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Games Club - Week 21Hi, Last week I asked you to nominate games for which Tim Follin provided the music and got the following responses Agent X Bionic Commando (denie…
... : I experienced the Bleeploading routine for the first time in my ... it mentioned in certain ?looking for? thread - the guy couldn ... />
well...and the music: I always switch to 48k ... />
nice game for playing and for pleasantly wasted time. reminds ... -
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... first 128K game with AY music and bank switching using ... generation that can generate defines for locations of subroutines that ... include a Wham and Orfeus player for music -- I may have to ... write a new player from scratch that accepts compiled music in those ... -
WarningWarning Some games such as "Cyclone" WILL NOT run on a +2A. I have tried numerous times, and every time the load fucks up resulting in a 48K BASIC …
... is because the game uses Interrupt Mode 2 to utilise custom ... address $FFFF is used for the Interrupt routine where a negative relative jump ... back to Costa's custom routine.
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Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…
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b. Sprite engine for 64x48 full colour (no clash ... loose ends to z88dk - Ay music player, data compression, couple more data ... it's been nearly complete for 9 of those months< ... /> Spectaculator, Fuse, vbSpec; latter two for Timex emulation
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
... and sometimes the print screen routine for menus.
These days ... very simple. Then the interrupt service routine for up to 6 peripherals can ... military hw or something for really fast realtime interrupt response... who knows ... -
Determining 50hz/60hz in softwareHow can you determine in software if you are running at 50hz or 60hz?
... are very similar.
Interrupt routine:
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z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... buttons, listboxes and whatnot for selecting options. An easy ... invoke separate z80asm compiles for each block. So, ... for a long while yet.
Concerning AY music: ... I plan to add an AY player and ... format to use for the player as it is ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... memory map also suggests locations for the im2 vector table and ... need it, if only for an ay music player.
You ... amount of memory it needs for the update array. SP1V_UPDATEARRAY must ... all the "struct sp1_update"s for each character cell is stored ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... )) // allocate memory for sprite structs from queue ... 1); // allocate memory for char structs from queue 1 ... [code]
// Clipping Rectangle for Sprites
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Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... on PC, quite a gonzo-routine on Z80. This
; could ... you wish to use randoms for
; anything make your program ...
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BenchmarksSomeone posted a link to a google or youtube video of various computers doing basic benchmarks (which I now can't find) but in the vid they said the…
... /> The reason is that the interrupt routine is more complicated. It checks ... BASIC was a 'history lesson for the curious' which skips reality ... SPIN etc. to examine the interrupt routine. -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... for keyboard input. This means that it relies on the Basic interrupt routine ... only read once each interrupt and only a single ... running Basic's interrupt routine and use IM2, for example, stdio's ... is because Basic's interrupt routine scanned the keyboard and ... -
Delay routine requiredI'm putting together a short routine to play some Beep style music. I need to be able to pause between notes when required. These pauses are defined …
... together a short routine to play some Beep style music. I need ... after a routine that will allow me to pause for the specified ... 's usually more than adequate for music unless you require really fine ... -
What are the first 10 songs on your Mp3/ ipod thingy?I was that it gave alot away about the person? This Is the 21st Century - Marillion Light Up Your Eyes i,ii) - Pineapple Thief Halleluhwah - Ca…
... get the player that's the best value for money? In ... was buying a music player now I'd go for the Creative ... a mp3 player I would probably go for Creative Zen ... to provide an 80GB mp3 player for ?30-?40 less than ... be nice to get a player which handles .flac files ... -
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…
... C that does support it. For music and sound effects, Basic does ... AY chip's registers directly. For composing music, I'd recommend the ... output a machine code routine that will play music while your basic ... modified slightly so that the music data is written to ... -
JamJust wondering what progs everyone always keeps on their computay`s and why? I`ll start the ball rolling :- BSPlayer Pro... My fave Video player, or…
... program for Guitar Pro Tabs
[B]Midillustrator, MidiNotate Player, PSMPlayer[/B ... /> [B]WinAmp[/B] - a great music player
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[B][U ... ]IcqStatusPlus[/B] - extended status manager for ICQ: more icons, unlimited status ... -
Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... top 16k), as does the interrupt routine -- these two things are ... ) in my assembler program? For instance, i would like to ... be no documentation at all for ZXSpin assembler directives!
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DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... set up the keyboard options for one player. However that happens here ... other peripherals), Emulation: ZX Spectrum, Interrupt re-triggering (or no re ... -
C64's SID music on ZX - the demo is HERE!!I'm proud to announce, that two great persons from Central Europe - Poke & Omega - have made something really important for Spectrum world. Now ZX …
... /> And if instead of the player we had a small basic ... machine code routine that could be configured using pokes (for start address ... the source code in assembler for the player routine? -
C64's SID music on ZX - the demo is HERE!!I'm proud to announce, that two great persons from Central Europe - Poke & Omega - have made something really important for Spectrum world. Now ZX …
... the source code in assembler for the player routine?[/QUOTE]
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Adding AY music to your plogramI'd like to add some nice tune to my program written in machine code. I am not new to assembler programming but with music programming I have no expe…
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How to queue files in a media player?I have WMP, PowerDVD 6 and Nero Show Time. In one of these how do I queue files to be played one after the other? I ask because I have just downloa…
For video files, i'd recommend Videolan's VLC Media Player (it's ... too...
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Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... enough for native English speakers! Take for example:
Player - A player (singular ... /> If you talk of the music belonging to the 80's ... , does it becomes "Music of the 80s' " :-S
Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... enough for native English speakers! Take for example:
Player - A player (singular ... /> If you talk of the music belonging to the 80's ... , does it becomes "Music of the 80s' " :-S
Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... enough for native English speakers! Take for example:
Player - A player (singular ... /> If you talk of the music belonging to the 80's ... , does it becomes "Music of the 80s' " :-S
Interest in a beeper music editor?Alone Coder (he of UnrealSpeccy fame) is currently weighing up interest in a possible new editor for 48K beeper music, most likely a tracker-style ut…
... assemble an "orchestra") and for the player I'd like to see ... to try to play beeper music or sound effects in game ...Compact Flash cardsI have just got a 1 gig kingston compact flash card but when i put it in me pc's card reader the pc hangs. do these cards need to be formatted before…
I've got a 2gb MP3 player which I use half for music, other half for important stuff.
Two devices for the price of oneHow 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…
... That's the ROM routine for scanning the keyboard and updating ... code executed inside an interrupt service routine (such as the ROM ... that the interrupts does for example keyboard scanning, but ... polls the keyboard in the interrupt routine. The z80 must scan ...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…
... =Rickard;193206]The keyboard scanning routine from the ROM, does it ... always write an own keyboard routine with the IN A,(254 ... forgotten to mention -- the ROM interrupt routine assumes the IY register points ... . You know you're asking for trouble if you let that ...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…
... the sprite clear/redraw routine and change it again ...
1) Not using Interrupt Mode 1 (the default). IM ... If you set up Interrupt Mode 2 to simply ... wait for a TV vertical retrace, get the interrupt routine in ... how to prep Interrupt Mode 2 for this so maybe ...
