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  • Spectrum 48+ 4S - Upper RAM issue, and now a self-created problem!I recently picked up a known-flaky spectrum off eBay, to have a bit of fun fixing it and reliving youth. It was labelled as 'keyboard duff, shows…

    ... varying black and white, or sometimes coloured blocks on the screen.
    lines. The soldering & sockets test ... the rest of the data lines test as around 12k to ...
    Paulcatchpole Paulcatchpole December 2016 Hardware
  • Which Tolkien game had this loading screen?I recall game name had a word "Mordor". Searching WOS using "Mordor" didn´t help. Looking at other Tolkien games screenshots, it´s not Lord of the Ri…

    ... sounds right, though. The loading screen was something like a close ... Lord of the Rings loading screen. The screen didn´t have any ... visible. Horse´s head had black and light blue colours. There ... of colour "splashed" on the screen.

    Were there ...
    Spectrum48K Spectrum48K December 2016 Games
  • Repair Zx Spectrum +2 Blackhello there, just found a Zx Spectrum +2 Black edition Issue 1 board that doesnt appear anything on the screen, even led dont power on,i have tes…

    ... Black edition Issue 1 board that doesnt appear anything on the screen ...
    xaris_sm xaris_sm February 2017 Hardware
  • ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…

    ... /> //
    // *****************************************************************************
    // zxsclzf ZX Spectrum Screen Compressor
    // by Tom Dalby ... [0] attribute, then 8 pixel lines then move to next char ...
    TomD TomD April 2017 Development
  • iPhone 5 screen fading with stripesHallo folks :) [b]Disclaimer: yes, I've googled the problem and it looks like it's a knackered 'digitizer'/screen issue but just thought I'd check…

    ... 's a knackered 'digitizer'/screen issue but just thought I ... I'm getting a faded screen with vertical stripes. Everything works ... shop for a fix/new screen). I've tried a ... it goes back to passcode screen it's ok for ... but then fades and the lines come in. I've not ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection September 2017 Chit chat
  • ZX Spectrum +3 repairI have my first +3 here, and it needs repairs. Hoping someone here can help me out. When I power it on I get this screen with black and white line…

    ... on I get this screen with black and white lines, and some blocks ... , I keep getting the same screen. My next step to test ...
    patzik patzik October 2017 Hardware
  • Harlequin rev F picture issueHi, Did this project ages ago, and was working fine. Got the spectrum itch today, so got it out. I first turned it on everything was fine. Then…

    ... now just get a screen of black with red lines vertically.

    Lost Lost October 2017 Hardware
  • Test of screen switching timings.I modified the btime.tap test by Jan Bobrowski to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime-128, produces different results on diff…

    ... to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime ... real 128/gray +2 and black +2A/+3, who will launch ... appears at the left-top screen corner (press the Q button ... for 16385/16384 ports on black +2A/+3 (on these machines ...
    weiv weiv November 2017 Emulators
  • Mixed bag - Mangled in-game screen and/or loading screen.[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012757&loadpics=3"]Black Raven[/url] Mangled in-game screen and loading screen.

    [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012757&loadpics=3"]Black Raven[/url]

    Mangled in-game screen and loading screen.
    F_Clowder F_Clowder February 2018 Infoseek database
  • printing at the bottom of the screen with #1im having problems getting both lines filled in with black, using #1. it does 1 line but not the other. how do i correct this? i.e. print #1; pap…

    im having problems getting both lines filled in with black, using #1. it does 1 line but not the other. how do i correct this?

    i.e. print #1; paper 0;" 64 spaces "
    digital digital July 2018 Development
  • Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…

    ... writing it back to the screen.

    The process described ... can write optimal algorithms for lines that slant up or down ... optimal purely horizontal and vertical lines, but I'd like to ... get those shallow diagonal lines going as fast as possible ...
    joefish joefish March 2019 Development
  • Grey +2 with lines on some games on RGB connectionHi Everyone, Is it OK if I ask a question? I dug my +2 out of the loft after far too many years about a month ago, and I have finally got it ba…

    ... my games show vertical lines down the screen, really fine ones.
    AD-RS1600i AD-RS1600i May 2019 Hardware
  • Fastest emulator screen renderingHi, I'm developing an algorithm for fast emulator screen rendering and here is what I came up with. 1) Use 4bpp indexed image format as target …

    ... an algorithm for fast emulator screen rendering and here is what ... you can quickly create a black and white 4bpp byte from ... algorithm.[code]byte=next screen byte // get next screen byte
    p32 ... offsets from 16384 for each screen line as[code]uint16_t offsets ...
    tstih tstih November 2019 Development
  • The Diagnostic PCBIt arrived in the post today so this is my first go with the Diagnostic PCB. (bought on Ebay) This item , I think , does the same job as Retroleu…

    ... Spectrum but got black and white vertical lines on screen .So I retried ... but got the Black and White vertical lines on screen . So I reckon ... . It is meant to produce black and white lines on screen? !
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio February 2020 Hardware
  • Finding the issue.My sister recently found our old Speccy in her loft and having no interest in retro gaming promptly put it in the bin. Her husband text me and I res…

    ... .

    It's the black 128k +2A, and on a ... on and displays the menu screen, the keyboard works and the ... very briefly see the loading lines in the boarder. It reminds ...
    Toz Toz April 2020 Hardware
  • Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…

    ... cramped on my medium-res screen.

    • ... to run across multiple lines. The fact that everything ... to be much stronger, or black.

    • ... eating up more of the screen width).

    ... just a couple of lines for most titles? Couldn ...
    Lee Bee Lee Bee June 2020 Updates
  • uMIA: Backgammon V1.0 - Pi Software[b]Full Title:[/b] Backgammon [b]Also known as:[/b] [b]Year:[/b] 1982 [b]Company:[/b] Pi Software [b]Machine Type:[/b] ZX Spectrum 48K [b]Re-re…

    ... that is at the first screen of the game, where this ... (c) 1983' in black. Also different REM lines at the beginning of ...
    Frankie Frankie October 2020 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Screen RatioAn interesting thing happened with my photos on facebook of my Spectrum setup with my new OSSC (open source scan converter). Some made a fuss (in jes…

    ... its better than big black borders on the screen, and it makes ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2021 Games
  • Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…

    ... Leave some space for shadow screen buffer
    20 GO SUB ...
    Volker Volker February 2021 Software
  • 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…

    ... & paper black .. when reset it shows the red lines to indicate ...
    mark8bit mark8bit February 2021 Hardware
  • boot fail .. bad address lines A7,A12,A13anybody have any ideas what could be wrong with this specie issue 3B .. work done : removed rom, upper ram & logic put lower ram multiplexers in sock…

    ... the data & address bus lines from cpu on ward for ... i boot retroleum the splash screen is displayed with corruption like ...
    mark8bit mark8bit August 2021 Hardware
  • Spectrum helpHello all I run a website which is some sort of community/game information hybrid. It's dedicated to most gaming platforms (currently 62 of them). I…

    ... the brighter the colour on screen. The bright bit of the ... the RGB lines and the colour is darker.
    Hence black is ... at the lowest voltage for black (ie 0) adding extra resistance ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Games
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... decided id do a full screen of of one of the ... bit. i left 2 black lines between the screen and the bottom panel ... yet, and the only other screen convertor i know of only ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Games
  • AMERICAN SPECTRUM FANS?Hi all. I was wondering, who many Spectrum-fans could live in America... I have many addresses in my zx-base, but not many of them belong to Americ…

    ... maximum resolution up to 625 lines with a vertical frequency of ... maximum resolution up to 525 lines with a vertical frequency of ... only that picture will be black and white but also you ... lot of "snow" on the screen.
    princm princm May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • AMERICAN SPECTRUM FANS?Hi all. I was wondering, who many Spectrum-fans could live in America... I have many addresses in my zx-base, but not many of them belong to Americ…

    ... maximum resolution up to 625 lines with a vertical frequency of ... maximum resolution up to 525 lines with a vertical frequency of ... only that picture will be black and white but also you ... lot of "snow" on the screen.
    [/quote]

    @@ I ...
    superfo superfo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... ,with the blue n yellow lines and the picture drawing first ... loading screen had loaded the border went black with no loading lines or ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... loader which just loads a screen saved with the SAVE command ... tone colours)

    (more lines of code)

    xxxx ... (loading colours)

    (more lines of code)

    If ... be looking for - then a black border ? la Speedlock 3 (etc ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • The War between the Machines!I grew up with the C64, and I spent far too many hours with it. I also made the Lemon64 website. To me, the charm about Spectrum, MSX, C64 or any ot…

    ... not like the font on screen either.
    Years later when ... !) I still find the sleek black lines, thin design appealing. Commordore could ...
    mlasham mlasham January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …

    ... grid on the editor screen, like resizable sqares of ... see are black and white dotds on the screen. Do you ... .b00 and several other lines but it doesn't ... draw something on the screen without using udg graphics, ... 3 or four pointers on screen !!
    Another is ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …

    ... custom grid on the editor screen, like resizable sqares of let ... can see are black and white dotds on the screen. Do you ... :file.b00 and several other lines but it doesn't work ... 3 or four pointers on screen !![/quote]
    But if e ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
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