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Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... core to run the real BASIC 4 ROM, but the operating ... type and run a BBC BASIC program. You currently can't ... 'm asking if anybody else out there has a good knowledge ... odd typing in a BBC Basic program on a Spectrum. It ... -
128 ROM paging alternativeWould this work (with the appropriate code in each ROM)? [code] ; 128 rom paging routine ; use rst 28h with call address stored after restart ;;rom…
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[code]
; 128 rom paging routine
; use rst 28h ... br />
;;rom0
paging
org 0x0028
ld ... ; disable interrupts for page
out (c),a ; and page
out (c),a ; and page
BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... daft things with the OUT command and the ... so zooming in and out using the mouse wheel ... that has been moved partially off the "screen". (Badbeard)
BASIC)
Fixed - A ... which are parsed for BASIC functions, now accept the ...Developers developers developers developers developers!OK, I think it's at a stage where someone else can also have a go at doing things with the Spectranet. If you've not been following the hardware foru…
... . I'm going to loan out (on a free loan, indefinite ... to load a .TAP file off the network.
* A *good ... anyone can squeeze enough performance out of the Z80 for an ... to support socket programming in BASIC but it won't be ...Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
... into (i.e. to check out the code).
... The games I've tried out seem to be "finished" ... it goes straight to the BASIC listing.
... easy to get into their BASIC listings.
... you are interested in BASIC programming then you might ...Unknown 'Sound Box' HardwareI've come into possession of a curious box and wondered if anyone had come across one before.. The label on the side says "Sound Box for the ZX Spec…
... and one a selector switch which can select Off, Load, Amp or ... the ZON, but anyone help out with how it's used ?+2a datacorder problemsHelloooo, how's it going? Reason I'm posting is that 1) I'm a massive speccy fan, it was the first range of computers I ever owned 2) I'm having rea…
... /> I just bought a +2a off ebay (listed as tested & ... that I managed to work out for myself....a quick wipe ... of the membrane sorted that out nice and simple).
switch is open and not jammed ...Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... on them, then drawing them out of a hat in batches ... I've succeeded in Speccy BASIC, I think I might just ... lines of randomly picked numbers out
410 FOR f=1 ...ghosts?right then. about a month ago I started noticing that despite turning my oven off every time I use it without fail - the big red switch on the wall (…
... not the oven switch but the power connector switch), yet countless ... electricity badly, and the switch is in a cupboard ... lug the 2 tvs out the way of the ... arm around the corner and switch it off. wtf?
out that both times I ...Nicola McLean f**ked off I'm a CelebrityGee, it appears that two-faced bitch Nicola McLean has been turfed off I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Result! :D
Gee, it appears that two-faced bitch Nicola McLean has been turfed off I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
Result! :DSo... you want to format your 3.5" as 720K eh?Well, i've been trying to get hold of an application to make proper use of my 3.5" +3 floppy disks but i haven't been able to find any. I stumbled up…
... the disk gets recognized under BASIC
LD BC, ... can see what happened from BASIC
RET ; Return< ... 23388),A
OUT (C),A ; Actual paging here
EI ...Some questions to pass the time1. What is the best 8 bit machine? I don't mean software range wise, as we all know that the Spectrum has the best games software (well, the people …
... and a great version of BASIC into 16KB, and the128K Spectrum ... control the sound chip, midi-out, the 128K editor, etc, so ... inconsequential, to take my mind off life.Amazon second-hand buying/Dreamcast adviceYesterday the postman popped through my front door my first-ever online second-hand purchase, a copy of "Crazy Taxi" for the Dreamcast. I opened the …
... . So I turn off the DC, takes out the disc and peer ... since I was going to switch them off anyway but doing so ...BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... highlighted as numbers in the BASIC editor.
Fixed - The ... to emulate a +2 by paging the editor ROM in inappropriately ... "free RAM" routine), would time out or give "Illegal expression". Lesson ... /> Fixed - Expressions can no longer OUT in the z80 core, so ..."Floating" AY registersWhile I was working on some AY sample-related stuff, it occurred to me that with the AY port not being completely decoded, it would be a handy CPU-ti…
... something like LD BC,0xf8fd / OUT (C),B to select AY ... this Basic program:
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10 OUT 65533,42: OUT 49149 ... to 16 AY chips running off the same hardware port! Okay ...err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... he blasted the zombies head off and died himself seconds later ... the remote control before kicking off, and was surfing the ... was visually more pleasing, but BASIC worked better with a listening ... lines, ham radios still tapped out Morse, postal addresses were ...Found a great ZX BASIC textbookProgramming Arcade Games for your Spectrum, by Adrian Jones. Found this in a second-hand bookstore over the weekend and if you're anything like me,…
... typed in various bits of BASIC, know your way round the ... you through the subset of BASIC you need to make arcade ... it after you venture beyond BASIC. There's also a couple ... see a programming manual laid out, this is what I'd ...+3 BASIC and RST 8I've been working on adding commands to the BASIC interpreter, in a similar style to how Interface 1 does it (catch the RST 8 error trap). This works…
... on adding commands to the BASIC interpreter, in a similar style ... my +3 under 48K BASIC or in RST 0 mode ... at all with the +3 BASIC editor. Whenever a new command ... the +3 editor is doing paging.
Am I ... ? What does the +3 BASIC editor do that the 128K ...ZX80 Snapshot queryDoes anyone know why Z80 snapshots store some data as different values? I was initially trying to print the Outlet magazine Outdex files from Master…
... save the file and data out but I figured it would ... of storing system variables, Spectrum Basic, etc, why would pure text ... snaphot and saved the data out (as a TZX file) onto ... around. Who knows ... I'm off down the pub.:lol:
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... interrupts
;Return to Basic:
ld bc,colour_map ;This ... "
ret
;Switch interrupts off:
;----------------------
interrupts_off
IM ... again
ret ;Return to BASIC
;Main interrupt ...Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... that reads 'some file' off 'some disk' is a ... too tightly coupled to a Basic extension, or an emulation ... that reads TAP files off FAT with a pretty ... (your interface here) firmware with Basic extensions to read and write ... wanted to get it out in the open early ...New game idea, "sneak-em-up".A while ago, I was going to try my hand at a game on the speccy, but nothing ever came of it. Basically, I had an idea to do a "Thief" style game. N…
... Torches can be put out by firing water arrows at ... (though finding a switch to turn them off might be a ... black-jack to knock them out, taking one turn to ... ) would be difficult to knock out.
You could ... that find a knocked out comrade will wake them ...The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …
... so I'm skiving off for a bit to clear ... So to take my mind off things temporarily, I'll ... it was all implied or off screen, which really worked, ... discussion (or flaming, or all out war ).
... t think of many more off hand. The Monster Club ...AY sometimes doesn't sound correctlyI have a second hand 128+2 (grey) and a small problem. AY music sometimes doesn't sound correctly - one sound channel plays out of tune. The problem …
... correctly - one sound channel plays out of tune. The problem doesn ... . But when I switch computer off and then switch it on problem with ...Machine Code Microdrive File LoaderI've been experimenting with transferring games to run from microdrive. Typically I like to see a loading screen while things are happening, and I li…
... some space. Chances are that BASIC will get corrupted while attempting ... /> push hl ; preserve return to basic
exx
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... hl ; manipulate sp to handle paging errors
ld (err_sp),hl ... br /> ld (_bordcr),a
out ($fe),a
rst $10 ...The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... useful code can still come out of it for future developers ... considering tricks like paging or loading bootstrap images off disk. It's ...Very basicI found the wos site a few months ago when searching for solutions to my broken spectrum, that i had dug out of storage and was learning basic on. Si…
... i had dug out of storage and was learning basic on. Since ... download zx spin and learn basic using an emulator instead. Unfortunatley ... on the task of learning basic.I plan to post updates ... goal is to program a basic game from scratch to as ...Burnt Out My 48K. HELP!I have a number of spectrums I powered one up wrong today and killed it. I had a power supply that a while ago I rigged up to work with both the ZX8…
... cables comming off a electical block.
It turned out the ...MailstromReminded of this game via another thread here, I decided I would try and play it again as I never really got what it was all about back in the day, d…
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EDIT : I worked it out, but in case anybody has ... go to joysticks and switch them all off and go to peripherals ... and make sure you switch all ... of them off too, I think ...
