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Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…
Errrmm ...
File "M" is a character array, ... :
LOAD "M" DATA m$()
File "AO.UDG" is a ... 23676
which is set to 65368 at startup. It was ... saved to load at that address by ... -
interface 2 game roms in SpectaculatorHow can I easily start an IF2 game ROM in Spectaculator? When I click on Open it asks about start address (16384 / 8192 do not work) and it does not …
[QUOTE=guesser;633684]I guess spectaculator doesn't allow you to load data over the rom, makes sense[/QUOTE]
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about 10 Great Games IIHi all :) we talking this time for ... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011441[/url] :) [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9uk9…
... is to insert v1.20 set polarity blocks in the file where ... necessary.[/QUOTE]
Thanks to post, your ... /> I've noticed Spectaculator and Spin seems to behave different when a ... is encountered in a TZX file. I found this in a ... -
GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
... bunch of bytes of pixels to write to the video memory. Let ... calculate that I need to draw bitmap to area x=20,y ... drawn, and passing this information to the renderer. However, this ... wrote to incrementally build the mask by writing directly to the RLE data gave ... -
Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
... on the changing the character to an integer value!
... data to the ram disk. upon cataloguing "m:" the size of the file ... had changed from 8K (on the IDE disk) to ... bas" and after copying to RAM disk the files ... from E: to E: and the file size doesn't ... -
Computer repair questionAn ewgf-style post: I'm usually able to find my way around things, search online for solutions and a few other things, but this time I'm unsure of w…
... was finally able to backup the personal data but Windows ... -installed programs, copied the data back and installed all necessary ... it was doing which lead to file system corruption.
to crashes and eventually file system corruption?< ... -
Get a listing to .txtI am messing with an old Spectrum game which was written in Basic for the 48k Speccy (not compatible with 128s). I get an error in the begining of th…
... have been used), I use Spectaculator in 48K emulation. Add ZX ... and save the printout to a BMP file.
(2X ... a TXT output, I use Spectaculator, with +2A/+3 emulation. ... derived to File. Chhose the file name you want the output to printed to. Then ... -
Question about wav2ayThis batch file from wav2ay looks like this: [CODE]echo Converting from WAV to RAW... sox input.wav -r 11025 -b -u -c1 Output.raw echo Converting f…
... +, it uses compression on the data to reduce its size. The listing ... separately as a data entry on a .TAP file?), but I thought ... since its always an honour to know that someone somewhere out ... he updated his BeepFX tool to use Samples)?... ;)
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Spectranet Module InstallerAnother thing which might be useful to people is my "module installer" creator. This packages up a spectranet rom module with a small installer prog…
... Fuse (you can't send data to fuse using ethup on windows ... the filename of the .module file and uses the bin2tape utility ... spectranet development tools to create a temporary .tap file called module.tap ... is then joined to the installer-dist file which is the ... -
PCL / PS driver questionsDon't know if this ever happened to any of you. I've been searching but I've yet to find a practical, permanent solution. Let's say I have a 1.4M P…
... in your printer, stopping data transfer to print and release some ... the size of the file trasnferred to the printer are very ... the data to print into commands to the printer, then send it to ... already printing raster pages. Normal data (pages filled with text) ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... behavior - some emulators seem to load it, others not. ... well with the TAP file, there is a strong ... re-release has identical data to the first release by ... though, but according to the WOS database they ... the incompatible games seem to be Sbugetti Junction and ... -
Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …
... code and an 'incbin' to include the file I'd pre-compressed ... see myself unpacking up to 6K of data to a black screen, copying ... out a particular level's data ... it would be nice to be able to stream data out of a ... -
[Update] Lone Wolf - The Mirror of Death - AudiogenicHi folks, I know we already have a TZX of this, but I can't help feeling that it needs it's blocks deconstructed into Pilot/Sync/Date blocks/pulses …
... to sample the whole tape (that would result in a mamoth file ... ), just part of a "special" block (header+start of data), to ... , that would reduce the uncertainty to just ~18 Tstates! ;)
data part of Title 2, 2 ... -
+3 BASIC DOS_DemoI got side-tracked while working on the Op.Wolf conversion and ended up writing this +3 DOS utility which provides most of the disk functions that mi…
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will set the file pointer to 1536 ( start point is 128 ... b=file#, c=page, de=address,
f$=string of data to write ... from f$,
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Altera CPLD vs Xylinx FPGAI will dig into the world of FPGA's, mainly to find something that can replace one or more GALs for my current and new projects. And it's never bad t…
... used to concatenate bits to form multibit data (for example, to form the output data to ... /> // Revision:
// Revision 0.01 - File Created
// Additional Comments: GPL ... outputing a
// formatted data to the Z80 data bus if and only ... -
SPECTRA New from Paul FarrowLooks good! Read about it [URL="http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/Spectrum/Spectra/SpectraInterface.htm"]here[/URL]
... doesn't touch the display file (pixel data) - this is always used ... based on redefining the attribute file, making it higher resolution and ... own copy of the data to store locally. Data is one way: Spectrum ... can anyone help provide a data base on which hardware ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... be possible to include the depacker code in the packed file through ... in Spectrum BASIC depacks the file at a given memory location ... it will be possible to decompress directly to the screen without a ... with code that puts RCS data to the screen?. I really need ... -
RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
... a regular ZX-Spectrum screen file (such as "Cobra.scr") ...
[*]Afterwards compress the generated file (in this case "Cobra.scr ...
[*]Finally put this data block ("Cobra.scr.rcs.zx7 ... the compressed data block and write it directly to the ZX ... -
Adding IDE to your Spectrum +2 A/B (or +3)Hello my fellow [B]WoS'ers[/B] [B]This is a shared thread with [url]www.amibay.com[/url] which you can [URL="http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=…
... considered: in order to store the movie data into the CF with ... ]
a simple windows file converter that reads the stream ... in and writes the file out with the padded byte ... there its just copying the data to the +3Dos Partition with 3eStrowsaw ... -
Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
... LPRINT/LLIST will go to a text file in the current directory ... . Z80 can also print to a text file when If.1 is ... ; capture printer output to a BMP graphic file instead of a text ... at the code & data to see if any significant memory ... -
Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…
... so its starting to copy the loaded data to the screen. You ... is the length of data to be copied. Scroll the ... the length of the data to load. And at the ... br /> Now save a binary file with start address 25001 and ... file at address 25001. Now you can save it to ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... address for the compressed data given by the following ... B] = Starting address of uncompressed data
[B]L[/B] = ... B] = Length of compressed data[/QUOTE]
Your formula is ... save the uncompressed data to compare with the original file. In Windows, ... -
Setting up an IDE HDD on the +3e helpHello, Just installed a HDD in my +3e (ROM ver. 1.11). When turning on it takes a few seconds longer but then shows 2 IDE (available) as well as 1 fl…
... you know 3eStrowsaw cannot connect to 8bit formatted devices directly. ... /> You use DrvImg to copy a 256 HDF file from a device ... done with adding data to the 8bit (half sector) HDF file you then ... use DrvImg to write it back to the device ... -
Multiface 3 programming guide anywhere?I'm interested in the tantalising little bit of text at the bottom of my Multiface 3 manual (under the "Using 8K RAM" section): "Please send a SAE…
... the comments in the header file for one of the emluators ... point of view) whilst copying data to/from the ramdisk, for example ... -A on a SPARC system to get to OBP.
Even ... , compression and disk capability to be able to automatically produce a "crash ... -
Who has Divide Vs who is from old school (cassettes and +3 disks)This time is easy, who uses to play the Divide, or at least owns one and plans to use it for gaming, and who, on the other hand, still load games by …
... as proposed regarding writing games to take advantage of ... no harder than writing a multi-load ... to have "branched" versions of files eg a set of level data ... of enhanced graphics data for ULAplus-enhanced ... most present-day developers to consider such "epic ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... save the data as a binary file. If your data is on tape ... , then save it from memory to file.
For instance, ... binary file", type filename "sample.bin", start address 40000 and data ... that will contain the compressed data, and decompress it into an ... -
Fuse 1.1.0 releaseAfter far too long, I am pleased to announce the 1.1.0 release of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix Spectrum Emula…
... open a tape or disk file, it?s
because it ... these files using the
File, Open... menu option ? you must ... disks for saving data to, or for
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How to test Z80 Code?Hi All, Is there a way to test a block of z80 code (nothing speccy specific in it) with many different inputs? The reason I ask is that I'm writing…
... -cpu/[/URL] writing 4 lines of text to a file for each run ... from a USB, and writing the text file back to the USB. So ... -
Spec dev in the eighties and ninetiesWhat different ways were there of making speccy games? There is the 'worst' way which is typing in hex commands in Basic unreadable, easy to make m…
... can compile a 200K source file in a few seconds. After ... assembled, it can be downloaded to the Spectrum via a parallel ... format graphics are converted to Spectrum format data to be incorporated into the ... a start you never have to worry about the Spectrum crashing ... -
New game: The curse of OddvilleDon't get too excited! :p Just wanted to share this because the coding of it is driving me mad, or rather the game designer is. The curse of Oddvil…
... splicing together a .TAP file from the data to port to the Speccy?
They'd be much easier to ... -the-fly; and allow you to use the whole Speccy memory ...
