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Additional Information , Notes , and Details , re.the Main Windows Edition of Spectaculator There is no lenghy instruction to go with Spectaculator . Mark did a great job adding extra info. with this thread:- [url="https://worldofspectr…
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Best compiled Basic game ?I was thinking about this before I posted the topic about Melbourne House's excellent Penetrator scrolly but held off, however a kind [url="https://w…
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General PSU repair guidesNot Speccy related. I'm just looking for a guide as such as to where to begin with a power supply repair. Realise this is a bit of an odd thing to as…
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@Moggy Thanks. :) from memory the points you make about ... about 10 or so wires from memory. There's one red, ... yellow line to the HDD from yet, it may have ... or it may come from the main PSU board ... as you can probably tell from my "basic psu" design. ... -
Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
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ZX ConfessionsThink there was a similar topic about this many moons ago. Anyway just wondering if there's any Speccy related confessions perhaps people would like …
... was composite video only in from memory.
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How to Find a Game You Are Looking for - in a TZX (Emulator) Context I was looking for information about something else but I found a totally different concern instead . Whilst looking I found out that have been lo…
... Sinclair Mags tackle it ? Well from memory i think they had categories ... -
ZX ConfessionsThink there was a similar topic about this many moons ago. Anyway just wondering if there's any Speccy related confessions perhaps people would like …
... not like in your diagram - from memory I think his jump is ... -
ZX ConfessionsThink there was a similar topic about this many moons ago. Anyway just wondering if there's any Speccy related confessions perhaps people would like …
... not like in your diagram - from memory I think his jump is ... a quick sketch, to illustrate from left to right, but the ... -
CODE instruction in array$ PRINTSo I'm still plugging away at BASIC and have found a line of code (another!) that's really puzzling me. The line is as follows: PRINT A$(P+Q TO P…
Thanks for the replies folks, I think I've got it sorted now. I PEEked the integers from memory and recreated the variables using CHR$. After plugging these into the program (which reads the vars using CODE), it all worked fine. -
Software Distributed Electronically This is a bit puzzling - I cannot find the thread that raised this method of software distribution only a few days ago ;ZX1 and You Spec-Chum and…
... (Disease Dodgers) was purchased from REM.I think the cassette ... different .
From what I remember the original ... instruction booklet and original cassette (from memory) . So my "late" ... This would have included titles from the likes of Sinclair ... -
ZX Spectrum Software Hire Clubs. Does anybody remember them? They used to be quite popular circa 1983 . I think some were just for the ZX Spectrum , Others covered a broader range of micros . I think they rel…
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The tapes from the bigger clubs were advertised ... these games to them happy . From memory, I think a lot of ... -
Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …
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Computer Space and Beyond - 50 years of video gaming.A nice article by the BBC on 50 years of video gaming: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58281812
Ermm... From memory "Shocking article, it's like ... -
Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…
... original thinking that a 7MHz memory access rate board with a ... means that the data rate from memory is typically 7MHz, and only ... most of that thinking came from backwards examining the TEA2000 chip ... -
Badly written arcade games?A thought came to me earlier when reading the thread discussing retro consoles.... Back in the 80s arcade conversions were all the rage, but they …
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Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... even escape the first screen! From memory I think you had to ... 'stand up' from your desk which took you ... -
"Of It's Time" : Rooted in the 1980's ZX Spectrum Software (aka Culturally "Out of Date" stuff) This does not have to be UK based but it has to be ZX Spectrum software that is culturally specific to or at least strongly related to the 1980s . …
... for this later period though . From memory was the Frank Bruno games ... -
"Of It's Time" : Rooted in the 1980's ZX Spectrum Software (aka Culturally "Out of Date" stuff) This does not have to be UK based but it has to be ZX Spectrum software that is culturally specific to or at least strongly related to the 1980s . …
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Getting Better at TZXThere are possibly fewer "rules" in chit chat so I thought I would put this here. it is a couple of years since I attempted doing any TZX files so…
... none of the TZX files ( from any of the TZX main ... be edited into each prog ( from memory I think there are 2 ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... ? But maybe it will trash memory (it will if it writes ... IX is wrong, but reading from memory does not trash stuff) -
The sound quality (or not) of AM radioInspired by [url=https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/995799/#Comment_995799]this comment about the BBC's methods of beating pirate …
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Spectrumpedia second edition - it's here!Hi everybody, it is with great pleasure that I annonunce you the release of the new Spectrumpedia in its second edition, revised and enhanced in e…
... reader though , for me , ( and from memory) I think that Colin Woodcock ... -
Running code from the display memory?Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used by the display file? If you were really out of memory and some part of screen is not u…
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Overflow Detection while Scanning a Number from a StringI've got some strange behaviour from a subroutine that reads a number from a string and converts it to a 32-bit long. It's C's strtol if it helps to…
... subroutine that reads a number from a string and converts it to ... zeroes. So adding a number from 0 to 2^n-1 ... -
How to load a +3 dos file from disk to memory in z80Hi all again, Are there any example z80 code listings (not BASIC) to load a +3 binary dos file from disk to a specific memory destination? Thanks.
Hi all again,
Are there any example z80 code listings (not BASIC) to load a +3 binary dos file from disk to a specific memory destination?
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How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
... in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws ... "u20l20"
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How to copy file from tape (*.tap) to disks (*.dsk) ?I am using zx32 with win98 and i want (in the emulate +3) copy files from virtual tapes to virtual disks. I use => load "NameOfFile" (for copy the f…
... the emulate +3) copy files from virtual tapes to virtual disks ... the file in the zx memory) but the result is "drive ... to copy c64 tapes programs from tapes to disk.
I ... my speccy (convert the files from tapes to disks).
Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…
... is where the screen memory resides. The screen memory ends at 23296 ... . After this we have system variables.
From ... is what on earth the memory before KSTATE and after the ... video memory is used for on a ...
