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  • Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…

    ... save routine. The screen loads fine if I use the loader in ... , but the copy of the loader doesn't even recognise the ... using the copy of the loader, when it's turbo load ...
    mulder mulder September 2005 Development
  • sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …

    ... '88) pages 88-89 - a short article at the bottom, although ... 'll get a sprite handling routine written by Raffaelle Cecco, which ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2005 Development
  • Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.

    ... is just a realtime WAV loader.'

    B: ... /> [quote]
    The WAV loader takes the pulses from the ... tape mode, the same routine handles the incoming signal ... lack of a WAV loader combined with it's ... , because Klive had no WAV loader.

    [quote ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Emulators
  • divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…

    ... maps in whenever a tape routine in ZX ROM is reached ... which ones belong to loading routine (this sounds easy but it ... programs that use standard ROM loader should be stored in a ...
    baze baze October 2005 Development
  • Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…

    I try to be short. Indeed that software authors have ... simple want too much in short life. To get/know loading ... newer PC). Maybe cracked standard loader is good enough for some ...
    piters piters October 2005 Development
  • JON NORTHHi Jon, i just followed the last thread with some interest. I used to send you hacks years ago and got a few published in YS!! I can only say dont g…

    ... 's nickname for the Firebird loader because it sounded like it ... have called it the BBC loader because of that hex countdown ... cracked the decrypters, patched the loader and kicked it off). Therefore ... enough space to write a routine that waited for a keypress ...
    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Development
  • Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…

    ... :
    I try to be short. Indeed that software authors have ... simple want too much in short life. To get/know loading ... /> [quote]
    Maybe cracked standard loader is good enough for some ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Development
  • Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…

    ... tape. If the ROM routine is called we know that ... get the timings from the loader itself, which will require ... disassembling the loader while you emulate... And even ... Again, you can disassemble the loader whilst you're emulating, automatically ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Development
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... this program used the ROM-loader and the code had 48K ... by copying the entire ROM-routine and to prevent a RET ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... /> Thanks for the turboload/save routine you sent me ages ago ... /> It was indeed the ROM loader LDIR'd into place printed ... /> That is to say, the routine to move the code and ...
    DEATH DEATH November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…

    ... if the custom loader uses any wierd timings, short pilot etc. ID ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2005 Emulators
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... it does a short-leader call to the ROM loader for the ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... it does a short-leader call to the ROM loader for the ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…

    ... only programs using the ROM loader, so a very simple format ... stored. Only the standard ROM routine is used for loading from ...
    CUCHULAINN CUCHULAINN January 2006 Emulators
  • Funniest Spectrum-related memorySeeing the emulated loading screen on the Dreamcast speccy emulator reminded me of something from many moons ago. I was in the local computer shop w…

    ... the spectrum's ROM SAVE routine (which is what all these ... only save, at best, just short of 64K and so...
    Marko Marko January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Funniest Spectrum-related memorySeeing the emulated loading screen on the Dreamcast speccy emulator reminded me of something from many moons ago. I was in the local computer shop w…

    ... the spectrum's ROM SAVE routine (which is what all these ... only save, at best, just short of 64K and so...
    JasonWatkins JasonWatkins January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Phantomas Infinity ReleasedAt last, we're proud to present Phantomas Saga: Infinity. You can download them free from CEZ Games Studio page. We hope you'll enjoy so much as we…

    okay, short video - shot very briefly with ... /W

    notice the loader stripes giving response to a ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup March 2006 Games
  • Run Length DecodingRun length encoding/decoding is far less efficient than using a modern compression program.

    ... />
    this is pretty stupid routine, if i REALLY want to ... number of bytes in chunks (short chunks of packed bytes will ...
    Fikee Fikee March 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    I once used OUT (well, to be exact I think it was OTIR) in a short machine-code routine (12 bytes or so) to give an "earthquake" effect to a BASIC game, by rainbow-striping the border and sounding a short burst of white noise on the beeper...
    robert@fm robert@fm March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... />
    I have written this short BASIC program (based on one ... at disassembling the line drawing routine in the speccy ROM which ... same principle as the BASIC routine.

    Obstacles, inertia etc ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... request, sorry :smile: The output routine really needs to be more ... I'd suggest for your short-list of machines to support ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…

    Hi. This is a short-ish answer as I'm ... memory, then in your MC routine you'd pick the numbers ...
    icabod icabod April 2006 Development
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... way. Loading a machine code routine requires a little setup in ... is loaded in is a short BASIC program called Program xxx ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2006 Development
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... to write a BASIC header/loader (it now loads and executes ... the hell - my first real routine! :D

    Thanks for ...
    48K 48K April 2006 Development
  • How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…

    ... shortcut the loop, so the loader thinks it has an edge ... /> You can detect each loader with a small routine for each - that ... , so Marko wrote a detection routine for SPIN which detects pretty ... the newer ones). When the loader is detected, the loop shortcut ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Emulators
  • How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…

    ... pretty simplistic "wait for edge" routine, even if the rest of ... , either by recognising the specific loader code as a pattern, or ...
    Laser Laser May 2006 Emulators
  • How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…

    ... need to either develop a routine that recognises these loops, or ... stripes still occur since the loader is still running, but stripes ... pretty much means taking the loader, discarding it, and loading the ... yourself and then telling the loader it's done the job ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Emulators
  • How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…

    ... reliability reasons. In theory, a loader could check the R register ... . Of course, a sophisticated detection routine would figure that out, and ... 're going to slow the routine down as end-of-frame ... when you're in a loader - blitzing the edges through is ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Emulators
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