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  • Modding +2 - Tape CounterGot my first Spectrum April this year and I hit 40 in July, was always a Commodore 64 user back in the day and that machine now sits side by side wit…

    ... tape deck that has a counter, the right reeler popped a ... tells you to reset the counter during loading so you just know ...
    Grimmsqueaker Grimmsqueaker September 2013 Hardware
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... to do the on-screen counter like Bleepload did? If so ... tape gave me "R Tape loading error" on the BASIC block ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... writing my progress counter. It also explains why loading screens (or any ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • What would be the simplest tape loading routine?I'm searching for some small assembly snippet I can use to load a (headerless or not) block from tape into RAM I can embed in my C games to load furt…

    ... VERIFYing and set for
    LOADing.
    DEC D Restore D ... /> INC DE Increase the counter to
    JR 05CA, ...
    jamorski jamorski October 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... hacks of games using the counter loader from Hewson although ... except it loads the counter loader before the screen ... steroid mashed turbo loader with counter.

    The pack ... balls, and lissajouz figures during loading... nice!!!!

    Rana ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae October 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... of one byte, with a counter "37 minutes remaining"...

    loading speed? I was experimenting with ...
    leespoons leespoons October 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... of one byte, with a counter "37 minutes remaining"...[/quote]
    loading 20736 bytes if you did ... ! With 47loader, you'd be loading even more, 27648 bytes, because ... have a slower-than-normal loading speed?[/quote]Not at present ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 October 2013 Development
  • Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…

    ... />
    A nice idea for loading would be to display just ... loads with a clean loading screen and counter. But since I'm ... this possible at all. The loading screen is 8x1 and I ... can display it and do loading at the same time.
    4throck 4throck November 2013 New game ideas
  • Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…

    ... /> DECnnnn:;start here if pre-loading different (BIN2040) & (BINsize) values ... bc,(BINsize) ;B'C'=binary counter
    ld hl,BIN2040
    counter
    ld e,1 ;E ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 Development
  • Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…

    ... DECnnnn:;start here if pre-loading different values
    ;initialise ... /> ;BC=(BINsize)/3 (loop counter)
    ld hl,$ffff
    dec bc ;octal digit counter (within BINsize bits)
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Development
  • Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…

    ... DECnnnn:;start here if pre-loading different values
    ;initialise ... /> ;BC=(BINsize)/3 (loop counter)
    ld de,$ffff ; ... /> dec bc ;octal digit counter (within BINsize bits)
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Development
  • What's so good about Halo?Remember playing this pile of crap round my mates when he first had an xbox. Rubbish

    ... And Perfect Dark introduced the counter-op mode, where player two ... load the level (complete with loading screen), but during the ( ... long) levels, the loading time was literally negligable - you ... playing the game and then "Loading Done" appeared in the ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2014 Chit chat
  • 48k memory dump to 128k???Having problems getting a 48k snapshot to load into 128k mode using ZX Spin. Tried saving 48k memory as a binary file and loading it back in 128k mo…

    ... as a binary file and loading it back in 128k mode ... in memory is the program counter? If the PC is
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2014 Development
  • Spectrum as a business machineI was just looking through an issue of Crash from 1987 and found the Tech Niche section rather interesting. They reviewed a Videoface video capture …

    ... an OPV. This way the loading was improoved.
    The tape ... a better one with a counter and a RF erasing oscillator ...
    ingo ingo May 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…

    ... for evaluating the current program counter. That way, the total size ... possible here. See the example loading a MCode block of a ...
    clausjahn clausjahn May 2014 Emulators
  • What systems do you regret buying/not buying?I've never had a non-mainstream console or computer really, I've owned (in order of my buying them*): ZX Spectrum (48K, 128K, +2) Atari ST (STFM/STe…

    ... was painful.. 20-30 minutes loading times.

    swapped my ... (least it has a tape counter ;) ) . and aqurius .. thinks like that ...
    fog fog July 2014 Chit chat
  • Games similar to TurricanAre there games on the Spectrum similar to Turrican (other than Turrican and its sequel obviously). I am making up a wee list of alternative games t…

    ... a +3 disk image as loading these games from tzx or ... keep an eye on the counter which is fiddly. however I ... one go rather than multi-loading then a dsk image won ...
    RonnieASA RonnieASA July 2014 Games
  • 16/48 tape magazineIs it me, or are you unable to select individual items on the 16/48 tape magazine? I swear I was able to do this before, but it feels like I have to …

    ... the advantages of (a) flash loading, and (b) being able to ... down along with their tape counter positions for future reference. Again ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2014 Games
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... a way of rendering the loading screen similar to Alkatraz, and ... with a digital or time counter to boot, would be most ... &postcount=13"]scrolling loader counter[/URL] based on Hewson's ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2014 Announcements
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... You configure the saver and loading routines with an origin address ... message scroller and counter
    C.S128 - 128K counter only with ...
    [B]The Assembler and loading[/B]
    Select Assemble Main ... you define the way the loading screen is rendered, so ...
    jp jp October 2014 Announcements
  • joystick port for output ?just curious regarding the joystick ports on 8 bit machines. I just purchased something on the atari 8 bit.. but included in the box was a atari 8 …

    ... flags, maybe a 2-bit counter, to two joystick ports). Then ... if you stuck to tape loading speeds it'd take a ...
    joefish joefish November 2014 Hardware
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... the Virtual Spectrum's program counter tries to execute the code ... snapshots and compare them after loading the snapshot, but before starting ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2015 Emulators
  • How to get the current line position of a +3e's text window?Does anybody know how to get the current line position of a [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/]ZX Spectrum +3e[/url]'s text window? I've r…

    ... way - i.e. keep a counter that's incremented every time ... .b 1 ; flag for saving/loading window (normally zero)
    w_doubbuf ...
    programandala.net programandala.net March 2015 Development
  • HALT: Why always 4ts?Instruction breakdown of halt is like that: PC 4ts. That means it fetches instruction byte from ram which tooks 4 ts and then does nothing and read…

    ... correctly, and the wrong Program Counter (PC - 1, specifically) must be ... be added to this when loading into an emulator than models ...
    zub zub May 2015 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... Speedlock or Alkatraz.  It's loading small blocks with teeny-tiny ... glued together, and decrementing the counter between blocks.  So it's ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 June 2015 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... limited to 99 blocks (the counter is held in a single ... Spectrum, I've had success loading 47loader TZXes into Xpectroid, Spectemu ... failed early on with tape loading errors.  Appeared as though they ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 June 2015 Development
  • damn 60 HzYou know I am really glad that ZX Spectrum is 50 Hz only. Not only the games always run in correct speed (unline Atari, Commodore, Sega, Nintendo...)…

    ... are better than the UK counter parts.. and bionic commando the ... ported e.g. the thorpe loading screens on c64 didn't ...
    fog fog January 2016 Chit chat
  • 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 …

    ... should really use the ROM loading routine so that Flash/SD ... Speccy and unpacking them after loading. You can still use headerless ... a linear fashion. And a counter is clever. But of course ...
    joefish joefish March 2016 Development
  • Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…

    ... games (the ones with tape counter) uses compressed screen. Long time ... on my +3 (normal screen loading has no advantage on disk ...
    secarica secarica October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…

    ... games (the ones with tape counter) uses compressed screen. Long time ... on my +3 (normal screen loading has no advantage on disk ... Hewson games that have new loading screens, and this utility really ...
    jp jp October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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