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How often do you play Spectrum games every week?It's been asked before, I'm sure, but there's some new people here now, so it needs to be asked again. And what emulator do you use?
Not very, unfortunately... I occasionally peek this or that game I ... -
WoS mentioned in 'Webactive' magazine!Theres a feature on 'free games' on the 'net in the latest issue of 'Webactive' here in the uk. Within the feature, emulation is mentioned and WoS g…
Amigo - are you confusing me with Lee Bolton from Peek n Poke? Funnily enough you have probably heard of me as I did reviews for his site and I also post regularly at LEMON64, so thats possibly why! -
kazaa for 8/16 bit stuffhello, just thought id pop my head in the spectum camp (im a commodore 64 geezer by choice. please dont throw any bricks yet) in the forums at lem…
I think I'll pop over to the Lemon64 forums for a peek at the topic ... an added bonus will be that I won't feel like I'm trespassing, as I own a few C64s as well as Spectrums!!! :D -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
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Please, help me with Spectrum el-newspaperHi. Since some time we think about making a magazine, kinda el-newspaper for Speccy. But we would need any texts - in English - for it. Maybe anybod…
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Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
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Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
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Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…
... it would be like the "peek n' poke" pics , or the ... -
The Best ToolsAfter 17 years I fancy getting back into spectrum game programming for the fun of it. I suspect this has been asked before. What is the best PC bas…
Other very good cross-assemblers are AS80, ZMAC and Z80ASM (from Z88DK), and the last two are open source. -
More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
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POKE (PEEK 23635+256*PEEK 23636) + 1,0
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Poke 23613, Peek 23730-5
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compatibility between ZX computers?Hey all, I'm new here :) I was wondering about compatibility between ZX computers. Is it possible to run a game made for ZX80 on a ZX Spectrum? Or a …
... 2 remains the screen, so PEEK 16384 would remain a screenadress ... , as well is PEEK 49152.
Remember I ... -
compatibility between ZX computers?Hey all, I'm new here :) I was wondering about compatibility between ZX computers. Is it possible to run a game made for ZX80 on a ZX Spectrum? Or a …
... 2 remains the screen, so PEEK 16384 would remain a screenadress ... , as well is PEEK 49152.
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Detecting +3 or +2AIs it possible to detect whether your BASIC program is running on a +2A/+3 or a proper 128?
... A is present. (PRINT PEEK 23398 will give 148 ... />
If PEEK 19 gives 255 then PEEK 1540 will give ... machine and
PRINT PEEK 75 will give 110 if ... machine.
PRINT PEEK 23733 will give 127 if ... .
PRINT PEEK 23734 will give zero if ...Detecting +3 or +2AIs it possible to detect whether your BASIC program is running on a +2A/+3 or a proper 128?
Wow. Thanks for that! I feel a hardware identification routine coming on.
BTW, I think you mean PEEK 5440 is "S" for Sinclair and "A" for Amstrad??Which emulator and assembler?Hi, I am looking to learn z80 assembly language and I feel the best option is a spectrum emulator and an assembler. Can anybody recommend the best …
... is Z80ASM which comes with z88dk. Z80ASM adds the ability to ...Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
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But's it's far easier to leave it all to you BB :p
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lol Well we need one at least one idiot around here so the real maestro's such as yourself can ...which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... . they used to be at Peek n' Poke but don't ...128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …
... back in
60 PRINT PEEK 60000:REM should give 0 ...128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …
... 32765,16
60 PRINT PEEK 60000
70 POKE 23388 ... 32765,22
80 PRINT PEEK 60000
Gives, as ...Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
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C Cross compilers, yes. Z88DK is quite good and much ...Debugging with z88dkAnyone got any tips of effective debugging of programs written with z88dk? I'm trying to port one of my old Gameboy projects to the Spectrum. The co…
... debugging of programs written with z88dk?
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Don ...which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... high level, and yea the z88dk kit would be good for ...which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... high level, and yea the z88dk kit would be good for ...which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... issue, I should begin with Z88DK when I find the time ... what prevents me of using Z88DK currently: it is designed for ... Allegro among other libs), so Z88DK _plain_ C coding shouldn't ...AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... the BIN2TAP included in the Z88DK package), and links to several ...Dstar - Z88 gamehas anyone got a copy of this Z88 game which Dominic Moriss ported over from Z88 to the speccy?
... included as part of the z88dk compiler package in the examples ... .
[url="http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/"]http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/[/url]C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
May I take this opportunity to say a big THANKS to you for sprite pack! That and z88dk are the two things responsible for getting me interested in writing Spectrum stuff again after all these years. It's fabbo. :)
*round of applause*Dstar - Z88 gamehas anyone got a copy of this Z88 game which Dominic Moriss ported over from Z88 to the speccy?
... included as part of the z88dk compiler package in the examples ... />
[url="http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/"]http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/[/url]
C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
... to come up on the z88dk mailing list every once in ... ask about this is the z88dk mailing list (there's a ... at [url="http://z88dk.sourceforge.net)"]http://z88dk.sourceforge.net)[/url] unless ... with some pointers on using z88dk.
Anyway hopefully you ...C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
... -to-guide for setting up Z88DK. Enjoy!
The spiel ... , TS2068, their clones and the Z88DK C Cross Compiler. Its subroutines ... mixture of the two using Z88DK's excellent tools.
