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Games with proper "Micro Manuals"COMBINED CASSETTE INLAY AND "MICRO" SIZED INSTRUCTION MANUAL This is something I have not come across before . Two staples are used to hold it al…
... is not centally placed in the manual . Normally ... cassette inlay fits inside a normal cheap plastic cassette ... . And there is a RANDOM LETTER BLOCK inside ... in MICRO FORM ( it is very hard to read!!) . Luckily I have a ... with just £2.99 in those days .I wonder ... -
Elon Musks's Blastar (Conversion)Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer) [url="https://www.t…
Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary ... calls to the game code. In reality, that kind of functionality ... CalculateNextPositions and in fact probably made the game a bit more complex ... is because my UDGs were in decimal rather than binary). I ... -
Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …
... into $8000, a turbo loader high in memory and some ... some routines from lower in memory to this area, ... page in its place. All in all, a bit of a pain in ... the entire game in RAM in one go so ... dig out a superb compression routine.
Anyway, a dump ... -
Remainder (Mod) calculationsI've been figuring out how to calculate remainders after integer division by a constant divisor k (A mod k = A % k). I found that for most small di…
... .
The unsigned integer in register A is copied to C, the ... remainder is returned in A, and ZF is set if ... code snippets, add a RET instruction for a proper routine.
The known ... store the first shift in a register to use in the next three ... -
Zero v0.8Pigs can apparently fly because it's the v0.8 update of Zero that no one asked for but is out for public consumption anyway. Grab it [url="https:/…
... in Options.
+ Added Memory Profiler (in Debugger) that shows a hotspot of read ... /write activities in ... breakpoint being removed in debugger in certain cases (R ... last OUT not being read back IN correctly (woody, ... -
AGD 5 Sneak PreviewLet's be honest, AGD 4 was first released in 2013 and is long overdue an overhaul. Many users have migrated to the far superior MPAGD but not everyo…
... it's a Windows tool. With that in mind, a little while ... , writing speculative code for a simple expression evaluator and before ... knew it I'd written a more sophisticated script compiler ... be rewriting those awful keyboard routines in the Sinclair ROM. No ... -
De zeven sleutels van TARKUSI've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now. And, it seems the game as it was printed in…
I've decided to type in the game "De zeven ... game as it was printed in the book, didn't ... /> So there are some modifications in there to make it work ... more modifications in to make it a bit faster. And a bit to ... dc=1 THEN LET a$=INKEY$: IF a$="" THEN GO TO ... -
Advice on electric guitar learning, pleaseSo, briscaF1 junior (who is 10 and not the tallest person) has signed up for some "pop/rock" guitar tutoring at skool (sic) which basically translate…
... my gran, who played piano in pubs, tried to teach me ... when I was a kid but the only keyboard I got ... on was a dead flesh ( ... music shop who advised that a full sized Aria electric ... ?
If you were in my position, what would you ... -
Whatever happened to the BBC Domesday Project?Do you remember this huge Project that was to record lots of info about Britain for future generations to read about, in the manner of a 21 century "…
... future generations to read about, in the manner of a 21 century "Doomsday ... info, photos, video preserved, in a way that hundred of years ... account of life in the 20th century, or a warts and ... they are not valuable. I read a lot of the original laserdiscs ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... enjoyed immensely for quite a while in particular a game called 'wizard war ... you couldn't use the keyboard for any games!!! WHY? what ... all the write-ups (mostly in crash i think) and pre ... messages and simple fly-a-sprite-over-a -scrolling-landscape "games") ... -
Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …
... there. Well actually you could read the busy line but that ... guess. The LTP is slow in any circumstance.
The RS232 ... you happen to have a TV card in situ - otherwise who knows ... .
In short a file transfer client is a reasonable goal (although ... -
spectrum on pcI was just wondering,the pc is brilliant for speccy emus but wen playing speccy games on a pc keyboard it just doesnt feel rite for sum1 who used to …
... the 48k speccy doesnt have a RS232 port,is there an ... +3) but that keyboard is the same as a pc one [img ... the monitor work thru using a tv tuner pc card,ie ... to the tv tuner ariel in? -
speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
... - which is slightly lower in volume *if that's ... .
On a different note (oof)...
... channel phasing beeper routine (tm) into a loop and ... 50 hertz interrupt 'punch' a drum sound effect (snare ... effect was exactly a 50th of a second long, cancelling ... -
speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
I did read later in my Z80 book ... if you interupt a large amplitude movement in one direction ... with one in another direction ... another to give a resultant wave with a different amplitude. ... manage with such a system though. -
speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
I did read later in my Z80 book that port ... if you interupt a large amplitude movement in one direction with one ... from another to give a resultant wave with a different amplitude. I ... you could manage with such a system though. It would take ... -
ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
Keyboard scanning to start at & ... having.
The routine at &38 in the BASIC is actually ... the maskable interrupt service routine. The keyboard scanning routine ... -
line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... ; Get absolute pixel address in map of virtual (x,y ... coordinate.
;
; in: bc = (y,x) coordinate of ... routine
pixeladdress:
LD a,b
AND A ... -
WANTED: tape replacement for +2?Any tape replacement possible for a +2? My +2 works wonderfully but the incorporated datacorder is simply worn out and won't load ANYTHING. Dirty sig…
Is there a jackplug on the +2, ... to built a standard IO-interface which read from IN 254.
Although A7 might do as well (= IN ... replace points by spaces in any editor to see ... with spaces
Select a lettertype which has equal spaces ... -
Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…
... It was like a multiface, in the way that a button was ... expand the compressed file in under a second then the ... routines to the decompressor routine (if you knew where ... screen could be paged in and then copied to ... that accessed the AY chip in 48k mode.
what are the advantages and disadvantages of using.........what are the advantages and disadvantages of using an emulator rather then using a zx spectrum? octave
... me some trouble with a snowwy interrupt routine. In the emulator my program ... runned fine, but in real I ... />
i.e.
LD A,100
LD I ...Saving machine code on EmulatorI have been dabbling with Chapter 26 of Stephen Vicker's "ZX Spectrum Manual". [url="http://www.madhippy.com/8-bit/sinclair/zxspecman/zxmanchap26.htm…
... thing. The error is in the manuals and books.
in the Jupiter Ace at ... the time or perhaps a different version was put ... Maybe an outstanding modification at a hectic time.
It ... to FETCH-NUM in the SA-LINE-1 routine in the ROM.< ...Quiz III - Further adventures of... Ok, 20 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. There …
... /> Mike Berry - read the advert!
6: A colour; a planet with ... with huge balls with a rotating icosahedron in the bottom right ... wash five stones and stand in a star.
Name our ... />
Scores - in order that they were received ...RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …
... has crashed the keyboard. IF you doubleclick on a desktop icon for ... get no responce from the keyboard. But the mouse will give ... may be doing something kind-a-goofy in the initialization.
P ...ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... routine you basically need to decide what's being scrolled in from a ... buffer
; area perhaps, or from a routine that ... to scroll in a graphic - basically going into
; the routine you need ...Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
... one out on any mainstream keyboard. right after the f12 key ... on your keyboard allows you to display a .scr file in your browser ...Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
... on your keyboard allows you to display a .scr file in your browser ... necessity of having '.scr' in the first place, as one ... screen and obtaining a 'standard graphic format'. That was in response to ... with philip that for use in a webpage, conversion is an easier ...
