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Question regarding Manic Miner (Bug Byte) Acquired another Manic Miner (Bug-Byte Release ?(one that has the guy with the beard on cover)) on eBay (part of someones collection) The thing is,…
... block 3 "MM2".
Whilst the two other Bug Byte versions ... on WoS are:-
Block 1 "ManicMiner", block 2 ... "MM1" and block 3 "MM2".
Block 1 ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... tile, 2nd byte is type.
00 = static shootable block
... defb $2e, $00 ; green shootable block
defb $2f, $00 ; ... green shootable block
defb $8d, $00 ;; ... white round shootable block
defb $8e, $00 ;; ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... table below shows 1st byte tile, 2nd byte top left of ... , 3rd byte top right, 4th byte bottom left, 5th byte bottom right ... defb $2f, $00 ; green shootable block
defb $8d, $00 ;-- white ... round shootable block
defb $8e, $00 ;-- ... -
Pause after blocksI've added a simple CRC routine to my app (thanks Gilby) to check for dupe TZX files and it was magical as I've located about two hundred of them tha…
... similar blocks but with one byte mote (that's a screen ... each tzx, next block also counts one more byte and so on ... -
Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
... a, l ; no, get lower byte of address 1M 4T
block 2M 7T
ld l ... need to adjust high order byte of address 1M 4T
Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
... a, l ; no, get lower byte of address 1M 4T
block 2M 7T
ld l ... need to adjust high order byte of address 1M 4T
My little first set of routines.Hi all, I just coded a little set of routines just to draw a screen on video mem and a fade out. I could have just copied the screen rendering rout…
... /> where:
BB = screen block (0-2)
SSS = scan ... line within block (0-7)
CCCCC = horizontal char / byte (0-31 ... only takes 16 cycles per byte copy (without the repeat part ... ) whereas LDIR takes 21 per byte copy. If this matters, I ...My little first set of routines.Hi all, I just coded a little set of routines just to draw a screen on video mem and a fade out. I could have just copied the screen rendering rout…
... a, l ; no, get lower byte of address 1M 4T
block 2M 7T
ld l ... ; store resul in lower order byte screen address
ret c ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... fixed point with the low byte holding the fractional part. Trig ... data and 1 attr byte for each used block. Room definitions just ...Possibly a little OT: Exporting ROM function addresses to the Z88DKOK, so I'm using the Z88DK. It's entirely possible that some documentation has bypassed me. But assume I have a function in ROM, say, at address 0xF0…
... a single monolithic memory block that can either be ... .c file or a block of memory at specific ... one uses a single 4-byte variable to hold the ... programs -- declare the 4-byte heap pointer to be at ... one heap per bankswitched memory block).
This is ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... fixed point with the low byte holding the fractional part. Trig ... data and 1 attr byte for each used block. Room definitions just ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... fixed point with the low byte holding the fractional part. Trig ... data and 1 attr byte for each used block. Room definitions just ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... fixed point with the low byte holding the fractional part. Trig ... data and 1 attr byte for each used block. Room definitions just ...SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... could load in a 49152 byte uncompressed block into memory providing the ... the loader 'cos the loading block with "fix" your hack!)TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... like an extended pulse sequence block, not limited to 255 pulses ... explicitly using the set-level block, and invert the level by ... />
Finally, regarding the data block itself, is there really any ... case), and use the normal byte data stream as usual. Why ...Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks
... the relevant data on screen (Block Type, Start address, Lenght, Run ... /> 130 PRINT AT 15,0;"Byte quantity:";cby
140 GOTO ... ]thus making the routine 1 byte shorter.Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... where:
BB = screen block (0-2)
SSS = scan ... line within block (0-7)
CCCCC = horizontal char / byte (0-31 ... screen address in the first block increases the binary number "SSSLLLCCCCC ... the end of the first block, a carry happens into ...Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... where:
BB = screen block (0-2)
SSS = scan ... line within block (0-7)
CCCCC = horizontal char / byte (0-31 ... screen address in the first block increases the binary number "SSSLLLCCCCC ... the end of the first block, a carry happens into ...TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... basically RLE encoded version of block $13 . Please tell us why ... bits used in the last Byte"? This will add confusion to ... to add - an enhanced $14 block which can handle asymetrical pulses ... Phil suggested - to deprecate GDB block and include this one (or ...TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... RLE encoded version of block $13 . Please tell ... NOT call your proposed block $1B a simplified ... an enhanced version of $14 block.[/QUOTE]
Byte"? This will add confusion ... - an enhanced $14 block which can handle asymetrical pulses ...TZX 1.20 block 0x18 questionHi All I am in touch with G?nter Woigk the author of Zxsp emulator for mac os X and we both wondering something about block 0x18 (Sorry if that ques…
... efficiently, regardless of what block will be used afterwards ... used in the last Byte"? This will add confusion ... used in the last byte" is worse in the ... confusion, definitely not worse than block $19 did.
block and include this one ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... 4 seems artificial. The standard block size handling seems to already ... processing before moving to next block.
- the order first ... application can not use 4 byte alignment of chunk data anymore ... , only 2 byte alignment. Still I believe ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... , e.g. odd block size of the "PULS" block, should be handled ... with every "PULS" and "DATA" block in 'samples per second'.[/QUOTE ... fields using the Comment type byte. What do others think? Andy ... /> [QUOTE]I suggest to use byte 0 as delimiter ...[/QUOTE]
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... these samples used a GDB block for it's custom loader ... 1:1 byte representation. Thus the data of the block could be ... not required to be stored byte-wise with a 256 symbol ... ]
$19 Generalized data block
Number of elements ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... these samples used a GDB block for it's custom loader ... 1:1 byte representation. Thus the data of the block could be ... takes almost 9K per each block. Regarding flashloading, it seems there ... bother thinking about adding another block which would use 256 symbols ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... takes almost 9K per each block. Regarding flashloading, it seems ... bother thinking about adding another block which would use 256 ... pulse as in PZX DATA block, and 2 bytes are ... . If you assume 1 Byte per pulse it is 4 ... 6 kB saved. One byte is what is required if ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... efficiency of the PULS block by utilizing some bits ... such pulse only as one byte - one bit as a ... size of the PULS block that much to complicate ... much, the resulting PULS block should compress about the same ... While making the PULS block smaller than CSW is ...PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... like trying to save a byte here and there. Let's ... it covers right now, one block for generic pulse sequences and ... one block covering vast majority of the ...Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... -Cat;189776]The new GDB block is also very future-proof ... and stop bit for each byte and arbitrary pause between them ...Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... you suggest using about 8KB block for each 64 bytes? Now ... changed the speed after each byte...
Patrik
