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Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
... the pages seems to be read out OK, otherwise the program ... act as if they've read the wrong data (sprites whose ... sprite-putting routine just before it changed pages to read the coordinate ... dumb paging !
Just read Jon's message. Nope, I ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... , how to make sound, read the keyboard etc... If you decide to ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... , how to make sound, read the keyboard etc... If you decide to ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
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Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…
... joysticks, mice and the keyboard will be separated into ... LIB SPClipStruct
; read the kempston joystick,
; result ... SPJoyKempston
; read the keyboard, ascii code
; returned ... could be invented to read joysticks, mice, move ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... px and py) to the routine from BASIC? In my code ... (as far as I can read assembly) does the print for ... -
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...)…
I've read whole thread, and I ... digital diary like design with keyboard. Here is a picture ... even configurable buttons and virtual keyboard. But it's not enough ... , as we need a full keyboard.
Who ... wants a Spectrum without a keyboard?
I ... -
Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
... Carebears claims that the mixer routine for TCB Tracker (an early ... Concievably a 4 bit playback routine would save some CPU. He ... is the basics of the routine:
ch1_pek=ch1_pek+ ... VBL, now insert the player routine and read the counter.
By ... -
Why Hex in place of Denary?Ok - most MC books / tutorials advocate the use of hex instead of denary. But the Speccy doesn't actually have a Hex converter so you need to write …
... LET x=30000
40 READ a
50 IF a ... actually happening with the MC routine?
cheers again
An MC question (sorry, there's no MC forum to post to!)Ok, still struggling with learning MC - but am getting there. I just can't find anywhere on the web / in books that explains how to do arrays in MC.…
... just about all the sprite routine variants I've tried, ix ... ix accesses. Again, data is read from the ix table beforehand ...Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... need to be able to read and write to it though ... , with your debugger, find the routine that draws a polygon in ... if the program needs to read it off the screen, it ... . Trap the Gunsight sprite draw routine. Tell the script to draw ...VSYNC FunctionI have written a VSYNC function, so that I can clear the screen before redraw without flicker on the screen, I do this by peeking at the address 2367…
... code at $38 reads the keyboard and updates the frames system ... mode and write an interrupt routine that simply does an "ei ...COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…
... much better...
the good routine at machine like Sprinter (21MHz ... highschool book about physic and read what is frequency and what ...Games and Programs written in BASinHi all, The new version of BASin is about to be released in the next few days or so, and I'm gathering up example programs to include with it. I se…
... .
Also, reading the keyboard through an IN instruction won ... , as the keyboard is piped through the ROM routine using a trap ... , but it will mean that keyboard behaviour will change depending on ...SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... return sequence X when you read Sector Z"
Is ... * job to discover the correct routine for.
As an ...SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... then sure, you can read them blindly assuming your device ... * job to discover the correct routine for.
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< ... What happens if what you read can produce different data? The ... integrity problem using a blind read approach, then thats good! ...InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... JP to your 'real' interrupt routine. However, this doesn't work ... tstates to reach the interrupt routine:
* M1: 7 ... : 3 tstates: read high byte and jump to interrupt routine.
In IM 0, the Z80 will read an ...Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …
... the others i used to read about.
i've been ... games on a dreamcast with keyboard, it reminds me of playing ...InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... interrupt.
* M2: 3 tstates: read low byte of 'nnnn' from ... bus.
* M3: 4 tstates: read high byte of 'nnnn' and ... you have a short interrupt routine, it is possible that the ... width, using the smallest interrupt routine possible ("EI;RETI") though an ...Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... routine that contains your main game loop - it is here that keyboard ... . At the end of the routine if a new screen should ... be prepared then that routine should be called (after reenabling ... first screen
enter IM2 routine
new screen to draw ...Abu Sumbel ProfanationI just downloaded the new TZX from the TZX Vault, but I can't get it to play. When I use Spectaculator it loads and will get to the menu then nothing…
... something to do with the keyboard port and the board issue ... , then the keys can be read as "stuck".
Hope ...Abu Sumbel ProfanationI just downloaded the new TZX from the TZX Vault, but I can't get it to play. When I use Spectaculator it loads and will get to the menu then nothing…
... game uses unorthodox methods to read the keyboard, but don't ask ... no technical buff. Setting the keyboard to emulate the Kempston joystick ...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] ; ***********…
... calculate screen addresses, these are read from the table, is this ... do. I saw the AChar routine and assumed it was calculating ... waste. Replacing PChar with a routine to print a Char row ...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 …
... not to call my IM2 routine, but it has a debugger ... references, turned out I've read them already, but I'll ...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 …
... repeat
; interrupt routine
; it does the same ... : at the end it should read .byte $18 ofcourse.
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] ; ***********…
... except it is easier to read)
I ...
; **** START INTERRUPT ROUTINE ***
MainLoop:
; Store ...
; **** END INTERRUPT ROUTINE ***
MoveAndPrintSprite:
LD ...Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... modern games.
When I read this post, I was first ... install and organsise all the keyboard controls to my liking, that ...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…
... headaches induced by trying to read the manual (tiny print on ... complimentary demo copy) the rotate routine didn't work.? Hardly a ...Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …
... to know who (what execution routine) is modifying a particular address ... desired address + n/MREQ + n/READ or n/WRITE hardware line ... I have an advanced NMI routine that displays the instant register ...
