Video clip of teleporting in Quadron at 7m 7s:
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- Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:44 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Which games use teleporting ?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 3179
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:37 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1382
Re: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Yes, Happy Christmas everyone
Enjoy the day. I'm sure those of you unwrapping your Nexts today are sure to!
Enjoy the day. I'm sure those of you unwrapping your Nexts today are sure to!
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 10:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1144
Re: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
Summer 1982, England.
Mail order 16K Spectrum. Fab!
Mail order 16K Spectrum. Fab!
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Which games use teleporting ?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 3179
Re: Which games use teleporting ?
No no, it has a mushroom head, like Microbot, and lives in a circuit board firing lightning bolts. There are some gates/chips that teleports you away... I found a screenshot from the bootleg "Microdroid" (which is funny because it sounds like Microbot BUT IT'S NOT). https://i.postimg.cc/w...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:24 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Which games use teleporting ?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 3179
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:21 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: How did your ZX Spectrum die?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 698
Re: How did your ZX Spectrum die?
I hadn't remembered this, but according to my programming notes from the Spectrum era, I'd had the computer replaced or repaired 4 times over a 6 year period... hardly impressive reliability! My first Spectrum was from the early mail order days, so maybe there were more teething problems back then, ...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: The Unofficially Official Home of SpecEmu
- Replies: 6
- Views: 705
Re: The Unofficially Official Home of SpecEmu
After I'd downloaded specemu-3.4.b110623, MalwareBytes warned me it considered one of the zip's contained files " emulib.dll " a threat: Neshta.Virus.FileInfector.DDS Symptoms To gain persistence, Virus.Neshta changes the default value for the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\o...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:14 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Are amiga games bad?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 2191
Re: Are amiga games bad?
Late to the discussion with not much new to add - but I just got my old Amiga out the loft and I'm meaning to test it out. Moved to the Amiga from Spectrum + SAM in the late eighties, the OS, the graphics and sound were very impressive but in my opinion fancier graphics are no substitute for gamepl...
- Wed May 24, 2023 4:22 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 613
Re: Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
Aha! Using some of the neat debugging techniques suggested here I was thankfully able to find and fix the intermittent crash I was experiencing. It was to do with an interaction between my IM2 service routine and code in the main game loop. I'd assumed the interrupt code and the game code operated o...
- Mon May 01, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 613
Re: Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
Some fantastic suggestions, thanks!
And when I track this bug down I'll post back here what it was.
And when I track this bug down I'll post back here what it was.
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 613
Debugging an intermittent crash in a sea of code!
Wondered if anyone had a good approach to debugging rare, intermittent crashes in Z80 code. My normal method of debugging is to print expected values on screen and delve deeper if they don't align with my expectations, or use the debugger to step through the recently added code, or add breakpoints (...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games the Spectrum couldn't quite manage
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1081
Re: Games the Spectrum couldn't quite manage
They didn't. They just drew sprites from the bottom up, so they wouldn't get into any beam-racing situations. Instead, you just get a single-frame twinkle when a sprite is being drawn across the beam, which isn't very noticeable. One more thing is that they erase and redraw each sprite one by one, ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:17 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games the Spectrum couldn't quite manage
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1081
Re: Games the Spectrum couldn't quite manage
Yes, I made a generalization about most Speccy games being fairly jerky when compared to the arcade "standard" of graphics updating 50 times a second, which you very rarely saw in Speccy games, especially when scrolling was involved (one rare example for a game with scrolling would be the...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:54 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Number of levels
- Replies: 17
- Views: 734
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:42 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Did you have your own TV/monitor when you got your Speccy?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1087
Re: Did you have your own TV/monitor when you got your Speccy?
You rich kids and your “buttons.” I remember a B&W TV we had (pre-Speccy) with a channel selector knob. The plastic knob had broken off, so we used pliers to grab the metal selector stub and switch channels (thonk-thonk-thonk!). You rich kids with flashy knobs. My old B&W TV was so basic in...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:22 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Did you have your own TV/monitor when you got your Speccy?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1087
Re: Did you have your own TV/monitor when you got your Speccy?
Initially I was hooking up my ZX81 to the shared (Granada?) family TV in the living room. After about a year I got a small B&W TV for my birthday that I had in my bedroom. I continued using that TV after I'd saved up for the Spectrum, so just shades of grey for me to start with, unless I wanted ...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:02 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Breakpoint on a memory range
- Replies: 4
- Views: 350
Re: Breakpoint on a memory range
Hi, Sorry for the tardy response! The way to do it with Inkspector (it's easier with the new 2.0.4 release so I'd suggest you upgrade any older version first) is to add a breakpoint with the following settings: ... HTH Inky. Thanks Inky - really helps. Expecially coupled with the debugger's inheren...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:43 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: ChatGPT
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2177
Re: ChatGPT
What happens if you ask it again, after telling it there is no END. Does it learn fro its mistake? I don't think it does (not yet at least!), because it made exactly the same mistake back in December, as evidenced here where the human points out there isn't an END statement in Spectrum BASIC, it ap...
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 7:01 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Happy Christmas
- Replies: 26
- Views: 606
Re: Happy Christmas
I'd like to second that.. Happy Christmas to all!
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 3:38 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 844
Re: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
have you got that piece of code? I might have that little piece of paper somewhere. I remember it was a 1 or 2 line REM statement with a bunch of seemingly random graphic symbols, letters and numbers, ending with a TAN statement (which I would later learn was the ZX81's character code for the Z80's...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:54 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 844
Re: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
So learning assembler was a gradual process spurned on by the immense speed it offered, together with the allure of being able to write your own "arcade quality" games. Whoops :oops:. I meant to type: So learning assembler was a gradual process spurred on by the immense speed it offered, ...
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:06 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 844
Re: How did you learn assembly in the 80s?
A friend passed me a scrap of paper in school during a chemistry lesson. There were some crypric symbols and letters written on it, and he said to type it into the ZX81. It was a REM statement and after typing it all in back at home, and issuing the final command, a USR statement, my mind was blown!...
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 7:00 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Let's settle this once and for all....
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1317
Re: Let's settle this once and for all....
QAOPM feels pretty natural on the rubber keyed Spectrum. Or equally AZOPM. Right thumb feels just about in the right place for Fire. In a pinch 67890 (using the interface 2 option) works for games with unwieldy key choices and no redefine option. Or even cursor keys! I think that's a throwback from ...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 6:52 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: CPU Usage & Website Speed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 220
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 3:23 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: my first ASM program lol
- Replies: 75
- Views: 2252
Re: my first ASM program lol
I think Paul J did a Spectrum Show feature on compilers, and seemed to have about the same success as me (which was reassuring to see after all these years!)... Yeah, it was a really interesting in depth look at the compilers of the time and the difficulties he experienced were typical, I think. I ...