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Creating your own BASIC-commands on IF1bisThe old Sinclair IF1 has offered an easy possibility to create your own new BASIC-command: The use of the shadow variable VECTOR. This is described i…
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Does this addressing technique have a name?Hi All, Bit of a weird/unnecessary question, but can anyone help build on my knowledge of asm terminology by telling me what the *second* method of …
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SSD on an old laptop - a question for the system builders among you.I'm upgrading an old laptop from Win XP to Win 7. I've bought one of these [url=http://www.scan.co.uk/products/240gb-crucial-m500-slim-msata-ssd-msa…
Something I made in Minecraft...So, this is what I do in my spare time these days (when I'm sure a lot of you will be screaming for me to come back to Speccy-land; I assure you I wi…
... ZX80 are 107 blocks in length, 86 blocks in width, 18 ...Unusual custom turbo loaders - with sourcesI have always been fascinated by turbo loaders; my games all feature a TZX version with one of such schemes implemented, and I have been experimentin…
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; Sync 1 pulse ...U.S. Gold Kickstarter - 'The Story of U.S. Gold'I searched but could not find info about this so here you go. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_FFXVt-H8[/url] The U.S. Gold Book The book, '…
... ', will be 200+ pages in length and finished to the very ...Single shot type affair (i.e. not rapid fire)I'm struggling with this 'fire' routine... [CODE]ld a,239 in a, (254) and 1 call z,stinger[/CODE] I'm only wanting the one 'shot' so to speak but …
... 've tried reading LASTK system variable and resetting it, but it ...Is there an emulator that.....?I tried firing up Alien8 yesterday but the wildly variable frame rate is just too much hassle these days. Does there exist an emulator that can adjus…
... Alien8 yesterday but the wildly variable frame rate is just too ...Repton ManiaHi all, I am the creator, and look after, the Repton Resource Page ([url]www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk[/url]). For the site, I have written a freely …
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A feature length documentary, aims to educate & ...MicrodriveHi, I'm trying to emulate the microdrive, and to analyse the data structure on the cartridges. But my measurement of the timing of the signals differ…
... , the band gaps are of length 2.3ms/3.0ms and ...Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…
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#Enter hex address ...48K Ram Check Command not workingI am trying to repair my Spectrum 48k. It is having issues loading games, sometimes they load all the way to launch and then the speccy resets. Oth…
Help with Assembly - DEFB, etc.Dear all, I'm going through Jnathan Cauldwell's tutorial and find myself scratching my head at part I can't find a decent explanation of anywhere! E…
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... a British two hour feature length documentary movie that tells the ...6 or 8 buttons (Arcade Stick)?Slightly off-topic, but still pertinent in a strange way. I'm currently designing an arcade stick (PC/Mac usage) and I can't decide whether or not t…
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I called it ...Longest songs you knowMany years ago, both my friend and I bought an EP by [i]Cathedral[/i] called [i]Statik Majik[/i], but he bought the CD and I bought the vinyl. The la…
... in question has grown in length in memory and we seem ...Banked memory running slower?I've just compiled a TAP which includes bank6, it loads ok, but the routines that are paged in run slightly slower. The Z80 snapshot has no such pro…
... to do with a system variable that wasn't loaded with ...IX+n and self modifying code and pasmoI'm using pasmo and if I wanted to use ix+n like this: (ix holds the position to a sinus table) ld (symbol), a LD a, (ix+symbol) What I want to do…
... ), but declare n as a variable, and modify it time to ...Diamond DiggerA collaboration between Dave Pierce 'davepierce07' & Jim Grimwood 'Battle Bunny'. [center][url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/dd-…
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Bombs (max.7, red ...Breakout with variable shaped bricksHow about Breakout but instead of rectangular blocks, more stone like ones of varying shapes? Not something I'll be working on but might be more inte…
How about Breakout but instead of rectangular blocks, more stone like ones of varying shapes? Not something I'll be working on but might be more interesting than bog-standard breakout. Just putting it out there, always interesting to hear if there has ...TV alert: Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Clive Sinclair in BBC's ClickThe 24th January 2015 edition of the BBC?s Click programme includes a three-minute featurette with footage from [i]Manic Miner[/i] and [i]Jet Set Wil…
... is only in the full-length version ? not the 15-minute ...anyone know about soundbars?Hi all I am trying to get a soundbar but I know nothing about them and was hoping someone here could help. I have a digital projector at one end of…
... really have cables going the length of the room from xbox ...ZX Spectrum 48 late model - inconsistent timingsI found very strange thing with INT length on different emulators. Just try to select Spectrum 48 late model and try to run the test minfo written by…
... very strange thing with INT length on different emulators.
Just ...SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…
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Omitting a loop-control variable in FOR EACH caused the ...Trailblazer Cheat ModeThere's a [URL="http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/info.pl?wosid=0000657"]familiar cheat mode[/URL] in Trailblazer... It's a bit convoluted to get…
... case of changing a system variable to point to the printer ...Sorting variablesHi there. I'm trying to make a greyhound betting game. I'm ok on the straight win part but need some help with the other bets and sorting dogs(1st,2n…
... y1 to y6) and another variable moves up with each dog ...Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
... each rule will probably be length-encoded blocks of literal bytes ...SpecBAS 0.844 releasedHi all - it's been a while... Having some unexpected extra time off work, I've been able to get some work done on SpecBAS and it's now a bit more …
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