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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…
... I heard something about vector graphics or something being easier and ... the way the spectrum writes graphics to the screen uses very little ... CPU power (especially in comparison to the Amstrad)
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Pacland conversion.Ive recently come across Pacland again for the Speccy and I must admit the graphics are nice, the 128 music is very similar to the arcade but it is n…
... graphics are nice, the 128 music is very similar to ... really. As you get to the edge of the ... sidescrolling and more playable to the arcade rather than ... trying to look like the arcade.< ... some of the pretty graphics to replicate a more accurate ... -
+3 BASIC and RST 8I've been working on adding commands to the BASIC interpreter, in a similar style to how Interface 1 does it (catch the RST 8 error trap). This works…
I've been working on adding commands to the BASIC interpreter, in a ... similar style to how Interface 1 does it ... probable that it has something to do with how the +3 ... -
Definitely Not Stonkers**Or the ZX Spectrum equivalent to Nintendo's Advance Wars. With the simple presentation but demon wars, I've thought about a Spectrum version of Adv…
*Or the ZX Spectrum equivalent to Nintendo's Advance Wars.
... for doing all graphics and design. Harping back to the original GBA ... including the COs (that need graphics to appear in game, of course ... might even start on the graphics (and story) so that if ... -
How the World Works Part 1, Togo Football1. On the 8th January the Togo team bus, en route to a match in the African Nation's Cup in a separatist area of Angola (Cabinda), is machine gunned …
... bus covered in blood expecting to die. One of the ... tournament, blame Togo for choosing to drive rather than fly/drive ... the tournament for two years. 'Adding Insult to Injury'.
Imagine ... are reported on right down to the meta-tarsil.
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LDIR timings in contended RAM?The 48K Spectrum technical reference page ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm"]here[/URL]) describes the detailed ti…
... states before it can write to (DE).
Adding 4T to the duration of a ...
Using LDIR to scroll the full screen in ... 128K machine) involves blitting close to 7000 bytes.
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Please name this game.I'm trying to find a space game, which was a bit like a poor man's Elite. You had to buy and sell stuff on planets and I remember the graphics to b…
I'm trying to find a space game, which ... planets and I remember the graphics to be quite cheesy.
to copy ...err, backup.
Another......help me find a game thread I'm afriad. It's a spaceship sim thing. I remember that in one of the lower corners there were 3 indicators that used…
... 3 indicators that used to measure your distance to the target, they ... ship got close it used to blart out 3 blasts on ... type noise which caused the graphics to stop momentarily on each noise ... , then I think you had to dogfight the enemy.
Pyskool 0.6[url="http://pyskool.ca/?p=535"]Pyskool 0.6 has been released[/url]. [list] [*]Pyskool can be installed as a Python package using [i]setup.py instal…
... the menu bar in Windows) to F12
[*]Added default key ... bindings to [i]pyskool.ini[/i]
to kiss Hayley while she?s ... the bug that causes sprite graphics to lose their transparency when a ...Elite mods[URL="http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/z80/index.htm"]Ian Bell's Elite page[/URL] distributes a package with "Russian hacker Spectrum Elite varia…
... another Elite editor, I suggest adding both to WoS.
I ... suppose it would be easy to obtain his approval for distributing ...Greetings all overheat problemsfirstly hello everybody and thanks for adding me to the forum dont know if ill be much use here but i hope so the problem i have or should i say a…
... hello everybody and thanks for adding me to the forum
dont ... it gets warmer performance goes to pot
ie as in ... can throw any light as to the cause/rectification of these ...Should I sell a boxed ZX128 as original as possible?Normally I add stereo audio to all 128K ZX Spectrums I get my hands on. At this moment I have a couple boxed heatsink models waiting to be offered o…
... I add stereo audio to all 128K ZX Spectrums ... couple boxed heatsink models waiting to be offered on eBay, ... would like the set to be as original as ... this capacitor adds sound to the video signal before it ... Sinclair's way of adding sound to the antenna output, but ...New recoloured game - After The War 1 :)As suggested and requested by some people I tried my skills with adding colour to this well known Spanish beatemup. And well... I did it :) I can sa…
... tried my skills with adding colour to this well known Spanish ... scroll so I had to disable it and make ... it move by 8 pixels to avoid clash.
to choose from the game ... But the sprite may seem to disappear there. The second ...ZX-Paintbrush version 2.2.9 releasedDear forum readers and ZX-Spectrum emulator friends, today I released ZX-Paintbrush version 2.2.9 with interesting new features (small ones but I th…
... hanging program, because I forgot to adjust the attribute size ( ... ]
[LIST]When importing graphics to an overlay, illegal overlay border ... tool icon "Adjust position to attribute limits" now allows ... marked some older suggestions to be implemented in the ...IX register woes - or is SPIN buggy?Or am I missing something? I'm trying to use the IX reg to acess a table containing an x and y coord. My code below just doesnt seem to work proper…
... below just doesnt seem to work properly, causing my ... assembler as it doesnt seem to like the instruction
adding one to the first data member ... /> ld ix,shptbl ;point to ship table
ld ... br /> cp 241 ;compare to far right
jp ...New colors / switchable color palette with regular ULA ?Hello. This may be an ignorant question but I just thought about it today and wanted to post it here to get some opinions. OK, so, today, while goin…
... -yellow amplitude. Thus I came to the conclusion that by setting ... those variable resistors to non-factory values, one could ... it be possible to make a simple addition to the video circuitry ... can't imagine this adding much to the overall cost of the ...Games with reflections in (i.e. with working mirrors)On another forum, the question arose of why modern games mostly don't have reflective mirrors, when they have almost every other visual effect you co…
... sometimes called " 2.5D" graphics.
To keep it short, a ... total distance (length from viewport-to-mirror plus length from mirror ... : Arkham Asylum, and taken to the extremes in Portal, where ... that the player is able to walk through. The additional ...Trouble with rainbow effect push/popI'm having a bit of bother getting my rainbow graphics to behave themselves. Basically I want a rainbow effect to last for say 4 seconds before movi…
... of bother getting my rainbow graphics to behave themselves.
Basically ... I want a rainbow effect to last for say 4 seconds ... before moving on to the next part of the ...display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... bits right to receive the HL carry, or adding 8 to H ... (if using BASIC).
To move down ... rows add 32 to L.
To move down the ... segments add 8 to H.
To move down the ... for each segment independently to the maximum pixline length ...melbourne drawIt could be said I am easly pleased,:grin: Very nice peice of software. I was realy impressed by its ease of use. I think a lot of time and effort w…
... making this program as easy to use as possible. Yea it ... means if i realy want to draw fancy shapes I can ... now trying to figure out how to import the hobbit graphics to melborne draw ...Converting an integer arbitrary large binary number into a printable decimal formThis was asked a long ago at the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup. At that time, I came up with a solution by extrapolating the classic algorithm of suces…
... br /> Yesterday, I was introduced to the [url=https://en.wikipedia ... the ability to shift to the left, and adding 3 to a number ... ld b,0 ;Flag to not print leading zeros
to store BCD representacion (616 ...Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
... down the screen by simply adding 32 to the reference point of ... /> inc d ;Inc d to add 256 to de
ld a ... it
jr mloop ;Back to mloop again
field3 ... /> [/CODE]
Feel free to comment, pick fault, praise, or ...Gasman live in concert at Revision - videosThis Easter weekend was the Revision demoparty in Saarbr?cken - the largest pure demoscene event of the year, held over 4 days with close to 1000 vis…
... of the other acts having to cancel, I was unexpectedly ... (Well, the actual suggestion was to have an illegal rave in ... planning, other people started... adding stuff to it. First an extra power ... is inches away from crashing to the ground, but miraculously ...One Less MIA - Mathematics (1985) Charles Letts & CoJust received this today and both tapes appear to be in perfect working order. I know this isn't exactly the most exciting find of all time but it's …
... today and both tapes appear to be in perfect working order ... list, eh? :)
According to the booklet that comes with ... I'll probably get round to uploading the TZXes soon-ish ... any collectors are interested in adding this to their collection then please ...Hot plugable edge connector?Could the spectrum's edge connector have been made hot plugable without adding much to the manifacturing costs? I was thinking along the lines of a…
... been made hot plugable without adding much to the manifacturing costs?
adding an extra key slot at ... that power would be applied to the interface before any signals ... it would have been enough to prevent many of the accidentally ...Game loads in emulators but not in real SpectrumA case was reported to me in another thread:<br>http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50520/new-sh-t-game-time-video-renegade-iii#latest<b…
A case was reported to me in another thread:
... I hacked Renegade 3 by adding colour to the game. I used ... kind soul would be willing to have a look and help ...Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …
... I have been able to develop some very interesting ... I would like it to become a reality. Obviously ... working on in hardware to combine with a +3e ... and uses this list to update / modify as ... need? well to LEARN how to draw spectrum graphics to the screen ...Spectrum +2 (grey): Mod- and operation- related advices needed.Dear Sirs and Ladies, Please welcome a newbie to the “World of Spectrum” (both to the forum and, well, metaphorically). I’ve recently purchased a…
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Please welcome a newbie to the “World of Spectrum” (both ... is dead).
To make the thing usable I ... 3. Tombstoned C31 (to stop it adding sound to the composite) and connected ... it’s now-upper pin to ...Going rate for grey +2There are 2 grey +2s on gumtree at the moment near me. I'm thinking about adding one to my collection as my other speccy is a +3, which is not great…
... . I'm thinking about adding one to my collection as my other ...The world really needs a Spectrum Assembler MOOC courseI recently signed up to an Unreal Engine MOOC course, with the intention of doing it with my wife and 11-year old. I also looked for a MOOC course on…
... I have the teaching skills to present one*, and for ... sure lack the tech skills to write it. I wonder ... url], but it seemed to deserve its own thread.)
* [i]Based on trying to mentor junior C# and SQL ... had me teach BBC BASIC graphics to my peers. Not a ...
