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SEUD - How to - Part IOK, a few weeks ago, I bought my copy of SEUD to make my first game on the Spectrum after 26 years! :) I'm learning it yet, but I'll show to you my a…
... wave and how many hits to kill him. Again, we need to create the ... : Sounds: to create the sounds of the game. sounds for a laser, an ... : Status panel - SEUD starts with a default status panel that has ... -
A virtual machine in WindowsHas anyone any experience of a virtual machine in Windows? I'm thinking of trying this, mainly "just because", but also slightly because any Windows …
... files to the hard drive, or do they create a large file that's a ... virtual hard drive? How do they ... percent knowledge, ten percent knowing how to use Google, and eighty percent ... -
i dont know how to use a spectrum!uhhh sorry to elbow in to your lovely fan site, but i'm from usa (living in uk) and selling a spectrum on ebay on behalf of an english friend. I jus…
uhhh sorry to elbow in to your lovely fan site, but ... (living in uk) and selling a spectrum on ebay on behalf ... english friend. I just had a msg sent by someone on ... . i am like: errr uhh how do i do that? the ... and here, we never had to wire our own plugs!! but ... -
Writing to virtual disks/tapes? (in ZX Spin, please)I have some emulators installed in Windows: Spectaculator 8, ZXSpin 0.7 and Fuse (1.0.0.1). I've been able to save to disks in Spectaculator and fuse…
... I don't know how to create new floppies or tapes ( ... /> Also, I've got a +3e configuration with divide support ... and my own hdf file partitioned for use with ... , and it have a configuration manager VERY useful ... mhf/183/MH183_16.jpg]a custom disk formatter[/url ... -
How to use RIP - Real Information PackerI am investigating the use of data compression utilities apart from Einar's excellent ZX7. I am particularly interested in those which can run on a S…
... compressed file, ? la FC/LC, but I don't understand how to ... activate it.
In the ZX7 thread there was a ... suggestion about renaming the compressed file to the .COD ... and have them working on a canonical Spectrum model? Apart from ... -
How to benchmark a single routine?I've written a routine. It works. But it was never meant to be the final version. So I rewrote it. The new routine works too. Yay. :) However, I'd …
... written a routine. It works. But it was never meant to ... However, I'd like to know how much better/worse/faster/etc ... it is. Is there a way to ... that might be able to tell me the number ... or milliseconds it takes to excetute it? -
Adding a pause key to ArkanoidHaving rediscovered the simple pleasure of playing 1980s games on genuine 1980s hardware, I've also remembered that emulation can provide a feature m…
... /> I decided to try to add a pause key to Arkanoid since the ... Use snap2tzx or similar to make a tape file from the snapshot. ... playtzx or similar to make a tape from the TZX file.
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A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…
... there are no optimizations (to made clearer how it works). It should ... , we could try to close the file and return to BASIC.
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How to run games from mp3 player to a real 48K machine?Hi! I would like to test the homebrew games that was "released" in 2013. As far as I know there haven't been made any real tapes for these games so …
... mp3 files to load them from a mp3 to the real ... and have converted them in a programme called winTZX.
... can be run on a 128K Spectrum and not ... that are listed for a 48K machine but the ... in the winTZX converter programme. How to convert these?
how to force a browser page to close?You know those annoying pages that pop up sometimes when you've clicked on a browser window's Close box, asking if you really want to close the windo…
... when you've clicked on a browser window's Close ... asking if you really want to close the window? Is ... there any way to force that single page to close without ... Can I get rid of a single page on its own ... typing Ctrl-W or selecting File:Close or Exit (depending ...Help please converting loading screen in to a .tap file for recordingI have a Spectrum loading screen that I require to be loaded in to an emulator so that you can see it loading in (Paper 0, Ink7) and have that loadin…
... have a Spectrum loading screen that I require to be ... loaded in to an emulator ... that loading sequence recorded to be inserted in to a video.
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Is anyone able to do ... can't work out how to do it on Mac.How to tell a Spectrum +3BAnyone know if there's a way to tell externally (from the case) if a +3 is a +3B? I know about the typing 'Spectrum' once in basic. How rare are th…
Anyone know if there's a way to tell externally (from the case) if a +3 is a +3B?
I know about the typing 'Spectrum' once in basic.
How rare are these Speccys, I know they came later on but anyone know how many were produced?How copy a load menu in a TRD file?Hi I like to watch demos on my toastrack, i'm using DivIDE/DivMMC (with exdos) to load TRD files. Most of those TRD files have a nice boot menu to se…
... DivMMC (with exdos) to load TRD files. Most ... a nice boot menu to select a file I want to load ... . But sometimes I got a TRD file without a ... boot menu. Is there a way to ... copy one of those menu's inside a ...Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
So I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text ... it was possible to export the result to a ZX Spectrum-file.
to, say a .Z80 file?
-Do any ... export to ZX-fileformats, but I'm unsure if and how I ...How to get the current line position of a +3e's text window?Does anybody know how to get the current line position of a [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/]ZX Spectrum +3e[/url]'s text window? I've r…
Does anybody know how to get the current line position of a [url=http ... BASIC command can be used to get info from them, and ...mkmgt: a tool to create MGT disk imagesI've written a tool that creates MGT disk images for ZX Spectrum (GDOS, G+DOS and Beta DOS), copying files from the host system; it recognizes and ex…
I've written a tool that creates MGT disk ... files, copying their contents to the new MGT file. It's called ... />
I missed such a tool for a long time. Now I ... hope mkmgt will be useful to someone else. Any feedback will ...A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
... switching rapidly between tones to sort of create a waveform.
Ideally ... having some idea of how to start trying to synthesize the desired sound ... have no practical ideas on how to make a start on the program ...How difficult to do a Harry Price?how difficult do you think it was to do a Harry Price and do a total Mod of a magic knight game? He must have owned a multiface thingy to look at …
how difficult do you think it was to do a Harry Price and do ... a total Mod of a magic ... /> He must have owned a multiface thingy to look at the machine ... altered that?
there is a sliding door effect in the ...How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
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I've been writing a kind of logo type program ... that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what ... from the current PLOT position a line up 20 then left ... a$ is a number or char. Because currently I'm telling it how ...I've lost my FUSE to PC keyboard conversion filePlease someone help me. I have lost my laboriously drawn keyboard map showing how to get Spectrum keywords using a PC keyboard with FUSE. I just cop…
... keyboard map showing how to get Spectrum keywords using a PC keyboard with ... needed to get all the various modes. There must be a file or ...Disassembly starting from a tape fileFollowing on from the Atic Atak redefining keys thread, I was wondering how you'd go about disassembling the code from scratch. The approach used in …
... thread, I was wondering how you'd go about ... a TAP file, I guess a starting point would be a tool which loads a ... all sure about these file formats). That binary blob ... a disassembler which would produce a text (ASM) file, which could be reassembled to ...Is there a definitive list of +3 Disk Protections and how to identify them?Looking to find a list of all the disk protections employed on +3 disks and ways to recognize them. Currently I use a PC program called DIM (Disk …
Looking to find a list of all the disk ... on +3 disks and ways to recognize them.
... Currently I use a PC program called DIM (Disk ... as Virus), X-Out and a few others!
So ... used on the +3 and how to identify them?How to load assembly language programs onto a ZX SpectrumHello, I have recently started learning Zilog assembly for the ZX spectrum, and have written a game and some simple programs. These all work fine in…
... "]Debian's z80asm,[/url] into a .bin file. Next, I use bin2tap ... [/url]) to convert this into a tap file.
This tap file works ... /raydac/zxtap-to-wav"]from here[/url]). This creates a wav file, which ...SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... and discovered that one has to create a memory bank, place the ... m afraid the instructions on how to achieve this dont have ... /> SpecBAS can handle a number of graphic file formats – PNG, GIF ... />
These commands all create a new graphic bank in memory ...How to download games to micro sd card to play on Sinclair zx spectrum vegaHello Could anyone tell me how to download games from a website to a micro sd card to play on a Sinclair zx spectrum vega , I mean do I use a emulat…
... me how to download games from a website to a micro sd card to play on a ... mean do I use a emulator or a zip file ,how exactly is the ... process done. Can I do it on a ... iPad or a small 7inch android ?????Tap to SNA batch converterHi guys, i was wondering if there was a util DOS or Win based for batch converting Tap files to Sna files. I know some Emulators can do this but i h…
... can knock up a batch file with a 'find' command in to cycle through ... how the program will run when it's loaded, in order to create a ... with a script language.
Personally, I stick with TZX files ... myself unless I'm saving a game or ...SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... a TZX file, who knows how accurate it is? we trust the Vault team to ... know and provide accurate tape images, but anyone can create ... (very soon to change).
the TZX-IPF conversion is ... the data required to acurractly respresent a disk image in ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... routine; change the timings to create a double-speed loader. How naive! Obviously, when ... the normal ROM save routine to create a file on your hard-drive. But ... the timing data for a block in a TZX file to produce a double-speed loader ...SPIN betaHello. This is my first message in this Forum, so excuse my bad english as it is not my main language. I would be extremely grateful if somebody cou…
... /CSW/TAP/TZX saving functionality. Do you want me to remove it ... I wanted to know is the way how to save a multi-loading game ... browser, and double click a tape block to set the tape position ... ). I would like to create some RZX file for a multi-loading game with ...Looking for rare TZX blocksBy rare I mean out of the hundreds of TZX I have non of the following blocks exist. I need to test my loading/handling/saving code. Are there any TZX…
... the logic of how a block is identified(Like Tzx/SampCDT and MakeTZX ... ??), you only describes how blocks ... t need to create a new tool, just edit the file with a XML editor ... this format, i can get a TZX, WAV, TAP...what you ...
