Spectrum Computing

Great idea! I did think about the speed difference from the original but hadn't considered changing the original code to adjust for it. I only knew there weren't enough free cycles to run an extra frame every so often, to catch up for 60Hz. At 50Hz it definitely feels like playing slightly in slow m...

The disk based game I wanted to maybe rewrite is a football game by Chrysalis called Manchester United, it gets to the language select screen then the Spectrum resets itself. I've checked the disk image (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games/m/ManchesterUnited.dsk.zip) and it's a compl...

Some +3 disk images are available in the World of Spectrum archive, but other have been denied distribution. Which title is it? If you don't want to change your +3 hardware you'll need a spare 3" drive and a cable to convert from the Amstrad connector to a normal 34-pin floppy cable for the PC ...

Paging @obo... TileMap version of Everyone's A Wally please with a proper layout of the screens ;-) What's the "proper" layout? I used the map on WoS as a guide and ended up with this to start: https://i.imgur.com/32dAwLX.png It still needs work on character synchronisation across rooms, ...

I spent many hours last year advancing the disassembly and annotation of Atic Atac but I'm in a quandry about the legalities of making the disassembly public domain. I did Atic Atac a couple of months ago to help Tom-Cat with some details for the C64 version. Some kind soul has put it on GitHub her...

Thanks for the updated zx-image, which I'll get set up soon.

It looks like it's choking on the f-string formatter in ssxview.py, which was added in Python 3.6. I'd best add that as a requirement

Recent versions no longer work in WinXP? Only on Windows 10? SimCoupe requires Windows 7 or later now. Maintaining Windows XP compatibility was taking too much time and effort, and holding back future development plans. Visual Studio is dropping support for XP-comptaible platform toolsets in the ne...

Stefan spotted that I'd attached the wrong binaries to the release, using those from 24th March instead of 24th May. Please re-download if you've grabbed the older files, as only the new version supports SSX.

It looks like my forum notifications are working now too

[mention]moroz1999[/mention]: I've added experimental SSX screen saving to a new build of SimCoupe . Hopefully this will give the raw output you wanted for image preservation. Files are currently saved to a SimCoupe directory in the user's Documents directory, using an auto-generated name. The Save ...

I like it! It's quite different to the emulator, but still scratches a certain Pac-Man itch for me. The emulator runs at 50Hz, but the downscaling and the fact that the arcade movement speeds change means you won't get the glossy 50Hz animations you get with this one. The single pixel animation does...

Sorry, I hadn't seeen your reply to this until I logged in just now! I don't know why my email notifications aren't working. It seems like raw display memory dumps with an appended palette are the way to go. The SS3 amd SS4 files will both be 24576 bytes, relying on file extension to determine how a...

Some of the best works for Sam Coupe has been made using a wrong palette, so they look a bit awful after gamma correction. However, the converted images look a lot better with gamma correction, they are not dark anymore. With the sRGB conversion I'm finding eveything looks washed out. There's very ...

The problem is that in sRGB "intensities" are not linear, so abIntensities array should be gamma-corrected. I will make a bit of calculations and propose corrected values. Did you decide on appropriate values for this for your viewer? I've been experimenting with this area in SimCoupe, al...

Training a DeepMind instance to recognise sprites in a Speccy snapshot would be very, very doable. In fact, it would be an excellent solution to the problem where actually using your eyes to find them is just too hard for everyone. You could probably combine the two, so ML recognises the sprites in...

I've just uploaded version 1.1 of Augmentinel. Here's the what's new: - added VR support for OpenVR-compatible headsets. - added launcher to select play mode and various options. - added sky view from PC/ST/Amiga versions. - added BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum sound effect packs. - added music fro...

Stefan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:35 pm Cool! Although today is a dangerous day to release this

All part of the fun

Feature request: inverted Y-axis for mouse look please.

Sure thing. I've got the feeling I'm going to need an options dialog for a few things.

Pity that although being based on the Spectrum version I cannot reuse the codes I obtained in the RZX recording run. Actually, you can! It's hidden from the front-end, but it still uses the original Spectrum secret codes behind the scenes. If you open up %APPDATA%\Augmentinel.ini you can add valid ...

Nice job! I finally figured out how this game is supposed to be played, and managed to complete the first level. Playing through 10,000 levels does seem like a bit much though. Would it be possible to get RZX playback working in this? I had wondered about RZX playback myself, so you could view the ...

Enhanced Spectrum emulation isn't a new concept. Spec256 adds 8bpp graphics to some Spectrum titles. TileMap uses code hooks to synchronise game state across a maps, and add other game-specific enhancements. With sufficient reverse-engineering you can enhance almost any aspect of an existing game, w...

Here's the issue I had: https://imgur.com/a/brgibI0

[mention]djnzx48[/mention]: I've pushed a code update to GitHub that includes a partial Sabre Wulf implementation. That game has all the state data in a single block, which is broken into 12-byte units for different entity types. It's stored in the game object, and updated when the active room reach...

I'll look at getting some SW code up after work tomorrow, as it's getting a bit late here now. It's also not frame synced, and even worse it runs the player at intervals that depend on when the ROM frame counter advances. For that reason I used a single hook to either store the data (active room) or...

It wasn't just you, non-bright colours were broken. It's been like that since the start and I'd never noticed. I've just pushed a fix for it -- thanks! It's great to see your progress so far! I've generally found most games have a single call to the routine that adds and manages the enemies, which c...

In case it's useful, I've written up some details on how TileMap works: https://simonowen.com/articles/tilemap/

If you're at the stage of building TileMap itself, make sure you've pulled the latest code. I simplified the code hooking yesterday, so existing hook handlers will need adjusting. There are still some build issues with the Z library it uses as a sub-module, which doesn't yet play nice with recent Vi...