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Questions about Spectrum 48K soundsHi, I find it a very intriguing task to produce sounds on Spectrum 48K, which has only a beeper. - I am very curious to know how the games produced t…
... a very intriguing task to produce sounds on ... I am very curious to know how the games produced ... specific formula for sending data to the speaker). Or they ... ZX Spectrum program capable to store and play short ... the game producers using to produce music and sound ... -
New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…
... ZXC4 and it can transfer data to it over RS232 at the ... is now capable of transferring data over to the ZXC3 via RS232 ... faster by splitting bank data into multiple ... ) in sending data over RS232. These new versions apply to ZXC1, ZXC2 ... -
SAMPLES for Sample-Tracker (GIANTIC pack)Hi,<br><br><span class="crumb crumblast">Adrdesign from Spain made ENORMOUS work and converted all the samples from classic synth </span>Fairlight CM…
... SampleTracker. There is no redundant data to save memory. Hope you like ... -
People that can complete Jet Set WillyHi All I had the following posted on my youTube walk-through of Jet Set Willy: "for those that can complete Jet Set Willy i salute, you truly are…
... so many have failed."
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Jet Set Willy - Sinclair User reviewDoes anyone have any idea which issue and page number this was reviewed in? Infoseek has it credited to the June 1984 issue ([url="http://www.worldo…
... in? Infoseek has it credited to the June 1984 issue ([url ... as it would have more data to it.
I'm ... 'm at a complete loss! To muddy the waters a bit ... -
How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
... ...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the ... IN command. And then starting to draw on top of the ... 4? 8? 8 seems easy to implement as you just need ... is a bit more nasty to scroll (3 shifts per byte ... you'd add 32 to the original value to skip 8 pixels ... -
Contended memory article on WikipediaYeah, apparently there's one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_Contended_Memory [quote] However, the ULA must wait for a Z80 read or wr…
... ULA has no capacity to prefetch and store data in advance, it ... relies upon the memory being available to read to ... programs and games only copied data to the display on interrupt, as ... and border time when video data was not used.[/quote]
Lower & upper ram IC's for an issue 3 please.Would any of you great folks have 1 spare lower ram, and 1 spare upper ram IC's you would be willing to sell. I'm fixing up a poorly Spectrum that is…
... 's you would be willing to sell. I'm fixing up ... that is re-cased in to a Saga Emperor keyboard. It ... IC6, and IC17 have failed so looking to replace them both. Here ... . I'm UK based, happy to pay going rate and postage ...Working with streams in BASICHi I've been screwing around with streams and Spectranet, there's something I can't figure out. If you want to send data to a stream how can you tel…
... out. If you want to send data to a stream how can you ... tell it to listen till ... of reading some data line by line I want to receive it ... and me pushing the computer to give me the next ... a feeling it has something to do with the CAT ...Fuse for macOS 1.4.1 ReleasedA new version of Fuse for macOS has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/ Note …
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[*] Improvements to the loader acceleration code to reduce errors - Blood ... /DivMMC EPROM memory and clear data to 1's (Sergio Baldoví).
to allow access to the current tape level ...Most accurate display on emulatorWhich Windows emulator has the most accurate display. I am making a game and one of the tiles is not showing correctly on an real spectrum +2 machin…
... just fine. I am running Spectaculator and have tried the windows ... .
On Spectaculator I have tried to "Mimic a TV screen ... TV Picture Quality from Aerial to Custom. Also on custom, I ... set it to the worst quality. Any Ideas ...Non ZX Spectrum hardware that is useful is one or more Speccy related computer modes.I am not sure if I described it very well but there are now loads of ZX Spectrum modes or zones or categories of hardware where where Spectrum games…
... how they can be used to aid Speccy related gameplay ... works great with Spectrum emulator "Spectaculator" (the PC version). It ... thread on how to set it up on Spectaculator)
... Any further additions to this list ...Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... still not quite clear to me (because I’ve ... design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font ... (there’s just to much graphical data to shift around in real ... time), unless I want to ... even found some time to whip up a suitable ...ZEsarUX 6.1 BETAHi I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX BETA version 6.1. You can download it from the usual beta url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/files/…
... emulator version
Added actions to file utilities: Copy, Move, Rename
to copy to it. Press P on file utils to paste contents to a file ...
Improved menus, a new "tabbed" menus to ...ZEsarUX 6.1 RCHi I have uploaded a new beta version of ZEsarUX. This is ZEsarUX 6.1 RC so next version will be a final stable version :) You can download it fr…
... /> Added a setting to dump ram contents to file when exiting ZEsarUX, ideal ... to run automatic tests
* added function to write byte to file on ZEsarUX hardware debug ...Fuse 1.5.4 releasedA new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulato…
... *.FMF as an allowed filetype to file selectors
[*] Save SCR ... from current display file
[*] Use 44.1KHz ... /> [*] Upgrade to libspectrum 1.4.3 to fix TC2048 and ... br /> Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to this release. Source ...Software on vinyl - Pete Shelley XL1Software on vinyl - Pete Shelley XL1 RetroManCave and Techmoan Part One - talking about it, transfering the data to tape, and other data on vinyl…
... it, transfering the data to tape, and other data on vinyl.
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I had to dig this out from 'Your ...Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
... data so I wouldn't need to do N*8 to ... /> ; font data pointer (-32*8 because data starts from space ... be optimized by reorganizing data to be linear slice-wise ... /> ; do we have leftover data?
ld a, c
data pointer to access the next layer ...Fuse 1.5.7 releasedA new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulato…
... *.bin as an allowed filetype to file selectors and amend .fmf filetype ... />
Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to this release. Source ...Canoe GameI remember playing a game in the 80's on my 48k Spectrum and I'd love to play it again. But I can't figure out what it was called. You had to paddle …
... Spectrum and I'd love to play it again. But ... it was called. You had to paddle a canoe around a ... flags. I think it had to load and then you had ... the tape over for more data to load. Any help would be ... bought "Scumball", when you used to buy games in the newsagents ...SkoolKit'ing errorsI'm in trouble with SkoolKit 7.2 Did so far [code]sna2ctl.py %GAME%.z80 > %GAME%.ctl[/code] control file looks fine [code] @ 16384 start …
... ctl[/code]
control file looks fine
[ ... skool[/code]
skool file looks fine
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It produces asm file, but with a long list ... br /> Can output be redirected to file? How? I'm already redirecting ...RS232 - built-in vs. Interface 1Hello all. After some advice, and I figured someone here would probably be able to help. I'm the owner of a (grey case) Spectrum +2, and I'm keen …
... vDriveZX. It would seem to be at least vaguely ... different data formats from within BASIC, and seems to work ... If I want to play with sending data to and from a ... or will I have to stick to 48K mode if I ... and tips for connection to other machines? Like software ...How do you get the GRAPHICS cursor in 128 Basic?I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even …
I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even tried print usr "p" after loading in the binary to make a character and that wouldn't work either.Is it me or is the +2 manual nowhere as good as the original?I think it's probably as much to do with my ageing brain as the bloody manual for the Spectrum +2 from Amstrad but the explanations don't make as muc…
... explained. I have to skip through the manual to piece together the ... listing for poking in the data to create a character, such as ... from previous experience I knew to type RUN after entering the ... /> Then again, what used to be easy to assimilate on the first ...Harlequin 128 Rev 2D with ZX Interface 1 RS232Hi, Does anyone have any experience of using serial interface on ZX Interface 1 plugged into a Harlequin 128. While microdrive works fine, i can't…
... , i can't get any data to send or receive via serial ...Zero v0.8Pigs can apparently fly because it's the v0.8 update of Zero that no one asked for but is out for public consumption anyway. Grab it [url="https:/…
... CPU speed adjuster in addition to emulation speed.
... + Added ability to load custom symbols to represent memory locations ... , CHARS
42000, SPRITE DATA
+ Added Watch Window ... - Fixed saving of temporary data to user's local storage location ...Programming as a means of staving off dementia...?I have to wonder if anyone here is worried about getting the human equivalent of severe bit rot - and it seems it could happen to anyone. For the mos…
... also help? By writing CSSCGC entries, by writing programs to solve cubic equations ... fractions into hexadecimal, by trying to translate existing programs into another ... pointer...), am I doing anything to push back the potential onset ...plus3Does anyone know if there is a windows prugram not dos That can copy files from disk to disk to disk like star commander for c64 can
Erm, why would you need to explicity copy from disk to disk (I assume +3DOS formatted) when there are tools availble for creating disk images and then writing them to disks?Can u name this gameI've tried most combinations of bomber and air... I'm looking for a 2d game i used to play on my 48k. You were a plane flying backwards and forward…
Christ, my mum couldnt even use the teletext. She tried Horace Goes Skiing once and failed miserably. But to balance the see-saw, she can peel spuds better than me.Lol[newbie warning :)] Spectrum +3 questionsHello all, Yes, I am a Speccy newbie [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] My Spectrum +3 arrived today, and I already have a few questi…
... , and I have the needed data to build a PSU (I won ... also found a guy willing to sell me a PSU...
to build one? A ubilt one ... good in case I want to add a 3 1/2 ...
