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  • transfer microdrive cartidges from emulatorWhat would be easiest way to transfer the microdrive images from emulator to real cartridges? BTW, is there some tutorial on transfering games .tap…

    ok, thanks for the info.

    I know this is asking too much, but what do you think about using compression?
    it should help fit 2 or maybe even 3 games on one cartridge, decrease loading time and tape wear.
    orange orange December 2009 Development
  • transfer microdrive cartidges from emulatorWhat would be easiest way to transfer the microdrive images from emulator to real cartridges? BTW, is there some tutorial on transfering games .tap…

    Compression? Sure, that's [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26055"]exactly[/URL] how I do it!
    jp jp December 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Microdrive File LoaderI've been experimenting with transferring games to run from microdrive. Typically I like to see a loading screen while things are happening, and I li…

    Oops, forgot to mention where I got Hrust 2.1 - it's available [URL="http://hrumer.chat.ru/bin/hrusttap.zip"]here[/URL], plus there's loads of [URL="http://hrumer.chat.ru/"]other compression stuff[/URL]
    jp jp December 2009 Development
  • many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…

    ... with the data stream, like compression - because not only is your ...
    gasman gasman December 2009 Development
  • A little teaseProbably dangerous me doing this, but I think it'll be done in time. [center][img]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/soon.png[/img][/center]

    ... the resolution using DVD/MPEG2 compression (so, higher bitrate too ...
    NickH NickH December 2009 Games
  • Anyone else have a fanboy problem?Over the past 18 months or so, there's been one individual (don't worry, I don't think he posts here, he has a very *ahem* "distinctive" writing styl…

    ... spam email regardless of any compression that may be used to ... aware that adsl modems use compression, but I may be wrong ...
    MrCheese MrCheese January 2010 Chit chat
  • Anyone else have a fanboy problem?Over the past 18 months or so, there's been one individual (don't worry, I don't think he posts here, he has a very *ahem* "distinctive" writing styl…

    ... spam email regardless of any compression that may be used to ... aware that adsl modems use compression, but I may be wrong ...
    guesser guesser January 2010 Chit chat
  • My Car Is..... Advice Needed!!Well I am a nob head!!...(I know, I got that in one!) Well, brought some anti-freeze yesterday, was gonna put some in the motor this morning/today..…

    ... much blow by and the compression isn't good enough for ...
    Winston Winston January 2010 Chit chat
  • Matthew Smith vs Jonathan Cauldwell...In a minor development during the last weeks of 2009, Mr Cauldwell released Jet Set Willy 16K, which can be found here: [url]http://www.rapidshare.c…

    ... there's some sort of compression going on with his sprite ... be some really impressive data compression going on to get all ...
    joefish joefish January 2010 Games
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... before we considered anything like compression... But yes, memory certainly IS ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... ]http://www.sfu.ca/~vwchu/compression.html[/url] (warning: not checked ... one of the usual spectrum compression utilities?

    A huffman ... random access nature of huffman compression better for really tight fits ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2010 Development
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... (when using 368 char limit, compression further improved by increasing the ...
    Arda Arda January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... : Thanks for the tip concerning compression, Ill get around to looking ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Development
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... can provide a list of compression options including removing all REM ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... ]

    If you use compression, you can gain a lot ... get... let say 40% of compression ratio, that would remove 29Kb ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain January 2010 Development
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    There's a chance we might have compression/decompression options added to Basin. Based on the utilities previously mentioned and the work done by Arda and others, can someone please list all things that should be considered?

    Thanks in advance!
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... ]
    Do you use a compression for tile graphics ? While level ... if LZ could manage significant compression ratio.
    i have idea ... based arithmetic decoder already but compression is not as good as ...
    Fikee Fikee February 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... another memory bank, probably without compression.
    Fikee Fikee February 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... if LZ could manage significant compression ratio. [/QUOTE]
    ha, i ... that some kind of custom compression will pack it about half ...
    Fikee Fikee February 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... /> 2) I have 3 ZX compression tools on my computer with ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... been using, and leave the compression stuff for you to play ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2010 Development
  • DSK to TZX?Is it possible to convert a DSK disk image file to a TZX tape file? If so, then how? And is there a utility out there that does something like that? …

    ... . I was planning to use compression to minimize the load times ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain February 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Data from spectrum to compilerWhat's the easiest way of getting data from a virtual spectrum to assembler? I've designed some nice shiny graphics using BASIN but I'm not sure how…

    ... issue, as well as text compression. It's a shame there ...
    Gedlion Gedlion February 2010 Development
  • Graphics problemHi guys. Finally got a REAL zx spectrum, cost ?20 from a friend. When i draw plots and circles, it takes time to do it, but how do i do it instantly…

    ... ---- 5854
    10792-PROGRAMMING:CO COMPRESSION FE -... ---- 2774
    10799-PROGRAMMING ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... could compress the gfx, huffman compression is pretty straightforward but fiddly ... convert it). Run length encoding compression (prob at a pixel level ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Development
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... ]

    OK on the compression then.

    Optimising for ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Development
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... could compress the gfx, huffman compression is pretty straightforward but fiddly ... convert it). Run length encoding compression (prob at a pixel level ... /> I need to do graphics compression for my game, and I ...
    csmith csmith February 2010 Development
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... that didn't have any compression tools... I remember I had ...
    csmith csmith February 2010 Development
  • shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…

    ... you do, the better the compression, unless:

    a) the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Development
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