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Re: Speccy video player in C?!!

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On 04/02/2011 09:39, BitNaughty wrote:
> When I
> was checking out your video player project for the Speccy, I think I
> went to a Github page, which had the source for it, but it was in
> *C*!! *How* are you writing in C for the Speccy??!!! Could you please
> explain?

The C code on Github is just the converter that runs on the PC, to 
convert your video to .dvo format which plays on the Spectrum. The 
player itself is done in assembler: http://divideo.zxdemo.org/player.asm

It is possible to code C for the Speccy using Z88DK -
http://www.z88dk.org/forum/ - although that's not an option for a video 
player, where you need to 1) keep everything as fast as possible and 2) 
know exactly what it's doing at the clock cycle level (so that you can 
update the audio at the right times).

> By the way, I have no idea what DivIDE actually IS, I just assume that
> it's a way to connect an IDE hard disk to the Spectrum, am I right?

Yep... http://divide.cz/

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Speccy video player in C?!! BitNaughty <bit-naughty@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-04 01:39 -0800
  Re: Speccy video player in C?!! Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> - 2011-02-04 10:42 +0000
    Re: Speccy video player in C?!! BitNaughty <bit-naughty@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-04 02:57 -0800

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