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UK Copyright change.Source http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a659052/its-illegal-to-rip-your-cds-again-just-nine-months-after-law-allowing-it-was-introduced.html#~p…
... thing to another, hence the random and fickle nature of commerce ... take an advance and a small amount for each copy sold ... -
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... not practical for such a small company as Retro Computers, at ... /> - nice splash screen of a random spectrum picture while booting.
small manufacturing run. Should get much ... -
IN and OUT in hardware terms... what are 'ports'?Hi all, I understand PEEK and POKE, but have never managed to get my head around IN and OUT. The books all go on about how they read from and wri…
... no doubt have saved a small amount of extra expense.
random[/i], but they will then ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... is full of bugs and random crashes, my brother gave up ... /> I think its by a small developer too so there may ... -
Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... for data that appears almost random to start with. With text ... than expected compression even for small sizes (60-80 characters, eg ... but I'm not surprised small nearly random sprite data doesn't ... be a huffman compression for small randomly accessed data. -
Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>
... are assigned which job. For small/growing settlements I've occasionally ... scav station just gives you random resources every day or so ... -
Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…
... and there are mostly random numbers with some small differences, but no ... to give up with this small endeavour and mess about with ... -
New game: SETO TAISHO VS YOKAIHello Spec-chums! At last, my new game is available for download: [img]http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Seto-art.jpg[/img] [b]Features:[/b]…
In kempston joystick routine is small bug. Game use this code:< ... on D5-D7 can be "random" values. This game set and ... -
New game: NADRALHello fans of ZX-Spectrum! I want to please you a new game created on the basis of the original game NADRAL. My version is made in AGD. For all begin…
... levels their moves are not random so the player can predict ... /> Men salvation: what about a small collectable item below the animation ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... /forums/discussion/23070/xor-shift-random-number-generator-for-z80/p1 ... used to have a very small piece of code I stole ... routine above is not really random. The last pixel to be ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
REM Here's a small BASIC routine to demonstrate the ... Resolve the graphic in a random pixel sequence. I'll do ... -
Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
... like the above, there's random access all over the place ... E or somesuch. A very small advantage but sometimes it counts. -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... compile which will have a small impact; that flag will only ... -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... and small numbers they must use them to calculate a random total ... -
Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... /> 0x5CD9 LDIR ; Fill screen with random data from ROM
0x5CDB ... B,A 4t; Set a small delay constant
S0: 0xEA72 ... -
Running out of fingers in AssemblyDear all, Still trying to learn Assembly and have put a few routines together. However, as my routines become a little more involved I find myself…
... ,iy you've got a small speed penalty (due to an ... logical operations, there is a small speed penalty. An instruction like ... in order to avoid making random access of data structures necessary ... me in the compute_lp. A small bit of code changes the ... -
Examples of severe colour clash?I'm looking at making a video of ZX Spectrum games - both good and bad, and making it accessible for the layman. One thing I'd like to do is brief…
... clash, aside from a few small places when it scrolls the ... and the Beanstalk you see random colours appearing as coloured sprites ... -
So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…
... your numbers never will be random. ;)
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[ ... You'd be surprised how small the number of variations are ... also not normally generating one random number per frame - you ... quality. There is a small set of tested standard algorithms ... -
So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…
... arguing between a good quality random number generator and a bad ... code that seems to generate random patterns might be 'good enough ... of values itself is fairly small. But it's perfectly valid ... as filling the screen with random attributes or changing the colors ... -
ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …
... I got the same result . Random jabbing of these 3 keys ... this relates to whether a small PI sized PCB is the ... -
Suggest a Speccy endless runner.It's a serious question. Suggest a game, any ridiculous suggestion might be entertained, that could be made into an endless runner. My suggesti…
... with random gaps and water jumps in, and you had a small ... ? Although it's not a random layout.
Come to ... -
Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... the dungeon graphics and generating random numbers respectively. In RAND, the ... code from RAND->RANDOM is to collect and deal ... />
Two small changes which I made to RANDOM are:
* If ... -
Simple/standard Linux assembly development environmentIs there a standard or recommended Spectrum Z80 assembly language environment for Linux based folks? I was looking at the assembly language posted in…
... & Z80 assembler)
* sdcc (Small Device C Compiler, also includes ... , string functions, stdio functions, sorting, random numbers, etc, and for the ... -
Help understanding the Z80.So I have a Z80 CPU and a 32k ram chip. I understand how they connect. (Data and address busses, chip select etc.) But how would i input information…
... fetch is one of a small number of bus activities (called ... RAM comes up in a random state at power up, there ... -
Help understanding the Z80.So I have a Z80 CPU and a 32k ram chip. I understand how they connect. (Data and address busses, chip select etc.) But how would i input information…
... of memory to be as small as possible so that user ... most aggressive implementations leave only small stubs at the top of ... systems will temporarily map a small ROM to address 0 at ... the bus there may be random activity on the bus that ... -
Help please!I've nearly finished my attempted port of Donkey Kong using AGD 4.0 but have run into some snags, I'm just not great at putting elements of code into…
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Break these into small tests, is usually the easy ... AGD program that just uses Random, to place stuff on screen ... up the ladder, create a small test case, to find the ... -
z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
... access things in a mostly random order, you will have to ... you have a lot of random access, it may be faster ... because the stack is so small. To do this, it has ... -
Can CD's rot away?Since my move, i found an old Jimi Hendrix CD that had been at the bottom of a box, untouched for god knows how many years (i actually thought i'd lo…
... the disc - either as a random blob, a strange straight line ... /> There are discs that have small black dots (similar to poppy ... sealed DVDs that have had small dead bugs inside the cases ... -
ALIEN (Mindgames) Bugfix and Improvement.[code]ALIEN (Mindgames) [ZX SPECTRUM] BUGFIX & IMPROVEMENT by Ersh 2016-10-29 The following bugs are fixed: [BUG] INVENTORY BUG WHEN SWITCHING …
... Alien AI keeps drawing a random number of 0.
random number. At the end of ... loop the game draws two random numbers, if they both are ... . As it's a pretty small game, there's lots of ... -
z88dk adventure problemI downloaded the example https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWaHYxek15WXJyQVU/view?usp=sharing I changed NUM ROOMS to 13 here is the who…
... /> The next rooms are just random things slenkar threw in to ... for holding text and a small black one at the bottom ...
