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  • +2 ramdisk - access in machine codeHow can you access the ramdisk in machine code? I've got a +2, and it seems the ramdisk has never been properly utilised. It would be a handy little…

    ... 't like the 128's ramdisk either, it looks slower than ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2006 Development
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    I've got the idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at 49152 after switching banks, but it does not work. Apparently LOAD from ramdisk does not honor the bank selected.
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at ... not work. Apparently LOAD from ramdisk does not honor the bank ... any ideas on where the RAMDisk gets its RAM from? Anyone ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... any ideas on where the RAMDisk gets its RAM from? Anyone ... (13467) are silicon disk RAM. Ramdisk files are stored one after ... silicon disk RAM and the ramdisk catalogue grows downward from the ... size of files in the ramdisk should not be so high ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at ... not work. Apparently LOAD from ramdisk does not honor the bank ... that sucks. The 128's ramdisk could have been done much ... is not a fully-fledged ramdisk but allows you to, eg ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... that sucks. The 128's ramdisk could have been done much ... ]

    Um, all the RAMdisk does do is copy data ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    [QUOTE=AndyC]Um, all the RAMdisk does do is copy data ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... to make use of the ramdisk ;-)

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... the allocation behaviour of the ramdisk is predictable, you could copy ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... the allocation behaviour of the ramdisk is predictable, you could copy ... preamble to fill up the ramdisk so the next save goes ... /> 10 REM fill up the ramdisk so the next save sits ... have no idea if the ramdisk syntax is correct.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    [QUOTE=Dunny]Dude, it was a joke :-)

    Though thanks for the info, maybe now I can get 128k emulation in SPIN and finally allow BASin to make use of the ramdisk ;-)
    [/QUOTE]

    ;-) Aye but my post was funnier.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... have no idea if the ramdisk syntax is correct.
    [/QUOTE ... :-)
    [code]
    10 REM Ramdisk double buffer
    20 LET ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... /> 50 rem * of the 128K ramdisk *
    60 rem *for double ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum RAM Paks...This jogged my memory (excuse the pun!!) : [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CURRAH-32K-RAM-PACK-BOXED-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM_W0QQitemZ150057889352QQihZ005QQ…

    ... RAM as a logically separate RAMdisk, which is what Basic does ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…

    ... , if you are using the RAMdisk, it will not be good ... IM1 mode before accessing the RAMdisk and back to IM2 mode ... . Or maybe disabling interrupts during RAMdisk access is better. Actually maybe ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... going to put in a ramdisk model that will include reading ... segments from files in the ramdisk. The model will also include ... , so I'm hoping the ramdisk model is sufficient until we ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Development
  • New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini

    ... conversion to spec
    * Finish RAMDISK and IF1_NETWORK api to help ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Chit chat
  • Request info about Spectrum Live CD/BootHello, I've been looking for a linux live distribution with Spectrum emulator that allows me to put my z80,tap,sna etc files. [btw,for those that ar…

    ... /> DOS/FreeDOS will need some Ramdisk too for work...

    piters piters January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... programming in basic and using ramdisk. and I know many users ...
    Arda Arda January 2007 Development
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... just hanging around in the RAMdisk.

    [QUOTE]2) Possibly ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Development
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... just hanging around in the RAMdisk.
    [/QUOTE]

    It ...
    NotFound NotFound January 2007 Development
  • 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..…

    ... 128 only and use the ramdisk for the mapdata, loaded one ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • 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..…

    ... be possible to use the ramdisk for loading each level 1 ... levels were loaded with the ramdisk, it could load a new ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…

    ... (at least 128K Speccy has Ramdisk).

    From Basic you ...
    piters piters March 2007 Hardware
  • Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…

    ... access lot of RAM via Ramdisk and PEEk-POKE.
    Finally ...
    piters piters March 2007 Hardware
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... it fits in a 16MB ramdisk. It's used to image ...
    Winston Winston May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …

    ... it fits in a 16MB ramdisk. It's used to image ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Yesteryear's Computers.Ahhhh ... [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9023960"]back in the day[/URL] when a 300mb system…

    ... time that created a 360KB RAMdisk (on upper memory) so I ...
    Marcelo Marcelo June 2007 Chit chat
  • CpmHi all, Some years ago I used CPM on the +3. IS CPM available for download these days? If not then I have no problem in paying for it. I would lik…

    ... doesn't know what a RAMdisk is; on the +3, a ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2007 Development
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