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  • Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…

    ... play with - I think a routine that does the tree construction ... what's required (a small sort routine, a tree recursion) I'd ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... clock cycles!):
    Since a sort in a game is likely ... after the first time the sort has been run then for ... be. A more complex sort routine (quick sort, comb sort) would also be interesting ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... a look at Kiwi's sort routine (from the same thread as ... one):

    [CODE]sort: ld hl, numbers ; point hl ... swap occurred so, repeat sort
    ret ; sort complete[/CODE]


    Even that routine could be optimized futher though ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... .org/wiki/Quicksort]quicksort[/url] routine, but I wrote a [url ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I can ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... .org/wiki/Quicksort]quicksort[/url] routine, but I wrote a [url ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I can ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... .org/wiki/Quicksort"]quicksort[/URL] routine, but I wrote a [URL ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort"]bubble sort[/URL] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I can ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... .org/wiki/Quicksort]quicksort[/url] routine, but I wrote a [url ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I can ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Machine Code: quicksort optimisationI came across this z80 quicksort implementation when going through the wikipedia article on the same. It's 44 bytes long. I was wondering if any of …

    ... Dutch army used Speccy to sort thousands off entries ...

    sort routine that helps sorting the symbol ... long.
    I like to sort in 2 ways, alfabetic and ... feature IMHO is that the sort is case sensitive, where Tornado ...
    roko roko August 2009 Development
  • assembly optimization: times tenDecimal numbers are not computer friendly :) Anyway, short of saying "sod it - I'll multiply by 8" - and another part of the program does indeed div…

    ... some stats and generates a sort of overall rank.

    I also sped up the sort routine from 120 seconds to 2 ... indirection. Rather than sort a 2 dimensional array, sort an index to ...
    Gedlion Gedlion August 2012 Development
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile ... on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2006 Development
  • Troublesome routine, help needed!Having problems with this routine, it basically fires a rocket up the screen, but refuses to detect collisions. I'm using attribute blocks for detect…

    Having problems with this routine, it basically fires a rocket ... tried allsorts to remedy this routine but nowt seems to work ... advance to anyone who can sort this annoyance out! :smile:
    call print ;call the print routine
    pop bc
    djnz ...
    daveysludge daveysludge November 2013 Development
  • Sort 2 byte words (x, y) on ypos, also question about swap (DE), (HL)Well that was a lot of debugging ;) But if you want a routine which takes an array of 16 byte words x, y and then sort them on y (ignoring x), I'm…

    ... But if you want a routine which takes an array of ... x, y and then sort them on y (ignoring ... />
    Uses a heap sort since that doesn't use ... s not fast enough to sort each frame (since once ... // Main function to do heap sort
    void heapSort(int arr ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • LINE-routine and other nice pieces of codeThe line-topic came in the end with a nice piece of fast coding. I think that there might be more of these routines out there (where-ever-u-r). Isn…

    ... (if someone finds a faster routine please tell me..)

    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…

    ... code.

    The line routine that I have implemented is ... there have a fast line routine, plese email me.

    rtunes rtunes October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do I avoid BASIC becoming corrupted on returning from a M/C routine?I'm having trouble with my BASIC program becoming corrupted on returning from a m/c routine which sets all the registers (including the shadow regist…

    ... returning from a m/c routine which sets all the registers ... when calling a m/c routine from BASIC, and reload them ...
    trellis trellis May 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Smooth Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48k Part 2Ok, After all the suggestions in Part 1, which were all excellent (Thankyou), I opted on the following: I have 2 x 6k Offscreen areas (Yes, that's …

    ...


    ; **** END INTERRUPT ROUTINE ***


    WRITECHAR:
    ;Char Size: ( 2, 3)
    ;Sort Priorities: Mask, Char line, Y ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
  • Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…

    ... .

    Basically the routine works by redrawing the tiles ... scroll position and call the routine. An increase of 1 ... pixels.

    The routine is designed to detect blank ... />



    * This routine shifts tiles into 4 positions ...
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2004 Development
  • Idea for a new feature to compliment a debugger in an emulatorI had an idea for an emulator feature yesterday. Don't recall having seen this idea before, but I'm sure you'll correct me if it has. :) In that cas…

    ... , you could call up some sort of graphical representation of memory ... program is executing some sort of graphical routine or something and call ... to the heart of the routine you wanted to tear apart ...
    Sokurah Sokurah December 2004 Emulators
  • Competition: Sadistick routine on Spectrum ROMMy vote goes to BEEPER at #03B5 Let's ear you pick! :) And a great BOHHHHHHHHHHHHH to Dr Ian Logan & Dr Frank O'Hara for their description about the…

    ... about the parameters for that routine !!!! The words "and HL holds ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos May 2005 Development
  • Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.

    I subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
    chev chev March 2006 Development
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