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  • 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…

    ... knowledge of speccy hardware, z80 machine code, and lots of programming techniques ...
    Mikie Mikie August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • writing gameswhats the best games writing software/package for the speccy?i heard white lightning is good but it seems very difficult to me,apart from that and hu…

    And the small matter of 2,000 hours studying the ins and out of machine code.
    Spector Spector August 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... takes you into full on Machine Code. Quite interesting at the time ...
    Anonymous Anonymous August 2002 Games
  • what add-ons did.............what add-ons did people buy in the 80's for their zx spectrums? :)

    ... was a tape with a machine code program that whould trap #3 ...
    toninho-malvadeza toninho-malvadeza September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... 48k ROM from the original machine due to a memory configuration ... be translated into machine language. You cannot compile machine code as it's ... wouldn't even get a machine like that onto the ... anywhere else. Why restrict the machine to so little? Memory costs ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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.
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Games
  • Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…

    Ah. But what happens if you can read Z80 machine code directly from the hex? Then it would be readable by humans ;)
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall October 2002 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... as a place to store code simply because I do. Anything ... speccy).

    Obviously your code won't work if you ... memory refrences may have labels machine code only deals with numbers. Hence ... you *must* load the code into the point in memory ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... [I]we[/I] used our machine as a proper computer, and ... [I]they[/I] regarded their machine as a console with a ... even a little of what machine code is, I owe it to ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... darts program (part BASIC, part machine code).

    FONTOGRAPGH - ... hacking game (part BASIC, part machine code).

    SCHOOL ... BASIC (with touches of machine code), but with very ... used to tie the various machine code routines together.
    < ...
    thezxfiles thezxfiles December 2002 Games
  • 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 …

    ... 've got anyhting realting to machine code/ assembler. And yours as well ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis December 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... ROM memory locations. A machine code program only needed to call ... the cart. "LROS" was machine code and would be started by ... , had to write some machine code modem handlers/drivers. People ... like games and other machine code software usually did not work ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... "Parastorm" which was my first machine code effort.I got a 4 ...
    tabbas tabbas December 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... the spectrum which ran in machine code,i remember typing it in ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr December 2002 Games
  • hidden classicshi all , weve all got our favourite games and a lot of answers are very similar when topics such as " best game ever on speccy " are posted , can i a…

    I remember Aliquid Simplex was a machine code program listing in a magazine (Your Spectrum perhaps?) which you typed in yourself. I still have it somewhere.
    mpaulj mpaulj December 2002 Games
  • SE BasicSE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... basic programs after compiled into machine code? the other basic compilers ive ...
    Amigo Amigo December 2002 Announcements
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... slightly less efficient than the machine code routine but a human could ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... dont know how to execute machine code and run basic commands at ...
    Arda Arda January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…

    ... some secrets about the pure machine code FLB engine. :)
    It has ... is looks like a pure machine code, not some compiled basic program ...
    edy.wss edy.wss February 2003 Games
  • What about organizing a competition here?Hi! Would anyone be interested in organizing a competition in this forum? For example, we could do a competition of Bomb Jack and people would send …

    ... anybody clever enuff to understand machine code, could hack the program to ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2003 Games
  • Question on 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit...Hello, Sorry, this is probably a really dumb question(and something I should know by now :)). I tried doing some searches about this but came up only…

    I've just been doing more research.
    A 128-bit Register is like ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP (I think). I've also found out that Machine code is faster, easier to write and more powerful than most High-level languages (Look C++).
    Takashi64 Takashi64 February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question on 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit...Hello, Sorry, this is probably a really dumb question(and something I should know by now :)). I tried doing some searches about this but came up only…

    ... 've also found out that Machine code is faster, easier to write ...
    madmekon madmekon February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …

    ... that time :) ... never got into machine code much except from what id ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Games
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... is used only to execute machine code at address xxxxx. This has ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... is used only to execute machine code at address xxxxx. This has ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    This is totaly back to front - there is absolutely no reason to run BASIC from machine code - it is insane.
    I totaly fail to see why this is necessary. Either you run in MC or you run in BASIC and call MC.
    cyborg cyborg March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... reason to run BASIC from machine code - it is insane.
    I ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Money!How much money do you think Kevin Toms made from the Football Manager series? I only ask because I imagine if he sold the units today that he sold ba…

    ... , great Cybernoid type game, 100% machine code, great graphics, simultaneous 2player mode ...
    Neil^P Neil^P March 2003 Games
  • Question about CP Z80 instructionSorry if this is the wrong folder, but it seems the most appropriate. When performing a CP instruction, is the P flag set when the compared values …

    ... wrote:
    Nice bit of code BB, did the missus help ... ?

    (* /me quickly hides 'Machine Code for Infants' back in son ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Emulators
  • WOW Bubbler from Ultimate on ebay!!!!!here is the link will be bidding myself :) [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3408211002&category="]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws…

    ... buy some to learn speccy machine code, but they all go for ...
    Old_Speccer Old_Speccer March 2003 Games
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