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Dr. Jim's personal Sinclair showcaseThere were some Spectrum-related webpages that I hosted some of my own stuff on, and it's about time it had an extensive rehash. So, over the last we…
... =http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk]RZX Archive[/url].
- Everything you ... Fantastic, and the archives for Sync have [i]loads[/i] of ... -
RZX format updateHello, little heads up for those who frequent these forums but not the other one. With the recent ZXDS release I have implemented RZX recording an…
... ZXDS release I have implemented RZX recording and during its development ... one annoying flaw of the RZX format. The proposal for the ... -
Zero v0.8Pigs can apparently fly because it's the v0.8 update of Zero that no one asked for but is out for public consumption anyway. Grab it [url="https:/…
... the memory.
+ Added RZX Playback Start and Frame end ... ALT.
* Completely rewrote RZX module to follow specs more ... /> - Fixed a couple of RZX bugs.
- Fixed monitor ... flag being incorrectly reset during interrupt (woody).
- Fixed IFF2 ... -
New SPIN 0.3a releaseHi all, here's the next version - mainly a maintenance release, with new bugs :) Here's what's new: V0.3a - Bugs and more tapes -------------------…
... Heels RZX play back at 1000% speed with the sound perfectly sync ... -
New SPIN 0.3a releaseHi all, here's the next version - mainly a maintenance release, with new bugs :) Here's what's new: V0.3a - Bugs and more tapes -------------------…
... Heels RZX play back at 1000% speed with the sound perfectly sync ... -
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... of the tracker during the interrupt so that you can modify ... a tone enabled on the 'sync-buzzer' channel (so that the ... through all paths in the interrupt routine and adjust the 'de ... -
Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…
... to work with the frame interrupt (i.e the raster line ... ]
Use IM2 to sync screen drawing to start of ... /> [quote](and 4) perhaps also interrupt handling in general?)[/quote]
Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…
... game loop taking the frame interrupt in consideration. For a Coupe ... in regards to the frame sync but also in regards to ... /> [quote](and 4) perhaps also interrupt handling in general?)[/quote]
Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…
... game loop taking the frame interrupt in consideration.[/quote]
sync but also in regards to ...Problems playback a Spin generated RZX file in Spectaculator Version 6.20.0540When playing back an RZX file generated by the rollback version of Spin, I get the following error about 2/3 of the way through: Spectaculator canno…
... has them) there may be interrupt scheduling issues, there may be ... bugs in SPIN's RZX implementation.
I really ... fine in SPIN suggests an interrupt issue to me, though.
Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... , which are timed by vertical sync. Set the clock speed to ... whether you override the IM2 interrupt. An interesting question arises is ...IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... starts to get our of sync and fall over).
< ... Basic
; **** START INTERRUPT ROUTINE ***
MainLoop:
reti
; **** END INTERRUPT ROUTINE ***
MoveAndPrintSprite:
RZX for Sabre WulfI was just about to send an RZX for Sabre Wulf to the RZX Archive when I noticed they don't accept Ultimate's (and other companies' who haven't given…
... appear not to understand the RZX format: it contains all port ... tricky to get a standalone RZX in sync with a running program ... the same state that the RZX recording started in. Restoring register ...Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
... 's the issue of interrupt retriggering - which means that ... instances can be an interrupt generated very shortly after ... end of the frame. RZX has no official method ... if they allow an RZX to do it at ... may be related to the interrupt-retriggering.
...Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
... , there's the issue of interrupt retriggering - which means that there ... some instances can be an interrupt generated very shortly after the ... />
I never cheat in RZX because I like to feel ...Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
... there's the issue of interrupt retriggering - which means that ... some instances can be an interrupt generated very shortly after ... /> [/quote]
Nope - RZX handles this. See section 2 ... Phil an RZX of NMI 3 part 6 (which has interrupt retriggering ...Will Spectrum run @ 60Hz?Sorry to overlap w/ my other recent post, but want to know, if I grab a Spectrum and use it in America with a voltage converter or a different power …
... the interupt signal and screen sync. The Spectrum should happy run ... as I say above the interrupt signal is not generated internally ... , and have better hardware based interrupt architechture).
[ This Message ...Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?Does anybody have Hacker2 RZX file?
... little I understand, an RZX records merely the key presses ...
Sort of correct. RZX records all bytes read by ... things have gone out of sync. In many games, that ... bus (which is why Arkanoid RZX files are large).
... or disk loading via RZX files. I haven't ...JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... , no snaps saving, no any interrupt - just like reall Speccy) !!
RZX archive but for the fact ... />
As mentioned before the RZX archive is not a competion ...JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... , no snaps saving, no any interrupt - just like reall Speccy) !!
RZX archive but for the fact ... />
As mentioned before the RZX archive is not a competion ... was trying to criticise the RZX Archive. Both your site and ...Games that could do with running faster, without affecting the timer, the music or the controlsRegarding the topic on the emulation forum, what Spectrum games do you think would benefit from a speed boost? Nowadays, most of us play Spectrum gam…
... be timed off the 50Hz interrupt so are at normal pace ... Island Dizzy times everything by interrupt so the game is no ... fast music too - no sync to the interrupt. And another example is ... , but music timed by the interrupt so plays normally. (I have ...Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …
[QUOTE=aowen]Copy it to the viewable screen area on an interrupt sync.[/QUOTE]
I guess this one will be slower than just doing an OUT (or several, I'm not really familiar with the method).Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …
... viewable screen area on an interrupt sync.[/QUOTE]
The trouble ...RZX Archive is back!The RZX Archive is back up and running. A big thanks to Martijn for helping me out! Cheers, Daren
... 179825]The spin only booty rzx works fine in spectaculator 6 ... write RZX frames as per the spec if a re-triggered interrupt ... occured. The RZX files themselves are corrupt ... working. Better to have proper RZX files IMO, otherwise we're ...RZX Archive is back!The RZX Archive is back up and running. A big thanks to Martijn for helping me out! Cheers, Daren
... write RZX frames as per the spec if a re-triggered interrupt ... occured. The RZX files themselves are corrupt ... working. Better to have proper RZX files IMO, otherwise we're ... be added to spectaculator's rzx?Fuse for Mac OS X 0.8.0-pre2A new public preview of the next version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.net/pr…
... A-E files from the RZX Archive which don't play ... Weidersehen Monty (definitely a retriggered interrupt problem; see [url]http://sourceforge ... it to be a retriggered interrupt problem)
Back to the ...Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... instructions would get out of sync from the expected pattern. The ... it from when the Z80 interrupt occurs? This is offset exactly ... />
I mean, the IM2 interrupt takes 19T states to reach ...50Hz on PC?Hi, do you know of any emulator for PC that can switch monitor refresh rate to 50Hz or closest possible and sync ZX interrupt with monitor refresh?…
[quote=zub;223929]If you could get Fuse for Windows to sync to 50 Hz, then be my guest! :)[/quote]
What about syncing it to "any" monitor interrupt? OK, emulation will be faster. I can live with that.50Hz on PC?Hi, do you know of any emulator for PC that can switch monitor refresh rate to 50Hz or closest possible and sync ZX interrupt with monitor refresh?…
... syncing it to "any" monitor interrupt? OK, emulation will be faster ... at 100 Hz, you could sync to every other frame, and ...
