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BLOG- ZXSporgBasic RPG development thread- Inspired by the Spectrum 30 show, and after a six-month wait while I was busy playing loads of gigs, I have decided to do a spot of Spectrum coding…
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Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…
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Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... it down to just 64 characters (ASCII 32-95) which covers ... symbols (ASCII 96-127). You could use even fewer characters, but it ... -
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... you stick to 8x8 characters and define all 96 of them it ... -
C.G.D - Classic Game Designer[b]UPDATE: August 07, 2013 AN UPDATED VERSION OF CGD IS NOW AVAILABLE, DETAILS HERE: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=7155…
... you stick to 8x8 characters and define all 96 of them it ... . But yep, any 768 byte, 96 char font can be loaded ... -
SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…
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ld bc, 1840 ; 1840 characters to move
ldir ; move ... count
ld b, 96 + 128 ; 224 characters in 8-bit ASCII ... /> djnz s_scrn_lp ; loop with more characters
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SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…
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jp po_t ; jump to ... it
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Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... address in memory and use 96 font characters. You can also switch ... and have much more graphic characters.
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Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... in memory and use 96 font characters. You can also switch ... and have much more graphic characters.
I use Britlion ... lines are printed, containing 672 characters. With some modifications, one ... of 24 lines and 768 characters.
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[QUOTE=daveysludge;747419]95 font characters 32 (space) to 127 (copyright)[/QUOTE]
Actually there are 96 font characters (from 32 to 127).
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The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…
[QUOTE=Einar Saukas;747420]Actually there are 96 font characters (from 32 to 127).
Thus 2 different fonts will give you 96*2=192 characters, using 768*2=1536 bytes.[/QUOTE]
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UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
... as suggested elsewhere, if your characters are constantly being redrawn, it ... - this gives you another 96 graphics. Then animation just needs ... be used to identify CHARS characters, whereas only ATTR works ... for UDG characters (although it's best ... -
Amiga GamesAfter reading boozy's opinions I think we need an Amiga thread :) I liked: Zak Mckraken Moonstone D&D Gold box Dune 2 A lot amiga games were platfo…
... game with two Ryu style characters that was quite playable! It ... was a later title (around '96) I think called Painkiller.
Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... a fast render of those characters to the main screen.< ... can then print some sprite-characters over it, just before ... necessary to let you write characters directly to the backup ... replace the character set of 96 defined characters, and including CHR$ codes ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
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;* 4 bit wide characters on a 256 * 192 graphics ... generator and a font.
;* Characters are stored with identical data ... ;File Name up to 12 characters + zero padding
ADDRESS fdb ...Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
True, and using this method, the spaces between characters are not part of the data, they're automatically added in before printing the first vertical line of the character, which on a standard 96 character set, saved 96!Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…
Trying to enter a line from a book fails for some reasonI am reading through the book "[i]Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner edited William Tang[/i]". I have got to the section where I nee…
... "£" (a pound currency sign, CHR$ 96, SymShift+X). It's checking ... value between 0-15 for characters 0-9,A-F,a ...Trying to enter a line from a book fails for some reasonI am reading through the book "[i]Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner edited William Tang[/i]". I have got to the section where I nee…
... "£" (a pound currency sign, CHR$ 96, SymShift+X). It's checking ... value between 0-15 for characters 0-9,A-F,a ...how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
... , you can load (at most) 96 UDGs at address 64000:
characters corresponding to the UDGs you ...Screen$ (x,y)Hi everyone As you know, Screen$ doesn't recognize UDG characters. Is there any way to solve this problem? I want to "identify" an UGD character o…
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Set the Font pointer (at 23606-23607) to a memory address and use 96 font characters at that address.Reading DEFB for backgroundsHi all I suppose the question is kind of silly but I'm a completely newbie with assembler :-S I'm drawing some side backgrounds with ZX Paintbrus…
... 192 pixels (= 9 x 24 characters)
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defb 128, 192, 224, 96, 48, 248, 24, 28
characters -> to loop: ld b ...Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... has a different number of characters, as long as there ... this will result in 35 characters per row, if you ... you will save around 10 characters per row, so around ... 150 characters. This saves memory and ... in an array z$(73,96). Loading the data as ...How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... of the "window" in characters (it is 7 characters high).
Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…
... cause a scroll while inserting characters in the middle of the ... set to have 255 printable characters (can't use CHR 0 ... string terminator), instead of the 96 there are currently. Obviously that ... /> I could use all 256 characters if every string stored a ...Missing 2000AD games (again...)Hello, I've posted this on the MIA/MIS forum previously, but nobody seems to have noticed it, so I offer it here for the perusal of all of you, hopin…
... Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from ...Missing 2000 AD gamesIn the past years, a handful of Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from the brilliant (Nemesis the Warlock) to t…
... Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from ...Timex Sinclair 1000 probsOk let's see if I don't get bashed with this one [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] I got a Timex Sinclair 1000, which is giving me a …
... completely black background, with grayish characters on top of it. I ...
