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Retro Event 26 October - photo's etcYesterday the first Retro Event was held in Elst, The Netherlands. It was a succes, which counts for both console sales floors and homebrew area. Ge…
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Abnormal Load on the M4Saw this today, got in front of it just before it hit the road, I got to Wales and did stuff and got back, and saw it trundling along causing a huge …
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Turbo save?I'm doing some experiments with turbo loaders, and I don't know how to save turbo blocks on virtual tapes. Spectaculator and fuse don't seem to save…
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PC to +3 communicationsHi I'm going to explore the abilities of my +3 to communicate with a PC. The "natural" ways to do that would be via serial or parallel link. I've b…
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Goldeneye X has been updated!Goldeneye X, the project to bring the gameplay from Goldeneye to the Perfect Dark engine, has been updated to version 0.5c. If you've never heard of …
... 's true eye-height, weapon timings, a Santa-Claus skin (the ... -
JSpeccy 0.93A new JSpeccy version has been released. Summary of changes, - Drag & Drop support forTAP/TZX/CSW/SNA/SP/Z80/SZX/ROM files. - Command line options …
... instructions SCF/CCF (thanks to Patrick Rak by his investigations and ... -
Unusual custom turbo loaders - with sourcesI have always been fascinated by turbo loaders; my games all feature a TZX version with one of such schemes implemented, and I have been experimentin…
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Just seen X-Men: Days of Future Past and am a bit angry.As one of the things I'm wondering about all through the film is 'how come Professor X is still alive, after getting killed off in X-Men 3', and wait…
... special hospital bed speaking with Patrick Stewarts voice. Which gets cut ... -
cause of 1 tstate differencethe sinclair faq, located at: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm[/url] says: "NB: Investigations in May 2004 have rev…
... have revealed that the machine timings vary, even between machines with ... ULA. Some machines use the timings given in this FAQ, while ... T state later for all timings. The reason for this is ... -
taptools updatedI've updated my taptools (programs for constructing and manipulating .TAP files). This has been quite a major update, with some programs completely r…
... files written at standard Spectrum timings.
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the internet.. and the truth...it has come to my attention some people are "gobbing off" about me elsewhere , facebook.. that's fine if it is 100% factual, but sadly it isn't. I d…
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Hallowscream! Issue 6 - Tribute to Scream! Horror comic from the 80sIt's that time of year again folks! My brother and his fellow freaky scribblers have put together the 6th issue of [b]Hallowscream![/b] [img]http://…
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Tinkering with DMASo, some afternoon tinkering... [img]http://photo.alioth.net/tmp/dma_small.jpg[/img] The purpose of this all is to see what's possible using the Xi…
... speed. Using the same memory timings as the Z80 chip itself ... using the same memory write timings, this is reduced to 6 ... /> A DMA using Z80 memory timings would take 6 T-states ... -
ZX Spectrum 48 late model - inconsistent timingsI found very strange thing with INT length on different emulators. Just try to select Spectrum 48 late model and try to run the test minfo written by…
I found very strange thing with INT length on different emulators.
Just try to select Spectrum 48 late model and try to run the test minfo written by Jan Bobrowski: [url]http://zx-pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=41098&d=1366516383[/url]
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ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 06 June 2015Saturday 06 June 2015<br>Welcome to the May update (eh? Ed).. Shh! Archie Robins appears to have decided sleep is something that happens to other peo…
... Mare and Retroinvaders.
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New tool: tap2turboI've been experimenting with turbo loaders, mainly following the lead of Alessandro Grussu, and using Tapir for setting up the turbo blocks is very i…
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[NEW] Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 for OSX released!!!!Here it is! Retro Virtual Machine v1.0.0 RELEASED!!!! Many thanks first to Patrik Rak for the PZX format and for their Z80 tests without which RVM…
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Ninjaman 8-way scrolling 50Hz multicolour demo :-)Here's a demo I've been working on for a while. The goal was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble 48K ZX Spectrum. I was origin…
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New version emulator ZEsarUX-4.0Hi I have uploaded a new version of my emulator ZEsarUX 4.0. You can download it from the project web page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/…
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Added ULA early/late timings setting
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Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
... " than RND. The '500' timings for the Ritman and Baker ... The 'tint' variable indicates whether timings are to be calculated as ... test result.
As timings can be significantly effected by ... be merged into programs and timings tested in situ with ... -
Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …
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New ZEsarUX beta - RC2Hi I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX beta version on the usual url https://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/files/Beta_and_Snapshot_versions/ This…
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SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
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New ZEsarUX 5.0Hi! ZEsarUX 5.0 is out! :) You can download it from the URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/ Finally I have succeded emulating Si…
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Test of screen switching timings.I modified the btime.tap test by Jan Bobrowski to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime-128, produces different results on diff…
I modified the btime.tap test by Jan Bobrowski to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime-128, produces different results on different emulators. I hope that there are interested owners of real 128/gray +2 and black +2A/+3, who will ... -
Need help from people with real 128/black +2 and grey +2A/+2B/+3.Please, if you have time and inspiration, run [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55518/test-of-screen-switching-timings"]this t…
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No-tearing (“vsync”) Full Screen FadeSeeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I wrote my own routine which does away with that problem. Simple, effective, short, and fully re…
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