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  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... />
    It may be the routine that works up the hopper ... move down from above, stops short of the very top rows ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... />
    It may be the routine that works up the hopper ... move down from above, stops short of the very top rows ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2009 Development
  • Hacking a adventure gameHello folks, on the recent issue of SCENE+ Diskmagazin is a game called "By right of Birth",you can find this game also on WOS. Although this magaz…

    ... it uses ROM loader. so exit point of rom routine LD-BYTES ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2009 Development
  • Tape loadersi understand how ROM tape loader works but i dont understand why it so 'complicated'. it measure time until two edges in signal appears. why it does…

    ... more complex than the Spectrum loader. The Spectrum encoding scheme is ... need a more complex save routine, because you'd need to ... used. So the "complex" load routine as it is, is really ... actually the simple load routine. It's a tradeoff - loading ...
    Winston Winston September 2009 Development
  • Hidden routine in loading screenAs discussed in another thread, the loading screen for [B]Back To Skool[/B] seems to have a hidden routine (in blue INK and PAPER). It would be inter…

    ... ]Possibly it is the actual loader / relocation code as (from memory ... sake of obfuscation (the load routine itself is modified in subtle ...
    SkoolKid SkoolKid September 2009 Development
  • The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…

    ... files which have a basic loader with the line [code]LOAD ... />
    The problem is this: Short of mind-reading, overloading the ...
    gasman gasman September 2009 Development
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... the demo! So the music routine has to fit inside 358 ... immediately/continually?
    [/QUOTE]
    Short answer - Yes, you could.. but ...
    evilpaul evilpaul September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Stupid noobie POKEs questionHello all, I was born one year before the Speccy itself, and we always had one in our house - first the 48k rubber-keys, then a +3 - until I got an …

    ... If it's a POKE routine then for realism you'd ... a routine, to distinguish the game modification code from the loader modification ... could be extracted from the routine and entered directly with a ... to type in the whole routine. With emulators, POKEs entered ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2009 Games
  • Stupid noobie POKEs questionHello all, I was born one year before the Speccy itself, and we always had one in our house - first the 48k rubber-keys, then a +3 - until I got an …

    ... used custom high-speed tape loader functions which also had security ... that would load their custom loader program, and modify it so ... - that's the machine code routine to apply the changes, rather ... , and it loads in their loader, modifies it, then sets it ...
    joefish joefish September 2009 Games
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... divide time between the music routine and tape loading. (Well, that ... -acceptable results - but in a loader the timing restrictions are much ... 't an option in a loader).
    gasman gasman September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…

    ... first question, here is a short routine that may help:

    Arjun Arjun October 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Fastest loading cassette game?What was the fastest loading cassette game? Obviously size vs speed has to be compared, but I seem to recall a car racing game which seemed to load …

    ... was very short even when using the default ROM loader.

    Rickard Rickard October 2009 Games
  • szx to real spectrum?Hi, I could not find something about this, but is there any tool that can convert the szx snapshots to tap (for example) or any other way to load th…

    ... data and whacking a loader / de-compress routine onto it? (easy in ...
    fog fog October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • szx to real spectrum?Hi, I could not find something about this, but is there any tool that can convert the szx snapshots to tap (for example) or any other way to load th…

    ... having as small a loading routine as possible. Do you need ... precisely because then your decompression routine is so huge you don ... frozen data and whacking a loader / de-compress routine on it".
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PC booting problem - please helpYet again, I've been asked to downgrade a PC from Windows Vista to XP (this time a mate's niece's laptop), but I've come up against a strange problem…

    ... Vista!) that I know the routine backwards. Desktops are rarely trouble ... 7, especially in such a short space of time. It's ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2009 Chit chat
  • Anybody know how many games supported the fuller boxAnyone know of a list? I found Invasion of the Body Snatchas so far...

    ... AY.) They have a short patch loader to implement the AY apart ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae November 2009 Games
  • AY programming and notes frequencyHello everybody, I'm Targhan from the french CPC group Arkos, perhaps you've heard of us. I'm currently working on a music tool and I'd like to k…

    ... other tables seem to be short by one byte. Also I ... to go in the c_pt3_delay routine in the above code?
    chev chev November 2009 Development
  • New game - All Present and CorrectNew game available from my site or the link below, quickly beaten together with help from Mister Beep, Fikee, Graz & Andrew Owen. [URL="http://www.b…

    ... the files)
    Orfeus (music routine)
    TXTTOBAS (I think that ... ? Used to create the BASIC loader).
    SPIN (for testing)
    bobs bobs December 2009 Games
  • How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…

    ... just to get a simple routine working.

    Have a ... which have a lot of short routines printed in them for ... screen or drawing lines. By short I mean 20ish lines or ... work you can start doing short routines of your own which ...
    ADJB ADJB January 2010 Development
  • Spectrum machine language filesHopefully this will get moderated to the correct forum, if I'm in the wrong place.. I've failed to get my old 48K Spectrum microdrive files, via the…

    ... of a short basic prog onto the 17 byte header loader block ...
    optics42 optics42 January 2010 Emulators
  • Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…

    Chears , will give it a shot.

    Take your time , about the second request.

    Found an MF3 unprotector and basic loader creator.
    This will short the really stubborn games.
    Still prefer the original loading scheme :)
    batsilos batsilos January 2010 Emulators
  • Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…

    ... be disabled by a short M/C routine. I wrote documentation for ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae January 2010 Emulators
  • Tape I/O in z88dkAccording to the documentation, z88dk appears to have facilities in its spectrum-specific library for tape i/o - [url]http://www.z88dk.org/wiki/doku.…

    ... the ROM's SA-BYTES routine at address 0x04c2. You can ... [/url]

    Long story short, this saves "len" bytes of ... success.

    This save routine should work on all spectrum ... the ROM's LD-BYTES routine at address 0x0556. The parameters ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2010 Development
  • Why did Ultimate games load like this?What I remember about the early Ultimate games was the unusual way they loaded. You'd get the BASIC bootstrap loader, then a SCREEN$, then a main bl…

    ... , 23672 is FRAMES so the loader sets the timer to a ... the CODE at 23424. The routine at 23424 does a LDIR ... with POKEs in the BASIC loader. It's quicker than LOADing ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2010 Games
  • Defenda (Interstella) makes resetDefenda from Interstella makes a reset if I take No. 1 Kempston joystick. My jockstick interface is from Ram Electronics (Fleet) Ltd. Joystick is a C…

    ... type.

    Type this short program and press your joystick ... Kempston then MERGE "" the basic loader and insert POKE 36111,223 ... the RANDOMIZE USR in the loader.

    I haven't ...
    FrankT FrankT February 2010 Games
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... jp (hl) ; and go to routine

    keys defm "qaopz ... up .... ; here is the up routine
    ret
    down ....
    This is a very short routine to read 5 valid keys ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... use unless you do a short BASIC loader (start address may be ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... use unless you do a short BASIC loader (start address may be ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…

    ... add BORDER 0 in the loader to prevent it turning white ... just calling the ROM BEEP routine.

    [QUOTE=apenao;430867 ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2010 Development
  • Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…

    ... to have it as a loader :)

    [QUOTE=LCD;431447 ... due until Java 7, in short cross platform avi video codec ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Announcements
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