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you can also buy a tape at cronosoft
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: The 8-bits War
- Replies: 5
- Views: 325
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Official result Game of Life -contest
- Replies: 1
- Views: 158
Official result Game of Life -contest
In december I started a contest to make a version of Game of Life on the ZX Spectrum in the shortest code possible. The contest ran until Easter 2024. The rules for the sizecoding contest 1) The rules of GAME OF LIFE must be followed: a) Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Game of Life sizecoding contest
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2400
Re: Game of Life sizecoding contest
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!! This is a short announcement first. I am working on a full reply but..... The response was low..... 2 entries in the contest. TOM DALBY is the winner with a version in 166 bytes Peter Featherstone is second with a version in 333 bytes , so double the size. Tom's version comes c...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Game of Life sizecoding contest
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2400
Re: Game of Life sizecoding contest
@MustardTiger
sorry for the late reply.
Although officially closed I will allow you to sent in the program this week
due to your question in february.
sorry for the late reply.
Although officially closed I will allow you to sent in the program this week
due to your question in february.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Zilog's Z80 opcode choice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 567
Re: Zilog's Z80 opcode choice
DEC SP/INC SP are silly instructions too. It would be loads better if it decremented/incremented by 2, changing by 1 has no use I can think of, since you always push a word to the stack. If it incremented by 2 it would just be like discarding the value on the top of the stack (I usually use POP AF ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Zilog's Z80 opcode choice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 567
Re: Zilog's Z80 opcode choice
0x40 LD B,B 0x49 LD C,C 0x52 LD D,D 0x5B LD E,E 0x64 LD H,H 0x69 LD L,L 0x79 LD A,A It is not just the Z80 but also the hardware. On a ZX81 I can use these opcodes to hide data on the screen and the hardware will just display a space. An example... A snake game with inverted screen and white snake....
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games that made good use of FLASH
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1652
Re: Games that made good use of FLASH
Manic Miner is the first I saw.
Screen from Moon Cresta rocketfire.
Screen from Moon Cresta rocketfire.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5373
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
The CSSCGC can never have enough simulators.
I think that each year has at least 1 simulator.
I even won once with a simulator as did other simulators.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: How big should new Speccy games be? 48k? Bigger? Release 2 versions?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 2379
Re: How big should new Speccy games be? 48k? Bigger? Release 2 versions?
My ACES project started in 2011. Got a hard bug that stopped the project. In 2016
the bug was solved but the original idea is partly lost.
Still did some progress but project is again on hold since 2020.
the bug was solved but the original idea is partly lost.
Still did some progress but project is again on hold since 2020.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5373
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
Now reviewed some background info https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230522-the-dutch-solution-to-busyness-that-captivated-the-world BTW the screen is just a drawing from internet altered with software into a scr. The program took me yesterday evening. So still time enough to do nothing afterwards.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5373
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
I just sent in
"The Dutch Art Of Doing Nothing A.K.A. 'NIKSEN'-Simulator"
"The Dutch Art Of Doing Nothing A.K.A. 'NIKSEN'-Simulator"
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Minesweeper
- Replies: 2
- Views: 226
Re: Minesweeper
I downloaded it for a quick look and to add to the DB, and found myself playing a few games. That's a sign of a decent Minesweeper :) In fact this is a rare case of a Speccy licence that is mostly free of howlers. Quite a lot, it starts to look like BOMBER. All version (also the ZX81 version) can b...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1306
Re: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
You can use the memory tab and in the address input you can simply input the address and see what is there.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: PROJECT : A TRS80 MC10 emulator on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 122
- Views: 3522
Re: PROJECT : A TRS80 MC10 emulator on the ZX Spectrum
Oh, thank you! That's exactly what I was suspecting, so I guess I'll quit Spectaculator and download ZXSpin instead! :) Or find out how Spectaculator works with tap-files. I can do the same with other emulators. In my video how 48 KRAAK works I use Z80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9O53I4tlTU
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1306
Re: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
Thank you for this I have it partially working. I can’t get it to work at all when I launch Spin using Notepad++ macros to both assemble the opcodes into an .asm file using Pasmo assembler and then launch spin and automatically load the asm file. I can use it if I load that same file produced by Pa...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: PROJECT : A TRS80 MC10 emulator on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 122
- Views: 3522
Re: PROJECT : A TRS80 MC10 emulator on the ZX Spectrum
Here is a video how the conversion works.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1306
Re: Z80 assembly development environment recommendations
ZX Spin, just TOOLS DEBUGGER and set BREAKPOINT.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Looking for bedroom coders / developers who in the 80s worked on ZX Spectrum or Sam Coupé games
- Replies: 3
- Views: 395
Re: Looking for bedroom coders / developers who in the 80s worked on ZX Spectrum or Sam Coupé games
I coded many games but nit really released.
I gave copies to friends but that is it.
I made 48K Kraak which was for sale on a local market for a while but no official
softwarehouse for the release.
With internet I coded more games and now today some games are still for sale at cronosoft.
I gave copies to friends but that is it.
I made 48K Kraak which was for sale on a local market for a while but no official
softwarehouse for the release.
With internet I coded more games and now today some games are still for sale at cronosoft.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1453
Re: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
Test for a different real key pressed
Code: Select all
keyrd:
ld a,(23560)
keyt cp 0
jr z,keyrd
ld (keyt+1),a ; save latest key pressed
[\code]
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 4846
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
I once had to test a system as a user. In a database: You could do a selection and a sort. The programmer first did the sort and then he selected the items he needed. I suggested to do it the other way around, thus only sorting the selected records. He was not amused and asked if I could be taken of...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The code so bad you won't hire
- Replies: 131
- Views: 4846
Re: The code so bad you won't hire
Ohhh come on... you just post the code here so we can do your job for this week. :P :dance :P Since we are now discussing bloated code... here's another routine I had to fix in production: public OpenItem getPaymentNotMade(Collection payments) { final List paymentsAsList = new ArrayList(payments); C...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Chesskelet revamped - 269 bytes
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2640
Re: Chesskelet revamped - 269 bytes
https://worldofspectrum.net/item/0034814/
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/game/boar ... hesskelet/
played the version from zxart and opponent just lost a Knight suddenly.
E2E3 (made an error move, had to be E4)
E3E4 (now as if playing black)
C2C4
D1F3
Error can be repeated
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/game/boar ... hesskelet/
played the version from zxart and opponent just lost a Knight suddenly.
E2E3 (made an error move, had to be E4)
E3E4 (now as if playing black)
C2C4
D1F3
Error can be repeated
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Chesskelet revamped - 269 bytes
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2640
Re: Chesskelet revamped - 269 bytes
I love stuff like this, when I was a teenager I applied for a job programming Gameboy colour/advance games and was asked to make a bomber man game in under 500 bytes. I managed it and still didn't get the job because I didn't include the Nintendo logo, so the game didn't run on real hardware - but ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Games with real time played?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 705
Re: Games with real time played?
Sorry, I'm not quite understanding this. IM1 will do the update, so you can check the update without an intruptroutine. In case your code misses an intrupt you can use this test ld hl,23672 : 50th time counter ld a,(hl) sub 50 jr c,nosec ld (hl),a ; new start counter ld hl,seccount inc(hl) nosec
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Best way to fill screen in basic?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1568