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Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
... sure there's a way to shift the 'hard data' that ... it a bit to make it fit, (and the loading tones on ... you're looking to program, but the BASIC was was completely different ... (which would probably be impossible to implement to run usably, let alone ... -
Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
... it a bit to make it fit, (and the loading tones on ... you're looking to program, but the BASIC was was completely different ... in the first place the loading sounded very similar. I even ... and one seem to kind of load. The BASIC is different so ... -
THE LIGHTBULB EFFECT You know what that is? Like how cartoonists depict a bright idea by drawing a lightbulb over the head? When I was trying to work out the lengt…
... engineer was creating the BASIC command they would ... code, you need to use a BASIC method that accepts ... chance to return a value from code to BASIC I ... in order for Sinclair BASIC to work with it (because ... have had a BASIC with just POKE to do everything, like ... -
A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
When I was trying to learn BASIC back in the day I ... z=32768 TO 32800
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How difficult to do a Harry Price?how difficult do you think it was to do a Harry Price and do a total Mod of a magic knight game? He must have owned a multiface thingy to look at …
... person, but rather a name that was being slapped ... br /> If a publisher wanted to hide a few "dodgy" releases among ... the same fake author name because, if anyone finds ... same name would make it too easy to identify ... reason to adopt the same fake author name for ... -
Anagram creation - not as easy as it looks?I'm writing a story and I have a mystery villain who is never revealed. My main clue was to have been that every alias he uses is an anagram of the f…
... an example of a routine to select words from a long ... POKE 23658,8: INPUT "Name ";n$: IF NOT LEN n$ THEN GO TO ... : CLS: LET pos=start: LET name=0
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... the load routine wants to load the second file ... you should be able to load the selected data ... in DE register before data loading.
But ... thing would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone ... will have problems with loading the TAPs on real ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... in DE register before data loading.
But your ... best thing would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone ... people will have problems with loading the TAPs on real ZX ... is loaded from basic, and after loading it jumps to the player code ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... in DE register before data loading.
But your current ... best thing would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone ... people will have problems with loading the TAPs on real ZX ...c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…
... in DE register before data loading.
But your ... thing would be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone ... people will have problems with loading the TAPs on real ... - enable interrupt
- return correctly to BASIC, so it will continue with ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... this game, and thought to myself I remember seeing that ... ago to live up to your expectations....
Upon loading I ... version they barely even tried to hide the fact they ripped of ... vertical scrolling, and just stuck to bi-horizontal.
...Spectrum stuff online "buying skills". Are real skills needed for low cost Speccy items? Firstly , there are some pretty fundamental requirements that are probably too basic to mention , like buying the right software at the right pri…
... regular buyer though, I used to buy a lot of record ... bidding were usually known to me by name and I was familiar ... chancers who bid only the basic on hundreds of things and ... , you could also contact them to negotiate at times, that has ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
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[/code]Loading on a 128k speccyOffhand I'll confess I didn't do a lot of research on this beforehand, but here's my question; How do you load a large program off tape on a 128k…
... 48k loading works as follows:
block 1: basic loader ... screen data. basic loader calls unpacker to show loading screen, load"" ... unpacks data over the basic (and everything else) and ... to expand that to 128k would be to make the basic loader to ...disk access & other peripheral docs?The documentation at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/ and thereabouts is fairly complete when it comes to programming the speccys, but t…
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You have to look up each disk system ... interface and requires you to set up a basic command in a ... the basic functions available aren't really enough for dynamic loading of ...Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …
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>find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep '' | wc ...
>find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep '' | wc ... to be very clean and easy to read because it will be basic ... C. But I think it's best to ... a ".bin" to the output name when the output ...z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
... no system to pass commands to - sinclair basic has no means to accept and ... could just do all the loading in basic before the c program ... address. Did you get +3 loading to work?
Another idea ...I live and learnThanks to Einar's ZXDB link I found under the Books folder and English sub directory a PDF file named 'The Century Computer Programming Course for Z…
... dialects. Spectrum BASIC allows you to do GOTO to a variable name (or ... a calculated value) but many other BASIC ... a "routine name" and then jump straight to the line number ... Basic from back in the day that officially allowed you to name ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... noticed and even tested the poke to make Outrun Europa colored. ... is: it is possible to make gazillions of games' ... Pokemaster I'm inclined to take another job: create ... in-game screens and loading screens. If I do ... concerning adding a screenshot to a game I don ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... noticed and even tested the poke to make Outrun Europa colored. It ... for in-game screens and loading screens. If I do ... will be added!
Loading and in-game screens should ... id=30237
Therefore loading screen should be called "0030237 ...z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... well with basic by default. So the tilemap extends to 65361, ... testing without having to worry about writing a basic loader to load separate ... engine was written to play nice with basic which is not ... im2 isr, you can poke its address to 0xfdfe rather than doing ...ZX Spectrum Z80 Development Environment on WindowsHi Folks, Just wondering what the recommendation is for a ZX Spectrum Z80 Development environment on Windows? Getting fed up with hand coding Z80…
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Source code written to standards of one compiler will ... A should just go back to BASIC and not waste anyone' ...Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…
... . Few questions for anyone happy to answer.
Assuming bi ... colour is slower to render, so for basic it's out ... compiled basic?
Is there anyway to use bi colour for loading ...The aliens who built Stonehenge must be laughing at how stupid we humans areSome rapper is looking to crowd fund 'research' whereby he intends to prove that the Earth is flat. He intends to raise $200,000 (£150,000) to launch…
... other flat-Earther) was prepared to listen to reason, then he wouldn ... why those involved would want to hide it from the rest of ... 'theory' go against so many basic scientific laws (and common sense ... people would have to be lying" argument applies to the flat ...May the "How to do it" bullet pointing commence!"You Tube" does not cover everything ZX Spectrum realted There are now so many ways to use ZX Spectrum related stuff. And therefore therefore ther…
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4) Press F1 to access the menu on ZXBaremulator ... selected game before reverting back to the Sinclair Research Screen ... 8) The slow or fast loading can be switched with R ...Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
[quote="guesser;927730"]Unlikely to be easy to use because it no doubt ... and will work to make speccy floppies contrary to popular wisdom. I ... this disc, edit the BASIC loader to get shot of the cheats ... an even simpler case of loading the BASIC blocks into the +3 ...Clever, yes. Useful? Not so sure. Re: LOAD ""CODE gamesI was always curious about how the (few) games that require that you type LOAD ""CODE, rather than the usual LOAD "" worked, but only just now decide…
I assumed the trick was to include some machine code and purely binary data into a single load.
I guessed it was re-loading the BASIC area. I din't think about the system variables.Clever, yes. Useful? Not so sure. Re: LOAD ""CODE gamesI was always curious about how the (few) games that require that you type LOAD ""CODE, rather than the usual LOAD "" worked, but only just now decide…
... assumed the trick was to include some machine code ... guessed it was re-loading the BASIC area. I din't ... handling to point to the machine code. Turned out to be ... load the screen, a BASIC bootstrap (with just a ... code. (Something would have to be done about RAMTOP, ...Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…
... is definitely worth passing on to programmers round here... It ... , are still only getting to grips with the very basics ... to Enterprise 720k disks too... Took me awhile to figure out some basic ... commands for loading disk image ...Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…
... an easier way to load anything to the emulator, you ... me awhile to figure out some basic commands for loading disk ... ]
When Enterprise arrived to Hungary the company already went ... , therefore enthusiastic users started to convert Speccy programs, some ...
