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  • Issue 2 black paper white borderGot an issue 2 here that has a 6c001e ULA, no cockroach, no transistor mod (although you can clearly see on the top of the z80 and on some legs, some…

    ... time), all I get is black paper, white border, it "nearly" boots ... ROM tester I get red paper and four horizontal lines (indicating ...
    Macc Macc July 2013 Hardware
  • Issue 4A black paper, white borderJust had one of these through, nice yellow pcb! Everything but the ULA soldered in. On power up I get black paper, white border and some intermitten…

    ... /> On power up I get black paper, white border and some intermittent ...
    Macc Macc August 2013 Hardware
  • zx spectrum 48k issue 6A boot fail- black paperohh whats wrong with this poor specie .. boot fail,, border white & paper black .. when reset it shows the red lines to indicate that the CPU is cycl…

    ... .. boot fail,, border white & paper black .. when reset it shows the ... card it will load some games ie manic minor,jet set ...
    mark8bit mark8bit February 2021 Hardware
  • speccy 128kI have a spectrum 128k that seems to work fine and load games ok. When I power it on for the first time I get the usual options screen, no problem. B…

    ... to work fine and load games ok.
    When I power ... . It has purple border and black paper.
    But if I wait ...
    rubberman rubberman March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Black paper, white border. Ram fault?We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working o…

    We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working one, and we got the same result.

    is this a ram fault? How can we check ram chips?
    Arda Arda December 2006 Hardware
  • Faulty rubber speccy - advice neededHello all speccy hardware gurus :) Recently I moved to a new flat and after a long time have some space (and time) to dig out my old Speccy hardware…

    ... load and run a few games and utilities confirming that all ... got was white border and black paper with thin white lines...
    black paper with thin vertical lines.
    black paper with thin white lines), but ...
    deckard deckard January 2012 Hardware
  • Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…

    ... .cgi?id=0015866"]Egghead[/URL] games which lop off a fair ... include BORDERs - that's all black PAPER around the edges.

    games do you really start to ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Development
  • My 48K Speccy has died.Hi fellow WoSer's! Wondering if you could help me with my rubber key 48k Spectrum, which died on me this afternoon. It is one I prevoiusly fixed up j…

    ... using it to play some games on. I had it running ... to a white border and black paper area with red vertical lines ... in them, going across the paper area.

    Still thinking ... the screen of white border, black paper with the vertical lines. Tried ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum November 2012 Hardware
  • Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…

    ... it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be ... part or the other with black paper.

    But here's ...
    joefish joefish April 2014 Hardware
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... the other two horace games. Maybe it is just ... to make PAPER be visible, not just black? I mean ... in the PAPER color instead of always black. I've ... at the ingame screenshot: paper attributes are used to ... option what used to be black paper appears gray.

    na_th_an na_th_an April 2004 Emulators
  • Them! (project future modelled game) hello! i was hoping someone could answer a problem i am having completing this game.i have recorded the game for RZX viewing yet,i cannot complete i…

    ... exactly the same in both games... except in Them! Harry, it ... be seen either. Probably black ink on black paper knowing H.

    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous January 2005 Games
  • Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…

    ... ATTR decimal 69 (cyan INK, black PAPER).
    Therefore the routine probing ... 'floating bus' code from affected games, and replace with equivalent code ... be persuaded to play such games.

    Intruiging indeed ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2005 Emulators
  • Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …

    ... better with those shiny-black text on matt-black paper ones that some ... /> I do wonder whether the games companies actually like it that ... and none of them buy games. The games prices continue to rise ...
    Laser Laser June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …

    ... better with those shiny-black text on matt-black paper ones that some ... any title, you could request games for next sunday, and even ...
    mile mile June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... There must be tonnes of games that use this technique in ... squares over a black paper colour (which stays black). They must look ... , I think most games with a black background use mostly bright ... So on the monitor, the black background is actually grey??? Surely ...
    48K 48K October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …

    ... of Speccy games using colour either opted for all-black paper with coloured ... ink, or later on all-black ink ... with some coloured paper in the ... any different was have coloured paper on the sprites, too. ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Games
  • Annoying colour issues with UDGsMe again... Flush with the success of finding the latest version of BASin to play with I tried to buff the graphics of the various screen items All…

    ... creature is cyan INK on black PAPER, as soon as it ... currently active INK & PAPER settings for each square only ... will switch to green or black PAPER depending upon the attribute ... display of the characters; Gargoyle Games' Light Force and Mastertronic' ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • MIA - inlaysHad a look through my collection and found some inlays / instructions missing from the database that i can provide - also some alternate inlays ... …

    ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/Rereleases/g/Gulpman(Micromega ... . I use a bit of black paper with an old phone book ...
    richl richl March 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
  • about Dan DareHi all, I not think this is for MIA forum but want to ask and I will be grateful if anyone help me with answer. I get from ebay dandare tape, origi…

    ... . This was white ink on black paper and I think it had ... a black border too. Then the attributes ... loading stripes or possibly a black border. Can't remember multi ... Falcon Patrol II on Now Games 1 (attributes loaded 1st and ...
    leespoons leespoons February 2013 MIA/STP/SDP
  • MegaManZXMega Man for ZX Spectrum [center] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2ho90rd.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/dzt7bd.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinyp…

    ... make tile 0 (background tile) black paper and cyan ink.[/quote]
    games out of it! :)
    Sadako Sadako March 2013 New game ideas
  • Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…

    ... and PAPER for each CLUT).

    [quote]In the clashbasher black ... black paper internally.[/quote]
    Does it not work for games with non-black ...
    chev chev September 2013 Hardware
  • Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…

    ... tiles designed with a black PAPER will have a black square around them ... a blue background instead of black, or make the shadows appear ... as blue against a black background instead of the opposite ... I have 2 other unannounced games using BIFROST* that I hope ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2013 New game ideas
  • Worst examples of "Attribute Clash" (Colour Clash) in a gameHi all, you all know the spectrum's attribute clash / colour clash issues (I personally liked it, and thought it was interesting). I'm just wondering…

    ... brick pattern and everything on black PAPER, change the red tree trunks ... like any number of Joffa games.

    Or pad out ... turn to solid squares of PAPER colour, Don Priestly style.
    joefish joefish November 2013 Games
  • 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…

    ... perhaps "both transparent INK and PAPER"?) instead. This alternative is somewhat ... ). Since multicolor graphics typically use black PAPER anyway, I suspect transparency won ... considerable overhead, without benefiting most games except on very specific cases ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2014 Brand new software
  • Good games that don't have a black backgroundIn an effort to think of something Speccy related that we've not discussed before (though Alessandro Grussu will correct me it I'm wrong ;)), this to…

    ... is generally harder using non black paper (in my experience). Blue ... top 100[/URL] use non black paper. I expected it to ... =1"]action[/URL] games use non black paper more than I thought ... platform games[/URL] (which I play most) are mainly black backgrounds.< ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2014 Games
  • Good games that don't have a black backgroundIn an effort to think of something Speccy related that we've not discussed before (though Alessandro Grussu will correct me it I'm wrong ;)), this to…

    ... the games listed here use all black INK instead of all black PAPER. In ... fact, many use just one PAPER ... . that use different PAPER colours behind the black INK to colour the ...
    joefish joefish January 2014 Games
  • Inlays being done in lovely 600dpiHI guys, most of the regulars know I have been working on updating the scans for the site, ie more scanned in , now the tape, map , cover, price tick…

    ... >> A bit of black paper behind the inlay will prevent ... from leaking through if the paper/card is thin>> ... scanning most of my remaining games as I need the space ...
    richl richl May 2015 Announcements
  • slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …

    ... 6 six switcher) with games, just left boxed up ... displayed a green border and black paper image, +3 wouldn' ... is my Atari 2600 cartridge games, tatty but still work ... and a slowly growing games collection, and a Atari ... 2600 6 switcher with games. Enough to keep me ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum February 2016 Games
  • Elite clonesHi there Question. Is there any Elite clones out there for our Speccy worth playing? thanks!

    ... looked like Fractal Designs on black paper, a total waste really.
    games for it though....Never got ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2017 Games
  • New Game: Code ZeroMy new game is finally out. Lots of walking about, picking up keys, opening doors and generally saving the World... again... [url="http://www.thesp…

    ... bloke is hiding behind black ink / black paper on the screen as a ... play-tester for my new games :-)
    Paul-J Paul-J April 2017 Brand new software
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