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Asus Eee PC thoughtsBasics: UMPC with 7" screen. underclocked 900MHz Celeron M processor. Price: ?220. Connectivity: Wifi, 3xUSB2.0, MMC/SDRAM card-reader, 0.3mp webca…
... -ROM, laptops with keyboards next to the screen, trackpads, USB hotswapable devices, ... With the exception of the Apple III and the PAV boards in the old ... QUOTE]
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[WANTED] ASM routinesHi there, 1.) i really need 5-6 working and well commented routines, showing assembler capabilities. They should be simple, but not too much complic…
... code for conversion from binary to BCD. But i cant figure ... they should be.. The code is written to ZXSpin Z80 assembler.
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Games you speed upI was just having a go of Striker because it has such a high rating (8.94!): [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004952[/url] As…
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Some of the games I speed up: Castle ... code and code that wrote to the screen memory. This could be an ... alternative way of speeding up the games. There are other things ... , but most of the time it's because the Spectrum doesn't ... -
Help with hi-res 40 column fontI have created a 12x8 pixel font for use with Timex hi-res (Mode 6).
... use a lookup table to find out the correct horizontal display address ... be to XOR the msb of the display address with $20 between the nybble ... have to shift everything 4 bits to the right before writing it to the screen. The byte ... -
Need Help - VideoOK, I have finally (nearly) finished my Z80 core! It's been a flipping long slog but I have now emulated (almost) all commands including a lot of th…
... the screen routines for my emulator I first wrote a screen ... instructions and then threw the display file to the screen. I soon found ... the layout of the Amstrad screen?
2. Do you know how to ... display an image on screen?
Myth II - Return to HellHello all. A new game has been released... a sequel to one of the best ZX games ever. It is of russian make (I THINK) but I think you can get around…
... (the schedule, the cursor itself has developed,
the program of a conclusion to the screen ... - all is absolute on the assembler), and being ... .
We pass more to the left for the screen where there was a ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... 've got to the end of the list. These are the ones I had ... a device similar in function to the "Multiface 3". It is not ... Printer - This program never writes to the screen as far as I know ...Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... of a screen. If the program asks the MOS what the current screen height/width ... it in Z80. As to the speed of the BASIC, it's actually ... as it must consider writing to the screen, printer, RS423 and file devices ...Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... it must consider writing to the screen, printer, RS423 and ... file devices at the same time.
... 's probably best to split up the task then rather ... than trying to do ...
errm, should say the next stdio version for z88dk ...'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... B] use screen flipping on the 128k version to draw the loading screen with full ... , but I think that the exactly same effect can be ... a 48k by simply loading the screen into a different RAM ... then copying it to the screen later, when all the screen data has been ...'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... know, but I think that the exactly same effect can be ... a 48k by simply loading the screen into a different RAM area ... then copying it to the screen later, when all the screen data has been loaded ... ;) , but would that really give the same effect, i.e. three ...Filmation... how does it work?Does anyone know exactly how Ultimate's Filamtion works? There's an explantion of the room layout and graphics at [url]http://retrospec.sgn.net/users…
... ) in order from the back of the room to the front (I kept a ... linked
list of everything in the ... /> Copy the box area from the small buffer to the screen.
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The list order ...CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... 99 is played the following message will come to the screen:
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The original idea about the MiniGameCompo was to show (off) your ... judging the effort is put into the game to make the game. ... = 64 fields). Then the data to the game would use 800 ...Black ScreenHi, Anyone know what would cause a 48k Spectrum to boot to a black screen? you can hear the internals buzzing at power up, but you just get a black…
... screen as the RAM defaults to zero.[/QUOTE]
The RAM defaults to ... #38, and the stack will end up writing to the screen memory).
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If the CPU is ... not running at all) the screen memory can be in a ...New DS announcedIt's called a DSi [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=249483[/url] this is how it compares with the current DS lite... Nintendo'…
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The lack of a GBA slot ... forums too - there's the hardcore of OMGNINTY folks, but ... due to the shortened battery life, or if that is due to the screen enlargment ... . in which case they are asking if the SD ...Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…
... your bits to end up, then deciding which of the two directions ... . Just don't forget to mask off the bits you don't ... thicken up the characters in the display routine prior to applying them to the screen and ... assuming you don't want to use the text routines in ...Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... ;308002]Does the same thing. Assembles with pasmo and likely to in ... first ever attempt at drawing to the screen. Now I know how it ... written another that prints a screen loaded to 32768 (binary .scr), with ... how to draw 1 pixel line in colour and keep the paper ...Looking for a type-in.I remember a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. It used code to shift the screen blocks. At the start of a game you could select how many m…
... picture with basic commands for the puzzle, and I don't ... easier than this. I seem to remember a triangle drawn with ... in blocks of code direct to the screen. I remember magenta ink for ... the border of the puzzle, white background. I ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... Well, duh. Given that's the case for de facto every ... programming, I really hope the fact it applies here isn ... t coming as a surprise to anyone. LDIR is of ... in speed terms for writing to the screen (on a 48K/128K anyway ... use LDIR is going to be faster than that.Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... ;308935]Surely anything that accesses the lower 16K will be clobbered ... it leaves the contents of DE (pointing to the screen RAM) on the address bus ...In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
... ]don't[/I] use the interrupt to play the music? Why on earth ... lot of games use the stack to write data to the screen and, unless you ... 're very careful with the timing ...dvd player for a laptopIf I want to upgrade my laptop with a dvd burner, then is it just a case of walking into a computer shop and buying one, or does it depend on the br…
I'd be tempted to get a usb external writer.. so long as the lappy has usb2 and it is fast enuff to push data to the writer, although writing at a slower speed would do the job...Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …
... as you imply, the emulators are only accurate to the writing-to-the-screen-stage, and ... don't mimic the TV's ...Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... is not a good way to write to the screen.[/QUOTE]
Not true ... 't have any idea how to write a spectrum delta player ...Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... [/URL] chip. The important differences to the Spectrum hardware are ... :
1. Sprites. Up to 32 per screen ... graphics to the screen. Instead they've got to be written to a ... rely on fast writes to the screen memory for things ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... mention once that the way the spectrum writes graphics to the screen uses very little ... CPU power (especially in comparison to the Amstrad ... to use interrupts to scroll parts of the screen at different speeds on both the ...16K Rom with RS232 supportHi all, I am looking for a 16K Rom-code (to fit into the speccy) which supports RS232 and Network of IF1. Background: I am using 48K Issue 3 with W…
... to perform to work out the exact circumstances that caused the error.
The ... even if a stream attached to the standard channels is being closed ... attached to the screen as the accumulator is set to 1 by the initialization of the extra ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... graphics to the screen you write them to a buffer and then copy the buffer to the screen ... when it's ready. This can potentially slow the ... has to limit the number and positions of objects on screen, or bite the ...Two different versions of Bruce Lee?There's a possible MIA here, I think. I sat down at lunchtime to play a bit of Bruce Lee and discovered that the version I'd downloaded from WOS (th…
... used to get to the screen that only had the green travel thingys with the white ... triangles on them. The last ... place. I could never get the timing of it.
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One of the few classic games I can ...Two different versions of Bruce Lee?There's a possible MIA here, I think. I sat down at lunchtime to play a bit of Bruce Lee and discovered that the version I'd downloaded from WOS (th…
... ]I always used to get to the screen that only had the green travel thingys ... with the white triangles on ... , it was rare for me to make it off screen 3 :D
