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Knight Lore disassemblyHi, Not quite sure if this belongs here or in "Games" but figured it's more likely that developers would be interested. I've just released the …
... msx code. Some of the first Msx games they ... msx is the only machine I can google which ... /> That would mean that Ultimate would have had to have ... . ALL the Ultimate titles had that code, Jetpac was ... released May 1983, the first MSX machine ... -
Who was the best music composer for the spectrum 128?Rob Hubbard dominated the C64. Most of the stuff we composed on it was usually top drawer. He also dabbled with the AY chip but I always feel the com…
... amstrad with mods for each machine. not saying it's not ... things e.g. cecco's code was ported to cpc from ... the weak point of many ultimate games.
I notice "sound ... " get mentioned in a few games,but never knew who they ... -
Russian-speaking topic - Multiface 3Hi friends! The Administration will not mind if I create a topic in which you can communicate in Russian? No politics. No racism. Speccy only! :-) …
... identical versions of the Multiface 3 ROM.
The only ... the vast majority of the games should be a black border ... started.
2) Poke the machine code bytes for LD A,:OUT ... />
[quote="ZX_NOVOSIB;815262"]
3. I heard somewhere that there ... -
Harlequin 128k??Hi peeps... I've seen that you can do a 128k version of the Harlequin board. Is it just the standard board with different chips or is it a dif…
... go between a +2A/+2B/+3 keyboard and a Harlequin (or ... X 5 keyboard matrix. As machine code games and applications can and do ... -
Harlequin 128k??Hi peeps... I've seen that you can do a 128k version of the Harlequin board. Is it just the standard board with different chips or is it a dif…
... go between a +2A/+2B/+3 keyboard and a Harlequin (or ... X 5 keyboard matrix. As machine code games and applications can and do ... -
Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
... (complex) games, so they had to transition to machine code. Also, machine code allowed bigger ... BASIC and machine code mixups (ranging from most BASIC with machine code helpers to ... with lines saying db 0,3,0,3,185... and remember that ... -
RANDOMIZE USR, PRINT USR etcHello just wondering why is it called RANDOMIZE UsR what does randomising have to do with it ? When calling machine code routine from adress x you ty…
... in BC.
- Execute the machine code routine at address nn.
machine code routine do some calculations and ... returning to Basic (like most games), any option is valid. The ... that case would be 1, 3 and 4 because they take ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... allowed to make video/computer games without a Japanese or ... either been compiled or has machine code routine running along with it ... (Oooo Edu-macational). These mini-games range from you like mentioned ... Hahaha!
Get caught 3 times, and it's in ... -
Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... some crap infinite-runner type games. I'm just not ... tricks. The first number, '3', says how many sets of ... bytes in front of the machine code routine. A '1' ... POKE in the bytes of machine code.
Lines ... t forget to change the '3' on line 9090 to ... -
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... BASIC is more intuitive then machine Code
I have been trying ... too learn machine code since 1983 in the same ... spectrum resets :) fun days.
3.I know basic so why ... NOT be able too write games like JSW or Jetpac etc ... -
Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... cgi?id=0025909&loadpics=3
But ZX Pokemaster ... the game contains several other games or applications, it should ... .POK files, scraping Crap Games for ZXDB, adding TOSEC files ... of articles called "Mastering Machine Code", published in ZX Computing ... -
Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... load from ASM on my +3 just fine.
Machine code, all you have io ... line buffer, created by your machine code program"
... br /> Also I know the +3 wasn't very popular, so ... lot of new spectrum games are coming out on ... -
Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... line buffer, created by your machine code program"
This ... fatware which extends +3 dos (so that makes +3 dos also reasonable ... far as I can tell, +3 DOS is also a nightmare ... consider it for future (smaller) games
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ZXBaremulator v2.0Hi all, I've released the new version of my ZX Spectrum bare-metal for Raspberry PI. The new features and the images can be found on my project si…
... independently switch effortlessly between 3 different models while retaining ... !!!... I can have 3 different games running and switch between ... running in one, a machine code program in the other, ... be running a quite accurate machine...
It ... -
Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... the +3 filename format, and SAVEing the individual code blocks to ... disc. My knowledge of writing machine code is zero, and understanding it ... Fortunately, the most of the games are already converted to disk ... make them work with the +3, because they didn't when ... -
Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... "]Fortunately, the most of the games are already converted to disk ... into the +3, editing the filenames, then loading each machine code block into ... the +3 in turn and saving ... -
Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…
... blocks - 2 and 3 bytes respectively - that LOAD "" CODE into where the ... be the immediate targets for games with headerless blocks that I ... load the headerless block in machine code, like it used to be ... -
What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…
... BASIC and a rudimentary Z80 machine code. I want a ZX Spectrum ... in 1987, a brand new +3 (I was working by then ... emulators much more than playing games.
In 1989 I ... -
The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…
... not occur on the +3, games have been fixed in ... +3.
The basic loader loads a small machine code routine ... for fault too:
[code]
mini_loader:
... if tape loading error
[/code]
Maybe your ... -
The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…
... ’ve seen a few games that load code immediately behind the display ... is okay on a 48K machine (where it’s reserved for ... exactly where the page switching code resides. Moreover, it differs slightly ... 128K/+2 and a +2A/+3. Sometimes, if the game uses ... -
Curious feature of tape loader for Pssst!Hi everyone, I have a copy of the Ultimate game Pssst! on tape, which I decided to copy to 3-inch disk so I could load onto my +3 quickly, and so …
Yes, it does (every 16k Ultimate game did the same).
< ... 23424 that moves the game code from 24301 to 24300, and ... code, maybe that routine has been zeroed.
BTW most Ultimate games ... . I converted that game to +3 already, you can [url=http ... -
What was on your first pirate tapeOf course, we all started with Horizons and then bought our first couple of games (in my case, Bugaboo The Flea - which I still haven't managed to co…
... Violent universe
ZX GAMES 3 - Jungle fever, Crypt, ... Finders keepers, Maziacs, Quackers, Games designer, Galaxians, Hunchback 2 ... /> ZX GAMES 19 - Shuttle shock, Fruit machine, Action biker ... fireman, Gilligans gold, Load""code, Antiriad, Cobra, Great ... -
Drift!, Valley of Rains and Just a Gal at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019We presented 3 new games at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019 competition! Side-scrolling action "Valley of Rains", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing…
... with "Starting to learn the machine code properly? I'm curious if ... was unhappy about the Elite 3 slow speed so i patched ... the classic professionally made ZX games, the West is just happy ... also completely unacceptable attempts at games?[/quote]
And i'm ... -
THe Most Expensive Second Hand ZX Spectrum Software . The WOS archive acts a bit like a Stamp Catalogue . It identifies the MIA stuff as RARE . Therefore this MIA rare stuff can be sold for £150.00 e…
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£57.00 - Peker Machine Code Course (https://www.worldofspectrum.org ... as a game.
"Games" where the price is £14 ... ?id=0005423)
£14.95 - Ultimate Crossword Puzzle (https://www.worldofspectrum ... -
"Of It's Time" : Rooted in the 1980's ZX Spectrum Software (aka Culturally "Out of Date" stuff) This does not have to be UK based but it has to be ZX Spectrum software that is culturally specific to or at least strongly related to the 1980s . …
... ) "Playable as it is" Some games can still be played and ... as originally intended
3)) "Unplayble as they are" :- Stockbroker ... of it maybe be in machine code and therefore beyond the scope ... be that some of these games , like this one, may be ... -
Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…
... 24576 when you should see 3 basic lines.
I ... US), I've only played games on this emulator which you ... the command to run the machine code, did you by any chance ... book "How to Write Spectrum Games" and got stuck on the ... -
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... ...for some [b]BONUS GAMES![/b] [i]*cymbal crash*[/i ... usually do with my games, but I had to ... short break in reviewing other games, I'd finished the ... I tried to make a +3 disc version. Which, unknown ... worked because there was machine code in the 48K printer ... -
Easiest way to figure instruction lengthGiven a start address, what is the easiest way to find out instruction length at that address in Z80? I found [url="http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm"…
... ancient CP/M Plus 3 machine with relatively high resolution ... [/url])
[code]Read_Keyboard:
LD HL, ... is
[code]Read_Keyboard:
LD HL,Keyboard_Map ... stuck. I checked some games and it looks like ... -
Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…
... this is a type-in machine code [b]Interpreter / Parser[/b], however ... . already written/typed-in some games, and worked), and if you ... only use the first 3 letters of a word.
