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The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
Yea, well I had bought the external one from the same chap... not realising I couldn't make the drive boot games due to it not being primary. So I recently bought the internal cable.
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The display of the ZX SpectrumI'm trying my hand at putting a simple emulator together, but I don't quite remember exactly how the screen works... I have a (void) function that ta…
(I've moved this to the emulator forum to get a better response).
The Spectrum screen is set up in 3 blocks (4000H - 47FFH, 4800H - 4FFFH & 5000H - 57FFH).
So for my 1st display routines I set up 3 pointers and just ran 3 ... -
Random numbers...Hi Folks, I am not an expert when it comes to random numbers. If I have the RANDOMIZE statement the beginning of a program and then proceed to gene…
... contain the same value on loading from an emulator and you will ... is what you are sampling from FRAMES and the purpose of ... of the program, on loading a tap from the emulator, you will ... -
Serial protocol, help!Hi, simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC to real ZX Spectrum for testing purposes. Under Windows I tried using Spxfr and it w…
... C code to get file from ZX Spectrum into a file ... />
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Serial protocol, help!Hi, simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC to real ZX Spectrum for testing purposes. Under Windows I tried using Spxfr and it w…
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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
TrueFONT includes the proportional font routine from Your Spectrum, and you can ... -
New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…
[QUOTE=na_th_an;536191]@Dr BEEP, thanks for the pointers, but such techniques look far too advanced to me. Besides, I like the standard lo-res feel.[/QUOTE]
The Guus Flater technic is rather simple.
You make a screen somewhere ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... the upper bound of the routine from 127 to 255 and get ... -
how many of you are still loading tapes?I have a DiVide but recently for fun, I bought a huge box of Spectrum game tapes I was wondering how many of you are still using tapes to play games?
... setup, I would be loading .tap files from Divide+ interface.
< ... normal Speed for a nostalgic loading experience, or set the ... the keyboard which speeds up loading. If however I want ... instantaneous loading I simply save a snapshot ... -
Loader help please (and a suggestion)I posted in my "Wicker Woman" thread that I was having problems creating a loader, but I think this is a more appropriate place to post. I've had go…
... which point it loads a loading screen and then the game ... without having the loading screen corrupted.
From the searching, I ... I can't test the loading screen or game.
Loader help please (and a suggestion)I posted in my "Wicker Woman" thread that I was having problems creating a loader, but I think this is a more appropriate place to post. I've had go…
... which point it loads a loading screen and then the game ... without having the loading screen corrupted.
From the searching, I ...TZX to MP3Is there such a program that can convert them without having to record the sound to an MP3 player so you can just copy and paste the files instead. …
When load TZX files into my ZX Spectrum is it normal for some not to work?
I've tried loading Bruce Lee in as an example as a TZX, WAV and MP3 and it just won't load. I've tried loading it straight from my pc?Development choices, help!As a small part-time project I would like to convert my daily programming work (a workflow/bpel engine) to the Spectrum, purely for fun. I would like…
... 'll just show you something from my current (but pretty useless ... 's using a proportional font routine from some other thread on this ...Development choices, help!As a small part-time project I would like to convert my daily programming work (a workflow/bpel engine) to the Spectrum, purely for fun. I would like…
... 'll just show you something from my current (but pretty useless ... 's using a proportional font routine from some other thread on this ...Development choices, help!As a small part-time project I would like to convert my daily programming work (a workflow/bpel engine) to the Spectrum, purely for fun. I would like…
[QUOTE=Timmy;541631] is not native of z88dk. It's using a proportional font routine from some other thread on this forum.)[/QUOTE]
Now I'm going to need an edit-line routine and support for text windows and then we will be set :D48k IssuesJust got a 48k Spectrum (a replacement for a faulty +) from the helpful guys at Flashback, and had a tape deck delivered today. The keyboard seems t…
... 48ks having issues when loading WAV files from a mobile phone hehe ...A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…
... pointless, but this proportional routine deserves something special. And ... br />
The music routine we use is that developed ... note that currently my input routine depends on (23560) so ... to call the IM1 routine (from your own IM2 routine).
...Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…
Right, I decided to try loading the game from a cassette directly into ...Spectrum DIVIDE and Kempston Interface ProbsI got my DIVIDE quite a while back and was using it on a Spectrum +3, but noticed some games loading corrupt and not all games having proper joystick…
If you are loading z80 snapshots from the archive into a ... that were essentially snapped from a 128k+ machine. ... 128k+ is sufficiently different from the +3 to cause ... can still see the loading screen and the game ... later snapshot - say from the games menu screen ...Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... c64 can easily display loading screens etc from speccy.. I had a ...machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
how would i go about loading the block from off the disk in machine code?
it was so much easier to get dizzy 2 and 3 running off disk lolWhich support do you use for loading software?Hi all, It's been a while since i came here... Nevertheless, a question came into my mind... Which support (hardware) do you use for loading into s…
... (hardware) do you use for loading into speccy??
I ... Minidisc. Did anyone tried loading and saving from this? Are they reliable ... into the Speccy at 11000bps from my ipod and it worked ...DivIDE compact flash cardsHi all, Just bought a 1Gb compact flash card from Maplin (iFlash) and it doesn't work in my DivIDE. Actually, it doesn't work in my CF to IDE adapte…
... a 1Gb compact flash card from Maplin (iFlash) and it doesn ... adapter need power supply (external or from IDE connector on DivIDE). Some ... CF adapters use +5V from pin 20 on IDE connector ...Keys redefine routine and key check.I have written some asm code which allows me to redefine keys (for a game etc.), and also allows me to be able to check any keypresses for the redefi…
... is planning to use this routine from BASIC, I recommend changing it ... /> This way, using the results from BASIC becomes very easy, kinda ...Keys redefine routine and key check.I have written some asm code which allows me to redefine keys (for a game etc.), and also allows me to be able to check any keypresses for the redefi…
... is planning to use this routine from BASIC, I recommend changing it ... /> This way, using the results from BASIC becomes very easy, kinda ... get some time. Although, the routine was really meant to be ...Computer questions that seem to defy answer1. "Why is it flashing?"
... efficient cause is that external entity from which the change or the ...Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…
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(thus making the routine compile-able elsewhere)
from when I changed the routine from the way I ...Boovie (missing credit)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Boovie$&pub=^KVL$&loadpics=1"]Boovie[/URL] LSO lower left. [img]http://www.worldofspectr…
Indeed all info is welcome, plus a proper tape image - the available one doesn't even have a loading screen and I don't really remember where the loading screenshot comes from...CSS has been Rogeredcomp.sys.sinclair has just been rogered. I make do with a summary when anything happens and activity shot up on Friday. Turns out to be the usual qu…
... kompewter throwing an tape loading problem error from the disk.
from the STANLEY electrical shop that ...CSS has been Rogeredcomp.sys.sinclair has just been rogered. I make do with a summary when anything happens and activity shot up on Friday. Turns out to be the usual qu…
... kompewter throwing an tape loading problem error from the disk.
from the STANLEY electrical shop that ...
