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More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... even using the fastest multicolour routine around, it can only manage ... system will be able to load the palette in 16 calls ... -
Imagine loading by tape nowadays!!!!I was bored so i did some working out how long it would take to load a more modern game at the rate old speccy tapes do which is 1500 bps (bits). 8 …
... a top end game to load..
as for the ... was re-doing a joystick routine ... the original coder had made ... -
Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…
... - d1d3 ------- JP to im2 service routine (im2 table filled with 0xd1 ... STACKPTR is defined and will load SP appropriately). The location ... run in an IM2 interrupt routine. The IM2 library can ... registers and calls your music routine. It is important that ... -
many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…
... that, since the sample player routine has to be called at ... with the data stream, like compression - because not only is your ... -
This Is Your (Gaming) LifeHi there spec-chums. I'm in an inquisitive mood, and feel like doing a bit of writing, so I was wondering if you folks would like to share the story …
... routines in games to sound routine was in second memory bank ... on 128k, but the levels load as if you had 48k ... -
Announcing: The +2A/+3 FLASH ROM adapter boardAs I've mentioned in a couple of other threads, this project is coming along quite well now, so I thought I'd post some details up here. I've built …
... the diagnostics board. You can load it from tape (or via ... it onto flash initially, then load it from flash memory later ... also has its own print routine (an early version of what ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... the main loop, and pre-load it with the (already) zeroed ... /> The WriteMsg in the second routine is lovely using the stack ... -
What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…
... main loading block would not load, it just showed the usual ... . Thanks for giving me that routine, Frank T - much appreciated :wink ... -
128k musicThis has probably been asked before but I'm going to ask again (just because I can :razz: ) I was playing OutRun2sp on my Xbox360 the other night an…
... 128, some of them will load the music and then overwrite ... can just run the music routine regardless, and if there's ... -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... to call a machine code routine from BASIC to handle these ... ?
Doing:
LOAD "3dwireanim" CODE 16384 STEP 6144 ...
to load a sequence of something done ... /> FOR F=1 TO 1342 : LOAD "" CODE 16384 : NEXT F -
Tape I/O in z88dkAccording to the documentation, z88dk appears to have facilities in its spectrum-specific library for tape i/o - [url]http://www.z88dk.org/wiki/doku.…
... the ROM's SA-BYTES routine at address 0x04c2. You can ... success.
This save routine should work on all spectrum ... the ROM's LD-BYTES routine at address 0x0556. The parameters ... is returned for a successful load. -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... you were coding an assembly routine to view such a map ... another memory bank, probably without compression. -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... /> 2) I have 3 ZX compression tools on my computer with ... copy of the Exomizer decompression routine (assembly)
2) Assembly Listing ... -
DSK to TZX?Is it possible to convert a DSK disk image file to a TZX tape file? If so, then how? And is there a utility out there that does something like that? …
... was planning to use compression to minimize the load times before the ... -
I am working on 'Stratego'.So finally Fuse is working on my EeePC started coding "Stratego". I have ideas about the artificial intelligence, but if you have ideas how to play …
... easily in Spin 0.666 - LOAD "" CODE was unnecessary as it ... 's done automatically when I load the TAP file. I like ... ]
See the 'Machinecode routine of the week'. It's ... -
SkoolKit 1.0A new release of the Skool Disassemblies is available. This time, besides the traditional [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/"]online version[/ur…
... your detective work in the routine at 28635.
Oh ... Cruise disassembly:
1. Load Contact Sam Cruise into an ... -
OR in a IFHi guys, I have a string that is defined by the user. I want to have an IF that does something like IF string<> a OR b OR c THEN goto 10 Hope that m…
... debugger, not even a TRACE routine. It's slower than Captain ... through treacle after taking a load of barbiturates.
I ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... screen flip. There is a load of painting to do, so ... I'm honest.
Compression of the room data would ... too often and improves the compression ratio as you're working ... between speed'n'complexity against compression ratio is good. -
Win_TZX2TAPI just wrote a small&simple TZX to TAP Converter for conversion of standard blocks. It is dedicated to all DivIDE users who want to do a quick batch …
... screen decompression routine or are there levels to load from the TAP ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... game by selecting the right routine needed for my program.
Compression is done by storing 4 ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... using the same compression algorithm and the same compression dictionary. If you ... , each would have its own compression dictionary, which takes up more ... compressed, you can afford to load everything, then decompress levels on ... -
Win_TZX2TAPI just wrote a small&simple TZX to TAP Converter for conversion of standard blocks. It is dedicated to all DivIDE users who want to do a quick batch …
... on DivIDE. +D and DivIDE load much faster than k7zx can ... do always screen and code compression too. -
Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…
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If you load a game from tape, loading ... in Eightyone because the loading routine does not stop outputting to ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... has also been discussion about compression use for reducing size even ... amount of waiting per level load... fine for us emulator users ... the sake of a single load, but more generally for the ... -
Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... hoping for a nice basic routine that would play an SCR ... br />
[LIST=1]
[*] Load an image into the main ... /> [*] Display the main screen
[*] Load a new image into the ... faster than external divide+ looped 'LOAD "" SCREEN$" I'm using currently ... -
My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…
... the border with a C routine like this:-
[code ... -
Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... all. The 48k version should load the next screen into a ... row. Then the m/c routine should copy the buffer to ... -
New member here. And a spider! :)Hello everyone. My name is Sekrets. I'm quite a lonely individual, searching for a digital home where I might find fellow speccy enthusiasts to adopt…
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to load the value of hl into ... !
* getcharpos and setoverpos load a 16-bit value from ... in HL.
This routine is all about moving the ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... I was to construct a load of sprites and wanted to ... a basic unit, and a routine that would construct them on ... could write an optimized sprite routine that would allow us to ...
