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128k and BRIGHT?Just loaded up Arcadia (nice game, BTW). I have side by side a 128k and 48k Speccies and both are connected to the same tape player. So, I loaded the…
... started. The start screen of Arcadia is screen with BORDER 7 : PAPER ... colour. The 48k showed the screen correctly. Then I restarted the ... -
Pixel setting / general speccy codingi just started doing some cross-coding with the [url="http://www.bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk/z80.html"]Z80 SNA assembler[/url] and an emulator, and this …
A few questions regarding EmuZwinA few questions regarding EmuzWin 1. I have been trying to write a program to generate multicolour effects on the Spectrum,ie more than 2 attributes…
... detect which part of the screen is being read, although I ...A few questions regarding EmuZwinI had posted this in the development forum and then remembered there was an emulators forum, so apologies for the repetition. 1. I have been trying …
... detect which part of the screen is being read, although I ...Highway Encounter and Spin.I downloaded a TZX of Highway Encounter from the TZX vault. When I try and load the game up in Spin (the version with rollback),I get a black screen,…
... rollback),I get a black screen, with a yellow border and ...need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... /> LD HL,(SPRADR) ; taking precalculated screen address where to draw sprite ... A,(HL) ;taking background from screen
AND B
OR ... next bottom line on the screen.
JP DRAWSPY
DRAWCH1 ...Can anyone help me find the title of this game......I remember a game i liked on the spectrum but i cant remember what it was called, so i cant find it to download. In the game you were some kind of wi…
... at the bottom of the screen so you knew which direction ...3 in 1 NTG3 in 1 name that game 1) You are a ninja cyborg or something. A side view flip screen. Most screens look alike with just a few details different. Th…
... something. A side view flip screen. Most screens look alike with ... way to move to a screen up above or down below ... the same place on the screen. There were four types of ...maketzx problemsDoes anyone else have problems running maketzx v2.33 (with or without the GUI) on Windows 2000 Sp4? I've just changed my OS from Win Me where i've m…
... box flashes up on the screen but then immeadiately disapears without ...FUSE : APPLE + QI hate this keycombination. I need SYMB+Q APPLE works like SYMBOL SHIFT, but on the Q it's QUIT (without warning). Please program a warning screen i…
I hate this keycombination. I need SYMB+Q
APPLE works like SYMBOL SHIFT, but on the Q it's QUIT (without warning).
Please program a warning screen in between.
I have lost several programs without having saved it.The Pawn and Spin 5.04 - weird behaviourTwo TZX files from the TZX vault: The Pawn.tzx The Pawn v2.3.tzx (both are v 2.3 from the start text, but the first shows the title screen when lo…
... the first shows the title screen when loading and the "Pondering ... everytime (just after the rainbird screen comes up)..however with accelerated ...Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
... Entry:
; HL Contains Screen Address
; DE Contains ... Exit
; HL Contains Screen Address
; BC preserved ...
; Low Bytes of screen
ORG 0FA00h
< ...IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... Entry:
; HL Contains Screen Address
; DE Contains ... Exit
; HL Contains Screen Address
; BC preserved ...
; Low Bytes of screen
ORG 0FA00h
< ...Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll ... kind of interrupt, the 50Hz screen refresh one, but then I ...Help accessing menu on 128k +2Hi, I recently dusted my old 128k +2 speccy off, and got it up and running. I am having one problem though - I can't access the menu! When I turn i…
... automatically brings up the loader screen. If I press BREAK, I ... can view the menu screen breifly, but it disappears before ...Bouncy maze game???Hi, I've been hanging around other Speccy sites for awhile now but only just come accross this one,which looking at the content amazes me that I didn…
... from one side of the screen to the other using various ...Recording AVI`s of Speccy stuff Does anyone know of a good program for XP that will record AVI or Mpeg movies from the output of Spectrum emulators? I know at least one emulator h…
... which different progs write to screen memory..
Anyhow.. I ...Whats this game?Never played it but remember it as the picture in the review in Crash showed the player character to look alot like Dynamite Dan. Other things I reme…
... left or right of the screen which possibly squirted stuff out ...Popeye - help!I've been playing Popeye (the first one by Don Priestly) and completly stuck. I've been using the map at: [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/si…
... at the lower left in screen B3, noway can I pick ...If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... one colour in 8x8 character screen display.
The problem ...Hardware Development/DesignsYou may have read my post about the joystick I built out of MECCANO for my +3, I am now working on an anologue Scanner!!!! also built out of MECCANO …
... save binary files from a screen of plots of the positions ...what extra port for extra memory ? (256K, 512K, 1024K, etc.)I know that Pentagon uses some extra bits from port 7FFD for extra memory pging: - for 512K model, bit 6 & 7 of port 7FFD - for 1024K model, bit 5, 6…
... extra bits from port 7FFD for extra memory pging ... 6 & 7 of port 7FFD
I personally ... that handle directly the 7FFD port, without taking into ... lock the port 7FFD (on +128K/+2) and 7FFD & 1FFD ... I will never use port 7FFD for this.
Spectrum not booting up properlyI picked up an old Spectrum from a car boot sale today, but the keyboard was acting up. I took it apart to see what the problem was, but after puttin…
... just get garbage on the screen when I turn it on ... with stripes all over the screen and little artifacts/blobs appearing ...Anyone know the address mappings...of the hardware resources on the speccy; From the screen display address range to all the hardware control registers. etc. Where can I get access t…
of the hardware resources on the speccy;
From the screen display address range to all the hardware control registers. etc.
Where can I get access to this information?
Many thanks,WOLFENSTEIN 2004 DEMOHello! I managed to find this in the Chaos Construction 2004 bundle and so far have tried mutiple emulators to get the thing working. Have any of you…
Hello! I managed to find this in the Chaos Construction 2004 bundle and so far have tried mutiple emulators to get the thing working. Have any of you guys actually got past the opening screen?'Square Head' not working in SpinI've been trawling through a bundle of files that were uploaded to WOS and discovered a TZX version of this game: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.o…
... ), but crashes with wonderful squiggly screen effects in Spin.
BASin problemsDunny, I seem to have some problems with BASin under WindowsXP. BASically (sorry.ahem), if I maximise the screen it crashes giving me an access voila…
... .ahem), if I maximise the screen it crashes giving me an ... "press any key" on main screen) as a .z80 file so ...AnOtHeR pLeAsE hElP fInD tHiS gAmE!This is probably the vaguest game find request but I am trying to find a game where you played a small White Angel and flew around the screen picking…
... Angel and flew around the screen picking up different flashing objects ...Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
... BACKBUFFER 6000h
#DEFINE SCREEN 4000h
#DEFINE SCREENTABLE ... br />
LD HL,SCREEN ; Destination
LD DE, ... ON ENTRY:
; HL CONTAINS SCREEN ADDRESS
; DE CONTAINS ...I say, Woo HoooYesterday Amstrad revealed a new Spectrum with Game Controller. [url="http://www.amstrad.com/e3_games.html"]http://www.amstrad.com/e3_games.html[/url…
... Spectrum but with a larger screen and full colour too, other ...
