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by djnzx48
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:43 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: My new emulator - ZX Miracle
Replies: 19
Views: 1771

Re: My new emulator - ZX Miracle

@Weiv, thank you for explaining the situation. I want to support the emulator financially to some degree — let me experiment some more with the demo and get back to you. I don’t use Windows any more, but it seems to work okay in Wine.
by djnzx48
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:40 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: My new emulator - ZX Miracle
Replies: 19
Views: 1771

Re: My new emulator - ZX Miracle

djnzx48 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:34 am if you decide not to develop it any more
(or if development is suspended for some other reason)
by djnzx48
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:34 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: My new emulator - ZX Miracle
Replies: 19
Views: 1771

Re: My new emulator - ZX Miracle

Oh no, that’s sad to hear. Of course, it’s your personal project and I completely understand if you decide not to develop it any more.

Does this mean that the emulator is now unavailable to those who missed it when it was released?
by djnzx48
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: In game beeper music
Replies: 43
Views: 1613

Re: In game beeper music

druellan wrote: Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:05 am Hi! I'm pretty sure I saw a similar thread in the past (can't find it), but a list was never produced, so, I can start a new one here and see how many we can find.
This thread was probably the one which you were thinking of?
by djnzx48
Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:48 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: New Zealand Speccy (not the New Zealand Story)
Replies: 8
Views: 263

Re: New Zealand Speccy (not the New Zealand Story)

PeterJ wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:27 pm @equinox,

When the forum first started I posted some instructions on how to copy links to search results. I will try and find it.
I guess it was this post? viewtopic.php?p=9980#p9980
by djnzx48
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 670
Views: 178165

Re: Introduce yourself!

Hello! Thought I would pop back in and see what’s been happening over here.
by djnzx48
Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:41 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Wild Streets (Titus) bug, or incompatibility with +2A models?
Replies: 10
Views: 3576

Re: Wild Streets (Titus) bug, or incompatibility with +2A models?

POKE 30350, 95
POKE 30351, 58
POKE 30352, 211
POKE 30353, 118
POKE 30354, 183
POKE 30355, 123
POKE 30356, 200
POKE 30357, 219
POKE 30358, 31
POKE 30359, 254
POKE 30360, 255
POKE 30361, 200
by djnzx48
Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:24 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The best modern Speccy game beginning with S: discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 842

Re: The best modern Speccy game beginning with S: discussion

I don't think The Smoog should really count as a modern game if it was released in 1984.

Skyscraper of Doom
Stormfinch
Streets of Doom
Survivisection
by djnzx48
Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:35 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: SC Retro
Replies: 122
Views: 33631

Re: SC Retro

Same here on Chrome. The "issue" column for magazines displays one row too high. I tried both Chrome and Safari in Windows and MacOS, but I could not reproduce this problem. I have the same issue at smaller display widths. It seems to be caused by a leftover from the main site: <span clas...
by djnzx48
Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:25 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Your Sinclair Issue 94
Replies: 1
Views: 663

Re: Your Sinclair Issue 94

The links to PDFs on this page all work. The whole issue appears to be covered, except for the contents pages.
by djnzx48
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:52 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Using beeper - help. (RST 40 and Stack)
Replies: 3
Views: 820

Re: Using beeper - help. (RST 40 and Stack)

I added in AND 127 to mask off the pitch value sign bit and it seems to work. org $8000 di ld hl, tablea ; $61da ld (pointer),hl ld b, $ff MainLoop call PlayNote MainLoopCont jp MainLoop Exit pop hl ; clear stack of RET address loop jp loop PlayNote ld hl, (pointer) ld a,(hl) cp $00 jp z, Exit srl a...
by djnzx48
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:13 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Microhobby Cassette #7 - Sep '85
Replies: 28
Views: 2575

Re: Microhobby Cassette #7 - Sep '85

I think the keys are just QAOP + M/space.
by djnzx48
Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:34 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Fast AY music players?
Replies: 18
Views: 15906

Re: Fast AY music players?

What framerate does your game run at? Could you write music for a 25Hz interrupt, then call the player once every two frames? (This is what GLUF does.)
by djnzx48
Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:40 pm
Forum: Showcase your work!
Topic: Per-pixel map scroller for ATM-Turbo compatibles
Replies: 24
Views: 19626

Re: Per-pixel map scroller for ATM-Turbo compatibles

Interesting! Although the commentary is in Russian, the auto-translated captions are just about understandable. I got the impression from the development video that memory is fairly tight in the kernel. I wondered how many levels there were altogether in Untangle, so I looked at the source. It seems...
by djnzx48
Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:02 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: WoS Classic
Replies: 47
Views: 6392

Re: WoS Classic

Hmm, interesting. I wonder how they did it. Apparently the site doesn't have a database, so my guess is that it uses static pages from somewhere like archive.org.
by djnzx48
Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:56 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Dinky Digger & Androids (Sunshine) on Spectrum Grey +2
Replies: 2
Views: 494

Re: Dinky Digger & Androids (Sunshine) on Spectrum Grey +2

Androids doesn't work because it reads the keyboard incorrectly. Give these POKEs a try and see if they work for you:

POKE 30029, 230
POKE 30030, 1
POKE 30217, 230
POKE 30218, 4
POKE 30227, 230
POKE 30228, 1
POKE 30237, 230
POKE 30238, 16
POKE 30262, 230
POKE 30263, 8
by djnzx48
Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:27 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Friday Mega-Quiz
Replies: 109
Views: 8432

Re: Friday Mega-Quiz

48. Alan Sugar?
by djnzx48
Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:13 pm
Forum: ZXDB Discussion
Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
Replies: 258
Views: 58196

Re: New WoS and ZXDB

In Einar's initial post on this thread, -- if I remember correctly -- he points out that items with WoS ids higher than old WoS coincidentally showed titles that had the same id in ZXDB. And then they were removed. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it was only the banner on the homepage (advertising 2...
by djnzx48
Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:39 am
Forum: ZXDB Discussion
Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
Replies: 258
Views: 58196

Re: New WoS and ZXDB

There is no valid reason why new WoS can't support the ZXDB-minted id for titles that weren't in old WoS, thus preserving the ZXBD id. That's already been seen, as new titles not in old-WoS that briefly appeared in new WoS had the same id as those in ZXDB. When did the new titles get added to WoS? ...
by djnzx48
Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:19 pm
Forum: ZXDB Discussion
Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
Replies: 258
Views: 58196

Re: New WoS and ZXDB

I noticed something funny on WoS earlier - take a look at the comments section for Joust (specifically, the link).
by djnzx48
Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:59 am
Forum: Music
Topic: AY to MIDI
Replies: 7
Views: 9517

Re: AY to MIDI

It depends on how complex your chosen music is. The AY chip doesn't deal with notes, only a series of pitch/volume updates, so proper conversion will be non-trivial. However, .AY files usually contain raw note data, which may be simpler to extract for MIDI conversion. Do you have any examples in mind?
by djnzx48
Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:46 am
Forum: Website
Topic: New Friendlier Hyperlinks
Replies: 11
Views: 1603

Re: New Friendlier Hyperlinks

There are still a lot of games that share the same name across a single platform (for example, there are nine games for the Spectrum called 'Invaders'). If anything, that seems more common than having two games of the same name on different platforms.
by djnzx48
Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:32 am
Forum: Website
Topic: New Friendlier Hyperlinks
Replies: 11
Views: 1603

Re: New Friendlier Hyperlinks

I was just about to say that I generally like these new links, although I'm not sure it's necessary to include the machine type, given that it's almost always 'ZX-Spectrum'. Luckily it can be omitted, so it's not a big deal. (In fact you can put anything you like in the URL after the ID and it will ...
by djnzx48
Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:14 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: New "special" issue of CRASH (with tribute to Jonathan Smith)
Replies: 68
Views: 6695

Re: New "special" issue of CRASH (with tribute to Jonathan Smith)

Looks nice, and the magazine styling seems very authentic. I like how you managed to capture something of the different forum members' personalities (with a bit of artistic license).
by djnzx48
Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:26 pm
Forum: Showcase your work!
Topic: Per-pixel map scroller for ATM-Turbo compatibles
Replies: 24
Views: 19626

Re: Per-pixel map scroller for ATM-Turbo compatibles

Thanks for the details. I looked at the source code more closely and it makes a bit more sense now. Now I'm thinking out the idea how to make applications not to spoil each other's screen. Maybe my assumptions are incorrect, but doesn't each application have access to the memory of all other running...