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ZX Spin assembler - where am I going wrong?I'm trying to use the assembler in ZX Spin, but I'm getting error messages. Here's a screenshot of the first simple program I'm trying to get workin…
... /> In SPIN, I'm assembling the following machine code program:
ORG ... into +3 BASIC and running the following program:
10 ... USR 61440
and the speccy resets! :(
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Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
The fastest machine code routine would only be able to change the border colour ... you can't write in the border using a normal- ... have very large letters in the border. This effect was ... used in the game Starion for the countdown - which filled the entire screen ... -
Space InvadersI've just been enjoying myself playing Space Raiders. Which variant of Space Invaders do you lot out there think is the best?
[quote=Mr. Anonymous;260515]What the... :evil: I don't believe ... /> I also managed to get the complete source code. How clever am I ... -
IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …
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[*]It uses the ROM character set
[*]There ... . SP is $7FE8 when the game has finished loading and ... 25983.
The first part of the Deathchase machine code checks that $5AE0 ... was ROM dependent by switching the ROM image in use ... -
How do you make AY sound?Are there tools? Or is it all done in assembler? Any tutorials around for people who like things explained in simple terms? Ta!
... do is load the resulting tapefiles and call the player routine ... to play back the music.
The program even shows ... a simple example of the required machine code (using HALT) that ... you could you use to play the ... -
HELP: Installing FUSE on OpenSolarisDigital Prawn has made packages of Fuse 0.9.0 for OpenSolaris. I am still trying to get Fuse 0.10.x to compile under Solaris 10 U6.
... must supply is the complete source code used to create the binaries you are ... distributing. Linking to the homepage ... no guarantee that the homepage will retain the source code for the binary you ... -
Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
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2) The XBox (the original, not the 360) actually ran at ... , as Micro$oft bought the memory from different manufacturers, ... backwards successive steps. Does the emulator store snapshots every ... it can't read the Z80 machine code in backwards steps, as ... -
+3 radio interferenceI have experienced that every time I turn the +3 on, my police scanner goes nuts. The +3 obviously sends out quite a lot of interference. Today I …
... s not just the +3, everything from the ZX80 on up ... plane and no shielding around the case.
... We lived in valley at the time, where both TV ... (we never could get the full complement of TV channels ... with a Speccy running the right machine code routine. -
it's 2009 and we are still doing "name that game"I'm looking for a game I thought was called lode runner but it is not (actually I thought it was called load runner...) basically it was a spectrum …
The reason we're still doing " ... game" in 2009 is that the computer-based Spectrum game search ... 're still reliant on the human versions of the search engines.
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Loads of games cheapHello all I am currently clearing out several hundred duplicate Speccy games from my collection. Starting Monday 16th March will be ebaying these a…
The first batch of Speccy games ... . Mostly games but also includes the Picturesque machine code monitor utility. A number ... -
The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…
... that needs exterminating. These are the level 2 sprites - there ... with different animations for the second half of the game.
< ... Mister Beep tune (thanks for the offer!). I know everyone ... edition up for sale with the complete source code and my Atari ST ... -
So what exactly IS an emulator anyway?Totally silly, but... I've always been quite happy with describing the multitude of programs that allow us to re-live our Speccy days as "emulators"…
... we do with the speccy)
a virtual machine like Sun ... but the guest machine code runs on the host machine's processor and uses the host machine ... 's ram. The ... -
So what exactly IS an emulator anyway?Totally silly, but... I've always been quite happy with describing the multitude of programs that allow us to re-live our Speccy days as "emulators"…
... but the guest machine code runs on the host machine's processor and uses the host machine ... machines, which a) run the guest machine code as an interpreted/compiled layer ... on top of the native processor ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... almost every game tbh, even the ones written in BASIC and ... chose to concentrate on the games merits rather than basically ... :
Some of the newer machine code games however did not escape ... out by also finding the good points of the bad MC games ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... the time the Z80 spends processing each instruction) from within your code ... this, to work in 'real machine code' is wonderful :)
I suppose at the moment machine code seems to be just ... Getting into the habit of looking for redundant code early on ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... (the time the Z80 spends processing each instruction) from within your code should ... />
I suppose at the moment machine code seems to be just so ... /> Getting into the habit of looking for redundant code early on in ... -
Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …
The first machine code program I hacked and which ... routine on the HORIZONS tape (about 300 bytes of code). You can ... try this online on WOS using HORIZONS in the ... JRs would make the machine code relocatable but it uses the printer buffer as ... -
Some help needed, pretty please! :-)Hi there WOSsers! Long time no see! :-) I'm going through a process to get all my tape games (some real, some downloaded from here) onto +3 disk. I'…
... block) and 1 headerless block (the game code - I use LERM's ... headerless blocks is to disassemble the games machine code loader. It should give ... tool to find out the length of the code block. Beware though as ... -
Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…
... initially rejected due to the similarity, but the author had an ace ... , he threatened to spill the beans about the "100% machine code game" being really ... Soft had ripped and adapted the beeper sound routine he'd ... -
No internet connection!I'm typing this from another PC. I don't get what's going on. I can't get a single website, yet in the Local Area Connection Status section of Contro…
What OS is the machine doing this on ?
... few websites from the command line like this:
[code]PING www ... to view them on the 'broken' machine:
[code]http://x.x ... .x.x[/code] etc
Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... creates Z-machine based adventures (the infocom virtual machine). Non of ... machine files to Speccy adventure files by recompiling the z-machine code ... into native Z80 code or ... br />
The z-machine Infocom games never really ...Quill or PAWI'm thinking of putting-together (by which I mean writing) an adventure game for the Speccy. The two most popular utilities for doing so seem to be t…
... z-machine files to Speccy adventure files by recompiling the z-machine code into ... native Z80 code or by just ...BASIC compilerHi All, Can someone please recommend me a good compiler (for emulator use) that 'compiles' BASIC code into Assembler? There are quite a few availab…
... 3 (don't worry, the compiled code will work in every ZX ... , the rest with MCoder III).
To compile existing code without ... Sinclair BASIC features added. The generated machine code runs fast and you can ...Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX SpectrumHi Looking for this book, if anyone can help would be most grateful. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000229"]http://www.wor…
If you really want a proper copy of the book Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX Spectrum, I've got one. Bought at the ZX microfair many moons ago. Few quid I suppose?Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX SpectrumHi Looking for this book, if anyone can help would be most grateful. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000229"]http://www.wor…
... want a proper copy of the book Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for ... the ZX Spectrum, I've got ... one. Bought at the ZX microfair many moons ago ...Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... to compile your code, something everybody will ... loadpics=3[/url] (complete manual in english ... the system variables/printer buffer) is plenty :)
(By the way, the complete ... source code for Mariano The Dragon is available ...Assembly help: EQUCan anyone explain in duffers language the purpose of the EQU term in assembly? I found this info in another thread: EQU: Equate a name to a specif…
Have a look at the assembly listing on this page:-< ... the programmer uses "equ" or just the numeric values directly, the resultant machine code is the ... routines and system variables in code, amongst many other uses. Basically ...Anyone Recommend: Assembly Programming Book(s) for the Spectrum?Hello there my fellow WoS'ers =) I am looking for some ZX Spectrum Assembly programming books (as the title suggests) I have just finished going th…
... Machine Code' by Ian Sinclair a good guide to how the ... that one. That was the first machine code book which I bought, ... I'm such a giant machine code brain now. :-) Hah!
... s also three machine code tutorial series published in the magazines which ...Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…
I stripped the editor code out and sent Kiwi the game source a ... while back. Even with the game routines, it will ... think Kiwi also has the complete source code which includes the script compiler, so ... to be fairly simple on the Spectrum because of memory ...Help identifiying a very old gameHello, first post here although I've lurked for a while :) Great site! This is a long shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me find a game I played…
... with excellent graphics, especially the sunburst explosions. The missile traces split into ... across the planet and destroy the alien master ships in the lair. The cityscape ... Micro stand for the first time. The compiled machine code graphics are surprisingly ...
