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Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
... stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour?
... the C64 used the border area occasionally to display ... the screen can draw the border changing colour completely. With ... Has a more closely controlled border usage already been done?
A different post/thread by me.....I usually post little comments here and there, or create a thread just about some mad/funny shit...this thread is er....different...:) My Spectrum …
... /> He (the bro) had a paper round, and there was 2 ... me play on the magical black box for an hour! (things ...Did you have a morning paper round?The comic thread got me thinking about the little 3 or 4 frame cartoons you used to get on the back of newspapers. When I was a kid, I had a paperou…
... to school with also did paper rounds, and some of the ...New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... [/INDENT][INDENT][code]1 BORDER 0:\
PAPER 0:\
INK 5 ...Games First Written Totally On Paper?Some of the early spectrum programmers must have had the patience of a saint. I was amazed when I first heard that Ant Attack was hand written entire…
... was hand written entirely on paper before being entered into the ... that were reportedly written on paper and without the use of ...Mapping Brat Attack (+ challenge).This mapping biznizz isn't all it's cracked up to be. I've been mapping Brat Attack for close to 3 hours now and have mapped over 700 rooms! I'm gl…
... I'm doing it pen/paper, as it would take me ... if there's just a black background (i.e. snap the ...DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... on, the logo appeared, the border went white and it stayed ... tha DIVide logo and a black screen with periodic flashes of ...Terminal Velocity!Hi, Don't know if I should be posting this sort of thing here, but I read the FAQ and didn't spot any "Don't" rules. So here you have my example of …
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10 BORDER 1: PAPER 1: INK 7: BRIGHT 0 ...Double Take: a game or a prophecy?[quote] The year 2008, the time mid-day, the place a rather large, computer controlled "Physical Particle Investigation Unit" out in the middle of a…
... experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen ... headquarters on the French-Swiss border. It's expected to tackle ... : Could the collider create mini-black holes that last long enough ...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.Terrestial TV - Black bars ?Does anyone get a thin black bar (20mm), top and bottom when watching Terrestrial TV. I get it on every channel 1 through 5. Trying to workout if it…
Does anyone get a thin black bar (20mm), top and bottom when watching Terrestrial TV. I get it on every channel 1 through 5.
Trying to workout if its my TV thats at fault.Porting 8k Adventure to SpectrumSomeone has tried to help me port 8k Adventure over to the spectrum. Here is the code thus far. It doesn't seem to work with the verbs, however. I tr…
Web Developers Please Help - IE6 CSS BugI have constructed what seems to be a nice looking well behaved 3 column dynamic web page layout in CSS. It looks fine in IE7 and FireFox (latest) H…
... :#7f7fb4;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:black;
scrollbar-3dlight-color:white ... :185px;
float:left;
border: thin solid #aaaaaa;
padding ... )*/
margin-top: 0;
border: thin solid #aaaaaa;
}
Hilarious!Right, first of all, I am [B]NOT[/B] making an attack either on God (so don't cry blasphemy) or on all religious people (so don't see the topic as an…
... crumpled up gray/brown construction paper to represent rocks, and will ... put on a pair of black robes and hoods. They then ... stand around him, all wearing black robes and hoods.
How to claim back the border space in basic?Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have hit BREAK on some games and ended up…
... to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I ... had got rid of the border and gained much more screen ...oh my the old days :)programming on the speccy again here is a routine i remember of the top of my head to load screens or code without a header wow 5 Clear 27999 : Re…
Black ScreenHi, Anyone know what would cause a 48k Spectrum to boot to a black screen? you can hear the internals buzzing at power up, but you just get a black…
... Spectrum to boot to a black screen?
you can ... , but you just get a black screen. When the power or ...Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, TheBelow is the spectrum listing from the "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000078"]Computer & Video Games Book of Adventure, The…
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[CODE]1 BORDER 6: PAPER 6: INK 2: CLS : GO ...The only paper for men.Alright, Just noticed that the Sunday Sport has a 'retro gaming' corner, and in this weeks was A Rockstar Ate My Hamster for the old Speccy. Sweet. …
Alright,
Just noticed that the Sunday Sport has a 'retro gaming' corner, and in this weeks was A Rockstar Ate My Hamster for the old Speccy. Sweet. So, the Sport really is the only paper for men ;-)
Regards,
Shaun.Problem upgrading 16K SpectrumHello Spec-chums, I've been a long time Commodore user, but also a long-time Speccy admirer (and emulator user). I've recently got hold of a Issue 2…
... RAM-test, showing a white border and black screen. Removing any one ...I blew up my +3I'm still not sure of what happened (most probably a wrongly inserted interface) but I blew up my +3. What happens when I turn on the power or press …
... white page with blue border. Sometimes, a black screen with a blinking ... border. Most of the times, the ... a white background and thick black lines. Or it can fill ...RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…
... to RED, BLUE or GREEN (paper is black)
2) assume the ...
green line 1000
(black line for 4x4 pixels)
ToneBank is back: The black watch songDo you remember the 'C5 song'? This weird band comes with a new song: 'Black Watch'... [URL="http://www.tonebank.co.uk/"]http://www.tonebank.co.uk/[…
Do you remember the 'C5 song'? This weird band comes with a new song: 'Black Watch'...
[URL="http://www.tonebank.co.uk/"]http://www.tonebank.co.uk/[/URL]Crash Magazine, the ZX, and the power of nostalgiaI'm currently selling some Crash mags (see Sales section of WOS *PLUG!*) and I started thinking about the power of nostalgia and what keeps us intere…
... craftily done was make the border two colours, blue and cyan ... the paper area. Of course the graphics never actually reached the border ...Tech question about microdriveshi ! I dont know if someone out there can help me I recently got my paws into an interface 1 and 2 microdrive units form an ebay auction they wore …
... command and the
border flashes black for a little then becomes ...Non-Black Rotronics Wafadrive - Help pleaseI've got a question...I've recently come across a Rotronics Wafadrive. The difference to one that I've seen previously is that this one is not black.…
... that this one is not black. It's cream/light begie ...Screenshots without the border?I'm going through a list of some games in the archive and when I find one that doesn't have the correct loading screen I create the .scr and .gif fil…
... been having to crop the border, because Spin and Spectaculator include ...Trying to help a ZX81 user[QUOTE=ZX81OAP at the ZX81 forum]I am looking for the name of a magazine that was mainly for computer projects. I started some improvements for the …
... video( white text on a black background) this still works.
paper of about 30 pages with ...A paper model of the new Freedom tower...So, here I was trying to show one of my kids how easy it was to come up with a paper model of the new [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/911…
... to come up with a paper model of the new [URL ... tower. Everything is already on paper but all the triangles are ...Problem SpeccyNot sure anyone can help without a photo but I'll describe it anyway (and maybe post a photo later). I have a problem speccy. The display shows a bo…
... shows a border and what appears to be white 'paper' but that ... this is just a border and white paper (don't know color ... of border as it is a ...
