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Anti-piracy measures on Speccy games - What games have it?I was looking at the JSW card which gives you the grid location system for protecting the game against simple forms of copying, and I know that ATF h…
... MUG etc rather than having numbers to put in).
to be able to play a copy at ... joystick port to allow extra human players to join in ... instructions. I was able to play Monkey Island with ... Grail Diary. I wrote to US Gold, enclosing a ... -
.tapein load crashes if no CLEAR performed first(!)Hi Guys, Can anyone explain the following as it has be stumped: I came across an unexpected crash today when loading in a 16K block of code at 8000…
... /> 20 FOR a=here TO here+8: READ p: ... which SP would be expected to be positioned; followed by ... one or both of those numbers to be less than 49152 - ... RAM fault, causing RAMTOP to be set lower than expected ... memory check will set this to "the last actual location ... -
.chr to .binSo here goes another stupid question. What's the best way to convert .chr files created with ZX-Paintbrush to binary or asm format? I know ZX-Blocked…
... files created with ZX-Paintbrush to binary or asm format? I know ... ZX-Blockeditor has the capability to export .bin, but it seems ... ]
UDGs are pointed to by the UDG system variable ... A). Character sets are pointed to by the CHARS system variable ... -
Steve Wilcox quote in latest 'Retro Gamer' magOn page 7, in a feature on his IOS Spectrum emulator, he is quoted as saying: "The Android market has been 'poisoned' by a number of very shoddy Spec…
... .[/QUOTE]Do you have any numbers to support your theory? Just because ... 'm interested in the real numbers, so it would be nice ... -
Custom Spectrum ROMS with modified system fonts?Some of the more memory efficient adventures used the default Spectrum font in order to save bytes for the adventure itself. Level 9 in particular ju…
... step by step guide be to inserting this into the 48K ... font is a 768 plain binary bytes, 8 bytes per character ... streams, which can be converted to binary with [url=http://mdfs.net ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... anyone suggest the best way to seed a generator like this ... x 'randomly' selected 16 bit numbers to seed it then just let ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... suggest the best way to seed a generator like ... randomly' selected 16 bit numbers to seed it then just let ... seed's a breaker, according to the original.
to RANDOMIZE - though that only ... quite right to wait for human input to put some ... -
Image to BASIC commandsHi all I'm looking for an app that read an image (jpg, gif, etc...) and convert it to BASIC commands (DRAW, CIRCLE, etc...) The images to convert wi…
... table created by a raster-to-vector converting program. As I ... Circuit Boards into sets of numbers to feed my home made milling ... .
In fact I decided to do another experiment with the ... -
Writing to virtual disks/tapes? (in ZX Spin, please)I have some emulators installed in Windows: Spectaculator 8, ZXSpin 0.7 and Fuse (1.0.0.1). I've been able to save to disks in Spectaculator and fuse…
... can also assemble to binary files to avoid having to save to tap or ... export binary later. The problem ... and sending from the debugger to the editor (useful for ... assemble code/export ram banks to binary and import the blocks ... -
calculator and sinusok, look at the Sysel's routine: [PHP]3 5b00 *s 4 5b00 tabsin = #7000 03 mksin 19.11.1995 Busy soft …
... little local difficulty with converting numbers to different formats. The following ... to type in the five byte values as hex numbers ... the relevant expression has to be typed ...
2 REM Modified to include
hex conversion ... -
RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
... could use two Elias-Gamma numbers to indicate the largest possible rectangular ... bitstream from the surrounding space to continue encoding.
... need a full-screen mask to keep record of what ... defined and what is still to decode.
And ... -
Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
... display a bit (aligning the numbers) and added a couple of ... , it also sets any visible numbers to match their hidden FP forms ... /> IF t$(LEN t$-k3 TO)".TAP" THEN LET t$=t ... /> 6006 INPUT "Output to [@AB] ";d$: GO TO FN c()+(d$> ... -
Compiling Lisp to Z80.I am doing some thought experiments on this. Here is an example of a Lisp program. It adds two numbers together. [code] (define (add x y) (if (= …
... version for 2 numbers added together less ... ld a,b ; endvalue to testregister
or a ... ld a,c ; functionresult to testregister
ret z ... be called with the numbers to add already in ... -
Compiling Lisp to Z80.I am doing some thought experiments on this. Here is an example of a Lisp program. It adds two numbers together. [code] (define (add x y) (if (= …
... code be called with the numbers to add already in the registers ... ?
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BLOG- ZXSporgBasic RPG development thread- Inspired by the Spectrum 30 show, and after a six-month wait while I was busy playing loads of gigs, I have decided to do a spot of Spectrum coding…
... of line-numbers, to make the listing easier to follow in ... basic v0pt014 20130220 - next to do = npc combat, then ... REM changes this version: line-numbers lessened
30 REM ... /> 1020 FOR j=0 TO 31: READ g: POKE ... 144+nd)
2000 GO TO 2210-200*w
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Is this for real?[url]http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/mcdonalds-sued-after-child-eats-used-condom-617718/[/url] Someone out to get a quick buck i think.
... why companies / producers have batch numbers to help track down any issues ... relating to contamination on their food
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Ossuary, a new game for the ZX SpectrumHello Specchums! Here's a little sneak preview of a game which will be published in a few hours' time. [B][I]Ossuary[/I][/B], to be published later…
... , I was looking forward to seeing what you'd do ... posted.[/QUOTE]
To be honest I'm still ... I've tried using the numbers to make a good roguelike but ... it doesn't seem to be fun enough yet.< ... game. Perhaps it helps to give me a better solution ... -
Ossuary, a new game for the ZX SpectrumHello Specchums! Here's a little sneak preview of a game which will be published in a few hours' time. [B][I]Ossuary[/I][/B], to be published later…
... ve tried using the numbers to make a good roguelike ... later on. Being able to sensibly attack daemons with ... and daemons queueing up to attack you. I thought ... Yesterday I managed to get to level 24 with a ... It seems particularly easy to navigate and the ordering ... -
BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... /> 1010 OPEN #4;"m";1;"Numbers": CLOSE #4
1020 FORMAT ... MOVE "m";1;"Numbers" TO #2: MOVE "m";1;"Numbers" TO "m";1;"Numbers2 ... "f1" TO "f2": COPY "f?.*" TO "b:": COPY "a:" TO "b:"
TO SCREEN$: COPY "f1" TO LPRINT: COPY "f1" TO SPECTRUM FORMAT ... -
Finding out the owner of mobile phoneOne of my friends is having trouble with some nuisance calls/texts. She's tried calling back but no answer. It seems to be somebody she knows but the…
... phones have the facility to block numbers or divert em OR ... you can set only certain trusted numbers to ... allow to ring...
... list.. and the ring profile to that to silent / meeting etc.. ... -
16k programmingHi all, If I want to code something for a 16k (or any spectrum) my understanding was that if I CLEAR below 24064 and put all the code above it up to…
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Don't forget to put a CLEAR in there ... memory if you convert those numbers to VAL values too. -
16k programmingHi all, If I want to code something for a 16k (or any spectrum) my understanding was that if I CLEAR below 24064 and put all the code above it up to…
... =Sokurah;697704]Don't forget to put a CLEAR in there ... memory if you convert those numbers to VAL values too.[/QUOTE]
16k programmingHi all, If I want to code something for a 16k (or any spectrum) my understanding was that if I CLEAR below 24064 and put all the code above it up to…
[QUOTE=Sokurah;697704]Don't forget to put a CLEAR in there. And you san save a bit of memory if you convert those numbers to VAL values too.[/QUOTE]
I always wondered why they were there when I saw a VAL statement in a basic loaderFZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... i.e. transformed from text to binary.
However people ... usually don't need to do it. A file ... same font already available in binary format, so you can ... below are enough to instruct a compiler to put this font ... There are lots of ways to do it. You can ...Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... manual then leads me to connection with the server. ... MOVE "v";1;"E:/about" TO #2
displays the ... the data. Probably renaming to binary (.B) would be better ... PRINT' file. Renaming this to a .TXT makes it ... although I soon started to enter direct commands in ...20 words that mean something different in US than in UKhere is the article: [url]http://www.bigstockphoto.com/blog/20-british-words-that-mean-something-totally-different-in-the-us[/url] for me Chips are…
... "She's got hair... down to her fanny" - ZZ Top, ... I] acrosst [I]town to buy a lightbulb.[/I]"[/quote ... delivery/the postman/my lottery numbers to come up". Everyone I ... of about 32 seems to say it these days. ... " - "I pacifically asked you to do this!" It's probably ...20 words that mean something different in US than in UKhere is the article: [url]http://www.bigstockphoto.com/blog/20-british-words-that-mean-something-totally-different-in-the-us[/url] for me Chips are…
... delivery/the postman/my lottery numbers to come up". Everyone I work ... age of about 32 seems to say it these days. WHYYYYYYYYY ...SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…
... br /> call re_st_two ; convert both numbers to floating point
exx ; ... mult_long:
call re_st_two ; both numbers to full floating point form
to result
call fetch_two ; get two numbers from calculator ...Nintendo 'defends' high prices of downloadable gamesSatoru Iwata (the President of Nintendo) says in an interview; Quote ?[COLOR="Blue"]Although the mainstream idea regarding the digital business in …
... bit at the end trying to get all the triforce bits ... (looks like a rush job to get it released, hope they ... Princess seemed like Zelda by numbers to me (some excellent dungeons though ...That painter thing..I'm struggling to think of a non clunky way of detecting when a 'box' has been surrounded and can be highlighted, like in the pic: [IMG]http://i1142…
... each spot needs to store a vector to the counter ... or corner of up to 4 rectangles, it means ... each spot needs to carry up to 4 vectors, and ... Those numbers get multiplied by four and applied to a longer ... spot, list up to four box numbers to decrement. It's ...
