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  • How to change font size in postsSorry I'm probably being a total duffer here, but what <></> wrapping do I use to change font size please?

    Sorry I'm probably being a total duffer here, but what wrapping do I use to change font size please?
    R-Tape R-Tape May 2016 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Change PAPER and INK, but nothing else?Can you in BASIC change the colour attributes in the screen without changing what is already printed at that location? I.e. change the PAPER and INK,…

    Can you in BASIC change the colour attributes in the screen without changing what is already printed at that location? I.e. change the PAPER and INK, but keep the character (or whatever is displayed) intact.
    Rickard Rickard May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... could be compounds of this basic unit... EG: For a ... core of sprites that never change, and then a selection ... : map tiles, map array, character placement coordinates, object overlays [weapons ... /> 9 ) What is the basic maptile unit size in pixels? (The original ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Development
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... 9 bytes in size :- 8 bytes for one character's worth ... colour. As the screen contents change (sprite move, background print, ... the sprite graphics for the character-size portion of the sprite occupying ... the C entry points with Basic entrypoints. In z88dk we ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2010 Development
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... , then load the screen and character set.

    Note that ... test[/B]

    The basic functionality of the designer is ... box is one character cell and to change that size use the shifted ... thing we'll do is change a couple of switches, so ...
    jp jp November 2014 Announcements
  • 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…

    ... display as being tiled by character-size cells.

    Anyway, using ... before copying the buffer (one character cell) to the display file ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?

    ... and third spanning after each character adjustment. I've not worked ... cycles. The above would change a little bit if this ... sprite draw code draws only character size pieces so there is no ... [quote]
    I suppose the character drawing would probably have been ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?

    ... .7 cycles. The above would change a little bit if this ... sprite draw code draws only character size pieces so there is no ...
    obo obo May 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... that the template places seven basic time units into PTU, ... , with each column being one character (8 pixels) wide. The ... stored internally as 9 independent character-size pieces. The SP1 function ... SP1 uses to describe each character composing a sprite. The ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • Tutorial: ZX-Paintbrush and BIFROST*The latest version of [URL="http://www.zxmodules.de/"]ZX-Paintbrush[/URL] now supports editing multicolor tiles as used in [URL="http://www.worldofsp…

    ... you have finished editing it, change "raster size" to 8 pixels (clicking ... to tape, press BREAK (the BASIC version of the BIFROST* demo ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2012 Development
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... dw 19 ; TAP block size - header tape block (19 ... # for BASIC)
    dw 32768 ; size of BASIC program, otherwise ... +1-_START ; TAP block size
    db $ff ; ... it I'm seeing character errors in the ...
    David Jones David Jones November 2013 Development
  • ZX-Assembler file handling concept[QUOTE=clausjahn;777075]Dear readers, At this time, it's a good time to ask you, the future users, how to implement the file usage. Let's suggest so…

    ... of the screen that change, at character size resolution. The engine ... Sprites can be clipped to character-resolution rectangles. The sprite data ... structures are therefore character-oriented which makes them ... to move sprites by character or pixel amounts, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2014 Emulators
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... changes to once per 2 character squares. E.g. for right ... attr (side by side), can change color.
    The electrical plug ... these horizontal span structures can change in size/length, and will have ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • Enterprise 128Hello, has anyone come across any entry level tutorials on z80 assembler specific to the Enterprise machines in English. I found some Hungarian stuf…

    ... you like to use for character movement?
    Because it is ... , but with LPT you can change it as you want, ex ... /> Default addressing for a 40x25 character size bitmap in normal pixel screen ...
    Geco Geco August 2016 Development
  • Hacker QuestionHello hackers, as some of you might know, I am supervising the work on converting games from TR-Dos or TAP to the +D or Opus disk format for our SC…

    ...
    gLoaderPayload.putdataintlit_min(CODE_OFFSET); // 23759+basic size
    gLoaderPayload.putdata(':');
    gLoaderPayload ... ' could be replaced by any basic-printable character, but I didn't ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA August 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... a very small amount of character data.

    I actually ... version with a cut down character set consisting of only numbers ... thing won't increase in size too much, but given an ... support for control codes to change character set mid scroll or print ...
    jamorski jamorski October 2016 Development
  • 48K Rubeer Key Spectrum Keyboard OverlaysThe use of keyboard overlays touched on by me here:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55006/recreated-spectrum-what-do-we-get-f…

    ... he gives some basic advice like :- choose "100% actual size" and turn ... " where these options are available . Basic stuff but had I forgotten ... I use it) seems change the size so maybe my scanner is ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2020 Games
  • Microdrive FormattingHo hum, yawn, microdrives - my favourite subject... ;) I?ve been doing some tinkering around, and have noticed that issuing a FORMAT command (with t…

    ... syntax) from a line of BASIC, or by directly entering ... FORMAT with a BASIC program present, the newly ... remnants of the BASIC program. The size of the BASIC program doesn't ... a ?clean? format with BASIC present? I'm currently experimenting ...
    jp jp November 2005 Development
  • Forum message display formatIs there a customisation option to show a sender's details above the message rather than at the left-hand side? I thought that I'd seen one but now I…

    ... displayed in a rather large character size it forces the message text ... the user name in a size more in keeping with the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Walking DeadI think it was a little too soon that they made the Govenor change character back to being bad. Especially when he has his new family with a kid, the…

    ... that they made the Govenor change character back to being bad.
    Hedegaard Hedegaard November 2013 Chit chat
  • VADE RETRO IIVADE RETRO II Hello ¡! I have finished a new game (sorry). More or less, it´s the continuation of the VADE RETRO that I programmed in 2012: …

    ... .....................IN/OUT VEHICLE
    1 .................... CHANGE CHARACTER[/b]

    I hope ...
    J.B. J.B. November 2017 Brand new software
  • Little Known Classic GamesI've been spending a while downloading some of my fave speccy games lately, and while I probably have most of the well-known great speccy games on my…

    ... bit was he seemed to change character completely in every game!
    RichB RichB September 2004 Games
  • Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…

    ... cut and copy a 8x8 character size block of graphic) the program ...
    Arm73 Arm73 November 2004 Emulators
  • Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…

    ... wheel on your mouse to change transparency, if stay on top ... wheel can be used to change window size now.
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov November 2004 Emulators
  • Saving and loading JpegsI'm designing a graphic ( not very well explained I know ) that will print out 3 inch disc labels, my question is when I load a jpeg that i have save…

    ... which are 25 meg in size, and saved them as 256 ... which were 125kb in size with no change in the quality of ... with, why such a big change in size ???????
    swordheart swordheart March 2005 Chit chat
  • Sprite DesignerDoes anybody know of a good sprite-designer package? The game I'm currently working on is requireing a lot of sprites, and coding them all as binary…

    ... code, but if you using BASIC change the defb's to data ...
    Kiwi Kiwi January 2006 Development
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    The rule is: the maximum size of the TAP file is ... . The 25 bytes are the BASIC header + info relative to the ... also used by the BASIC program, the size limit for your game ... 'll need to reduce the size of your game.

    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris March 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... sp1_update". If a particular character cell is changed by ... Each sprite is divided into character-size pieces (8x8 pixels) that ... any character cell on screen. If your display size (configurable ... into characters with each character described internally by a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... the sprite is broken into character size pieces (ie 8x8 pixels ... functions, it is these character-cell size pieces that are added ... to the sprite character lists ... on the plane the sprite character occupies.

    sp1_UpdateNow ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
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