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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... believe the Z80 takes a minimum of 4 for any instruction ... weren't optimal, the drawing routine wasn't optimal or it ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... . Shame the compiler is a load of crap though. Kernighan is ... bacon.
I think Turbo Pascal was the main reason ... as well as a whole load of extensions that sold it ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... replace the Basic style sub-routine that relied on easily corruptible ... /> [FONT=Courier New]Being a Turbo Pascal programmer I think it ... -
Currarh uSpeak - CrapCurrarh uSpeak well almost Today I became one of the rank elite of Currah uSpeak owners. I must say I?m a tad disappointed. I imagined it to have t…
Has anyone ever managed to load and play a game of ... Collier and his faulty microphone routine from Tiswas. -
Currarh uSpeak - CrapCurrarh uSpeak well almost Today I became one of the rank elite of Currah uSpeak owners. I must say I?m a tad disappointed. I imagined it to have t…
... ]Has anyone ever managed to load and play a game of ... Collier and his faulty microphone routine from Tiswas.[/quote]
MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... from Maplin. Volume at 9am (minimum volume setting is at around ... on WoS that won't load back into a Spectrum, so ... them, maybe 5% of titles load only sometimes. That's easy ...replacement +3 psuok, who would be kind enough to help an idiot build a replacement PSU for the +3 / +2a , from a PC power supply? Guesser has already helped out a gr…
Yeah minimum load for a SMPSU is a ... drift upwards due to no load the SMPSU will trip. An ...2 Hot 2 Handle TZX'sRight, here's a question for you preservation guys. Downloaded and tried to play the 2 Hot To Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors won't load on Spe…
... what... it also failed to load :-o.
This was ... , though I didn't try turbo loaders. Weird stuff eh.
New GamesJust thought I'd find out what peoples opinions are of the latest games, and see what everyone is into at the moment. For me there seems to be a lack…
... be set to minimum. And I've tried a load of mods ...Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... , because any Basic programs I load up are going to be ... thanked you for the circle routine you sent over... cheers, it ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... , select bank of shadow screen, load ram disk file into it ... with a short machine code routine, but that way is not ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... great. In Spectaculator you can load in Flash or Fast. I ... Byteload the same as Fast load in Spectaculator ?
Only ... Byteload/Flash load will Flash ROM block and fastload turbo blocks ? It ... out that General Statistics has turbo blocks ($11) at around ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... executed. That would make the minimum update 4Ts.
Edge ... needs to refine the edge routine a little. I'll see ...Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…
... a SCREEN$ from a game load, and you'll get the ... name) contained an assembly language routine for locating the first byte ... cell. It's a useful routine to understand to know how ...Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... I can make the loading routine turbo x2 speed.Emulating Spectrum digitizer?Hello everyone, Not sure if this is the right forum part to ask this question...basically, I'm making a video for my brother's band (the song is cal…
... /> beginners guide: To play, just load it into your favorite emulator ... forget to tun on flash/turbo loading. playback speed varies on ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... track via this program and load on a real TS2068?
routine that must call the player ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... does not include the interrupt routine that must call the player ... that. What is this interrupt routine to load the songs? We must ... save it, always I?ll load it, BASIC64 must be loaded ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... that. What is this interrupt routine to load the songs? We must ... so on. An interrupt service routine can do that for you ... would use it is to LOAD""CODE it when the basic ... save it, always I´ll load it, BASIC64 must be loaded ...Totally unrelated to Speccies...But fun, nevertheless. [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Letters.rar[/url] Have a go, lemme know if there's any ways you can think of to…
... ]It's random. Picks a load and then sends them down ... way of implementing an animation routine irrelevant of whether it was ...Urgent Help needed to fix this: calling all machine code gurusI am currently trying to write tutorials on the amazing Orfeus music composer by Proxima which allows you to do multi channel music through the beepe…
... code will swap the routine in to 35072, byte ... byte... then when the routine is complete it'll ... and you can then load it anywhere in memory and ... Having said that, when the routine is complete it'll change ... rip out the player routine and make it compilable ...Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coupé without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…
... need a Spectrum emulator to load in 48K Spectrum software. The ... one disk drive became the minimum specification for everything.
Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coupé without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…
... will show you what to load the registers with and where ... )...
Is there any routine`s that you`d recommend ...Top 25 PlatformersAt Retro Gamer we love feedback from readers and are constantly looking for ways to integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine. Anyway,…
... no butsh.....(Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure on the Megadrive possibly ... . I haven't even opened load 32 yet, but once I ...Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... Basic. What is this about Turbo Pascal? Is there TP for ... ( which I'd like to load from disk ).
I ... . But if I can't load level data, allow people to ... save/load progress and the like it ...Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... Basic. What is this about Turbo Pascal? Is there TP for ... calls?[/QUOTE]
No Turbo Pascal for the Sam.
load from disk ).[/QUOTE]
Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
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2. Call the rom routine to blit it into the ... onto screen using that rom routine, then load in the next set ... using my existing software blit routine.
Anyone got any ...TZX revision 1.20 finalSince everybody seems to agree with the last propositions, the specification for the TZX file format revision 1.20 now becomes final and you can find…
... 0x19 and one single rendering routine could do for all.
minimum and generate "friendly" files for ...Syntax checkingI want to capture the command for i.e. microdrive in a standard ROM. The editor will give an error, but how can I redirect to my own routine? I will …
... sample of the routine that handle SAVE and LOAD:
[code ... reference.
CALL L1C8C ; routine EXPT-EXP checks that a ... -time.
CALL L2530 ; routine SYNTAX-Z
JR Z ...
