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The complete Knight Tyme (48k) RAM disassemblyHello! Just a quick note to let everyone know that the initial version of my [URL="http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.anderson/disassemblies/knight-tyme-48…
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GAC Tutorial Started!Hi all. I have a Youtube channel where I play old games and such. I also do a few programming tutorials. I have recently added a Graphic Adventure Cr…
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coding guruOk I'm looking for a to help me in my quest to do my first proper game. The 80's child in me thinks he can do it, But the 2013 man in me knows zip. …
... get better compression.
1 page for graphics, sprites and text
coding guruOk I'm looking for a to help me in my quest to do my first proper game. The 80's child in me thinks he can do it, But the 2013 man in me knows zip. …
... get better compression.
1 page for graphics, sprites and text
text. That still leaves you with ...128k gamesHi. I've come to World of Spectrum for advice. I'm a Commodore guy OK, please be nice to me, as I seek your wisdom! I love the Commodore 128, and I'…
... graphics compression for any of those games, just manual tokenisation of text ...ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... taking a look at this compression scheme and I have a ... compress a whole bunch of text strings and be able to ... chunks are relatively small, little compression ration is achieved.ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... a whole bunch of text strings and be able ... are relatively small, little compression ration is achieved.[/QUOTE ... wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_compression"]solid compression[/URL] by default.
compression efficiency.
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... (if you text ends before that, you'd have less compression.) Decompression ... and fast.
* Huffman compression. Use the same tree for ... words) by a code. Most text adventures do that. But then ...ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... achieves ~65% compression ratio for my strings (not just text) which is ...Latin-1 font for FZXI'm currently creating some [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1"]Latin-1[/URL] (ISO 8859-1) characters to be added into [URL="http://www.world…
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As for rendering of text, that's a different matter ... you need to handle complex text layout (mixing of right-to ... 5216 bytes plus overhead. With compression and a glyph cache, you ...Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... smooth gradients. (sharp edges and text will result in decreased quality ... tile based encoder (which gives compression rate approximately 6x more than ...Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... needed like sprite data, dialogue text etc? We'll need to ... produce these cartridges?
-compression. What is the best way ... it work as a graphical text adventure? That way all of ...Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
... call "grammar-based". For example text adventures, and arcade adventures too ... .
For text adventures, this is easy; but ... put those in your map compression data.
3) ... why not try bit based compression? In Heart Stealer 2, most ...Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…
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pairs which are any two cells ...Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…
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pairs which are any two cells ...Game development guidesHello all, I want to get into game development for the ZX Spectrum and would like to know where I can find some helpful guides. I've looked around t…
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3) Use compression, because you're going to ... game, a scrolling game, a text adventure, a puzzle game or ...Why is RGB the best?Sorry, I know my question may sound odd but I have been doing some reading lately and this has struck me. This is what we know: RF -> CVBS -> …
... two synchronized signal and ground pairs, termed Y and C.
compression and impose no real limit ...Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... with. With text I've had better than expected compression even for ... appropriate would be a huffman compression for small randomly accessed data ...Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... duality in the form of text, morse dots and dashes.. you ... , so a better comparison of compression rate is not bytes but ...Artwork and advert preservation in lossless high qualityI am aware of the scans available of software and magazines in places such as WOS but I was curious to know if there was any attempt to digitally pre…
... . There is a lot of compression in your pdf but I ... than the original scans? The text looks great with its real ...ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
It would be handy if it produced a text file of the compression details. Use -t on the command line. I've had to recompress a number of times because I forgot the delta, or had to look at the properties on the files to get file sizes etc.Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
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; ix = left sprite def ...Bored of the Rings coded messageI was browsing [url="https://tcrf.net/"]The Cutting Room Floor[/url] recently and stumbled upon the entry for [url="https://tcrf.net/Bored_of_the_Rin…
Does the game itself use some compression method for text which these could reference? Some kind of lookup table that maps a byte to a group of letters?Jet-Set Willy: The Text Adventure!!! :DSo, having been playing quite a bit of Zork, and Colossal Cave Adventure of late, I thought to myself, why not mix it up with another childhood class…
... older Inform games. A flat text file that gets compiled. I ... a compiler to compile a text file (input.txt, fixed name ... the demo game with a text from the first chapter of ... , so it's not brilliant compression but it works well. For ...adventure compilerThis is the project I've working on for the last week(?), but I realise I won't be able to work on anything Spectrum related for a while. So here's …
... the demo game with a text from the first chapter of ... , so it's not brilliant compression but it works well. For ...New game: QuizTron 48000 seriesOkay, this time I made a series of games. I got inspired to make a trivia game engine, and found a set of questions.. that was too large to fit into …
Batch files are simply text files that list commands to ... calls quiztronamatic to process the text file into format that the ... (along with loading screen and compression and whatnot).MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…
... /> The compression ratios I've seen are around 50% for text (because ... there's not too much text to work with on a ... , for example. If the raw text goes well beyond that, I ...Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
... 250 words, and my GAC compression algorithm needs 2 bytes per ... quest? it is my favourite text adventure. it has long texts ...Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
... quest? it is my favourite text adventure. it has long texts ... he had a somewhat better compression method. I still have a ...MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…
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