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- Tue Oct 26, 2021 1:30 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Is there a list of loader types ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 689
Re: Is there a list of loader types ?
But what are the corresponding files in ZXDB?
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:37 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Clone Wars (Space Panic): discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 312
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games that were compiled from BASIC
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2114
Re: Games that were compiled from BASIC
It would be really interesting to note games that used compilers back in the day. The page for each native BASIC compiler contains a list of programs that were compiled with them: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/8249/ZX-Spectrum/HiSoft_BASIC https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/8254/ZX-Spect...
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Better Programming For Your Spectrum And ZX81 Type-ins
- Replies: 2
- Views: 212
Re: Better Programming For Your Spectrum And ZX81 Type-ins
Thank you!!!
This information will be in the next ZXDB update.
This information will be in the next ZXDB update.
- Sun Oct 24, 2021 2:38 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Terrorballs (hidden feature found)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 412
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:48 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Halloween clichés on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 26
- Views: 863
Re: Halloween clichés on the ZX Spectrum
ZXDB has a tag for "Theme: Halloween" but it only contains a few titles:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=5012
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=5012
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:04 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
- Replies: 171
- Views: 16855
Re: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
Some releases (utility programs, recent games, and especially NedoOS stuff) are constantly evolving/updating. Could the database automatically download their new versions from a given URL? Automatic downloads are tricky. Sometimes file links change on each new release (if version number is part of ...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:24 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
- Replies: 171
- Views: 16855
Re: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
We have 333 remote links in ZXDB with a various structure. And yes some of them aren't ideal for related links. But what we need to define urgently is universal 'Home page' website for which we don't need any comment and ZXDB structure will stay unchanged. Now we have in ZXDB/SC dozens entries (and...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:09 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: A new data compressor called ZX0
- Replies: 284
- Views: 20559
Re: A new data compressor called ZX0
84 hours in, with the last dot (....) under the space between "Einar" and "Saukas" it stopped with "Error: Insufficient Memory". :cry: Ouch! :( Based on this I don't think my first test would ever have worked as the 32-bit zx5.exe would unlikely be able to address more...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:52 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Is there a list of loader types ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 689
Re: Is there a list of loader types ?
There are a few loaders on there which I wrote and am happy to correct you with. Awesome! If you give me a list of loaders you authored, I would like to add this information to ZXDB! Who Dares Wins 2 was a Dollar$oft loader, as can be verfied if you load the TAP file into Textpad. There was nothing...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Is there a list of loader types ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 689
Re: Is there a list of loader types ?
Thankyou! That's just what I wanted. You are welcome! Is there any reason why you can only search for 7 different schemes on this site compared to the old WOS Infoseek which had 32+Custom ? Probably SC wanted to avoid a large drop-box, so it only shows the most common loaders. This is a site choice...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:48 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: A new data compressor called ZX0
- Replies: 284
- Views: 20559
Re: A new data compressor called ZX0
Since I learned Kotlin to implement the ZX5 multi-thread compressor, why not do the same for ZX0? The multi-thread version of the ZX0 compressor is now available here: https://github.com/einar-saukas/ZX0-Kotlin You can download the compiled JAR file directly from here: https://github.com/einar-sauka...
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7832
- Views: 236921
Re: Guess the screen$
I'm too busy, someone please take my turn!
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:32 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7832
- Views: 236921
Re: Guess the screen$
Athena
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:30 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Is there a list of loader types ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 689
Re: Is there a list of loader types ?
I exported a spreadsheet with all scheme loaders currently stored in ZXDB: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YlLvhqFRsCFPRR8PogTD_Mz4ZF6VTiY9-GfSGjMcW5c/edit?usp=sharing Normally SC doesn't show scheme loaders, but you can see them in "compact view". For instance Out Run Europa have ...
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:50 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Free new Retro magazine for the Z88 :)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 522
- Sun Oct 17, 2021 7:10 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: A new data compressor called ZX0
- Replies: 284
- Views: 20559
Re: A new data compressor called ZX0
Can the algorithm be made to use multiple threads? Sure. However memory management in current C implementation is based on reference counting, which would be inefficient across threads. This will require another language with GC and lightweight threads, preferably also resizeable hash tables. I wil...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:23 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
- Replies: 171
- Views: 16855
Re: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
I agree that "downloads" is not a perfect solution. However moving these generic links to "related links" is not a perfect solution either. The problem is, links that don't fit on pre-established categories usually need a comment to explain what they are. However the tables that ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:18 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New Database Model ZXDB
- Replies: 532
- Views: 107589
Re: New Database Model ZXDB
A new ZXDB release is available!
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:35 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: A new data compressor called ZX0
- Replies: 284
- Views: 20559
Re: A new data compressor called ZX0
also zx0 (v1.5) is TO SLOW too on big files It's slower when there are lots of matches therefore more combinations to be analyzed. Fortunately it also means more opportunities for better compression. Don't you think that compressing from 65536 to 8 bytes was worth the wait? :) Even so, your times a...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:18 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: Broken screenshots
- Replies: 197
- Views: 6133
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Worst music
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2317
Re: Worst music
HERESY!
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:11 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
- Replies: 171
- Views: 16855
Re: NEW PRESERVATION TOOLS
Links to home pages and source code repositories are stored as "remote links" (technically table "downloads"). Links to directly supported sites (JSW Central, Speccy Screenshot Maps, CASA, The Cutting Room Floor, etc) are stored as "related links" and "other sites&...
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:39 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Worst music
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2317
Re: Worst music
It's not!!!
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:45 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Clone Wars (Scramble): vote
- Replies: 14
- Views: 607
Re: Clone Wars (Scramble): vote
Well to be honest it doesn't have a title and there is no release date as it was just done as a laugh for a competition. You could call it "Crap 256 byte Scramble" I suppose Don't you prefer to call it something else, for instance "Scram256" (as the name in your files)? It's def...