Spectrum emulator

[baggey]

Are there any instructions for using it?

Hi, What do you want instructions on!?

I may make a .doc of buttons and there usages if people want them? But it should be fairly straight forward. That could also be easy for me to say! As ive programmed it.

So if you have any ideas as to instructions and usage. This could be made possible.  :)

OH! and thanks for the incouragement people.  ;D

Baggey

[micky4fun]

Hi all

Keep up the good work baggey ,

mick :)

[baggey]

Good day! Everyone.

Ive hit a major turning point. In the Spectrum Playbasic Emulator.

I shall release version 0.2!

In this post ill give the main folders again as there, has been a lot of changes to the GUI interface.
Then the EXE.

When it flashes up. At the bottom right hand corner is the STEP button. This executes line by line of machine code.
So, when the speecy is turned on it starts emulating at 0000 Hex.

roughly 10 instructions in, well arrive at the OUT (254),A. A will hold the value 7 ie, white colour.
After this instruction youll see the border change colour!  :o

This is yet again a closer step to "C 1982 Sinclair Research" flashing up  ;D

HERE we go!

Download all files to C:\spectrum_playbasic FOLDER. you'll have to create this!

In an eairler post you'll find the 2 Part SCR.rar file which you will need if you don't have it already!

Sorry for all the files in bit's! But we have a limitation of 3.5 Meg's UPLOAD!

The actual folder "Spectrum_Playbasic" now contains 12.8 Meg's!

The folder you setup should look like this when done "today.png"

Finally. Enjoy this latest release  :P

"I have checked and downloaded all files"

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After Monkeybots suggestion im trying out DROPBOX.

Heres the link to the files https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fzwx9afsxlyos8r/VgCSHD0kLA
It wasn't easy to setup and i don't know if ive done it right!?

Yep it works! Takes about 30 Sec's to download. But you need to register with dropbox! LINK www.dropbox.com

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Kind regards Baggey

[monkeybot]

Sorry for all the files in bit's! But we have a limitation of 3.5 Meg's UPLOAD!

why not use dropbox? then just paste a public link...

[baggey]

what is dropbox?

[monkeybot]

its cloud storage,you get 2 gb for free.very useful.
i have got the emu working but the mouse pointer is running very slowly.i don't know if this may have something to do with not being able to attain the screen res you request in your readme, i can only get upto 1366x768.
Yesterday I spotted a copy of hungry Horace for the speccy on eBay and it was upto £21!

[baggey]

I have found when playing music, downloading files etc the mouse is draggy!

But running on my computer which isn't a laptop. Its Running fine just on its own  :) It only works on my main PC because of the resolution its run in.

I think, this is how it will be. All instructions are in memory etc, etc so its a mater of making the right effects and changes. As at the moment everything is just written with ZERO.
I could probably make the mouse checks and placement more often! Which will give the "human" better feed back? But this would add more overhead!

Kevin has given me hints and help with my code on loading the files in memory quicker and helped me with direction. In creating my plotting routines, which Made a big difference.

These tips and suggestions are in the beginners threads if anyone is interested?

Im in the process of cooking the Great British "Roast" at the Mo. And shall check this cloud thing out with google  ;)

Yesterday I spotted a copy of hungry Horace for the speccy on eBay and it was upto £21!

I Thought £5.50 was expensive then. Halo 4 is £44  :o

Kind regards Baggey

[baggey]

After Monkeybots suggestion im trying out DROPBOX.

Heres the link to the files https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fzwx9afsxlyos8r/VgCSHD0kLA
It wasn't easy to setup and i don't know if ive done it right!?

Yep it works! Takes about 30 Sec's to download. But you need to register with dropbox! LINK www.dropbox.com

It's free! But if you don't like this method? Let me know.

Kind regards Baggey

[micky4fun]

Hi all

yep works fine here , just copy all files to c: drive
coming along nicely

mick :)

[monkeybot]

how's this progressing then Baggey?

[buggage]

Yeah, it's been a while since we've had an update.

[buggage]

Is this dead? :(

[kevin]

  It's not that surprising if it is, given that it's pretty ambitious task trying to write a system emulation at the best of times.  Doing it in PB, really requires an expert knowledge of PB and the system in question.  Making the probability of failure pretty high.    

[monkeybot]

i thought it seemed rather ambitious...

[buggage]

Yeah, I know. But it was a fun idea and it's certainly different.