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Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …
... , or you can't print properly at the edge of the background ... -
Code structureHi all, I'd be interested in opinions on the neatest way to do this. I've got a print string routine in which 0-31 are reserved for control codes, …
... /> ;
do_byte
....branch to print char or control code
print text in a mainloop I would ... -
Rom routine for pixel addressDear all, Having my bi-annual 'lets try machine code' project again and have come up with a problem with the pixel address rom routine at 8874. …
Source code for Ticker library can be found [url="https://derekbolli.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/text-ticker-pixel-scrolling-demo-for-zx-spectrum-using-zasm-assembler/"]here[/url] -
Castlevania Spectral interlude has to be one of the best Speccy games ever.I never played Castlevania really before even when I owned a NES but after downloading this Zx game I was simply blown away with the way it was progr…
What would you improve to get graphics over that 89%? To me the game graphics are as good as the sound.
The only thing I didn't like too much was the amount of text at the beginning. Perhaps too much before there was some action. -
TommyGun updatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXFKYO5i1IlN2U4MUtrRVZZWUE/view?usp=sharing Hi, I have updated my TommyGun application and since we can't uplo…
... with tooltip "Invert Pixels" and text at the bottom mentions inverting pixels ... -
Castlevania Spectral interlude has to be one of the best Speccy games ever.I never played Castlevania really before even when I owned a NES but after downloading this Zx game I was simply blown away with the way it was progr…
... much was the amount of text at the beginning. Perhaps too much ... -
Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
... x=0
2011 PRINT AT 0,13;"000000"(TO x ... /> 3006 LET s$=STR$ score: PRINT AT 0,13;"000000"(TO 6 ... score=0
5006 PRINT AT 0,13;FN s$(STR ... so start score at 10
6006 PRINT AT 0,13;"000000"(TO ... LET s$="000000"+ STR$ score: PRINT AT 0,13;s$ ( LEN s ... -
ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …
... the cigarbox Uno. Still some text at the beginning is needed.
Perhaps some more descriptive text as well. Any other thoughts ... -
Poke a TAP fileI want to poke a multiload TAP (Turbo the Tortoise)? I could load 1 part at a time and poke in an emulator, however I want to keep the TAP intact. …
... compression or change the assembly instructions dynamically at runtime, it should hopefully ... -
When did you get your first mobile phone?This was discussed today at work, when did you get your first mobile? I bought mine from Woolworths back in summer 1999, it was Vodafone branded pre…
... with this!'. It was just text at the time but it cost ... -
Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…
... . Lines like "PRINT #2 OR r>=low;AT r-(21 AND ... /> [code]
PRINT #2 OR r>=low; AT r-(21 AND ...
Print #1; AT r-21,0;
Else
Print #2; AT r ... -
Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…
... ,0:
PRINT AT 22,0;"AT 22,0 to ...";AT 22,27;"22 ... 23:
PRINT #2 OR r>=low;AT r-(21 AND ... ,31): PRINT ATTR (23,31): POKE 23659,6:
INPUT AT 5 ... a=score
20 PRINT #2; AT 23,0; score:PAUSE 0 ... -
Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…
I figured it out ! This prints at row 22
[code] 10 PRINT #1; AT 1,0; "Hello bottom row": PAUSE 0: STOP [/code] -
how to fix instructions on screenI have a problem with my sequencer. I want the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print without pushing the instructio…
... : INK 2
10 PRINT "Program BEEPER 2"
... INK 0
20 PRINT "This program lets you enter ... one at a time then plays them
50 PRINT "How ... 75 INK 1
80 PRINT "Please enter"; b ; "notes"< ... = .5
160 PRINT "One at a time type in numbers ... -
Anagram creation - not as easy as it looks?I'm writing a story and I have a mystery villain who is never revealed. My main clue was to have been that every alias he uses is an anagram of the f…
... (a,1) THEN
PRINT CHR$ (a+64);" ";n ... THEN
PRINT "Invalid initial CHR$ (";c;") at ";pos: STOP ... name+1: PRINT #0;AT 0,0;name,,AT 0,8;< ... c26 THEN
PRINT "Invalid CHR$ (";co;") at ";pos: STOP
PRINT #0;AT 0,8;n$: LET ... -
New Z80 Assembly Syntax Highlighter!I made a syntax highlighter for TextMate for the Z80 assembly language. While it’s designed specifically to work with [b]zasm[/b], an assembler writt…
... porting my highlighter to Sublime Text at some point, but personally, I ... -
ROM emulation in softwareHi, first of all -- I only have shallow / uni knowledge of hardware, electronics, and physics. So forgive me for asking things that are out of that …
... (2-3 instruction assembly loop looking at appropriate GPIO bit)
2. read the address (2-3 assembly ... byte at that address from the internal buffer (1-2 assembly ... to the output puns (1 assembly instruction)
Or something ... -
Is it possible to add a listing to a screen?I made this picture (see next message for link) deliberately in the bottom half of the screen hoping to be able to have another display in the upper …
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[code]
62 PRINT #0; AT 0,0;"LOAD SPECGATE then ... -
z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... place a sprite at character resolution (assuming 8 pixel wide characters), I ... want to place a sprite at pixel resolution, which can I use ... -
z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... the latter can place things at pixel (?) precision on screen. There is ... which means your program acts at a lower level, more like ... first and then draw it at its new location. If you ... -
z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
[quote]BifrostL and BifrostH are the same except the latter can place things at pixel (?) precision on screen.[/quote]
left to right as well as up and down?
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z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... the latter can place things at pixel (?) precision on screen.[/quote]
pixel, but only on a divisible ... -by-8 horizontal pixel. Otherwise, yes, colours would need ... -
How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…
I seem to recall something on the Horizon's tape used a machine code routine to print text in a very large font? Or did I imagine that? -
How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…
[quote="thricenightly;914001"]I seem to recall something on the Horizon's tape used a machine code routine to print text in a very large font? Or did I imagine that?[/quote]
No, you're quite right about that :) -
Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…
... =0 TO 21
340 PRINT AT I,0;"LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"
350 ... NEXT I
360 PRINT #1;AT 0,0;"LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"
370 ... -
Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…
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230 REM Erase Cursor at old X,Y
240 ... PAUSE 1: PRINT #S;AT Y,X;B$;#NS;AT NY,NX;C ... -
Print vs 23659To be honest I could not think of a better topic title, although its not ideal. Anyway, I do recall reading ages ago that the reason you cannot no…
... only go as far as PRINT AT 22,x. I forget the ... if you simply want to print to the lower screen, it ... i] safer to use [b]PRINT #1; AT 0,x[/b] (or ... is because it tries to print an error message in ... within operands (such as AT, for instance). At address $a99, it ...
