Spectrum Computing

@jpnz Nice throwback. Nice work

Though if I'm not mistaken, I think people here were discussing how to get it to work on a 16k?

:lol: What I mean is, to play only the stuff that the currently-playing effect uses at the current moment (whether tone, noise or both), and leave other things in the channel 'mostly' untouched, rather than switch them off completely. In any case, if you guys can work with ASM code, feel free to ch...

InkSPector already works great with the left analogue stick of my Xbox S joypad. For isometric games I'd prefer the d-pad instead. Would it be possible to link the controls of the analogue stick to the d-pad's? Then they could be used interchangeably.

Thank you for sharing, both your journey and making it open for others to use.
Your dedication and persistence, starting with no-knowledge to the final outcome is very admirable and inspirational.

After your remark about your eyesight, I chuckled when I saw your screen

Hi Peter. Basically from 49152 upwards. Be mindful though to read what the layout of the several banks are when paged in, bank 2 and 5 appear at 2 places at the same time. And the contention differs between the several models; over all models, uncontended are only bank 0 and 2. I use this informatio...

Fantastic. Thank you

Hi Bob.

I've started using the save snapshot function to save progress in games. It works great. Thank you for that.
Could you make it possible for snapshots with the same name to be saved? So instead of showing an error 18, prompt to overwrite?

When entering a new value in the Poke function, the Poke button doesn't become active. When pressing Enter, the value also isn't changed in memory.




For now, I used the Write memory function instead.

I'm having another issue that I'm having trouble understanding. When I use Go To Address in the debugger, type an address, select RAM Page #0 and press OK, it stays in RAM02 in the listing, instead of the expected RAM00. https://i.postimg.cc/Mv930vqW/image.png Perhaps it's selecting the currently ac...

There seems to be an issue with the 4th tab of the memory viewer.


The other tabs do behave as expected.

v.2.0.5

Thanks again

I keep track of new emulator releases by using an RRS feed of http://www.emucr.com/ which I load into Feedly. Now SpecEmu releases through above website are also included in it.

AY Emul by Sergei Bulba is also able to do this. And with all other supported retro music files it plays such as PT3, ST3 & SQT. Convert files by right-clicking on them in the playlist. In my opinion, anyone fond of retro music should have this player :) https://bulba.untergrund.net/emulator_e.htm

You can use the ZXDB search function for that. Select the magazine under Award. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/

Wild guess: perhaps anything to do with auto-update functionality?

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 12:02 pm(Although these tunes are in the pre-playing stage, so not really "game music" in the literal sense.)

I think that difference could be expressed as "in-game music" instead of "game music"? The latter, to me, includes all music presented by the game.

I would like to do an esxDOS version of a game where I can go all out using almost unlimited memory.

I'm hoping that someone will compile the sources of the tunes so we can run it on real hw.

bob_fossil wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 5:57 pmThis would avoid the issue of having to rewind the virtual tape if you needed to reload the file in again.

While native esxDOS loading is nice and thank you for sharing the code, if you use explicit filename loading, aren't .tap files automatically rewinded when reaching the end?

I vaguely remember a player that looked for the least busy channel and played the fx on that. Sorry for not remembering the exact name.

I'm also interested in the utilities. I seem to be unable to find them on the above link, only folders with games in them?

BasinC and Spin both have the option to paste text into the emulator. The Zero emulator has a Basic Importer tool zxplay.org lets you copy in Basic or assembly code and then run it. I think if you setup a login you can save progress to the site, not sure if you can save a TAP back to your PC though...

Is anyone having success with using a controller? Does SpecEmu only support d-input (I'm seeing dinput8.dll in its folder) or also x-input?
It doesn't seem to do anything with my xbox one s x-input controller. It is working in windows games and InkSpector.

(Can anyone hack those pokes into the actual TZX, though? It's a pain having to apply the pokes manually every time and saving 128K multiload snapshots is a bit problematic :( ) (I tried editing the 40K block in ZX-Blockeditor, but it caused an error on loading.) Are you emulating or using real har...

Inky wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:27 pm It brings all of the Inkspector windows to the top. It's useful when you have a lot of windows open and they're covered by non-Inkspector windows.

Could this be made a toggle? When debugging and such, I keep having to raise them after having switched to another application.

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:10 pm Please let me know if you notice anything wrong or missing:

Software Speech
Currah Microspeech Support
Fuller Orator Speech Support

Thanks!

I didn't do a full check, but at least Nodes of Yesod is missing in the Software Speech one.