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Ship of the line[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006971[/url] Nothing important really, had not noticed it before today. A look at the basic …
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Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…
... ROM paged in while your program is running, though? I could be ... thought that for a machine code program, the 48 ROM is paged in ... the impression that basically all Basic commands were routed through the ... empty space and just leaves a single 0xFFFF at the end ... -
Cheating games from FATWARE on DivIDEHere is patched versions of DivIDE system FATWARE 0.12(a)_POKE: [url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/zx/divide/systems/fatware/fatware_012_(2012-01-02)_fo…
... /> I have test that's :running tap via Divide load on ... same problem.i donot take a normal installation screen but :
Sorry, basic program is at end of tape and ... first you must load:
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-Bytes: inst
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ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 releasedDear ZX-Spectrum emulator fans, yesterday I've released ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 which now comes with several interesting news that were long needed: ZX-…
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[*]When editing or modifying a Basic program (via embedded ZX-Editor ... datablock composer), the corresponding header is changed automatically to the new ... least feature is now implemented in all ZX-Modules program, also in ... -
ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 releasedDear ZX-Spectrum emulator fans, yesterday I've released ZX-Blockeditor 2.1 which now comes with several interesting news that were long needed: ZX-…
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When editing or modifying a Basic program (via embedded ZX-Editor ... datablock composer), the corresponding header is changed automatically to the new ... /> [/QUOTE]
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So what's the building sequence?Hi to all Since ages I wanted to create my own program on the speccy and then offer it to people so they could enjoy (or laugh about it xD ) Now as…
... language and assemble that. PASMO is a very useful assembler as it ... />
Now if you write a BASIC program and it runs slow, you ... WOS. This will convert your BASIC program into machine code so it ... output it as a TAP file, but I forget what it's ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
... the next level when the current one is finished, or the ... of them are managed through a BASIC program.
I can ... in M/C. With a custom BASIC management program I am already able ... to tell if the machine is a ... -
Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
... a BASIC program and CODE, but it cannot tell the difference between what a ... SCREEN$ files is nor GAME CODE ... /> SAVE "name" SCREEN$ is shorthand for saving the display ... regarding conversion of BASIC loaders is that literal number ... -
Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…
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- When the first breakpoint is triggered, i put a conditional breakpoint ... write down what pages are used.
- When the main program is reached ... + (after the jump) are a di and a ld sp,xx... location ... -
+3e filebrowserHello everyone, Im writing a game/program loader for the +3e (with an IDE interface, but it can work with floppies too). The program lets you choose…
... when run from the command line on a +3 (haven't tried a ... load & run a BASIC program saved with an auto-LINE ... number and return to BASIC afterwards (ie. it' ... be incorporated into your program? There might be an ... easier way; this is just something I knocked ... -
Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…
... can you write a BASIC loader that uses ... the paging and load a series of 16K files ... will paging cause the running program to crash? Does it ... need to be a machine-code loader?
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Getting PC into HLHello, here's a conundrum for you... Is there a way to obtain the value of the PC register (say into HL) without using absolute addressing such as C…
... of them just make a simple task harder.[/QUOTE]< ... simple BC register technique when I [b]don't ... they're appended to a BASIC program whose length can change ... displacement and look up a table of addresses which ... is just done once, at the start of the BASIC program, ... -
PlayStation 4 AnnouncedAs widely expected, Sony have unveiled the PS4 at an event in New York: [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392432/playstation-4-is-official-so…
... until end of life when that is becoming the home standard ... control on a console or is that what your tablet / phone is for. The ... change in gameplay will come when we start getting quality ... a top end gaming PC would struggle with anything outside very basic ... -
A new site for an old projectThe 'Interface 1bis' project site has been moved to: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/interface1bis/[/url] In fact, it's not only a simple relocati…
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A game launcher for the ?Interface ... , launches tape files directly. When re-started it ?remembers? ... in nvSRAM.
There is also a ?snapshot? facility, which ... runs from within a BASIC program line. The source is also available.
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... I wrote that in a bit of a hurry. You'll need ... though, if the game is started with a RANDOMIZE USR then the ... just before that. To autostart a BASIC program you need to SAVE the ... though. Drop me a message with a file if you want ... . I have no idea what I'm doingZelda: Voyager of Time (fan made mode for Ocarina of Time)The eagerly awaited modded version of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Voyager of Time, has been released. I haven't played it (I still haven't played OoT, ho…
... PC may not have a prob running it. So I though ... reboot looked better than what they could o :D ... it's very disappointing when a promising mod is abandoned, for whatever ... no lawyer) that that is legal, as the (semi ... thing (having a ROM of the game) is still down ...Cascading transistorsMiguel (mcleod_ideafix) alerted me on an aspect of a design I'm working on where I am cascading transistors, which may give problems. This is the par…
... when it wants to reset the Spectrum, and what we want here is ... is what damages the microcontroller and causes it to "forget" its program.
a positive pulse when a reset condition is needed, and hence ...128 BASIC-compatible way of loading BASIC as code?On a 48K Speccy (or from 48 BASIC or USR 0 mode on a 128K machine), one can do a silly trick like this: [code];; load a 4000 byte BASIC program ld i…
... the extra system variables area is incompatible between models. The original ... demo does a STOP afterwards it could just continue running from the ... a BASIC program as headerless CODE
SAVEPROG:
xor a
dec a ;A =$ ...Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…
... doing that. Spectrum BASIC files include a hidden 5-byte ... much use for that within a BASIC program.)
As ... , where the first byte is $A4 and the second ... byte is either $22 or $41 ... the word PLAY, which is what I did, but that ...IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…
... check it out from BASIC (without breaking the program if it does ... /> Otherwise:
Carry false
A = Error code
B corrupt ... BASIC
When BASIC's USR function is used, the code it references is ...CSW, DSK, FDI, SB, SCL, SLT, TRD, UDIHow can I operate with these files: CSW, DSK, FDI, SB, SCL, SLT, TRD, UDI?
... mention a $B file, that is an Hobeta image file of a BASIC program to ... be used within a TR ... of the above is a very basic resume of what you can read (if ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... m assuming "loader.tap" is the basic loader (from the sample ... " code in the basic loader is the C program generated by z88dk. ... prog.tap" and is the output from zcc when you specify "- ... to convert your text into a basic program and bin2tap to convert binaries ...Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... to clashbasher.
when in normal mode if you ... seen in the video when a character square is displaying in normal mode ... and updating it so when the mode is changed back to ... can be changed by a config script running along side the spectrum program.New Z88 owner, but what now?Just scored a Z88 off eBay for something like ?36. It's working, has a 32k RAM pack and a "SpellMaster" cartridge. I bought it out of curiosity as I …
... manual more, but what I'm after is a sort of tour of ... write a basic program where it asked a bunch of questions such as "What is your ... first name?", "Favorite colour?", "A male friend", "A female friend ...Please explain how a Kempston interface circuit works.Can someone help me understand how a Kempston joystick interface works, as I want to design and build my own as an experiment. I understand switches…
... is grounded.
What I don't understand is how the result is ... /> The basic principles are:-
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[*]Detect when the ... the output pins only when a control pin is driven to its active ...Roger Lloyd-Pack R.I.P.[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006[/URL] Didn't even know he was ill!
... best left off where it is. Infact, they should have left ... the program died a few years back. I hate it when a good program goes ... Dwarf achieved (or de-chieved, what's the correct word? Surely ... seven. And what made this even more tragic is that the last ...Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... put together on a +3 disk with a basic program. I have a couple of ... Could you tell me please what syntax changes I would need ... run this on +3 Basic rather than 128 Basic.
... I should create code running under original Spectrum Basic?
[ ...Help with File Compressor by Mladen PopovicHi, I'm trying to compress BombJack (MCM) and transfer it to a +3 disk (Yes I own the original game :) ). I'm unsure about the addresses to enter in…
... 23755) and RAMTOP. Less the program variables, the last direct command ... the program might need in WORKSP & STKBOT/END while it is running ... less than 1000 bytes for a BASIC program. (VARS)-(PROG) gives the size ...doom on 128ki see a youtube video of doom being played for the spectrum, is this designed to work stright of a tape and onto a spectrum without the divide thing …
... in page 7 is being overwritten while running the first BASIC loader routine ... the interrupt routine swaps in a mostly empty page 7 (for ... it have been put in a system variable?) and the code ... when the BASIC ROM is loaded, this has no effect when the Syntax ROM is ...
