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  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... /> I'm not suggesting the routine is fast or the best ... optimisation of another WOS members routine, who didn't want to ... as a criticism of your routine, which as you say does ... using a flexible "one-size-fits-all" type routine as you posted.
    AndyC AndyC August 2004 Development
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... a flexible "one-size-fits-all" type routine as you posted.< ... /> [/quote]

    The routine is actually quite good. As ... -shifted sprites), which this routine has special code for, ... things missing to make the routine into something 'professional' -- ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2004 Development
  • What does SPIN have?I have been asking this question since somebody answered another I had made that RealSpectrum was a brilliant emulator. It is in fact. But... I see e…

    ... windows/fonts are of fixed size.
    3 - Very clunky control ... is a small line of text. Mouse support would have been ... !
    4 - The debugger screen size is not affected by the ...
    GOC GOC September 2004 Emulators
  • Anyone know the address mappings...of the hardware resources on the speccy; From the screen display address range to all the hardware control registers. etc. Where can I get access t…

    ... speed optimisation, it contains a routine for doing sprites from unshifted ... modified
    for a smaller size. 64000-64009 is the player ... /> Assumes all sprites are same size and 16 x 16
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2004 Development
  • Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…

    ... this would be with a routine like this:

    ld ... more, the routine is now down to a reasonable size.

    routine consisted of 255 consecutive rl ... you can tell the scrolling routine to simply skip it, giving ...
    jonathan jonathan September 2004 Development
  • the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…

    ... NZ ; If not then exit routine
    #DB48 PUSH IX
    #DBC5 JR NZ, #DC18 ; Exit routine if first item is neither ... Telephone
    80 A Latin Text
    81 Headphones
    82 ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous September 2004 Games
  • Sparky eZX-BASIC Project in need of FPGA ExpertYou probably are not familiar with this project, but it is a computer system based on Zilog's new eZ80 chip and the OS is a superset of ZX BASIC. Ju…

    ... /> Currently, I have a VT102 routine as the "screen" output, via ... ports can work that fast). Text and text programs work fine, but ...
    Sparky Sparky October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy Maps: Just what the hell is going on here then?Some time ago, a chap going by the name of Pavero built a few maps of Speccy games. Though they weren't brilliant, but they sufficed. He decided th…

    ... think my little bit of text in the bottom-right corner ... have been better at poster size :)

    Still, it's ...
    jil jil October 2004 Games
  • Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…

    ... a number of factor's - size, whether masked or not, preshifted ... well written and optimised sprite routine should be able to manage ...
    dmsmith dmsmith October 2004 Development
  • HOW TO *FORCE* AMSTRAD TO PRODUCE ZX?!OK then. Many chats last times about new ZX models, old ZX models but contemporary produced ;) , about Amstrad - what could it do and why didn't do m…

    ... in a custom routine that either showed different text or drew a ...
    Sparky Sparky October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Documentary on the fall of Imagine[url="http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi"]http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi[/url] (86MB)

    ... meg to 500 meg in size, and all retro related, about ... , I seem to remember the text wasn`t in English, or ...
    CKay CKay November 2004 Games
  • Documentary on the fall of Imagine[url="http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi"]http://www.blockcopycoders.com/temp/commerical_breaks_256.avi[/url] (86MB)

    ... meg to 500 meg in size, and all retro related, about ... , I seem to remember the text wasn`t in English, or ...
    MagicKnight MagicKnight December 2004 Games
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 31 January 2005Monday 31 January 2005 A dose of Chickenpox meant I FINALLY had time to put this update online. And very good it is, too.. The update, not the Chicke…

    ... /> found in one of his text files while I was helping ... (PHEW!).


    DATABASE SIZE: 11122 ENTRIES FOR 2871 GAMES ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2005 Announcements
  • InterruptsCan someone help with providing some info or a link about IM 2. I know I need to create a vector table and want to store this as high in memory as po…

    ... confusion about the table's size. By *convention* Zilog has ... to store its interrupt service routine address. A peripheral supplying id ... actually be 257 bytes in size.

    If you ... ids means that interrupt service routine addresses overlap in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ... is the basic char output routine that stdio is using. A ... I compiled, the 32 column text in the next screens were ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • Norwegian translationDoes anybody speak Norwegian here? I need to translate some words ;).

    ... make some conclusion from that text. And mainly to translate this ... punkter

    St?rrelse/Size: 19 Tommer/Inches

    Skarpo Skarpo March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…

    ... so that the end-game routine works...

    Maybe also ... patch to reduce the maze size to 32x32 (1024 rooms), so ...
    robert@fm robert@fm March 2005 Games
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... road racers, alien landings, a text adventure (a complex one using ... (with a machine code "search" routine). Also dabbled with The Quill ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Games
  • Interest in a new adventure game?After recently reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the urge to go back to my adventure tools and create something which was actually …

    ... was never interested in adventure text games until a while back ... /3 of the screen in size. i looked around alot hoping ...
    Sadako Sadako June 2005 Games
  • Investronica Inves Spectrum +Hi, Has anyone here ever heard of the Investronica Inves Spectrum +? This site [url="http://www.silicium.org/uk/sinclair/inves.htm"]http://www.sili…

    ... probably a legal product as text messages don't really matter ... the non-existent ROM-paging routine at $5B00.

    However ...
    Geoff Geoff June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... is: Reducing the color cell size down to 8x1 pixels. This ... on C64/C128 the same routine works on ALL models.
    Fr?hn Fr?hn July 2005 Games
  • Press any keyI need to write a z80 function that waits for a user to press any key. As it is possible that the user may be pressing a key when the function is cal…

    ... pressing a key when the routine is called. So, you end ... "edit post" icon when the text isn't visible!

    Marko Marko August 2005 Development
  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    Unless you write your own routine (which will be really slow, ... slow unless you use assembly), text can only be printed to ...
    na_th_an na_th_an August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…

    ... to upload, from the original text files I wrote on my ... on the standard ROM loading routine (so that you couldn't ... by simply copying the rom routine and changing the timing values ...
    JonNorth JonNorth September 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... the font charset, print the text" don't work 'cause when ... library to accept a fixed size for sprites. I.e. imagine ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... the font charset, print the text" don't work 'cause when ... to store an entire Spectrum-size screen in memory (6912 bytes ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Development
  • JON NORTHHi Jon, i just followed the last thread with some interest. I used to send you hacks years ago and got a few published in YS!! I can only say dont g…

    ... least half of the file size. I think I had to ... enough space to write a routine that waited for a keypress ...
    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Development
  • Books!I am after as many books as possible for the sinclair book preservation project. If you have any *duplicate* copies of sinclair related books that y…

    ... ,B6 which ever fits the size of the book page. The ... to the orginal in size of pages, text layout, fonts and images ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) December 2005 Support files
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