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by swensont
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: Sinclair Misc
Topic: ZXBETA User Guide & Tutorial
Replies: 3
Views: 499

Re: ZXBETA User Guide & Tutorial

Moggy, On the Height option, I quote from Yerz: "HEIGHT (nobody uses it for 20 years or so. Don't You start)," and in an e-mail from Andy (from March 1): "IIRC Height is a per position setting and alters the overall pitch of the currently playing pattern, nobody uses it (well hardly)" with both the ...
by swensont
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Sinclair Misc
Topic: ZXBETA User Guide & Tutorial
Replies: 3
Views: 499

ZXBETA User Guide & Tutorial

I find the best way to learn something new is to document it. So, in learning the music tracker ZXBETA, I wrote a User Guide and Tutorial. It can be found here: http://swensont.epizy.com/zxbeta.pdf The ZXBETA software can be found on this forum in the post: https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic....
by swensont
Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:52 am
Forum: Sinclair Misc
Topic: History of Timex Computer Corporation
Replies: 1
Views: 335

History of Timex Computer Corporation

At one of the US T/S group Zoom meetings, someone mentioned a timeline of events for Timex Computer Corporation. This got me thinking about documenting more than a simple timeline. Here is a more complete history of the Timex Computer Corporation: http://swensont.epizy.com/Timex.pdf A few from the o...
by swensont
Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Sinclair Misc
Topic: ZXzine #10 is available
Replies: 3
Views: 721

ZXzine #10 is available

Issue #10 of ZXzine is now available. The direct link is:

http://swensont.epizy.com/ZXzine10.pdf

The direct link to the associated zip file is:

http://swensont.epizy.com/ZXzine10.zip

Thanks,

Tim Swenson
by swensont
Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: ZX Spectrum Lounge
Topic: Speccy Tape Header details
Replies: 3
Views: 861

Re: Speccy Tape Header details

Thanks to Johnny Red, with Zesarux there a simpler way to load a text file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Load the TXT file into memory from the debug menu -> LOAD Binary block. Choose mapped memory, choose the address (por exampl...
by swensont
Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:20 am
Forum: ZX Spectrum Lounge
Topic: Speccy Tape Header details
Replies: 3
Views: 861

Speccy Tape Header details

I'm looking to load a text file into a Spectrum / TS2068 emulator (Zesarux) using the LOAD "" CODE command. I did a SAVE "" CODE command to see what the output file looks like and this led me to the Spectrum tape header. Is it known how the checksum in the tape header is created? Has anyone taken da...
by swensont
Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: Welcome Area
Topic: Greetings from California!
Replies: 2
Views: 4416

Re: Greetings from California!

Barry,

Greetings from another Californian. There is a Timex/Sinclair Zoom group that meets twice a month. Details are on www.timexsinclair.org.

Tim Swenson
by swensont
Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:37 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Using DF_CC with ASM
Replies: 4
Views: 905

Re: Using DF_CC with ASM

The doctor has spoken. I guess I don't need a second opinion. :-)

Tim
by swensont
Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:57 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Using DF_CC with ASM
Replies: 4
Views: 905

Using DF_CC with ASM

I want to be able to see what character is at X,Y location on the screen. The system variable DF_CC contains the address of the next location to print. If I do a PRINT AT, but don't print, then the value at the location pointed by DF_CC should be at X,Y. For some reason I can't get it to work in ASM...
by swensont
Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:18 am
Forum: Development
Topic: [ZX81 Type-in] ZX-81 GT COMPILER
Replies: 25
Views: 4734

Re: [ZX81 Type-in] ZX-81 GT COMPILER

Boy are my ears burning..... :-)

Tim