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How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…
... assembler.
In Basic there are 21 UGD characters - too little for ... you store new letters somewhere in memory and change this variable ... must create a copying routine in asm. -
Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…
... , for example, loads in aprox. 10 seconds (including the Basic loader):
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Using real 3.5" floppies to load a +3 game (emulated)Is it possible to load a Spectrum +3 or Amstrad CPC 664/6128 game with the use of 3.5" floppy disks (providing the emulator can support real disk mod…
... , for example, loads in aprox. 10 seconds (including the Basic loader):
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compressing basicI thought I'd ask here instead of the basic forum.. in the sense of giving me 1 command line, and NOT the whole listing joined up etc. and it uncom…
... the LOAD routine sets up BASIC when you load a new ... how you place a program in the right piece of memory ... for the BASIC loader for the Spectranet.
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Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]
... is work out from the loader the initial start location of ... from a RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx in the basic loader, but this obviously gets ... are look at the game in SGE to quickly work out ... -
General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
... wrote a full screen editor in BASIC for my Address Manager clone ... hairy when the user deleted characters within a line. I don ... -
General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
... a full screen editor in BASIC for my Address Manager ... when the user deleted characters within a line. I ... in-field editing. To be blunt with a maximum of 32 characters ... the effort of providing in-field editing. I also ... heck we had it tough in the 1980s. :-o
How to specify 1st byte to be ran in a tap fileI am writing m/c to a tap file. When I load it in an emulator I have to go through the usual PRINT USR 30000 I always thought TAPs couldnt specify …
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Create a TAP file in your emulator and place it ... in RECORD mode, then enter
[code]SAVE "Loader" LINE ... your emulator and the basic loader will be stored in to a TAP ... TAP.
Such a BASIC Loader TAP file generates the following ...Mikie tape error?I purchased a copy of this to play on my +2B, but something strange happens once it appears to have loaded. The screen goes black with lots of heart…
... just tried two different versions in Spin (with Spin set at ... its speedlocked, crashed after the basic loader into 48K mode
loader, no protection at all, same ... OK if started from 48K basic. The unprotected one seemed to ...Mikie tape error?I purchased a copy of this to play on my +2B, but something strange happens once it appears to have loaded. The screen goes black with lots of heart…
... just tried two different versions in Spin (with Spin set at ... its speedlocked, crashed after the basic loader into 48K mode
loader, no protection at all, same ... OK if started from 48K basic. The unprotected one seemed to ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... much comparison between "languages" in the computer industry. Often ... to write a fast sort in BASIC - choosing the right approach ...
; Prints characters directly to screen bypassing ROM ... DFCC EQU 23684 ; Address in display of current position
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…
... reconfigurable from ZX basic. You can change text in menu, add next ... from any system for DIVIDE. In FATWARE,ESXDOS,DEMFIR, need only ... ;number of ram page in 512kB ram in divide plus (ram 0 ... example is possible load any basic loader from TAP file via FATWARE ...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…
... item of feedback - the microdrive loader assumes that the destination cartridge ... alter the BASIC loader to query which drive is actually in use?
in drive 2 then the rest ...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…
... item of feedback - the microdrive loader assumes that the destination cartridge ... alter the BASIC loader to query which drive is actually in use?
loader as you suggested, it's ... copier tool and +3 dos loader this weekend and some other ...Ewgf banned - how did I miss thatjust curious...
... although had the most pathetic special effects in the existence of early ... movies consist of cgi and special effects... Its sad to think ... that no models are used in film making nowadays; it's ... effects. Best to use real characters that jaja blinks (or whoever ...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…
... back into the Spectrum using BASIC.
I'm not ... the mic port using the BASIC loader in the readme file (you can ...SherlockThe files in WoS for "Sherlock" by Melbourne House all appear to be version 2.0. I was reading a review of this game which talked about the bugs the…
... tape (after the BASIC loader and the m/c loader) seems to have ... a filename which contains the version number. In ... a different name? At least in the Hobbit they changed the ... ! There will be more bugs in this than the +3 and ...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…
If RESIDOS is set in original FIRMWARE SELECTOR on DIVIDE PLUS then start installation of RESIDOS with basic ? (copy RESIDOS installation code with basic loader to ZX ram).Supertest 128 - Loader QuestionI wonder if someone could explain (in simple terms please) :) , the purpose of the switch code. I see what is doing (going to 48k mode via spectrum)…
... file I created contains, in order, the title screen, ... 5.
The BASIC loader just runs the machine code ... Set cache to 2400h-2800h in bank 3 (buffers 32h, ... these bytes are all zeroes in the file so the ... Set cache to 2400h-2800h in bank 3 (buffers 32h, ...Z88DK tapfile creation questionHere's another question. The game I've just started working on (Sid Spanners 3), I'm concatenating the following tap files together, to make a big ta…
... command line which means "No BASIC loader".
Previous ... anyone's interested or in case it's possibly ... "
//Which indicates no BASIC loader should be created (CODE file ... -n option indicates no BASIC loader should be created\n",argv ...Z88DK tapfile creation questionHere's another question. The game I've just started working on (Sid Spanners 3), I'm concatenating the following tap files together, to make a big ta…
... command line which means "No BASIC loader".[/QUOTE]
Maybe what ... ; Stefano's original bin2tap consisted in adding the last parameter to ... bin2code from there removing the basic part generation.Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …
... working because I am interested in the other unique changes ... objects there are, the in game formula works in reverse.
< ... other
stuff thrown in there. The guardians that are ... be getting "zeros" because the BASIC loader does not register
"jsw1 ...Converting TRD-Dos into TapHello, there are still many programs appearing on TRD-Dos or SCL format and users of normal Spectrum cannot run them. Of course I know about emulator…
... TRD using SCL2TRD
* In an emulator's debugger (I ... is all the code in one TAP file a ... instance of CALL $3D13 in the loader and replace it with ... tap file in the emulator and let the patched loader run, ... editor and write a short BASIC loader (eg. if the entry ...How to TZX "difficult" programsFirst of all hello, this is my first post after being recently introduced to the world of spectrum by a freind. Secondly - if this is in breach of t…
... , for reference:
The basic loader needs to have CLEAR 24831 ... . It's the first 'type in hack' on this tipshop page ...Retro Gamer Issue 86 - The cover's a bit special![IMG]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=dekmj.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640[/IMG]
... seems out of place in a magazine supposed about ... love a 9 page special on a computer which ... some people even wanted BASIC listings in the mag ! I ... people how to write in basic, difficult to cater for ... in the UK are there who want programming tips on speccy basic ...Retro Gamer Issue 86 - The cover's a bit special![IMG]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=dekmj.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640[/IMG]
... people love a 9 page special on a computer which might ... mean some people even wanted BASIC listings in the mag ! I mean ... , other people how to write in basic, difficult to cater for everyone ... in the UK are there who want programming tips on speccy basic ...Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... that page mode reads operate in consecutive memory addresses.
... full use of cell resources in its present implementation.
... the fastest ways to draw characters in a bit-mapped display with ... all this in to account why is Sinclair BASIC rather slow ...Converting TRD-Dos into TapHello, there are still many programs appearing on TRD-Dos or SCL format and users of normal Spectrum cannot run them. Of course I know about emulator…
... 's not much point in analyzing the BASIC loader to be honest; pretty ... straight into a machine code loader. You'd be better off ... to dump the machine code loader, patch it to do whatever ... the menu if you die in the first level by falling ...Converting TRD-Dos into TapHello, there are still many programs appearing on TRD-Dos or SCL format and users of normal Spectrum cannot run them. Of course I know about emulator…
... 's not much point in analyzing the BASIC loader to be honest; pretty ... straight into a machine code loader. You'd be better off ... to dump the machine code loader, patch it to do whatever ... the menu if you die in the first level by falling ...
