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Do you wish they'd stop making games?Probably the stupidest topic ever posted on WOS, but here goes... Today I was talking to a bloke about gaming, and it reminded me of something I rea…
... lifetime. I myself have a stack of games for various machines ... I could fill those years up with my current backlog of ... -
RAND USR that doesn't work in emulators and clonesEons ago, I "discovered" a strange RANDOMIZE USR. This is it: [b]RANDOMIZE USR 46578[/b] Using it on a genuine ZX Spectrum rubber key or Plus model,…
... second, the following pattern shows up on screen:
[img]http ... until the CPU meets the stack, and then it interprets the ... instructions.
But AFAIK, the stack contains the same values after ... , the pattern doesn't show up. It only happens with 46578 ... -
Question about wiring up ethernet at homeWell, since WoS is the best forum I know for technical folk, I wondered if I could get a sanity check on my wiring plan for laying some ethernet cabl…
... house is a big fixing up project, I havent settled on ... two cables from the rooms up into the attic, ending at ... as a coupler without messing up the network? Is there any ... -
CrusoePlease add the following "known errors" description for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002872"]Crusoe[/URL]: [QUOTE]Bu…
... significant error was the machine stack overflow, caused by indirect recursive ... load a saved game messed up the stack and the QQQ/TIUQ ... was due to the stack being messed up by other things). Fixed ... -
Speeding up select processing...Hi Folks, I have the following code in my program and it works fine but is rather "sluggish". I have even moved it to the beginning of the program …
... on the screen and moves up/down two lines if you ... press cursor up/down. If you press left ... pressed is not left/right/up/down and ENTER then go ... /> [B]Line 310 [/B]- if up/down is pressed and the ... know to speed the code up.
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wahts up with facebookso im making a joke profile for someone at work. but when it gets to entering all the information (work history, likes, interests, school) it will o…
... he's been are made up.
i do remeber when ... i set mine up years ago it didn't ... , and when i was setting up i said i don't ... -
How to check .txt files for corruption?I rescued some ebooks (all in .txt format) from a dying SD card, but it turns out that some of them are corrupt - they start OK but part way through …
... them, but there's a stack of these files, and rather ... than open up each file in Notepad and ... -
up-to-date info on tape->PC conversions?I've been trying to find up-to-date information on tape->PC conversions and haven't had any luck so far. * I searched the Emulators forum for half a…
... 've been trying to find up-to-date information on tape ... -
Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
Okay, that's it, I give up!My extremely limited gaming skills have been shown up once again so... On Brian Bloodaxe how do I get past the screen to left of the snooker table. …
My extremely limited gaming skills have been shown up once again so...
On Brian Bloodaxe how do I get past the screen to left of the snooker table.
On Farenheight 3000 how do I get past the first screen?automatic relocating of non-relocatable codeI was pondering upon the problem of changing absolute addresses used by CALL, JP, etc. when code is moved, without reassembling at the new location; …
... puts its address on the stack and so SP could be ... HL,SP". So I ended up saving it in SEED, which ... /> PUT_SP: ld (STACKP),sp ;save stack pointer
ld hl,CHANGE ... /> GET_SP: ld sp,(STACKP) ;restore stack pointer
ret
Backing up to an external hard drive.I've just brought a 500gig external HDD to backup some files. Not all of them, just the inportant ones (music, photos, a few films etc). It's a Seaga…
... this. I've never backed up to an external HDD before ... slow anyway, but I backed up a folder (with many sub ...Fired up my Speccy today...It's true, after more than 20 years, I dug my 48k Spectrum out of the cupboard, popped out to Maplin to buy a suitable PSU, set it all up and tuned i…
... suitable PSU, set it all up and tuned in my TV ... me hear it. This opened up up a whole vista for me ...Worst game heroes - The ones that anyone could beat up!When I used to play the great Don Priestley game Popeye on the spectrum I used to think that Popeye was a bit of a wuss. He spent most of the game b…
... of the game being beaten up by Bluto, witches, a disembodied ... just enabled him to get up so he could be knocked ... , this tortoise is easily beaten up by just about everything that ...Image2ULAPlus released (Follow-Up of SCRPLUS)Dear forum readers, today I've released Image2ULAPlus under GNU GPL version 3+. You find it on my website at [url]http://www.zxmodules.de[/url] It …
... another. It is a follow-up of Edward Cree's wonderful ...Help needed setting up a Ubuntu swap partitionHowdi all :) I'm in need of some help setting up a swap partition for Ubuntu. I've used GParted to shrink down drive partition D: which will give m…
... need of some help setting up a swap partition for Ubuntu ... (the general rule for setting up a partition is to go ... , and I've almost given up. Any help would be greatfully ... urgently need to set this up in case of low memory ...Souping up my Spectrum+ 128k ToastrackI wrote a small piece on the various things I've been doing to my ZX Spectrum+ 128k toastrack, primarily getting it working with the bright output an…
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I haven't put up step by step instructions, merely ...Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…
... code that i've came up with so far but it ... />
ld (32859),sp ; Preserve stack pointer
ld sp ...saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …
Here's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to be combined or merged into other programs. It's sort of a slow version of copy & paste. The two line ...Sandbox games (Speccy and non-Speccy)A subject that came up today was what does the term 'sandbox' game mean? I'd originally thought that a sandbox game was one where you built thing up …
A subject that came up today was what does the ... one where you built thing up how you choose, but over ... , as they allow you to stack things up if you so choose ...AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…
... the second parameter actually ends up in C, as I was ... ;step over ,
call EX1NUM ;stack 1st variable
pop af ... ;step over ,
call EX1NUM ;stack 2nd variable
call FPTOBC ...probably a stupid question about RST16I'm using the 'hello world' code borrowed from [url=http://equant-retrochallenge.blogspot.com/2008/07/zx-spectrum-assembly-programming-under.html]her…
... 't buggered around with the stack pointer or anything like that ... afterwards and it'll lock up, so I can't see ...Got a new game up and coming ?If you got a new game coming up and want to preview it let me know and we will sort it out as the online magazine will have a preview section for all…
... got a new game coming up and want to preview it ...tiny routine to shift RAMTOP & stackCompressing some data areas above RAMTOP and wanting to make the released space available for BASIC arrays, I needed to move RAMTOP without using CLE…
... still reference the m/c stack at the old location, so ... are preserved, but the GOSUB stack still gets reset, as it ... enhanced to preserve the GOSUB stack as well, but then it ...divide question - ribbon cable?Hi - recently got a divide and loving it but not enough room on my desk. Is anyone aware of a supplier of a ribbon cable that could sit between +3 …
... would free up a little space by allowing me to stack divide ...Datel plusD set up, with drive, discs, instructions etcPreviously one of the crown jewels of my collection, imminent baby means I need the money more! If you're looking at this you likely know what it i…
... storage for years but loaded up fine just now for some ...BREAK from GOSUBHere's another one. Just in case you wanted to break out of multiple GOSUB levels with a single command, here's a routine to do it, tested on all mod…
... on all models from 48k up to +3e. Called from BASIC ... B, A ; 71 ;from calc stack
NXTSUB: EXX ; 217
stack?
JR Z, NOGSUB ; ...Guide 2: Resurrect dead microdrive cartridges!Hi again, I've just made another little guide: [url]http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/guides/Resurrect_Microdrive/[/url] If, like me, you have a…
... , like me, you have a stack of microdrives, you'll know ... why I advise to back up everything immediately if it works ... data. Plus if it chews up your microdrive, it's not ...
