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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
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SinistarFollowing on from the post asking for games with digitized speech... I'd love to see a Speccy version of Sinistar with speech - either digitized or …
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Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…
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Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …
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Atlas Assignment - questions...(1) How do you know you have to fly to Quimper? If it's in the inlay of the "proper" version of the game, that's why I don't know - my copy was on a…
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[ANNOUNCE] ZXSpectrumHello, As you all probably already heard before, I just created a new website with the "Name the Game" game about the ZXSpectrum, located at [url="h…
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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... that entirely depends on what sort of 3D display system you ... polygon view like Driller? The routine would vary enormously depending on ... to the horizontal plane? The routine will be simpler if the ... the code. Mind you, the routine was as slow as hell ... -
Computer wizards : Please educate me.............Ive never been much of a computer wizard, and im the type that rather than go figure things out for himself, would rather just ask other people who k…
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Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... to be fancy, you can sort-of-do 8 bit samples ... . Keeping the noise generator routine simple = compact routine + compact data.
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Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... the AY chip for this sort of thing because the PWM ... /> You misunderstand. Using that particular routine, I can control the speaker ... 0-89 range that this routine can play.
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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…
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Weird loaders; 1) Why? 2) How? (Curiosity question)Hello again. Sorry to be asking/posting so much today, but I've just arrived here and am plumbing the depths of nearly 22 years of making cups of te…
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FrameSyncIt was many many years ago since i programmed assembly on the spectrum but I just picked it up again for fun. Now this is one thing I can't remember…
... Halt is fine for this sort of thing. You will always ... would be returned to your routine, ie. the instruction imediately following ... it up as an Interupt routine that way you could start ... -
more than 2 colours in an 8x8 sqaure?something that came up in the misc. forum - it was something I always wanted to see. In which games was this acheived? Both Black Lamp and Popeye ha…
... design the game around the routine; how about a [B]Breakout ... 's probably about the same sort of CPU load as rainbow ... -
JON NORTHHi Jon, i just followed the last thread with some interest. I used to send you hacks years ago and got a few published in YS!! I can only say dont g…
... in at the end?", that sort of mentality. You guys go ... enough space to write a routine that waited for a keypress ... -
Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…
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Jinxter/The Pawn/Guild of TheivesI'm not sure it's been entirely heatlthy but these magnetic scrolls games had a massive affect on me as a kid. Does anybody know what 'font' they us…
... using its own proportional printing routine and character set. It's ... have to disassemble the print routine to find out where the ... routines which do the same sort of thing:
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What is an "Unknown Port"?Port FF is unknown and so can return screen data on a 48k/128k/+2 models. But what if no Kempston mouse is plugged in. Is Port DF classified as unkno…
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What is an "Unknown Port"?Port FF is unknown and so can return screen data on a 48k/128k/+2 models. But what if no Kempston mouse is plugged in. Is Port DF classified as unkno…
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
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How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…
... each loader with a small routine for each - that's how ... , so Marko wrote a detection routine for SPIN which detects pretty ... email, and I can probably sort out some pseudo-code for ... -
When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
... 't speed up a slow routine if it could be rewritten ... I was writing my scrolling routine which is quite processor intensive ... structuring the data made the routine much quicker than any further ... early in development are what sort of sprites you will be ... -
Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
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Repeatable notable game crashesHi, Is there a list of "repeatable, notable game crashes" ;) anywhere? From memory, I remember quite a few wtf? moments when playing Speccy games w…
... coded the high-score-code routine failed to ensure that the ... hastily organise a playoff to sort out the true winner. :o ... -
Portuguese man-of-war tamed....The colour bronze will suit the untanned Germans well, especially after seeing Schweinsteiger remove his shirt. (Did you know FIFA rules gives a yell…
... , i wouldnt do a ballet routine on the floor rolling over ... /> Hope they do something to sort this out as its ruined ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
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Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…
... !! A friend asked me to 'sort out' his ME machine. After ... ended up using a Perl routine to run in the DOS ... -
How to speed up TZX loading (emu development)With many newer emulators there are options to do faster loading schemes, even for turbo-loader or protected loader blocks in TZX files. For example,…
... executed in quick succession. The routine would then scan forward to ... loop before the edge detection routine. This means that even when ... create some sort of masked recognition thing for the whole routine. The ... -
TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
... code to use the ROM routine instead (change the CALL at ... home). This is just the sort of thing I was wondering ...
