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Shadow of the Unicorn loader for +2A / +3hi, i have tried to load SotU with the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023000"]RAM loader from Fraser Ross[/url], which is l…
... SotU you load the unmodified tape with the unmodified SotU loading routine, so ... -
Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... "turbo" loaders did not load faster than standard ones. Alkatraz ... emulators have some "relaxed" load characteristics... unless you disable all ... code loader and the unpack routine in the BASIC block. ... a machine code loader and headerless blocks will spare 1 ... -
Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... Oric takes several minutes to load with the default loader, ... can have it load that fast from tape, it's certainly ... of its size is a headerless block:
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Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... of its size is a headerless block:
[code ... take 3.6 minutes to load, while zx7'd is ... for both, because zeros load faster than ones, etc).< ... marginally faster than the ROM routine but not by much.< ... the game would bloody load or not was sometimes ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... /> I was looking for the assembly code examples rather than basic ... code anymore.
My routine above is not really random ... music, or during a loader (load-a-game loader). piano keyboard ... -
Where can I find accurate ROM functions map?Basically so I can avoid reinventing the wheel and just CALL rom if there is function there (for example, $203C, print function) that does exactly wh…
... , I found the ROM beeper routine a good one to call ... I started learning assembly.
You can just load a couple ... -
Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
... That implies:
- If you load the code at the original ... would avoid disassembling unless you load it at 24572 (crappy ... doing something between the last LOAD "" CODE and the PRINT ... Jet Pac tape, the first short block is the reallocating routine.
Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
... was VERY difficult to load, as tape-to-tape copies of Speedlock loaders ... attempt to load it over and over on many tape decks at ... in 20 attempts it would load! Hallelujah! - I would then play ... a pristine, 1st-generation ROM-routine saved copy of Knight Lore ...Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
... Key or good old tape to tape (two tape decks linked with wires ... of load it up, press a button, save it out to tape ... and add a loading screen/headerless loading then it was a ...Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... block on tape: although
both the custom load and save ... br /> But clearly the tape is not exactly standard speed ... messages.
The tape contains:
A header/program ... REM statement to
load the headerless custom screen block and ...New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
... even figured out how to load a headerless BASIC file to reduce ... . It probably is on a tape somewhere ...Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
When I was learning assembly I found assigning ... feel when you change a routine and save 9 bytes.. ... at writing a game in assembly (Catacombs of Balachor) I ... key routine I [s]stole[/s] borrowed from R-Tape
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- All sound ...Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …
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// Trap the KEY-LINE routine
PutWord(@Memory[$0296 ... // what the user wants to LOAD, be it "", CODE, DATA ... ROM to bypass the "Start tape, and press any key" ... traps the program stop (Error) routine.
PutWord(@Memory[$12E9], ...Sharpshooter by KobrahsoftI've uploaded a WAV of Sharpshooter to the WoS Facebook group at [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/WorldOfSpectrum.org/1796577180616946"]https://…
... Still if you load the wrongly converted tape it will nevertheless run ... . It will load as ... it will exit the loading routine and jump to game ... another recording, with different tape recording volume, different side ...The state of source level debuggingI was just wondering if we can put on a table everything we collectively know about source level debugging for ZX Spectrum to get an overview of curr…
... address is STACK-BC ROM routine
push hl ; ... address is STACK-BC ROM routine
jp rndusrchk ; ... GUI on PC side to load files into spectrum.
assembly.
2. ...So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…
... the start of the INT routine in the BASIC interpreter.
There is a routine in the ROM to generate ... being difficult to use from assembly language.
Most people ... easiest way is probably to load the R register or the ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... ZX even with tape recorder, because the load routine wants to load the second ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... ZX even with tape recorder, because the load routine wants to load the second ... , help me ^:)^ :-)[/quote]
I load it into EP128emu in 2 ... steps, 1st load the program, and then attach ... , you should be able to load the selected data file too ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... even with tape recorder, because the load routine wants to load the ... ^:)^ :-)[/quote]
I load it into EP128emu in 2 ... />
It will probably load in emulators without problems. But ... ) which use quite sophicticated tape emulation. Because the block ...ZXBaremulator 35th anniversary editionHi, to celebrate the 35th Spectrum anniversary, I've released the first complete Spectrum 48K bare-metal emulator for Raspberry PI. It's available…
... tzx file in the virtual tape slots and switching between menu ... on memory and changing a tape is a simple pointer ... SD is mounted.
- The tape file is readed
- ... I can limit the fast tape switching. SD access is ... uses a non-standard ROM LOAD routine.Z88dk installation DebianHi, I'm looking for some advice on installing Z88dk on my system. I have a few questions so if anyone could help me that would be great! My fi…
... undefined symbol encountered during assembly
ds390/printf_large ... Error: undefined symbol encountered during assembly
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... IS z88dk? Theres a load of messages about this ... tape, disk, rom, ihex, etc), and a large repository of assembly ...Disassembly starting from a tape fileFollowing on from the Atic Atak redefining keys thread, I was wondering how you'd go about disassembling the code from scratch. The approach used in …
... want to disassemble from the tape file, then you need to ... emulator can determine where to load a headerless file.
This ...Disassembly starting from a tape fileFollowing on from the Atic Atak redefining keys thread, I was wondering how you'd go about disassembling the code from scratch. The approach used in …
... code image as on the tape. From there, work in ASM ... (i.e. ones with no headerless blocks, or deliberately incorrect start ... snapshot that you can then load into an emulator and pause ...What about a Universal Spectrum File Container Format for Emulators?A common problem of us Speccy Users is that we have various mass storage interfaces like Interface 1, BetaDisk, Disciple, Tape, divMMC, divIDE and mu…
... whole generic notion of a 'tape' meduim/format to be a ... more than really basic single load software due to the inevitable ... just by 'inventing a better tape file format' since it concerns ... this, rewind that, esp. where headerless blocks are expected, or the ...What about a Universal Spectrum File Container Format for Emulators?A common problem of us Speccy Users is that we have various mass storage interfaces like Interface 1, BetaDisk, Disciple, Tape, divMMC, divIDE and mu…
... on disk or tape and not try to store headerless blocks etc ... converting back and forth between tape and disk systems would be ... be relying on tape order with things like LOAD "" CODE etc. and ... time, most Speccy software was tape based after all.Most played games: Pirated vs BoughtMy confession of guilt in the piracy thread that I'd never legitimately bought an Ultimate game, despite playing Knight Lore to death BITTD, led me t…
... it very hard to even load, let alone copy. I ... to get a copy to load after 3 or 4 ... over an hour trying to load it and when I eventually ... of failed load attempts) and saved the entire RAM to tape using ... the standard ROM routine, so had a ...Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…
... by Ian Harris, published as "Headerless FIles" in the November '85 ... it for loading, skip the tape header, and type *LOAD start,lengthHeaderless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... if they use a custom tape loader. You would have ... and patch it to load from disk instead.[/quote]< ... should be able to load individually and save to ... 007 copy utilities would convert headerless onto disk. Have a ... "header" as a small headerless block of 21 bytes. ...Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... add a header to each headerless block with the utility ZX ... a machine code loader to load them knowing the start address ... 't when I tried the tape images in FUSE.
tape in Spectaculator. The BASIC loader just has bare LOAD "" CODE ...
