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keyboard support on Spectaculator 6.XDear Johnathan, your emulator is fascinating, but, to be honest, a better keyboard support on non-english keyboards would be great. The major proble…
... , I use the Kempston Interface Joystick ... the port reading routines of the emulated Spectrum ROM), but also you can use the ... + - * and / keys from the ... numeric keyboard or the ... -
keyboard support on Spectaculator 6.XDear Johnathan, your emulator is fascinating, but, to be honest, a better keyboard support on non-english keyboards would be great. The major proble…
... the port reading routines of the emulated Spectrum ROM), but also you can use the ... + - * and / keys from the ... numeric keyboard or the ... was originally saving the keypad for 128k ... -
The Sinclair ROM questionThe simplest questions are the most difficult to answer. And here is my questions: 1.) Who was the programmer of the ZX Spectrum ROM? 2.) Is there a…
Thank you for your answer and links: Steven Vickers was the programmer of the ZX Spectrum ROM!
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Rapscallion -- reloading a game from tape?Although Rapscallion (Albert Ball's second game) isn't very difficult to complete "properly" (in one go ? I don't even use snapshots), so as to get t…
Well firstly if you're using the in game save facility and it does not use the standard Spectrum ROM routine then a TAP format will not be able to save the data correctly.
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Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…
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Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…
> The Incomplete Spectrum ROM Assembly" site really helped me alot
Thanks.
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those that understand binary and those that don't. -
Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... I kinda suspected this was the case :) I think I'll ... these days to further examine the matter.
This ... restrictions involved in creating the ZX Spectrum ROM, this was the only viable solution ... didn't have to do the linear string search every time ... -
Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... involved in creating the ZX Spectrum ROM, this was the only viable solution ... sure about that either, given the floating-point overhead.
... method.
Doing the linear thing also allows a ... good things to happen: the variable list can be moved ... -
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…
... wav the edges on the leader tone sound nothing like the standard Spectrum ROM edges ... (including changing the timing constants) suggesting ... the time between the end of the machine code and the start of the ... -
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…
... , and loads the code to run the game near the end. The loader has ... wav the edges on the leader tone sound nothing like the standard Spectrum ROM edges ... (including changing the timing constants) suggesting ... -
ZX-PC InterfaceRight - i'm 34 and I cant take the pain of waiting for tapes to load any more - somethings gotta give ( either the tape deck or me ). I've seen a 'Z…
... the interface that holds the modified 48K ROM. The interface disables the internal spectrum ROM and uses the ... one on the ... -
ZX-PC InterfaceRight - i'm 34 and I cant take the pain of waiting for tapes to load any more - somethings gotta give ( either the tape deck or me ). I've seen a 'Z…
... the interface that holds the modified 48K ROM. The interface disables the internal spectrum ROM and uses the ... one on the ... -
Spectrum Emulator for Windows XPHi all. I'm struggling to get any emulators to work with Windows XP. I'm just after an emulator with Joystick support. Any suggestions? Thanks
... for an emulator that contains the Spectrum ROMs as well as a ... allows distribution of the ZX Spectrum ROM
2. The Multiface ROM is licensed from ... Romantic Robot
3. The ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... he has the appropriate licences for all the emulator's rom code as ... only the ZX Spectrum rom was legally put into the public domain on the proviso ... within his rights to take the speccy rom code back out of ... the public domain. Which would ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... the ZX Spectrum rom was legally put into the public domain on the ... to any reference stating the ROMs have been placed ... in the "public domain", and ... is fine to distribute the ROMs with commercial software ... IP can be in the public domain, and yet ... -
Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... to check out the TRS-80 ROM disassembly, try downloading the book 'Microsoft Basic ... Decoded and Other Mysteries' from the ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... 'm going to port the Sinclair Spectrum ROM to 32bit x86 assembler. It ... in one huge chunk like the Spectrum was. Machine code routines would ... course, hopefully I can get the SPECTRUM command to do something useful ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... , the copyright owners of the ZX Spectrum ROM have stated that distribution (etc) of the ROM ... is allowed, Spectrum ... 'm talking about emulation of the machine only here. As much ... -
Help make Retro Gamer greatI'm more than happy with the articles that are now appearing in Retro Gamer, but I want it to become far more of a hub for the retro community than i…
... Retro Gamer. Aside from the current price tag. It' ... these days.[/quote]
The price may be a ... little high but the mags gone tits up ... personality, I like the style of the mag, a few ... but they got to cover the complete Spectrum (sic) of retro enthusiasts ... -
Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
... br /> [QUOTE=neoncherry]The Spectrum press took an interest because ... the 'skeleton ROM' that was created from scratch for the first MGT ZX Spectrum ... % compatibility, as the proper Spectrum ROM couldn't be ... included in the emulators for ... -
Will an interface 1 work with a +2?I don't want to break anything, can I bugger up the +2 by connecting an interface 1 and microdrive to it? Are they compatible? If they are, with no…
... #0 works with an ordinary Spectrum then if you have a ... CLOSE # works OK on the original Spectrum ROM there is a bug in ... Interface 1 which ensures that the ... command can only either initialize the extra system variables or close ... -
TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
The TC2068 Spectrum Rom Cartridge use an TC2048 ROM chip. (because 2048 use the same ULA chip then 2068, some minor ROM code change) -
TS2068 Emu CartAlert! alert! Andrew and Bruno may be interested in this if you haven't already seen it. [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ZX-Spectrum-emulator-cartridge-for-…
Thanks beanz. I already bought the emulator cartridge last month, the one which has the original Spectrum rom. But I'm wondering what's the difference between this one and the one I have. -
Speccy books up for grabs[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000357]Speccy Hardware Manual[/url] by Adrian Dickens. - sorry now gone! [url=http://www.wo…
... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000076]The Complete Speccy ROM diss[/url] by Dr ... =2000363]Speccy M/C for the absolute Beginner[/url] - Edited by ... />
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ZX81 tape formatIs there a description of it somewhere? The TZX format doesn't give it but can it be worked out from what it says about block 19? There is a good d…
I think Fraser is saying he wants info about the tape format a ZX-81 uses and has tried to glean it from the TZX spec and from the ZX-81 ROM disassembly. -
speccy marathon?has anyone played all the speccy games? i mean all the ones that are available, not the MIA's. surely martijn treid them all before he let them on …
... a CDR someone gave with "the complete spectrum" written on it. I ... that and all of the SpeccyClassix98 CD......It took ... and was amazed at the figure of 768 titles ... had to face it - the shear volume of Speccyness ... you've played????? And the ~80 titles a year ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... from the ZX Spectrum manual is exactly the same.
The main ... to compile every ZX Spectrum program, and if they ... and space (the VAL routine, unless you call the ZX Spectrum ROM).
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On the other hand, ... -
Program Counter question - please readSorry if this is in the wrong forum, but please read it through anyway - see on the FUSE PSP emulator I asked the author if he'd add an option to pri…
... has no IN instructions. The no IN instructions part ... easily do this, by monitor the Program Counter (PC) - ... is the case with the standard Spectrum ROM and IM1). The all ... important IN instruction would be occuring in the ... -
Speccy +2 (Grey) peripheralsHello all, I have just bought a grey +2 to use as a workhouse whilst I keep my 128 toastrack for Sunday best. It hasn't arrived yet, however I was wo…
... on hardware that contains a ROM. The most problematical in this ... respect is the +3 (and the variants of +2 ... had one - if the peripheral has a ROM, it must hold ... would get corrupted whenever the peripheral needed to page out the main Spectrum ROM. -
Speccy meetup, Oxford, 27th JuneOver on CSS the esteemed Paul E Collins has declared that there shall be a meetup at the Gloucester Arms, Oxford, on Saturday 27 June, from around 1-…
The ZX Spectrum++ ROM set is nearly finished. The ROMs are as follows:
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* Typing SPECTRUM will switch to the original 48 BASIC ROM and lock ... to implement the new version of the SPECTRUM command and add the MENU command ...