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Flabbergasted with the Atari 800! How did it stack up against the Spectrum?I've been watching a few videos of Atari games, and I must say, that as a Spectrum fan, I feel humbled... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXX_ot…
... very noisy. Here is what 8-bit audio sounds like on the ... 't really been used on ide-equipped spectrums. SymbOS, written for ... />
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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…
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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)
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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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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…
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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.
bit too. I know people say ...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.
bit too. I know people say ...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 />
16-bit to 32-bit gave us the polgon ...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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8-bit influences go deeper than I ...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…
... any 8-bit computer/console has got any support for scaling beyond simple ...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…
... any 8-bit computer/console has got any support for scaling beyond simple ...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.
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 ...plus3e simple ide interface problemhi, I prepared a 8bit simple ide interface 3 days ago, but I got problems (with or without ide cable connected). 1.First of all, I have to press re…
... data leads short. As the Simple IDE interface connects the CPU data ... load some Z80's a bit, and sometimes means it doesnt ... /> >6. if I remove simple ide interface +3 works flawlessly.
simple interface. They reduced a bit when i made ..."We don't understand computers but we've got ?3.58 million to spend on them....... so lets find a problem to solve with the money" is a good translation of the article at: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.s…
... use. It gives you a simple 8 bit wide bidirectional parallel interface. It ... can also be used in "bit banging" mode, so you can ...hi all in new to the spectrum need helphi all this is the fist spectrum iv owned and i need a bit of help iv got a zx +3e with an 512 cf card hdd and a 3.5 disk drive as b: iv formated…
... .html]one of the simpler IDE/CF interfaces[/url], which throws ... having an 8-bit data bus while IDE data transfers are 16-bit. To ... one of the full-16-bit interfaces, which are harder to ...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 ...What we gotI moved house and I have setup my Spectrum gear, I was looking at all that I have and was thinking what else do others have in there collection? Ok …
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1 incomplete 48k motherboard, and a box of ram chips etc.HDF ExplorerHi everybody, I need something like +3e Explorer helping me to extract all files automatically from an HDF image. +3e Explorer should be good since i…
... , ZXCF etc - anything except the simple 8-bit interface), you can use ResiDOS ... /> 2. If you have an 8-bit HDF image, you could copy ...Utility to read/write to memory cards formatted for +3EThis post comes from [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25658]this thread[/url]. I've released a small command-line utility…
... run it on Linux (Fedora 8, with gcc 4.1.2 ... disks (ie disks created by 8-bit interfaces) in the future? It ... lot of people use the simple 8-bit interface, so this would be ...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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