Spectrum Computing

I got on first tape these. Luckily, my aunt tape deck successfully copied this tape to tape...

Mask III : Venom strikes back
Eric and the floaters
PSST
Stop the ITA
Manic miner
Atic atac
Chequered flag
Draughts
Movie
Down to Earth
Into the eagles nest
Renegade
Sweevo

Banks 2 and 5 always appear as 'conventional' RAM, between &8000-&BFFF and &4000-&7FFF respectively. You can page them in to also appear at &C000-&FFFF as for any other pages, but it's not really clear why you'd want to. For example, you are drawing on two screens. It is eas...

Some dirty implementation of loader:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ijvfsplp ... 42q55&dl=0

Fun and attractive. Thank you!

Weiv wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:51 pm At least two constant users of my emulator,
@Bedazzle and @.koval, can confirm that the full version 1) exists; 2) is quiet qualitative; 3) has much more features than the demo version.

Yes, that's true. Emulator got many best things from other emulators, and additionally own unique features.

Sim city
North & South
Hostages

PROSM wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:30 pm There were some insightful posts recently in the "Ultimate Filmation Maths" thread, written by @what_the_wasabi and quoted below:

Thanks, very interesting!

Heavy on the magick
you can travel with help of Astarot to a named place in castle, or can be thrown to the furnace.

Do you tried to POKE 23659,0 and then print?
Be careful, your program must not return/break! In that case it will hang.

If you are going to smallest clear screen routine, then
It clears backwards, and assumes that ROM area is read only.

catmeows wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:30 pm

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    ld (hl), 0

it is two bytes, 10 Ts
replace it with

ld (hl),l

one byte, 7 Ts

Grongy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:08 pm

This one damn good. I even feel rain on my face...

SkoolKid wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:41 pm skool2ctl.py does not (and cannot) identify auto-generated comments

But auto+generated comments can have some pre-defined pattern, usually not typed by human (for example, some non-visible unicode characters)

Some people would say he IS Pinocchio, some would say he's a plagiarism of Pinocchio ;) I'd say it is re-work for eastern culture. Something like nowadays we can find new Little mermaid. Anyway most of children in Russia don't know Pinocchio, they know Buratino. Not only Russia, but nearly all ex-U...

ZX Blockeditor

Why you didn't born earlier to create graphics for game hits back in time?

Dr beep wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:30 pm I didn't find a version on the ZX Spectrum so I was thinking
of a sizecoding contest for GAME OF LIFE on the ZX Spectrum

Back in time I remember at least two versions exists.
For example: https://vtrd.in/full_ver/LIFEGAME.ZIP

Double that!

And add more: 128K is harder to emulate; more memory, fiddling with pages, AY.
And of course if programmer go for additional hardware (for example, disk system), it will be even more.

Grongy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:58 am https://zxart.ee/eng/graphics/authors/

Dunno about popular, but active without questions!
Take five, bro!

marenja wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:52 am Probably the work will be much easier with some co-operation ... hm-m ... a sort of crowd disassembling?

I can disassemble, but usually (as we all have) - have no time. :/
Anyway, it is interesting experience.

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:23 am*taps watch*

Anyway my voice can not change anything.

Maybe instead of scr1 ld hl,0 ;10t , 3 bytes ld de,49152 ;10t ld bc,6144 ;10t ldir ; 24*6144 -5 try scr1 ld h,l ;4t , 1 byte ld d,192 ;7t , 2 bytes ld b,24 ;7t , 2 bytes ldir ; 24*6144 -5

Saboteur
Saboteur 2
Sigma 7

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:11 pm And COLOUR of course

Be thankful, that I did't tried to define VÄRV

equinox wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 1:43 am You never had a +2a did you?

Never. :-/
48K clone, 128K clone, Next

ok, then something like
POKE NOT PI, PEEK NOT PI + NOT PI * USR xxxx