Spectrum Computing

Weiv wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:18 am Some time ago I suggested Lethargeek to make ULAX in the form of a DLL so that any emulator author could add support for ULAX in his emulator.

куку, а что там с кодом, который я персонально для тебя подготовил и с которым ты уж год разбираешься?

looks good, but please make border color customizable

Morkin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:55 pm Ha..! I wondered when we were going to get a tanker meme...

but that ship isn't a tanker (unless you meant some of the crew are former tankers))

8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:41 am A floppy drive is part of the minimum specification.

any drive, it was possible to run it with a ramdisk (at least one soviet 8080-based computer did it)

also some russian clones did have 64k RAM, including the factory-produced Hobbit, where it was intended (but not limited) for CP/M

here's a page about memory configurations of the Hobbit: http://zxdimsla.chat.ru/ZXHOBBIT/34_35.htm

Being able to read from screen memory is nigh on essential for many kinds of sprite routines, unless you can prepare everything in advance. you don't have to use these kinds of sprite routines but vector gfx in BASIC (not in games) will be a problem And 16K of screen RAM can be a double edged sword...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:05 am As mentioned by many people above, the Z80 can address 64K

actually it can kinda address 128k w/o paging

Spoiler

if the extra memory takes the IO space (well, a bit less than 128k, you still need some space for actual ports)

take that 6502 fans

8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:59 pm You could equally ask, why was the next step not 32K?

yeah, with sir Clive being such a cheapskate we're lucky to get at least 48k

I think you might be right there, the light on dark definitely looks better. I think because your brain naturally expects an object to be darker around at edges, which is why dark outlines look better than light ones. it looks better when there's no colour clash, but not over some black-ink backgro...

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also skool daze and saboteurs of course

I'm in agreement 100%. I left it in the late eighties and then picked it up again in 2002. Getting back into it felt as if I had just used it a few days earlier. It feels like forgetting Z80 would be impossible, kind of like forgetting how to speak English. it is possible to forget a mother tongue ...

also it would be nice to have "my votes" column for logged-in users (with empty space as "no vote yet")

Saboteur 2 (but it's an item icon, not a part of screen gfx)

Sai Combat

NO, it WASN'T and ISN'T. Just the overflow flag alone breaks the backwards compatibility with documented ops, and it's obviously intentional. It most certainly was intended to be binary compatible. partially binary compatible That's why you have the same instructions with the same opcodes; ...that ...

will there be an R-rated version with mice and rabbits instead of fruits and vegetables?

come on, we all know snakes don't eat plants also on the highter difficulty these little fluffy animals may be moving

i was able to complete several screens on a real clone back in 1990s but haven't touched it since then

PeterJ wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:38 am It's generally accepted that the worst implementation of BASIC was in the Commodore 64.

IMO all of the contemporary Basics were abominations, but yeah, some (like this one) were more hideous than the other ones

public beta 24 - fixed some frame doubling/skipping issues related to sound and rzx
2 new games in the pack - Comando Tracer and a lazy mod for Somewhere in Hell (SiH)

Sparky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:56 pm The controls I'm aware of are the icons on top of the main page

these are emulator controls, but i was talking about the emulated system controls

is there a controls help somewhere? i mean pc to emulated system keyboard mappings

The z80 was intended to be 100% binary compatible with the 8080 and as such is an 8080 emulator with extras. NO, it WASN'T and ISN'T. Just the overflow flag alone breaks the backwards compatibility with documented ops, and it's obviously intentional. The NEC is reverse engineered and it's reverse e...

I can't seem to find a reliable answer either way. Does it emulate or is it hardware? So to directly answer the question, yes and yes. But then, consider this. In all the Sinclair made and some of the Amstrad made ZX spectrum computers, there a ULA that is emulating a bunch of 74xxx logic chips (on...

some people call fpga designs "hardware emulators", some just "hardware", but whatever

funny thing though is that ZX software compatibility may be worse compared to the best pure software emulators

Seems that you have simply misread my post as "people don't care about pixelart", when it fact it meant anything but. Context is important too. No, it seems you misunderstood my answer. Context is important, and that's exactly why i brought an example of caring about the fixed palette mea...