Um, no, that’d still be Zythum (by Mirrorsoft).
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- Mon May 13, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 26
- Views: 484
Re: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 26
- Views: 484
Re: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Zythum (by Mirrorsoft).
Sorry, what was the question?
Sorry, what was the question?
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Plus 2A/B External Tape Input
- Replies: 3
- Views: 184
Re: Plus 2A/B External Tape Input
I seem to recall that it depends on the amplitude of the input signal. Connecting it to the positive side of C200 will simply mimic the +3 schematic, so is probably the kosher way to do it. I remember that on my +2B that really gave me poor performance with the modern-day sound sources (read: comput...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: The Definitive Programmer’s Guide to Using the Floating Bus Trick on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15108
Re: The Definitive Programmer’s Guide to Using the Floating Bus Trick on the ZX Spectrum
Having read through this thread and your webpage am I right in thinking that your code loop will catch one of the attribute bytes on the relevant row, but you can't be sure which one? And is it also the case that you're not 100% sure why this 35 t-state loop only catches attributes? True, you can’t...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Wec Le Mans tournament
- Replies: 2
- Views: 444
Re: Wec Le Mans tournament
That’s a great idea, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to pass. If it were Continental Circus, I’d kick everybody’s backside, though.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: New Game: Nectar
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1556
Re: New Game: Nectar
Ah, finally a new Spectrum game that’s hand-coded, not AGDed (if I got it right). With great graphics to boot! Much appreciated. Bloody hard, though. :D P.S. Not sure why the TZX file contains raw data, given that the loader seems to utilize the standard ROM routines. P.P.S. It would be great if the...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Infogrames: vote
- Replies: 15
- Views: 491
Re: The best Speccy game by Infogrames: vote
Sim City is a fine port, but that’s what it is—a port. North & South is an original game developed and distributed by Infogrames, and it’s a brilliant idea brilliantly executed. My vote goes to it. Hostages was an ambitious undertaking, but I think it is was too much for the Speccy to handle sm...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 906
Re: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
Fair enough, but then you need to emulate the halftone grid in the colored portions of the J-card, apply some relicing, and convert the whole thing to CMYK.Gears of Games wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:38 pm Given how the texts often were back in the day, I was rather thinking I needed more typos to make it look legit!
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 906
Re: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
There’s a couple of typos that need to be fixed in the loading instructions: tap —> tape, “symbol” in “symbol SHIFT” needs to be capitalized, and I’m not sure if the “R Type Loading Error” is a nod to Dave or also a typo. ;) P.S. I’d use straight quotes (shocker!) for the LOAD "" instructi...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Some gigascreen game prototype: need input
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1701
Re: Some gigascreen game prototype: need input
Okay, this is pretty darned good. Can’t test it on real hardware at the moment (but could set it up in the future: a Toastrack or a +2B with a CRT TV), but it does have minimal flicker in RVM. Frankly, I see the smoothness of the graphics (i.e. the number and quality of extra sprite frames) as a big...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1470
Re: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
Dunno what you mean by that even though I use sjasm lol, can you give an example? ld (new_score+1),a ;write the value of A to memory location ;marked by label new_score plus one byte ... ... ... new_score ld a,0 ;the code above will modify the operand ;of the LD A,n instruction here
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1470
Re: How much self modifying code was there and did it do anything?
I use SMC all the time. Mostly to save on space and speed up code execution, but occasionally I replace opcodes on the fly, too. All very useful stuff for 8-bit micros, where every byte and T state counts.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1070
Re: Happy New Year!
Happy 0x7e8!
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:45 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Learning machine code
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2159
Re: Learning machine code
Back to my question how did anyone learn when the reference books (and magazine type-ins) were riddled with errors? Yeah, that was a bummer. Here’s the thing, though. It’s a mistake to think you need to learn machine code . In reality, machine code in and of itself is quite simple. What you really ...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2052
Re: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, my fellow 8-bit aficionados! May it be red, yellow, green, and cyan!
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: WOOT 2023 released!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 6414
Re: WOOT 2023 released!
So far, I think I’m most impressed with the methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl . . . demo.
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 7:00 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: WOOT 2023 released!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 6414
Re: WOOT 2023 released!
Sorry for not participating this year—was too busy with other things. Looking forward to checking out this year’s issue!
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
Re: Guess the screen$
It’s a bird! No . . . It’s a plane!
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:29 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
Re: Guess the screen$
No takers, eh?
Zooming out:
Zooming out:
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:23 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: But really, why didn't the Speccy have a definitive football game?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1333
Re: But really, why didn't the Speccy have a definitive football game?
I concur. Would could do a poll, but the winner is obvious. I, for one, would be voting for it.redballoon wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:27 pm Emlyn Hughes International Soccer was the definitive football game on the ZX Spectrum.
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
Re: Guess the screen$
Squares, squares, wonderful squares!
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7985
- Views: 253150
Re: Guess the screen$
Little Puff in Dragonland.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:22 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Spectrum interface to do programming?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 503
Re: Spectrum interface to do programming?
There was also the Currah MicroSource @1024MAK. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1000080/Hardware/Currah_MicroSource I don't realise until today that this device offered Forth too! I used the µSource a few years back under emulation. (Fuse has support for it.) It’s pretty nifty, if a little cu...