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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…
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Tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool...Im tinkering with Quique Llar?a's Midi2Ay tool, found at: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/midi2ay-0.1.zip[/url] Im not a v…
... trying to understand why the routine crashes after the music stops ... /> Id like to add a short routine to stop the playing and ... output (just prior the "finrsi" routine)... The Problem is, I don ... can put after this key routine to get it to return ... -
ZX80 Pause Routine?I read this in the first issue of Sinclair User... "Ken MacDonald's [I]Amazing Active Display[/I], a machine code pause routine, showed that there w…
... [/I], a machine code pause routine, showed that there was more ... know where or when this routine was first published? In a ... -
Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
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I've written a short tutorial to get you started ... 'djnz fillscreen'
Because our routine will continue from the loop ... keypress to 'brake')
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ld bc,$1fff ;max ... bc ;save score
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Spectrum loader ringtone! (funds for a good cause)Hey all. Recently, I made myself a Speccy ringtone and I liked it so much, I though I'd share it with all my retro buddies. I've put it up for sale…
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How about we make a video?not that sort..get your mind out of the gutter :) hehe I mean a spoof appeal video .. has it been done before? looking for authors etc of games .. …
... /> do a few REALLY vague / short trailers for it before hand ... play a bit of a loader etc
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Z80 'EXX' ConfusionI was working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run out of registers, resorted to sticking one of the values into a memory location a…
... working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run ... .
I got the routine working, but then wondered if ... bank instead (something in my short Z80 life, I've not ... , but ran into trouble. My routine would run and apparently do ...About wireframe 3d animationAre there any demos or games that have very long 3d animation sequences? Some games have short, repeating animations and I only know of a demo (somet…
... animation sequences? Some games have short, repeating animations and I only ... or complex and the drawing routine was faster than the ROM ... using a separate machine code routine? I'm thinking of Sprite ...Silent ROM Beeper Routine in SpinA new year -- a new idiot question! :) I've been playing around with Spectrum sounds of the old, beepy kind. When I wiggle[1] the speaker 'by hand' …
... Specrum's own ROM 'BEEPER' routine (48k ROM) in Spin 0 ...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…
... game to use a turbo loader? Was it something like ?Daley ... turbo loader? I know ?Moon Cresta? loads in an amazingly short time ...Fastest fill m.c. routine ever?What is the fastest fill routine you've ever seen? Is there a listing somewhere? Most games and adventures that use fill routines were considered slo…
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Example of slow fill routine: The one in 'The Hobbit ... searched the forums for 'fill routine'.[/SIZE]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…
... 'd get the BASIC bootstrap loader, then a SCREEN$, then a ... load two or three very short blocks of code, then the ...Need help with small asm piece of codeI could use some help. I have a number in A register. It can be 1,2,4 or 8 (always only one bit is set) I need to make number transformation: 1 ->…
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I need short and concise routine to do it. I ...machine code player routineHi all, Collecting all my courage to ask more (rather stupid attitude from me, but so difficult to ask questions and bother other people, don't unde…
... uses 23760 to call a routine and 23760 is old method ... need similar kind of playing routine ie. saved to first REM ... address XXXXX,
calls playing routine (without saving) to output the ... or how to do the routine itself.
Any suggestions ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
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The loader must be included in the ... />
Here's a better loader:
[code]2328 PRINT USR ...clarification needed of assembler graphics routineI was wondering if someone used to coding animated graphics in assembler can take a look at [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/as…
... /~jg27paw4/pourri/asmchunk.txt]this routine[/url] and explain what the ...Summer express game competetionHello to all. I would like announce SUMMER EXPRESS GAME COMPETETION: [B]Theme:[/B] a game [B]Deadline:[/B] 1st September 2010 [B]Target:[/B] ZX Spe…
... ) Game can't use custom loader (to allow simple emulation of ... means you can call tape routine in rom from machine code ... can't call your own routine somewhere in ram.
7 ...Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... -systems and a special loading routine makes it harder to copy ... part using a machine code routine. I would have to hack ... already is. Just put the loader in Basic.
Thanks ...Hack into Mescaline Synthesia 128Hi folks, this thread is not about copyright, although if somebody knows the e-mail adress or another way how to contact the author "DeMarche" pleas…
... and write a Basic disk loader for every part
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- change the MC loader from tape into disk
routine is. Anybody know how to ...Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…
... to create a simple cursor routine:
[url]http ... :razz: But considering the above routine, can someone please help me ... via POKE before launching the routine.
-The addresses where ... stored right next the last routine byte. That way everything ...Sprite RoutineI was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a really basic example of a per-pixel sprite routine? Preferably commented. The screen …
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a really basic example of a per-pixel sprite routine? Preferably commented.
The screen layout confuses me so much!Help with loaderHelp! I have been racking my brains for too long, and so it?s time to ask for help. Kyd Cadet II is about 98% complete now and I am trying to put to…
... have the following;
Basic Loader.
Font - 936 bytes
loader working!
Oh well ...General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
... ) I have written an XINPUT routine for the Spectrum (in BASIC ... , the program is the XINPUT routine plus a test harness that ... *---------------------*
9010 REM PSS-XINPUT Routine
9020 REM Parameters:
Help needed with simple MCode routineI'm trying to code a routine to clear the screen and I can't figure out why it's not working: ld hl,16384 ld bc, 6144 loop:ld (hl),0 inc hl dec bc l…
... 'm trying to code a routine to clear the screen and ...Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
... 'm trying to write a routine that will take an X ...A fast DRAW routineI was investigating how to speed up the line drawing for the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL]…
... an asm Bresenham's drawing routine. The routine was shorter an faster ... every call to the PLOT routine, the coordinates were being ... Bresenham's algorithm. This ASM routine "pokes" itself at the ... .
NOTE: This routine should draw at any location ...A clever method of using a single 8-bit register to be used for two things at a timeI don't know if this is the way the SAVE routine in the Spectrum works. Anyway, this is what I've learned today. I've been commented the disassembly…
... is the way the SAVE routine in the Spectrum works. Anyway ... the disassembly of the "save_bytes" routine of the Jupiter ACE. Everything ... be repeated 8 times. In short: I didn't found a ...Screen$ command, ROM routineHi All, Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR command)? Any comments on how well it works or the spee…
... /> Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen ...
