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  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... interrupts
    ret ; return to BASIC

    org 0xc39a ...
    jp 56 ; exit via BASIC interrupt handler

    blit ... POP/PUSH for everything except rainbow processing, and in that ... the same thing as a rainbow processor.

    ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2012 Development
  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... the same thing as a rainbow processor.

    Ahhh, which ... POP/PUSH for everything except rainbow processing, and in that instance ... know? I'm just a BASIC coder. :-P
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2012 Development
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    ... 't want multitasking on a basic spectrum. To make it sensible ... black box (with the iconic rainbow stripe) with SD card storage ... tape playback. Imagine Buddy, SE Basic, ULA+ and optional Timex screen ...
    retrogod retrogod May 2012 Development
  • Whats on your Disk?Following on from the highly popular whats on your C90 thread, how about whats on your disk? Having unearthed my 20+ year old MGT +D disks collection…

    ... and bits I submitted, some rainbow processing, game pokes, and ... /> 5 CHANGER 2 ZX BASIC 10
    6 GRAPHICS ... /> 7 HEXENT 3 ZX BASIC 5
    8 SAMSYNTH ... /> 14 WINDAS 3 ZX BASIC 9999
    15 WINDACODE ...
    obo obo July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Psion 5 Spectrum Emulator probsI picked up a second hand Psion 5MX as I have gotten the text adventuring bug once more. I installed the Sinclair Spectrum Emulator version 4.0 by Pa…

    ... least get to play some basic adventures. My keyboard works fine ... I have typed in a BASIC program or two. Things to ... ROM). It doesn't show rainbow graphics properly, but that shouldn ...
    snigfarp snigfarp December 2012 Emulators
  • SpeedLockI'm aware that there are seven (7) - yes, SEVEN!! - different iterations of the SpeedLock loader. I've loaded games from all 7 types, one by one, and…

    ... , or has a small BASIC block in standard colours before ... notice followed by a short BASIC block with a header (especially ... remaining blocks are in multicolour rainbow stripes
    - There is ... " ("Arcus" being Latin for "Rainbow"). The data encoding seems to ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2013 Games
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... ! From none other than Doctor Rainbow Trousers himself! (joefish).

    BASIC and was done in 4 ...
    R-Tape R-Tape February 2013 Games
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... ! From none other than Doctor Rainbow Trousers himself! (joefish).

    BASIC and was done in 4 ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2013 Games
  • New game: Knights & DemonsHi everybody! Our new game is here. Knights & Demons is a puzzle game in which you have to turn all demons into knights before time is up. [IMG]htt…

    ... [/URL] to be used from BASIC
    -1 character set, created ... the game.

    The BASIC code was compiled using Hisoft ... its time to use ZX-BASIC for the "Rainbow" edition ;)
    Baron Ashler Baron Ashler February 2013 Brand new software
  • New game: Knights & DemonsHi everybody! Our new game is here. Knights & Demons is a puzzle game in which you have to turn all demons into knights before time is up. [IMG]htt…

    ... time to use ZX-BASIC for the "Rainbow" edition ;)[/QUOTE]

    BASIC with BIFROST* in the next ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2013 Brand new software
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... , and (b) it had a BASIC loader with a RANDOMIZE USR ... .

    Speedlock 7 speed, rainbow ripple border (which looks great ... option (which gives a short basic program before the code) and ... then edit the BASIC in Claus Jahn's ZX ...
    leespoons leespoons October 2013 Development
  • grey +2 mystery continuesAfter fixing two grey +2 Issue 3 Spectrums, where replacing and turning TR4 solved the RGB signal problems, I came across two more problems with the …

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;738266]I know nothing about ... from the picture in the rainbow stripes on the menu, but ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay December 2013 Hardware
  • What is this Nirvana engine?Ive been trying to look for a thread on this but cant seem to locate one. I downloaded a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which ha…

    Multicolor or "Rainbow" engines increase the color resolution ... be used in your own BASIC programs on 48K Spectrums using ...
    chev chev April 2014 Games
  • Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…

    ... size editor font the Spectrum rainbow appears correctly on the status ... starts "48 BASIC". Both ends of the rainbow are slanted at ... size to "Double" the rainbow is still displayed but the ... , if you select "Treble" the rainbow disappears completely.

    ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …

    I wrote a small BASIC program that can be used ... /> [code] 10 DATA "1","Rainbow Islands 128K","rainbow.z80"
    20 DATA ... maintain. You can even get BASIC to read the directory of ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix June 2014 Development
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... that none of the other rainbow engines do and lends itself ... scripted entirely in Boriel's BASIC so that should lower the ... engine). Thus far, the other rainbow engine games are platformers and ...
    chev chev July 2014 Brand new software
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... BASIC. It handles all the heavy lifting. It includes two different rainbow ... engines, and three different rainbow display modes. However ...
    chev chev August 2014 Brand new software
  • DivMMC Enjoy - I'm not enjoying it!My DivMMC Enjoy arrived today. Excitedly I rushed home to plug it into my +2a. I have quite a few SD card/CF solutions for my computers so I know wha…

    ... via the interface or via BASIC.

    Examples include Zub ... to leave the intro sequence. Rainbow Islands crashing on the loading ... to load (Chase HQ and Rainbow Islands being 2).

    saberman saberman January 2015 Hardware
  • Super Mario -Esque Games?A super mario type game would have been very popular for speccy, The closest I can think of is Ghouls and Ghosts,or Ghost and Goblins. Maybe Wonder…

    ... which possibly used the same basic template as those is Quickdraw ... /> for the record I agree rainbow islands and rodland are a ...
    def chris def chris October 2015 Games
  • Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …

    ... page 7) when running some BASIC disk commands. If you call ... ). On some games (Chase HQ, Rainbow Islands, Cabal), banks 1, 3 ...
    Zup Zup July 2017 Development
  • Books databaseWe are amending the books database so that pages can be OCR'd into text, and also allowing language translations.

    ... download the following book "Rainbow Book of BASIC Programs" having owned a ...
    jawa808 jawa808 July 2017 Books
  • Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…

    ... in the border, even from BASIC, this was the first time ... with Robinson's own [i]Rainbow Generator[/i]. But [i]Buzzsaw ... , but it was tied to BASIC which made it excrutiatingly slow ...
    joefish joefish January 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How does the anti-MERGE trick work?I remember on the Beeb you decided whether to load a program and stop, or load a program and automatically run it, by choosing between LOAD and CHAIN…

    ... variables. However, since IIRC the BASIC workspace starts at 23755, I ... take the WoS dump of Rainbow Islands and analyse it byte ...
    equinox equinox May 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Finding and listing the Games that are PWI ( Playable Without Instructions)The idea for this came up here:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/58008/what-of-zx-spectrum-games-can-be-played-without-referri…

    ... instructions to play RoboCop, Batman, Rainbow Islands, Pang, Midnight Resistance etc ... lot of time listing every basic platformer/shooter going.

    AndyC AndyC October 2020 Games
  • Childbook rantOk you lot that have me as friend on childbook ive just been banned again, for 3 days (im on the verge of shutting my account it really is **** petty…

    ... />
    If you think the Rainbow Room 3 button setup was ... the physical strain of the basic training, sometimes we left the ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG July 2021 Chit chat
  • Currah MicroSourceThis is an interesting one for the experts to mull over. I've got (and love) a MicroSource interface from Currah which consisted of an 8K ROM provid…

    ... providing assembly (excellent), forth (v. basic) and debug facility.

    Chris Chris August 2001 Emulators
  • zx32: cursor keysAre the cursor keys emulated on zx32? I ask because i want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu in Spectrum 128 mode, but when I pre…

    ... want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu ... how do I select 128K basic in zx32?
    Spector Spector July 2001 Emulators
  • Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …

    ... how about a build in Basic compiler (much like HiSoft Colt ... and bit-test, or HiSoft Basic 1.1)?
    In fact ... compiler. The extended basic could base on Beta Basic, Laser Basic (Laser Compiler ... was lame) or Mega Basic and can include extra commands ...
    LCD LCD April 2001 Emulators
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