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Poorly behaved PC serial port affecting RS232 communications on SpectrumHi everyone, I've been searching through the forum for information on the quirks of linking a ZX Spectrum RS232 serial port (e.g. ZX Interface 1 o…
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Interview with the ninja from Bruce LeeGood evening and welcome to my interview with another villain from the ZX Spectrum gaming history. Many of you will be familiar with the little bad g…
Remaking Special Operations - some thoughts and questions.(Edit: Sorry - long one!) Special Operations is one of my favourite titles and, despite them being very different, is up there with Halls of the T…
... Hunt (the author) missed a trick by not using a real ...So for my first trick...I'm sure people have already used the AD724 or AD725 on other 8 bit machines, and i know the Harlequin uses the 724, but not seen anyone trying to us…
I'm sure people have already used the AD724 or AD725 on other 8 bit machines, and i know the Harlequin uses the 724, but not seen anyone trying to use it with a 128/+2 yet. Decided it was worth a go...
[img]http://www.dark-matter.me.uk/ ...Speeding up programs by hacking the SysVarsPositively pleased to properly discover this area of the forum! I have a couple of recent tricks that might be of interest - they're probably old hat…
... later, you can use this trick to make decent savings on ...Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
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Am I missing a trick here?
Many thanks ...Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…
... infinite runner would do the trick?
Any takers and ...Questions about GALsI'm working on an old danish floppy interface for the speccy ([url="http://allan.hoiberg.dk/eng/zx/"]CS-Disk[/url]) The original interface contain…
... complex mode should do the trick. But I have no idea ...How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all ...Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
... point decimals, a slightly trickier trick allows string pointers to be ...A sped up pixel-shift routine for 1-byte–wide spritesHere’s an optimized (for speed) real-time sprite shifting routine for sprites that are one byte wide. It uses no memory variables for storage of inte…
... registers, and employs a dirty trick with the accumulator.
New Game - Takeout FreakoutHello, I'd like to announce my latest game Takeout Freakout, made with PGD and available to download [url="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8dm4ef2l50vv1h5/…
... game Takeout Freakout, made with PGD and available to download [url ...Debugging on ZEsarUX by reading the source codeHI New feature for ZEsarUX: https://youtu.be/z-TipWv0n9g With that you can associate an assembler source code to a program in memory so it w…
... showing the source code. The trick works by finding labels on ...Stuck on Runes of Zendos!Anyone remember this game? If not it is worth a few minutes of your time. Very basic adventure/D&D style game with a graphical interface, but somehow…
... think I am missing a trick regarding runes that sometimes appear ...Always chew your food!Well, I had a bit of an interesting Easter weekend while staying with my girlfriend in Filey. Warning: fairly icky medical stuff and ewgf lengthiness…
... I'd tried 'the coke trick'? Apparently drinking coke can help ...How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
... left 20. Is there some trick with VAL or CHR$ so ...Platform Game DesignerDoes anyone have a .TAP or TZX file of PGD that they'd be willing to share? (linear and explorer) I've bought the cassette (and can provide photo…
... .TAP or TZX file of PGD that they'd be willing ... to have a play with PGD in an emulator.
TV programs that jumped the shark (then fell off a cliff)[b]Can one of the mods move this to the chit-chat forum, please? Sorry, I posted it whilst fixing another PC and my tiny brain can't cope with two th…
... scripts felt forced and one-trick, and didn't feel 'natural ...Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…
... startup or any other nice trick. Is that possible and where ...Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
... like watching a bewildering magic trick. The colours! This game absolutely ...Windows 10 v1709 is breaking external usb mice and kbThis started happening a few days ago. One or more cumulative updates caused my ext. usb devices such as keyboard or mouse to stop working after rebo…
... good configuration. Using the regback trick via command prompt didn't ...How to avoid flicking? IM2 help.Hi, I have started on a quest to make a demo for ZX Spectrum. However the display is flickering and I guess it is something about updating at…
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ld a,56 ; black ... optimized using the push sp trick
ld bc,16*one_line ...Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…
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The [b]third trick[/b] is the ability to ... b] (Wr) does this trick by POKEing a few byte ...HACK PACK - BLAMMissing for several decades, Damian Scattergood one of my favourite authors. I'd got extremely fed up of continual AGD or PGD releases. Anyway 5…
Missing for several decades, Damian Scattergood one of my favourite authors. I'd got extremely fed up of continual AGD or PGD releases.
Anyway 51124,0 get you infinite lives.
Thanks Frankie.Making sound using the BEEPER in AssemblyI had a look at the the documentation but it doesn't make sense to me. To make music just the beeper all I have to do is send ones and zeros to one o…
... and 0s should do the trick but this doesn't seem ...Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…
... to remember there was a trick (or should I now say ... /> So, is there such a trick, and how feasible possible for ...Speccy snaphot to EXE I seemed to remember and reading at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Features.html I found[quote]Using the additional program ZXCOMP the Z80 …
... ] Of course it's a trick. If you have any knowledge ...O-EYESHi all I've just finished my last game: O-EYES, a ZX Spectrum port of the arcade game EYES. Don't know why but I like it to play some quick rounds…
... =1Z50BNc8NeJ0avTYn4SbfpatVRm4RAjOh]the ol' and cheap trick[/url] to print in the ...Deathchase - Complete disassemblyWell, I only post here about once every five years, when I've got a few days off but my brain's still in "work mode" and wants to pull apart some cod…
... .youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0"]trick you in a similar way ...
