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Screen$ command, ROM routineHi All, Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR command)? Any comments on how well it works or the spee…
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Iphone/Ipod touch gaming threadThought i would start a thread for this little gadget. I havent been this excited since the Speccy years. Never was keen on an Iphone, dont want a …
... surfing and playing a few basic games.
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vbSpec+Aside from the game I've been working on in Sinclair BASIC, I've been touching up vbSpec by ccowley. The later version 1.80's source code wasn't rele…
... been working on in Sinclair BASIC, I've been touching up ... so far. I added full screen support and support for PC ... -
Rubber Key ZX Spectrum - White ScreenA customer has just telephoned me about a rubber key 48K ZX Spectrum which he has purchased second hand. It produces just a white screen on the tele…
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Speccy 128 Shadow screen.How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software? I ask because I am looking at putting 128k of memory in the 48k setup I have been bu…
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Sinclair BASIC manual cover artHello, dose anyone out there have any information or links regarding the art work on the 48k's Sinclair BASIC cover ?, I've always thought it was rea…
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Strange DivIDE ScreenI've just got an SD card adaptor for my DivIDE and it does something strange. On startup, I can see the DivIDE logo and it registers the adaptor, bu…
... normally empty areas of the screen are covered in an odd ... from the bytes in the screen memory. I can load a ... bit of corruption to the screen.
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Fuzzy Screen On 48k Spectrum.Hi there. I bought a Spectrum off eBay last week (another for my collection lol), and it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like interference …
... it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like ... of writing commands on the screen, even though the keyboard isn ... -
Gigascreen - programming guideDoes anyone know of a programming guide for the 128K gigascreen screen mode, specifically a persistence colours table, some code (pref. C level or BA…
Does anyone know of a programming guide for the 128K gigascreen screen mode, specifically a persistence colours table, some code (pref. C level or BASIC) to display them and best practice for timing? -
zx spectrum 48k loading issue (memory problem i think)Hi I have a 48k spectrum that until yesterday was working flawlessly. The spectrum seems to work fine but the problem is with loading games.All the …
... self back to the start screen ( gray with 1982 Sinclair research ... ltd) or sometimes the screen turns black.in some games ... of range ; C - Nonsense in BASIC.
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Possible Speccy artist (Name the LOAD SCREEN$)Hello, all.. This is a bit of an obscure one. Someone I located has said that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he can't remember the name.…
... that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he ... ..
He described the SCREEN$ as:
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Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
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Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
Which do you prefer?
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Zx Spectrum 48k+ black screenHi A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV. I don't have sound of the console. Where c…
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A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV.
I don't have sound of the console.
Where can I start searching for the problem?
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What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... pages is really straightforward: from BASIC a POKE 23388,16+n ... 5K were copied to the screen (page 5). After all disk ... the part loaded at the screen. After that, the game *should ... sound but no action in screen, or simply reboots.
New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... can use LOAD "" CODE from basic and then use a USR ... :
* Create snapshots when the screen is blank. Doing this produces ... want to see a corrupted screen, make the snapshot just before ... the program refreshing the screen (use "tape event>tape ...Screen burn questionDoes anyone know how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching the snooker on my LCD Panasonic tv for the last 3 hours, when i changed the chann…
... how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching ... the snooker table on the screen (as snooker fans will know ...Drawing 3D grids in Basic...This is probably very simple for someone who feels comfortable with Math, but it's driving me crazy... Let's say I want to draw a grid of 16 by 16 s…
... between the two lines (on screen) is 88 pixels. Drawing the ...Utility or routine to save/display imagesLet's assume I have an image or sprite at coordinates x,y with w witdh and h height. If I were to store this image, which storage method would allow …
... be specified with POKEs from Basic. I know how to do ... by character data storage from Basic, but it would be too ... turn an are of the screen into UDGs (courtesy of Bloodbaz ...T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... switching.
- [B]Spectrum BASIC-Plus[/B]: The T/S ... 2068 came with additional BASIC commands above and beyond the ... [/I] is a second "normal" screen, like Mode 1. By switching ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling ... the 128 to do the screen buffering with page-swapping.
screen before they even start.SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…
^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to make it sticky or not (although this used to be the SE Basic forum and I used to be its owner).Screen Viewer: Speccy View 4SpeccyView (v4.0) Here is my new zx spectrum screen viewer, result of this weekend's work. Features: Loads: -Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw …
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Loads:
-Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw .scr ... )
-Sna File (Shows screen buffer of ram image, 48k ... match border colour to the screen,
-Loading and header ... emulator
Hotkeys
Save screen to Scr, Png, Bmp, Jpg ...SE Basic questionsI've got a 128k heatsink machine which I'm working on modding to include a proper keyboard and built in DivIDE+.. Was I right in reading that the S…
... in reading that the SE BASIC ROM can be plugged into ...Flynn's Adventure in Bombland v1I am pleased to announce the initial release of Flynn's Adventure in Bombland. You can grab it here [url=http://tomdalby.com/retro/zxspectrum/FAIBL_v…
... boss battle
-implemented a basic storyline
-pause key implemented ... , created menu system & intro screen
-can no longer detonate ...Trantor loading screen?Hi, I just uploaded to ZX-ART an [URL="http://zx.maros.pri.ee/eng/games/t/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate"…
... -the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate" loading screen[/URL] for "Trantor: The ... />
I recovered this screen from a hacked version of ... 80's, but the screen style and signature seem to ... designer as the "official" screen instead of the hackers themselves ...Retro-X : RXA format?Hi! I've used Retro-X to convert a short AVI video into a RXA format anim file, using QL lowres mode (mode 8, 256x256). Peeking at the resulting file…
... the same arrangement the QL screen uses.
But when ... to decode, at least for basic fields as frame size, number ...Name of game needed - sort of robot wars...Well, I reckon this one's a tricky one. Can't quite remember the year, maybe mid-eighties. Have tried WOS searching to no avail. It was: - a 2 pl…
... TV series!)
The screen was pretty much empty, and ... it may have been a BASIC game, or at least partly ... in BASIC as it was quite slow.Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…
... ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links ...
In my previous single screen game it was the simple ... and every time a screen change was needed I ... no good for a flip screen one.
... y coords for each whole screen, but as yet not ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... or C++. I have the basic understanding of Z80 microprocessor architecture ... I believe they're really basic to most of you and ... input (keyboard/joystick) and output (screen)? Which asm instructions and memory ... think it's something really basic. I looked at a few ...
