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RealXThis may be a dumb question but will RealX ever get released?
... RS source code there is no trace of contention applied during ... the falling edge of the clock. Could this be the explanation ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... BASIC, but as it had no 'SID' and 'VIC' chips, the ... .
Though it has no SID, the Plus/4 does ... creativity and some clock cycles from the CPU. No, it's not ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... MC68000 is much faster than clock ratio to Z80 shows. On ... 2.2 x bigger clock it is 4 times faster ... .
The 6502 was no great miricle but it was ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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BNE NXTEL ;NO. FETCH NEXT ELEMENT
BIT ... STILL OFF?
BMI SORT8 ;NO. GO THROUGH LIST AGAIN
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... accurate (I'm not counting clock cycles!):
Since a sort ... maximum efficiency where there are no repeated elements, you can replace ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... that wastes hundreds of clock cycles and I don' ... to meet. If the average clock cycle / instruction on the ... mean you save 200 clock cycles for every point ... code aren't by counting clock cycles. It's by ... />
I have no idea if the Speccy version ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... 6502. How much I have no idea. But regarding the 6309 ... used a very simple ~4MHz clock multiplier circuit.
I've ... that runs at a higher clock speed. All internal clocks, page ... at high speed and with no conflict from devices that share ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... lower resolution yes... less bytes no. If there's color on ... . But, that can be a clock cycle waster if the C64 ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... software blit. It leaves more clock cycles for running the interpreter ... them in software.[/quote]
No argument there.
The ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... software blit. It leaves more clock cycles for running the interpreter ... really quick?[/QUOTE]
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... would agree that it makes no sense to compare a 2 ... like the 6309. It's clock rate was only 3MHz at ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... over the background. Way less clock cycles. And animating the characters ... cycles in software there is no technical advantage to having the ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... compiler but the Wiki makes no mention of it.
no migration path (or something to ... remember that the CPUs had no migration path to use as ... stuck bank switching, single digit clock speeds and couldn't deal ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... it from the factory with no mods.
[quote]The ... done it doesn't steal clock cycles.
[quote]Nah ... sales too.
[quote]No because they were made all ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... depending on what graphics mode. Clock cycles could be alternated between ... ]
The problem is that no matter what you add to ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... depending on what graphics mode. Clock cycles could be alternated between ... eliminate contention because there is no fixed time in relation to ... -
4th Dimension revisionI've sourced a working copy of the 4th Dimension, the titles listed in Infoseek sare slightly wrong... Side 1: Klimax Rollaround (Yes, the Mastertro…
... loading screen and the countdown clock. The first filename was "SUPER ... on the other side had no loading screen, first filename was ... -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... the 6502 only takes 1 clock cycle, where on the Z80 ... more.
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Er, no. They certainly take less cycles ... -
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... something, and that the CPU clock is running. I tried the ... then a blank screen with no (c) 1982 message.
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Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... something, and that the CPU clock is running. I tried the ... then a blank screen with no (c) 1982 message.
- black ... -
48k one dead, one dodgyhello everyone. I have 2 48k spectrum +'s (the one with the QL case). Both boards have issue 3B on them near the speaker. The first will power up …
... 4116 RAM needs - there are no less than FOUR supply pins ... for discovering whether the CPU clock is running OK, and seeing ... -
Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... object calls?[/QUOTE]
No Turbo Pascal for the Sam ... 't a superbitmap really so no worries about memory usage going ... than just a change in clock speed.
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Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... then I will ( e.g. no floor graphics, flip screen instead ... than just a change in clock speed.
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Your favourite free tools.Which free (non-speccy related) softwares/tools do you use? Share your favourite along with a line or 2 on why you recommend it. Maybe some of us wil…
... ) and you can grab them no bother!
My "must ... .
LClock -- fancy taskbar clock util.
NetMeter -- monitors ...Driving/Racing from and 'onthetrack' viewIts poll time. Pick the selection of these you like best. None of these take the overhead view. and there are no strategy/manager games in the poll.…
... memorized, but still no real race, just beat-the-clock): WEC Le ...Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... - most instructions execute in one clock cycle) could emulate the ULA ... 's pin through hole DIL, no fiddly to solder SMD) could ... Ethernet controller designed for microcontrollers... no reason why it couldn't ...Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... not used given there is no DRAM in sight. On the ... RFSH, you are guaranteed two clock cycles (500ns at 4MHz) when ...Fuse - Is there something wrong with my build?Just built Fuse this morning under 64-bit SUSE Linux 10, x86_64 architecture. It seems to work fine with most of my favorite games. (Manic Miner, Sp…
... tricky one.
So no worries, I dont particularly think ... .
Second issue was "clock skew" issues detected, building Fuse ... .
Our NFS server clock is 10 seconds ahead of ...Last Speccy game you completed?I've just completed [i]Izzy Wizzy[/i], which I found to be an excellent game. What was the last Speccy game you completed?
... with seconds left on the clock. Someone somewhere on this forum ... a friend and I had no idea what the objective was ...It's fitting...... that in the very month that the 25th anniversary of the Speccy falls on, I'm just finishing up making my first ever Spectrum peripheral. It's a …
... and RD lines reach the clock line in the FlipFlop... So ... to avoid from the start. No worries; if I fail with ...
