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Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …
... you can write a routine to copy one line of ... LDIs in your unrolled line copy routine as padding. Then, ... unrolled line copy, loop round it to copy up your ... br /> Now that line can copy a row starting 3 bytes ... using this technique to copy from each in sequence ... -
Anti-piracy measures on Speccy games - What games have it?I was looking at the JSW card which gives you the grid location system for protecting the game against simple forms of copying, and I know that ATF h…
... games) detected "noise", so a copy won't load.
- ... Spy, Skool Daze), so tape to tape copy programs couldn't put it ... Marine Corps, Garfield), so tape to tape copy programs using ROM routines won ... , to avoid disk to disk copy.
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Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
What is your reason for not just using the +3DOS copy routine? (I'm sure you have one! I just can't think of any...) -
copying between RAM pagesSay I'm storing stuff in RAM pages 0,1,3,4 which gets used in 6,7 (which I am) and I might want to transfer up to 7kb at a time (which I do) and I do…
You could do a copy via the registers, which requires ... . Adapting an existing POP/PUSH copy routine shouldn't be too hard. -
Adding TAP loading to the +3e ROMHello my fellow WoSers I have decided that I want to make my project official so I can share its development with you all as well as get some help i…
... you will remove the standard tape loader routine to put your TAP ... raw audio, and hence, loader routine at 0556h has to switch ... somewhere. After, in your LOAD routine, you only have to take ... -
Adding TAP loading to the +3e ROMHello my fellow WoSers I have decided that I want to make my project official so I can share its development with you all as well as get some help i…
... code loader that calls the tape loading routine to allow for headerless ... -
Tape loading from PCSo, I found that I had been using the wrong audio jack socket on my 48k for tape loading (my spectrum is in a third party case, so there are not labe…
... negative.[/QUOTE]
The tape load routine only measures the duration between ... caring about phase information. The tape recorders also output randomly first ... -
Tape loading from PCSo, I found that I had been using the wrong audio jack socket on my 48k for tape loading (my spectrum is in a third party case, so there are not labe…
[QUOTE=ingo;657381]The tape load routine only measures the duration between ... caring about phase information. The tape recorders also output randomly first ... I use a divIDE, a tape recorder or a mp3 player ... -
What Spectrum projects (Software/Games/Utility)(Hardware)(Others) are you working on?So, basically that :) You dont have to give names or more clues if you dont want to ;) Also, if you are working on more than one, you can tell all of…
[QUOTE=LCD;660165]First Video:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77DeY5YkahE[/url]
[youtube]77DeY5YkahE[/youtube][/QUOTE]
Wow, that looks great, definitely one I'd be wanting a tape copy of. -
Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…
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... Also, does tape stop trigger when a block ... or the end of the tape?[/QUOTE]
I really ... says:
[I]tape:play
tape:stop
The emulated ... tape starts or stops playing[/ ... the final part of tape loading routine. -
Checksum routine wantedI wish to make a program that verify integrity of a Multiface 1 ROM. It is possible to compare each byte of the ROM against a binary dump, but this i…
... 's good enough for the tape loading routine after all :-)
routine you can run on the ... -
Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …
... . So, things like the screen copy routine I use is always used ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... think I had a dodgy tape copy of Get Rid of the ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... think I had a dodgy tape copy of Get Rid of the ... of note apart from that tape, mi mate mohican nik was ... runs to this day, that tape has a wicked piss take ... -
Games/Programs making use of DivIDE featuresHello :) I have a question: I may be wrong, but it looks like the DivIDE and similar interfaces for the ZX Spectrum are almost exclusively used for …
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Barn find #4I think this is some sort of backup device. Its got "007" on the motherboard and the mice have chewed the buttons. Will do a little research later in…
I still think that we may emulate NMI without NMI button - just JP #0066 after copying of ROM and then we may use tape recorder routine from interface 007 to save the dump -
Copying data between memory banks in USR0 modeI am experimenting with Funky Fungus to load the majority of its data (levels, screens, music etc.) into memory banks 1, 3, 4, 6 and (partly) 7 by sw…
... loads decompressing routine
20 LOAD "copy"CODE 28100: REM loads copy routine
Line 60 should execute the copy routine and transfer the whole content ... locations.
However the copy routine does not work. I know ... -
Copying data between memory banks in USR0 modeI am experimenting with Funky Fungus to load the majority of its data (levels, screens, music etc.) into memory banks 1, 3, 4, 6 and (partly) 7 by sw…
[QUOTE=Alessandro Grussu;722755]However the copy routine does not work.[/QUOTE]
It may just be missing a LD BC,32765 towards the top, as you need for the paging OUTs to work. -
Spectrum 128 +2A GamesI have recently been discovering the mystic wonders of flash devices for old systems that allow you to store pretty much every game for a given syste…
... +2a. I recently bought a tape copy of one of the games ... -
Spectrum 128 +2A GamesI have recently been discovering the mystic wonders of flash devices for old systems that allow you to store pretty much every game for a given syste…
... +2a. I recently bought a tape copy of one of the games ... -
Copy 4Kb in Assembly?Here's an interesting problem: what's the best way to copy a block of 4Kb in assembly? The most obvious solution is to use [B]LDIR[/B]: [CODE] l…
... /> LDIR
;proper copy routine
LD IX,49152 ;source ... for a byte copy, easily beating LDI. The routine length is around ... -
Copy 4Kb in Assembly?Here's an interesting problem: what's the best way to copy a block of 4Kb in assembly? The most obvious solution is to use [B]LDIR[/B]: [CODE] l…
... made some error in the copy routine that I published earlier. I ... kB
[CODE] ;proper copy routine
LD IX,49152 ;source ... -
Copy 4Kb in Assembly?Here's an interesting problem: what's the best way to copy a block of 4Kb in assembly? The most obvious solution is to use [B]LDIR[/B]: [CODE] l…
... part.
[CODE] ;proper copy routine
LD IX,49152 ;source ... -
MIRE MARE - FOUNDOnly kidding, I'm bored ****less at work.
ZX Alien Breed - WIPI'm sure a lot of you have seen the discussion in the New Game Ideas area about a Speccy version of the classic Amiga game Alien Breed. I've been dro…
... - I actually use a custom copy routine to map the data from ...Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
... had bought my games on tape and then converted them to ... 't also sell the original tape copy.Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
... had bought my games on tape and then converted them to ... 't also sell the original tape copy.[/QUOTE]
Whilst it ...Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…
Probably copying the pixels onto the screen first, then the screen refreshes, before you can get round to copying up the attributes. Either need to time it better, or re-write the copy routine to draw line-by-line with attributes.Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…
[QUOTE=joefish;772135]or re-write the copy routine to draw line-by-line with attributes.[/QUOTE]
Ahh, good thinking, I better go and alter my buffer copying routine too, ;)
