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Hey grandma!HOW TO SUCK EGGS! I always wondered about that saying 'teach your grandmother to suck eggs'! Blow them, yes, but suck? If you've never blown an e…
... to read pages of notes on screen and its much easier to ... are expert at doing everything on screen in which case you probably ... -
When games had very little or no sound ...We all know the Speccy often got ridiculed for its shortcomings like colour clash, and another factor was the lack of music in most 48k games. It jus…
... game that had rather little on-screen action and also not a ... or even much longer depending on the game. I vividly remember ... life because unless you turn on the radio or any other ... -
UFO Defence Command: XCOM without the tactical battles!I've got it into my head to create a Spectrum game that's basically XCOM, only without all the parts where you're personally guiding soldiers around …
... air defence forces and troops on the ground radio in reports ... recover and send vulnerable rookies on missions?
Whether I ... busy job, and an AGD game already on the go, plus it ... -
Word ProcessingHello, Does anyone know of a Spectrum word processor that allows bold and underlined on screen? I can see Tasword has the facility for this when p…
... that allows bold and underlined on screen? I can see Tasword has ... this when printing, but not on screen.
I appreciate the ... -
1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... add in extra functionality later on
2. to allow ... for ideas to save on data size to be ... However, I've been stuck on a key feature, which though ... 4 bytes from the screen and put each individual ... restored to the 4 bytes on screen.
Both ... -
Some tips to play Army Moves part 1Well, here's what I found out while trying to finish the game. [b]General comments[/b] - Like many other games by spanish companies, even if yo…
... . Besides, the more planes already on screen, the less likely a submarine ... ground on your way back to the top of the screen.
screen.
- Better forget about ... . When you are on the lower part of the screen, shoot parallel ... -
Need help with keyboard scanning ?After getting frustrated with learning ASM for a while I'm back into it. The little listing below is using the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sp…
... to draw me a sprite to the screen. What I expect to ... -
New BasinC v1.7 I was away from sinclair scene for a long time, I cannot find any time to log on to wos forums. I hope everybody is doing well here. As many of…
... the bottom of the screen should work ok ... accordingly with commands which perform screen update.
... /> Fixed - Missing Border icons on Screen Paintbox (paddy)
Fixed - ... Added - Spanish language for main screen. (by Sergio Baldoví)
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How can I make a UDG rotate?I designed a set of UDG's that can be used for making shapes or letters. Trouble is that my circle - for example - consists of 4 pieces and it would…
... if I could have an on-screen option to select and rotate ... mouse to select the pieces on screen? -
Fast Binary to Text DisplayI've done this thing that takes some memory contents and converts it to a Binary version of 0's and 1's on screen. However, I've no idea what to use …
... 0's and 1's on screen. However, I've no idea ... -
RAD for SpeccyJust wanted to share a fine technique of rapid app development for ZX Spectrum in C. Programming without debugger is a pain. It comes down to needing…
... atom functions to calculate position on screen and read/write to it ... . For screen manipulation one just needs three ... ;> shifts); // Get byte off screen. And with left mask.
Northstar vs RygarHi, I was playing Northstar last week and I realized that these two games (the other one being Rygar) are quite similar at its core gameplay. Nort…
... ). There are probably less enemies on screen at the same time, but ...Restoring AY registersAfter doing (not still finished) the sna to tap converter, I'm going to try to do the same for 128k snapshots. I've got threee ideas about what to do…
... steps.
2.- Load SCREEN$ (with the transfer code).
[b]3.- Load AY registers on screen:[/b]
Same as procedure ... AY registers would be on the screen with the routine that ... but produces more garbage in screen. The advantage of both procedures ...divIDE interface not workingA while ago I bought a divIDE interface for my two spectrums (one is a 48k rubber keyboard one, the other is a 48k Spectrum plus). Sadly I never actu…
... and turn on the machine I get a black screen with grey ... it I get the initialization screen instead of just black and ... to mention some green squares on screen when the menu comes up ...MIA Hill Street BluesHi, I have just come across the Hill Street Blues entry which lists it as MIA. I was the programmer of the Spectrum 128 version (we didn't even co…
... getting a scrolling teletype display on screen. I then moved onto writing ...21UDGS Graphics PlotterHello everyone, Enclosed is a dropbox link to the latest version of my 21UDGS program 1.03 which allows you to plot 21 User Defined Graphics on sc…
... plot 21 User Defined Graphics on screen.
The program includes instructions ...Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
... 're full, flush byte to screen
ld c, #0x08
; Do 4 pixels on one go
dec c ... ,lastshifts
; Put last byte on screen
ld (hl),b
converting sna to tapsince i'm struggling to find a simple sna to tap converter that works fine on gnu/linux, i'm about starting to code one on my own (using a scripting …
... tap converter that works fine on gnu/linux, i'm about ... starting to code one on my own (using a scripting ... ": rem poke hide load log on screen variable system
30 load ... "16384":rem 6.75kb - captured screen
50 load"" code val ...ZEsarUX 8.0 stableHi! I've uploaded a new FINAL stable ZEsarUX version, 8.0 :) You can download it, as always, from the url: https://github.com/chernandezba/z…
... support for more cyrillic characters on menu
-Added ... /> Added text adventure keyboard also on CPC
Added ... 10 watches on screen
-watches are saved on configuration file< ... words
Fixed bug on CPC vertical scrolling
...ZX-HD HDMI - is there noticeable input lag?Hi everyone, I am thinking of buying a ZX-HD as I find the bit crawl on my 48k+ a bit irritating, and ZX-HD blooming cool!!!!. But I guess my key …
... I find the bit crawl on my 48k+ a bit irritating ... and then chuck it out on screen I would think?
The editor is sluggishWhen type a reply or even worse post a new thread, the editor is sluggish: you can see a definite lag between the keypresses and the characters disp…
... keypresses and the characters displayed on screen.
Maybe this is ...The Diagnostic PCBIt arrived in the post today so this is my first go with the Diagnostic PCB. (bought on Ebay) This item , I think , does the same job as Retroleu…
... with the Diagnostic PCB. (bought on Ebay)
This item ... black and white vertical lines on screen .So I retried it with ... Black and White vertical lines on screen . So I reckon it is ... produce black and white lines on screen? !Will be away for at least a week.Just signing in for one hour, and typing this up in advance, hopefully i will be able to get it posted and do anything else I need, because one hour …
... (quite inadvertently) a payment on my phone and lost my ... any length of time specified on my terms and conditions. ... I guess it must be on the bottom - I ... these with my phone's on-screen "keypad" I pressed the ... having to guess whats going on until now, but almost ...Fixing a ZX Clone from .ru - 27 years late.Hi there, I've currently assembled another russian clone a "Compact 256 Turbo" from a PCB I bought. The machine appears to be fully functional and o…
... can watch Scorpion 256 Demos on the Compact 256. Timing ... per INT, 295/312 Lines on Screen, waitstates). Only problem I encountered ... off. You can see it on this simulated screenshot which perfectly ... Pixel offset between Border and Screen. Demo used is "Cool ...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…
... Pac: The actions happens on almost all the screen.
- Jet Set ... Willy: It happens on two-thirds of the entire screen.
- Bloodwych ... screenshot shows two small "windows" on screen.
Thanks.Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…
... /> • The new "filter" tools on the archive list are very ... the top of the screen when you scroll down. ... on my medium-res screen.
• Archive list pages: On ... see about 50 titles on screen at once - now ... on the left eating up more of the screen ...why am i getting b integer out of range in this code?ive tried running this in spin but thats what i get [code]main org 40000; ; We want a black screen. ld a,71 ; white ink (7) on black paper (0…
... ld (23693),a ; set our screen colours.
xor a ; quick ... call 3503 ; ROM routine - clears screen, opens chan 2.
; Initialise ... /> rst 16 ; put mushroom on screen.
djnz mushlp ; loop ... ),a ; set our temporary screen colours.
ld a,144 ...
