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The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
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Spectaculator QuestionsI've been messing around with this great emulator, and was surprised how easy it was for me to load a game from minidisc into Spectaculator as if it …
... . ie, load the game, choose "Save Snapshot" and specify "tape.tzx ... /> Split memory in 2-3 segments, put stack in screen, save all ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
... memory. I had a quick look and it looks like the save ... hit Alt-F9 to dump memory to disk, starting at ... obviously too large for memory so I assume it ... back in the debugger, save $9500 bytes starting at ... setting breakpoints and dumping memory until we reach $836F ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... in the ez80. Since each memory fetch was 16 bits wide ... effective address calculations seem to save 2 cycles (from 5 on ... -
Pixel Explosion CodeJust a little snippet to cause explosive effects. It uses table lookups for the screen address, and can handle up to 32 pixel particles. A particle…
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How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... disk system with a snapshot save, so I'd just press ... the button and save state to disk, which took ... to fit at once in memory on the Spec) and no ... -
How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... M/C routines directly on memory (I used this to NOP ... the program is finished, I save it on a TZX, change ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... had just enough extensions to save my bacon.
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... is just a smart DMA memory move. It would be part ... a major rework of the memory and video timing unless you ... to the standard speed for memory accesses. But that's only ... the toilet and nothing would save them. -
Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... father now), I'll save my bug reports for next ... something.
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Save button in the toolbar always ... executes "SAVE AS..." we want a proper "Save" and "Save As..." :)< ... Screens[/url]) How about auto memory conserver? Removing all REM ...Currah MicrosourceHi Anyone here got a Currah Microsource ? I have one, its one of the original eval units complete with 'draft' manual. Just interested to see how …
... page back in OR (b) save the MicroSource ROM to tape ... a tape routine in uncontented memory.
The challange continues ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... way to draw into another memory area, then copy that area ... was: draw in main screen, save it in ram disk file ... main screen, activate main screen, save it in in ram disk ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... /> [1] Actually, it does disable memory contention to save a few cycles.Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... run from very low in memory which on the 2068 overlaps ... spectrum (FILE->EXPORTS->SAVE WITH ZX SPECTRUM PLAYER). This ...Spectrum Composite video connections?Is it possible to modify a standard 48K spectrum to give composite video output? In my experience i have found the quality of the picture out of the…
... I'm right, you can save some money and not bother ... Speccies. For example, the 41256 memory chip can be used in ...Component Equivalents/substitutionsA while ago, I mentioned to somebody in a thread that we should have a list of component equivalents and substitutions so that it's easier to fix our…
... do? It allows tape load/save and deals with the screen ... flash ROM to replace the memory. But I suspect at that ...Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... SmallC code in it) - that save hand writing it anyway.[/FONT ... ) of generating output text from memory and store it into an ...Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... using an absolute address in memory after having loadded it in ... really so no worries about memory usage going through the roof ... is the question of memory bandwidth, if the memory I/O isn ... level data, allow people to save/load progress and the like ...Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... , negative numbers, + operator to concatenate strings, one character string slicing (a ... functions and instructions, out of memory checking.
[url]http ...Who knows how to program a "pathfinder"?Hi all. I like to play games like "Colour Lines" and I think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy - until this "dam…
... common and helps to keep memory requirements down (even for a ... this node to it" would save on memory. Then each path is ... puts a better cap on memory requirements.Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks
... be achieved with:
SAVE "name" CODE 16384,49152: GO ... n
which will save a complete snapshot of the ... , you need to load fulll memory and you cannot enter the ... not possible since the whole memory is used.
(but ...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…
... window n. Special character strings could be used to send ... ; I like to terminate strings like C strings
main ... info on the 128k memory model in particular would be ... />
Pageing (a segmented memory model) introduces complications, but that ...Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... CPC. Can't load or save yet, but you can have ... course without sharing program area, memory free for Locomotive Basic is ...Little BASIC gameTry to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it. Not allowed i.e. : PRINT USR 1362 D - Break cont-repeats but ok 10 GO TO 10 RU…
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[B]4 Out of memory, 0:1[/B]
SAVE "Long File Name"
[B ...Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... , so AFAIK you can't save anything to the disk (including ... ROMs etc in the interface memory.Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... , so AFAIK you can't save anything to the disk (including ... like multiple snapshots in the memory, more flexibility for the firmware ...Component Equivalents/substitutionsA while ago, I mentioned to somebody in a thread that we should have a list of component equivalents and substitutions so that it's easier to fix our…
... do? It allows tape load/save and deals with the screen ... flash ROM to replace the memory. But I suspect at that ...Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... , so AFAIK you can't save anything to the disk (including ... ROMs etc in the interface memory.[/quote]
OS: It ... should reside away from main memory (in the interface). I don ...
