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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... I used a 24x2 byte lookup table to work ... the screen address instead of calculating it using code ... have a null byte at the end of the string or ... set the high bit of the last byte of the string.. DC in ... (colours, brightness, flashing) of a string. I used a ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... I used a 24x2 byte lookup table to work ... the screen address instead of calculating it using code ... have a null byte at the end of the string or ... set the high bit of the last byte of the string.. DC in ... (colours, brightness, flashing) of a string. I used a ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... (jr nc, .notatline24) instead of the zero flag. You may ... the length of the string (either put a 0 byte at the ... end of the string like ... br />
or OR the last byte of the string with 128 and ... dc "text" ; dc ORs the last byte with #80 -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... jr nc, .notatline24) instead of the zero flag. (May need ... length of the string (either put a 0 byte at ... the end of the string ... />
or OR the last byte of the string with 128 and ... "text" ; dc ORs the last byte with #80[/quote]
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A Miscellany of Dangerous TipsHere's a selection of ideas for using some of the more obscure system variables which I've found handy on occasion. They can be very convenient if us…
... anywhere in free RAM and used independently of any DEF FN ... statement, which allows quick RAM copies ... in the last reference to a function remain available for reference ... "stack", by resetting the hi-byte of DEFADD on return so that ... -
Win2003 tweaking to make better use of lotsa RAM ?I have a server running Win2003. This machine is fitted with 4 GB of RAM, which is far more than strictly required. It only runs a few apps, and is …
... is fitted with 4 GB of RAM, which is far more than ... surely "sacrifice" 2 GB of the available RAM without losing any steam.
of the OS to RAM at startup to ... -
The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... an example, the first byte of work RAM for the classic game Truxton ... Drive only has 64K of RAM (named Work RAM), use it carefully!< ... to trigger directly after the last line on the display (line ... 4mhz Zilog Z80 with 8K of RAM is available to control the powerful ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... represented by a 4-byte update struct whereas in ... removes another 5k from available memory versus spritepack for ... most frequently used locals last can allow shorter push ... up to the top of ram where the lookup table ... a graphic or mask byte to its shifted version ... -
SAGE gamebook project newsThat's the Spectrum Adventure Gamebook Enhancement, that is (for the time being, anyhow). I've updated the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg2…
... as having a defined list of options available at each location some ... more RAM for code and/or workspace than is left available. ... will probably try the "counting byte value repetitions" idea which was ... searching for stuff last night and found some of my old ... -
SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…
... RAM 7
di ; interrupts off as no stack available
byte of screen to A
xor ... HL
dec hl ; last byte added
call temp_ptr1 ; ... br /> inc hl ; first byte of number
call stack_num ; ... -
IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…
... buffer re-initialised with the last file
previously returned. ... entry initialised)
HL = Address of filename (wildcards permitted)
RAM page at the top of
memory is ... can only be called with RAM page 7 switched in at ... -
Is ESXDOS flexible enough to incorporate e.g. Spectranet commands?I was just discussing the idea with someone about the wish some people have to be able to combine interfaces such as DivIDE (Plus) / DivMMC EnJOY! wi…
... if the sw is readily available, the hw can sometimes ... in a block of ram and read a single byte. It's ...
DE'= void *buffer = byte destination
BC'= max_length > ... DE'= void *buffer_ptr = address of byte following last written
carry ... -
New Game - Pietro Bros [z88dk/Nirvana+][b]PIETRO BROS[/b] Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from th…
... selected, bank 00 at top of ram
; Load main ... There is only 256 bytes available here, including the stack ( ... are about 800-900 bytes available just before the nirvana ... bytes at the top of memory available. The last byte segment is AY music ... -
Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... for SP with different RAM packs; if you're ... a 2K RAM pack for a total of 3K... and ... was actually a 15K RAM pack that merely brought ... address possible and have the last byte at 65535), SAVE "filename ... so much to ask of the Spectrum software available?
Last level of Arkanoid IIHow can one pass level 17 of Arkanoid 2? I think it's the last level. It has some strange creature in a square in the center of the screen.
How can one pass level 17 of Arkanoid 2? I think it's the last level. It has some strange creature in a square in the center of the screen.SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... .2c is available now, and is probably the last incarnation of
SPIN ... the update over the top of the
files already present ... to
run multiple instances of SPIN, I might add. That ... fdc now.
Added (most of) Eq TetraChloride's UI suggestions ...ANN: Spectaculator 2.5 available for downloadHi. I've just released a new version of Spectaculator, available from [url="http://www.spectaculator.com/"]http://www.spectaculator.com/[/url]. Hopef…
... released a new version of Spectaculator, available from [url="http://www ... screen mode if you were last in full screen mode. ... and 'Reset the Spectrum' are available on the
toolbar. ... /> scrolling message at the beginning of the Sentinel).
...Native OS X port of Fuse availableA beta version of Fredrick Meunier's native OS X port of Fuse, the Free errr... Unix Spectrum Emulator is now available from Fuse's homepage: [url="…
... port of Fuse, the Free errr... Unix Spectrum Emulator is now available ...BASin Release 6 available for DownloadHi all - It's another cut'n'paste from CSS :) I've been tapping away again, and seeing as a couple of people have recently seen BASin's latest bits…
... probably forgotten.
A last word (which nobody ever reads ... you a lot of confusion.
At the last minute:
available only at runtime - it will ... previously entered (up to the last 128 of them).
Added a ...Win32 port of Fuse availableAn alpha version of a port of Fuse, the increasingly inaccurately named Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, to Win32 is now available from the [url="http://…
An alpha version of a port of Fuse, the increasingly inaccurately named ... Emulator, to Win32 is now available from the [url="http://fuse ... 't work in all sorts of ways. It should be noted ...Has anyone tried the last TZX of Basil the Great Mouse Detective?It refuses to work on almost [I]every[/I] emulator I've tried it with: the only one which can run it is EmuZWin. Some time ago there was a long debat…
... TZX file, found in the last update, should be closer to ... Spectaculator because my trial period of the 6.25 version has ... present I have no intention of registering it.Last Spectrum game ever made?By last I mean the last one that was available to buy in shops? The last issues of SU and YS were in 1993 so I'm guessing around this time the last o…
By last I mean the last one that was available to buy ... in shops?
The last issues of ... around this time the last of the software houses that ... released Spectrum games released their last game.
(Suddenly remembering ...ANN: ZXF issue 10 now available for downloadZXF is a free PDF magazine for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which you can download from the ZXF website at [url="http://www.cwoodcock.co.uk/zxf"]www.cwo…
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Issue 10 of ZXF is now available for download - a 56 ... on the Sinclair branded range of Spectrum software and on Spectrum ... of the legendary Simon Goodwin.
This will be the last ... issue of ZXF for a while, whilst ...BASin release 12c available for downloadHi again, folks - I've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so I'm assuming that we've now got a stable editor. Release 12c is now availab…
... 've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so ... />
Release 12c is now available from
[url="http ... ]
and will be available from WOS shortly.
of the last line of your program. (Colin Woodcock ...BASin release 12c available for downloadHi again, folks - I've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so I'm assuming that we've now got a stable editor. Release 12c is now availab…
... 've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so ... />
Release 12c is now available from
[url="http ... ]
and will be available from WOS shortly.
of the last line of your program. (Colin Woodcock ...Mode 2 Tile Editor SourceA Timex Mode 2 Tile Editor incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from the WoS archive. …
... incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the ... (c) 2007 Andrew Owen
; Last update: Friday 12 January 2007 ... ; first byte of screen one
ld de,$4001 ; second byte of screen one ...New version of Tape2WAV availableVersion 1.5 of Tape2WAV is available at: [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/tape2wav.zip[/url] Latest additions are: * Support for Amst…
Version 1.5 of Tape2WAV is available at:
[url]http://homepage. ...Quick method of fixing TAP parity byte?Quick question: are there any DOS/Win32 utilities (or at least, something in C/++ I could compile in Windows) which fix the broken parity byte of the…
... ) which fix the broken parity byte of the blocks in a TAP ... to tell me what the byte should be but that isn ...
