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Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
[QUOTE=gasman]Normally, floating point numbers on the Spectrum are represented ... calculator would have constructed integers directly using integer constants.
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Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... calculator would have constructed integers directly using integer constants.
- How numbers ... /> Yep, sure... all of my calculator routines will at least have ... -
Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... might put two numbers in integer representation to your stack and want ... -
Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... responsible for cleaning up the stack. So instead of this ... just put back ret address, stack all cleaned up
...< ... a single parameter. The stack is not used at ... to write 16 bit numbers to memory faster than ... two 8-bit numbers since the former can ... -
For the nostalgic onesI dunno if this has been posted before, but here's a link to the old, or should I say "Ye Olde" Sinclair calculators. Lots of old and interesting m…
i remember my dad bringing a calculator home when i was a kid, we all crowded around its blue glowing numbers, and watched in amazment as he proceeded to do a sum.
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Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... of values onto the Spectrum Calculator comprises of the physical(?) pushing ... of 5 bytes onto the calculator stack. This will be push a ... -
Late-night quiz shows - new regulationsI wonder if these new regulations will help prevent the late-night phone-in quiz shows from scamming everybody: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ente…
... to correctly guess six correct numbers out of a possible forty ... actually (done on the Windows calculator):
1 in 8 ... -
Late-night quiz shows - new regulationsI wonder if these new regulations will help prevent the late-night phone-in quiz shows from scamming everybody: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ente…
... to correctly guess six correct numbers out of a possible forty ... actually (done on the Windows calculator):
1 in 8 ... taken into account that the numbers can fall in any order ... for any sequence of 6 numbers there are 720 possible combinations ... -
games club WC 10/04/07over 2000 years ago, the robot jesus 0.1, was created and went on to lay waste to a third of the earth. after a pitched battle he died and his space …
[QUOTE=Jumping Stack;182152]It is very easy ... droids go, it's the numbers that matter mostly; the lower ... -
Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
'Tis a bit strange that your loops don't start at 0, which makes it harder to spot the off by one errors, but nevermind.
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for (line_no=1; (line_no != 9) and (pos_no != 2); line_no++)
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Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... ...etc.
- [B]Use stack[/B]. For sprites you can ... /> - for backgrounds you can use stack to fill some area with ... page is great and TI calculator developers has great code resource ... -
Is this a known error?[code] 10 PRINT (-1)*(-1) 20 PRINT -1^2 : REM FALSE RESULT 30 PRINT (-1)^2 : REM ERROR [/code]
... each time round the two numbers that the computer prints out ... this case - must never be negative.)"
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Big BrotherHere we go again...zzzzz. Is anyone interested? Surely the novelty wore off about 4 years ago.
... with ?no-hopers?. She hates ?negative under-achievers, arrogance, people without ... on it, get in the stack and buzz like!? She adds ... -
wootjust got my first nigerian bank scam email, i feel so in touch with modern culture.
... /> In Order to Avert This Negative Development, I Will Like To ... Your Direct Fax and Telephone Numbers for Effective Communication That This ... -
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…
... generates different sequences of random numbers on every run.
stack and will only exist while ... variables are popped off the stack and are no longer valid ... -
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…
... is mainly used to print numbers that line up in columns ... pair rather than on the stack. However, z88dk 1.6 calls ... ) by pushing parameters on the stack. That's a mismatch that ... the single parameter on the stack as z88dk 1.6 was ... -
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…
... case where you want a negative result to terminate the game ... to keep track of statement numbers within the line. However, people ... -
Emulation vs SpecApologies if this is an old thread, what does anyone think is the best - playing spectrum games through emulation or on a real speccy? I feel it's b…
... methods such as moving the stack to the screen area and ... Z80 routine to simulate subtracting numbers in BCD arithmetic, and embedded ... -
My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
[QUOTE=Jumping Stack;217066]Bit of publishing advice ... those 30% all have ISBN numbers.
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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…
... you probably know, the random numbers generated by computers are not ... the same sequence of random numbers. In order to prevent ... variables are allocated on the stack when a function executes (ie ... and are removed from the stack when the function terminates (ie ... -
Work In ProgressHi folks, Many people ask what is in the pipeline to avoid sourcing tapes/disks/carts that we've either already dumped or have as WIP. They may rem…
... my WIP. Apologies for the numbers involved. I haven't bothered ... Analysis PBW
Which? Tax Calculator 1988-89, The The Consumers ... -
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…
... corresponding event can occur. These numbers are listed in the same ... still available. When "n" goes negative we have found the available ... -
Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…
... creation of the exit stack (in C you can ... of say the ti calculator's which would be wrong ... was told. About the stack depth required by the pattern ... get away with much smaller stack usage. The amount of ... are currently stored on the stack. You can actually see ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... handheld calculators and early calculator implementations used BCD arithmetic ... made adding/subtracting BCD numbers very fast in comparison ... /> [quote]
The original numbers showed most 1MHz 6502 machines ... in less than average numbers. Another less than ... -
Vedic Maths Trick!So you don't have to learn your 11 times table. For any 2 numbers multiplied by 11, add them together and insert the answer between the multiple dig…
... American gut nicknamed the human calculator? He developed a system that ... with decimal points and reoccuring numbers in the answer which he ... exactly what was on the calculator screen just to show he ... -
Finally...Yes :smile: I've finally reached one thousand posts. And yes, I know that many other people have reached that august figure too, but for most of t…
[quote=Jumping Stack;235666]The jokes didn't ... predjudices, but only in small numbers, and small minds), but I ... -
Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…
... /> Sure these are not great numbers and they would not turn ... .
There is so much negative feeling here sometimes.
WOS Tribute SectionThis is something that I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while, ever since the tribute to Ian Weatherburn was posted to WOS by Simon Butler…
... the time to write substantial negative posts on the subject.
Stack the arguments "against" the article ...Q. numeric keypads vs. telephones (Q on history?)OK, here is something which has annoyed me since I first saw a digital phone(instead of a rotary dial) ... why are the numbers on numeric keypads (an…
... not have letters on the numbers (I think they went out ... . So if you used the calculator keypad layout for a phone ... to bottom - whereas if the calculator keypad layout had been used ...
