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Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …
... twice: one in the 5 byte internal form, and once as ... -
Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …
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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…
The very first game I ever played on the Spectrum was Spectral Invaders.
Now, my dad got his Specrtum in 1982, I swear we had Spectral invaders by bug-byte with a black and white cover. -
Obscure FavouritesWe all know Manic Miner and Fairlight are classics, but surely everyone has some favourite speccy games that aren't so well-known. For mine I'd nomi…
'Rex' by Martech is, I think, a fairly overlooked classic - at least, it was overlooked in the (in)famous YS top 100!
'Roboto' by Bug Byte was one of the first games that I was really hooked on, and Mastertronic's 'Hyperbowl' was pretty good too. -
Speedlock & Spin (again)Following on from the Vixen thread, I've come across another game which crashes during the decryption beeps - Imagine's "Ping Pong". With Vixen, a ne…
... 5 bits from the last byte in the Pure Data blocks ... in question uses the last byte or so of the tape ... -
Anyone need help TZXing for MIA/MIS ?Hiya folks, A lot of chat but no files yet [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] So does anyone have any of the titles in the MIA/MIS li…
... you guys?
Gladiator - Bug Byte
The Hit Squad - Codemasters ... -
Anyone need help TZXing for MIA/MIS ?Hiya folks, A lot of chat but no files yet [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] So does anyone have any of the titles in the MIA/MIS li…
... you guys?
Gladiator - Bug Byte
The Hit Squad - Codemasters ... one.
Gladiator - Bug-byte & Orbix The Terrorball
undocumented Z80I am documenting a feature nobody has done before and no emulator gets right at this time. I'll have a report after doing some more tests. Fraser.
... are copied from the high byte of the top number of ... when the top numbers high byte and the bottom numbers high ... byte, are both 255, and ... bit 7 of the low byte result, then the two flag ... are copied from the high byte of the last 16 bit ...a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
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first byte : do nothing
2/3 ... make mirrorscript by rotating every byte through the carry-flag.
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... the next command and every byte above this adress is reserved ...undocumented Z80I am documenting a feature nobody has done before and no emulator gets right at this time. I'll have a report after doing some more tests. Fraser.
... of the top numbers high byte with the instruction I used ... . When the top numbers low byte is #FF and the top ... numbers high byte is #7F or #FF then ...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 …
... set to 16000.
Each byte is 8 pixels.
Evideo ... set to 16000.
Each byte is 8 pixels. Each bit ...Blank .dsk Disk images for use on EmulatorsIs there anywhere I can find a .dsk image of a blank read/write Spectrum +3 disk? X128 can read them, but can't create them :(
... , bit 7 (double track) of byte 1 from the DPB (track ...Blank .dsk Disk images for use on EmulatorsIs there anywhere I can find a .dsk image of a blank read/write Spectrum +3 disk? X128 can read them, but can't create them :(
... , bit 7 (double track) of byte 1 from the DPB (track ...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…
... make usable. 2 bytes per byte of speccy data - three if ...printer port redirect to (Windows) system printerIs there any emulator (+2A/+3 compatible) that can be configured to output the, say, parallel printer port to the Windows system port ? The default o…
... / port OUT #0FFD (the output byte itself), bit 4 / port OUT ...printer port redirect to (Windows) system printerIs there any emulator (+2A/+3 compatible) that can be configured to output the, say, parallel printer port to the Windows system port ? The default o…
... printer will just output every byte it receives to a text ...printer port redirect to (Windows) system printerIs there any emulator (+2A/+3 compatible) that can be configured to output the, say, parallel printer port to the Windows system port ? The default o…
... printer will just output every byte it receives to a text ...Spectrum edge connectors and 'Dataman Softy S4'Hi, I moved this from the sales thread because it seems more appropriate...anyway... I was twerping around the idea of turning a Spectrum into a we…
... an adress where the high byte will be made equal to ...spectrum + 3 disksi have in stock quite a few of the spectrum + 3 disk titles on the mia list , who do i send them to ? i need to know asap please Andy
... 1 Simulator Mastertronic Spectrum
Byte CCS Spectrum
Hypertron Scorpio ...ANNOUNCE: vbSpec v1.60The latest, greatest, most wonderful and beautiful release of vbSpec, the free Spectrum emulator for Windows, is available now from:- [url="http:/…
The machine type (byte 34) is 14 (decimal). The last OUTs to the SCLD are done as for Warajevo's TC2068 emulation.Can anyone help me with this game?I've been trying for ages to identify a fantastic game for the specy, but have yet to succede. The game is based in space. It was a little like Elit…
guesses but..
Star Trader (Bug Byte)
PSI-5 Trading Company (US Gold)
regardsZX-2-PC Interface : Is it dead ???Certainly not, but I had some problems getting the EPROM-reader constant. In my former threat I stated that it worked, well, it read ROM-values but n…
... to savingfaults I saved every byte 3 times).
Then ... A,255 ; Signal of DATA-byte
LD DE,16384 ; LENGTH ...A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
... who not only squeezed every byte but also clock speed from ...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…
... that it was featured in "BYTE" magazine in the USA at ...Z80 to TAPNot directly emulator-stuff, but more emulator related than the other forums. I have written a serverprogram to load .TAP-files through my ZX<->P…
... bytes for length
1 byte for compressed
So there ...Z80 to TAPNot directly emulator-stuff, but more emulator related than the other forums. I have written a serverprogram to load .TAP-files through my ZX<->P…
... bytes for length
1 byte for compressed
So there ... v1.45. Bit 5 of byte 12. Generally set, in my ...Z80 to TAPNot directly emulator-stuff, but more emulator related than the other forums. I have written a serverprogram to load .TAP-files through my ZX<->P…
... bytes for length
1 byte for compressed
So there ... v1.45. Bit 5 of byte 12. Generally set, in my ...Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…
... that the original MM (Bug-Byte) and JSW are exempt from ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... /> Also RST 38 is one byte compared to three for CALL ...
