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Really obviously terrible design choicesI've developed a little fondness this weekend for a game I never rated back in the day - Firebirds by Softek. https://youtu.be/Bvd8FUu-YtU?t=360 …
... by the ridiculously awful-looking attribute glitching, rather than just having ... -
Tricks to make mirror image of a graphic?I've been working on a sprite routine for lots of sprites and animations. I'm only storing right facing graphics, and converting them to left facing.…
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Direct drive LCD screen - looking for information on previous projects people may have attempted.Hi All, My first post, so please forgive and guide if I've posted in the incorrect section. I'm a speccy user from way back in the 80's, but m…
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ZX Lo-Fi editorHi, I thought I would share some work in progress I did on ZX editor of peculiar kind. It is an web-app (WIP, not yet accessible on the web - p…
... x 48 "pixels" and full attribute painting, and when exported it ... it into compressed "image" and attribute .asm definition.
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Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…
Pity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It was for a text/graphic adventure I'm working on. The algorithm is based on [url="http ... -
Pandemic boredom induced hobby revisitedA few weeks ago, possibly because of the promised Biden stimulus check for $1400, I decided I deserved a splurge and went to Walmart to get two new l…
... followed by a Lomography Instant Square Glass camera which has turned ... very good prints in both square and mini formats. So I ... -
Spectrum Games that "mirror" commercially available board games .I will eliminate traditional board games like chess ,draughts and backgammon from this category . But the more well known board games like Monopoly ,…
... return to home base over square grid symmetrical base. Quality feel ... -
Fighting Warrior's protection systemThis is one of those bizarre cases where cracking the loading system is orders of magnitude more fun than playing the game. (Indeed, discovering I wa…
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pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
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Sound emulation methodsI am working on a little emulation project for fun and also with the 40th anniversary of the 48k shortly followed by my Issue 2. I have the video and…
... 20ms buffer. Basically assembling the square wave. Seems to work well ... -
8-bit webcam & Speccy imagesI want to present you my small pet-project, made for the soul and for practicing some modern web technologies. The project is called "8-bit Camera…
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New Game: TCQ (Triangle Circle Square)Amaweks released a new game for ZX Spectrum and MSX: https://amaweks.itch.io/tcq
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Standard Development LibrariesSo after some time away I decided to re-register after a Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/SpectrumNez/status/1578158361236963328) led me to a Visu…
Exact emulation of the Snow effectAs the original post on another forum is outdated, and for those who don't know about that forum, I duplicate this info here: At the beginning of …
... a pixel byte and its attribute. The first RAS pulse is ... byte, the second for the attribute, only bits 13-7 change ... , it's the first pixel/attribute burst, the CAS asserted the ...Speedlock 5 & 6Is it really possible to convert a working VOC of a speedlock 5 or 6 game into a TZX ? The reason I ask this is because I have a couple of games tha…
Getting the ball rolling againOkay things have been a bit stale in comparison to what this forum used to be like. Too many fallouts and it is getting harder to think of new threa…
... a floating head-in-a-square on a quest to thwart ...PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... places a white queen on square E4
BND1 places a ... /> SG6 removes the piece on square G6 ("S" for "space", presumably ... />
To identify a particular square, always use the letter first ... have to tell it which square it's on and where ...EliteCan any of you good people tell me how to use the LENSLOC that is supplied with Elite.I have the game loaded at the ENTER CODE screen but cannot work…
... the Lenslok? - It's a square plastic lens thing that you ...Confounded modern thingsIt appears the server instability has left a gap in the forums listing so I'll post this again. Given a complete lack of anything on the projects pa…
... just can't change the attribute colours fast enough. It takes ...What is the most original game youve played on speccy??Hi, ppl I know its hard to answer this kind of questions coz you must to leave a lot of other games but.. What is the most original game youve play…
... . And Vagrant Story showed that Square (occasionally) gives its talent the ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... (unless you're including the attribute memory, which if you're ... pixel scrolling pattern to avoid attribute clash - it's really very ... work this way to avoid attribute clash and hence I completely ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... the game was monochrome the attribute pattern basically meant that pixel ... work better with it's attribute layout whereas this wasn't ...Is there anything new to comeApart from doom. I personally don't think there has been anything all that innovative on the pc. Whereas the Speccy had handfuls of games in that c…
... how many character on a square inch are shown. All those ...loading programs using taper on a spectrumHello, I have the taper program and a bunch of games in a tzx and tap file format. I'm trying to load them to my spectrum/or make copies on new caset…
... produce sine wave instead of square wave (which is produced by ...PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... , the bitmap first, then the attribute data. Et voli?, you have ... *screensize ; the size of the attribute data
LD DE,22526 ... ; point to the attribute memory
LDIR ; continue loading ...ftp downloadingFTP-downloading... hmm.. After several attempts was obtained the message "...load will be continued after the input of password, which is concluded…
... the easyEverything cybercaf? at Trafalgar Square, London, has terminals whose IP ...who owned a zx81 before the spectrumHow many of you owned a zx81 before getting a spectrum and did it make you want to get a spectrum. I owned a zx81 first but all my mates had a spectr…
me me me! me and my mate julian went halves to get a 1K ZX81. I can still remember the day round my house when Julian worked out how to write a program to make a black square to move across the screen! oooh! animation!