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Faster Manic MinerHey, dudes. I've been fiddling around trying to wring more speed out of this game recently. I've replaced the LDIR buffer copying routines with s…
... in performance. One thing that's holding it back, though, ... Ideally, you'd use that for the pixels as well ... it in it, but that wouldn't be useable ... LD (nn),HL section. That should give another reasonable gain ... but would using the AY chip in the 128k be faster ... -
Future of WoSSo, time is up! When I announced I was leaving, it prompted quite a few people to get in touch offering help. Of the most serious offers, there w…
... going, and appreciates the work that's gone into it. There has also ... result is that I am staying.
Where does that leave us ... to a point where we can happily switch over - that is my ... the data. At the point where the site is ready, I ... -
Spectrum musical capabilities ?This came up on my FB feed and it combines another long time hobby of mine and it's music production :) https://youtu.be/lwCVQvgLSno So the 128…
... hobby of mine and it's music production :)
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Games where you can get drunkI've thrown this one through the search facility and nobody's ever asked this yet. What is the ultimate long list of Spectrum games where the play…
... where the controls are reversed for a few seconds", I mean that ... 's the cursor keys as well, where's my A.G.F. joystick? That's ... mention for a PC game that's a favourite of mine away ... meter above zero as that's this game's version of armour... there ... -
In-game AY music and sound effectsI'm currently working on various aspects of a Spectrum game and thinking now about the sound side of things. I know you can use a utility like Vortex…
... piece of 3-channel music that can be played in-game ... it possible to use the AY chip and use just 2 channels ... -
No sound playing MYTH on FUSEHi, Only recently discovered the joy of reliving my 80's gaming days on F.U.S.E. Have recently been trying to play Myth: History in the Making (p…
... joy of reliving my 80's gaming days on F.U ... .S.E. Have recently been trying ... that this is something to do with the game using the AY chip ... change the settings to enable AY sound? (Sorry, complete noob ... -
Where's Mr Clowder when I need him?What happened to F-Clowder? I hope he's alright and hasn't had some setback keeping him away from here? He got me wound up to do graphics for a game…
... -Clowder? I hope he's alright and hasn't had ... is extremely frustrating! It's not as if one is ... capabilities of the available systems that they used.
... done it without the college's top of the line ... 90% of it was UDG's and Basic!
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Speech program making use of AY sound chip?So, on the 48K Spectrum there are programs or demos which allow the playing of speech. But on 128K machines, is there any software for the same pu…
So, on the 48K Spectrum there are programs or demos which allow the playing of speech.
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128k sound should be mono or stereo?So I keep reading arguments 'for' and 'against' but I never seem able to make up my mind. On one side it's a fact that no 128k model ever had ster…
... it's a fact that no 128k model ever had stereo ay output ... but I hear some say that stereo is ... /> On the other hand, the ay sound add-ons usually provide ... composing game music.
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Contents of Brian Clough's Football Fortunes?I posted a similar topic on EAB and have no replies yet after about 3 months (either no one liked football or Brian Clough enough to bother buying it…
... called Super League Football Manager that was sold using the same ... the Trophy Cards!
Where's Scooby and the gang when ... -
ZEsarUX 8.0 stableHi! I've uploaded a new FINAL stable ZEsarUX version, 8.0 :) You can download it, as always, from the url: https://github.com/chernandezba/z…
... /> Added Real time playback from AY Chip sound to external MIDI device ... br /> Added menu to export AY chip music to midi (.mid) file ... full calculator!
-now it's a lot more faster. Up ... br /> Fixed interrupt bug behaviour where last opcode lasts >=32 ... -
ZEsarUX Beta 8.1Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX 8.1 BETA version. You can download compiled versions for Windows, Mac, and the source code from: https://gith…
... to be opened.
It's the same behaviour as previous ... : now you can select which AY Chip to show
Improved file ... : I had IM0 but it's IM1
Fixed loading and ... setting" disabled), but loaded. Enabling that setting crashed the game -
ZEsarUX 8.1 stableHi! I've uploaded a new ZEsarUX 8.1 stable version. Go to the github released webpage to download it: https://github.com/chernandezba/zesaru…
... be opened.
It's the same behaviour as previous ... now you can select which AY Chip to show
Improved ... cpu speed change: now it's a lot faster
... window menu, it will read that window again
-Mac ... I had IM0 but it's IM1
Fixed RETI ... -
Has anyone ever heard Spectrum MIDI?Simple question: has anyone ever heard MIDI controlled by a Spectrum? This seemed to be one of the major features added by the Speccy 128, which eve…
... 8 channels, despite the native AY sound chip only supporting three channels ... musical instrument.
And it's been years and years, and ... 's "Rubber Breadbox" (a song that combines AY and Commodore C64's SID sound chip ... -
Are 128K games more likely to crash than 48K ones?Hey, guys. I've been doing some experimenting with various games and even some music demos and apps, and I'm beginning to reach a conclusion that …
... beginning to reach a conclusion that the 128K versions of the ... resetting to BASIC and the AY chip sustaining the last played note ... corrupted version of the Spectrum's test signal. I am aware ... hold any water?
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Eurovision 2022Getting excited here! Next Saturday! It's that time of the year! Who will win? Does anyone care? Well, if nothing else it's a marker. In another 10 y…
... Next Saturday! It's that time of the year! ... if nothing else it's a marker. In ... Was that really 10 years ago. Where has life gone. Here ... it is!
I liked Norway's ...
Subwoolfer - Give that wolf a banana.
What's the meaning of Stonehenge!It's killing me that no one knows why it was built 5000 years ago, Is it an observatory? For mapping precession of the equinoxes etc? A spac…
It's killing me that no one knows why it ... else has.
Where does that highway lead to?
that?
It's a tiny town ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... cannot skew everything because of that though.
"I ... />
Simply not true - there's never been so much free ... luxuries of windows and it's regular crashes and glitches."
AY chip attatched through the expansion port ...Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …
... use the UART standard - failing that it could conceivably be used ... the E register of the AY chip (probably because of the fact ... very much the same way that Laplink does. The spectrum client ... saying. Persuading the spectrum that data it's reading from any port ...Currah Microspeech: good or guff?I've just been looking through old Speccy mags and saw the Currah Microspeech add-on. It certainly looks good, with lunar jetman having speech among …
... of the day there's really not much commercial ... s hardly got a use.
Spector, you have to remember that ... whilst an AY chip is worth less ... than the sand it's ... the memory and sound chip were only availble as ...speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
... the hardware it can access) that controls border colour and tape ... electromagnet to change direction. It's important to note the cone ... can apply across it (it's etheir a negative or positive ... 48K beeper (frankly having an AY chip I never saw the point ...Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…
... the memory dump, compress where possible and then save ... following bit of code that occupied from 18432 for ... from where is was saved.
Games that ... where to put it and if there was spare space) so that ... with 48k games that accessed the AY chip in 48k ...The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
... as for music i think that ( off the top of my ... for sound production but the AY chip was very popular and very ... good chip - it produced a clean sound ... 48k beeper stuff at it's best).Some \"newbie\" questions about the Spectrum +2I bought a +2 last week. I had never owned any of the 128k Spectrums before, nor seen them in action. I have a couple of questions; 1) Do all 128k …
... that uses paging would not work in page locked mode. The AY chip ... was said). However there's not much need for ... 48k mode for games that go weird with paging ... ).
2) That would have been a MISTAKE ... was specifically made for any +'s (sorta except the +3 ...TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... Dunny/Woody, if there's no reason that the CSW won't ... listing, SCR files, DATA blocks, AY sound (if you can find ... , for Archive info blocks... how's that comming along.
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gone, you get more accurate conversion ...FoonI've recently discovered Foon, which is a Speccy emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. I have used it with a GBA emulator to try and get a feel…
So how well does it replicate the BEEPer? Is the AY chip emulated?
And what about scrolling- is it as smooth as the Speccy's (which wasn't that smmoth, mind you)?what was your favourite spectrum 128 tune?although music back in the 80's may be more remembered on the c64 than the spectrum 128, there were still loads of great game tunes on the spec128 ba…
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The 48K beeper and AY chip may not have been as ... very expressive, i dont think that version could have been done ... case at least, the SID's strength is its weakness. I ...VOTE FOR SPECTRUM!!!!!Hi there! Which comp has the best music? Go and VOTE for ZX SPECTRUM (withought logging this time, so it's easier). This is the link: [url="http:/…
... music contest is not really THAT fair for our poor old ... think AY music would probably beat SID's, but the fact that there ... , an entry that says if a game uses the AY chip at all ...VOTE FOR SPECTRUM!!!!!Hi there! Which comp has the best music? Go and VOTE for ZX SPECTRUM (withought logging this time, so it's easier). This is the link: [url="http:/…
... 48k games which use the AY chip when loaded on a 128 ... AY tune of all time? That would have to by Barry Leitch's ...The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
... as for music i think that ( off the top of ... for sound production but the AY chip was very popular and ... 48k beeper stuff at it's best).
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... of Commando), martin Galway's Parallax tune or Matt Gray ... 's Driller tune, to name ...
