite is located. ... x coordinate to figure out how much rightshift needs to be ... ; hl = screen address for top left corner of sprite
    ; b ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • couldn't give a stuff sales staff... fail to sell me a motorbikeSomeone, who obviously didn't give a stuff about his commission failed to sell me a motorbike today, I'm not a time waster, I have the cash, I want a…

    ... of the setup before I left work.

    ... 'd fit basically pc parts, memory , drives , zip drives etc. ... where they got their memory I knew, and knew ... />
    thats why I left, as a lot of customers ... is a bit steep I guess, August I'll find out how much ...
    fog fog May 2012 Chit chat
  • PZX on WOS ?Is the PZX format accepted on WOS, at least for new production ? (Sorry, if this is wrong section, it looks to me as most suitable for the question.)

    ... currency was pretty much worthless once it left the country. I ... [quote]
    @Alcoholics: The TS2068 is the Spectrum done properly by ... had no idea how they were going to implement memory bankswitching. The ... know how much of a PITA it would be, but TZX is to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
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