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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,…
... mistake. And even the ones with checksums used a lousy algorithm that ... like they were actually reproducing the output of a printer, after someone ... to just poke 255 into the last byte of each UDG before typing LLIST ... -
Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
... the actual line is not of a symmetrical width, there are 'balancing bits ... ' needed.
As the ... come to the trailing end of the line, the right hand ... to 'POP' the last byte from the screen saved and ... -
Copying a single character from one place to another?[code] ORG 33000 LD A,8 LD HL,16384 LD BC,256 LD DE, 18432 LOOP: PUSH AF LD A,(HL) LD (DE),A ADD HL, BC POP AF DEC A JR NZ,LOOP REST […
... break when the byte at 23672 = 3. Square brackets are used in the debugger ... true, the spectrum places the so-called "high" byte of the address onto the address bus ...
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im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…
... frame scroll (shifting the whole of the tunnel area from ... of the rows to the maximum length used. (I'm using the last byte of ... each row to tell me how much of ... it is actually used ... -
shadow regs musingIn the process of optimising some assembler, it occurred to me how great it would have been if the Z80's shadow reg opcodes had been a bit more fully…
... quarter of the single-byte instructions with two sets of three bits for the source ... to four bits would use up all of the available space ... s used until it's toggled off again?
Considering the ... expect to use them independently of the main set, so you ... -
New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
... a very small part of the database, and with the bits we are removing ... Martijn's answer to my last question about WoS files) was ... . If they had used one of the early versions of ZXDB that they participated ... -
Favourite turbo loaders?Hey, guys. Title says it all. Which were your favourite turbo loaders/fast loaders/protection schemes, whatever you want to call them? I have a so…
... 6000 bauds using tapes), without the drawbacks of speedlock/alkatraz.
4 ... time doesn't end after the last byte is loaded. Both systems saves ... , so those drawbacks disappears when used in 128k games.
Shadow of the UnicornI've written a program to run Shadow of the Unicorn on a +2A/+3. Is there anywhere it can be put to be available to anyone wanting to play the game?…
... a program to run Shadow of the Unicorn on a +2A/+3 ... to anyone wanting to play the game? It is not quite ... I need instructions to set the flags register to 0. It ... works but I want the program to work its best ... with any rom. At the least I can post it ...The name of the gameDoes anyone knows the name of the following game: You have to take your girlfriend to a show, but someone as trashed your bike and splitted all the …
Does anyone knows the name of the following game:
You ... your bike and splitted all the parts across town.
You have to fight for the motorcycle parts
You ... need a spanner.
The game was all in black ...spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…
... all the guidelines I know of, the screen is the loading screen of The Last Ninja ... c64 version and i used the ... right dimensions of the ...ID and Chaos, two of the strangest games for the speccyID was a sort of artificial intelligence program. A mixture between a.i. and an adventure. Cant remember who has produced this game. You had to find …
... had to find out the names of the historical figures, the ID had adapted ... in Germany, because one of the persons the ID adapted was Hitler. Another ... of chesslike figures. With luck, you could get an golden dragon, the ...Making the most of the microDoes anyone know what ever happened to Ian Mcnought-Davis? He presented the 'Making the most of the micro' and 'Micro live' programes on the BBC. The…
... Mcnought-Davis? He presented the 'Making the most of the micro' and 'Micro live ... ' programes on the BBC. They were ...Fist PC: Remake of 'The Way of the Exploding Fist' The first demo of the remake is near, take a look at these screenshots of the game in action: [url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot1.gif"]scr…
The first demo of the remake is near, take a look at these screenshots of the game in action:
[url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot1.gif"]screenshot 1[/url]
[url="http://ses.mgbr.net/prj/fistpc/shoot2.gif"]screenshot 2[/url]Loading Lord of the RingsHi I've got a new copy of the Lord of the Rings adventure game. it loads as far as completing the load screen graphics, but wont load any further. Th…
... 've got a new copy of the Lord of the Rings
adventure game ... loads as far as completing the load
screen graphics, but ... wont load any further.
The next load header seems to ... /> then continues - but the speccy obv. misses the header.
I've ...The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
... even in the Spectrum emulation scene, defend the point of view of the very few ... clear how deprieving the Spectrum emulation community of the delight of playing and freely ... distributing the old classics on the, [ ...Better late than never: the answers and results of the Quiz to end all Quizzes!First of all I would ask to excuse myself with those who have been waiting for the answers. But, besides work, study, etc., I had problems in verifyi…
... hazards, by members of the neo-Nazi organization Sons of the Free.
Night ... are in control of the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) of the United States and ... of the American, British and Canadian forces landing on the shores of Normandy on the ...Name of the game againWhats the name of the game where youre in a castle and every so often you turn into a werewolf and you have to drop things into a cauldron? Also,what…
Whats the name of the game where youre in a castle and every so often you turn into a werewolf and you have to drop things into a cauldron?
Also,whats the name of the game where you manage a football team?ZX PC Interface : The manual, schematics and more info... ZX <-> PC Interface ------------------- Contents 1) The ZX <-> PC Interface 1.1) What is it? 1.2) What does it do? 2) Install…
... will
by adding the number of the port after the command
Syntax ... added in a not used
part of the ZX ROM.
used as your own commands.
4) Copyright / Patent of the ...Defenders of the EarthI've got the Hi-Tech and Enigma Variation version of Defenders of the Earth. When I try to get them to play in Spectaculator 4 I load the first tape …
I've got the Hi-Tech and Enigma Variation version of Defenders of the Earth. When I try to get them to play in Spectaculator 4 I load the first tape image but how do I get it to read Tape 2????
TIAThe Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut (From Mars)"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut (From Mars)" This was first released by The Shaw Brothers under the slightly more sensible name of…
"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant Halibut ( ... versions of the game are MIA.
"The Invasion Of The Intergalactic Mutant ... Mat Beal (of the Fish spectrum zine) under the title of "Fish ... 4 games on the compilation. Two of the other three were ...Relative price of the spectrum As Im sure you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its price.I was reading the other day that the 48K Spectrum cost ?175 - …
... you all know one of the biggest selling points of the speccy was its ... price.I was reading the other day that the ... out in 1982. Being the zany kind of guy that I am ... anyone from outside of the UK remember how much the speccy cost on ...Shadow of the Unicorn?Hello all! I have the Shadow of the Unicorn from Mikro-Gen and I was wondering how rare (or even [email="R@RE...;)"]R@RE...;)[/email] ) this game re…
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I have the Shadow of the Unicorn from Mikro-Gen and ... is. Yes, the game is complete with the box, map and ... and there are of course the Mikro-Plus thingy and the novel. Was ... there is interested in trading the game to something (something Ultimate ...Bored Of The Rings - different editions?Hello chums.. I'm going through the YS Adventures section just now for Tipshop, and noticed a section where a reader said he had 12 different versio…
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I'm going through the YS Adventures section just now ... he had 12 different versions of Bored Of The Rings.
Anyone ...Another one for the RZX vault!As promised somewhere on another thread, I've managed to make a complete walkthrough (or should that be swimthrough?) of Blood N' Guts.* I reckon th…
... , so you've completed 48% of the game before a virus appears ... ) or the gung-ho version (piece of sub, tumour, piece ... all the bits of the sub are in the same place - it's just the oesophagus ...ALIENATE - final version of the ZX-demo! (MOD music!)Hi there! Next new-school demo from HOOY-PROGRAM is here: [url="http://republika.pl/hooyprogram/alienat.zip"]http://republika.pl/hooyprogram/alienat.…
... required. USR0 mode. You know the score.
Supports General ... couldn't move the blocks for GeneralSound to the end of the tape,
because they can only be loaded when the ... omit blocks 1-11 from the tape, though.
...Sacred Ruby of the ToggalidsFor some reason I have started playing the above game!!! I have never heard of it and never played it before. But hey!!! My question is...has anybo…
... started playing the above game!!! I have never heard of it and ... do I get out of the boat at the beginning.
I ... have had a look in the Tip Shop and there is ...Robin of the WoodI've got a PocketPc, love to use the Spectrum emulator on it, i'm shocked to see that people release stuff such as Robin of the Wood and Nodes of Yes…
... a PocketPc, love to use the Spectrum emulator on it, i ... stuff such as Robin of the Wood and Nodes of Yesod and try ...The need for multiple versions of the same gameWhile looking through the TZX Vault I was struck by how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and I wondered whether there really was an…
... by how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and ... this is the only difference between the two versions then the TZX files ... seems that storing identical versions of the same game just becasue they ...
