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Spectrum 128K RS232 to PC serial cableIf you have read some of my recent posts then you will know that I am eager to link my Spectrum +3 to a PC. This will be done by wiring a standard PC…
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Upload the Spectrum screen to a 24BIT Targa.
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How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... tell from that anti-aliased screen shot. Try displaying it vertically ... here). So an example title screen would read:
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Just capture the screen and use a grid based ... recording system that took a snapshot of the sprite VRAM when ... -
Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... /> Here is the emulator .SNA snapshot: [url]http://www.4shared.com ... pixels so there clear the screen as they go unless you ... -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... last 6144 BYTES of the snapshot with a maximum of ... remaining 36096 BYTES of the snapshot. Once transfered to the ... thirds of the screen:
SNAPSHOT = 49152 BYTEs - 6912 (SCREEN) - 4096 ( ... part of the above snapshot copied to the screen is the 6656 ... -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... remaining 36096 BYTES of the snapshot. Once transfered to the ... BYTES) into the Spectrum screen area at 16384 and part ... of game data into screen area to make room ... you start with a garbage screen, maybe we can get ... to save some of the screen.
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Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... boot code routine. Maybe the snapshot could be compressed with the ... this. It does use the screen for temporary workspace. I ... minimised to 23976 with the screen display being compressed into a ... the filename will corrupt the screen.
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Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
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I thought about this snapshot issue while falling asleep. It ... the screen, a clever piece of PC code could profile a snapshot ... in memory rebuilding the final snapshot.
I'm ... to 65535 in my Cybernoid snapshot:
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Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... assuming then that each snapshot will thus be processed ... makes heavy use of the screen for depacking routines, then ... reconsitutes the screen as it should look, ... goal here now?... Compression or snapshot transferrence?...
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Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... challenge for ASM is snapshot transferrence! I seem to ... needed and also corrupts the screen.
Now ... don't want the snapshot running. We just want ... corrupt the screen... in fact the screen will just ... that working but the screen is corrupt and looks ... -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... snapshot files into self extracting executables without corrupting the screen ... BYTES saved
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; Encode the snapshot using the profile data.
Programming flash eprom on DIVIDE+Can you test it on DIVIDE PLUS ? [url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/flasher-divide-plus.zip[/url] (This flash utility is WINSTON's flasher for dia…
... two keys at once, the screen goes black or I get ... them produced lines on the screen and I could then only ... /> - Load this Z80 or SNA snapshot in FATWARE on DIVIDE PLUS ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... previous method using the screen to store the boot ... above method currupting the screen (this new method does ... ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------
; .SNA snapshot header structure.
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... your idea, called "Visual Snapshot Editor", it has a ... error. This will limit snapshot conversion because it's not ... long continuous block on every snapshot.
Also, ... snapshot must include 81bytes long corruption on somewhere, preferably on screen ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... your idea, called "Visual Snapshot Editor", it has a ... error. This will limit snapshot conversion because it's not ... long continuous block on every snapshot.
Also, ... snapshot must include 81bytes long corruption on somewhere, preferably on screen ...New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…
... the Spectrum memory map. The screen occupies the first 6912 followed ... am not interested in the screen, the area processed is from ... to 65535 (42240 BYTES). The screen is left alone as it ... /> ; PART1: Z80 code to initialize snapshot and execute PART2 (47 BYTES ...New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…
... profile data to pack the snapshot as it was convenient at ... ]
BTW - Snapshot Batman on a blank screen to save more ... /> ; PART2: Z80 code to depack snapshot and execute clean up (43 ...New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…
... , the point at where the snapshot is taken is really important ... at $fe40, and making a snapshot the second time the breakpoint ... my snapshot of Batman that I made just after the batmobile screen ... I can depack the whole snapshot in one go :DTransferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... only used for when a screen$ structure is important or ... />
Bitbuster compresses WHOLE batman snapshot into 33Kb (saves over 17kb ... mere 11kb (note that: including screen$).
That way ... to 437 bytes of your screen. The compressor needs to ...Copying from divIDE+/Tape to +3 DiskCan it be done? Im about to place an order for some 3" disks and wanted to put my favourite games on them, but im having a hard time trying to figure…
... 80s so I can always snapshot 128K games loaded from tape ... my original method corrupted the screen where this new version doesn ... Bomb Jack as the ZXBOOT snapshot code can apply the patch ... .3 will send the whole snapshot data using WAV to the ...Genesis: dawn of a new day, new game from RetroWorks!It's been a long development, but finally we made it. We proudly present the latest game from RetroWorks, Genesis: dawn of a new day. [img]http://ww…
... you can jump around the screen in no time.... it is ... played.[/QUOTE]
This snapshot not contain mouse driver ! It ... use very low resolution of screen and 1000 DPI mouse is ...3D Racers...what's your favourite?I'm talking along the lines of outrun and super hang-on A personal fave is Nightmare Rally (more for the loading screen), I really wanted to like lo…
... on spin and create a snapshot for the DS.[/QUOTE]
screen, collect the stars and hot ... .
Manic Miner or single-screen platormers are in a league ...iPhone loading. What am I doing wrong?Hi Folks, I've converted a couple of files to MP3 to play back through an MP3>cassette adapter on my +2B. They appear to start loading, but I get …
... /> I imagine that the source snapshot should be made under emulation ... snapshot when emulating a +2A.
I don't think screen ...Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…
... bitmap of the entire 256-screen map of [I]Sabre Wulf ... 're saving basically a 128K snapshot as a single compressed file ...Sprites masterclassHi All, You guys are probably tired of explaining sprites but I'd like to clarify a few things if possible. I've sorted the vertical aspect of scro…
Here's a snapshot of the code I came ... clipping on the right hand screen edge to prevent wraparound, like ...New game coming soon: Marbles of WisdomI have the pleasure of announcing my new game :) This was one quick production, done in a month. The game name is Marbles of Wisdom and the genre is…
... , which has direct lighting from screen side which produces shadows left ... :D I saved it as snapshot, I'll come back to ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
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Just added "Clear Screen" option, so compressor clears the ... screen *before* compressing, increasing compression ... blank screen. SO it's crucial to create a snapshot ... just before it redraws the screen (see ...MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... the first screen asking to cheat take a MF3 snapshot (I have ... game crashes after the first screen).
[*]MF3Z80 on the disk ... solution to running a Z80 snapshot file from +3 floppy without ... is they save a complete snapshot of the Spectrum's memory ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... the first third of the screen, except when the "clear" option ... then we lose the loading screen.[/QUOTE]
AS this ... 's set to default at screen memory. If you got courage ... corrupting some part of snapshot. Because a snapshot contains ALL ram data ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... to copy them to the screen such as 33, 0, 128 ... poke the address of the screen into prog and run it ... for Tape Output and 128k snapshot support.Welcome back Spectaculator!Hmm, I have to evaluate this again. It's the first emu I've tried that actually seems to boots the PlusD. Is there any way of speeding up the disc …
... to fire off the PlusD snapshot when I'm sitting at ... shot. But I want the snapshot at the point where the ... would then get a snapshot with the loading screen still intact.
