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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…
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New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... I'm printing the next bit of canyon at the opposite ... ": LET r$(p+8)="I": POKE a+4,0: POKE a+5,5 ... c=0 TO 255: POKE a,f: POKE a+1,g: PRINT ... ,r$(p),r$(p+8),s: RESTORE : POKE 23620,23-2*(s ... -
Speccy LaptopHi, Since my subtle announcement in another thread was underwhelmingly too subtle, I'll repost it in a new thread ;) I have started work designing…
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2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
... be to have several different 8-bit platforms playing a tune (ZX ... via a cable would be simple enough. One would be the ... -
2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
... Fighting, although they use 1-bit samples due to space limitations ... , rather than the 4-bit quality that the AY allows ... finer-grained samples (something approximating 8-bit).
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Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …
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Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…
... try out some of the 8 bit compilers and to see just ... use stdio. I think the simple game I converted had to ... -
Q about Atari ST Emulators and anthoer Q about JoysticksEnough of this talk of this Comode Amiga... Phah!! I may have asked this before but can I stick my Atari ST disks in my PC and run them in an ST Emu…
... it includes a load of 8-bit and PC conversions, listed here ... s also on a zillion 8-bits, but the ST ... space game)
Colour Clash (simple but addictive platform puzzler)
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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 …
... * (at address 0x3E00-0x3EFF), a bit like the BBC Micro has ... network file system aimed at 8 bit systems, something very straightforward, with ... a very simple protocol that can be implemented on another 8 bit system ... -
Sinclair Computer Club???We've nearly finished setting up the Commodore Computer Club (UK) - [url]www.CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk[/url], and I have the domain name for [url]w…
... it can sometimes feel a bit lonely. Paying for a membership ... have many benefits by the simple fact that you are pooling ... on forums can get a bit too technical at times, or ... or people returning to their 8-bit after a two decade lapse ... -
Running TZX off an IDE drive? Or streaming from a NAS?Hello. I know about the DivIDE project, and about the ZX Ethernet project, but not how far they've come or what they can do. So: 1. If I have a squ…
... can only really support the simple case of TZX files (standard ... as well and is trivially simple.
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Running TZX off an IDE drive? Or streaming from a NAS?Hello. I know about the DivIDE project, and about the ZX Ethernet project, but not how far they've come or what they can do. So: 1. If I have a squ…
... connector, which functions a bit like ROMCS - you can ... br /> The principle is quite simple, but the devil is of ... operation) and a little bit of glue logic hardware ... (a bit of 74-series logic ... do with a decent 8 bit microcontroller like an AVR ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... using text and PETSCII and simple BASIC programs, although of course ... won't be the best 8-bit gaming experience you are ever ... -
Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
... of 48K software is relatively simple.
This clearly being ... model unlike in many other 8-bit machines of the era.
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Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
... of 48K software is relatively simple.
This clearly being ... model unlike in many other 8-bit machines of the era.
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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=…
... user definable options in a simple, clear way, with no ... you that's quite a bit more raw power, but ... get:
8-bit to 16-bit was a massive jump ... arcade games on the 8-bit were almost perfect replicas ... br />
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Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
... need is a language as simple as basic but with the ... and a method to draw simple graphics.
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Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... to jump over is stored. Simple but effective... If you saw ... data should be stored. On 8 Bit there is a system called ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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HelloI reckon the spectrum was shit The C64 was better So was the amstrad I would love to smash a spectrum to pieces and crap all over it Rubbish games…
... which I recently made a simple 6502 m/c game for ... I like to use all 8-bit systems at some point.
Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
... designed for D/A, but Poke (or Mata?) released some mods ... , then playing back in near-8-bit quality using volume addition over ...Spectrum Ethernet updateWell for those of you who don't follow the news section on the project page, here's a quick update...and a request. Development has slowed a bit, si…
... simple wire protocol that can be implemented with ease on most 8 bit ...Clearing the Carry flagI'm reading that sometimes I may want to clear the carry before using ADC or SBC. A simple AND A or OR B will do. However, as I see it, for 8-bit ar…
... using ADC or SBC. A simple AND A or OR B ... , as I see it, for 8-bit arithmetic this is not necessary ...Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
... is still tied to the 8-bit nature of the processor, and ... 2 addresses ahead. Maybe a simple, LD BC, (SP) will do ...Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....
... . The reason behind this is simple; the hardware in both the ... pretty much all the good 8-bit machines and was packing an ...Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....
... on against the 16-bit games consoles where they got ... and complex computers and simple and cheap ones since ... than any of the major 8-bits; it could undercut ... Nobody ever built a 16-bit machine that was quite so ... was a 68008 on an 8-bit bus which, combined with ...Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…
... blue highlight is actually quite simple - I intend to make it ... to improve the mode a bit further. Currently it is only ... that any pixels with combined 8-bit RGB values of between 40 ...wavide: WAV player for DivIDEPrompted by an email from zxbruno yesterday, cobbled together much quicker than expected... [url]ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/gasman/zx/wavide/[/u…
... outputs (including 1-bit beeper output, maybe :-) ) would be simple enough - just ... the volume table. (A full 8-bit D/A wouldn't actually ...wavide: WAV player for DivIDEPrompted by an email from zxbruno yesterday, cobbled together much quicker than expected... [url]ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/gasman/zx/wavide/[/u…
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