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did 128k machines dominate ZX market?I have a question about 128k Spectrums. Did they dominate the ZX market in late 80's / early 90's? I mean where there more 128k users than 48k users …
... the 128K releases but it is not a list of exclusively 128K ... ]
Yes, it is (or at least, that's ... designed to be). It is the list of every program ... the same program does not have a file of type '16 ... ', '48' or '48/128'. If you ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... get the impression that even if I did all the necessary ... /> But from a solely technical standpoint, our idea is not that bad - ... code.
Sure this is not a problem of emulator writers but ... ]
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Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... list is quite extensive, but they're the major ones. If the ... them.
Your problem is not a problem with the emulators, and ... with the preservation team as a matter of urgency. I'll ... -
Trying to experience nostalgia!! Mp3s needed!!!I've been trying to get audio files (mp3 or wav) to work on my real old sinclair 48k. I've tried making them from my old tapes of which I have many, …
... list is quite extensive, but they're the major ones. If ... .
Your problem is not a problem with the emulators, and ... Spectaculator generates silence (emulator is happy, but genuine Spectrum crashes ... confess that I have not tried loading directly to ... -
Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …
... but I remember a formatter on a YS/SU cover tape ... you, but the Tandy game is not a game called "Tandy" for ... the Spectrum, it is a game for the Tandy Color ... and Dragon) called Glove which is based upon Gauntlet.
... I will tell you if I have a go at the + ... -
TZX specs v1.20 RC1Hello folks, after months of waiting finally you have the latest update proposal (RC1) for the TZX format! This update includes revisions to the 0x…
... isn't a maximum limit for the number of pulses ... million? This fits into a signed 32bit integer. The ... />
I made a mistake. I meant to suggest ... .
There is not a maximum pulse length either. I ... is doubled to form a wave it still fits in a ... -
PSpectrum on the PSPDoes anybody use PSpectrum on their PSP? I have been using it for ages now but for some reason when I try and play Bruce Lee it crashes when I enter …
... ]it would probably work if you used the TAP ... />
not sure why this thread is in off-topic ... and not emualtion though![/ ... />
It's not in emulation as I forgot ... 2 from quite a while ago. If this is not the latest one ... -
Google SpreadsheetsBeen fannying around with this AJAX application from Google labs. I exported the RZX Archive database to excel, then uploaded it to a publicly viewa…
> Gah, not so nice. Didn't realise you needed a Google account ... an account is a small price to pay.
If you are not a Google ... -
How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... assembler runs on a different CPU, but produces a binary that will ... speaking Pasmo is not a cross-assembler, his available compiled versions are. If you ... can compile it for Z80, it will be a native ... do it, you just need a standard C++ compiler targeted ... -
Add the numbers?Yesterday morning (about 1am) I was flicking through cable to see what was on, and I turned to ITV and that boring space filler "The Mint" was on. An…
... new quiz channels ARE cons. If they were genuine quizzes, then ... tone and not be charged a penny.
If they are not a con ... get through, and the question is usually so blindingly simple that ... 's a lottery if your numbers come up, it's a lottery if you ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
[quote]The article is a comparison between C and Pascal. ... language you use affects how a problem is approached, solved, and programmed ... You start at point A as a total novice and you want ... what the fuss is about.
If learning is not the object but ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
[QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous]BUT if I were to teach a 10-year-old ... to program or if I were ... all about and may (or not) be interested in pursuing it ... =Alcoholics Anonymous]If learning is not the object but implementation is, well then use ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... BASin are as capable as a 5 year old in the ... Sinclair - if here someone says something what is not in style ' he is genius ... think about what is written, but exploding instantly if something is not as expect ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
Yes, C is great if you know what ... C is just so fiddly and annoying if you're not a pro ... . I recently wrote a program ... of an attention span - if they can't enter ... Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for a beginner, especially ... -
Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
... if there is five bytes available for the result. This last operation is not ... really required but it is not a fault of the ... interpreter which is one of ... br /> Other BASICs do not use a single VARS pointer but ... -
TZX filesI copied a spectrum tape program onto my PC as a .wav file and used a converter to convert it to a .tzx file. The DOS window appeared during conversi…
Perhaps the tzx-file is not a valid tzx-file?
... Spectrum demogroup.
| Checking input file... ok!
| RIFF Wave ... -
Fazz dodgy dealings on ebay surely notI was watching this grey spectrum ready to do some sniping and lo and behold the listing ends prematurely it would have been my only hope of getting …
... apparently happened here, which is a private sale prior to ... />
Sniping is simply getting a bid in as close ... bid on an item - if they did it wouldn' ... listing an item on eBay is not a binding contract, and the ... elsewhere. It's only if they do so after ... -
Fazz dodgy dealings on ebay surely notI was watching this grey spectrum ready to do some sniping and lo and behold the listing ends prematurely it would have been my only hope of getting …
... - listing an item on eBay is not a binding contract, and the seller ... item elsewhere. It's only if they do so after the ... there would be a problem.[/QUOTE]
It is actually, called ... auction said though, e.g. a clear case of fee avoidance. ;) -
2 Hot 2 Handle TZX'sRight, here's a question for you preservation guys. Downloaded and tried to play the 2 Hot To Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors won't load on Spe…
... ;-).
Hmm... Death if you could be so kind ... /WAVs of anything that is not a ROM loader or similar, ... out.
Not knocking TZX of course, it ... 's fantastic, and a nice distributable format to ... nothing is perfect ;-). That's why I'm not keen ... -
Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
... something unique, or is it similar to all ... living in is warm and airy? ;) HL is not a game, it ... 's an experience (what a great quote eh?). If ... should give it a try even if it's quite ... QUOTE]
Not surprising since the game designer ... -
Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
... 're living in is warm and airy? ;) HL is not a game, it's ... an experience (what a great quote eh?). If you ... thing (for me) is level design.
If indeed Half-Life ... , then I'll see if there is still a budget re-release around ... -
Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... honour the bank selected. It is not a fully-fledged ramdisk but allows ... instruction LDIR but treats addresses, if they occur in the main ... 64k boundary) and addresses, if they occur in the 128 ... banks with "saved blocks". A good tradeoff if you're just copying ... -
Alittle pic of the two different rubber key mats Grey and BlueAnd they are naked too :o Can someone please post a pic of one of the supposed faun coloured speccys i am desperate to see one :) [url]http://www.s…
... Hehe, it is a bit strange yeah, but this is an English ... my stuff, so if there is ever a museum with retro computers ... might go there ;-) With a lot of other stuff... ... br />
It's not called "Pod Lipco" now anymore ... 's big garden, I'm not sure).
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Rst #38This, as far as I know, is the ROM procedure that does the keyboard check. (and, at the same time, is what's being executed by interrupt in IM 1 mode…
... that, simply checking which key is pressed, neither reading/writing ... time is returned in A.
*if this is not desirable, ex. if one ... ld e,a
call 0333
this is taken from ... IY=5c3a. The keycode is again returned in A.
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Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... because is the only one I know, if you think its a waste ... with a screwdriver to adjust colour on screen. If you're not comfortable ... would make things easier. If I right a siimple basic program on ... same in every mode. It is not a simple matter to put stuff ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... putting out, explains why there is a bit of bad blood for ... the casual gamers (i.e. not us). The crap interface made ... are everything.
If it is really a bad idea then people ... -
When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... mostly sucks royally. This is not just a bandwidth issue but seemingly one ... is insane, worse than a low bitrate DivX in most cases. This is not a ... setup problem or a problem with my house ... Come on, it's obvious! If you don't think it ... -
HELP BTTF on Speccy 48khello, fellow spectrum owners! I have won a Back To the future game on cassette of eBay that is for my 48k. I run it, by typing LOAD "", and it sta…
... this..
PRINT USR "A"
which would return ... 65368 on a 48, 32600 for a 16K. Anything else ... enough if it has a sticker saying 48k , then it prolly is. This ... will make certain that the sticker is not a big ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
[QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous]If you are talking to ... of Crash. Mostly it is governed by the copyright ... pretty big letters: "It is illegal to copy this ... to archive everything. (That is not a serious dig at the WOS ... The very big flip side : if it ain't preserved it ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... all into one is if you're initiating a bogus lawsuit and ... It means anything the owner is legally entitled to which includes ... term "rights" as a collective noun. "Rights" is not a legal term but it ... is used to refer ...
