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What's wrong with CodemastersWhy do Codemasters always seem to get a bad press. They made quality games right up to the end of the speccy's commercial life. If it wasn't for them…
... and Colin McRaes....and this gen they've had Overlord and ... kind of thing, having some random American shouting "Awesome!" every time ... -
converting mp3 to zx importfile.is it possible?Hi peeps I am just looking through old threads and browsing through music tools on the zx in particular converting or creating ,what i am looking for…
... to be a stream of random pips/pulses... I think ... randomly activate the noise at random intervals, perhaps with some preset ... I think Id find the 'random-interval-generation" code more complicated ... brings us on to problem number two, engine intergration... The ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
Dark StarBeen playing Dark Star again and added it to my blog at [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2012/03/darkstar-zx-spectrum-this-retro-classic.htm…
... crash at random points and give you a telephone number to call ...Dark StarBeen playing Dark Star again and added it to my blog at [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2012/03/darkstar-zx-spectrum-this-retro-classic.htm…
... crash at random points and give you a telephone number to call ... you should have called the number and reported it. I did ... surprising when you consider the number of C90s full of games ...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]…
... line, so I can load random noise or tones into a ... , this all detracts from the number of attribute bytes that can ...Model Railway Timetable Version 1.4.12.0313...Hi Folks, Since November 2010 I have been working on my [B]Model Railway Timetable [/B]software. Thanks to the considerable help and patience of yo…
... it is, why it generates random defects? Is it a game ... is made up of a number of steps each of which ... then made up of a number of predefined trains/consists.
number of train formatiomns and I ...Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …
... throw away a quarter of "random" numbers, so why not to ... mind to start with different number in DE (and checking this ...Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …
... s AY emulation for random noise generation. I know ... away a quarter of "random" numbers, so why not ... to start with different number in DE (and checking ... this different number at the end)[/QUOTE]< ... have already visited). The number was calculated to be ...Games Club WC 1/4/12jeez these come round fast World Heavyweight Boxing - Herron Software Biff - Beyond Belief Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Ocean Software Ltd is it …
... the authors also produced a number of educational titles, so maybe ... it? That's just a random guess...
Anyway, I ...Things to ponderJust some questions that have tugged at my curiosity recently, and since I'm stuck here sorting out a laptop (gorgeous Saturday, tons of things I cou…
... pallette (limited not in the number of colours, but in the ... /> - Clicks on popups seemingly at random, visits dodgy porn sites ("[B ...Is the Text Adventure mail-order community still alive?I miss the days of Zenobi, FSF adventures, compass, all those mail order companies. And of course the general bitchiness they had against each other …
... one of the three at random, as everyone else had. Once ... whole game, scoring the maximum number of points (250) without referring ...Official CSSCGC 2012 Competition Threadcsscgc2012 already got it's first entry (from R-Tape) :) So I'm almost forced to start the new official csscgc thread here. The official c.s.s Crap …
... a good number :D
[url]http://cgc.zx.gen.tr ...Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... halves of the 32 bit number would introduce some correlation between ... [B]bitstreams[/B] themselves are random - it doesn't care if ... 16bit or 32bit or 64bit number originally. Good generators don't ...Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... sure the bitstreams themselves are random - it doesn't care if ... 16bit or 32bit or 64bit number originally.
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number and keeping the bottom 15 ... the quality of 16-bit random numbers so I'd prefer ...Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... to generate a FP number this means 4 calls ... a ZX Spectrum FP Number I use the ... We already have a random 32 bit random mantissa in ED CB ... we have [0 .. 1) FP number;
; Renormalize:
; ... code]Now when popping the random bytes into HLDE, if ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... specified.
Benchmark 2: random printing. Characters are printed in ... random locations. Character colour is not ... hl,de ;now HL has number of chars written * 3
Help needed... RND in machine codeI have been battling away trying to convert a simple BASIC routine (below) to machine code, but to no avail. The routine is used to fire 2 bullets a…
... a number in the accumulator from 0 to 3. If the "random ...Encyclopaedia GalacticaThis is the development thread for Encyclopaedia Galactica, the game upon which I'm currently working, along with a few others. The idea is that the…
... produced randomly from a random 8 bit number, broken into 2 bit ...Encyclopaedia GalacticaThis is the development thread for Encyclopaedia Galactica, the game upon which I'm currently working, along with a few others. The idea is that the…
... produced randomly from a random 8 bit number, broken into 2 bit ...Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... is evenly distributed, "looks" very random, and only repeats after generating ... good on calculating the next number such that the sequence of ... you need for a great random generator implementation.Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... period, which is the number of random values it can generate before ... appear in the sequence). The number of bits in the internal ... generator is usually used as random values in some statistical simulation ... it is as far from random as it can be. Therefore ...While working on ZX81 1K Hires games...I am working on hires games on a 1K ZX81. While doing I am planning on a new way of displaying a 3D view maze. This should give room in 1K ZX81 for…
... /> [FONT=Courier New]5) 3D Random maze[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier ... ) Find the exit in ANY random maze.[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier ... city. You may skip the number of blocks shown.[/FONT]
So what makes a great OS?So what if you were given a free hand in designing an Operating System what would you want. The reason I ask is every time a new version of Windows …
... simple method to reduce the number of colours (to, say, 2 ... a plug or (perhaps) a ?random? restart mode, for fun.
Random number from a rangeHow can I generate in assembly a random number from a range, let's say 0-21 or 0-57? There are generators which make it 0-255. By using bit masks I…
Well, i quite not understand why simply dont use
RND()*range.
Take 8bit(16bit) value as fixed point number in rangeRandom number from a rangeHow can I generate in assembly a random number from a range, let's say 0-21 or 0-57? There are generators which make it 0-255. By using bit masks I…
[QUOTE]Well, i quite not understand why simply dont use
RND()*range.
Take 8bit(16bit) value as fixed point number in rangeRandom number from a rangeHow can I generate in assembly a random number from a range, let's say 0-21 or 0-57? There are generators which make it 0-255. By using bit masks I…
... 's say I want a number from the range 0-44 ... , though - if you're generating random numbers in the same range ...Random number from a rangeHow can I generate in assembly a random number from a range, let's say 0-21 or 0-57? There are generators which make it 0-255. By using bit masks I…
... method only affects the final number in the reduced range.
Random num in range 0-5 ... 0-255 mapping to another number is the final 43.Random number from a rangeHow can I generate in assembly a random number from a range, let's say 0-21 or 0-57? There are generators which make it 0-255. By using bit masks I…
... method only affects the final number in the reduced range.[/QUOTE ... -43 (44 max).
Random num in range 0-5 ... 0-255 mapping to another number is the final 43.[/QUOTE ...Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
... up legal issues completely at random in this stage and in ... these issues could multiply the number of border crossings I made ... with the number of clones (including their ROMs ...
