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  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... 'd much prefer proper colour graphics and 1 multiload ... two colours per attribute box, bright with bright or basic with basic ... when designing quick, efficient colour Spectrum grafics (ie black ... dark blue backgrounds, 1 colour characters with the background ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 July 2010 Games
  • SPECTRA - RGB SCART Interface for 48K SpectrumSince the launch of the SPECTRA interface back in June 2012, some discussion of it has appeared in the forums in the past (mainly [URL="http://www.wo…

    ... picture that is sharp, bright and free from dot- ... attribute modes are supported, ranging from the standard 15 colour ... br /> Screenshots for the various attribute modes can be created using ... issue of attribute colour clash, not to re-colour existing games).< ...
    Fruitcake Fruitcake April 2013 Hardware
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... been?

    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The sound ... use any.

    The attribute problem didn't bother me ... same two colour per character limitation, there is no "bright" limitation, and ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Games
  • Q. on a recently submitted JSW map.The [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/j/JetSetWilly_8.png"]JSW map[/URL] recently submitted to WoS pops up weird over here …

    ... /> 1. Black with the BRIGHT attribute set on, originally indistinguishable from ... the bitmap stripped of its colour, BRIGHT and FLASH attributes). Here ...
    Again, simple colour substitutions can give you as ... original is the FLASH attribute. The
    PNG ...
    mheide mheide August 2009 Support files
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... that make active use of BRIGHT and FLASH (Manic Miner, say ... (after all, a colour rarely switches from bright to dark). As for ... standard Speccy doesn't allow BRIGHT 1 borders. Does the ULA64 ... . the paper colours for an attribute where bright and flash are off ...
    joefish joefish November 2009 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... . the paper colours for an attribute where bright and flash are off ... border colours possible (full screen colour effects etc). Even if full ... able to set the border colour from any palette probably is ...
    csmith csmith November 2009 Emulators
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... two colours per attribute box, bright with bright or basic with basic ... when designing quick, efficient colour Spectrum grafics (ie black ... dark blue backgrounds, 1 colour characters with the background ... coloured, then imagine the colour clash each time you ...
    Swainy Swainy July 2010 Games
  • PAPER&INK: screen/character differenciation?So I was looking at a type-in listing earlier and I got to wondering how the Spectrum differenciates between knowing that the PAPER/INK commands need…

    The temporary colour (INK, PAPER) and attribute (FLASH, BRIGHT) commands can also be used ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... been?

    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The sound ... />
    Mine would be the attribute problem for sure; was always ... to handle more than one colour in 8x8 character screen display ...
    Parky Parky September 2004 Games
  • BORDER colours...Hi Folks, As a matter of interest, why can't the Spectrum make the BORDER colour BRIGHT? Is this just a BASIC limitation of is there are hardware r…

    Hi Folks,

    As a matter of interest, why can't the Spectrum make the BORDER colour BRIGHT? Is this just a BASIC limitation of is there are hardware restriction?

    Many thanks

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The zxodus engineI've been playing around with this for a couple of days now. Its one of the best things I've seen for sinclair basic, and I've seen nothing about it …

    ... tile display is in 8x1 attribute 'rainbow' mode. Just seeing it ... in glorious ( for 1982 ) 8x1 attribute colour. :smile:
    It can be ...
    p13z p13z September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Your SinclairHi! I see in the archive that, little by little, all the crash magazines are being scanned... Is there a similar project about Your Sinclair magazin…

    Quite a few pages from each issue of Your Sinclair can`t be scanned due to the daft usage of colour... bright yellow text on bright white... red on purple... green on black.. purple on black... white on white. Headaches yesh indeedy!
    MatGubbins MatGubbins December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your SinclairHi! I see in the archive that, little by little, all the crash magazines are being scanned... Is there a similar project about Your Sinclair magazin…

    ... the daft usage of colour... bright yellow text on bright white... red on ...
    robysommo robysommo December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128k and BRIGHT?Just loaded up Arcadia (nice game, BTW). I have side by side a 128k and 48k Speccies and both are connected to the same tape player. So, I loaded the…

    ... digital RGBI, even with the BRIGHT (connected to INTENSITY on the ... then I got one MORE colour - BRIGHT BLACK - which shouldn't be ... /games look strange with a BRIGHT BLACK colour, which is suppsoed to ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... , Parky wrote:
    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The sound ...
    [/quote]

    the attribute "probs" (the house that Jack ...
    Dasse Dasse September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... been?

    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The sound ... /> I for once find the colour clash jus one of the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    [quote]1) The attribute colour problem[/quote]

    I ... looked a mess in full colour - but suddenly everything seemed to ... better sound, better graphics, better colour" etc, but never acknowledge that ...
    darkman darkman September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... wrote:

    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The sound ... .

    1) The attribute problems... But what about the ... that you get with certain colour combinations on the C64, ... C64 in hires mode) had colour clash too.

    ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... the screen layout/ resolution and attribute colour that it had/has.
    attribute, or a pixel per pixel colour grid then ... every pixel can be any colour the processor is just put ... like it does... to give colour, and yet keep the memory ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …

    ... won't be changing any attribute except BRIGHT anyway (in Matt_B's ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2006 Development
  • Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …

    ... the requisite is either high colour low res or high res ... `same res` versions with more colour :- Indiana Jones and the Last ... Escape, just looks awsome, with attribute colour used for the searchlights, perfect ...
    CKay CKay January 2007 Games
  • Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …

    ... `same res` versions with more colour :- Indiana Jones and the Last ... Escape, just looks awsome, with attribute colour used for the searchlights, perfect ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2007 Games
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... routine just check for the attribute colour - e.g. It looks for ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... routine just check for the attribute colour - e.g. It looks for ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Collision detectionI understand the basic methods for testing for collisions but I have question about the trickier situation of testing for when shots hit the backgrou…

    ... stuff you collide with as BRIGHT and all the other stuff ... br />
    ; after indexing the attribute memory...
    ld a,(hl ... ) ; get attribute
    add a,a ; move BRIGHT flag in to ...
    ret m ; return if attribute is BRIGHT

    or
    frobush frobush July 2007 Development
  • A Bit of Fun!! Three word story.Ok, so lets build up a random story. [b]Rules[/b] Each person must submit three words each. Consecutive posts are not allowed. You must allow a mini…

    the colour bright
    chop983 chop983 December 2008 Chit chat
  • Post your best SCRs - Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1 and beyondI've been playing around with Image to ZX Spec's encoding algorithms and I've achieved a "half colour" floyd steinberg mode, that it, the image is pa…

    ... the additional constraint of 8x8 attribute colour clash is imposed. Greyish areas ... 'winner' for a particular attribute block. FS is much better ... when: the attribute clash is lesser, as ... fit for the Spectrum's attribute system. An 8x8 ordered ...
    JamesW JamesW June 2009 Development
  • Post your best SCRs - Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1 and beyondI've been playing around with Image to ZX Spec's encoding algorithms and I've achieved a "half colour" floyd steinberg mode, that it, the image is pa…

    ... the additional constraint of 8x8 attribute colour clash is imposed. Greyish areas ... 'winner' for a particular attribute block. FS is much better ... when: the attribute clash is lesser, as ... fit for the Spectrum's attribute system. An 8x8 ordered ...
    brownb2 brownb2 June 2009 Development
  • GIGASCREEN with MULTICOLOUR 8*2Riskej made the pic. Pulsar coded the engine. I'm watching it on the 128+ at the moment and it is very stable. The file: [url]http://speccy-live.u…

    ... with something less than 8x1 attribute colour view window.
    chev chev September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GIGASCREEN with MULTICOLOUR 8*2Riskej made the pic. Pulsar coded the engine. I'm watching it on the 128+ at the moment and it is very stable. The file: [url]http://speccy-live.u…

    ... with something less than 8x1 attribute colour view window.[/QUOTE]Take this ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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