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R Tape Loading ErrorWhat, for your money, was the best and worst loading routine on a Spectrum game? For me: Best: Bugaboo - totally cinematic, built up a real sense …
... , was the best and worst loading routine on a Spectrum game? For ... to the end of the loading routine
Zombie Zombie - fast! then ... the loading screen came up flashing and ... -
Name that game: loading routineName that game but with a twist. I remember loading a game and it had a strange loading (protection?) scheme. It played normal when loading up initia…
... and it had a strange loading (protection?) scheme. It played ... normal when loading up initially, then it went ... and my strange fascination with loading schemes. I have already ... checked Andrew's excellent protection loading website, but no luck!< ... -
Great Speccy Demo - With Documented +3 Disk loader routineEveryone here should check this out. Its a demo called "condommed" which I have just finished converting from TRDOS disk to tap file and +3 disk. It …
... documented my +3/+3e disk loading routine in it.
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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…
... I could use the ROM routine (It would suffice, any pointers ... I'm asking for a routine :)
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test my loader?Hello. I was playing around trying to customise the ROM loading routine, but I quickly realised that although I'd found out how to change the border…
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Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... Spectrum ram? The way the loading routine would load the data would ... birthday party. :)
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Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
Is it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint without the need to study the loading routine via the debugger. Thanks. -
Your views on...Jasper![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002580]Jasper![/url] One of the first games I saw by Micromega, but only watched someone play…
... also had a very weird loading routine. To tell the truth, that ... -
Who can fix my Flash programmer code?I have a problem with some code, it doesn't work and I don't have any idea what it's trying to do, or failing to do! The code in question is the fla…
... to be where the tape loading routine returns to the main program ... -
Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew- ... disk-systems and a special loading routine makes it harder to copy ... it is loading the second part using a machine code routine. I ... are using the uneccessary MC-loading routines. It is sometimes ... -
Hack into Mescaline Synthesia 128Hi folks, this thread is not about copyright, although if somebody knows the e-mail adress or another way how to contact the author "DeMarche" pleas…
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ArturaI tried to load the Artura tzx copy on the archive: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000282"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/in…
... noticed that it just stops loading before the big "special" block ... error. In the debugger, the loading routine is still searching for the ... -
Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…
... eventually you get to the loading routine. Jumping from code block to ... need to know where the loading routine is.
- [b] ... that the load routine move data while still loading. Also, in ... to know where the level loading routine is. In Rambo III, ... -
MIA: Magic Worm - is my copy good enough?Years ago when I was a teenager in Sheffield, I was given a copy of Magic Worm by the chap who lived next door to my grandparents. His son (Richard H…
... , and the screen presented after loading has the author as Vaughan ... too, as only the ROM loading routine is used. -
Hacking a game MAJIKAZOHello, I am trying to put a recent game called MAJIKAZO on disk. However, the loader is written for tape only, so I have to find a way how to rewrit…
... not the end of the loading routines. Till this I can ... easily change all loading commands, but the main parts ... .
I found the loading routine, it is at adress 65024 ... of depacking to unpack the loading routine. This is very weird and ... -
Could a Spectrum game loader play music?On the Games forum there's a thread entitled "[I]Which game did you like the loading noise the most?[/I]" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums…
... game did you like the loading noise the most?[/I]" ([url ... through the Spectrum then the loading noises will be heard, but ... possible to write a new loading routine that reads sounds from the ... , or non-cassette methods of loading to real machines, then it ... -
Strider II (and others) + 3 disk versionsHello everyone, I've been working on converting some games to be able to load them from the +3 floppy. I started with single load games but now Im i…
... /> Also I have a LDIR routine at 48641 which backups some ... page 6, copy the disk loading routine to 23900, jumps to it ... -
Games/Programs making use of DivIDE featuresHello :) I have a question: I may be wrong, but it looks like the DivIDE and similar interfaces for the ZX Spectrum are almost exclusively used for …
... used for storing and fast-loading of existing software (TAP/SNA ... files to the ROM tape LOADING routine. Also, would it be possible ... -
Unusual custom turbo loaders - with sourcesI have always been fascinated by turbo loaders; my games all feature a TZX version with one of such schemes implemented, and I have been experimentin…
... /> I reverse engineered the loading routines of four 'exotic' ... to 'isolate' the loading routine. Only recently I was ... /> [CODE]
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; Biturbo 2 loading routine
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Restoring AY registersAfter doing (not still finished) the sna to tap converter, I'm going to try to do the same for 128k snapshots. I've got threee ideas about what to do…
... have embedded) a machine code routine that does the following steps ... step 6 and 7 (after loading everything and before restoring CPU ... next step will need the loading routine. It's not usual, but ... steps can be simultaneous. The routine placed at 16384 loads a ... -
TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMCSeveral .TAP files of Spectrum games circulating on the Web won't work with a DivIDE/DivMMC interface. Most of the times this is due to the fact that…
... without calling the standard ROM loading routine, or with the flag byte ... using a standard procedure, hacking loading routines so that they use ... -
Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …
... an appropriate input routine to $6000 and copies another loading screen onto ... to $F000 if the second loading screen is done away with ... to rip out the tape loading routine and replace it with the ... dig out a superb compression routine.
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Z80 to DSK?Does anyone know if there is a prog that can convert z80,tzx or tap files to dsk format? I have access to a friends pc that has a 3 inch drive which …
... disk, then write a custom loading routine that will setup the registers ... -
Games on CD -IDEANinety mins of games? Wow! Nice thought, isn't it? So why dosen't anybody release compilations of games for the speccy here?
With the uptake of MP3 CD players even recording in Mp3 at a low bitrate makes more sense - there's just a hell of a lot of audio data that's not used in the spectrum loading routine. -
Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
...probably by loading the new image along with ... copy was done by the loading routine at some point, or rather ... -
Games so bad you enjoy themThere are a handful of games so laughably and utterly bad, that I actually enjoy playing them: [I]Los Angeles SWAT, East Enders, Pit-Fighter, Sabrina…
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Had a really mad loading routine too - with a story running ... -
TZXed without real tapeEverybody, who knows, answer please... I have lot of ZX games, which not presented in WOS database. But they are in PC format (as dat.files, for exa…
... 's quite likely that the loading routine will attempt to load a ... -
TZXed without real tapeEverybody, who knows, answer please... I have lot of ZX games, which not presented in WOS database. But they are in PC format (as dat.files, for exa…
... 's quite likely that the loading routine will attempt to load a ... -
loading sounds.. and stripes!Yesterday me and a friend started to discuss (after some glasses of wine) about that wonderful sound as coming out though the telly then you load a t…
... appears when the program is loading the actual data, i.e ... ;/
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TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…
... represents the bitstream that the loading routine makes from the series of ... , so e.g. the standard loading scheme would encode 0 by ... of where exactly in the loading routine the byte is received, or ...
