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  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... way to read input (eg from the keyboard) or write output ... commands, sprite commands, commands for reading the keyboard/joystick/mouse, etc. ... (8-bit signed value -128 to 127), unsigned char ( ... " can occur without a warning from the compiler.

    So ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... reading Alvin's and dom's post regarding the ... } else {
    blank_counter = 128;
    scroll_mode = 1;
    install_next_char ... = 0;
    blank_counter = 128;
    scroll_mode = mode;
    from the wrong offset, but ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... meant. I didn't mean port them to C.
    [/quote ... be for z80 targets but reading about it didn't make ... results are still not had from the compiler. Doing so within sdcc ... keep emphasizing, is where the performance comes from. What is needed is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…

    ... suggested to me to try port scanning... and it worked![/QUOTE ... for figuring out how the ?Source worked. The next version of Fuse ... as IN? PEEKing from 11182 can't toggle the paging, or you ... , 0x1f is the Kempston port and also the Beta 128 command port, so I ...
    zub zub October 2007 Hardware
  • ULA RAS, CAS cycles, refresh and "snow effect"Hello everyone. I have a question, does anyone observed timings of RAS and CAS generated from ULA? I think there may be answer to where the "snow ef…

    Thanks Chris.

    The fact there are no special ... engineers) were aware of the refreshing via reading DRAM. I'm sure ... that mechanism as ULA reads from all 128 rows several times during ...
    brian-82 brian-82 November 2007 Development
  • ULA RAS, CAS cycles, refresh and "snow effect"Hello everyone. I have a question, does anyone observed timings of RAS and CAS generated from ULA? I think there may be answer to where the "snow ef…

    ... engineers) were aware of the refreshing via reading DRAM. I'm sure ... that mechanism as ULA reads from all 128 rows several times during ... Vectron ;-)

    2) The RFSH occurs during T3 and ... fetch. T1 is contended if the instruction fetch is between 0x4000 ...
    csmith csmith November 2007 Development
  • How does the Z80 communicate with hardware?How does the Spectrum (or Z80) interact with other hardware devices? I think devices can communicate with the CPU through interrupts, but how can the…

    ... 's ready to start reading data from the disk ? but the data must then ... be read by the Z80, using the ... mapped I/O instead of the port I/O ? PEEK and POKE ... transfer data to/from a device without having the Z80 transfer each ...
    zub zub November 2007 Development
  • New (easier) speccy games testI've created a new speccy games test: [url]http://www.sometests.com/tests/Gaming/ZXSpectrumGamesTest_EasierVersion_.html[/url] Again it's 20 questi…

    ... do a 16-bit port read to read the keyboard. His example ... but you likely cannot see from the draw code which 2d game ... engine encouraged a generic keyboard reading routine than a 2d game ... up with a decent keyboard reading routine sometime in its spectrum ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2007 Games
  • The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…

    ... generated by the port decode, but everything else is taken straight from the Z80 ... (RD, WR, A0, A1). The timings work ... been a problem, only reading.

    The logic analyzer shows something ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • Graphic equalizer m.c. program neededBack in the 90's I had a full-screen attribute equalizer that was simple, yet very impressive. We used to listen to Vangelis or Jean M Jarre by conne…

    ... music.

    Reading from bit5 of the EAR port and rendering a UV ... program.
    1) Analysing the ear port and processing its input into ... />
    Interpreting the time taken for the EAR to transition from 1-0 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz December 2007 Development
  • Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)

    ... , positive integers only. Even the simplest implementation of printf available ... I would think using itoa from stdlib to get a ... to out individual chars to the serial port in a loop rather than ... tightly coupled, but the rest of the standard C libraries shouldn ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Chit chat
  • The best kind of peripheral/thru port orientation?So, given no standard Speccy backplane, there's soooo many ways you can make a peripheral and through port. You can mount the board vertically, with…

    Yeah, that's what I mean by Multiface 128 style. (Although there's a couple of wrinkles in my implementation because some of the through lines must pass via some logic on the way to and from the through port).
    Winston Winston January 2008 Hardware
  • Detecting a Kempton joystick...I've been playing with the idea in the games I'm currently developing so that once the Kempston joystick has been selected you can hold FIRE down to …

    Thanks for the info. I haven' ...
    ...through SPIN emulating the various machines I've found ... whilst others, most notably the original 128, return mostly 255, but ... 1000 or so reads from the port, and checking to see ... that none of the highest 3 bits get ...
    bobs bobs January 2008 Development
  • Original Kempston interface on a +3Hello everyone, if i insert an original kempston interface in the extension port of a +3 should it work or not? I tried it and the machine didn't bo…

    The expansion port is very clean, i had ... for the 128 heatsink and +2 grey so i get the sound from the sound ... socket and not from the RGB out ... RGB cable for the +3 so the sound it extracted from the RGB socket ...
    gtsamour gtsamour February 2008 Hardware
  • Remakes using Spectrum graphics - worth doing?After reading the comments in this [post=251540]post[/post], I was surprised to see some support for the idea of a PC remake (or sequel) of a Speccy …

    [QUOTE=Mousey;253215]Reading between the lines, it seems ... a recent port of [b]Jetpac[/b] from the Speccy version ... to the Atari 8-bit ... spot on[/i] apart from a speed loss what ... i]crippled[/i] the game in the process... a lot ...
    TMR TMR March 2008 Games
  • 3" disk preservation - optionsFor now we're still able to find old PCs with Floppy drives, floppy drive cables, new PCs that may not have a Floppy drive but still have the FDC and…

    ... port is available on our PC, we could use the RS232 port on the ... +3. Since the Sinclair's serial connector ... Serial-to-DB9 adapter and others have bought such adapter from the ... br />
    If the COM port stops being an option, I ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2008 Hardware
  • 3" disk preservation - optionsFor now we're still able to find old PCs with Floppy drives, floppy drive cables, new PCs that may not have a Floppy drive but still have the FDC and…

    ... port is available on our PC, we could use the RS232 port on the ... +3. Since the Sinclair's serial connector is ... own Serial-to-DB9 adapter and others have bought such adapter from the ...
    glancaster glancaster March 2008 Hardware
  • Speccy's most popular countries?I always wanted to know which countries had the most love for the Speccy (I'm petty like that) so I spent a while trying to get info, as far as i can…

    [QUOTE=snigfarp;259149]Apart from the CoCo, of course (ironically its ... with a real serial port, real keyboard (almost identical to the CoCo3 keyboard ... ), it used the full 64K from BASIC (RAM ...
    JamesD JamesD April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Ethernet updateThis week's theme is [B]Frustration.[/B] [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_events[/url] But I'm confident it will come right.

    ... more thinking of the lines of reducing my port footprint from 4 ports ... to 1 port by having all the CPLD ... /O (because, well, it's reading or writing buffers which are ... how much overlap you get from the rising edge of MREQ to ...
    Winston Winston April 2008 Hardware
  • Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…

    ... it's short. Converting from basic to C in general ... to do is alter the subroutines to port the game. Just put stdio ... )="..." so the assignments are done directly rather than READing them in ... at the start of the program. It ...
    JamesD JamesD June 2008 Development
  • 48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…

    ... 'm pretty sure it was reading one of your old posts ... things...

    The SE roms still have the 128 editor - You basically ... use the SE roms - for example Pippo won't load from tzx ... - but some of the effects will be missing (The nice full screen ...
    thingley thingley June 2008 Games
  • 48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…

    ... 'm pretty sure it was reading one of your old posts ... things...

    The SE roms still have the 128 editor - You basically ... use the SE roms - for example Pippo won't load from tzx ... />
    Ahh, yes, ofcourse. The SE has the 128k editor and everything ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat June 2008 Games
  • ANN: Spectaculator 7Spectaculator 7 is now available! More information is available in the [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/news?ref=wos"]news section[/URL] on the web…

    ... redirect serial data from the 128K and later models to the com port, ... could this be used to establish 2-way communication between the ... a serial cable connected between the com port and the 128K's serial port, ... we could see the emulation of the TS2068 in ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2008 Emulators
  • ANN: Spectaculator 7Spectaculator 7 is now available! More information is available in the [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/news?ref=wos"]news section[/URL] on the web…

    ... redirect serial data from the 128K and later models to the com port, could ... this be used to establish 2-way communication between the ... only designed to capture output from the port(s) - mainly so ... we could see the emulation of the TS2068 in future ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle June 2008 Emulators
  • How to read AY Registers from M/C?Gentlemen, I will appreciate if you can provide me some details on this, as I could not find info in other sources. I would like to know if it's pos…

    ... thread.

    Why drop the OUT ? Surely you need to ... tell the AY that you wish to read from Register 7 before reading ... read from the control port, not the value port. (I misread the response as removing the 1st ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2008 Development
  • RAM paging and port usageDear users and developers, I'm just trying to find some detail information about RAM paging on the Spectrum 128 and later models, especially those a…

    ... that the decoding of "port 0x7ffd" is different on the +3 than than the 128 ... bit 1 of "port 0x1ffd" (port decoding again), the TR-DOS ROM somewhere ... 5 of the page number comes from bit 5 of port 0x7ffd, although ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall June 2008 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 disks.Firstly, thanks to everyone who came up with the +3E and the various interfaces. I've built one and it works fine. Likewise, i have managed to conne…

    ... can mount the disks and let the emulated spectrum ... of them from +3Dos?
    [/quote]
    the mformat program ... on the +3e project's website ... data transfer software around for the serial port?
    [/quote]
    ...
    guesser guesser June 2008 Hardware
  • Spectrum +3 disks.Firstly, thanks to everyone who came up with the +3E and the various interfaces. I've built one and it works fine. Likewise, i have managed to conne…

    ... (the-sinclair-shop) that sells those plugs for serial port on ... Sinclair-QL-Spectrum-128-2-3-Serial-Plugs-10-Pack_W0QQitemZ160251851925QQihZ006QQcategoryZ50223QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742 ... Sinclair-QL-Spectrum-128-2-3-Serial-Plugs-10- ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC July 2008 Hardware
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... just specifies the latter, and the port will need converting from a string ... there's anything to receive) from the buffer and returns it - ... you'll end up blocking. Reading the entire buffer with INKEY$# is ... be very slow compared to reading it all in one ...
    Winston Winston July 2008 Development
  • Problem with Discovery OpusI've just got a Discovery Opus, but it seems to be faulty. When I connect the Speccy and switch it on, it displays the "C 1982 Sinclair Research", …

    ... feeling that this was designed from a 6502/BBC Micro mindset ... 74LS32, which is easily obtainable from Maplin or equivalent.
    < ... this board uses one line from the 6821 PIA as a joystick ... reading and writing. Simply any port access with A5 = 0 will dump the ...
    Phu Phu August 2008 Hardware
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