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Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
... Alligata is one) is to load the attributes before the rest ... , so the screen seems to load in colour. I don't ... tuneful. Not so much on turbo loaders though with the higher ... -
Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
... is (say) a machine code routine along the lines of this ... />
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Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... ones that actually manage to load the disk. Of course, the ... same code 484 yet the routine calculates different codes so I ... -
Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
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Ok load the game and what's ... find the start of the routine. Look above at E920 the ... s the end of a routine and the next bit CALL ... is the start of our routine.
Look again and ... is set jump to our routine at E921.
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Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
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LD A,3 ; Load Accumulator with 3
LD ... :-
LD A, (40000) ; Load Accumulator with contents of 40000 ... ways of writing this similar routine but this should give you ... (8E7A),A
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Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... for our code. I will load it starting from 40000. Just ... our own codes into the routine (to see what the reults ... -
128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …
... one uses a M/C routine to load data into the other ... -
which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... first couple of hurdles. LD=Load , JP=Jump , RET=Return ... etc ... book, it has an example routine, it explains how it works ... up with a routine and give the whole routine it's own ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... can write your own DRAW routine (with a bit of optimizing ... in ROM (#04C2=SAVE, #0556=LOAD; IX=start, DE=length, A ... -
TAP or TZXI have several emulators, but none seem to work with TAP files. The games I really want don't have TZX files anywhere onkline. How can I play the TAP…
... file was not actually a turbo loader. It was a file ... had a special loader to load it back. -
TAP audio to MiniDisc (successes?)I know this has been discussed a long while ago (along with archiving to MP3 format(s)), but I`m curious to hear from anyone who's had any expiriment…
... with ATRAC as a compression routine. I`m determined to get ... 's the MIC socket you load games into, not the EAR ... can't get it to load. -
Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…
... OK, but still doesn't load. However, I know the version ... on tape 2 will load from VOC into Warajevo, so ... -pitched pilot tones, and alternating turbo/normal blocks. Jasper has a ... -
Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…
... the tape (#10 - didn't load on my +2 but does ... the turbo loader, but the checksums are wrong. The screen attributes load ... -
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
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player-routine. So for instance, sound tracker ... :
1. The buzz routine will need to updated every ... of the tracker code to load a new envelope duration for ... all paths in the interrupt routine and adjust the 'de' register ... -
CSW 2Have you been using csw 2 yet? I find the total pulses is sometimes wrong by 256 too short. Also there is a small shift to the right by a few sampl…
... jump through a waveform to load a specific block or whatever ... . For instance timings for the turbo blocks of Gremlin Loader, Mikro ... -
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... of the PC. Increment SP. Load the high-order PC byte ... end of an interrupt service routine. That fact makes RETI particularly ... -
Games so bad you enjoy themThere are a handful of games so laughably and utterly bad, that I actually enjoy playing them: [I]Los Angeles SWAT, East Enders, Pit-Fighter, Sabrina…
... /> Had a really mad loading routine too - with a story running ... way through it - made it load slowly, but it was way ... -
Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
... for is a machine code routine (and how to use the ... I have to load in the M/C routine for the revised ... -
grrrrrrrrrrr I hate all this!okay here's another one... When my father bought my spectrum +2 back in 1986, might have been 87... anyway, with it came 100 Spectrum Games (90 of …
... , but with all the customised turbo loaders, I can't do ... 1: The collection point
Load the van with ONE Spectrum ... the floor, so don't load too many.
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Need_Help...*.SCR TO *.TAPPLEASE...NEED HELP... HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE??? In 'Taper' convert .z80…
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TAPER can load snapshots of type .Z80 (all ... files are immediately converted to turbo-loading, compressed tapes, to ... at which the file will load, select an alternate loading ... not be compressed. This will load a couple of
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POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
... to be a machine code routine? Oddly enough, though the game ... code (the Island needs LOAD "" CODE to load it, it has no ... -
POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
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CLEAR 32000
LOAD "" CODE 32000
This ... will load the code starting at address ... with a simple machine code routine which even I could nearly ... -
AssemblageCan any of you marvellous programmers out there recommend a Speccy assembler that even a complete dunce could use? At the risk of sounding thick, as…
... compile and edit code and load it in to an emulator ... havent forgotten about the scroll routine, you'll probably see a ... -
FOR OLD-SCHOOL MANIAX (tape ;) ).Hi there. My friend started to work on new way of loading games for ZX. It's dedicated to old-school fans, who wants only tape stuff. There is a …
... is the best - it has turbo mode attached. You don't ... to change any programs, because turbo is in the PC's ... . Like Codemasters' CD. Those games load in seconds.
You ... -
FOR OLD-SCHOOL MANIAX (tape ;) ).Hi there. My friend started to work on new way of loading games for ZX. It's dedicated to old-school fans, who wants only tape stuff. There is a …
... /> >Codemasters' CD. Those games load in
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turbo mode. It would be a ... in realtime, adding ZX's turbo prog to every loaded TAP ... PC, 'cause You have to load these zx-programs from it ... -
FOR OLD-SCHOOL MANIAX (tape ;) ).Hi there. My friend started to work on new way of loading games for ZX. It's dedicated to old-school fans, who wants only tape stuff. There is a …
... tape/CD-R/minidisc and load them from there?
This ... to convert every prog into turbo mode. Because PC's prog ... important thing - You can also load via ZX's tape port ... *.z80 will be loaded in turbo mode too, which is important ... -
FOR OLD-SCHOOL MANIAX (tape ;) ).Hi there. My friend started to work on new way of loading games for ZX. It's dedicated to old-school fans, who wants only tape stuff. There is a …
... based on TAPER-s turbo loader which can load reliably at 430 ... socket. This way I could load in programs with 100% reliability ... -
FOR OLD-SCHOOL MANIAX (tape ;) ).Hi there. My friend started to work on new way of loading games for ZX. It's dedicated to old-school fans, who wants only tape stuff. There is a …
...and the best solution would be to mix both programs. :)
We would gain a prog for Dos/Win, which would be able to load TAPs and *.z80 with turbo speed - and not via LPT, but via PC's audio. :)
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Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …
... me on emulators, with fast/turbo loading and at normal speed ... /> actually i justtried it with Turbo-Loading and i hadn't ... has to load normally is that it loads with turbo, just not ... -
Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …
It will load the turbo blocks with the 0 length of 531 and 1 length of 1063. I got these figures from Cliffhanger. The game itself saves data in flash load so it could be examined for exact timing.
