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  • Emulator developmentHi, Could anyone explain or direct to a link that explains in not to technical terms how an emulator is developed. It has always blown my mind eve…

    ... of bytes, into the first 16,384 of which you dump a copy of ... of that byte, you may need to read a couple more bytes ... that value - read more bytes out and pop them ... read the bytes out, you keep a count of how many ... array). Update the state of the sound if there' ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2016 Emulators
  • I don't think I'm getting the $22AA Pixel-Add rom routineDear all, I'm misunderstanding how the PIXEL-ADD rom routine works. My code... [code]ld b,175 ld c,1 call $22AA ld (hl),a ret[/code] So…

    ... made up of bytes, and the bytes are made up of bits. Visually ... in a screen line on the Spectrum, the bytes ... will need to have one of the bits set (or ... that out: find the remainder of 'X / 8'. So let ... the RRCA: DJNZ part of that code does. There' ...
    Hikaru Hikaru March 2016 Development
  • What do you use 'the internet' for?I know this might sound like a really, REALLY, stupid question, but, what do you use the internet for on a daily basis and what sites do you tend to …

    [quote="Crisis;854238"]some bits of bytes
    some bytes of bits[/quote]

    you forgot the tits
    mel the bell mel the bell March 2016 Chit chat
  • PS2 megathreadRight i was searching for ps2 discussions, couldnt even find the one id previously done about retro collection packs so thought id start a new one :)…

    ... .
    Evil Dead: Fistfull of Boomstick.
    Galerians: Ash.< ... br /> Genji: Dawn of the Samurai.
    God Hand ... .
    Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock.
    Guitar Hero: ... /> Savage Skies.
    Shadow of the Colossus.
    Shinobi.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2016 Chit chat
  • Let's copy buffers!Figured I'd do some double buffered graphics, so I can render for several frames before displaying stuff. Yes, I mean on a 48k speccy, so no 128k spe…

    ... it will save a lot of bytes....

    just have 24 ... is done, saved a stash of bytes, but yes, slower.
    Want ... stated wasting all those extra bytes for a few less t ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins April 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... allows to save a lot of bytes, plus the sprite can be ... skipping the scrolling in favour of screen flipping, like Renegade, ... initial estimate, is about 512K Bytes for game and graphics, but ... Colour limitations (restricted to top of level maps?). Whole sprites or ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... more random access a range of bytes would need to be reserved ... , 64 bytes would give a meg(-4k of 64 bytes per bank ... approach would have the benefit of being simpler and more robust ... the expense of making the data in those bank switch bytes harder ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA June 2016 Hardware
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... - Delay to end of visible frame, instead of start.
    - loop ... of offsets. Namely (20*8) pixel lines * 2 bytes (DE) * 2 Bytes ... (HL) * 32 (offsets) = .20480 Bytes.
    ... but still gives a lot of bytes, just for address data.< ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …

    ... reference tables, a couple of bytes per entry to make ... you list a bunch of supported languages, in an ... OPTION "value", instead of a human readable code.< ... a container for records of some type, like "program ... 's not explicitly a name of a collection) .
    < ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Announcements
  • Poke a TAP fileI want to poke a multiload TAP (Turbo the Tortoise)? I could load 1 part at a time and poke in an emulator, however I want to keep the TAP intact. …

    ... files are just a sequence of bytes that get loaded in the ... editor and search for the bytes you care about, as far ... probably want to find the bytes you want to change in ...
    chriswyatt chriswyatt August 2016 Games
  • Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…

    That is possible of course, but DJNZ is faster and consumes only half the amount of bytes. And "Loop1" is well within the range of a relative jump.
    utz utz September 2016 Development
  • Change JPs by JRsIs there any (easy) way to replace all long jumps with relative ones in assembler code? Of course, I can replace all in text editor, and then place …

    ... replace to calculate the number of bytes between the jump statement and ... ) but I'm not aware of any for the Z80.
    GReW GReW September 2016 Development
  • Change JPs by JRsIs there any (easy) way to replace all long jumps with relative ones in assembler code? Of course, I can replace all in text editor, and then place …

    ... replace to calculate the number of bytes between the jump statement and ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2016 Development
  • RANDOMIZE USR, PRINT USR etcHello just wondering why is it called RANDOMIZE UsR what does randomising have to do with it ? When calling machine code routine from adress x you ty…

    ... and it counts the number of bytes. Is this a counter ?
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…

    ... ). Basically the 27 extra bytes of the SNA header. I ... to store a "chunk" of every game into your ... in a selected area of eg: 64 bytes per game (your ... routine+stack size) + 27 bytes per game (your registers ... 64 (or whatever number) of bytes and then update the ...
    Dan Dare Dan Dare October 2016 Hardware
  • Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…

    ... You'll find some of them among the embedded ... x86 is perfectly capable of executing self-modifying code ... the x86 architecture. One of the results is a ... is declare an array of bytes, fill that up with ... it somehow. The array of bytes would be allocated in a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2016 Assembler
  • Interesting crashesI had an interesting Spectrum crash last night, I think it was trying to tell me something's wrong or it's had enough of my games! Or it could be dow…

    ... intention of it making interesting sounds, you could POKE certain bytes that ... snare drum every x-amount of bytes), maybe even make tunes. Someone ... Spectrum loading noise in one of their tracks in the 80s
    textvoyage textvoyage November 2016 Development
  • ROM PRINT routine issuesHi all, I am using the ROM print routines a lot in my assembly program and I'm experiencing issues. I am changing the system variable DF CC to po…

    Same number of bytes but faster:
    [code]
    ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2016 Development
  • Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …

    ... we're talking max 200 bytes across a LAN, that time ... database hit, for a handful of bytes, is just not worth spending ... tool. All those "decades of assembly optimization" in the database ... Fortunately there's zero chance of discovering later a problematic query ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2017 Announcements
  • Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …

    ... re talking max 200 bytes across a LAN, ... , for a handful of bytes, is just not ... of thousands of individual SELECTs. And if many of ... a sudden spike of lots of simultaneous users wouldn ... Agreed! :)

    Instead of this theoretical discussions, would you ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2017 Announcements
  • c compiler benchmarkingI am going to have access to a number of commercial z80 compilers for a time for benchmarking, namely Hitech C v750 MSDOS (abandoned when Hitech was …

    ... . :)[/quote]
    Out of these things, only collision detection ... somewhere in the Development part of this forum.

    of bytes of code. Movement logic is ...
    [quote]Do any of the more experienced developers on ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... a case of choosing which one of the two sets of bytes gets used ... ' the bases to the effect of OR/AND/XOR and the ...
    Hikaru Hikaru March 2017 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> As the first line of the program you should get ... anyway, found a lot of MIA files, and a ... (who wrote a few of my university textbooks) that ... , have an indication of the number of bytes (so when it' ... so much to ask of the Spectrum software available?< ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... (who wrote a few of my university textbooks) that ... , have an indication of the number of bytes (so when it' ... so much to ask of the Spectrum software available?< ... and the size and location of your assembled code. Even ... machine code at the top of memory - you'll ...
    GReW GReW March 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…

    ...
    Bytes block: 11371 bytes
    Number array: 2085 bytes
    Character ... of memory that way (maybe). Then again, there'll be extra bytes ... used in taking the CODE of all those ... memory with the next block of bytes, finally doing a CLEAR ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone April 2017 Games
  • Loading on a 128k speccyOffhand I'll confess I didn't do a lot of research on this beforehand, but here's my question; How do you load a large program off tape on a 128k…

    ... 'd still need some sort of temporary buffer in order for ... immediate operations over a number of bytes, which I suppose [i]might ... /or time, but running out of those probably can't be ... , using Huffman for this sort of thing sounds like a perfectly ...
    Hikaru Hikaru May 2017 Development
  • ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…

    ... you familiar with the concept of lazy matching?

    http ... and it gave a couple of bytes improvement on average although sometimes ... (dictionary for lzf is all bytes up to current byte)
    TomD TomD May 2017 Development
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