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ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 releasedDear ZX-Spectrum emulator fans, yesterday I've released ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 which now comes with several interesting news that were long needed: ZX-…
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TRD, TZX, TAP - does it really matter for you, if it is interesting game?Just wondering, if there is really a massive amount of die-hard fans of tape, as it is rumored...
... don't know anything about machine code, loaders, registers, sectors, etc. ... but I think converting from TAP to something else is ... non-standard loading schemes were replaced by rom loader code blocks, ... you'll get feedback from someone who actually understands ... -
DSK to DiscipleHi guys, i have a Disciple interface and i was wondering if it is possible to write .dsk files to the disciples disk format so i can run them on my s…
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Machine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …
... this is my first major machine code project). Sorry if it gets ... ...SCREEN$ and LOAD...CODE, because the loading screen contains hidden in ... so that execution should continue from the end of the loader ... it valid, once my machine code routine is running, to set ... -
Machine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …
So from your description and the figures ... returning to BASIC then loading the main code over line 2 doesn ... the initial location of the machine stack pointer. You can put ... as then the machine stack will extend down from there and overwrite ... -
Machine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …
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ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... first block is the screen (from $4000 with $1b00) and ... you can see the loading screen during the most ... part of the loading time.
6 ... 2 seconds to the loading time). Also I have ... LOAD"name"CODE is much simpler that in machine code, and we ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... you prefer to use machine code for loading blocks. This is ... generate a new game from scratch, so we'll ... will have also the tape loading api (call $07f4, ... .bin level_i.bin
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ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... regarding the size, location and loading speed of the following block ... have done it, and go from 2:58 to 2:45 ... />
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Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
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I converted Op.Wolf from the +3/+3e bootstrap loader ... disk is only being read from and not written to, compared ... only makes a difference when loading into pages 0,1,3 ... no problems with paging or machine code. When I'd got all ... -
Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
... and loading parameters. Isn't there a "copy names from TAP ...
- Retrieving all the files from all partitions, each partition on ... " for the screen, "code" for the machine code block, or "loader" for ... the way Ultimate names the loading blocks for his games, ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... from a different address, you must load it with either CODE ... if it's machine code, just the main CODE block) to a ... CODE data for the screen block, so if it was saved from ... extra crap points for loading the game first as ... There's a fast-loading trick to the screen ... -
FBZX Wii for WindowsFor testing purpose I adapted FBZX Wii to compile against MINGW and to work on Windows (new SDL sound, Virtual keyboard which works with mouse instea…
... improvements also to adapted the code to work on Nintendo WII ... browser, NTSC machine, virtual keyboard, automatic turbo tape loading, automatic game configurations ... versions have been released starting from FBZX code. In the changelog you ... -
which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... and started messing about with machine code I stumbled across Exolon and ... down as they were loading!! It was class from the off. So ... -
Childhood moments with my SpeccyHey everyone. The other day I randomly came across a tumblr page called "Me and My ZX Spectrum" ([url]http://meandmyzxspectrum.tumblr.com[/url]) …
... machine code but I sometimes called (RAND USR) a totally random address from ... look like it was loading a program from tape.
I ... 128 mode without reseting the machine. One day did RANDOMIZE USR ... did funny things when called from BASIC but I don't ... -
Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…
... my little attempt at learning machine code on the Spectrum made me ... of tape loading time, and you re-type your code, this time ... the whole system from crashing in case bad code is executed? Did ... not needed to be loaded from tape every time? Were there ... -
Microdrives load & save routinesHello everybody! Who knows where i can find the machine language routines to load/save from/to ZX Microdrives? Many thanks in advance.
... ] is a machine code routine that very neatly handles loading and saving, but ... had a bash at loading files from microdrive via machine code - it's a ... files to cartridge again via machine code.
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Microdrives load & save routinesHello everybody! Who knows where i can find the machine language routines to load/save from/to ZX Microdrives? Many thanks in advance.
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Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... can be cleaned sufficiently well from the exterior, by scrubbing with ... may collect oxide / dust particles from the Spectrum?s edge when ... re-load the operating system from ?tape?.
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Downloading code to physical hardwareHi folks, Back in the day, my devkit was a TRS-80 and I had a simple connector device from the TRS-80 parallel (printer) port to the expansion bus o…
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Loading and saving games is very ... and run) a file from PC to Spectrum and ... full disassembly of his code, full info on the ... download and run programs straight from WOS.
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Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…
... typed LOAD "" which I learned from a random video I watched ... in the emulator settings, after loading it simply displays Bytes: first ... the command to run the machine code, did you by any chance ... -
How were game loading screens composed back in the day?I've often wondered while waiting for loading screen to materialise line by line how these were actually made prior to saving them as code or screen$…
... can tell you that the loading screens for Egghead and Egghead ... and the screens were saved from there, meaning the bottom 2 ... easier. This meant having a machine code loader program. Nothing special, just ... screen file, a block of code and then jumped into the ... -
Help a small machine code game.Hello all you clever wossers are there any GOOD?? games that are in machine code (no basic apart from the loader,rnd usr bit) but are very small ma…
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A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…
... the FLAGS variable to switch from 128k to 48k. As I ... 't be able to load from disk), machine code will still be able ... after depacking the loading picture to continue reading from the open file ...ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…
... The I saw MykeP's loading screen, and then I read ... have all this running in machine code, it's something (well, ... for me). Running the code so far will get ... Map Wall blocks are located from memory 31144, I map ... Kindle formats, for free, from Bob's website [url]www ...Game codeHi Quick questions. Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly? Also these slow …
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It can be loaded from tape to memory by LOAD ... $ in Basic (which actually triggers machine code hidden underneath). It can be ... your own machine code.
But in both cases loading will be ...Why do modern computers go slow?I'm not so much thinking of home PCs slowed down by viruses, more the extent that modern programmers think about the speed of their code. For exampl…
... when we talk about startup loading times, but that's ... different compilers may create different machine code... if the program is running ... real time to real machine code previously generated in the ... single function must be loaded from disk into memory.
...Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... can watch a SCREEN$ loading to visualise the pattern. ... in BASIC that POKEs from 16384 upwards with values ... very first bytes load in from a SCREEN$).
... (which is easy in machine code as you just do INC ... easier to do row addresses from a table.
Cassette 50 vs Rise Of The RobotsHaving been a Spectrum owner since 1984 I have played some of the best and worse games the machine has to offer, so my question is: Is the Spectrum …
... free calculator watch! And just loading and spending 5 minutes with ... clone that must have been machine code, as it was too smooth ... what I do know comes from modifying Cassette 50 games. Myself ...New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
... gives you 4MB of storage from a Spectrum via IF2! Can ... 50 files. Compatibility with existing machine code programs that operate the Microdrives ... to a real Microdrive, so loading typically takes only 2-3 ... time if only changing bits from '1' to '0'. A fixed ...
