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For Sale Box no.20Morning all, another box of odd sized things. Box 20 Odd Shaped Things Laser Basic ? Ocean IQ 2 x Superchess 3.5 ? CP Software Superchess 3.0 ? CP …
... Artist II ? Softechnics
Command Performance ? U.S.Gold (Compilation)
Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
... /> jr c,NOSPACE ;if not RND,INKEY$,PI
ld a ...Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…
... is done on a basic (RND*2) command which then determines ...SpecBAS 0.724 Now available!Hi folks - Again, a new SpecBAS for you. Some stunning bugs made their way into the last one, so I had to get a new version out sharpish. And for o…
Hi folks -
Again, a new SpecBAS for you. Some stunning bugs made their way into the last one, so I had to get a new version out sharpish. And for once, you windows folks are at the bleeding edge :)
Anyhoo, new features are few ...Code optimisation - can you help?Hi Folks, I have been looking at the following code fragment for days and I have been able to improve its performance quite a bit. However, it is a…
... been able to improve its performance quite a bit. However, it ...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…
... reduce memory and/or increase performance. Getting the code to run ...30th PDF IS HERE!!!!![url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/extras/30thAnniversary/ZXSpectrum30thAnniversaryCommunitySouvenir.pdf[/url] OMG we got it out on t…
... .sendspace.com/file/cfqtn1[/url] RND's very own personal download ...Imperica - Horizons - End of Day 1Just got back from the big smoke. We started with a live performance of 'Hey, Hey, 16K' by MJ Hibbett, a history of computing from Crash's Prestel m…
... /> We started with a live performance of 'Hey, Hey, 16K' by ...Dimming the screen...Hi Folks, I was hoping someone on here could help me with a wee machine code routine. I have written the following example in BASIC: [CODE]100 REM…
... : PRINT AT y,x; PAPER RND*7;" ": NEXT x: NEXT y ...Eurogamer report on Horizons, a celebration of the ZX Spectrum[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-of-raspberries-and-spectrums[/url] Gasman gets a mention for his live performance of a speccy vers…
... a mention for his live performance of a speccy version of ...CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…
... /> org 40000
call rnd ; BASIC driver
ld c ... ,0
ret
rnd ld de,0 ; c,i ... = t / 256
ld (rnd+1),de
ld ...happy birthday RNDhave a good .. if not random one..
have a good .. if not random one..Game BoosterAnyone here use it? I've recently been experimenting with Gamecube emulation and most games are only giving me about 30fps instead of 60, so, I was l…
... on how I could boost performance and I found a video ... />
Aparently, it boost game performance by shutting down all un ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... use sprite tiles anyway for performance reasons.
The program ...Multicolor/RGB3/3color fast low flicker software available?After giving myself a near migraine looking at 3 colour image (3 frames, red, green blue) anim gifs in a test version of image to zx spec I'd like to…
... along the lines of the performance of the fatware gigascreen viewer ...Image To Zx Spec 1.3.3_02 - ready for more languagesI'm just preparing a new build of Image To Zx Spec (1.3.3_02) and was wondering if anybody else wanted to contribute a translation of the app's text …
... not the 32bit version - the performance difference is significant. On my ...Image To Zx Spec 1.3.3_02 - Video And Performance ImprovementsI've released Image To ZX Spec 1.3.3_02. In addition to the changes below one notable change is the ability to convert much larger videos as there i…
I've released Image To ZX Spec 1.3.3_02.
In addition to the changes below one notable change is the ability to convert much larger videos as there is no longer a need to buffer all video frames beforehand.
Changes:
Version 1 ...Hidden message in Down To EarthJust found this in the Down To Earth code. I like reading these old messages left behind by programmers. [code]WELCOME TO ORIFICE Credits Darren B…
... FOR-NEXT loop,
a RND & a devious POKE command ...Designing a Modern 'Professional' low cost ZX Spectrum ??Hi, I'm looking at designing a low cost hight performance (20MHz) ZX Spectrum... in the mould of the original, but using modern-day components. The…
... designing a low cost hight performance (20MHz) ZX Spectrum... in the ...last live band you saw?just realised that I can't even remember the last time I watched a live band/music performance. Must be over 5 years I reckon, possibly it was dj hyp…
... watched a live band/music performance. Must be over 5 years ...Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…
... test whether this improves rendering performance or not.
The ...BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …
... it doesn't need much performance, so it wasn't a ...Games with reflections in (i.e. with working mirrors)On another forum, the question arose of why modern games mostly don't have reflective mirrors, when they have almost every other visual effect you co…
... a small resolution to increase performance, which is why they often ...Happy birthday RND!Hope it's a good 'un. (Don't forget to RANDOMISE.)
Hope it's a good 'un.
(Don't forget to RANDOMISE.)display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... rest being either setup or performance enhancements. The two versions work ...New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…
... Patrick Rak's XOR Shift RND generator, and Einar's 'Dragon ...Hack Circus - an evening of time travel (and Spectrums)This weekend sees the inaugural [url=http://hackcircus.com/][b]Hack Circus[/b][/url] event in London, in what will hopefully be a regular series of t…
... to give a Speccy music performance there. In line with the ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... freely without any impact on performance. If you want to animate ..."8-Bit Bach" up-to-dateNot brand new, but after a long time I did notice of little errors during the performance of several tracks inside the program that I have to fix the…
... of little errors during the performance of several tracks inside the ...
