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  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... , select bank of shadow screen, load ram disk file into it ... to use in contests were machine code is banned). Unfortunately, it does ... be done with a short machine code routine, but that way is ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…

    ... a SCREEN$ from a game load, and you'll get the ... /> Melbourne House's "Advanced Spectrum Machine Code" (I think that was the ...
    Winston Winston November 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... it the OS of your machine... kinda like [URL=http://raww ... make a nice little retro machine. Of course, with the interpreted ... chunk like the Spectrum was. Machine code routines would be used the ... a Spectrum emulation for running tape images from hard disk.
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Emulators
  • Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coup&#233; without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…

    ... tinkering while starting out with machine code program back in the early ... a demo on a YS tape which had screens from a ...
    Quazar Quazar November 2006 Hardware
  • 128 won't loadI been trying to load a 128k speccy programme ( the fantasy one that came with the speccy 128 ) into a 128k heatsink speccy but it gets so far and th…

    ... thanks to Kobrahsoft's SP3 Tape to +3 utility (which I ... you really need to understand machine code to save those headerless files ...
    pottyboy pottyboy November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I'm in need of help hereI've been using the 'COMB' and 'TRANSFER' programs on Lerm's Utility D package to convert copy-protected (Speedlock, Alcatraz etc) 48k games onto +3 …

    ... the memory in before you load the file.

    machine code!

    Poke ... val / Start Address to load)
    0 16 49152< ... address 27000, load that file, then load the first chunk ...
    And, basically, you load the 2 bits of file ...
    Jmk Jmk December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…

    ... a full game when you load a tzx image? I.e ... bit (of JonNorth's) machine code to load a program and stop the ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2007 Emulators
  • Saving MCI want to save some code from memory with, for instance, SAVE "aname" CODE 40000,500 But I want it to load to 32768 with the LOAD "" CODE command (no…

    ... the address I wanted to load to would be 23672. Which ... why I can't just load and save it there.[/QUOTE ... /> Why not? Just move the code there and save it out ... the SA-BYTES routine from machine code. Your machine will obviously crash afterwards ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... functionality available to BASIC and machine-code programmers.

    Standardisation is ... the different floppy disk and tape-cartridge interfaces that were made ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    You can also redirect text to different streams in machine code. Just load the accumulator with the stream number (in this case 4) then call 5633 to open the channel.
    jonathan jonathan January 2007 Development
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... , so that any BASIC or machine-code programs will work with the ... might type:

    [B]LOAD *"m";1;"program"[/B]

    and ResiDOS would load the file "program" from drive ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... worry is that without some machine code routines, it is going to ... patching in some simple asm code to speed up the display ... them as a CODE block in your editor's tape image in ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2007 Development
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... when the first block of machine code loads. It's not down ... LOAD ""CODE 32768: SAVE "screen"CODE 32768,6912
    30 LOAD ""CODE : SAVE "AVENTURA @"CODE 28800 ... ,8832
    40 LOAD ""CODE : SAVE "AVENTURA A"CODE 37632 ...
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…

    ...
    I've written a machine code that can
    a) handle ... I have enclosed the assembly code for reference (don't be ... will send you a tape with the compiled code (approx 55 bytes ... Cheers,
    Chris.

    [code]
    org 40000
    ; getaddr ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Atic Atac 128k version?Can anyone confirm that the version of atic atac in the 'UPTG : The Complete Works' is in fact 128k compatible? that is can you load it on a spectrum…

    ... when its finished loading the code, then switch to 48k ... to move game code to correct place before ... ve lost all my source code for my fix to ... could easily be altered to load any 48k only game from ... I think uses its own machine code loader. So I`m blaming ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Games
  • Computer ShopsHi, I just wondered if anyone had anyone had any stories to share of their favourite computer shop. I mean, during the speccy era. Did everyone have…

    ... that. I had a small machine code program memorized that would do ... typed RANDOMIZE USR 40000 the machine just reset, but when I ... also used to try and load games off a cassette I ...
    Winston Winston March 2007 Chit chat
  • Stopping autostart/autorun and entering POKEsHi, I want to enter some POKEs into a game on my ZX Spectrum, but whenever i do a LOAD "", my games always autorun. Is there any way I can get the pr…

    ... the spectrum executes the machine code the first part of ... the code unpacks the game to ... Thats why even loading the code and then poking will fail ... stop and alter the code while it is running.< ... this snapshot back to tape using a program like ...
    thingley thingley April 2007 Games
  • At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…

    ... and working with manual intro tape, psu, original guarentee, all the ... ,

    A Book "Spectrum Machine Code Made Easy Volume Two.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk April 2007 Chit chat
  • Those RANDOMIZE USR lines that look like tape loading...I often see on here people mentioning those RANDOMIZE USR lines which when entered, seem to simulate a tape loading, with the colours and lines in th…

    I also memorized a short machine code routine I could POKE into ... RAND USR without the machine code on another machine and look all baffled ... />
    I too found those tape saving routines by doing RAND ...
    Winston Winston April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…

    ... in memory, then the assembly code written by the programmer (which ... memory left for the produced machine code. For me it seems like ... background maps here, tiles here, code here, space for structures here ... time and saved it to tape. Finally, you would run ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2007 Development
  • hiding file names while loadinghello, i just found my old home grown game Bubble Bobble The Adventure in original form, so i'm trying to convert it from TR-DOS to TZX for submitti…

    ... if you know machine code you could call the load routines with the ...
    ghbearman ghbearman May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • hiding file names while loadinghello, i just found my old home grown game Bubble Bobble The Adventure in original form, so i'm trying to convert it from TR-DOS to TZX for submitti…

    ... if you know machine code you could call the load routines with the ... with full title screen, which load files with headers, but show ...
    abelenki abelenki May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • How did games started with LOAD "" CODE auto-start?Some early games (l remember for example [B]Galaxians[/B] from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading…

    ... from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block ... and code together), but where/how does the LOAD "" CODE command ... jump into game code and execute ... X address if error" so machine code can start. Either way, ...
    ghbearman ghbearman May 2007 Development
  • Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…

    ... the more optimized code, from original 64 byte machine code to 49 byte ... to improve it?

    [CODE]
    org 30000

    ld a,h ;load high address into a





    [/CODE]
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Development
  • Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…

    ... the more optimized code, from original 64 byte machine code to 49 byte ... and double declarations?

    [CODE]
    org 30000

    ld a,h ;load high address into a





    [/CODE][/QUOTE]
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP May 2007 Development
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... calculate those. It calls the tape loading routine that's stored ... runs a disk loader in machine code. If you can get someone ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2007 Games
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... compilers which are written in machine code and put themselves up above ... so you can then just load in your own program and ... the set of compilers and machine code books I have currently on ...
    hldswrth hldswrth June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... the compilers are written in machine code.

    As said whats ... is that when I either load the compiler then my program ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …

    ... takes a long time to load. I'm still experimenting but ... /21udgs.tzx[/url]

    Machine Code
    [url]http://www.plhite ...
    Phil2 Phil2 June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…

    ... program machine code.
    When you load a game, you must first load game ... loader written in Basic, which then loads game machine code ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2007 Development
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