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Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…
... standard PAL Spectrums drew the screen 50 times a second so ... can't update the screen that often in your program, you would ... use the "next frame" key in your player and see if ... are any changes on the screen. -
packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…
... and say screen maps, char packers etc also.. compression in general ... point, thanks in advance.[/QUOTE]
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When would you use LD A,R ?Can anyone tell me a practical use of LD A,R and LD R,A I am confused when you would need to use it? Cheers
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When would you use LD A,R ?Can anyone tell me a practical use of LD A,R and LD R,A I am confused when you would need to use it? Cheers
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many scr files to tap fileguys, I know that threads like this have existed in the past, but i'm gonna try to get a video onto speccy. The +3e to be exact. figured i'd use full…
... with HL set to the position in RAM i want it to ... a look at your code in the example you posted and ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... like BetaBasic is put in memory, on a STANDARD ... compilers had to run in a restricted memory space ... The output of cross-compilers in general and Boriel's basic ... compiler in particular is a standalone ... to create a table in MC your self is the ... -
Jet Set Willy on Commode64Bit of a Commode mood at the moment. Just looked at map of Jet Set Willy on the Commode, and it seems, small. (excuse the width) [img]http://plus4…
... originally a 7-screen platformer written in just under 4K ... code, which is already in the WoS archive.
... has little in common with Area 51, in fact it ... written earlier. Much earlier, in fact. Most of the ... was written in 1995, and finished off in 2003/4 ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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Come along chaps......(From the Dr.Who Thread...) [QUOTE=guesser;412226]oh dear, I've been told off! sorry for losing my temper and taking everything out on you ewgf. Yo…
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True, but also bear in mind that the Sinclair retroscene ... sinclair Usenet newsgroup was created in 1993 when running SincNews ... s decline because their own position in the community has had ... enough to hook those people in who could contribute something ... -
Plasma Ball (missing something?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003757&loadpics=3"]Plasma Ball[/URL] V A M or perhaps A V M lower right ... no clue what th…
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Pete Ranson (middle initial)Hey Martijn, do you also want to know people's middle initials? (so as to keep a complete record of who's who, i.e. to make sure there are no doubles…
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Highest rating for a Spectrum game ever.I'm just curious to find out what game had a highest rating of any Spectrum game ever. Lets look at two view points on this question: The highest r…
Wanted: Monty Mole - Stuck, please help!Hi, I used to have this game in the early 80's and always got stuck in the same place. I have since re-discovered it via the emulator. I'm stuck in t…
... Mr. Skargill in the loading screen.
The cans in the game ...Fuse & ubuntuAnybody got Fuse running on UBUNTU ?? If u have, how did you do it ?? from source or do you know of an .deb. Cheers
Is it possible to make full screen resolution 1024x768 in fuse like in Unreal speccy emul ? I can only open 2x2 window.Turbo LoadersI absolutely love the different loading schemes that were used on the Spectrum over the years. There are a couple of questions that I have been meani…
Fighting Warrior isn't just the coloured bars...but the weird way the screen pic loads in. Kinda like how the later Alcatrazz loaders work visually, but without a turbo AFAIK.Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... Beccy;418958]Wasn't Dictator in basic? I used to love ... the garbish attr effect was in mc. but i believe the rest ...Speccy puzzle games for on the move? (via DS emulator)Any recommendations for puzzle games that are good to play in 5 or 10 minute bursts? Level based would be ideal, as I could do a few levels at a tim…
... is the best level per screen puzzle game in the archive.Speccy puzzle games for on the move? (via DS emulator)Any recommendations for puzzle games that are good to play in 5 or 10 minute bursts? Level based would be ideal, as I could do a few levels at a tim…
[QUOTE=Jumping Stack;420292]IIRC the DS emulator doesn't do TRD/Pentagon files but if it does then Fire N Ice is the best level per screen puzzle game in the archive.[/QUOTE]
ZXDS supports Pentagon.Name this game pleaseSomeone has emailled me asking about this game. I can't think what it might be - I'm not even sure it's a Spectrum game. here goes... "It was a pla…
I think the key is [I]'The game had distinctive ghosts or ghouls who would hover and they were purple and green and [B]these would hover on the menu screen [/B]and in the game'[/I]
I think I 've got it on the tip of my tongue... :-?OR in a IFHi guys, I have a string that is defined by the user. I want to have an IF that does something like IF string<> a OR b OR c THEN goto 10 Hope that m…
... capable of supporting C and asm programming and can easily ... work is done in the asm library code or in asm code you write ... yourself. You can drop asm ... eg.
If programming in BASIC you should be using ...shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…
... sprites does DD have on screen at once?
screen rather than scroll, right ... have to redraw whole screen, so I can ... from backbuffer to screen buffer] then in the interrupt service ... (using interrupt mode 2), in the function "isr".
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
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B3. In the GUI, you select one ... will be replaced by CHR$(13) in the compressed data). ... it) does not appear in the resultant compressed data.< ... are all then concatenated, in order, into a single ...Reading Kempston MouseI have been looking at Velesoft's design for the Kempston Mouse interface and am puzzled over the description for reading port 64223 (the Kempston mo…
... useful for snapshot saving devices - in particular, without a mechanism like ... of the 128K's screen buffers is in use. It's a ... slightly odd thing to include in a mouse interface perhaps - but ...Reading Kempston MouseI have been looking at Velesoft's design for the Kempston Mouse interface and am puzzled over the description for reading port 64223 (the Kempston mo…
... useful for snapshot saving devices - in particular, without a mechanism like ... of the 128K's screen buffers is in use. It's a ... slightly odd thing to include in a mouse interface perhaps - but ...Some Beeper TunesAfter doing a verion of [URL="http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/popcorn.szx"]popcorn[/URL] a few weeks back, I got a bit carried away with doing a f…
... information to anyone who interested in beeper trackers.
The ... , reverse-engineering is the pain in the asm - you've got thousands ... beeper engine for ZX Spectrum, in terms of balance the sound ...Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…
... . That's why a screen capture/photo in FIT mode, and knowing ...Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]
... outputs to VRAM while the screen is being shown (e. ... passed to the videoprocessor (documented in TMS9918 datasheet), which aren' ... that don't emulate screen corruption, or in their MSX2 (which ... complaints after release because the screen gets corrupted on many ...Games to include for Retro Rewind...So I'm bringing some kit to Retro Rewind. Two ethernet-equipped Spectrums (a rubber key and a +3), and a fileserver for both. Which games should be …
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Wow, very nice screen! I also like the subject ... ! And very nice letters! any screen of the in-game??Games to include for Retro Rewind...So I'm bringing some kit to Retro Rewind. Two ethernet-equipped Spectrums (a rubber key and a +3), and a fileserver for both. Which games should be …
[QUOTE=Ivanzx;435097]Wow, very nice screen! I also like the subject, Haunted houses! And very nice letters! any screen of the in-game??[/QUOTE]
What d'yer think CodenameV, shall I?
