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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…
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To correct the excessive contention, I ... the 128K ports?
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+3e 8Bit IDE (how to get snaps onto the HD)Hello there my fellow WoSer's I have been playing around a lot with this under-emulation as well as building some prototype IDE interfaces. I wou…
... moment in getting them to the disk (CF Harddisk ... ) - It wascertainly a joy to type the following on a ... compatible..
So how do I get a multitude ...
What I need to be able to do is
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Disk is write protected all timeHow to disable the write protection with the DSK files when use the ZXSpin ? I cant find a way to do it....
How to disable the write protection with the DSK files when use the ZXSpin ?
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How to transfer spectrum roms to 3.5 floppy diskI have just bought a 3.5 floppy drive and ribbon cable to replace the floppy on my spectrum +3. How do I put games onto the floppy drive? Can I use w…
I have just bought a 3.5 floppy drive and ribbon cable to replace the floppy on my spectrum +3. How do I put games onto the floppy drive? Can I use writetrd? -
How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…
How do you join two programs together to save writing it ... problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made ... to a basic text based ... basin but it only seems to load bas files. There ... this?
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How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh.
write all the way up to 65535? Is that ... there anything else i need to be careful of?
Write Tape to MicroDrive... How to do?1st of all hi to everybody here on the forum. I am new here and I have some questions about the spectrum and a microdrive. I want to copy some games…
1st of all hi to everybody here on the forum ... .
I want to copy some games from tape ... to the microdrive. Sounds easy ... game) and let it copy to the microdrive. After that the ... basic line wich I have to save on microdisk, this ...How to create .TAP that loads into high memory banks?I want to create a program that uses the extended 128k memory, the banks that can be switched into the 0xc000-0xffff area. For the simple stuff I've…
I want to create a program that uses ... ).
Now I want to fill up the upper banks ... .
Ideally I'd want to create a .tap that load ... banks (including 2), then autostarts to my code at 0x8000 and ... and all is well...
How do I go about this?Time to write a gameHallo, just wanted to know how long are you coders working on a (released) game. Minimum, maximum and average. Mine are: Minimum: 3 Days ("Ultra refl…
Hallo, just wanted to know how long are you coders working ... and had much other stuff to do).
Average: 2 Months ...How to capture +3e Device Info in BASICHello there my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me. I am currently writing a +3e FDISK program - well prototyping this in Specky+3e basi…
... functions I would like to be able to display the device info ... that are not needed. So how would I go about getting ...Buffered I/O how-to?Hello. How do I implement a buffered I/O? Not all Speccy's I've got will work with more than one device connected to the rear.
Hello. How do I implement a buffered I/O? Not all Speccy's I've got will work with more than one device connected to the rear.Name the PSX game, and tell me how to play it? please?!It?s a Japanese game and therefore the title is just a load of squiggles, but I like to refer to it as, ?[B]Paedophilic Cat[/B].? The cover shows a …
... of squiggles, but I like to refer to it as, ?[B]Paedophilic ... metaphor.) It just loops back to this no matter what squiggly ... earth is this game and how is it played?
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 ... . i am like: errr uhh how do i do that? the ... and here, we never had to wire our own plugs!! but ...Spectrum +2A/+2B: How to tell?Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've not found anything that can really help me tell. I've got a black +2, but would love to be ab…
... +2, but would love to be able to tell if it's ... a +2A or a +2B ... how ...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…
... how to save to tape in ZXSpin.
When I try to save to ... disk is write protected. Also, I don't know how to create new ... it fails when I try to write to floppy disk.
ZXSpin ... , but I have to use Spectaculator to save data to disk/tape.
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…
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This pictorial is how to add TAP based games / software ... the current focus to that XPD.
To know how to do this ... thing to do is load the header, we could just write one ... are the first lines I write when writing any BASIC program ...Hidden message in Down To EarthJust found this in the Down To Earth code. I like reading these old messages left behind by programmers. [code]WELCOME TO ORIFICE Credits Darren B…
... 'm trying to say is any-
one can write M/code ...
write to me ,Darren, INCLUDING
a route march of how to do ... the
second to last screen in ... /> -Jeff.M
So write me (normal address),
including ...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 …
... . But it was never meant to be the final version.
However, I'd like to know how much better/worse/faster/etc ... is. Is there a way to do that using Spin or ... there that might be able to tell me the number of ... -states or milliseconds it takes to excetute it?How British Video Games Conquered the WorldStumbled upon a new book at the library: Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders: How British Video Games Conquered the World Magnus Anderson & Rebecca Levene …
... & Tomb Raiders: How British Video Games Conquered the ... you through bedroom coding to the big time.
to CodeMasters... when Darling pushed them to write another ... simulator, they refused. The Olivers were insistent: "We want to ...Importing binary data to paged memoryI really could use some hint :) Many emulator have a feature - open/ import binary. I select the file, give starting adress and voila ! But most of…
... thing and I need to write my file to a page which is ... emulators and only Spin seemed to have something similar:
Any advice - how to do it in Spin or ... any other emulator capable to do it?How to get 720KB on Opus Discovery floppy (using PC drive)I upgraded an Opus Discovery yesterday with a PC drive, but I'm looking for the way to get a floppy formatted as 720KB. If I understand other topics…
... I should find a utility to achieve this.
There ... shows the name or link to such a utility.
... can type in to perform the necessary changes to the Opus ( ... that utility, how can I get it to the Opus?
to load the utility from tape ...How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... on here I would like to start learning programming in machine ... does anyone have a routine to print a logo/graphic like ... game title/name to the screen at chosen coordinates ... how it works. I would like to start with something more simple to ...CPCDiskXP v2.5.1 with support (limited) to write for USB floppy drivesHi, I am the developer of [URL="http://www.cpcmania.com/"]CPCDiskXP[/URL] and wanted to inform you that there is a new version of the program with su…
... with support (limited) to USB floppy disk drives. ... the dsk, we will write to a USB floppy drive, ... by pressing the "Write USB Floppy" button
... ) and click 'Write'
[*]Ready to be tested in ... use low-level writing to support protected discs, ...Are there resources to learn assembly programming for the ZX Spectrum?Hi, I've seen and read some tutorials about Z80 programming and I have now a pretty good understanding of how it works, I've been doing some 6502 pro…
... a pretty good understanding of how it works, I've been ... about the ZX specifics, techniques to write to the video memory, the interrupts ... .
Could you point me to some?
Thanks!Hooky - hook ZX ROM and rewire RST and NMI to RAM - rantThis is a rather long rant. Not for short tempered. :) The objective is to hook into RST "vectors" and NMI on a Spectrum without affecting the normal…
... - IM1 routines. :)
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The only ... enough
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The grand plan is to write C3 5B ... 33 instructions to the address ...USB devices are going to rebel against mankind and kill us all!Well, maybe not. But according to: [url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/08/01/usb-security/[/url] USB sticks are potentially vulnerabl…
... USB sticks are potentially vulnerable to malware infections that will be ... does the USB stick need to write into it's firmware? I ... can remember.
And how hard would it be for ... firmware? Windows connects easily enough to these USB devices, which ...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?What five games that you've not played/briefly played would you want to take?I was thinking the other day about, how every so often on almost every gaming forum, you see a "What are you top ten favourite games?" style thread. …
... keep reading how great Chaos is, how it's simple to pick up ... is especially supposed to be much easier to get to grips with than ... ancient game where you write a program to destroy other programs. Are ... I've always meant to learn how to play and get a version ...How to close an HTML Input elementAs I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been work…
As I've been off ill for a couple of days, I thought that I'd do some work to catch up not I'm feeling a bit better. Some of the stuff I've been working with hasn't, to put it politely, been the cleanest code base I've seen. But this:
[code]Back to 1990! A new console is coming out to, er, compete with the SNES and Megadrive!<div>A new console, called the Retro VGS, is coming out, that isn't made by the big three (Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo), that uses cartridges, …
... physical console itself is designed to look like the huge commercial ... /2015/05/08/this-is-how-you-make-a-new-cartridge ... the cash to pay companies to write or port games to the Retro VGS ... hundred hardcore gaming nostalgia fans to want to buy a console that ...
