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Urban Speccy MythI remember many moons ago my mate telling me that there was some RANDOMIZE USR command that would destroy your speccy!!!! Is there any truth in this…
... kicking about underneath my pinball table.
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Footie Director 2 +3 versionI am so happy to find the +3 version of FDII on the site! Now at last I can re-live my student years!! One question though - when you play an away …
... - tactics?
like a table of recommended wages, signing fees ... -
The Specchums Government ProjectRighto, listen up lads! Now, that we have a sizeable Speccie community here, I suppose it is time we laid the foundations of a new government order f…
... rug. Should a black coffee table should be moved into that ... -
What was your 3 Character Signature?What was your 3 character signature? Mine was 'mik'. (short for Mike) 'mik' once showed up on the top of the first R-Type machine to hit Rhyl in the…
LIN to be seen at the top of many a battlezone highscore table ;) -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... ARE ALL BROWN! Okay no attribute clash, but it's all ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... ARE ALL BROWN! Okay no attribute clash, but it's all ... -
Philips monitor - CM8833 (not II) RGB pinouts?Anyone know the pinouts for the Philips CM8833 monitor? I can only find the CM8833-II pinouts on the Web, which uses a different kind of connector - …
Bright? I don't think any display system uses a 'bright' pin - as far as I recall there is no Sinclair specific monitor designed for our weird attribute map.
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Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... ARE ALL BROWN! Okay no attribute clash, but it's all ... .
it DOES have attribute clash. I dont know of ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... black casing and the natty attribute clash, and the high resolution ... -
name the football mangement game......pleasei've been trying to find the name of this football management game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it that i can remember that my help so…
... Qualifier or World Cup Group table were shown on a single ... -
Speccy machine code info where is it?Recently I've been trying to learn Z80 and I've managed to make limited progress (some of my routines even compile now!) but I seem to be having trou…
... character coordinates, screen address and attribute addresses. I'll leave that ... of these pixel, character and attribute routines in the "screenaddress" subdirectory ... -
Speccy machine code info where is it?Recently I've been trying to learn Z80 and I've managed to make limited progress (some of my routines even compile now!) but I seem to be having trou…
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Attribute Address (16 bits)
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Favourite latest generation consolesDisregarding previous consoles, out of today's big three, which console do you prefer? Gamecube? PS2? or Microsoft Halo-player? I'm wildly predi…
... and also the Grandstand "Scramble" Table Top Machine. I was already ... -
jack and the beanstalkcan someone tell me what to do on the second screen. I never worked it out in 1985 and nothing`s changed.
... approach to dealing with the attribute problem, which was to simply ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... don't like you can attribute to me?
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Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... all lost in all that attribute. Best to make the play ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
The sprites aren't big enough not to look a little lost in the backgrounds - it's going to be most noticeable in the darker areas.
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Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
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lovely multicoloured attribute maps. It seems absurd now ... -
Funniest Thing I've Ever ReadThis from Amstrad's company information page: 1984 Amstrad launches the first mass market Home Computer package (CPC range), designed by Amstrad e…
... spectrum 128's without the attribute grids (and hence, the speed ... -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
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2. Having a shifting table, along these lines:
; hl is base of shifting table
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Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... /> [quote]2. Having a shifting table, along these lines:
; hl is base of shifting table
; ix is screen area ... you were writing a shifitng table you'd be taking a ... -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... -the-fly, have a shift-table instead of doing various bit ... .
Anyway, using a table, each byte can be rotated ... -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
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2. Having a shifting table, along these lines:
; hl is base of shifting table
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The rotation table is pointed at by h ... we are being pedantic. The table must start on a 256 ... -
Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…
No, it is not the same. What I call rainbow processing is this:
You synchronize the CPU with the video, and then switch rapidly the color attributes for the 8x8 cells, resulting in selectig a new attribute for each 8x1 cell. -
Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…
Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…
... know just the huffman tree table would be bigger than that ...Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…
... byte per symbol in a table to record frequency, you would ... 8-bit frequency in the table gives you 0.2% accuracy ... more error the 256 byte table can be shrunk. When you ... as the decoder's frequency table.
The actual construction ...Huffman questionI'm pretty sure that the answer to my question is "no", but I just want a second opinion: Is it possible to somehow cram a Huffman decompressor + de…
... I use a 8-bit table, I've only ~100 bytes ... 7-bit or 6-bit table, though that will seriously damage ...TrapdoorDoes anyone remember this game ? One of the 1st games that uswed clever programming techniques to get around the colour clash problem. Anyone know …
... , colourful graphics and indeed reduced attribute clash. It still impresses me ...
