Arda Erdikmen
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ardae.bsky.social
Arda Erdikmen
@ardae.bsky.social
Film lecturer@Istanbul University-C, gaming ph.d., digital heritage and retro guy, zx spectrum, Master of BasinC. ref-xx@github
Barely made it :D Just finished this year's snowy zx spectrum mini demo :D

As always, social media video compression ruins all the pixels and colors, so here is the tap file if you want to keep it running on your TV whole night :D

arda.kisafilm.org/fish/get/ser...
December 31, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Another #ZXSpectrum game screen update examination! This is famous "Cobra", a masterpiece of coding by Jonathan Smith (aka.Joffa) It's one of the first game to use 4-way pixel based screen scolling. This requires careful timing on spectrum as there is no hardware to scroll the screen or the sprites!
December 17, 2024 at 8:39 PM
My #ZXSpectrum debugging #emulator (Zex) can analyse how games write to screen by trapping opcodes. This game is starquake, a simple sprite based game, which erases and draws sprites on screen by using a series of LD (HL),A opcode, basically bruteforcing Z80 and RAM. More to come!
December 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM