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  • Keyboard Issues When Setting Border ColourWelcome to the next in my series of inane 'Z80 on the Spectrum' questions! ;) Here's a minimal snippet of code for polling the keyboard until any ke…

    ... way is to change the border colour (to black in this case ...
    RoseCotton RoseCotton December 2009 Development
  • Border colour on resetI have noticed a strange (and somewhat disquieting) glitch or feature on the ZX Spectrum. Sometimes, when the Reset button is pressed on the later m…

    ... later machines (128 onwards), the border colour will change to white before ... menu (and white border) suddenly appear, but this border colour glitch/feature is ...
    Swevicus Swevicus September 2013 Hardware
  • Vote for your favourite loading border colourSo it is time for one more important voting! :razz: What is your favourite loading [B]border[/B] design? Since I guess most of us spent many many ho…

    ... is your favourite loading [B]border[/B] design? Since I guess ... the game used some custom border colours it was even better ... [/B] (or any other single colour)

    [IMG]http://i27 ...
    Rickard Rickard August 2009 Games
  • Toastrack border changes colour with joystickI plugged my Kempston joystick interface into my 128K toastrack last night and had a blast on Beach Head. Funny thing is, the border colour changed…

    ... />
    Funny thing is, the border colour changed every time I moved ...
    szeliga szeliga December 2010 Hardware
  • req: hack/poke for 3D deathchase border colourBack in the day, I used to have a version of 3d deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white one, it made it much better, especiall…

    ... deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white ...
    loony_jetman loony_jetman April 2006 Games
  • Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…

    How is the border emulated to do all the ... some basic border emulation working but it only displays one colour.
    border colour is being changed as the ... screen and border are being redrawn. How is ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2007 Emulators
  • 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?
    I ... believe the C64 used the border ... doing is changing the border colour quicker than the screen ... can draw the border changing colour completely. With that ...
    Vertigo Vertigo November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • BORDER colours...Hi Folks, As a matter of interest, why can't the Spectrum make the BORDER colour BRIGHT? Is this just a BASIC limitation of is there are hardware r…

    Hi Folks,

    As a matter of interest, why can't the Spectrum make the BORDER colour BRIGHT? Is this just a BASIC limitation of is there are hardware restriction?

    Many thanks

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Major +2A problemI've found that my +2A doesn't seem to be working anymore - I just get some black and white horizontal bars on screen, sometimes with some random cha…

    ... few keys by changing the border colour, but it won't do ...
    Queen Frostine Queen Frostine February 2003 Games
  • Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…

    ...
    call 8859 ; set permanent border colour

    MainLoop:

    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…

    ...
    call 8859 ; set permanent border colour

    call initIM2
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... P to change the ink colour to what you want, and ... A to change the paper colour, then press M again (Woody ... .

    "XLR8MASTER" - "Mask colour" is the border colour during loading, 0-7 ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • Spectrum 128K - Needs Your HelpI have a Spectrum 128K (with the external heatsink on the RHS) it is a 1985 Version 6K mainboard, I got it out of the loft the other day and it wont …

    ... power I get a solid border (colour can vary) and loads of ... , some flash, sometimes they change colour, pressing reset sometimes changes the ...
    Rampack Rampack July 2007 Hardware
  • A classic thread sub-forum?You know how some sites have a "classic" thread sub-forum? Where any notable threads are moved to, after a certain period of time when no-one has pos…

    ... />


    Reading the border colour:

    [URL]http://www ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Keyboard Input$/scan problemHi, I'm finally fulfilling my promise to get a reasonable understanding of the Speccy and embarking upon attempting a few simple routines in Assembl…

    ... of a routine that changes border colour based on an input value ...
    Jagd Tiger Jagd Tiger January 2009 Development
  • FUSE fails to save "Bytes:" files that can be converted to .tapI have been running FUSE with the OCP Assembler loaded. When I save the Assembly listing from OCP, I see border colour and noise of a proper save. So…

    ... listing from OCP, I see border colour and noise of a proper ...
    bladerunner bladerunner February 2009 Development
  • Codename Mat weird variant + "stuff" on eBayI just thought I'd plug my auction for Codename Mat "weird mutant loader" variant which I think is reasonably rare on the basis that it's not on this…

    ... and varies in speed, changes border colour occasionally and all that sort ...
    richl richl September 2009 Sales
  • what game had a loader with crawl text at bottom ?I remember I had a game which had an interesting feature while loading &#8211; there was a crawling text at the bottom of the screen. This was instea…

    ... was instead of the loading border colour, or perhaps both together, this ...
    secarica secarica November 2009 Games
  • Spectranet updateWell, I've not put an update in here for too long, so here's a summary of what's been developing ... * A snapshot manager module. Basically, you can…

    ... by software, such as the border colour and whether the 128K alternate ...
    Winston Winston February 2010 Hardware
  • Assembly OUT commandHello, im trying to send a signal to the output using this command. LD A,2 OUT (0FEh),A ---> This will set the border colour to RED The problem i…

    ... /> ---> This will set the border colour to RED

    The ...
    Rosebud_ Rosebud_ May 2010 Development
  • Broken +3I have noticed that some members on this forum prefer to repair Spectrums instead of just buying another one from ebay. I would like mine fixed at so…

    ... />
    At power on, the border colour is white and the screen ... flashing screen to stop, the border may turn blue or yellow ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Hardware
  • Fuse for Mac OS X 1.0.0 ReleasedA new version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project and shortly here on WoS: [url]http://sourceforge.net/proje…

    ... Pentagon 1024SL v2.2 16 colour mode (Fredrick Meunier).
    [*] Allow ... estimation (Gergely Szasz).
    [*] Fix border colour in Timex HiRes screenshots (Fredrick ...
    Fred Fred December 2010 Emulators
  • Double buffering on SpectrumHey! I am new to Spectrum developing and I have a hard time to find some specific info or tutorials explaining the basics. I have already found simp…

    ... as how to change the border colour, how the speccy vram works ...
    Optimus Optimus March 2011 Development
  • 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 …

    ... .scr)
    -UlaPlus Screens (64 Colour screens)

    Shows loading ... :
    -Can try to match border colour to the screen,
    -Loading ... header stripes
    -Solid border
    -No border

    Drag many ...
    Arda Arda April 2011 Announcements
  • Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…

    ... continues.
    It has loading border stripes in multi colours, that ... can't just change the border colour for example, by typing:
    will change the border colour from blue to some other ... blue colour I suppose.

    To ...
    Hedegaard Hedegaard August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • z88dk sticky?I've just tried to PM Alcoholics Anonymous and couldn't because "Alcoholics Anonymous has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot acc…

    ... /> // Sets default ink and paper colour, then clears screen
    ld ...
    call 3503
    // Sets border colour
    ld a,1
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington January 2012 Development
  • +2 no tape loading sound problemHi All, I've been a fan of WOS and this forum for a very long time but this is my first post - so be gentle please! I have a +2 (grey) and a +2A. B…

    ... - not even a change of border colour, it just stays white.
    landorb landorb February 2012 Hardware
  • ULAPlus: showing different screen modes in one screenI wanted to write a demo showing the same screen, converted to various screen modes available on the Spectrum (well, a Spectrum clone capable of show…

    ... low res attributes with 64 colour palette), and the fourth ... ULA+ palettes for the border colour. The clone asserts the ... OUT and the border colour uses whatever colour palette is asigned ... "Using the ULAplus 64 colour mode from Sinclair BASIC".
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix May 2012 Development
  • Very weird +2 problem.After two days, I'm still fighting this grey +2. Symptoms: When I first got it, there were stray pixels on the screen, and stray lines and colours. …

    ... outputs to the beeper, the border changes! This gives an effect ... sounds. Hungry Horace changes the border colour when the beeper sounds. Maybe ...
    Spirantho Spirantho August 2012 Hardware
  • Interesting 48K failureI thought I'd recount a failure I've not seen mentioned before that I saw tonight while fixing a 48K issue 6 board. The background: The initial fail…

    ... some more comprehensive testing, the border colour went funny and the machine ... for the border colour so it can properly restore the border colour when the ... the random changes to the border colour) but most of the time ...
    Winston Winston December 2013 Hardware
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