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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... into the buffer -- the rest of the code should be recognizable now. The location of the ... and white. Again because of the spectrum's colour clash issues I ... chew on here but it should all make good sense after a ... -
Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... read he wants to make a ZX Spectrum Emulator in Basic.< ... br />
He obviously has aspirations, we should ... making an Emulator first spend the time to learn a ... to see the youth taking an interest in the Spectrum. Lets not ... -
Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... a lot about the workings of the Spectrum with this so ... It may never get of the ground, fine. But that ... 's not the point. Fair play to ... should happen to make another cock-up then I reserve the ... right to join the ... -
Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... Specifically, they say the address should be used only ... [/B] reproduce the behaviour of the Spectrum using it.
Contention starts at T1 in the spectrum, because the ... the states in between.[/QUOTE]
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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... , the Spectrum's cleaner (I always thought) colours, and the tiny Spectrum pixels (not the ... , but a well written program should resume with a CONTINUE command ... looked at the "assembler" source to Elite? Eeeewwwwww. It does make it ... -
Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
[QUOTE=csmith;215428]Interested in the spectrum lock-up though. What code ... the timing right, however the interrupt apparently does not arrive when it should ... there something sensitive which could make the difference until it heats up ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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The 2068 target should be easy as the ROM is not ... if ported to z88dk, would make it possible to develop 3d ... machines using the same source code. CEZ (the spanish mainly spectrum outfit) does ... been written in C on the spectrum and that C source has ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... Anonymous;217163]The 2068 target should be easy as the ROM is not ... , if ported to z88dk, would make it possible to develop 3d ... .
[quote]CEZ (the spanish mainly spectrum outfit) does this to ... been written in C on the spectrum and that C source has ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... be registered with the im2 library for execution during the spectrum's 50Hz ... memory blocks we have to make sure that it doesn't ... =129919&postcount=5"]how the spectrum display file is organized[/URL ... of the char that is yet to be drawn -- you should be ... -
plug me into a segano karingal, this isn't about saga. what are recomended good games for master system, game gear and mega drive. i did have a master system and game…
... sticking out the MD one, when they should re-make this instead ... .
The game 'Asterix ... System game, but the ones called 'Asterix and the ..." are not ... on the Master System and it is just like the spectrum version. -
Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…
... out how the ?Source worked. The next version of Fuse should hopefully emulate ... screen is the magic number that you need to make a note ... it crashed at 1311 but the spectrum died.[/QUOTE]
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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... can make a very nice article for certainly the "Spectrum Profi ... Club"-magazine and perhaps even for the " ... with the "magazine scene" at this point I should first ... !
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SAM gets ethernetWhilst off topic - head over to [url]www.samcoupe.com[/url]. Colins got his ethernet board for the SAM available to buy and some interesting news ab…
... sort of mass storage. Unfortunately, the Spectrum has no formal mechanism for ... if someone else decides to make an ethernet board based around ... , software written already for mine should also work. These entry points ... -
New assember ideaAs i work with Eclipse IDE in my job i become more and more lazy. This leads me to idea that it is time to left Notepad+Tasm combo behind and move on…
... immediately make it useful to the world at large beyond the spectrum ... actually used by the program -- this is the major difference ... br />
Lastly the assembler should be able to assembler code ... a good assembler / linker should have but with these ... -
Spectrum Diagnostics Board - 25th Anniversary projectWell, I said I'd try and get something online about this by today, and I have indeed done so. This web page still needs finishing off (in particular,…
... you're looking at the board plugged into the Spectrum). Some Spectrums have ... you should get vertical stripes on the screen if you have the Flash/Spectrum ... all the way to the chip).
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Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... are supposed to make the code smaller since they should be implemented in ... , for many recent games on the spectrum to be written in C ... jobs. This should also help to reduce program size (the excessive stack ... -
Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... I am aware. Specifically for the spectrum there are a whole bunch ... The one thing that C will do for you is make development ... a lot quicker and easier to debug. Should you ... be unsatisfied with the performance of some ... -
another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... live" which adds to the workload considerably. Any 8 ... available on the 128k machine and the C64. The Spectrum does not ... have tile maps or whatnot so can't make ... use of many of the memory- ... it should be done if it makes the game ... -
another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... not good/popular at the Spectrum, and the reason for this is ... say that vector based games should have been included, as ... argue that giving the Spectrum another win doesn't make it fairer, then ... say. Maybe they should have compared the two versions of Cobra ... -
A suggestion about new gamesI'm talking about "[I]Brand New Games[/I]" ([I]Isotopia, Daytona USA, Space Rocks[/I]...) Don't you think they must be in a separate part in the arc…
... out the message that old games are great, and should be ... hopefully encourage people to investigate the Spectrum scene...
Of ... If someone had the urge to do a Spectrum site, they'd ... , rather than trying to make a hard distinction between old ... -
DRAM (:baffled:)Hi, Can someone explain to me the definitive rules on DRAM access times in terms of suitability for a particular speed of processor? Specifically, …
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In which case, just make sure you have an adequate ... and good decoupling, and it should work. Use low ESR ... .
Also check the maximum refresh period, that's ... that the Spectrum's ULA actually exceeds the maximum refresh time for the 4116 ... -
Ethernet blog updated......today, we send our first packet and run into a bit of a gnarly snag: [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_events[/url]
... no problems with the XC9572-XL on the Spectrum, it works ... flash/SRAM - it'd make power routing simpler to ... voltages.
The W5100 should drive 5v circuits; in fact ... the relatively high capacitative loads on the Spectrum's bus. The ground plane on the ... -
My 128k's screen wobblesI just bought a 128k (the heatsink kind) and hooked it up to my TV, first through RGB and then through the normal aerial plug. Using both methods, I…
It could also be the electrolytic capacitors on the Spectrum itself, these will generally ... be being used to smooth the ... the right voltage with enough amps should do the trick (make sure you get the ... -
2 part game in an emulator questionThis question is just theoretical... Lets say you have an adventure that loads in 2 parts (I think Mindshadow would be an example but of course I ca…
You should be able to save to ... .
However, make sure you check the menu options - e.g ... . Spin defaults to resetting the Spectrum and auto-loading tape images ... -
DivIDE HelpHi all, After a rather long wait my DivIDE from Papaya labs arrived. I connected it to my spectrum, turned it on and...nothing. The green power LED…
... (the usual 7805 circuit, the regulator plus 2 capacitors).
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DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... found in the manual, tell me what you make of ... Interface from 128K Mode on the Spectrum 128K, Spectrum +2, +2A, + ... press the reset button on the Spectrum 128K and you should get the ... normal start up screen with the ... -
DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... make sense that unless 128K mode is selected on the DivIDE Plus, the Spectrum ... you selected 128K mode on the Spectrum, the DivIDE Plus would crash). Hence ... snapshot should work 99% of the time as it replaces the Spectrum's ROM. The ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... one of the most powerful available for the Spectrum. Why do ... you not think it's useful? And why should ... br />
Yes, the editor is very useful and ... if you want to make graphics in BASIC is ... url]
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help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
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Should the next cycle load the stack pointer with the next pixel ... below 16k on a 48k spectrum. The 16k-32k area however is ... but I tend to just make things go as fast as ... to solve the tear, keeping the stretched timing in mind could make a ... -
Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…
... register themselves with the OS as such, to make it easy for ... sit there, nonvolatile. The flash is programmable by the Spectrum (indeed, as it ... 's soldered to the PCB). I should imagine most of the flash chip ...
