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Hej Ville, The 48k Spectrum is a very simple device with no additional support chips so the emulator is basically just Z80 emulation together with a shader to convert the ZX Spectrum video memory layout to the screen. Later 128k Spectrum model had AY-sound chip but initially there was just a speaker...

:o Very cool & nice benchmark! No sound though? Admittedly .. i can imagine it's a little tricky to do without being able to write to a sound buffer directly, especially when you want to for example support games that basically halt the program for a bit and write to the AY-3-8910 as fast as pos...

Hi Ats, This is because the euler-angles order is "incorrect" / unsuitable for your use-case. Unfortunately you can't change this order in ZGE .. but fortunately you can circumvent this problem easily by adding a RenderTransform :) Here's a modified version of your snippet .. <?xml version...

Hi Ats, Visual Basic 6 is absolutely ancient ( it's from 2005 ) .. i suspect ZGE attempts to use a feature ( DPI-aware scaling perhaps ) that isn't supported by the run-time files provided by VB6. I recommend using a virtual-machine running Windows XP for Visual Basic 6 based projects instead. + The...

Hej Ville,

Very nice updates, especially function overloading ( even though it's not part of the C spec ) is a welcome addition By the way, i noticed that the unary negation operator suddenly works on variables! Did that get fixed recently?

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Hi rrTea, The next thing I was thinking of is to switch a Material.Shading that is used to render lots of elements on screen from Flat to Wireframe when the framerate drops, by checking for the framerate in main OnUpdate (if it's below 555 or 50, set the Shading to Wireframe, otherwise keep it on Fl...

Hi Ats, I'm trying to make a portable tween engine, based on the Pico-8 Tween engine by egordorichev . I've put almost everything in a model so it can be used and removed easily. I'm a bit puzzled as to why you'd want to wrap this in a model .. but maybe that's just me? Anyway, don't use strings in ...

Hi Ats,

Looks familiar ...

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Hi Ats, By the way, is it possible to vary the BitmapCells RandomSeed over time? You mean something like this? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor application" MouseVisible="255" FileVersion=&quo...

Hi Ats, So in order to fit the background to the viewport and cover some camera movements, I only have to make a bigger CorneriaMesh? Depends on what you want. Normally making it bigger or moving it closer to the camera ( same result ) will suffice .. but if you want to do a 2D background in the sty...

Hi Ats, Also I was wondering how should I do a background image... Maybe by drawing a 2D box? But since the clipping view is at 500 pixels, that would be a huge square. The easiest solution is to simply draw your background using a Material with Z-Buffer disabled before anything else, then it will a...

Hi Ats,

Ats wrote:Isn't line 142 missing a ; ??

Nope .. in Pascal / Delphi any statement preceding the end keyword isn't required to be closed with a semicolon.

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Hi guys, Apparently you're not allowed to load a shared library with text relocations anymore since SDK 23 .. here's a snippet from the "Android 6.0 Changes" document. On previous versions of Android, if your app requested the system to load a shared library with text relocations, the syst...

Hi Ats, If you want to modify a variable or property from a function you have to make sure it's passed as a reference. For some types this happens automatically, but for basic types ( byte, int, float, string ) you need to add "ref" to the argument otherwise the variable gets copied and is...

Hi rrTea, I never understood why is such data even included in the listing but maybe it can be useful for something? Well .. for one, you can easily paste a project or snippet that uses embedded data on a forum :wink: But i agree, would be nice if you could choose between embedding the data in the ....