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New release of Tapir + new MDR management utilityMikie just made a new release of Tapir, with the following changes: - Corrected a typo in the Data window that was there since day one (doesn't anyo…
... -$1f (apparently a security update of Windows broke TextOut).
- ... no longer jumps to the last byte when the cursor is on ... protected' label changes the state of this flag.
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Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
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The special 2-byte "NOP" opcode was usually preceded ... page in the shadow RAM into the 0-8K ... so. In the shadow RAM would be a previously loaded ... /> And to add one last info byte on sna -- this was ... that saves the contents of RAM and most of the z80's ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... one on the crappy drivers available for this machine though.
last line of the picture (noticable when ... (All updates), Athlon 1500, 512Mb RAM, S3 Twister Gfx (urgggggghhhhh).
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... without relevant support ICs - byte copy and byte fill routines I mentioned ... camp starts to forget the last css / csc flame war :- ... when the 10MHz part became available).
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... depends most on the quality of games available for it and the ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... when accessing the video ram for vertical scroll, with ... register that stored the last pair of bytes fetched (describing 8 ... than eliminate contention by alternating RAM access. For double speed, ... and speed should have been available at similar price. The ...+2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…
... up from the bottom of RAM and unsorted catalogue entries ... downward from the top of RAM. To erase a file ... br /> ; BANKM @ $5b5c holds last out to port $7ffd
ld (hl),a ; write byte
inc l ; ...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…
... having to remember what the last frame address was and ... before it spills into that last blank column. You can ... screen position and rotation (data available from the struct_sp1_ss) to ... This will mean an extra byte of memory used for struct_sp1_updates per ...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…
... interest in the spectrum community last year but nobody bit. ... off the edge connector (not available). It is very nice ... (specified) and an unlimited amount of RAM added by the edge connector ... the unique variation of basic that sinclair made available to all ...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…
... buffer sizes: the 6912 byte one for spectrum compatibility and ... the 12288 byte one for the higher ... MSX1 there is exactly 16k available to the video chip. This ... amounts of the 16k video RAM, leaving more or less amounts of RAM for ...Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... a large number of sampled instruments and is available here:
< ... unless you have a shitload of memory available from something like a ... play the sampled data on ram. The BASIC program should ask ... samples in a byte, this means all of 5 seconds of audio in ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... the entire code of the project available in multiple stages. ... familiar with what is available through these standard libraries ... /> The standard libraries make available header files that contain all ... the last element of the array, would contain the 0 byte. ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... the string following the command byte sequence just interpretted. The surrounding ... ". Right justification places the last character of the string on the column ... thing to have available.
The bizarre naming of "zx_cyx2saddr()" is ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... a cursor iterates over all available plots of land in left to ... br />
6. The last plot of land acquired by a player ... is the memory address of the first byte of "struct plot p" and ... player number. "production" holds the last plot production volume and can ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... function into the destination (72-byte buffer). In this case "mtn_rotateRight ... " this time, to draw this last bit of mountain:
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g_uchar0 = attr; // make these available in global vars
g_uchar1 ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... our game must have enough available memory for four AI player ... keeps track of the number of developed plots of each type of exploitation the ... ] is a pointer to the last plot of land the player acquired ... as return value a single byte that indicates up, down, ...Collision Detection in SP1Hi, Does anyone have a well-documented example of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK forums but no joy. Something wi…
... because full documentation is not available.
After a ... = 1 for 2-byte graphical definition else 1-byte, bits 2:0 ... engine bothers to draw the last column of the sprite. If your ... /> }
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The last parameter to the function is ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
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Top of RAM for 'T' 57571 ... The HiSoft Pascal manual is available in the archive, and ... that what I wrote last year about this is ... learnt that the format of the "Hi-soft pascal ... appears closer to that of the "ordinary source format ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... to same values as high byte of contended memory adress.
#00 ... use mostly only last 2byte adress at end of vector table. Before ... (in ZX ram) to new table on ZX rom(only last 2bytes ...VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... was an analogue of BASin available for VIC BASIC, ... length (up to the last byte before the screen). So ... compiled this win32 console binary of RLCCBM.EXE here
available on the net, and it has a couple of ... "Twenty Commodes", or one of the other emulators!
...12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.
... since I have 128K of flash available, it made sense ... value, subtract the value of the lowest character (space ... table. The fragments of the character are then ... d into the appropriate byte in the frame buffer ... the start address in RAM of the line which eliminates ...Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
... /> LD A,D ; Get high byte of max good adress
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JR NC, ...
;Create string for last failed address
LD BC ...
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DB "Last Failed bits: --------",0
String9 ...Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
... knows a little tiny bit of m.c.
of finding a JP instruction ... and the last small one overwrites(?) the rest of the available ram. I ...
I've read part of Jon's hacking guides but ... and one or two blocks of code. Period. No LDIRs, ...Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
... the last small one overwrites(?) the rest of the available ram. I ... br /> I've read part of Jon's hacking guides but ... and one or two blocks of code. Period. No LDIRs ... use the multipokes out of mags, particularly Your Sinclair ... JP at the end of the poke (in data ...Welcomes...and some technical stuffHello I`d like to welcome all ZX Fans. I`m rather ATARI 8bit geek - I got this grat machine when I was 14...20 yeras ago... There were few ZX in …
... be broken, and most of the cases, replacing it ... -5V rail is not available. Starting from ATX1.2 ... optional, and in the last issues, it doesn't ... 3. Modify the Spectrum video RAM bank so it uses 4164 ... lot of memory using just a quarter of the available memory ...Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …
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Just seen this last night on iPlayer and I ... ZX81 should get rid of that screen flicker and ... blue tack for the ram pack problems. I also ... functions. It was one of the main reasons the ... BBC versus the plethora of titles available for the Spectrum.
ZX Demos and the wow factorI remember reading a few comments in the past 3 years regarding demos. Some comments included how boring it was to see this or that effect again, how…
... 8-colour art; some of that is really impressive. ... it probably uses all the RAM available. The real skill would ... it is, but instead of encouraging more people to take ... Land[/I], [I]Wings of Death[/I]). Why can't ... ? They're going to last a lot longer than any ...Image to ZX Spec 1.2 Released (Video and high performance support)Yes I know it's only been about three weeks since 1.1 but I've been working very hard on this version and has a major work engine overhaul for multi …
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This last version finished tonight has the ... it before - used and available memory is shown in ... 3000 is a safe amount of RAM, disabling compiz will also ... save 100-200MB RAM.
Reducing the " ... you'll be in your last 100MB free) as Java ...Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance
On the subject of RAM, all it is is an ... 48K) at 16384 decimal and last index at 65535.
of addresses)
* the strings ... in the string means the byte 00:
[code]< ... list with a 0x00 byte at the end of each one to ...New RZX Block Type Suggestion -- AnnotationWho is maintaining the RZX specification at the moment? I'd like to ask for the feasability of the following request. Annotations embedded within th…
... (if there would be more, last wins).
... contained the possibility of pausing the RZX playback ... I guess single signed byte can be used to ... emulators have plenty of fonts available, ZXDS for example ... be broken after the last character which will ...
