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Pokes needed for following games - any help? :-DHi speccynites,..I need a few special pokes if anyone can help so I can get these games longplayed on the real hardware, can any of you help??? The …
... enough to do that sort of thing you have shown ... You can poke a string of (decimal or hexadecimal) bytes into ... eg. 7FFF)
* Type the first byte of the routine (eg. 3E) and press ... steps until you've entered the last byte in the routine.
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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... " solution to fix this . I used bits of plastic tabs glued on with ... weight and taking out the floppies and the drive plate does help ... be attached back to the plate . Some of the earlier pics on this ... thread show how I have adapted the ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... in Dark Souls 3 last night. Beat the first boss, who wasn ... between Hemwick Charnel Lane and bits of the Lost Woods in Bloodborne, I ... when in the Ember State - the effect reminds a bit of the Balrog.
Fuse question?I have a small problem with the Fuse on Raspberry Pi and Raspbian linux distro. I'd like to change the default browsing path for my games, which is …
... of the last opened file. On GTK+ and SDL UIs, Fuse keep track of last ... Fuse exits. The current directory is used when Fuse ... ]Note that old versions of the file chooser’s documentation ... could override the Recently Used Files behaviour by tweaking the file ~/. ...z88dk spectrum.hHi, Would anyone be kind enough to give me a short example of using spectrum.h? Especially the colours and the BASIC keywords. Thanks in advan…
... that they don't have the absolute definitions like it ... php?id=library:zxspectrum"]in the wiki[/url] if I ... is defines the names to correspond to the values for the spectrum's ... instead of hard coding the attribute byte.
I've never used any of the ...Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... 15th pulse in the tape (the first one of the last bit of every byte)
looks ... the headerless custom screen block and force a jump to the last statement ...
of line 4.
It ...Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... 15th pulse in the tape (the first one of the last bit of every byte)
looks ... longer than expected...
Therefore, in terms of ... to the first pulse of the first bit of every saved byte. Now every piece of the ...Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…
... by hand, are the two bytes of $4000 being poked ... should to go back to the top of the screen.
... bits of the RAM. If you want to do the odd way of ... INC H in the inner loop then the ... is even simpler; set the first byte to 255 and just ...2x2 tile to attribute blocksHow do you go about converting a 2x2 tile to 16 x 16 attributes? Heres an example of the tile data I'm wanting to enlarge. [code] defb 255, 25…
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LD DE,Graphic ; location of the graphic to enlarge
LD ... /> DJNZ drawstar1 ; do all 8 bits of the byte. 8 squares
INC ...DYNAMITE DAN I vs DYNAMITE DAN II - WHICH IS THE BETTER GAME?Welcome to the September 2016 edition of Which Is Best? Last month I placed three Amiga top down racers, Nitro, Super Cars II and Overlander. Overl…
... 1 on the CPC looks even worse, as it used *really* ... of WinAPE[/url], download version 2.0 beta 2 (the version I used ... , in case other versions don't work with the ... .sna" is when the game gets to the start of the last island, "About to ...CAPS-SHIFT KeyCodeIs there a standard Keycode for CAPS-SHIFT Key ? Looking at the ROM documentation in the Main key table KEYTABLE_A, there is no Entry for CAPS_SHI…
... solution could have been in used.
For practical purposes ... for Caps-Shift to be the last byte from KEYTABLE_A or first character ... be defined/used.
Thank you all for the informative feedback ...What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
... of the last ice-creams of the season. Chocolate and mint. Never ate it before. The ... with little pieces of mint. But this has the opposite, an interminable ... green ice-cream ball *sigh* with tiny bits of ...I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
... used, the non-determinism in the compiler is avoided. However, of course, only the high byte ... around the wrapping of the low byte into the high byte.
For example, the first ... case.
The beauty of the high-byte only is that it ...New Game - Pietro Bros [z88dk/Nirvana+][b]PIETRO BROS[/b] Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from th…
... , including the stack (the stack is moved to the top of this 256 byte page ... ).
The zx7 compressed ... about 150 bytes at the top of memory available. The last byte segment is AY ...XeldaI've decided to take on the Zelda tribute game and take over the Xelda title (because it's a great title name). Working with the MK2 Mojon twins gam…
... have bouncing in the back of my head some ... encodes the entire save state in 64 bits, so the password ... />
Dungeon is the number of the last dungeon completed.
Start pos is the entry point to the ...Dk'tronics and other similar "add on" Speccy keyboards . What can be done with them and when?. The underlying assumption I am making here is that people who have them will want to "hang on" to them and may also want to get them working . But …
... and were originally used on Spectrum regulators in the 1980s are now ... ]
This shows the use of the worst bits of the DK cases brought together ... hour of testing . Also a "museum" piece that had never been used ...Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... As the first line of the program you should get the following values ... program, have an indication of the number of bytes (so when ... it at the highest address possible and have the last byte at ... that so much to ask of the Spectrum software available?
...Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... BASIC program, have an indication of the number of bytes (so when it ... cram it at the highest address possible and have the last byte at 65535 ... that so much to ask of the Spectrum software available?
[/quote ...What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…
... accesses the first byte that corresponds to the first line at the top left of the ... display. In the ULA, the 8 bits of the byte are converted ... from parallel to serial data, so that the ...Troubleshooting RAM IC's on Spectrum +2 Grey?Got myself a grey +2 but at startup it shows something very similar to this: [img]https://preview.ibb.co/mmai5F/2_Ram_Fault.png[/img] I also su…
... show which bit or bits of the byte (which corresponds to which ... working, the test ROM can write the results of the test of the remaining ... RAM to the screen ;) ... or post up a picture of the board.
...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... that was last read from contended memory (usually, the last attribute byte read) and ... [i]not[/i] $FF, as would be the ... floating bus too. So, (the value of the last operation with slow memory (pages ...Replacing lower RAM 4116 ZX Spectrum 48k - desoldering advice please?A long post, but interesting pictures perhaps. :) I'd like some advice: (also apologies I think I picked the wrong 'Hardware' category for this, plea…
... leg at the IC's, then remove the remaining leftover bits of the legs heating ... , the tracks and pads do lift quite easily. I've used a ... de-soldering iron, a 30 watt one and the ... IC's just fell out of the board after de-soldering them ...Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…
... got this working, although the method is rather different from ... alternative machine stack to use bits of the ROM without having to ... /> STOP
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The stack contains (top->down ... LD_BLOCK
length = number of bytes to load from start ...Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... I thought back-of-fag-packet was the norm for ... are a couple of non-ASCII characters, notably the { and } ... been replaced with the em dash. The last byte of each character stores ... its width, so the juicy bytes ...Lots of French stations booming in on the FM broadcast band.Don't know if any of you fellow wosser's are interested in receiving/listening to long distance radio but currently here in the Lincolnshire area of …
... used it to listen to air traffic control talking to the crew of the last ... Channel. Caught a bit of the radio transmissions, but a more ...1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
... it was!
The sampled speech used from the film and some screens ... also enhanced the cinematic experience of the ... A500.
IMHO, maybe one of the last few really great movie computer ...Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…
... The steps are symmetrical, but the step-over from one byte to the ... to think about how the last byte to write might be ... two different caches at the same time...[/quote]
of XOR then there's ... with both ends, the number of points plotted is, ...Spectrum USB KeyboardI know you can buy these but how do you make one . What I am thinking of be similar to the type described in Issue 1352 of Micro Mart at page 45 .The…
... from a less used area of the keyboard. As the switches are bit bit ... that the USB kit is is no and use "wooden bits" to ... build it up to just the right free ... of the earlier pics shows the key with the "then undiscovered" fault - it is the ...The things you miss.Kaija has just reminded me of my little routines that are slowly disappearing due to time / age. Do you guys have anything in your life that you miss…
... can't get that quality of leather for decades. This ... far superioriorior. 1980s was the last time you got that. ... tiny wee hands ladies used to have. The last ones I bought ... so small that none of my female friends could ... them on and some of them have what I ...
