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Which of these is acceptable FPS for shoot-em-upHi, I want to get peoples opinion as to an acceptable frame update speed for my shoot-em-up game that is in development. At the minute I could do it…
... -08-31 01:15, Philip Kendall wrote:
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... then change the extension to .sna, what would the emulator ... 's a .z80 or a .sna file?
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... 've given it a .sna extension, it will assume ... and think it's a .sna file though.
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Ripping Text from ZX games running on EmulatorsHello one and all - All hail Retro! I'd like to know how to rip all the .txt from ZX games running on a windoze emulator (I'm a writer and like do…
... -01-07 11:46, Philip Kendall wrote:
And eliminating ... hacking in the past using .SNA files, on which I've ... come in useful, since the .SNA format is seemingly dead nowadays ... -
Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
... images (.tap, .tzx) and snapshots (.sna, .z80, many others). These are ... first widely used format was .sna, which could load 48K snaps ... /docs/zx-state/intro.shtml"].szx format[/url], which is actually ... -
Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
... -01-09 10:21, Philip Kendall wrote:
As an aside ... one last info byte on sna -- this was the first supported ... better known as the Mirage sna format because it is exactly ... -
Speccy and LinuxI try to run Spectrum emulators under Linux (PCLinOS Mandriva based distribution, kernel 2.6.12), with Wine 0.9, but without much succes. Spectacula…
... -g -O2 -Wall -c sna.c -o sna.o >/dev/null ... include -g -O2 -Wall -c szx.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H - ... include -g -O2 -Wall -c szx.c -fPIC -DPIC -o . ... libs/szx.o
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. ... g -O2 -Wall -c szx.c -o szx.o >/dev/null ... -
Speccy and LinuxI try to run Spectrum emulators under Linux (PCLinOS Mandriva based distribution, kernel 2.6.12), with Wine 0.9, but without much succes. Spectacula…
... lo plusd.lo rzx.lo sna.lo snp.lo snapshot.lo ... snap_accessors.lo sp.lo szx.lo tap.lo tape.lo ... o .libs/rzx.o .libs/sna.o .libs/snp.o .libs ... o .libs/sp.o .libs/szx.o .libs/tap.o .libs ... o plusd.o rzx.o sna.o snp.o snapshot.o ... snap_accessors.o sp.o szx.o tap.o tape. ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
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Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... to saving snapshots in the .szx format. Other formats can be ... extension (e.g. .z80 or .sna)."
The 0.8 ... build stable?
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Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
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[QUOTE=48K;178568]Regarding .szx/.sna : Is there a big difference ... />
.szx files are significantly smaller than .sna, but more importantly ... than the old formats. .sna in particular is well known ... not all emulators support .szx, but I am glad ... -
Palmtop BV 1.1 (Windows CE) and Z80 formatHi, I have Palmtop BV 1.1 running on my HandHeld Windows CE device. Problem is, it only seems to handle the Z80 format. I have hundreds of TAP games…
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machine IDs for .z80 snapshotsHi, is there s.o. officially in charge for the .z80 file format? while upgrading zxsp's save_z80 routine i added new machine IDs for the Specci vari…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;208064]Personally, I think this ... much better off just using SZX, which has a much more ... do not object to the szx format. It's just that ... and widely supported by emulators. szx not (yet).
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... tape formats (TZX, PZX, TAP, SNA etc) would be "A Good ... /> Pretty much the way Philip Kendall has factored emulator functions out ... -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... tape formats (TZX, PZX, TAP, SNA etc) would be "A Good ... ]Pretty much the way Philip Kendall has factored emulator functions out ... -
Fuse for Mac OS X beta releasesA beta version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/[/u…
... ?R and IN?R (Philip Kendall; thanks, Mark Woodmass).
... n,(IX+d) instructions (Philip Kendall).
[*] Fix undocumented ... when MREQ is active (Philip Kendall).
[*] Add Hi- ... of corrupt SZX, TZX and Warajevo TAP files (mostly Philip Kendall). < ... -
SCR thumbnail provider for VistaUPDATE (29.Aug.2008 ): Source available (under MIT license): [url]http://code.google.com/p/zxthumbs/[/url] UPDATE (05.Aug.2008 ): Providers now supp…
... libspectrum) are:
* Snapshots: .z80, .szx, .sna, .zxs, .sp., .snp and +D ... -
SCR thumbnail provider for VistaUPDATE (29.Aug.2008 ): Source available (under MIT license): [url]http://code.google.com/p/zxthumbs/[/url] UPDATE (05.Aug.2008 ): Providers now supp…
... extraction are:
* Snapshots: .z80, .szx, .sna, .zxs, .sp., .snp and +D ... -
Good games (and demos) that are disc only?I've never really bothered with disc images (+3, TRS, Beta disc, Russian discs etc) on emulators, as it's easier to just use snapshots or tape files,…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;294525]Programs I can find ... .tap.zip[/url]
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Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
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[quote=Philip Kendall;302902]Easy. Undocumented flags after ... now that we have the .szx format for storage. EmuZWin would ... -
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…
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The program for converting *.sna files into *.snp files
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MultichromeIt turns out that multichrome, and other screen modes, are emulated in Fuse and Eightyone via ZX Spectrum SE emulation (which is similar to the TC214…
... hardware? I can send the .SZX files to anyone who's ... in TAP or z80 or SNA), you know my address.
Manic ".sna"Hi Been playing with a couple of emulators tonight, not done this for a while so downloaded the latest versions of ZXSP and Fuse. I have a .sna for…
... when scanning the keyboard. The SNA file format is a bit ... unlike the later Z80 and SZX formats, doesn't do such ...Manic ".sna"Hi Been playing with a couple of emulators tonight, not done this for a while so downloaded the latest versions of ZXSP and Fuse. I have a .sna for…
[quote=gasman;333871]The SNA file format is a bit ... unlike the later Z80 and SZX formats, doesn't do such ...SNA convertHi Can a .sna be coverted to .tzx and would there be any point ?
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;333967]Please tell me how to load an SNA file ...SNA convertHi Can a .sna be coverted to .tzx and would there be any point ?
[quote=Philip Kendall;333967]Please tell me how to load an SNA file into a real (unexpanded) Spectrum.[/quote]
Please tell me where in the original post a real Spectrum was mentioned...Mirage Microdriver.I dug one of these things out of the roof today... A MIRAGE MICRODRIVER INTERFACE. I'm guessing that you use it to transfer games to Microdrive, bu…
... button' and it saves a .SNA file to the microdrive. The ... the advent of Z80 and SZX.[/QUOTE]
Ooh, now ...Splitting a TZX fileApologies if this has been covered in another thread but I couldn't find it if so! Basically, I want to convert the TZX of Bored of the Rings ([URL]…
[quote=Philip Kendall;345285]This is a [URL=" ... snapshot called [COLOR=Green]Bored2.szx[/COLOR]
[*]From the Terminal ... , ran [COLOR=Green]./snap2tzx Bored2.szx Bored2.tzx[/COLOR]
[*]Then ...z80 format: ED ED xx yyI've just been studying the documentation for the z80 file format: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/z80format.htm[/url] I have a d…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;371432]The Z80 format should be allowed to die a graceful death.[/QUOTE]
Isn't the SZX format too complex to be implemented in a real Spectrum?
EDIT: I see it's not, if compression is not included... :)rollback/snaphost protectionis there any way how to protect game in emulator against rollback and snapshots ? (i have unclear idea of using disk system to write down game state…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;373619]Admittedly, SZX doesn't currently support embedded disk images[/QUOTE]
SZX does support embedded disk images, no embedded hard disk images yet though.Extended memory and SNApshots in emulatorsExist any snapshot fileformat that support extended memory for ZX (clones) ? I see only Z80 fileformat with 48/128 and 256kB(ZS Scorpion 256) support…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;379891][url=http://www.spectaculator.com/docs/zx-state/intro.shtml]SZX[/url]...[/QUOTE]
And exist any structure of SZX snapshot ?
I find only source code in fuse emulator.szx to real spectrum?Hi, I could not find something about this, but is there any tool that can convert the szx snapshots to tap (for example) or any other way to load th…
[QUOTE=Philip Kendall;395447]Yes, they have. snap2tzx ... doesn't really count. Proper SZX to TAP support should set ...
