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Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
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The God Particle[url]http://williamhenry.net/art_dis-cerning.html[/url] What do you think about this? :)
... have a very short collective memory. This sort of nonsense has sprung ... -
I have been diagnosed withAvascular Necrosis in my left hip. I've been told I need a "core decompression" operation. Now I've seen a lot of Star Trek and so far its not been m…
... pain without medication for a short while) and can also work ... Dunny. This is exactly the sort of useful information that google ... -
Faulty M1 pin on a Z80 made from SGS?It's the second time I have come across this: a Spectrum that seems to work ok, but if I attach an Interface 1 or a DivIDE to it, it behaves as is no…
... , without using the M1 line? (Short of the hardware simply ignoring ... modified. At $0008 is a short routine to page into the ResiDOS ... normal actions of the RST8 routine before paging back to the ... -
48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…
... a JR $F3
In short the Z80 would end up ... particular they modified the IM1 routine, key-scan and INKEY$ routines ... is the famous example, but Short Circuit 128 as I mentioned ... are software identical though). Any routine that calls a specific address ... -
Help with hi-res 40 column fontI have created a 12x8 pixel font for use with Timex hi-res (Mode 6).
For my 42 column routine for a standard Spectrum, I ... saved in memory as a short cut to having to calculate ... to use.
My routine isn't likely the world ... -
Overflow Flag QuestionHello all, After a long hiatus (lost all code when my MacBook was stolen) i've gone back to the drawing board and am writing a Z80 emulator in REALb…
Got it! (sort of). Thanks guys again.
< ... /> Here is my calculate overflow routine:
[code] Sub CalculatePVFlag ... (as arg1 in the above routine) 0x9A it's sign bit ... -
Atic Atac vs Sabre WulfIf we read a review of Sabre Wulf in Crash (July 84) we can see: [I]"It's basically a jungle version of Atic Atac but much more involved[/I]" [I]"S…
... analysis of the source code routine used by Ultimate's games ... for reading keypresses. While this routine has been found to be ... believe that they had some sort of working demo version of ... -
what did you want to be?what did you want to be when you grew up, and are you happy with how everything has turned out? i certainly didn't aspire to work in a fucking offic…
... other crap tv, I had sort of a break down, I ... wrote some unpublished novel and short stories, I did alot of ... , I just finished my first short film that is "non-university ... -
what did you want to be?what did you want to be when you grew up, and are you happy with how everything has turned out? i certainly didn't aspire to work in a fucking offic…
... other crap tv, I had sort of a break down, I ... wrote some unpublished novel and short stories, I did alot of ... , I just finished my first short film that is "non-university ... -
Temp employment law helpHi, I've been a contractor at the same place and soon my contract will end. They want to extend me, I want to be extended, but we can't do it becaus…
This is the sort of answer I'm after :) ... an agency for a very short period of time but they ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... looks very good - just the sort of thing that interests me ... with these.
One routine per line sounds the easiest ... -
Home theater with gaming console setupSo how many of you have a home theater system plugged into your gaming console? I don't have a home theater but I do have a Phillips hi-fi deck con…
... 7SE CD and when I sort out a table for it ... STD (f'nar - it's short for Strathclyde Transcription Devices and ... -
Channels and streamsSo I've put some thought into channels and streams, and read the dead (and presumably rotting corpse) of the CSS FAQ which contains some information …
... press the NMI button (well, short the jumper pins on the ... be better to implement that sort of thing using FTP or ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... it was the only fill routine on the BBC B (it ... be inputted it calls OSWORD routine 0. I just trap these ... out via MOS calls. In short, if a BBC BASIC / machine ... to write a correct OSWRCH routine. It is complicated as it ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... . Does anybody have a windowing routine "they made earlier"? The windows ... . Does anybody have a fill routine which can fill with an ... pattern? I also need a routine which can draw a dotted ... line drawing routine. Comments in the source file will sort out what ... -
ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
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I mean, what sort of person would try and ... was tricky just finding that short list within an hour, and ... -
In ye olde days of computingI found this page about some of the the history of home-computing. Maybe not complete, but still: [URL]http://www.jaapan.de/jp/homecomputer.php?page=…
... can, even for a very short time, convince you that you ... past thirty years, if that sort of exponential progress had been ... chase you away for a short distance. Fine. But if you ... chase you again, for the short distance. And so on, indefinately ... -
12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.
... sense to have a simpler routine which doesn't need to ... done by means of a short lookup table. The fragments of ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... course I cut my search short by only searching for arcade ... a head start on these sort of things :D -
16K Rom with RS232 supportHi all, I am looking for a 16K Rom-code (to fit into the speccy) which supports RS232 and Network of IF1. Background: I am using 48K Issue 3 with W…
Ah, in which case, use the Sea Change ROM, and use a short routine in RAM to handle paging :-) -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... to wait until some sort of machine code routine or firmware update ... then call a m.c. routine from Basic that will playback ... -
ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... a decent multi-channel sound routine on the 16K Spectrum. Firstly ... is to use the beeper routine in the ROM, which isn ... be done in BASIC with short BEEP commands of, say, 0 ... -
ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... is to use the beeper routine in the ROM, which isn ... be done in BASIC with short BEEP commands of, say, 0 ... -
ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... possible to create a sound routine that runs in the bottom ... 've tried with BEEP and short 0.02 -> durations and ... knows a simple machine code routine to speaker on/off, where ... why I try to find short simple short machine code snippet for ... -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... to wait until some sort of machine code routine or firmware update ... then call a m.c. routine from Basic that will playback ... have trouble with an AY routine running in the interrupt, but ... -
DK-Tronics AY interface questionCan I use this interface to play 128K tunes on a 48K? [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-Three-Channel-Sound-Synthesiser_W0QQitemZ3701203…
... be done manually for every routine. (I remember a discussion on ... - well, this is the same sort of issue.) -
The Human ButtonThey always say the pictures are better on radio. Unfortunately, I missed the first 15 minutes or so of it (and it's not available on Listen Again f…
... nuclear retaliation.[/quote]Yes. That sort of responsibility would crush almost ... decision, and that sort of person is the sort least fit to ... all.[/quote]There's a short story by Arthur C. Clarke ... -
Your views on: Gazza 2Is it just me or is [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001996"]Gazza 2[/URL] a very underrated Speccy game? It is football playe…
... a playable game in a short time - particularly doing the AI ... of the self modifying update routine that allowed me to turn ...