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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
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Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…
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yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…
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Which machines do you play games on? (A poll)Just a quick poll to see which machines are still popular as games machines - which machines do you still play on, and I mean which machines do you s…
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Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
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Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
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Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
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Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
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A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…
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A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…
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3DS First ImpressionsGot home yesterday morning after 24 hours travel very knackered. Got woken up at lunchtime by a delivery. Not Happy. Changed to very happy when I fou…
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Retro Gamer Issue 88Good issue this month, fair bit of Missile Command. I 'presume' Rainbird Rich is the guy who wrote the article on Firebird this month, looks really …
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I ... posters and gimmicks. Of the two, posters have significantly more potential ...Your views on...Treasure Island Dizzy[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009333]Treasure Island Dizzy[/url] Never even heard of this let alone play it. Looks kinda go…
... dizzy. They are the most significant graphic adventure games in the ... [B]and[/B] Sabre Wulf, two of my biggest hates on ...Computer gaming industry "heroes"From the web page ( [url]http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/05/poll-molyneux-miyamoto-top-world-game-development-heroes/1?…
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... /> I agree utterly. Smith released two platform-defining games within about ... to reach those kinds of figures with the company who were ...CrusoeI'm making slow progress in mapping & debugging this game, having to restart several times due to various unfortunate events. The latest was getting …
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The most significant error was the machine stack ... haven't checked whether the two TZX versions are different or ...The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
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Mind you, the viewing figures seem to be holding up ...Japan Tsunami AppealAs some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing …
... probe with a question or two about how you'd feel ... aowen's rom is highly significant. Yes, there are other roms ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... , -5 is 11111011 in two's complement. Now if we ... bit starting from the least significant one and what we get ... is really 0 + (-something) in two's complement (internally subtraction is ... an overflow flag.
Two last questions. You said subtraction ...Backups, Make ThemI just lost 10k+ lines of z80 source to a dead ssd. Not nice :-(
... checked out on at least two machines, plus everything stored on ... /> Thankfully I only lost about two days of work related files ... z88dk but that stuff is two years old and I am ... time, some of which was significant.
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2 x HD ...reportedly bugged adventures - more info neededHow was [post=540096]this list[/post] derived? Some of the games have published solutions which can be tested, but most of them have no playing tips …
I've played through two more adventures on that "reportedly ... I didn't encounter any significant ones in the eight which ...New game: WUNDERCHAR$Hi All, Finally finished my latest game: Wunderchar$. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/loadingscr.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://…
... out only two very small optimalization which have not significant effect). what ...Biggest selling spectrum gameWhat's the biggest selling spectrum game?And how does it's sales compare to games like GTA San Andreas?
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Anyhow, to pull some figures out of a hat: some ... roughly divvy things up into two eras: 48k (1982 - 1986) and ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... pattern that are common to two or more devices will trigger ... , identifies border color (three least significant bits). So, when I write ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... , identifies border color (three least significant bits). So, when I write ... . If the same port serves two purposes (it both keeps the ... , so should I really use two separate sets of ports, like ... and OUT ports, emulated by two arrays, each 65536 bytes long ...
