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  • PZX file support for ZX-BlockeditorDear readers, I'm working on the PZX format support for ZX-Blockeditor, as I discovered the advantage of having such a nice file format. It has a cl…

    ... .
    It took a long time to write a full block ... , I decided not to implement LOOP, CALL and JUMP blocks when ...
    clausjahn clausjahn July 2009 Development
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    First time I tried to run it, ... I got stuck in a loop firing the catapult and not ...
    mulder mulder July 2009 Development
  • Problem with loopingHi all, I'm looking for a way to code a loop into my program and then allow the computer to come out of that loop by itself. Is such a thing possibl…

    ... let the computer break the loop itself. I think I ... let the computer break the loop itself" you need to ... to break out of the loop"?

    For example ... doesn't have a real-time clock*.

    ... to break out of the loop"?


    [I ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... but you save lot of time on read_keyboard routine (its terrible ... you have a small delay loop there.

    all together ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... have been displayed. That little loop delay is typically less than ... excessive, and there is really time to do it after the ... allowed quite a bit of time for my game logic, but ... 'd be wasting everybody's time trying to put everything into ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • The best Arkanoid type game?We Speccy fans have differing opinions about many things; some say Fairlight is the best isometric game on the Spectrum, others say Head over Heels, …

    ... written in BASIC at the time and it proved popular enough ... ball stuck in an impossible loop where it won't go ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2009 Games
  • Loads of Games!Loads of stuff on [URL="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/fogartylee/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1"]Ebay[/URL] Some harder to find stuff in there - more…

    ... to keep people in the loop.

    Like I've ... really don't have any time for people who make their ...
    richl richl September 2009 Sales
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... there is not much processing time left, or can we do ... states before entering the sampling loop". If you replace that simple ... . You'd also have less time to do other interesting things ... but, again, the timing (and time-slicing) would get hairy very ...
    evilpaul evilpaul September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…

    ... absolutely right! Adding a delay loop has fixed it. What the ... is quite a lot of time (in the case of the ... ]

    The amount of time in which the Z80 is ... TTL logic high is sufficient time to run this routine and ...
    Winston Winston September 2009 Development
  • Woo! Yeah!You all know the sample I am referring to, used to death in many dance tracks of the 80s. The repeated "Woo! Yeah!" done in time to the music. But wh…

    ... hear it! (THE drum loop of all time!)

    [youtube]bx69x111Yx4 ...
    frobush frobush October 2009 Chit chat
  • Animation.Your all a clever creative lot on here, so if i wanted to have a bash at a bit of animation 2d stuff only how would i go about it. What software art …

    ... satisfaction only so theres no time limit.[/QUOTE]

    If ... how to use a for-loop and generate a command to ...
    NickH NickH October 2009 Chit chat
  • Days out (Family)Going to Chester Zoo tomorrow. Taking my sons to check out the Lamas, then may be on to Blackpool Illuminations. If I see one of those Little Chef th…

    ... Pleasure Beach - if the loop-the-loop coaster ride is still there ... a pathway directly underneath the loop).

    People tend to ... them, and at the 'right time' (just after the riders have ...
    frobush frobush October 2009 Chit chat
  • Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…

    ... the screen most of the time. I may be wrong but ... screen was redrawn all the time?[/QUOTE]

    The top ... the screen get dumped each loop on MM and JSW, the ... the screen which changes each loop.
    frobush frobush November 2009 Games
  • Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…

    ... . This normally involves a delay loop: loading BC with a pre ... .

    There's no time to do that in a ... to complete the entire game loop in just 20ms, you can ...
    ajmoss ajmoss November 2009 Games
  • Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…

    ... . This normally involves a delay loop: loading BC with a pre ... .

    There's no time to do that in a ... to complete the entire game loop in just 20ms, you can ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2009 Games
  • Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…

    ... This normally involves a delay loop: loading BC with a ... />
    There's no time to do that in a ... to complete the entire game loop in just 20ms, you ...
    There's usually some time left at the end of ... workload. You can spend what time is left playing sounds, ...
    jonathan jonathan November 2009 Games
  • Creating a Spectrum game that won't load...Dear All, I have recently been using my ZX Spectrum as a reference for the production of a new body of art work and something I keep coming back to …

    ... aim to have a long loop of various different loading screens ... spectrum.. simply due to the loop.. try to find a tape ... deck that does loop, from what I understand old ... games load.. its a LONG time ago, unless it had a ...
    fog fog November 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …

    ... guess scanning this port in loop for value FF to detect ... 's for very long time (very long time == 20 or so readings ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2009 Development
  • Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …

    ... -INT call at the same time, in IM1 mode?
    ... get a measurable result
    LOOP: CALL 56 ;17 the ... L ;4
    JP NZ,LOOP ;10

    LD ... each round.
    The loop itself takes 45 T-states ...
    roko roko November 2009 Development
  • Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…

    ... digits in one at a time but how would I do ... (from variable b) in each loop. Note the following however:
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…

    ... way, it's possible to loop over the list to do ... using a different variable each time:

    [code]
    10 ...
    gasman gasman November 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…

    ... routine and a simple control loop to manipulate the character ... start of a loop take up valuable processor time. Scrolling routines are ... little sense in wasting precious time scrolling empty patches of ... speaker, or beeper. Every time the speaker is toggled it ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... in a lot of the time, but hex and binary go ... of printing a string, this time a NULL-terminated string (aka ... 0x1601 ; set the channel
    .loop
    ld a, (hl) ; fetch ... hl ; next byte
    jr .loop
    [/code]

    I ...
    Winston Winston December 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... of printing a string, this time a NULL-terminated string ( ... 0x1601 ; set the channel
    .loop
    ld a, (hl) ; ... hl ; next byte
    jr .loop
    [/code]
    [/quote]
    loop
    ld a, (hl) ; ...
    xyzzy xyzzy December 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... people -- if you want a loop to go around, say, 15 ... that crop up all the time (e.g. where video-RAM ...
    RoseCotton RoseCotton December 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... 5mhz! Shaving clock cycles (the time the Z80 spends processing each ... here[/b][/COLOR]

    loop inc a

    ... /> ; MULTICOLOUR BORDER with kludy long loop?

    xor a

    jr nz,loop
    ;

    [COLOR=" ...
    Chris Pile Chris Pile January 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... .5mhz! Shaving clock cycles (the time the Z80 spends processing each ... here[/b][/COLOR]

    loop inc a

    ld ... 20-20=0
    jr loop ;next number!

    [/CODE ... [/B] outside of the main loop, and pre-load it with ...
    xyzzy xyzzy January 2010 Development
  • Game & Watch - Fire RC-04The original game. [IMG]http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq45/FrankT4/fire.jpg[/IMG] My speccy conversion progress. [IMG]http://i432.photobucket.c…

    Got the main loop, 3 checks for collision and ... the trampoline at the same time. Pretty important when you get ...
    FrankT FrankT January 2010 New game ideas
  • Games so insanelly unforgiven that still make you curse everyone involved in it?On Speccy: MadBalls Hell you havent even started the dam game and you where already losing lives... I tried it again the other day and found my se…

    ... scene being re-drawn real-time from pre-shifted coloured 16x16 ... ?[/QUOTE]

    Each 'main loop' generates the code to display ...
    frobush frobush January 2010 Games
  • Dark SceptreThis game was popular then and (looking at the Top 100) is popular now but I still don't understand what the hell I should be doing or what sort of s…

    ... took 30 days of game time and at the end I ... thralls, where there is a loop on the map like to ... impossible to get into the loop, your unit will just wait ...
    Zoe Zoe February 2010 Games
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