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Building a loading screenHi all, if anyone is interested - Andy has posted up some steps he went through to construct the Spectrum loading screen for Gloop Troops 2. There mi…
... /> incbin "LoadingScreen.SCR" [/i][/color]
creating a file using what ... . Type the following commands to build your game .TAP file.
bas2tap ... life lol,but found out how do it easy enough (start ... -
Building a loading screenHi all, if anyone is interested - Andy has posted up some steps he went through to construct the Spectrum loading screen for Gloop Troops 2. There mi…
... . Type the following commands to build your game .TAP file.
bas2tap ... life lol,but found out how do it easy enough (start ... address 25000 and select your .SCR file.
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Noob needing help with MP3 Loading?Hey all, I literally just got my first Spectrum today, and I've been trying to get Knightmare working on it. However, the tape I have isn't working, …
If I may add my experience how I load games to my rubber: I ... use [B]Tape2WAV[/B], drag the TZX/TAP file ... onto it, it converts it into [B]WAVE[/B] file ... , and then I playback that file (Winamp, Goldwave ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... game on a SD-Card to test how it is running on ... displaying LFN allows me to add comments in braces to the filenames. E ... soundtrack and fixed spelling errors).tap" in the folder "MyTests", so ... character is sufficient to indicate the type of file, and that gives ... -
ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... game on a SD-Card to test how it is running on ... displaying LFN allows me to add comments in braces to the filenames. E ... soundtrack and fixed spelling errors).tap" in the folder "MyTests", ... that Apple has now switched to using file extensions.
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Beepola questionshope this is the right place :) Is there a way to make the playing of the exported file wait until a button is pressed. I would like to sync the mus…
... br /> I have exported as .tap with BASIC loader, stopped it ... it's hard do know how long that pause is. It ... being re-loaded from the TAP file when you type run and ... been doing, and then add a line to the BASIC loader: "55 ... it's so easy to make beeps to play on the ... -
ZXDev - powerful environment for development in four languages is ready for testingXDev/ZXDev is open and free set of compilers, additional tools, libraries and design patterns for target platform ZX Spectrum 48K in different progra…
... use your ?the rough guide? to add to ZXDev documentation. Thanks for the ... to something more appropriate (with support for long file names and generation .TAP ... low-level routines), C/C++ (to understand how bad it is ;) ), .BAT ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... people will be able to easily understand how it works and perhaps ... can generate the TAP file with the next .BAT file (demo.bat):
zx7 cobra.scr compressed.zx7
echo ... /> This is the demo.asm file:
[CODE]
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ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... Yet I still must understand how to make the standard decompression routine ... ' file in order to make it work with the RENEGADE.SCR.ZX7 file. ... you assembled it from. To do this, add 'org address' at the ... is to patch the decompression routine, but it would add a ... -
Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
... of the end of file padding; the TAP copied to the +3 is ... just need to add a sub-routine for each file type to write it ... "Enter TAP file name ";LINE t$: IF t$(LEN t$-k3 TO)".TAP" THEN ... LET t$=t$+".TAP"
REM open TAP file
Setting up an IDE HDD on the +3e helpHello, Just installed a HDD in my +3e (ROM ver. 1.11). When turning on it takes a few seconds longer but then shows 2 IDE (available) as well as 1 fl…
... to add items, with and without +3DOS header files. You can add TAP ... files - this will de-construct the TAP file into basic ... then use DrvImg to write this HDF file back to the IDE ... put up a how-to convert very simple TAP games to +3 DOS ([ ...Setting up an IDE HDD on the +3e helpHello, Just installed a HDD in my +3e (ROM ver. 1.11). When turning on it takes a few seconds longer but then shows 2 IDE (available) as well as 1 fl…
... to add items, with and without +3DOS header files. You can add TAP ... files - this will de-construct the TAP file into basic ... then use DrvImg to write this HDF file back to the IDE ... put up a how-to convert very simple TAP games to +3 DOS ([ ...The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... way (it's slightly different to how I normally do it and ... using then save the file as a .TAP, it will ask for ... : Load your loading screen file you saved in step 1 ... last night while trying to add a title page to my Pip game ... it so if i add PAUSE 0 to the end of the ...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... font is a binary file that you can just ...
How did you get the font into the .tap file?
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Also can the org command be used to ... bin file into a tap file doesnt allow me to add lines to the ... /> I would have to type in Load"myfont' ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... I figured its best to move on to DEC, a blatent ... write some little routines to test how dec operates on ... that later once I understand how to do it lol...
... the tap or the bin, even the tzs file with ... br /> Next up will be ADD & SUB as reading through ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... QUOTE=wibble;720917]so how do you actualy get ... for the TAP format, as it's simple to deal ... to this problem was to create a program to add a +3DOS header to the file ... my disk would be ready to load up.
to disk by hand. When ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... : I have to say I'm struck by how much better Chaos ... ULAPlus colours! It really does add to the feel of the game ... difficult to make speccy games, but not having the runnable .tap file at ...FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…
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In your c file add the following assembler:
... of how the text extent functions are meant to ... ="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWcFFSWnRrYW45NWc/edit?usp= ... google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWRm0wU3JqVmVvR0E/edit?usp=sharing"]tap file[/URL].Cross platform developmentI'm just vaguely considering supporting a few more retro 8 bit platforms for something I have in mind to do. Just Z80 and 6502 really, but that cove…
... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWRm0wU3JqVmVvR0E/edit?usp ... /edit?usp=sharing"]header file[/URL] (for C ...
You can see how I structured the fzx project ... human attention, it could add up to a lot of work ... the c source file to get a tap out of it ...Thumbnail icon of TZX in Mac OS X FinderI only noticed this today on my Mac that for some TZX files (presumably with standard tape loaders) I can see a preview of the loading screen as a th…
... need a little more work to add some support and as there ... types are:
[b]SCR Screen dumps[/b]
Preview and thumbnails for SCR screen dumps in all graphics ... (TAP and TZX)[/b]
The first Spectrum screen file (SCREEN ...Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…
... would learn a lot about how a machine works by learning ... learn a great deal about how computer systems work at the ... . Run z80asm to link final executable (resolve all references, add subroutines from ... the spectrum this means a tap file.
Some of the ...Programming again with the ZX SpectrumI am going to take a blast at programming for the Spectrum again. Its bee a long time since I have done this. I need to refresh my memory and maybe l…
... with machine code. Trying to pick up BASIC again will ... you discover again how slow it is to achieve anything. But ... into a TAP file, then Spectaculator, Spin or FUSE, emulators to test it ... part of it to try little routines to add numbers together, etc ...ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…
... creating a new TZX or TAP file directly after program start.< ... should make a default TAP or TZX file available at start ... 'run file' option. Let me describe it with some screenshots, how to use ... Modules Updater). Currently to add new apps you have to do this:
ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…
... , let's add a subroutine and a CALL to it:
to get easy to see that positions ... load any emulator-based file. The first found byte ... a MCode block of a TAP file:
[IMG] ... the above pictures help to see how far my progresses ...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. …
... I have no idea how to take something made with ... the message about renaming the file, use the emulator's ... "Load Binary" option to load the BMP at ... asks for a file name. Open a TAP file, type at ... the prompt the name you want for the SCR file ...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. …
... ;771854]I have no idea how to take something made with BMP2SCR ... as: "Zx Conv. Modes > SCR modes". Other modes (mlt/ifli ... "
2. Save Format "Tape .TAP"
3. Click "save now ... autoload
2. open the tap file
3. type: LOAD "" SCREEN ...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. …
... I'm familiar enough with how SCR files work and the screen ... data from the windows file system to the virtual spectrum disks ... how TAP and DSK files work. Ideally, I'd prefer to ... how to save the screenshot from Spectacular (the emulator) to the mounted DSK file ...1st interface in 30 years (update)Hi all, Just a wee update to my "1st ZX interface in 30 years" project. Main IC's: 82C55 three 8-bit port I/O (configured for 12 dig in, 12 dig out…
... have only written code to demonstrate how to send/receive to the digital i ... decoding, but I just need to add a 74LS133 (see empty socket ... have a batch file to compile to TAP and copy to the Spactranet folder so ...ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... it might be possible to add some mapping features into ... normally. In case of SCR or GIF for example ... /> Now we have to decide how we could keep that coordinates ... like a standard ZXP file. The coordinates of course ... /> Aaah, I forgot to add a comment column in ...Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…
... 5 and didn't understand how to use it.[/QUOTE]
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Then press 2 to design loading ... ) is create a new .tap or .tzx file, press record on the ... with the data in a tap file, it's then just a ...
