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A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attribute for each pixel ... , i.e. each block of 8x1 pixels) like [URL="http://www ... continue to refer to multicolor 8x1 simply as [B]"multicolor"[/B ... Spectrum games can use the entire screen but they are limited to ... -
Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?
... ] are two demos that feature multicolour pictures. [url=http://www.worldofspectrum ... move a flashing 8x1 pixels "cursor" over the screen and whenever I ... apply color to an 8x1 cell, the multicolour routine would kick in ... -
MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... /> Can it? Looking at the multicolour parts specifically - the reason it ... that it's doing full-screen multicolour, but that it's shifting ... 6144 bytes of multicolour data [i]every frame[/i ... data, and 6144 bytes of 8x1 attribute data. -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... enough to represent all on-screen objects with them and you ... spectrum writes graphics to the screen uses very little CPU power ... a pixel in the "blocky" multicolour mode) and vertically.
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MultichromeIt turns out that multichrome, and other screen modes, are emulated in Fuse and Eightyone via ZX Spectrum SE emulation (which is similar to the TC214…
... necessary is to switch which screen is displayed every interrupt.[/QUOTE ... .. so it's using an 8x1 attribute mode with two screens ... be possible to show an entire screen like this or if we ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... fourth line the entire
screen can be used ... br /> creating a 75% multicolour screen on a 48K machine.
multicolour even if you ... USR multi : REM start multicolour mode in IM 2< ... RANDOMIZE USR 60001 : REM normal screen
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multicolor on 48Kmany people tried multicolor 8x1 on 48K model and ended with maximum width about 18 chars. yesterday i tried [b]8x2[/b] on 48K and achieve 24 char wi…
... ;457025]many people tried multicolor 8x1 on 48K model and ended ... More Intelligence 2 have full screen multicolour? -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... the pixel, and render the entire screen (writing all 6K) in about ... in bands right aross the screen, aligned with the blocks), but ... , or maybe synching up with multicolour effects..? -
What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... character 8x2 multicolour in the middle of the screen, with four ... sound as part of the multicolour pass too. Not sure if ... 8x2 pixel pattern over the entire screen (like 00001111 for 4x2 pixel ... after the multicolour pass. That way if the screen scrolls, they ... -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attribute for each pixel ... , i.e. each block of 8x1 pixels) like [URL="http://www ... continue to refer to multicolor 8x1 simply as [B]"multicolor"[/B ... Spectrum games can use the entire screen but they are limited to ... -
ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
... ,50,2,3 fills the entire screen, unless there's a blue ... -
Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…
... of a game.
The entire screen was filled with what looked ... -
Games that are way too hard ... on the EASIEST settingToday I dug up my MAME emulator and played a few oldies. Amongst those was "Side Arms" (Japanese Version; dunno if and how it differs from the wester…
... bullets which cover almost the entire screen, think it's totally over ... -
Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
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BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …
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[B]SCREEN REGIONS[/B]
For ... use multicolor in the entire Spectrum screen. In BIFROST*, the ... that occupies roughly half the screen. Everything within this area ... Timex format" (to edit an entire screen of multicolor tiles).
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TV Pal, odd and even framesI have been researching, but haven't found any real interesting information on this subject, so far. What I mean is, since TV PAL signal is interl…
... frames to have a complete screen on your TV. So 50 ... example: If we paint the entire screen file with RED on one ... get a flashing screen, but instead a striped screen with odd lines ... us to require an off screen buffer, since we have more ... -
Advices for double buffering ?Hi, I'm currently coding graphics routines for a forthcoming game, I use a double buffer (the dummy screen is at $e000, the code at $8000) to pro…
... double buffer (the dummy screen is at $e000, the ... copy the dummy screen to the real screen.
The ... the copy of the entire screen takes more than 1 ... reduce the size of the screen ?
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z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
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// clear screen
active_window = 0;< ... (&cr); // invalidate entire screen so that it is all ... 'B');
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Replaying games from Crash Issue 1Only a small conceit in the general scheme of things, but since Issue 1 of Crash was the first Spectrum mag I bought, and I remember wondering at the…
... , with a fairly easy Beserk screen followed by a stupid fast ... Arcadia screen - no way I could dodge ... (73%) - OK there's an entire screen of keyboard commands, this bodes ... -
Smallest playfield game?What is the game with the smallest playfield? I'm not referring to map size, but where the action takes place. Some examples: - Jet Pac: The acti…
... happens on almost all the screen.
- Jet Set Willy: It ... on two-thirds of the entire screen.
- Bloodwych: I haven't ... shows two small "windows" on screen.
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who owned a zx81 before the spectrumHow many of you owned a zx81 before getting a spectrum and did it make you want to get a spectrum. I owned a zx81 first but all my mates had a spectr…
... and a 16K RAM. The entire screen flashed with each keystroke. I ... -
A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
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Horizontal scrollDoes anyone know how to do a 2 or 4 pixel left or right horizontal scroll of the spectrum screen. I can make a 1 one pixel scroll with: ... rl (hl…
... to the end of your screen or buffer, then repeat the ... 24 times to scroll the entire screen. -
ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
... pattern filler can fill an entire screen using about 900 bytes of ... no patterns) can fill a screen using just 100 bytes of ... -
Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…
... different approach to drawing the screen. The first lib is ... character squares that change between screen updates. The second uses ... free display and redraws the entire screen on every update. Both ... sprite
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My speccy sold it's soul to do this.Which 5 speccy moments defied logic and managed to impress you the most at the time? 1. The loader for Moonstrike. 2. The almost flawless R-Type con…
I remember being totally gob-smacked by the Vectron game loader. It had scrolling message while loading the game and when the loading process was finished the loading screen expanded to fill the borders (in effect filling the entire screen). -
For Tetris experts/mega-obsessed fanatics !A difficult question, this: does anybody know any 'strategy' for clearing the entire area, i.e. fitting the pieces in such a way, that, eventually, a…
Problem with Tarzan (by Martech Games)I can't jump over the abyss from the left side. It's very strange, because from the right side I jump it without any troubles. Where must I stand? T…
I passed the entire screen step by step and found ... strange, if you visit the screen on the right, you will ...EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …
... a background .bNN and for entire screen while a background is active ...EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …
... a background .bNN and for entire screen while a background is active ...
