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Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
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New Spectrum projectsI know that someone started a topic very similar long ago ( I think It was Tony), but its been a while since it was replied, so It would be nice if e…
Just "finished" sorting out all my retro stuff. ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... you use as complicated an algorithm as you like, and easily ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... you use as complicated an algorithm as you like, and easily ... -
SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …
... 've got no idea what algorithm they used - my tapes with ... -
One to drool over?Anyone in Surrey? [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140116212902&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:UK:1[/url]
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Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... is with the tape autostart algorithm, and nothing to do with ... -
Konami Coin Op Hits questionHi I don't quite know where to put this, mods can move my post if they like. I've recently purchased the Konami Coin Op Hits (by Imagine) compilati…
... since then I have been sorting out the rest of my ... -
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…
... avoidance, instead rather forcing the algorithm to process the data differently ... -
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…
... avoidance, instead rather forcing the algorithm to process the data differently ... -
Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
... be a lot of working sorting through all the C64's ... -
@ footy management gamesIve tried to get back into these management sims on the emulator (which Ive only had about 6 months, - hadnt played a speccy game in about 13-14 year…
... make you wait 5 minutes sorting out things like league tables ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... the play area and its algorithm only updates the back buffer ... 'll have to organize your algorithm to draw complete(ish) pixel ... -
Windows XP advice neededI've just bought a laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 2 pre-installed. I've never used SP2 before, as I've never needed the Service Packs, and I was…
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Now I like sorting problems like this as much ... -
8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... fast enough, then refine your algorithm.
Only when you ... have the most efficient algorithm should you then optimise at ... -
Plus3e websiteHi all, Been trying to get hold of Gay Lancaster`s website [url]http://www.zxplus3e.plus.com/[/url] But it does not seem be there any longer. Is it…
... do that, actually I was sorting my Bookmarks out under "Spectrum ... -
Live Earth - Is / Was it worthwhile.It's all fair and well telling every one to be green and start thinking about our enviroment but that's all people do. Say somthing must be done then…
... think the government should be sorting it out. The government is ... -
GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…
... method exploits the MP3 compression algorithm (which works by decomposing the ... -
GUIDE: How to convert TZXs to LOSSLESS low bitrate MP3s (56, 64 and 80 kbps)I posted this to comp.sys.sinclair last year, but it didn't get a single reply. Which annoyed me a bit. Since some people here seem to be intereste…
... method exploits the MP3 compression algorithm (which works by decomposing the ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... only a simple test movement algorithm at the moment. When I ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... process is called the 196-algorithm. The name "Lychrel" was coined ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... process is called the 196-algorithm. The name "Lychrel" was coined ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... distributed according to a randomized algorithm that makes various plots of ... also a very specific random algorithm that distributes mountains among the ... -
What sort of speccy releases are these?I recently uploaded some snaps of the tapes that were available legally in India to this site: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/arjunnair/[/url] I'…
Very interesting. Ive just been sorting out my duplicates, looking over ... -
Lucky or whatYou may have heard of freecycle. [url]www.freecycle.co.uk[/url] Some one the other night offered free Spectrum gear or it will go to the tip. I got…
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I am still sorting the games out there are ... -
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…
But then you need one extra bit to indicate whether it's compressed or not...
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text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
... suppose some sort of RLE algorithm could be used to compress ... -
text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
Elite used an algorithm to generate the system descriptions - ... />
Oolite uses the same algorithm (albeit with different code, since ... -
Speccy emulators on Mac OS X (Tiger)Need an easy to use Speccy emu for my Mac. That's it.
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text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
... before gzip and the "deflate" algorithm existed, at a time when ...