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Newbie says 'Alreet?'Hiya dudes, Just dropping a line to say hello as i've decided at 33 to try and fulfill a long time ambition to write a speccy game in machine code..…
... write a speccy game in machine code....
I've been ... a 2x2 sprite move round the screen using Rst 16, but ... -
Speccy related resolutionsThis year I am going to: Learn machine code Complete Lords of Midnight Make a game with AGD
This year I am going to:
Learn machine code
Complete Lords of Midnight
Make a game with AGD -
Indirect Variable AssignmentHere's another wacky routine. This allows assignment of values to variables where the source & destination variables can themselves be defined in var…
... BASIC variables from machine code. Just put the value on the calculator stack and ... to the name and "call CLASS_01: call LET".
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SCANNING: equ $24fb ;the SCANNING subroutine
Spectrum loading asm via a PC?Hello all! I've written a spectrum emulator and I'm currently testing it but I have to keep resorting back to real hardware to verify things. I hav…
... tuner so I can have the real machine and emulator side by ... to get bespoke code from a PC to the spectrum without resorting ... to hand typing on the spectrum or faffing about with ...SpecBAS 0.718 Now AvailableHi Folks! After an appreciable delay, the latest and (dare I say it?) greatest SpecBAS update is now available. We're moving into modern times with …
... ? Well, here's a complete rundown:
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Bugs Fixed ... :
PROCID() function returns the internal procedure-list index of ... usage.
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Get it at the usual place - which ...Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... (Spectrum Machine Code for Absolute Beginner) and I want, after all the book ... Speccy! :)
What is the chance of succes??? :grin:Educational game - Learn to Read with profok - not expecting no great shakes on this but I have this and don't want it and it seems quite rare / obscure ... probably cause no one really wante…
... it.
PLAY AND READ, the complete reading tutor
'Learn To Read ... '
Book 3 'The Computer'
Book 4 'The Little red man ...Using ATTR detection in machine codeIs there a ROM routine that can be called that reads the ATTR value of a co-ordinate?
Is there a ROM routine that can be called that reads the ATTR value of a co-ordinate?M/C mathsHow would I do the equivalent of LET A=B*7 in machine code?
How would I do the equivalent of LET A=B*7 in machine code?Coming soon ... Maritrini, Freelance Monster SlayerUsually, we don't do this, but as the demo has been out for almost a couple of weeks and there's a video out there and tons of pictures and info, we …
... had some problems with the music player code (which took a ... hope somebody plays right to the end, pixelling that picture ... (I promise I will complete the cover art this afternoot when ... [youtube]bawX7HK15mE[/youtube]
The full game contains 20 levels ...The next XBox might not run used games (gotta love the software houses...)Edit: Sorry, I posted this to the wrong forum (thought I was in the Chit Chat section). Can any mod please move it there. Or leave it here and preten…
... Ya boo[/I]" in the face of the mods. To which karingal ... anti-used game system in the new machine.
A push ... want to play the game after the second period expires) the payment will ... surprised.
The article also says that the new XBox will ...Which machine should be emulated at startup?The [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37743]previous poll[/url] produced a fairly convincing majority of people in favour o…
... here are to return to the same machine every time (eg a ... to configure your "startup machine" so that the emulator would always start ... use whatever machine/peripheral combination was in use when the emulator was ...David M WebbDavid M Webb wrote his books on Spectrum machine code, Starion (and an early disassembly of the ZX Spectrum ROM) while he was at school. He invested…
... on Spectrum machine code, Starion (and an early disassembly of the ZX Spectrum ... his Melbourne House royalties on the Stock Exchange, got into investment ... [/youtube]
He is the one in the middle.Kobrahsoft: Code InvestigatorHi folks, While digging around my HD I found an "Unknown Kobrahsoft Tape" which appears to contain the MIA title Code Invesitgator by Kobrahsoft: [u…
... " which appears to contain the MIA title Code Invesitgator by Kobrahsoft:
the tape, but the file dates back to ... 2008. Looking at the Kobrahsoft titles and the amount of MIA titles ... /> Anyway it loads with LOAD "" CODE but doesn't seem to ...loading TAP files on +3eHello there my fellow WoS'ers I have been under the weather of late and while I cannot move much a muscle since the flu has got me, I have been read…
... of code / examples. however, my attention span is short at the moment ... be afraid to dip into code (Basic / C / ASM) but I ... load a TAP file on the host machine
2. to refine ... this into the +3e ROM library
How to join PC to ZX Spectrum via IF1?[LIST] [LIST] [/LIST][/LIST]Hello All, I've failed miserably :-? at getting even a hint that the Spectrum and PC I have connected together are indee…
... indeed connected. I followed the instructions from Chapter 8 ... Use the PC to send code (machine code) to run it on the Spectrum ... and send results back to the ... snapshots to the Spectrum to store on the Microdrive so ...University ChallengeNearly two weeks ago Manchester University won the first University Challenge semi-final to get into the upcoming final against Pembroke College, Cam…
... Roots are the values of the variable when the expression is equal ... the other side of the equality symbol changes the sign so the ... used binary in BASIC and machine code, the answer leaps out - two ... Jeremy asked for the largest so the answer is the square root ...Name that Type-In! Game-Of-Life clone...Ok folks, get yer thinking caps on! It was a type-in. It used machine code to generate the display It used attributes to great effect Cells were rep…
... -in.
It used machine code to generate the display
It used ... was so fast the colours would flow across the screen like waves ... /> Anyone know of this one? The only one I can find ... is a russian demo (has the correct looking cell graphics) but ...ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... aims to be the ultimate firmware for the DivIDE interface. Here ... loading/saving, from BASIC and machine code
* System commands ... services)
On the pipeline:
1. ... incompatibility with original divIDE on the $0008 entry point, ESXDOS ...+3 DOS questionHey all, Is it possible to catalogue a +3 disk to a variable somehow from BASIC? I'm looking at extending my Snapshot to Microdrive utility, so it s…
... the Microdrive, I have a BASIC programme (with some machine code ... from a book) that catalogues the Microdrive, ... launch multiple snapshots from the same cartridge.
... the +3 manual but the only DOS commands there seem to be machine code ...Blitz - incorrectly listed as 16k[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027592[/url] The memory needs to be changed from 16k to 48k. Due to my silly own self, I for…
... test the compiled version of the game on a 16k machine. The BASIC code ... worked on a 16k machine because it ... was only 8k in size. The uncompressed compiled code ... big to fit into the 16k machine's main memory area ...Screen2StringFurther to writing that BASIC one-liner to redirect CAT to a string I thought that I'd do a general redirection routine for anything which normally p…
... bytes of machine code to streamline it. The comments in the listing explain ... being occupied by the string definition, pointer & machine code), but can ...
8 DATA CODE "S",CODE "$",14,0,FN g ... h(sa):
REM machine code
REM ld hl,( ...Store and restore attribute valuesI am needing ideas on how to write a machine code routine that will store/restore (more important to restore) attribute values to the 22528 area. I …
... on how to write a machine code routine that will store/restore ... to restore) attribute values to the 22528 area.
I ... a 16x16 section i.e. the AT 0,0 to 16 ...Retrogames in the Retroparty "Retromadrid"This next weekend, the biggest retroparty in Spain will be held in Madrid. Retroworks will be there offering its games in cassette and cartridges: (…
... will be available later in the virtual shop:
[ ... this adventure gameto play in the real machine.
Majikazo will be ... released there for the first time. ... to wait for the pictures and videos of the event:
< ...What if there was no memory or space limitation?What if there was no memory or space limitation? We've had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, topics where we discussed how good …
... ve had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, ... in some cases machine code routines can run faster at the expense of ... t enough memory to hold code to handle such sprites? ... , all those animations (especially the decapitation move) could've been ...OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
... chunk of code that needed reimplementing, and the solution was to machine reverse ... engineer it resulting in different, but functionally equivalent code for the ... (BASIC wrapper for the LDIR block data copy machine code command), ON ERROR ...Bringing light to the City Connection conversion...Reading the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39015"]Freddie Laker's Airline Capers[/URL]", it called my attention the co…
... At the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, during the first ... the game and the other with the loading screen, and the next text:[CODE ... ]Passed more than 6 years since I have converted the ... .2
[/CODE]This text should resolve the mystery and bring ...Cricket. Duckworth/Lewis calculator.I'd appreciate it if anyone here who enjoys cricket, and ideally is also familiar with the rules of one-day matches takes a look at a little program …
... much enhanced version based on the source-code of somebody else's ... details about the innings, and whilst I've written machine-code routines to ... make navigation around the Par-score table quite fast, the ...New Game: Bouncing Bomb - ReduxHi all, I've just finished making a(nother) new Spectrum game "Bouncing Bomb: Redux" It's a remake of my first ever attempt at a machine code game, …
... ever
attempt at a machine code game, originally made back
the rest of the Spectrum's
RAM ... 's Airline Capers no memory/code hacking
is required this ...L Break Into Program, 0:1 BlogThis is very much a work-in-progress but it's got a load of Z80 code I'm in the progress of writing, including some fast vector graphics primitives (…
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A lot of the code is based upon original notes ... 48K Spectrum, plus the beginnings of a BASIC and machine code primer.
All code is free ... then optimise for speed. The code on the whole is probably fit ...
