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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. …
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20 ... /> uses MC in FIRST line only and '35' is ... for more routines in one line just raise with extra number ... br /> uses the SAME line as the DATA. So better ... br />
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CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
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Q. on a game.How many T-states/kbs/other methods long is the game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005606&loadpics=3&model=spectrum"]Vulcan…
A t-state is the duration of one clock cycle of the z80, i.e. 1/3500000 of a second (ish) in the case of a Spectrum. So - if you want to know how many t-states something takes, time it with a stopwatch and multiply the number of seconds by 3500000. -
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…
... , although pressing BREAK currently isn't a good idea when doing ... , but as I haven't implemented a LINE-DRAW routine, it doesn ... 't do much. I'm currently ... OSBYTE 237 and run. Doesn't actually alter the cursor key ... -
2 (or more) players over the netAre there any emulators that allow 2 (or more) players over the net? I guess, 1 machine running the emulator but serving the screen up to 2 or more …
... .worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20840"]most recent discussion on ... possibly be done (but hasn't, yet)[/URL]...
... is 30ms. A fair few T-States later and it varies hugely ... Rebelstar where real time doesn't matter so much? And Privacey ... -
ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
... a second you know :) Wouldn't what you want be achievable ... flexible debugging in terms of T-states, I might have another try ... -
+80 Word Manager - OCPThe recent TZX is in fact +80 Word Manager, not Word Manager: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/utils/WordManager.tzx.zip[/url] [url]h…
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Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
Really? I need a fast window scroll routine in four ways, window is user-defined. Speed must be about 30000 T-states. Can some plastic ones made in Taiwan code that, please? -
Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... . Speed must be about 30000 T-states. Can some plastic ones made ... ?
30,000 T-states isn't a lot of time either ... -
Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
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30,000 T-states isn't a lot of time either ... cheating.[/QUOTE]
30000-40000 T-states for half-screen pixel 4 ... all the screen in 70000 T-states, so...
So :) Real ... -
Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... =Shadow Maker;308499]30000-40000 T-states for half-screen pixel 4 ... all the screen in 70000 T-states, so...
So :) Real ... in a frame, then doesn't that code just need cutting ... -
Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... =Shadow Maker;308499]30000-40000 T-states for half-screen pixel 4 ... all the screen in 70000 T-states, so...
So :) Real ... scroll the screen in 70000 t-states too... for a rigged demo ... faster than about 100,000 t-states for vertical (using LDI) and ... -
Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... . Firstly, you're spending 5 t-states on the "repeat" each time ... -
Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... . Firstly, you're spending 5 t-states on the "repeat" each time ... -
Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... the address bus for eight t-states every iteration. LDI only does ... -
Dog rescues kittens[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7691667.stm"]Dog risks life for kittens[/URL]. Aww..... what a wonderful little dog! /me feels an urg…
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I didn't like the line "[I]However Leo paid ... seperated it from the following line, where it's made clear ... the writer, but I don't think it should have been ... -
Oblivion...Thought I'd start another thread, to save further derailment of the "XBox Tips" one. Ok, so I'm now an expert in light armour, thanks to Vampyre's t…
Peeples ... this thread reminds me why I don't play on-line games ... it's a never-ending uphill struggle, which, sadly enough quickly becomes a repetitious routine. Still love RPGs though :-) -
Oblivion...Thought I'd start another thread, to save further derailment of the "XBox Tips" one. Ok, so I'm now an expert in light armour, thanks to Vampyre's t…
... me why I don't play on-line games ... it's a ... -
In-game music takes CPU time?If a 128k wants to have music played in-game using the AY sound chip, does that consume a lot of CPU time? What I am after is if the reason why man…
... so that you don't have to count t-states very accurately, and ... well planned out, you don't really need to use them ... notes though, so it needn't be too bad. I'd ... -
Edge of Disgrace on the other side :)Got my mind blown today... saw the Edge of Disgrace demo on the commie ;-) Regardless if you are a c64 fan or not, you should see it. Effects and Des…
... don't even notice the border is missing, so people don't appreciate ... , youtube or emulators just don't make it justice.
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…
... REM 8 lines, 6 numbers per line
300 FOR c=1 ... TO 8
415 PRINT "LINE ";f;": ";
420 FOR g ...RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…
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Please explaing the one per line, as each attr char would ... need updating for each line:
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BNP members list leaked online[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/bnp_loses_list/[/url] : oops : lol
... /> * Limit imigration (I certainly don't object to people who come ... colour), but I don't like our open border policy - this country ... it. Sadly, the interviewer didn't point out the obvious, that ... them (politics doesn't interest me) and wouldn't have bothered to ...A List Of Zx Spectrum Music EditorsWell, not for me actually, as 99,99% of them are for AY, covox and GS cards but several times some people asked about music editors for ZX Spectrum. …
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You need player ... replay using fixed number of T-states.A List Of Zx Spectrum Music EditorsWell, not for me actually, as 99,99% of them are for AY, covox and GS cards but several times some people asked about music editors for ZX Spectrum. …
... on INT using a fixed t-states routine. After that you can ...Difference in emulator screen sizes and coloursSeeing as Greencard's gone out drinking... I've done a comparison between Spectaculator and ZXSpin. ZXSpin's full screen with border is taller than S…
... example you're writing some border code and testing it on ... an emulator that doesn't show the whole border or shows too ... , if the display size isn't then your test base could ...Difference in emulator screen sizes and coloursSeeing as Greencard's gone out drinking... I've done a comparison between Spectaculator and ZXSpin. ZXSpin's full screen with border is taller than S…
... that many emulator authors don't do what you're saying ... example you're writing some border code and testing it on ... an emulator that doesn't show the whole border or shows too ...
