... that is automatically reset in a loop, so that its expiry ... that address to deal with maskable interrupts. This is the mode ... at a constant rate.
[*] The Basic system's interrupt routine ... in the interrupt vector table with a single byte so that no ...

... for the fan blades and a fixed rate for the pacman munching ... main loop, sp1_MoveSprRel() was called with the "frame" parameter set to 0. This ... ,'a'}, {0x46,'a'}, {0x46,'a'}, {0x46,'a'}, {0x46,'a'}, {0x46,'a'}, {0x46,'a'},
{0x46,'a'}, {0x47,'A'}, { ...

... it and replacing its great operability with flashy gimicks with each new ... stopped and exited rather rudely with a message declaring that Adobe ... />
This is the tactic with DVD - you can buy a player for ... (I ended up using a Perl routine to run in the DOS ...

... would like a more powerful laptop, certainly, and with a widescreen screen ( ... though hopefully that will be fixed by the time of the ... away and buying a new one is replacing, not upgrading.

Still, this does explain why you prefer ...

... to do some better than this: ;-)

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30 rem *A crap and slow game *

... 's quite a CPU-intensive routine, but I get good results with it ... :
1) Select Pentagon mode. This resets the speccy and brings ... other speccy model and reset. This resets the speccy and bring ... Woody says, we've already fixed a few bugs so the new ...

... 16k), as does the interrupt routine -- these two things are constantly ... a
ld hl,text
loop:
ld a,(hl)
or a ... does not specify catalogues -- this is something that has to ... and you eventually end up with a 100% asm program (or ...

... NMI usable or useful in a +3e? Or it just resets ... ?[/QUOTE]

Amstrad fixed the NMI routine with the +3, so it ... , +3e and +2A.

This is one of the things ... , since some games check for a fixed NMI routine.

... /> 1) Bleepload type thing with a hyperload (why didn't Firebird ... means emulating the load routine's instruction-by-instruction cycles ... never seen a custom loader do anything except fixed loading ... />
Thing is, is this possible? It would be interesting ...

... These routines use 8.8 fixed point for mouse coordinate ... .


This reads the Kempston Mouse coordinates ... you also end up with a significant amount of deadspace ... the experience too. So this routine prevents coordinates from wrapping across ...

Fixed the code to account to ... 're testing code which does a timing loop... don't have anything ... />
I just tested it with this code and it works fine ...

... 've not posted in this thread for a couple hours, how ' ... size could probably be lowered with some careful (and clever) ... /> ; and jump to the correct routine from the table.


; now loop subtracting the loop length (21t) from HL ...

First :
The shortest loop should be as fast as ... l,a ; pointer for remains
ld h,128 ; end of this routine ... /> no-exit sub 27 ; decrease with overhead no-exit
dec ... ; H and A holds next value to decrease in loop
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... calculations were done as fixed point with the low byte holding ... used look-up tables with rotations done cummulatively rather than ... remember extracting the sound effects routine too, which I didn ... Si[/QUOTE]

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With one UDG on screen everything ... the main loop the array is set with random x ...
In the main loop the only way I can ... enermy udg is to loop through each udg in ... the routine slows to a crawl.

At this point ...

... return from this function is a new byte but with the ... if I begin with a specific value in "bmp" with binary representation " ... loop running four times) one at a time. Inside the loop we have this ... indeed, "res" ends up with the result "77665544" as advertised ...

... /> [/QUOTE]
I know. This is really a problem because it requires ... deals with printing color codes) and this implementation involves constant changing output routine ... course new BASIC should have this stuff fixed.
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RSXes ...

... /> rr h ;char 8x8 block. This trick taken
rr h ... is the routine anyway.

BTW, the loop routine writes a 8x8 black ... . To use the routine poke address 40000 with the X-coord ( ... upto 56). Execute the routines with a USR 40002.

...

... which does not. This all checked with Spectaculators T state counter ... to work on going faster with this method, attacking that 34000 ... inside the double width helper routine loop is run 64 times for ... get the same scroll speed. With a display on every frame we ...

... can do as the sprite routine is of the slow shifter ... collecting an item, a collision with a nasty, starting a new screen, etc.< ... of the main game loop.

In this way the entire ... .

The problem with nasties leaving different coloured bars ...

... , it was coded this way before I started ... Basically, v1.1 had a fixed frameskip 1, but when ...
[QUOTE=Dunny]This is the trend for all ... as "massively improved, with near fullspeed emulation", but ... were only some of those with idle-loop elimination.

... br />

a) Save 2 positions replacing this:

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with this:

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d) Save 10 positions replacing this:

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... in.[/QUOTE]

Thanks! This time it was really hard ... me know if you disagree with any of these reasons[/QUOTE ... ]

I agree with all your arguments!

a)=52+a-(a=1):
PRINT AT a,0;m$(a*w-11 TO a ...

... QUOTE=Einar Saukas;209455]Thanks! This time it was really hard ... />


I agree with all your arguments!

a)=52+a-(a=1):
PRINT AT a,0;m$(a*w-11 TO a ... *w):
NEXT a:< ... -CODE INKEY$:
FOR a=1 TO l+2:

... better. Save another 3 positions replacing this:

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PRINT ... ;...
...
LET u=p(a)=28*(f>50):
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with this:

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LET ... to the beginning of the loop (before the RND stuff for ...

... do better. Save 3 positions replacing this:

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... -f*(p(a)=28)*u:
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with this:
... better. Save another 3 positions replacing this:

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... to the beginning of the loop (before the RND stuff ...

... you can download from Zilog. This is the complete reference manual ... .

However, in a nutshell, by convention, HL usually ... . When I write a routine that does something with a block of memory, ... djnz uses B as the loop counter, and some instructions ...

... the two selected plots with a maximum of 3 ... this can be fixed later on.

The for loop ... we flip a coin come up with heads and ... loop will continue to run until we've selected a plot with ... will call "place_crystite" with each plot vertically and ...

... s gone ahead and fixed things ahead of schedule, ... b]. The pixel scroll routine requirement has changed (the ... ()" is called by "sp1_IterateUpdateRect()" with a struct SP1 uses to describe ... graphics in a character cell. This struct is a "struct sp1_update ...

... Yes, this makes sense. There's a slight practical difficulty with the ... something like this happens in the main game loop (simplified, ... the middle of the FOR loop! Obviously, the problem ... you call RND only once, replacing this:

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