Spectrum Computing

Fine, @utz, it's like mine but with less bytes, congrats. But there's something odd... these routines make beeps not like ROM ones, but like the intro of Skool Daze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCjgUNz6bQ I thought ROM beep would be the easiest way to do a beep, but I think there must be somet...

I don't know if the judges gave any extra feedback, besides the point by evaluation category.
But it would be nice to have some textual feedback on the games.

These things take months to do, ... some even years.
So a more in depth feedback would be nice.

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sun Feb 13, 2022 10:02 pm Ok @RMartins,

So other sites are impacted. Can you try another DNS provider?

What version of Windows are you on please?

Peter

I can, but now, since I'm posting, it's working.

I'm on Win10

Now that the contest results are out, I would like to ask for extra feedback.

What people think of the game, what features work or not, what is confusing or not, etc ...

Any feedback is welcome.

Unless someone else replies I would have to assume that it may be a small concern at your side. Its quite fast to load here. It's unrelated with sped or load. It simply doesn't resolve the server name. Perhaps you can if you wish do a flushdns on your machine or reboot your router maybe if it persi...

I have been having issues accessing the website, because the cloudfare DNS servers (registered for it: arvind.ns.cloudflare.com, daniella.ns.cloudflare.com), are not resolving the spectrumcomputing.co.uk domain name. Sometimes it works, when I get access to a cached resolution value, but mostly it's...

Very nice indeed.

NOTE: The images, don't show, because the link is using HTTPS, but the website is using a self signed certificate.

This needs an answer.

I'd suggest replicating the input ports of a Kempston mouse; use the X and Y addresses for two paddles (numbers 0-255 read with an IN) and combine the two buttons onto the third address. My own thoughts for paddles was to wire a couple of spinner encoders up to the XA/XB and YA/YB inputs of a real ...

Congratulations on a great game, very well executed and balanced.

Great work so far, very smooth and good animations detais (nice bounce). Have you considered using the floating bus detection to since on the places you actually need, to implement something along the lines of what [mention]Ralf[/mention] mentioned ? I say this, because this game is very particular ...

Not too hard for sure. First run I did and I got 2 averages under 0.40 (Magenta 0.39 and White 0.38). Averaging 400 ms per reaction, it means, 20 PAL frames (20 ms each), which is a lot. If doing it a second time, I'm sure improvements would surface, since this first run was to understand how it wor...

Yes. The keyboard, Sinclair, cursor and Fuller protocols are active low, but Kempston is active high. It was a bad hardware design decision that’s way too late to correct. ... I wonder why you consider it to be a bad hardware design decision ? If it was active when zero, like the keyboard: - There ...

... If anyone can contribute a few snippets of code I'd like to include some optimal versions of regularly needed functions, namely: --- Move screen address down 1 pixel row ... Feel free to reference or us this INCSY function . Starts at line 1 and ends at line 26. For optimization purposes, to av...

Ast A. Moore, if no kempston is attached, then is the read value 0x00 or 0xFF? On some devices random byte is read if there is no kempston. ... Any ZX will read "garbage", if the reading is done just after the ULA read the pixel and attribute data to render the display. This is what is kn...

My code for handling several joysticks and Keyboard from Extruder is free to use. Reading and acting on the inputs should always be 2 different things. All these functions return in register A the input in the same format as Kempston (1 when active) , for every Joystick or keyboard setup, so the con...

Gilby wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 4:31 pm

Can you provide a high resolution photo or scan of that inlay ?

There are some boards revisions that have been known to have some caps silkscreen marking reversed. so if you trusted those, when replacing the caps, you might have an issue there. Check if you have a picture before replacing those, to see if all the current caps are facing in the same direction as ...

I added a few issues into github today.

I have more to report, but those should keep you busy for a while.

[email protected] wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:48 pm Hi, how do i quit a game and load another one? do i need to shutdown de specturm?

Quick answer: Yes!

I think I recognize that main character, but I can't quite placed it from where exactly
I think it was something by one of the creators of Asterix and Obelix (Uderzo and Goscinny), but I'm not sure.

Hi!!!! ... But this method is very slow, the buffer ocuppies almost the full screen of the Spectrum, and I think it won't work with this game, where I need very high speed with barrels, fires, etc. ... Doesn't need to be slow, but you might need to loop unroll some of that code, or make special ver...

Actually Space Invasion was a Commando clone with robots instead of enemy soldiers: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9670 It was called Space Invasion for the German market, there was a ban (at the time) on games depicting soldiers/people getting murdered! Elite also released i...

I've only ever used Vortex Tracker. I last downloaded it from here . I wouldn't call the memory or speed footprint insignificant, but it's never caused me problems with timed sprite routines etc. Once you have your music, export the file with ZX Spectrum Player option, you can choose to compile it ...

I also noticed that the "reduce pixellation" has different output depending if we are using GDI or DirectX, and also changes with zoom level. Besides this, I also noticed that Drag & drop doesn't seem to work. But after checking the options it seems to be because the new install, disab...