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Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
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It's got an interrupt driven player that takes care of ... -
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…
... sprites. It's called IDEAL ( Interrupt Driven Extendible Animation
Language ) ... if ... commands can be executed under interrupt meaning programs can be run ... -
AMX MouseDoes anybody knows how the AMX-mouse works? Is it like a mouse for the Atari ST/Amiga? And if so which IN-port uses the software Which programs can …
... /> The AMX mouse is interrupt driven.
An interrupt is generated on one ... movement
is made. Your interrupt service routines
should update ... found
out in the interrupt service routines
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AY-3-8912 help !Hi all. Happy new yeay. I'm new to spectrum programming, and am interested in writing some music for the +2 AY chip. The problem is...I cant find …
... Spectrum's vertical blanking interrupt. Most of the music ... you to compose these interrupt driven tunes and then will ... this is no longer interrupt driven music and unless you write ... intervention.
The interrupt generated players use patterns and ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
I'm using the colt... Interrupt-driven sprites and fast math. Cool :)< ... -
Worst Game Music And SoundWhat do you think was the worst speccy music and sound. My vote is for "Miner Willy" great game but the music at the begining was like nails on a cha…
... effort (48k only) but was interrupt driven (like JSW I imagine). Whenever ... -
Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... was SAM's screen. An interrupt-driven routine then copied a selected ... -
About the Cronosoft GamesHello everybody, I just want to comment one thing that happens with the Cronosoft Games. I Load them on my Spectrum+2A and I have seen that most of t…
... seconds or so. Music is interrupt-driven and I'd expect it ... -
My little first set of routines.Hi all, I just coded a little set of routines just to draw a screen on video mem and a fade out. I could have just copied the screen rendering rout…
... is if you are doing interrupt driven music or something else while ... -
Interface 1 with 3.5" floppyHas this been done or can it be done? Using an interface 1 and a powered 3.5" floppy disk drive (with a modified cable) instead of a microdrive?
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How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... (I?ts done with a interrupt-driven print routine)
witch ... -
Dangerous Z80 Assembly CommandHave been reading Toni Bakers' "Mastering MC On Ya Speccy" book and came across the list of Z80 commands in the dictionary section. Page 102 "[b]IM…
... return to BASIC whilst the interrupt routine is running.
interrupt handler.
I will ... program that did install an interrupt driven routine, and then returned to ... -
In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
[QUOTE=aowen;311217]Because interrupt driven beeper music is a pain to do.[/QUOTE]
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A List Of Zx Spectrum Music EditorsWell, not for me actually, as 99,99% of them are for AY, covox and GS cards but several times some people asked about music editors for ZX Spectrum. …
... any trackers that can do interrupt driven playback with a fixed number ... -
BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
... 'd have suggested using an interrupt driven Music Box tune on the ... though, it's a short interrupt driven AY chip tune I put ... -
Playing 128k music with z88dk ?Hi, I'm amazed how easy seems to make things with z88dk to build spectrum asm programs. After my first approach I miss some way to play 128k music, s…
... etc. as well which makes interrupt driven players a bit easier to ... -
Blank .tap fileHi How do I create a blank .tap file to save games to use in ZXSP ? Very brief info on this in the docs, cannot seem to get to grips with it. Als…
... it didn't allow sprites, interrupt driven music, a decent speed for ... -
Blank .tap fileHi How do I create a blank .tap file to save games to use in ZXSP ? Very brief info on this in the docs, cannot seem to get to grips with it. Als…
... it didn't allow sprites, interrupt driven music, a decent speed for ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
... ideas, are larger and are interrupt driven to prevent slowdown, they don ... -
Ultimate backlash?Looking at all the polls posted on here recently, it would seem that Ultimate's games are not so fondly thought of as I thought they would be. I jus…
... ideas, are larger and are interrupt driven to prevent slowdown, they don ... -
Data bus at interrupt timeIt is "well known" that some peripherals can put values other than 0xff on the data bus at interrupt time, thus meaning that IM2 is slightly more fid…
... .php?which=49992]writing an interrupt-driven music player for the 16K ... -
Keyboard routinesI'll ask here first - since this must be a long-ago solved problem, and hopefully I can avoid re-inventing the wheel... I need a keyboard routine th…
... means the routine is now interrupt driven (which allows the emulator to ... -
Question about ZX Spectrum AY interfacesI got this information from Mike, author of EigthyOne: [QUOTE]128k spectrum 1.7734 MHz Timex 1.764 MHz ZON-X 1.625 MHz Fuller 1.625 MHz QuickSilva 0…
... . I was thinking about non-interrupt driven tunes in relation to CPU ... -
resident evil zxi thought i might write a text adventure based on the first resident evil game. i'd be happy to map the thing out and write all the code/ text and t…
... add stuff like animated sprites/interrupt-driven music and mini-games into ... -
Tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool...Im tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool, found at: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/midi2ay-0.1.zip[/url] Im not a v…
... you've even made it interrupt driven, so I can continue running ... -
The Music Box - 128k - Compiled Song LoadingHi, I have used Melbourne Houses' "The Music Box" 128k to create a tune, and need to load it into my game. The "Compiler" compiles to the fixed a…
I was thinking the same thing just t'uther day. Why was it that 48k Music Box can be saved to any address, and be interrupt driven for in-game music, but the 128k version just sits as 60000? Pah. -
SP and IM2 woesI have a function that writes the backbuffer to the screen using the method by which SP is stored, I "POP" a load of registers and then chnge SP to t…
... and manually call the interrupt music & sound routine after the first ... -
Noise channels on AY-3-8912?I'm trying to reproduce a tune that's a jazzed-up version of classical music - i.e. there are drum beats all over the place, to try and mask the low …
... for real by telling an interrupt-driven AY routine to rewrite unaltered ...
