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  • Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…

    ... recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only ...
    vilcans vilcans November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…

    ... (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)

    screen

    Can ...

    ; Clear the screen to show we are bringing ... ; Copy from store to the screen

    ld hl ...
    robpearmain robpearmain November 2005 Development
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... somewhere the bottom 2/3 screen memory. It's the ... the basic into the screen area which is where ... launches it)

    "SCREEN$ DESIGNER" - firstly, load the loading ... It'll stick the screen into SoftRom and bomb out ... keypress then save the whole thing out.
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …

    How do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one for memory and then copy them all together into one tap file)

    Many thanks
    robpearmain robpearmain December 2005 Development
  • ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …

    ... my time to shrink the screen in a pixel perfect solution ... the display to show the whole spectrum screen at once !!!
    Besides ... able to use the touch screen to simulate the keyboard, with ...
    Arm73 Arm73 December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
    PopoCop PopoCop February 2006 Games
  • Name that screen shotJust picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on pag…

    Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1
    chop983 chop983 February 2006 Games
  • Screen DisolveHas anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see

    Has anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • 128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…

    ... that I can display one screen, draw to the other and ...
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • Screen effects in MCAs I see there is still interest for MC programming on Speccy. So, I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source files, demon…

    ... , I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source ...
    piters piters February 2006 Development
  • Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…

    ... to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama beads.

    hldswrth hldswrth February 2006 Support files
  • Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …

    ... attributes but was in the screen.

    Does anyone know ... that once I understand the screen layout better then I will ... hopefully help me understand the screen layout better.
    Scrapheap Scrapheap April 2006 Development
  • How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…

    ... like to add a [B]SCREEN$[/B] viewer.

    I ... way to display a Speccy screen, like in a picture box ... I tried to figure out screen handling in VBSpec, but the ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2006 Development
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... full screen without resizing, crop or enlarging the display !
    The whole ... display fits perfectly in the DS screen(minus borders ... be.
    On the bottom screen you can navigate menus, load ... display the part of the screen that it had to be ...
    Arm73 Arm73 June 2006 Emulators
  • Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…

    ... what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx July 2006 Games
  • Help WW2 text adventure team game - what was it!Hi all - just getting into the whole retrogaming thing - after parting with my speccy 15 years ago at least! Slowly trawling the mind to bring bac…

    ... />
    just getting into the whole retrogaming thing - after parting with ... />
    You navigated around a screen sized map, which was blank ...
    TEXANTOMCAT TEXANTOMCAT August 2006 Games
  • Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …

    ... that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt ... appearing ? When the loading screen was designed there was no ... left-hand edge of the screen ? Is there a way ... it appear elsewhere on the screen. It may be possible ... position within the loading screen.
    Mr Millside Mr Millside August 2006 Development
  • Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …

    ... "bit-loader" and she load screen verticaly line by line, from ... of most impressive.
    Uncompressed screen must be at 49152, routine ...
    Pegaz Pegaz August 2006 Games
  • Q. on WinXP logon screen (how to disable?)Aaaargh! I am sitting in front of an annoying computer. It's driving me crazy! How the f-in A does one disable the stinking logon screen (the "cla…

    ... one disable the stinking logon screen (the "classic" one, not the ...
    Skarpo Skarpo September 2006 Chit chat
  • Full screen help in EmuWinIf I click full screen in EmuWin the program goes full screen but the play area is very small. Smaller than full border with a spectrum. How can i …

    ... EmuWin the program goes full screen but the play area is ...
    HonoredShadow HonoredShadow October 2006 Emulators
  • Spectrum Screen Memory MapWhat's the advantage (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation? 6144 bytes divided into 3 blocks, 2048 bytes long. if you want t…

    ... (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation?

    ... to draw something on screen you have to poke ... behind this implementation? Why screen memory isn't interpreted continuously ... to draw something on screen avoiding 3 block structure?
    Arda Arda October 2006 Development
  • "The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […

    ... a firm grasp of the whole.

    Multivac was self ... marble, centered on the viewing-screen.

    "That's X ...
    Daren Daren January 2007 Chit chat
  • Mame BuildersMy MAME set-up has no reached a point where it no longer cuts the mustard and I've decided to build my own cabinet I've been using the family Pc wit…

    ... be adding a 23/21" screen.
    [url=http://www.ebuyer ... /> and would you run the whole thing on Windows or DOS ...
    chop983 chop983 February 2007 Chit chat
  • SportsWhich sports do you feel work/don't work on your micro and why Work: Tennis I think it's because you can see the whole playing area on the screen a…

    ... can see the whole playing area on the screen at once there ...
    chop983 chop983 February 2007 Games
  • Saving from actual cassetteIve dug out my old cassette player which I used to load games to my speccy. Ive hooked it up to the line-in port and loaded the game into Spectaculat…

    ... record the whole loading process such as the loading screen to when ...
    RND RND March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • So you think you know your Spectrum games, do you....I thought this might be a fun thing to test your knowledge of Spectrum games - below is a quote taken directly from Crash in their description of a p…

    ... who has him cleaning the whole house..."

    8 "The ... hazard which appears if a screen isn't cleared quickly enough ...
    Amfoot Amfoot March 2007 Games
  • Border size?Hi I've read the documentation on the border in the CSS. But I think I've managed to missread somthings, perhaps som one can explain. it says 64 bord…

    ... says 64 border lines , 192 screen and 56 border lines again ... = 120 thats over half the screen... that can?t be right ... half the scrren but a whole lot.
    Is that actually ...
    Jmc Jmc April 2007 Emulators
  • Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…

    ... through there and wasting a whole A4 refill pad trying to ... big face from the loading screen appeared at the top of ... the screen gibbering while you were walking ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2007 Games
  • Off topic: ST & Amiga development discs preservationAnyone here know anyone who can get some stuff off of ST and Amiga discs? I have found a stash including a 2 disc demo for 'FLOOD II' (which was neve…

    ... /> I know I produced on screen most if not ALL of ... various baddies.

    The whole design is here:
    [url ...
    LAST BATTLE SCREEN (this was a loading screen I did for ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones May 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • What clues were on the Fairlight loading screen?As stated in the manual of [B]Fairlight[/B] there shall exist clues on both the cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to some, but I…

    ... cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to ... [/url]

    [B]Loading screen:[/B]

    [url]ftp ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Games
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