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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
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Another slight modification (to the original graphic mode) which ... would be the ability to specify bright/normal for ... sort of blitter chip to the 128 / +2 and still ... good for the initial 128, as we know Amstrad ... what would have happened to the 128 if it did ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... port have been used to attach disk drives? Mind ... some sort of blitter chip to the 128 / +2 and still ... which would have been sure to drive the price up beyond ... been good for the initial 128, as we know Amstrad ... what would have happened to the 128 if it did have ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... what would have happened to the 128 if it did have ... the features of the 128 as they were and ... the 128 sell as long as it could, perhaps trying to ... real upgrade appearing in the 128 would have injected some ... there wasn't much a 128 game could offer besides ... -
Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.
... What I would like to use the graphics for is ... then UDGs are the way to go. There is a ... address into the system variable to select another bank of ... way you have access to more than 26 characters in ... the more common way in Basic to detect collisions and this ... -
Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.
... into the system variable to select another bank of ... way you have access to more than 26 characters ... more common way in Basic to detect collisions and this ... obtain information on how to do this??? and... ... is it easy to restore the original character set ... -
Writing TR-Dos discs on a PCProlly not a best first post ... but then again who has? Anyways, great forums you guys have here! Short question ... maybe a short answer. I'm plan…
... . I didn't originally plan to release it, but it wasn ... 't much work to tidy it up and add ... be happy for it to be added to WoS, though the existing ... 'd be more than happy to add a gui for you ... /C++ knowledge is way too basic to design a gui :/ -
Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... cell flash, just need to use custom UGDs right? ... the screen resolution availiable in BASIC to 10, both ways, in ... fond however of trying to resize the grid so ... code that can be applied to this problem?
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The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... a register indicating pixel row to start from. For horizontal ... still want as close to 100% compatibility with the ... 48 to the 128 may have accelerated sales, spurred 128-specific ... software development, and may have allowed Sinclair's computers to ... -
.z80 to .tap ?Some days ago I discovered that game I have dreamed for so long is actually existing, and it is Bobby Yazz Show, and of course I would like to play i…
... of course I would like to play it on real spectrum ... , and I need .tap to convert and burn it to cd...
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If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
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If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
Can anyone remember how to get 128 colours? I think there was a program in CRASH Tech Niche that gave you a pallete of 128 colours, can`t seem to find it now. A few games used this if I remember. Wish I could find it again. -
Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …
... never even thought of using BASIC to do this!
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Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... alter woody's code to draw everything in upper ... br />
Basic will always draw to the main display at ... you can use with the Basic ROM is this:
... $7ffd,...)
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Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
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Wow that sucks. The 128's ramdisk could have been ... $ and then copy it to the 128's extra memory (you ... suggestes it works similarly to the machine code instruction ... if they occur in the 128's extra RAM, as ... spanning the 80k of the 128's extra RAM. It ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... BASIC is the best idea [i]if[/i] you decide to ... code in BASIC :)
... I code in BASIC to be compiled, is to code in ... the program to be compiled (you have to add several simple ... and save the resulting binary to tape.
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Looking for 'Your Computer' gravity simulation type inHi, In one of the old Your Computer mags, in the type in progs section near the back, there was a Speccy program which simulated interaction between…
... . Some of the bodies seems to push themselves instead of pulling ... 'll test it on visual basic to see it on a larger ... -
Looking for 'Your Computer' gravity simulation type inHi, In one of the old Your Computer mags, in the type in progs section near the back, there was a Speccy program which simulated interaction between…
... Some of the bodies seems to push themselves instead of pulling ... ll test it on visual basic to see it on a larger ... /> Er... if gravity is appearing to push rather than pull it ... LET phi12=PI/2: GO TO 122
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Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... you'll be hard pushed to do it in the Sam ... perhaps knock something up in BASIC to generate a file containing the ... -
Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... pages and offsets.
BASIC treats it as linear for ... can use those values in BASIC to POKE to the screen, even blit ... 507904, MEM$(100000 to 124575) (Poke it to the screen!)
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basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... breaks compatibility completely. The BASIC was never designed to be extended, so ... for speed. It would run BASIC the fastest but not be ... isn't needed at BASIC or game runtime to a separate bank ... speed and new features in BASIC to get those last few games ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... I began work on a BASIC program that I hope will ... of a way in BASIC to convert decimal to hexadecimal?
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C64's SID music on ZX - the demo is HERE!!I'm proud to announce, that two great persons from Central Europe - Poke & Omega - have made something really important for Spectrum world. Now ZX …
... song files in that .tap file have the player exactly ... 're only using the tracker to play it.
... If you look at the tap file there is another program ... ROUTINE" it will save to tap the song plus a player ... PLUS you can choose to play it through the ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
Your file is very large indeed. That's because you saved it as a Direct Recording Block. Most emulators support streaming $10 blocks to .tap and .tzx, try using that instead.
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16k Spectrum.How come emulator's in 16k mode don't provide 32 ram-pack support.
... , otherwise it returns back to the BASIC interpreter as normal.
This will switch from BASIC to Forth. YOu would put this ... DUP . .
And it returns to BASIC on the first non REM ... ). Similarly, you can use BASIC variables directly in the assembly ... -
CRC checkHi all, I'm trying to implement a way to check if two or more tzx files are identical or not on my app, so I would need a simple way to get an uniqu…
Thank you Geoff, that's exactly as simple as I needed. And I think it will be unique enough :D
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GP32 Spectrum crewHi, im looking for a spectrum emulator on the gp32 that run .tzx files
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GP32 Spectrum crewHi, im looking for a spectrum emulator on the gp32 that run .tzx files
... ;177292]Is There Anyway To Convert Tzx File To Tap?[/QUOTE]
Not easily. The problem with .tap is that it can only ... be stored that way due to the changed timings.
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Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
... is just as easy as Basic to pick up, incidentally, and ... entries in 'typeins' to point to, allowing you to fetch all the typeins ... less the same as the basic plain-text approach, except that ... = 42". Unfortunately, an introduction to the SQL language is probably ... -
My emulator doesn't take "commands"Hi This is probably a question that is very hard to answer, but perhaps some of you have/had the same problem. In my own emulator (that I have built)…
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Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…
Cheers Mr A, that makes a bit more sense. Now I've just got to work out how to get Basic to set individual bits, which I'm guessing shouldn't be too hard, or will it?
