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New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
... commands, making calls to the ROM routines for the remainder. However, occasionally ... some that replace particularly slow ROM routines with their own code. That ... , and The Colt has some useful extensions for people writing arcade ... -
Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... scratch (rather than little standalone routines which get called and return ... SP,nnnn does come in useful in "advanced" Z80 coding (by ... the reason for. The ZX81 ROM code I've been wrestling ... -
Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... (assuming you are not in ROM):
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... push the addresses of routines you want to ... is commonly seen in ROM with RST commands, but ... ; location of RET in ROM
DEC SP
Stack is extremely useful thing and really worth understanding ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... anything that might be useful to people[/b], and ... 2000)
* Advanced IF2 Simulator [ROM] (2001)
* BMP2SCR (2001 ... Harlequin
* Contributed routines from SE Basic to the ... abbreviations in the Gosh Wonderful ROM
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Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …
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stackbc equ 2D2Bh ;16K ROM, stacks BC onto calculator
let equ 2AFFh ;16K ROM, 'LET' statement handling routine
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About divIDE firmwaresI was testing a original divIDE, and I've found that it seems that firmware development is non existant. - FATware doesn't support TZX, and doesn't …
... %-complete project [i]is[/i] useful to other developers, and I ... mechanism is to trap the ROM routines, and turbo loaders, by definition ... , don't use the ROM routines. To be honest I think ... files out there just using ROM loaders, and being able to ... -
Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... i cannot call any dos routines from the upper bank (as ... i can call some routines in the 48K ROM from now and ... /> Thanks for your patience and useful tips guys, this is something ... -
New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... even provided SPIN with the ROM to make it easier but ... teach something that could be useful on modern powerful platforms.[/QUOTE ... clever double-buffered software sprite routines, and making hardware do things ... -
'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... info in order to use ROM routines (addresses, arguments, limitations, potential ... and this knowledge can be useful only in rare cases. I ... , not 'black box' of ROM, which you can't even ... you should understand that the ROM routines are not designed to be ... -
'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... /> Some games uses ROM routines or rely to ROM content in some way ... of this), others not. The routines are mostly useless for games ... -integer calculations, and could be useful for limited amount of non ... -
How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…
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Lots of ROM routines expect their parameters to be ... use the routines in your own programs it's often useful to ... -
How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…
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Lots of ROM routines expect their parameters to be ... use the routines in your own programs it's often useful to ... -
WIP: Another demoIt's a couple of months already since I've released something, so I thought it's fun to show a demo of the thing I'm currently working on: [url]http…
... to write your own sprite routines. A pre-shifted XOR routine ... your main loop as the ROM interrupt routine increments this byte ... same, as it's a useful counter). If 2 interrupts have ... ) and break out of those routines as soon as the 2 ... -
Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... routine jumps to the normal ROM-loading routine. So I ... Basic instead of the Rom-Routine and loaded the ... the Call of the Rom-Routine. That?s very ... :-D ), but may also be useful to save time if someone ... br /> - The BASIC loading routines need an extra POKE to ... -
BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy
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* Bitwise operators - useful for maximising storage
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The SE Basic ROM, BetaBasic, HiSoft BASIC, YS MegaBASIC ... most or all of the routines with assembly code. -
Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]
... - Character and string printing routines
[B]Useful[/B]
... 08 - Number to string converting routines
[B]What?[/B]
ROM routines as well[/B]
... point (16:16) maths routines for calculating velocity, gravity, ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... Z80 to 21Mhz. This is useful in clones when you want ... a clone without licensing the ROM from Amstrad. Unless you have ... 'm interested in add more routines/statements to the compiler. -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... use of trapping some ROM functions to make the ... streams" and "channels" in Sinclairs ROM does not provide anything like ... the registers, since the ROM routines expect their parametres to be ... the same techniques are very useful in the retro hobbyist markets ... -
Making music for the SpectrumI was wondering what programs are about on PC or Spectrum that would allow you to make music for the ZX Spectrum 128k or 48k as i love doing it. Bee…
... very resource light, making it useful for ingame type music, but ... rely on the Speccys own ROM routines, but can't be arsed ... -
Assembly help: EQUCan anyone explain in duffers language the purpose of the EQU term in assembly? I found this info in another thread: EQU: Equate a name to a specif…
... is probably most useful for defining addresses of ROM routines and system variables ... -
Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …
... system variable
call 3503 ;ROM routine to clear the screen ... recommended. As Turkwel says using ROM is not necessarily the best ... routines with your own rules. Personally I use a mix of ROM ... my stuff, I find the ROM mainly useful for text. Have fun! -
New game: WUNDERCHAR$Hi All, Finally finished my latest game: Wunderchar$. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/loadingscr.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://…
... everything myself, you heavily use ROM calls. not bad thing. ... , -3T]
C) in routines level1, level2. etc you sometime ... F) for calls into ROM i would use some definition ... of rom addreses. depending on your ... which you could find useful. -
New game: WUNDERCHAR$Hi All, Finally finished my latest game: Wunderchar$. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/loadingscr.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://…
... everything myself, you heavily use ROM calls. not bad thing. just ... [-1B, -3T]
C) in routines level1, level2. etc you sometime ... would use some definition of rom addreses. depending on your asm ... thoughs which you could find useful. [/I]
Thanks a ... -
Specbas Photo'sOK here's a place to show us some screen grabs of Specbas programs Here are some of my Invaders screen grabs [IMG]http://i699.photobucket.com/album…
... to run the original SpaceInvaders ROM file (which you'll ... customised for that one particular ROM alone...
The ... usual 8x8 attribute boundaries... The routines in the original package allowed ... will your editor be equally useful for for all three? ... -
OpenSE Software CompatibilityWith the earlier Open82 project a page was set up on Wikia ([url]http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Open82[/url]) with compatibility information on var…
... heavily on the original ROM, so I've reverted ... speed of a couple of routines (including the initialization routine), ... bytes to do anything useful with. Where possible I ... to an oft-used ROM call) and the freedom ... not long enough to be useful.
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Play command on divideHi, i thought I'd have a quick go on divide seeing as i had an afternoon spare.However,i can't seem to get the 'play' command on the screen?. It see…
... troubles paging in the 128K rom, even when I used USR ... routine from to my own routines.[/QUOTE]
Interesting. In ... never found PLAY all that useful as it hogs the CPU ... -
Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... times, but never did anything useful with it, and I never ... filesystem, right? And there are ROM routines already working with them, right ... -
Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... filesystem, right? And there are ROM routines already working with them, right ... filesystem drivers to do something useful with the data. I plan ... -
The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... be very useful.
About the 8k /16k rom, here ... />
I have the DISCiPLE rom disassembly in book form (also ... seem to be important routines in the rom (according to the book ... I just checked again: those routines from 0x2000 are merely a ... -
best basic to useAs I like to do a bit of basic programming now and then what do you think is the best basic to work with? It's a pity the ramdisk can't be used on th…
... numbers (and its own math routines). Of course Hi-Soft has ... more dependent on the original ROM the less likely something is ... ROM. Some of the new features of SE Basic are most useful ...
