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  • SoftRom emulation possible?Hello. Quick question to all emulator developers: How easy would it be to emulate a SoftRom? The mastering utilites for my protection system XLR-8 a…

    ... files (ie, the basic loader and the encrypted screen display).

    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Development
  • SoftRom emulation possible?Hello. Quick question to all emulator developers: How easy would it be to emulate a SoftRom? The mastering utilites for my protection system XLR-8 a…

    ... files (ie, the basic loader and the encrypted screen display).

    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Emulators
  • TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …

    ... The SCREEN$ loads, followed by the menu (written in BASIC and ... level (again, written in BASIC and about 14k in ... in size. The first screen for the level is ... MCoder 3 encodes the main screen and the level, but ... screen, I get the good ol' C Nonsense in BASIC ...
    pottyboy pottyboy October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …

    ... wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on the ...
    Skarpo Skarpo November 2005 Games
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... to understand the way the screen is controlled.

    The ... controls output to the the screen and the rom sets out ... the memory locations of the screen ( and attributes ). is this correct ...
    Saboteur Saboteur November 2005 Hardware
  • Compiling BASIC programs using Hi-Soft CompilerThis might get me nowhere, but it's worth a try... I'm writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's CD compilation, if he'll have it - …

    ... writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's ... Spectaculator/SPIN running Hi-Soft BASIC compiler. I've been testing ... until the size of the BASIC program crept above 14K and ... test the compiled program whilst BASIC program and compiler were still ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 November 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…

    ... recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only ...
    vilcans vilcans November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…

    ... (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)

    screen

    Can ...

    ; Clear the screen to show we are bringing ... ; Copy from store to the screen

    ld hl ...
    robpearmain robpearmain November 2005 Development
  • About U.N.SquadronHello there! I have a question, I have the cassete of the game U.N.Squadron from US Gold, and when I play it on my Speccy it has a bug: when I am goi…

    ... to the beggining screen, the one with Loader, Calculator, Basic, etc...I ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx November 2005 Games
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... somewhere the bottom 2/3 screen memory. It's the address ... code part of the basic into the screen area which is where ... and launches it)

    "SCREEN$ DESIGNER" - firstly, load the loading ... use!!). It'll stick the screen into SoftRom and bomb out ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • WOS - The Computer Game I may start looking at putting some quick routines together for this over the weekend, so wanted to establish some sort of concensus as to the form …

    ... thinks. Should it be a basic MM or JSW style collect ... , and how much of the screen is to be taken up ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2005 Games
  • How to recover data from old Microdrive cartridges?I have 17 Microdrive cartridges that I filled with games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" section of this website) about 20 years ago. My or…

    ... a few SCREEN$ files eventually, and one 4 line BASIC program.
    Ron101 Ron101 December 2005 Hardware
  • BASIC 2005 Competition - a lot of games for downloadA lot of BASIC games in Bytemaniacos competition, all in spanish for download now: [url="http://www.bytemaniacos.com/html/basic2005.html"]http://www…

    A lot of BASIC games in Bytemaniacos competition, all ...
    radastan radastan January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair Extended BASIC...Sinclair Extended BASIC is on hold, pending the completion of the Open82 project.

    Sinclair Extended BASIC is on hold, pending the completion of the Open82 project.
    chev chev January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • speccy-basic compilerHi everybody! i'd like to compile spectrum basic programs to z80 asm to make them work faster. I've tryed a lot of compilers running on speccy but i …

    ... 'd like to compile spectrum basic programs to z80 asm to ... program that I type a basic program and it compile and ...
    paolo z paolo z January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • more than basic gamesHi, I was wondering if profession games were programmed by using software beyond basic, because in this forum people are saying you can only do …

    ... programmed by using software beyond basic, because in this forum people ... any way of saving your basic program, half half way through ...
    somewherecheap somewherecheap January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Detecting TR-DOS from BASICIs there a simple (or contrived :D ) way to detect the presence of a TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC? For fairly obvious reasons this can't rel…

    ... TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC?

    For fairly obvious ...
    pissedbob pissedbob January 2006 Development
  • Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks

    If you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used?
    thanks
    somewherecheap somewherecheap January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • ROM paging questionAssuming the Spectrum 128 memory map and port addresses, but two custom ROMs in place of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient way …

    ... of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient ... at 23296, immediately after the screen attributes.
    chev chev January 2006 Development
  • GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…

    Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxes, listboxes, editboxes, or something similar?
    Thanks in advance
    carmack carmack January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    Are there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc?

    The Spectrum BASIC manual only glosses over them without going into a lot of detail.

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin Release 13 is now availableI'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is now available at [url="http://homepage.ntlw…

    ... that you can create your BASIC programs with consummate ease.
    Fixed - LOAD ""SCREEN$ didn't display properly (the ... SCREEN$ wasn't properly highlighted).
    ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2006 Emulators
  • BASin Release 13 is now available[unashamedly x-posted from Emulators forum] I'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is …

    ... that you can create your BASIC programs with consummate ease.
    Fixed - LOAD ""SCREEN$ didn't display properly (the ... SCREEN$ wasn't properly highlighted).
    ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
    PopoCop PopoCop February 2006 Games
  • Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …

    ... fuzzy blocks instead the Loading screen, self-reset during loading[/B ... , game doesn?t run, wrong basic loaded[/B]

    Zythum ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup February 2006 Development
  • Adding graphics to a text adventure??Hi everyone. I've always wanted to create a Spectrum adventure game and have spent several evenings browsing the forums here, WOS and the internet on…

    ... PAW and now have a basic understanding of them all but ... managed to create a loading screen as well and edit that ...
    yadster yadster February 2006 Development
  • Name that screen shotJust picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on pag…

    Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1
    chop983 chop983 February 2006 Games
  • how do I tune the speccy to tv?hello folks :) I am come here for help rather than because I am still a speccy person. I did start with the ZX, many moons ago,had a couple of thos…

    ... of those and taught myself basic on it before graduating to ... tv to get a viewable screen. I recall you press the ...
    pawz pawz February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen DisolveHas anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see

    Has anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
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