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  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... to speed up or what it didn't do to increase the ...
    BN^2 BN^2 April 2003 Games
  • new emulatorHi All. If you wish you can download/test/link to/betatest etc. my new emulator EmuZWin 2.0. It emulates S48 and S128 and works under all Windows 9x…

    ... keys for switching speed 100%/200%: Num[*], to increase/decrease display size ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov May 2003 Emulators
  • Graphics in bordersI am 50% certain that I remember a game that had graphics in the borders. This always made we wonder why none of the other games did. Am I right or h…

    ... the ULA at raster scan speed.
    I don't think ... more, and it was probably CPU-intensive enough not to be ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2003 Games
  • Having problems with Falcon Patrol 2Ive recently discovered the wonder of TZX.files, giving my old 48k spectrum a new lease of life.. But im having problems getting a copy of Falcon P…

    ... loader at 211~212% loading speed for the picture block (which ... crap and choppy due to CPU overheads.

    There you ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... -sound is a matter of CPU. Music in sid-sound mode ... on AY, using full speed of our CPU. But then such trax ... they would have took all CPU's power.
    Yerz Yerz August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... on AY, using full speed of our CPU. But then such trax ... they would have took all CPU's power.
    [/quote]
    cpu is kept busy, mostly in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpeccyDo you think someone should go about creating a new spectrum computer? I'm talking about a spectrum compatible (not an emulator) with the capabiliti…

    ... a CPU capable of running Spectrum games at an unholy speed. It ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • et tu SAM Coupe...Today I put my SAM Coupe on the desk, searched 5 hours for a file conversion utility PC->SAM, and tried to unlock the secrets of SAM mode 4 screen :)…

    btw, what is speed of SAM's CPU?
    Yerz Yerz November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • So many spectrum emulators! so few c64 emulators!Have you ever noticed just how many spectrum emulators there are out there? Its incredible! In fact the speccy may well be in the running as most emu…

    ... and SNES games at full speed WITH filtering (most of the ... play frickin' Wizball at full speed! That *is* SLOW.

    CPU-hungry GUI OS, then I ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • an idea that could be very very good...but also very very bad...Hello all! I've been having a chat with some of my friends round here that once loved the spectrum (well...2...as they're all heathens round here...)…

    ... would run at the same speed as sir Clives original - no ... processor speed would be left over to ... enough to use new Z80 CPU and it would work in ... work with normal 3,5Mhz CPU correctly.



    Yerz Yerz January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... 's not about percentages of CPU utilisation either. If Spectaculator is ... render a frame and the CPU needs to service another (higher ... up, and the display suddenly speed up/slow down.

    Jon Needle Jon Needle January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... , but taking a lot of CPU time. But if I run ... up, and the display suddenly speed up/slow down.[/quote]
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... at 20x emulation speed, I get a cool ~65% CPU utilisation and ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... thought that you know about speed problem with your emulator, ... the Emulator takes so small CPU resources (less then 3% ... taking a lot of CPU grabbing it from the ... means only that its CPU usage is so negligible that ... the problem is not in CPU usage, even for the ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov January 2004 Emulators
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... memory contention is a real CPU hog - trust me, I know ... mode. Spectaculator runs at full speed on that laptop no matter ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Emulators
  • Just in case anyone missed it[url="http://www.micromart.co.uk/content/features/default.asp?Category=Article&Type=&ID=1507"]http://www.micromart.co.uk/content/features/default.asp…

    ... get an item to increase your score or gain ... to me to indicate the increase in firepower. so you ... for this. also the increase in firepower seems to me ... just representative of a small increase in fire power with ... and after a while firing speed seems to reach a ...
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 Games
  • Is Spectaculator Worth Registering?I normally use RealSpectrum and was thing of trying another emulator. What are the pro and ons of Spectacultor? Does it support disk image files?

    ... . You can always just increase the emulator's speed ATM ;)

    Fred Fred April 2004 Emulators
  • ANN: Spectaculator 6.2[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.2 Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emul…

    I read. But I suspect that difference not in CPUs. Anyway it is ULA is responding for speed and contention (or to be more exact, CPU+ULA). Could be interesting how correctly to emulate megalomania in stable position.
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov May 2004 Emulators
  • Accelerated GamesPlaying Driller the other day on Spectaculator, I wondered what sort of improvement could be made by increasing the emulation speed to 10x. That way,…

    ... Driller is based on the CPU's speed. You'd probably have ... is only playable at 8x speed.
    Waz Waz June 2004 Games
  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... to such an absurdly fast speed (for an 8-bit) ... never boasted about 50 times speed spectrums in hardware, the ... .

    The "amazing speed" of Windows is also partly ... would probably observe a significant speed increase...

    [quote]
    ...
    GOC GOC June 2004 Development
  • EmuZWin 2.5.0.1Version 2.5 Release 1.0 (10-Jun-2004): a lot of changes and fixes in ??? Map Builder ??? GFX Editor ??? Loading & Saving ??? Sound & Video ?? Speed…

    ... with Direct-X after increasing speed keyboard were not responding or ... Direct-X. It takes more CPU, but gives much smoother video ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov June 2004 Emulators
  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... />


    `The "amazing speed" of Windows is also partly ... would probably observe a significant speed increase...`

    * Windows is amazingly ...
    CKay CKay June 2004 Development
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... tstates

    About 40% speed increase!!!



    [ This ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... vertical sync. Set the clock speed to max and on emulators ... interupt is constant as the speed of emulator increases. It is ... use SPIN and select a CPU with a different clock frequency ... a Spectrum with a faster CPU but with the same timing ...
    cyborg cyborg August 2004 Development
  • IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…

    ... it reaches target, increase anim frame until target ... br /> INC A ; Increase it
    CP RECTRIGHT ... />
    INC H ; Increase H, thus moving 256 bytes ... redrawn (Default 1, half speed 2 etc)
    ; ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…

    ... /> INC A ; Increase it
    CP ... br /> INC H ; Increase H, thus moving 256 bytes ... br /> INC H ; Increase H, thus moving 256 ... redrawn (Default 1, half speed 2 etc)
    ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…

    ... from 400% SAM speed to 525% of SAM speed with all frames ... %, which is a real 125% increase! That's at the SAM ...
    obo obo August 2004 Development
  • Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…

    ... variable frequency generator). For greater speed, a few wait states are ... inserted for some specific CPU instructions (for example, two or ...
    secarica secarica August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…

    ... enable the CPU to always run at full speed. The CPU and Video ... the VGA timing from the CPU clock but i will implement ... 's. Since the CPU always runs at full speed i don't ... one-function-per-pcb approach (CPU, video, CF, other io, etc ...
    pern pern September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • zx32 and Windows XPI like zx32 and I use it for all the games I download from WOS. But does this emulator work under Windows XP ? You see, I am going to upgrade my comp…

    ... have new computer with quick CPU don't use it! For ... need to put the Clock Speed slider in the middle.
    AndyC AndyC September 2004 Emulators
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