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Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... hard to guess how much memory is needed....[/QUOTE]
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Pictures of your Speccy taken in the 80sDoes anyone have pictures of their Speccy setup back in the 80s? I have so many holiday snaps and family snaps, but I don't have a single photo of my…
I'm sure I took pictures that included it, and I'm sure I took pictures in the school computer room (BBC Micro), but I can only find about 5% of the photos I took back then - none of which include a computer. -
Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... or by just having an in-memory interpreter.
The z ... might be due to the memory constraints of the platform (although ... -
Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... or by just having an in-memory interpreter.[/QUOTE]
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Spectrum hangs upWhat might be problem when my ZX Spectrum 48K (rubber keys) hangs up after few minutes play? It had memory problems but i changed (or an expert did i…
... bad upper memory chip that does not put itself in high ... /> To test for possible failures in memory deconding, due to bad address ... To test both lower memory and upper memory, use 32763 for load ... not testing lower memory, when testing lower memory you will see ... -
Beebs Back in Education AgainBletchley Park Museum of Computing is running classes for A-Level students in computing using old BBC-Bs: [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-…
... code that would live in a user's home ... whatever the user originally had in their !Boot file). The ... ran the computer lab was in his office, and I ... a resident word changing program in memory (how much fun it ... a complete wipe of memory) before logging on :-) -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood how to manipulate the memory ... double height character routine in BASIC that is ... around the method used in BBC BASIC MODE ... uses 1.5K of memory to store the ... CHARS to a different memory location. Enter the following ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood how to manipulate the memory ... double height character routine in BASIC that is ... around the method used in BBC BASIC MODE ... uses 1.5K of memory to store the ... CHARS to a different memory location. Enter the following ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
[QUOTE=SkyCat;471536]The Expendables!
Just blow things up![/QUOTE]
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Out RunSo, I've just been playing [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/09/spectrum-games-out-run-classic-zx.html"]Out Run[/URL] again and reviewed…
... I had 48K version back in the days but it was ... had the 48K version back in the day. Multi-load ... I mean about squeezing it in to memory! ;)
... load the levels in, but then they stayed in memory from that ... .com/hub/sound-chip-in-8-Bit-computers-the- ... -
Broken my Camera - Insurance QuestionOk so I've been foolish on holiday. I brought on Ebay a waterproof case for my digital camera. Its an SLR style Panasonic FZ28. Now the waterproof c…
... /> I take a lot of pictures and really liked the light ... FZ28, coupled with its built in 18 times zoom (the FZ45 ... was a camera that resulted in noisy pictures in all but the best ... need a camera to take pictures of our forthcoming baby. I ... -
Broken my Camera - Insurance QuestionOk so I've been foolish on holiday. I brought on Ebay a waterproof case for my digital camera. Its an SLR style Panasonic FZ28. Now the waterproof c…
... cameras. be sure to take pictures in nothing but the cameras RAW ... -
updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…
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Actually is released only memory based versions. I can send ... DI+RET
M = change memory adress
0-255 = write ... = find up to 5 values in memory (0-255=number, ENTER=ignore ...
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Full manual in this archive:
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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…
... Basic or assembler.
In Basic there are 21 UGD ... you store new letters somewhere in memory and change this variable to ... - copy its data to screen memory.
So yes, font ... must create a copying routine in asm. -
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…
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My routine works in a similar way but makes ... need to have 768 bytes in memory at any given time. Also ... -
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…
... applications that access the screen memory directly, though, there are no ... just arbitrary graphic data stored in memory, so printing double-height characters ... -
storing level datahi everyone im using arrays to store level data. its not working. just to set up the walls takes an array of size 92*2 is there a better way?
... numeric array could be wasteful in memory terms. Remember on the Spectrum ... is stored as 5 bytes in floating point.
If ... range 0-255 then using memory addresses would be just as ... 65535. Still a big saving in memory terms although the PEEK/POKE ... -
Pretty CrashesTo make a 48K spectrum crash spectacularly and beautifully enter the following into basic. Also works on a 128k in 48k mode though not quite as prett…
... -byte call to any location in memory could be executed.
The ... -
Machine code[CODE] OPCODE HEX ADD LD A,05 3E05 F000 LD B,00 0600 F002 INC B 04 LOOP F004 CP A,B B8 F005 JP NZ,LOOP C2F003 F006 LD B,00 0600 F009 LD …
... before the most significant byte in memory.
Big-endian processors ... -
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 basic forum..
in the sense of giving me ... want to store multiple programs in memory and swap between them? Use ... -
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…
... with basic also (have done in the past) on 64. wasn ... block shifts / relocates the game in memory to where it should be ... pressed it changes some bytes in the memory to say where to ... -
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…
... .. but I want them ALL in one load..
to ... is I wanted.
in memory you load the things into ... memory 1 after the other.. e. ... -
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…
... promptly load the next one in memory.
After they had ... .
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Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…
... - "caveat actor".
In this particular case I was ... long as any interim stage in their calculation did not ... form can be referenced directly in memory with PEEK & POKE ... -byte floating point numbers directly in memory from BASIC - ie. without ... -
SpecBAS (SpecOS's BASIC interpreter) is updated - build 236Build 236 is up at [url]ftp://zxdunny.dyndns.org[/url] New for this release is the beginnings of a proper manual - all commands and functions docume…
... now?... and am I right in hearing that you intend multiple ... programs to be stored in different banks?... Out of curiousity ... of having the editor program in memory?
Incidently, don't ... same file and dump it in the same directory as SpecBAS ... -
DMA interface for ZX Spectrum[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url] This is internal DATA-GEAR interface for any 8-bit computer with Z80CPU. Use Direct Memory Access…
... the DMA hardware.
In theory, you could scroll a ... another and incrementing the pointers in a loop till it's ... copy of the screen somewhere in memory and use the DMA to ... -
Loading BASIC programs stored as "bytes:"Hi all, I have a question regarding loading BASIC programs, that I managed to save as machine code (I suppose) when I was a child, as a result of e…
... a non-zero-length program in memory. At the very least, you ... Bytes: block spanning the screen memory, system variables, program data and ... loading, the Basic interpreter was in just the right state to ... -
Loading BASIC programs stored as "bytes:"Hi all, I have a question regarding loading BASIC programs, that I managed to save as machine code (I suppose) when I was a child, as a result of e…
... ""CODE 23755 gave me "nonsense in BASIC".[/QUOTE]
... I guess the 'nonsense in BASIC' is happening because when ... block with no existing program in memory, the Basic interpreter's workspace ... it finds itself slap bang in the middle of a program ...
