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WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... a mistake chosing the original GPIO for this pin, as it was a input ... pin is connected to the ROM chip. This resulted in strange behaviour when ... test was in use (through the Interface II). This pin was connected to the FPGA, without the ... -
I've Just Bought Tickets to see The HobbitIt has been years since I saw a film on the day it was released. I thought I would make the effort this time.
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I think this was to bring The Hobbit more into line ... huge amount of history included in the LOTR appendices which they ... why Gandalf enlisted the help of Bilbo in the first place, and ... interesting stuff for two movies. Not sure about the switch to ... -
Dont Play This Crap - Video 1Even though I am continuing the Spectrum Fever video's I have been doing other vids for other systems. Today marks the start of a new series for Spe…
... Dont Play This Crap.
the first victim for this series is The Race by ... horrified at just now crap this game was.
They tried to ... /> No in game music at all although the title screen music was passable ... -
What other systems to try, and why?Just for the fun of it: Suppose, by some weird force of nature you've become bored with the ZX Spectrum :lol: AND still have some free time left, wh…
... are two of the best games for any retro system. ... let's face it the MS version of Golden Axe ... enter the dungeon with the boss I was supposed to kill in ... played through it again, this was probably in about 99, or ... for an RPG, but the spark just ain't there for ... -
HxC Floppy Drive Emulator - help neededHi! I?m really having difficulties with my new HxC SD card floppy emulator on a Spectrum +3. It?s REV C cased light gray, with no labels on it, so I…
... care about the MO (Motor On signal). The jumper block for this, is ... Find the instructions for using a 3.5" drive, this tells ... s). I thought the cased version was just a normal HxC ... the same circuit) in a case...
This is the main web site for the ... -
Harlequin clone...PCB manufactured!Using Chris Smith's detailed schematics and project notes from the Harlequin... a Speccy fan in the United States by the name of Don (Superfo) has de…
... Because pcb Rev. A is in many parts other then Rev ... br /> Rev-c was the next. It repaired the problem with sinclair joystick ... Rev-d was the release that we sent to production This release ... has NTSC possibility.
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Spectrum Playbasic EMULATORHi, Im new to the site and im writting a spectrum emulator in Playbasic :-o Its halfway complete. But i need help with emulating sound!? Anyone care…
... is BASin. I was one of the team that wrote ZXSpin ... amount of the code base for that was my own. Woody (the author ... it all.
BASin was my own work, as ZXSpin ... /> The source for BASin is available in any of the BASin distributions. I recommend this ... -
[Update] Lone Wolf - The Mirror of Death - AudiogenicHi folks, I know we already have a TZX of this, but I can't help feeling that it needs it's blocks deconstructed into Pilot/Sync/Date blocks/pulses …
... that FF FF FF FE was 63 bits.... :oops:
the data dummy tone. The net effect for this is loading ... hint for the emulator to force polarity for the next pulse in the stream? I think this ... -
Your latest gaming purchase.Okay, so we've got an, "I am currently playing......" thread, but what I wanna know is what you've just gone and bought y'self. If you're like me, y…
Me just bought [B]Lost Planet Extreme Condition[/B], [B]Viking Battle for Asgard[/B] and [B]NFS Shift Special Edition[/B] (already got the regular version, but this was in a nice slip-case and tire-effect rubber sleeve.) ?10.99 all-in. -
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 …
... that you add an option in the compressor to avoid >255 ... you can show a message in case that an unexperienced user ... -
What kind of Spectrum year was 2012 for you?2012 was for me a low Spectrum year, I coded just 1 game and that was only during the Spectrumdays in Cambridge. So on Spectrumfront it was low, but…
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for example, had fun with the [B]games club ... games, some collectively, for example, the good [B]funhouse[/B ... somebody solved, or the nightmarish, diabolical [B ... wait, the topic says that this was in november 2011
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What kind of Spectrum year was 2012 for you?2012 was for me a low Spectrum year, I coded just 1 game and that was only during the Spectrumdays in Cambridge. So on Spectrumfront it was low, but…
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The main event for me was The Spectrum Show that ... been to in decades.[/QUOTE]
The Spectrum show ... this year promise.
Play Expo was terrific.
All in ... first Spectrum in Christmas 1983. Or maybe the best since ... -
Altera CPLD vs Xylinx FPGAI will dig into the world of FPGA's, mainly to find something that can replace one or more GALs for my current and new projects. And it's never bad t…
... ;673130]By the way, the reason I was in the understanding that the Xilinx and ... approach/language, was that one of the CPLD files for the K-Mouse ... for GALs:
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But this is not the ... s normal to develop in VHDL for both XC9000 and Max ... -
Upgrading from 48k to 128kApart from natural progression. What game(s) sold it to you that you HAD to upgrade and nag at your parents countless times after that point to get …
... got a +2.
In my opinion the games companies never really ... an AY tune over the 48k version, there was only a handful ... games.
I guess the reason for this was sales, not everyone could afford ... -
RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
... work even better if this kind of "preprocessing" was provided by an ... " in modern systems, in the sense that we introduce "hard to notice" changes in the ... it helps the "nostalgic" feeling. For this reason, I care about the appearance of ... -
ZX Spectrum Reviews Website - major updateFinally got around to uploading a major update to the database tonight. The site now boasts not only every single Crash review but also every one fr…
When I was putting together the Your Sinclair Rock'n' ... others just came up - this was back in the days when websites were starting ... exist there, even though the original articles do not have ... four for four.
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Another cause for DivIDE problems on 48K'sThe last months some topics were opened to discuss problems with 48K ZX Spectrums and DivIDE. Sofar we found: - Bad Z80's because of poor fanout (si…
... button simply reset the Spectrum).
Oddly there was at least ... I think at this moment the best solution for this problem is to keep ... can install it him- (or in the unlikely event: her- ;) ) self.
Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…
Swevicus, glad the dialogue was in some way useful.
for pixel using the multicolour mode in ZX ... Paintbrush. I'll use that for backdrops too for the ... time being. I've never used it before though. Is this the ...SpeedLockI'm aware that there are seven (7) - yes, SEVEN!! - different iterations of the SpeedLock loader. I've loaded games from all 7 types, one by one, and…
... in one go, some loaded the screen, then a separate block for the ... red/black for the leader and blue/black for the data (Head ... clicks afterwards. This was the one where the screen appeared in one go with ... one and a half minutes for the game :rolleyes:
SpeedLockI'm aware that there are seven (7) - yes, SEVEN!! - different iterations of the SpeedLock loader. I've loaded games from all 7 types, one by one, and…
... to restore the machine to the state it was in when it was saved by ... the Speccy starts executing the loaded code. The screen is the best bet for this. If for ... some reason your program has its own code in ...PlayStation 4 AnnouncedAs widely expected, Sony have unveiled the PS4 at an event in New York: [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392432/playstation-4-is-official-so…
[QUOTE=ADJB;684067]This is the problem. These "stunning ... in social media or the 'net, so for most people (everyone, in ... the Wii. The analogue stick was introduced by the Atari 7800, I think, did the ... than the scripted gameplay of present. The problem with this ...The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... rom, but the second page in the rom is the same, the two pages are ... is no reference to the other half in the disassembly, though. It is ... 16 KiB ROM instead, but the software for this was never written, because M ...The Disciple clone... doable?Hi. As a spectrum user in the 80's this was the dream interface all-in-one for me. I have a 48k+ and planning on get a 128K toast-rack later. Anyway…
... is no reference to the other half in the disassembly, though. It ... KiB ROM instead, but the software for this was never written, because M ... ?[/QUOTE]
In the +D they used a bigger ... mgt had in mind more code for the rom, maybe the only thing ...PlayStation 4 AnnouncedAs widely expected, Sony have unveiled the PS4 at an event in New York: [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392432/playstation-4-is-official-so…
... attract back the users. If there was only one console manufacturer in the world ... the graphics card. And for the price of a console that's not in ... software can't run the games either. For this reason, some PC gamers ...Metallica & AC/DC tapes to be binned - wtf?This is very sad, a piece of rock history is about to be lost forever: [url]http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/metallica-acdc-studio-tapes-to-be-tras…
... was mentioned in their BBC4 documentary.. anything technical, gearslutz is pretty good for ... *BUT* it's too techy for me, and ... . OR very few.
this is something I use [url ... you scroll 3 minutes in.. if the drum tech was no good on ...Zero 0.5 ReleasedAfter a bit of a hiatus, the next update of Zero is now available [URL="www.ramtop.wordpress.com"]here[/URL]. Feedback and bug-reports appreciated! …
... it a little up the menu bar was gone and I couldn ... 't change the settings anymore ... screen, and I was able to access the menus,disabled scanlines and ... /> To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application ...Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …
... listing on continuous paper... This only ended after I had ... in those days when working on complex issues, and this was ... Even nowadays using assembler this still is my score when ... In fact the only difference for me is that in the bygone days I was browsing ...I'm very illA few weeks back I passed out/blacked out in the bathroom and woke up on the floor with a terrible pain in my chest. In the fall I somehow broke my …
... job they did was perfect, in fact the aviation doctor in the United States doing ... physiotherapy a day for the next two months after the surgery.
this and they didn't make me bankrupt in the process.Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …
... O.C.P assembler back in the 80s but it had a ... of routines. It was a complete pain in the ass and held me ... I have used them mostly for GameBoy as flashing roms takes ... />
The point to all this was that I learn't the simple (yet ...Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …
... the early PPC processors Cobra I believe IBM called them - this was back in ... I was armed with current knowledge for the interview - even if it was for an ... automation process for an ...
