Spectrum Computing

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:03 pm Load it in 48K and there will be no speech samples. Then again, how's that done with a disc version?

Yeah I definitely would have been loading in +3 mode.

This thread is really confusing for me - I played Auf Wiedersehen Monty a lot - I don't think I completed it but I got, I dunno, 2/3rds of the island showing up in the status area - but I have absolutely no recollection of speech samples. But I downloaded a .tzx and there they were, as early as the ...

Thanks.

I'm in Fuse (Windows, 1.6.0), emulating a Spectrum 128, and trying to set a breakpoint when 0xC0D8 is written to. I can do breakpoint write 0xc0d8 which works OK - but that fires whatever memory page is paged in at 0xC000. I'm trying to refine that to ONLY fire when the default memory page is paged ...

Turtle_Quality wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:58 pm Rollback: Die in your favourite game? Accidentally delete a line of code? Continuous recording allows you to 'roll back' to an earlier time. (F1 will roll back 5 seconds.)

Ooh that sounds like it could be interesting for reversible debugging.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:22 pm Yes

Just goes to show, I have never tried to quit Starquake. 8=)

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:00 pm That's more an Easter Egg I guess he had some spare memory and it shows up if you quit to basic as well.

The octopus does? I didn't know that.

The octopus in Starquake.

I don't know if there are any specifically about learning to code Z80 but there were some great articles in ZX Computing.

1. You can't "beat" Tetris. He has allegedly reached a "kill screen" (like we are familiar with from Pac-Man). I am going to disagree here I think, he played so well that he broke the game. Maybe there's no technical definition of beating Tetris but informally I think it's a per...

Huh, I didn't know it was supposed to be 128K. (Or alternatively, I did know but I'd forgotten.) I was assuming it would be an extra 16K like Shadow of the Unicorn.

I could have started with the +3 for about 70 quid more. That would have greatly helped my programming and art efforts, it's great to quickly load BASIC efforts - resume things, update them, etc. I'd have been happy with that. On the gaming side, I doubt I'd have really forked out more for +3 games...

StooB wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:40 am Press V for fireball.

Thanks.

Pretty wild that there are redefinable keys except for this.
(If you define V as one of the other keys then it takes on both roles.)

That doesn't seem to work, unless I'm being very incompetent.

Inspired by Stuart Campbell's Speccy Arcade conversions list, I'm going through and having a bit of a play on some of these.
I remember liking Solomon's Key back in the day, but how do fireballs work (ie how does the player activate one)? There's no key for it in the "redefine keys" screen.

Just guessing but maybe they're talking about loading those games from Microdrive?

With the likes of Atic Atac and Starquake, at least a player with a photographic memory for the layout of the map and a total understanding of where to go at all times has a hope of completing those games, and even then it requires charging around at full belt and never, ever, ever slowing down... ...

Just for a bit of extra reading, CRASH introduces LM: https://www.crashonline.org.uk/36/lm.htm

and the editorial announcing it closing down: https://www.crashonline.org.uk/41/editrl.htm

I'll nominate Batty's level 3. Not quite as hard as some of the others mentioned here, maybe, but such a steep jump up from level 2 that it just makes the sequencing ridiculous.

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:41 pm A bit like juke Box Jury then? The hit/miss was based on whether they thought the song would make it into the 'hit parade'

It is called Joystick Jury after all.

Nick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:32 pm From what I can remember the mark out of five represented the reviewer's personal opinion and the hit/miss reflected if they thought the game would be a commercial success.

This is how I remember it too.

Ah, I had wondered for many years about that, and then things became clearer recently. Or rather not. You see, that pointed observation might come from someone's homophobia. I hope it doesn't actually, and maybe it's a misguided fear of wrong-doing. You're still scratching your head, okay, I'll rev...

I found some info here if it's any use: https://www.worldofsam.org/products/spectrum-emulator The original emulation was via a 'skeleton' ROM image (not containing any copyrighted code) that was not 100% compatible leading to many problems with software that made extensive ROM routine calls or utili...

I finished MM sometime around... 1994 I guess? Maybe a little later?

Practiced for a long time on Skylab and Solar Power, then was fortunately able to put everything together into one run.

spider wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 9:52 am The way I view it is its because it uses LDIR to constantly refresh, whereas using LDI would be a fair bit quicker.

How come LDI is faster than LDIR, out of interest?