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Post a funny videoTo change the tone and cheer us all up, I thought we could have a humourous video thread, as it's been ages since the last one. So post a video li…
... 's classic Telling the Time routine:
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Animation loopHi. How would you read from a lookup table and cycle through the animations when a key is pressed it's Just the loop example i'm interested in not…
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Text scroller and custom fontYesterday I was testing this text scroll routine taken from Jonathan Cauldwell's Intro Maker (labels have been inserted to allow partial code relocab…
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Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
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Calling machine codeOccasionally I see on ZX computers (mostly the spectrum, but I think also the '80 and '81), how someone made their machine code and wrote the bytes i…
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Best beeper player with good trade-off between sound quality and CPU timeHi all.. I'm toying with the idea of writing a small demo/intro on the 48k Speccy. Last time I did this I cheated and used an AY add-on but this t…
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Which peripheral listened on port $9f from back in 1984 (Chuckie Egg related)Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it to the correct one if so. I've been looking through the Chuckie Egg c…
... middle of the interrupt service routine (ISR) and was wondering whether ... of the code reveals a routine at $9ceb (immediately after the ... -
New multicolor engine BIFROST*2[img]http://s15.postimg.org/rfue0jb3v/BIFROST2.png[/img] [b]BIFROST*2 ENGINE[/b] is now available! Download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh…
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Let's copy buffers!Figured I'd do some double buffered graphics, so I can render for several frames before displaying stuff. Yes, I mean on a 48k speccy, so no 128k spe…
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Routine size is 596 bytes total ... wasted 3692 bytes in this routine.
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Faster Manic MinerHey, dudes. I've been fiddling around trying to wring more speed out of this game recently. I've replaced the LDIR buffer copying routines with s…
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New NIRVANA tool: WTF!"[b]WTF![/b]" (Wide Tile Format converter) is a command-line tool to convert multicolor file formats from [b]btile[/b] (bicolor tile) to [b]wtile[/b]…
"[b]WTF![/b]" (Wide Tile Format converter) is a command- ... from [b]btile[/b] (bicolor tile) to [b]wtile[/b] (wide ... tile), and vice-versa.
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Laser Squad trickHi all, Here's a small "trick" I discovered when porting Laser Squad's extra levels ("The stardrive" & "Laser platoon") to MSX: - Load level "The…
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Which Is Best?!Welcome to the July edition of Which Is Best? Last month I pitched two very good breakout clones against each other,...Tonic Tile on the ST against …
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Unofficial AGD ToolsHello, wondered if this toolkit I've written in Sinclair BASIC is any use to AGD 4.6 users? There's a text COLOUR calculator, ASM calcs, and a…
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New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
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Accessing +3 DOS with DivIDE enabledI'm thinking about making a tool that copies files from a FAT partition to a IDEDOS partition. Currently, I've got two problems: - Getting the ESX…
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Calculate if two segments cross in assemblerHello, Im developing a little game and I need something that I cant archieve. I have two lines (segment of a line). Line one: X11=coord X of …
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So it occurred to me; "Why bother with going into 48K BASIC when you can just....wrap the machine code calls inside a 'RST #28;DEFW addr:RET'?" Of course, you DO need a small M/C routine to do that, and ta-daaa, here it is: [cod…
... need a small M/C routine to do that, and ta ... /> Call48 RST #28 ; call a routine in the 48-BASIC environment ... ) of the target M/C routine on the calculator stack before ... calling my 'interface routine'
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Bubbler - ripe for modding?I [i]kind of [/i]like Bubbler...but mostly for the technical achievement I guess (not that it's [i]that [/i]superb, but that's another discussion) bu…
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RANDOMIZE USR, PRINT USR etcHello just wondering why is it called RANDOMIZE UsR what does randomising have to do with it ? When calling machine code routine from adress x you ty…
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CAPS-SHIFT KeyCodeIs there a standard Keycode for CAPS-SHIFT Key ? Looking at the ROM documentation in the Main key table KEYTABLE_A, there is no Entry for CAPS_SHI…
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Looking at the keyboard routine K_DECODE
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Print (to screen) avalue held in a register pairHi guys, looking for a routine that will print any value from 0 to 65535 to the current position on the screen. I once heard that there was a PRIN…
Hi guys, looking for a routine that will print any value ... that there was a PRINT_BC routine in the ROM, but I ... />
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Trying to remedy a bug in this gameStruggling with this project, the character shifts the crates around no bother but kills baddies that are one space to the left or right even though …
... when the STING ATTR (punching) routine is called.
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ALIEN (Mindgames) Bugfix and Improvement.[code]ALIEN (Mindgames) [ZX SPECTRUM] BUGFIX & IMPROVEMENT by Ersh 2016-10-29 The following bugs are fixed: [BUG] INVENTORY BUG WHEN SWITCHING …
... /> The 'Carry out an Action' routine doesn't PUSH/POP THE ... /> pointer when returning from the routine.
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Scuba Dive 2 - what could a sequel look like?I watched Rod Bells [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Re4j4_i8"]video review[/url] of Scuba Dive a couple of days ago. It's been ages since I'…
... -y due to its obvious tile-based enviroment.
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