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Games cracking...A question for the crackers out here.... What was your very first game you cracked and for how long were you 'in clouds' of it? My very first progr…
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How did people program GamesI have been wondering how people wrote games. Did they use basic and just type in to the spectrum interface and save it. Or did they use assembler, a…
... /hackers and was not in widespread use (except for ... easily translatable into native machine code and games/software could ... Although perhaps some were written in BASIC and compiled). There ... Spectrum available on this site in archives > ulilities > ... -
How did people program GamesI have been wondering how people wrote games. Did they use basic and just type in to the spectrum interface and save it. Or did they use assembler, a…
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All hand coded pure Machine Code!
As I wrote ... the 5 commercially published games, in the loft and they are ... for small powerful routines, say in a driver. Even writing assembler ... we have teams of specialists in each of these fields with ... -
spectrum on pcI was just wondering,the pc is brilliant for speccy emus but wen playing speccy games on a pc keyboard it just doesnt feel rite for sum1 who used to …
... would be the next step in emulation in a way.
How ... been trying to master z80 machine code for 20 years and even ... -
what are in your opinion........what were in your opinion the best magazines for the spectrum and why? [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] octave
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I rather lost interest in Your Spectrum was relaunched as ... Your Sinclair. I was in my mid-twenties by then ... , I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat thinking about ... -
ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
... a automatic listing.
The code of interface1 reads from the ... data after the the other machine was told to stop. The ... a machine code program to read the RS232 and solve both problems in ... the process.
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PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... mode. You then call the machine code routine that will dump the ... you use EXTERN code is executed at EXTVEC. In machine code we want to ... the machine code for our routine is. The code for JP,pq in decimal ... go into basic, SAVE "SCREEN" CODE 16384,6912, load the SCR ... -
Which emulator and assembler?Hi, I am looking to learn z80 assembly language and I feel the best option is a spectrum emulator and an assembler. Can anybody recommend the best …
... way to start learning machine code is The Complete Machine Code Tutor.
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Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
... /> around the second hand bookshops in your area, or you can ... The Absolute Beginner
Mastering Machine Code on your ZX Spectrum
Advanced Spectrum Machine Language
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Spectrum assembly programming Hi, I'm passionated in assembly programming and I'd like to find some documents talking about Spectrum (not Z80). Do someone have interesting refer…
... Introducing Spectrum machine code ?4.00
Spectrum machine code ?2.50< ... to collect. I live in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
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Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…
... had happened the hardware in the box took over ... expand the compressed file in under a second then ... possible to add small machine code routines to the decompressor ... screen could be paged in and then copied to ... that accessed the AY chip in 48k mode.
Microdrive woesHi there! Just managed to pick up a 2nd hand Microdrive and interface one... Came with an introductory program which doesn't seem to load. Since its…
... may be in three or four files (BASIC, SCREEN$, Machine code and UDGs ... an unformatted cartridge should result in a 'Microdrive not present' report ...Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…
The books I'm really interested in are:-
Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly
The Spectrum Machine Code Refernce Guide
Understanding Your Spectrum
Super Charge Your Spectrum
Anyone?Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…
... and one copy of the Machine Code Reference Guide
have been ... of a disassembler that featured in Trevor Tom's Pocket Guide ... site - click on the books in the links section.
Of ...Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…
... in are:-
Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly
The Spectrum Machine Code ...new speccy gamesDoes anybody know if there is anyone currently publishing new Spectrum games? I'm about half way though writing one at the moment and just wondered. …
... a level, and later on in the game there's certain ... earlier! I'll bare that in mind if I do another ... you want to learn speccy machine code, have a look at [url ...Some \"newbie\" questions about the Spectrum +2I bought a +2 last week. I had never owned any of the 128k Spectrums before, nor seen them in action. I have a couple of questions; 1) Do all 128k …
... (I own the original 128K+ machine), I think there's little ... appearance of the word 'Amstrad' in the startup screen.
in 128K mode. Memory bank swithing ... the music chip is possible in machine code. I can remember games like ...which programming language?........hi there, which programming language did people first learn to program the zx spectrum? a. basic b. machine code c. other what sort of programs did…
... only machine code i ever delved into was a type in from a ... up doing a similar thing in basic which was a helluva ... "NOOOooooo" to machine code, i was geting more interested in graphics anyway. :)
how many people?...............hi, how many people still program on the zx spectrum and what have you programmed? :) (game, utility etc)
... crap, all in basic with maybe some things in machine code id take from ...SpecEmuI was wondering, if in SpecEmu, it was possible to get a listing of the machine code instructions that scroll along in the machine code part on the s…
... in SpecEmu, it was possible to get a listing of the machine code ... instructions that scroll along in the machine code part on ... change. Press Enter to type in the new value and press ...Spectrum ROMI downloaded some text files (they are actually the spectrum ROM files but in text) which can be compiled using TASM (or soemthing). I read on WOS th…
... become an ace speccy programmer in three easy steps'?
to ... knowledge of speccy hardware, z80 machine code, and lots of programming techniques ... is not possible to cover in a series of short posts ...Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... seen that had been written in Basic at the time. They ... taken with the Character Generator in Horizons and Draw was probably ... takes you into full on Machine Code. Quite interesting at the time ... /> Anyone know of any others in this 'series'?
Sam ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... lead to some incompatabilities. In particular the attribute port was ... no longer in existance (ironically due to ... translated into machine language. You cannot compile machine code as it' ... it some specific controller already in existance?
...Programming:How can I make a "Multicolour" border for one of my games? I know how to make one, but that makes the border flash colours, then do the next command,…
If you don't do it in machine code it won't ever be fast enough.Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…
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Obviously your code won't work if you ... in your assembler jumps and memory refrences may have labels machine code ... only deals with numbers. Hence you *must* load the code ... into the point in memory where the ...crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…
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That only happened in the last two years of ... after 1985. Game reviews in the first years of ... true and correct information" in the computer magazines is, ... ]
Actually, and especially in the first half of the ... a little of what machine code is, I owe it ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... program (part BASIC, part machine code).
FONTOGRAPGH ... machine code).
SCHOOL REPORT - A text adventure, written mainly in ... BASIC (with touches of machine code), but ... was written mainly in machine code with a BASIC ...Book listingsI used to spend hours typing in programs from books. I had a whole box of them books and typed in hundreds of programs. Some good, some bad and some …
... /> I'd certianly be interested in seeing your list Andy, especially ... 've got anyhting realting to machine code/ assembler. And yours as well ... spending many happy hours typing in what seemed like really long ...TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... included extra screen modes in addition to the Spectrum ... course, had to write some machine code modem handlers/drivers. People ... that it was featured in "BYTE" magazine in the USA at ... />
In the standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum ...Games published in Magazines.First of all this is a fantastic site. I am 38 years old now and this has bought back memories(and a lump in my throat) of my beloved speccy. I wond…
... my first machine code effort.I got a 4 page spread in a ...
