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  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... to decompress into a buffer of the correct length before you ... some overhead storing the token table of course.

    I' ... /> Level 9 were very critical of Infocom's compression method (which ... t know the exact format of the Level 9 compression although ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Hardware Reference Manual for ZX SpectrumHi, I want to write games for ZX Spectrum in assembly language. I have lot of books in PDF format from SpectrumComputing. Still missing a book lik…

    It doesn't matter anymore. I have read the table of contents carefully and I already have better documentation. But thank you anyway.
    Tymo6666 Tymo6666 October 2022 Development
  • The need of having a 257-byte table for IM2 routinesThis came from a discussion at the speccy.org forum. I have understood that the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines is due to certain joys…

    ... the reason behind the 257-table for IM 2 routines ... use the built-in joystick ports (with or without an ... this: is the 257-byte table really needed for [B] ... leave 1/4 of kilobyte for the IM2 table, but if ... , would you sacrifice that table and assume that the low ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix August 2012 Development
  • List of I/O ports used by common peripherals?I remember looking at a file (just plain text, IIRC) a while back that listed all the IO ports used by various bits of Spectrum hardware, such as the…

    ... all the IO ports used by various bits of Spectrum hardware, such ... it include the I/O ports used by the DivIDE too ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • LINE-routine and other nice pieces of codeThe line-topic came in the end with a nice piece of fast coding. I think that there might be more of these routines out there (where-ever-u-r). Isn…

    ... end with a nice piece of fast coding.

    of these routines out there ... nice to collect these pieces of code somewhere ??
    < ... ,B ; point H to table (4)
    .......LD ...
    Total memory for table 1K. Minimum required = 512 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF1 and IO portsThe Interface used 3 Z80 IO ports to communicate to it s devices #E7- Microdrive data #EF- Status and control #F7- RS232/Network What I'm looking…

    ... Interface used 3 Z80 IO ports to communicate to it s ... /> I'm annotating a disassembly of the version 2 ROM, So ... because with out knowing what ports are for, there little to ...
    john john March 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • name of a speccy gameI was wondering if anyone knew the name of a certain pinball game that allowed you to 'customize' or 'make' your own pinball table. You could make y…

    ... if anyone knew the name of a certain pinball game that ... ' or 'make' your own pinball table. You could make your own ...
    thomas3120 thomas3120 March 2002 Games
  • Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…

    ... substituted on the C64 edition of this compilation:

    < ... Interceptor Software Poster, a number of cassette boxes without cassettes or ... to wedge up a table leg, a table with one short leg ... , three phones, a large box of ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins May 2002 Games
  • Better late than never: the answers and results of the Quiz to end all Quizzes!First of all I would ask to excuse myself with those who have been waiting for the answers. But, besides work, study, etc., I had problems in verifyi…

    ... (that with the portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and ... 2 points).
    Bride of Frankenstein
    Frankenstein Jnr.< ... game features an unusual hexagonal table?
    Angle Ball
    of psychological warfare"?
    Dream ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2002 Games
  • Some games I can't remember the names of......(pretty common post round here!) Ok 2 games: Number 1 - A sort of RPG where you controlled a group of 4 characters going round a dungeon - you c…

    ... />
    Number 1 - A sort of RPG where you controlled a ... group of 4 characters going round a ... a merchant, could sail to ports etc and trade, fight (I ...
    jonrach73 jonrach73 December 2002 Games
  • INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHAS - Obscure High score table messages...After posting a message about this game on the 'first three games you bought' section, I got thinking more about this game. When you typed certain m…

    ... messages onto the high-score table on this game, it would ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers March 2003 Games
  • Two Manic Miners in the top 100 games table?A while ago I was checking the top 100 games (according to WoS visitors' votes), but I couldn't help notice that there are [I]two[/I] distinct "Manic…

    ... 13th position with a score of 9.6 (at the ... copyright notice and a couple of sprites, why on earth ... This brings up the problem of voting for a game which ... justify situations like the presence of two [I]Manic Miner ... ]s in the top 100 table?

    My answer ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2003 Games
  • Dan Dare 256 colour project many may not be aware of.I still need/want to try Vladimir's emulator. But I think many people here aren't aware of another 256 colour project, which was mentioned on C.S.S. …

    ... here aren't aware of another 256 colour project ... the ZX Spectrum original of Dan Dare with
    of hosting.

    ... data as a palette table and you pretty much have ... modified
    version of .z80 as currently distributed ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2004 Emulators
  • West Bank: The most pointless high score table everWest Bank is a good little game. I played it and got a score of 25000 odds starting at stage 6, which I thought was quite good. Then as the game ende…

    ... it to the high score table. Then I looked closer - ... last entry in the table has a score of 250000! That's ... on to the high score table ever! It's not ... br /> What a stupid piece of programming - so unneccesary. Am ... I playing a strange version of the game or are ...
    Spector Spector March 2005 Games
  • Hi-Score tableThe score in my game occupies 3 bytes. I want to create a hi-score but I'm not sure of the best way to work out where a new score would fit in the ta…

    The score in my game occupies 3 bytes. I want to create a hi-score but I'm not sure of the best way to work out where a new score would fit in the table. Has anyone tackled a problem like this before ?
    Mr Millside Mr Millside June 2005 Development
  • Pendragon PIctures War Of The WorldsI bough this from Amazon.com for $10...Oh dear oh dear. 3 hours long and probably the singularly most awful film I have ever seen in my entire life. …

    ... the America English accents!!!! None of these people even attended the ... at the Dick Vandyke School of talking propa Ingerlish guvnor!!!
    table watching the final release and ... I just wasted 3 years of my life making THIS?!!!!" < ...
    stupidget stupidget July 2005 Chit chat
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, ... has to search a table/list of some sort so as ... an absolute memory address instead of using a variable ? Obviously, ... one wouldn't notice much of a difference, but would ... change in the case of a tight loop ?
    GOC GOC September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Best version of The Sentinel?Which version of The Sentinel is the best? I have tried the Spectrum, CPC, PC, ST and C64 versions, and of them I still prefer the Spectrum version. …

    ... Uridium on the ST *shudder*) ports.

    The Sentry ... has only a fraction of the levels of the original versions. ... />
    What other versions of The Sentinel were there? I ... Rainbird did produce 128K versions of some of their games, so hopefully?
    ewgf ewgf April 2006 Games
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... z88dk's future. One of the goals of SP1 is to be ... requires only about 100 lines of additional assembly) and versions for ... contains: doubly linked list, hash table, heap, queue and stack.
    ports), swapendian() have been added to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…

    ... Blink]
    - Fixed reads from ports 0 to 15, which were ... of small mouse movements, for Legend of Eshan
    - Fixed external memory ports ... ]

    - Improved efficiency of contention table lookups [Dave Laundon]
    - Improved ...
    obo obo July 2006 Emulators
  • More USB Ports Needed!!I have run out of USB ports on my machine.... I currently have 6 in use. will it be better for me to buy a hub or add an USB2.0 four port card?? Wi…

    I have run out of USB ports on my machine.... I currently have 6 in use.

    will it be better for me to buy a hub or add an USB2.0 four port card??

    Will there be any performance issues either way?
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2007 Chit chat
  • Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…

    I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel ... the address by ways of shifting and masking the ... to use a look up table I suppose that holds ... the Y address of each pixel row.
    ... But are there other ways of determining the y co-ord ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2007 Development
  • Any of you listen to TWiT technology Podcasts?This is a series of free Podcasts from America but actually done by Americans who understand irony run by a guy called Leo Laporte. The main podcast…

    This is a series of free Podcasts from America ... for techies, a sort of round table for discussion about the ...

    One of the occasional round table guys is from Oxford ... to hear a brit side of view.

    Here ... Gibson is a bit of a prick and is ...
    IN31 IN31 July 2007 Chit chat
  • Ports AccelerationOn ZX48 or 128/+2(grey) is contended and uncontended ports. For example: if you will read 512 bytes sector from IDE device to ZX ram via INI or INIR,…

    ... (grey) is contended and uncontended ports.
    For example: if ... via INI or INIR, half of all ports will contended (slow down ... fast memory page is set, ports is fast (uncontended)
    ... is set, ports is slow (contended)

    Example of slow read ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2007 Hardware
  • Group Order of Internal/External Kempston Turbo InterfacesI have contact Velesoft ([url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/kmturbo-cz.htm[/url]) about the production of internal or external kempston turbo interfaces …

    ... url]) about the production of internal or external kempston ... br />
    List of steps to be taken:
    of the money transfer;
    ports) and it also tested ... software. With this method of switching it is possible ...
    Anestis Anestis October 2007 Hardware
  • 128 I/O portsIn The Spectrum Hardware Manual there is a small circuit on page 71/72 to allow 128 I/O ports by using IORQ+A7 to override IORQGE, so any I/O access …

    ... to allow 128 I/O ports by using IORQ+A7 to ... , so freeing all I/O ports in the &xx00-& ... at the 128 I/O ports patch, it occurs to me ... , but with A7=1 instead of A0=0. Would a similar ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston November 2007 Hardware
  • The best kind of peripheral/thru port orientation?So, given no standard Speccy backplane, there's soooo many ways you can make a peripheral and through port. You can mount the board vertically, with…

    ... thru port near the back of the Speccy, on top.
    of them have thru ports). What do you ... a small run (just back of the envelope calculations suggest the ...
    Winston Winston January 2008 Hardware
  • Decoding of speccy keyboardHello everyone. I face following problem with spectrum keys decoding and need some explanation. I know how to decode a single key press by reading po…

    ... by reading port 0xfe (eventually ports from 0xfefe to 0x7ffe). Im ... too aware of fact that if more than ... between players ?
    Deeper explanation of keyboard matrix reading will be ...
    Fikee Fikee April 2008 Development
  • Almost one heck of a great night!Being a Single guy for the past 2 months, I've been taking a really liberal life in the past few weeks, and I've totally forgoten how easy it was to …

    ...
    We sit on a table, kissed a litle, and then ... the same time (advantages of being drunk I guess).
    it was one hell of a night, and when the ... screaming from the other side of the bar "yo dude ... hug me and screaming lots of drunk crap that scared ...
    VanTammen VanTammen April 2008 Chit chat
  • Where can i get one of these usb plug in adaptors for my pc ???What i need is one of those adaptors that plug into the usb header on the motherboard, i don't want one that has memory card and firewire sockets i n…

    What i need is one of those adaptors that plug into ... sockets i need it the ports to go to the backplate ... help i can find plenty of the PCI usb adapters but ...
    swordheart swordheart July 2008 Chit chat
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