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How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... ) What's the best thing to do when you want a ... a game? Do you need to replace [I]all[/I] the ... (& poke the relevant variables to point to it), or do you just ... about this when I tried to create a typeface and noticed ... -
BombuzalI was playing through some SNES games, and I got to Bombuzal.... [youtube]yH8V51oif-4[/youtube] I can remember playing it on Atari ST, and I rememb…
I have it.. but no point to play it.. sensi soft didn' ... some beeb games also)... got to play it.. nice gfx... but ... -
How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... 's the best thing to do when you want a ... a game? Do you need to replace [I]all[/I] ... amp; poke the relevant variables to point to it), or do you just ... about this when I tried to create a typeface and ... letters and numbers I needed to save memory.
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Games Club Reborn WC 23/1/12BIG thanks to Morkin and the rest of the wossers for resurecting this old but still fun idea. for those of you who weren't around, and those who did…
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Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
... to ZXSpin, the execution of a CLS from the entry point ... at $0D6B CLS to the exit at ... routine from the entry point to the exit takes 21944 ... is done by a call to $0DAF CL_ALL (RANDOMIZE USR ... by the other routine to make them more nearly ... -
Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
... ]According to ZXSpin, the execution of a CLS from the entry point ... at $0D6B CLS to the exit at ... short routine from the entry point to the exit takes 21944 T ... -
Megaupload closed!!!Although what happened yesterday, it seems that SOPA is officiously working, or so it seems. Is this the beginning of the end? And what happens now…
... and record industries are trying to implant the idea in the ... the only things people want to share are the latest movies ... their cause if they can point to a market leader that is ... making no effort to remove files that breach thier ... -
Faster CLS...Hi Folks, Looking at the CLS command in the Spectrum ROM disassembly it seems rather complex. Does anyone know of a simpler/quicker routine that wi…
... it right this time, thanks to WinZ80, which has both a ... were (timed from the entry point to the exit at $1B76 STMT_RET ... -
Our simple Lego "robot" carMy son is nine years old now so he's starting to have quite a collection of technics Lego. We built this "robot" car that start traveling in the oppo…
... ? You have the pivot point to the steering off to the left, then ... , it always drags and turns to the left. -
Games Club Reborn WC 23/1/12BIG thanks to Morkin and the rest of the wossers for resurecting this old but still fun idea. for those of you who weren't around, and those who did…
... me, don't seem to be able to kill it though. Tried ... .
Not sure what to do next. What's the ... about then? Is there a point to it. Maybe I should read ... -
Games Club Reborn WC 23/1/12BIG thanks to Morkin and the rest of the wossers for resurecting this old but still fun idea. for those of you who weren't around, and those who did…
... me, don't seem to be able to kill it though. Tried ... over it but you need to be a bit over on ... about then? Is there a point to it. Maybe I should read ... -
Is there a limit to the numberof variables you can have in BASIC..... Reason I ask is I've got an idea....but using my "lowest common denominator" approach to code I fear that I'…
So 23606 & 23607 point to start of your own character set? -
Is there a limit to the numberof variables you can have in BASIC..... Reason I ask is I've got an idea....but using my "lowest common denominator" approach to code I fear that I'…
[QUOTE=Rebelstar without a cause;598177]So 23606 & 23607 point to start of your own character set?[/QUOTE]
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Is there a limit to the numberof variables you can have in BASIC..... Reason I ask is I've got an idea....but using my "lowest common denominator" approach to code I fear that I'…
... do?[/QUOTE]
Funny to see someone reacting now on ... is altered because you now point to a new characterset. But as ... SCREEN$ will be able to read 64 to 159 and so on ... $ again.
Set 23607 back to 60.
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space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…
It goes way too far to discuss compression techniques here, but ... distinctive features), and therefore harder to compress. Use tiled or vector ... unique words, there's no point to tokenize them. For a good ... /> My suggestion is to play some GAC games to see how they ... -
How can I modify a modern floppy disk drive to work with +D, Disciple, etc.So I've got a +D, a Disciple, and this MicroPeripherals QL Disk interface. For all these I use a single cumana 3.5'' disk unit with its own power sup…
... mentioned it in the documentation to show the drive was connected ... />
Unfortunately many BASIC programs point to D1. -
Colour blocks on displayHi all, I have just acquired another Sinclair product, my first one being a C5, it's a 48K ZX Spectrum. It shows colour blocks on the display when p…
... 2 is a bit mystery to me, however.[/QUOTE]
... and is there due to a design oversight in ... of this thread - just to the left of the heatsink ... point-to-point wiring. The trick to removing the ICs is not to ... />
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Colour blocks on displayHi all, I have just acquired another Sinclair product, my first one being a C5, it's a 48K ZX Spectrum. It shows colour blocks on the display when p…
... and is there due to a design oversight in the ... of this thread - just to the left of the heatsink ... point-to-point wiring. The trick to removing the ICs is not to ... />
If you want to remove the upper RAM ICs ... alternate ends so as not to bend the pins. If ... -
A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... it's a real nightmare to implement complex routines that must ... do not recommend anyone attempting to do so.[/QUOTE]
Yep ... 192 screen lines that just point to address 0 (into the ROM ... optional stuff, deciding what to erase and what to draw next, comes ... -
A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... screen lines that just point to address 0 (into the ... stuff, deciding what to erase and what to draw next, ... beginning of the interrupt to draw/animate tiles, and ... let everything else to be done later.
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Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... . I then simply set DEFADD to point to this memory location when I ... want to move memory around (in my ... -
Best game ever?Not sure the best way to do this, thinking top 10s with a sliding scale of 10 points awarded to the game you vote 'best' down to 1 point for your 10t…
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Thanks to all 30 contributors thus far ... , bah humbug to those who must have ... br />
Maybe a "point" to this exercise as some struggle ... order, or maybe Match Point didn't make your list ... on one point and Three Weeks In ... -
Time for higher dpi magazine scans?I'm the current owner of an iPad 1, and bought at some time in the past, the Crash DVD (that was linked to via this site). The DVD contained scans of…
[QUOTE=takapa;608700]...Or perhaps they have already been scanned in at a higher detail and were scaled down for bandwidth reasons on WoS?...[/QUOTE]
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Maritrini and Cray 5 loading problemsHas anyone else here had issues loading either of these on a 128k? No matter what I try, both these games refuse to load properly. I can get both t…
... the same thing (at some point) to cause pretty much the same ... , on mine anyway. Im going to try and get a vid ... -
zx emulation on ps3 or xbox?was looking into an emu on the ps3 but i get the impression there has to be some modding done 1st? Been told that the old xboxes are good for emulat…
... plazmas so there is no point to discuss picture quality there because ... real Spectrum and Xbox connected to CRT TV. I was playing ... it...
ps: not to mention that emulator did not ... surprise never could be arranged to fit which theoretically should be ... -
Pip The Pipistrelle[color=red]*COMING SOON*[/color] Pip The Pipistrelle I am going to put all the game details,instructions and story here now and simply update this t…
... 'd even assigned a species to each one ;-)).
to eat,there are also ... is a slight sore point to be honest and using ... the command promt to run programs that make ... cast of characters card to help presentation instead.The ... -
Using a Pinnacle pctv (pci) with 48k/+2 greyWhile I'm waiting for some news on the timex front ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38182[/url]), I decided to start sort…
... it, you might be able to get it working with an ... [/url]
Direct link to Windows 7-compatible universal driver ... would use the device manager to point to the files extracted from that ... -
ULA snowHow is this feature implemented in emulators ? And how exact is the emulation ? I somehow supposed that ULA snow is something that is not very determ…
... that "I" can never point to contended areas, even when interrupt ... .e. if the interrupt needs to collect byte $BFFF and $C000 ... -
ULA snowHow is this feature implemented in emulators ? And how exact is the emulation ? I somehow supposed that ULA snow is something that is not very determ…
I shouldn't point to contended memory, even whilst interrupts ... -
ULA snowHow is this feature implemented in emulators ? And how exact is the emulation ? I somehow supposed that ULA snow is something that is not very determ…
... that "I" can never point to contended areas, even when interrupt ... .e. if the interrupt needs to collect byte $BFFF and $C000 ... contended unless you are referring to the 128K Spectrum and active ... bus) it causes contended RAM to be selected.
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