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My first attempt at Gigascreen interlacingWonderful. Did some research on the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC programme to switch pages 5 and 7 in and out of the scr…
... the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC ... -
XK SystemIn Your Spectrum issue 8 it mentions a hardware paging system called the XK system, this paged the top 32KB of memory. It allowed 4MB to be used and…
... 8 it mentions a hardware paging system called the XK system ... -
Jet Set Willy RZX!Had to post this one - DarenP, the maintainer of the RZX Archive ([url]http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/[/url]) has been testing a new SPIN release with R…
... EmuZWin may have a few timing problems). It's about 50 ... -
Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …
... to get corrupted due to paging...
I remember Ron ... -
Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…
... picture. Pondering various solutions for timing etc., I quickly arrived at ... -
A few questions regarding EmuZwinA few questions regarding EmuzWin 1. I have been trying to write a program to generate multicolour effects on the Spectrum,ie more than 2 attributes…
... routine is working ok, when timing it on EmuZwin I noticed ... lot about how that affects timing.
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A few questions regarding EmuZwinI had posted this in the development forum and then remembered there was an emulators forum, so apologies for the repetition. 1. I have been trying …
... routine is working ok, when timing it on EmuZwin I noticed ... lot about how that affects timing.
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what extra port for extra memory ? (256K, 512K, 1024K, etc.)I know that Pentagon uses some extra bits from port 7FFD for extra memory pging: - for 512K model, bit 6 & 7 of port 7FFD - for 1024K model, bit 5, 6…
... / port DFFD for extra memory paging.
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OT:[sorry - windows xp delay write event 51 - help ! ]sorry about this guys, But can any one help with this error - event 51 {An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operatio…
... \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.}
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New release of EmuZWinEmuZWin Version 2.6 Release 1.0 Beta? ? (30-Jan-2005): A lot of changes. Most important are: [+] Formats supported: RZX, SLT. [+] Sound devices sup…
... remapping improved.
[+] Scorpion Multicolor Timing added.
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Port 0x7ffd Partial DecodingI'm trying Pitfighter on my emulator and it runs in +2A/+3 mode but crashes in 128k/+2 mode. I traced it down to an OUT instruction which sends 4 to …
... 1FFD is reserved for special paging functions.
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How to detect 48k modeHow can you detect if a 128k machine is in 48k mode (from an emulation point of view, not via BASIC or machine code)? Checking the current rom? But …
... this address.
Checking if paging is disabled? But this doesn ... that SPECTRUM doesn't disable paging.
Read bit 4 of ... -
Paging jil (Mr. SpeccySpoilers)I've noticed that you have a new(?) email address since I last sent stuff; do I have to resend the Cylu ending, or has it safely arrived?
I've noticed that you have a new(?) email address since I last sent stuff; do I have to resend the Cylu ending, or has it safely arrived? -
Mitch Hedberg R.I.P.One of the funniest stand up comics in recent years passed away end of March (I know, I am slow). Mitch Hedberg was a funny man in the sense that he…
... key style, sense of timing (or way off timing). His ability to ... -
Ghost Castles - Brand new game by WSSThe first 256K game which uses ROM paging technology on ZX-Spectrum 48K ! How ? It is a full 48K game with one special ROM which contains many part…
... 256K game which uses ROM paging technology on ZX-Spectrum 48K ... /> than 192K ! It uses special paging technology to access every 16K ... -
Ghost Castles - Brand new game by WSSThe first 256K game which uses ROM paging technology on ZX-Spectrum 48K ! How ?!? It is a full 48K game with one special ROM which contains many pa…
... 256K game which uses ROM paging technology on ZX-Spectrum 48K ... /> than 192K ! It uses special paging technology to access every 16K ... -
Yet another "Name that game"Hi everybody! This game was in 3D (I would say vector graphics' type). One drives a spaceship and need to go through a kind of tunnel (always flying…
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128k Speccy ScreenAm I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and d…
Am I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and draw the sprites etc... a-la 48k ??) -
Help please on a requestI have had the following request which I can' t help out with. Any suggestions please ? "I remember having a rpg for the spectrum (possibly +2) wher…
... you had to get your timing right
There was a ... -
divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... people.
1. ROM paging
If your Spectrum ... over the BASIC ROM the paging is unaffected by divIDE but ... way of switching off this paging.
2. 128K Z80 ... sits in 0x8000-0xBFFF by paging that bank in at 0xC000 ... -
Paging Doctor IcemannHello.. Does anyone know where I can get hold of someone going by the name "Doctor Icemann"? He/she contacted me with some tips, but no return emai…
Hello..
Does anyone know where I can get hold of someone going by the name "Doctor Icemann"?
He/she contacted me with some tips, but no return email address.
Toodle-pip!
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retro survival forumis it down? the other day i tried accessing it and got some ruskie webhosting page, then just after i was on the forums reading all the arguements a…
... and threats :(
today its timing out and not loading, but ... -
Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
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Patrik Rak - Star Dragon -
Frantisek ... -
Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…
... normal speed (the sound and timing would be normal), but the ... -
Linux WAV to TZX convertorsI looked through the posts and seen a few threads about converting WAVs to tzx but none of them are working for me. I have a few old tapes that don't…
... .1kHz samples and milliseconds for timing) and can extract the byte ... -
Emulator 'primer'Hi, I see there is an emulator primer from the perspective of [i]using[/i] one but does anyone have a primer for [i]writing[/i] one? I've already s…
... you start in terms of timing...because there's no point ... going to be some fundamental timing obstacle that cannot be overcome ... -
SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…
... mouse movements
- Improved RAM, paging, CLUT and CPU register power ... -
ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Ma jolie [Special Edition]I am delighted to announce the release of a Special Edition of my 2003 Manic Miner game, [i]Ma jolie[/i]. It's based on the game-engine from Matthew…
... a need for frame-perfect timing. And the Special Edition is ... -
You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…
... , it did knock out the timing of precise 48K programs when ... added more complexity to the timing routines that needed to be ... -
ZX Spectrum +3 - incompatible ?Hello :) I'm newbie here. I know WOS site since years, never checked forum before ;) , but this moment came when I have problem. I wanna buy ZX Spe…
... to be unplayable
* Memory timing changes; some of the RAM ...
