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Probe Software and Fergus McGovernIn memory of the late Fergus McGovern, Retro Gamer is putting together a history of Probe Software. I'm looking to contact people who worked with …
In memory of the late Fergus McGovern, Retro Gamer is putting together a history of Probe Software.
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Presenting TK-Pie interfaceTK-Pie is an interface to connect a Raspberry Pi (all models, except the first one, with composite conector) to Spectrums and clones. I designed this…
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Can you MERGE using FUSE?How do you do it? I tried the command plus filename and the emulator locked up! The program to be merged is numbered correctly so its first line is…
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Testing your codeOk, guys, again I here with question. How do you test your works? I understand how to test functions and procedures mathematically (for example, g…
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A sped up pixel-shift routine for 1-byte–wide spritesHere’s an optimized (for speed) real-time sprite shifting routine for sprites that are one byte wide. It uses no memory variables for storage of inte…
... byte wide. It uses no memory variables for storage of intermediate ... .
I use it in [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org ... data needs to be aligned in memory with something like
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Debugging on ZEsarUX by reading the source codeHI New feature for ZEsarUX: https://youtu.be/z-TipWv0n9g With that you can associate an assembler source code to a program in memory so it w…
... source code to a program in memory so it will debug it ... LXXXX where XXXX is the memory address. This is helping me ... the source code has labels in this format
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8bit ASCII for Slavic languagesWhat is the 8bit standard for Cyrillic characters? And what did people tend to do on the Speccy? The Russian games I've looked at are storing thi…
What is the 8bit standard for Cyrillic characters? And what did people tend to do on the Speccy?
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z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
... to a portion or portions in Memory that are used by system ... exit to load an application in..... hmmm
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Where's my green square? Basic & m/c question.I'm going mad here - can anyone tell me why my little basic program isn't displaying a green square at the top of the screen? I've checked the num…
... program. I've repositioned it in memory without change so I don ... also gone through the code in New Generation's Machine Code ... -
Key repeat weirdness with EI & IYI finally (after 35 years!) decided to write something a) for 48k speccy b) in z80 assembler. It's been over 20 years since I've written anything in …
... was a) the speccy screen memory layout and b) that z80 ... when called populates a byte in memory with bits corresponding to QOAPSpace ... enabled...
In my code I have "ld ... have really huge blind spot in my understanding of speccy fundamentals ... -
Something my dad did for me...Today, what's left of it, is what would have been my dad's 75th birthday, but he never made it past 50. Here's something he did for me, other than…
... both when I was still in single figures. Both of ... tapes had been thrown in the back of a ... and might get snagged in the cheap and nasty ... another beer (maybe more) in memory of Peter Alan Waterman, 15 ... never forget his comment sometime in the mid-80s where ... -
Prportional Ascii text scrollerA couple of years ago I wrote a little scroller that nestles at the top of RAM (FFCA - 65482) and scrolls standard Ascii encoded text from anywhere y…
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Gyroscope - reverse engineering the 3 title theme tunesHello, Does anyone know if anyone has done any disassembly work on Gyroscope? I'm particularly looking to get the three title tracks back into a …
... to locate the track data in memory first and work backwards but ... anyone has any useful info in this area, it would be ... -
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…
... : Make the offset entry wider in memory browser
[*] GTK+: Remove duplicated ... 65536 bytes again (regression introduced in 1.5.6)
[*] Various ... other platforms should become available in the next few days
problem with symbol shift and caps shift key combinations on multilayer keyboard membranesHello, I know, it is generally know that some ZX Spectrums with multilayer keyboard membranes have problems with some key combinations. Typically …
... code, tested it again (in emulator it worked perfectly every ... load it at any place in memory and run it from here ... displays all 8 keyboard ports in 512 squares (character/attribute ... etc...
As previous, in Fuse emulator it worked perfectly ...Another Spectrum is brought back to life.Hi Spec-chums. I have been having bit of busy afternoon with repairs today. I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and more intere…
... today was because it was in quite a state of repair ... seller keeping the ULA ic. Pictures in the auction showed the board ... a few pads. I soldered in a socket and set about ... don't own a 16k in my collection. I'm also ...SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... has to create a memory bank, place the graphic ... create a new graphic bank in memory, and assign the index ... a “graphicstr$” (a graphic in a string, such as ... br /> The bank’s memory represents the bitmap surface, row ... br /> Am I right in thinking that you can ...GZX 2020.1 ReleasedHi, I just released [url="https://github.com/jxsvoboda/gzx/releases/download/v2020.1/gzx-2020.1.zip"]GZX 2020.1[/url]. [youtube]3AOQETbfrPA[/yo…
... the tape is held in memory in editable form and we ... [*]Made 'run until cursor' in debugger behave more intuitively
in Darkstar)
[*]Avoid ... interrupt is locked (fixes hang in Tirnanog menu)
[*] ...In memory of John WIlson @ ZenobiName and discuss your favourite [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/publishers/Zenobi-Software"]Zenobi [/url] game... I always enjoyed deser…
Name and discuss your favourite [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/publishers/Zenobi-Software"]Zenobi [/url] game...
I always enjoyed desert island adventure, so I'm going to say [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/text ...Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …
... , a turbo loader high in memory and some operating code at ... game is turbo-loaded in RAM immediately above this< ... of strings to go in the files for each ... copy some routines from lower in memory to this area, then ... put the entire game in RAM in one go so there ...Fighting Warrior's protection systemThis is one of those bizarre cases where cracking the loading system is orders of magnitude more fun than playing the game. (Indeed, discovering I wa…
... job which involves dissecting minidumps in WinDbg and having a bunch ... hidden on screen, puts in the top of memory, then jumps to ... it into the right place in memory, is on the display.
Of course, nowadays with built-in debuggers, this is reasonable easy ...Formating a Floppys for +3Hello, I have use the zx32 emulator in Spectrum +3 model. i have trying to format a 720 Ko diskfile, but it don't work. I get everytime a 180 Ko of…
... tape files from tape in memory and then from memory to tape is ...How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... a crash course in Z80 assembler.
Memory - if you ... us, BASIC in this case
In the memory of the ... with, stored in the next location in memory) or writes to memory (LD (BC ... ),A) and increases PC. In ...How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... registers are two bytes in size and give an ... binary number 16 bits in length. If you multiply ... pair of numbers stored in memory in decimal we need to ... of the number is store in memory first. (Hence the ... the floating point stuff in machine code would confound ...How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
I prefer TORNADO on the Spectrum(-emulator) itself.
The big advantage towards crossassemblers is that the code is directly
placed in memory and can be run instantaneously.
It works with 64 char/line and can have comments.Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... the Spectrum screen was mapped in memory.
The C64 had ... could also scroll a screen in a way that wasn't ... infact superior to the Spectrum in certain types of games. While ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... freely (i.e. not in those 8 pixel steps), you ... table to decide were in memory you should write the ... (once more my deficiencies in english show themselves) the ... Spectrum does perform worse in games of the _TYPE_ of ... isn't the best in the world. I shouldn ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... sprite freely (i.e. not in those 8 pixel steps), you ... lookup table to decide were in memory you should write the data ... done differently on the Spectrum in order to work better with ...Calling all coding munkeez...Having spent the last 8 years as a Windows application developer I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of Z80 speccy coding - something I missed out on …
... cross assembled objects once loaded in memory and you are freed from ... to worry about limited development memory and you can use any ... 't really see an advantage in that.PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... value gives the starting address in memory of the variables PAW ... ,22526 ; point to the attribute memory
LDIR ; continue loading ... 3 screens contained in the upper block of memory and then ... into the screen memory without even a pause in execution. What ...
