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What is this Nirvana engine?Ive been trying to look for a thread on this but cant seem to locate one. I downloaded a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which ha…
... there's also a synchronous border colour switch that lets the roadway ... graphics overscan into the border as bars of colour.
[ ... moving the pointer to the colour data. [I]Buzzsaw+[/I] ... . To achieve this, the colour data is written into the ... -
Beepola v1.08 AvailableA new version of Beepoa, v1.08, is now available for download from:- [url]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/[/url] (1.76MB zipped exe, no installe…
... sound output does not change border colour.
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Beepola v1.08 AvailableA new version of Beepoa, v1.08, is now available for download from:- [url]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/[/url] (1.76MB zipped exe, no installe…
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Beeper and Sprites at the Same Time?[URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWX1pQLS14RnppNFE/edit?usp=sharing"]Why not?[/URL] "q" for quit "m" to change sprite mode any other…
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Beeper and Sprites at the Same Time?[URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWX1pQLS14RnppNFE/edit?usp=sharing"]Why not?[/URL] "q" for quit "m" to change sprite mode any other…
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Spectrum Not Responding to Keyboard InputHello, sorry if this thread is not in the correct place, This is my first post and I'm not sure where to post this type of thread. :lol: Anyway, I r…
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The colour of the border is an important clue ... 48k, the register for the border colour in the ULA starts with ... a command to set the border colour to white. So if the ... /> In answer to this, the border of the spectrum sometimes appeared ... -
Harlequin clone...PCB manufactured!Using Chris Smith's detailed schematics and project notes from the Harlequin... a Speccy fan in the United States by the name of Don (Superfo) has de…
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The code I posted should change the border colour every 2 seconds, going through the range of colours.
BEEP is shifted E mode on the Z key.
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ROM tape trap emulator testA very simple set of [URL="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.tinney/tapetest.tap"]tests[/URL] comparing IX/DE/AF return values for various incorrect blo…
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Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... port 254 will set the border colour, but it uses bit positions ... Spectrum ROM takes the BORDER colour from the PAPER colour in BORDCR, so ... port 254 to change the border. -
Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... really. To change the border colour from machine code you do ... br /> You set the border colour 0-7. Though technically ... The loading routine sets the border colour directly. To change the colours ... and the border will just alternate between a colour you supply ... -
Plane confusing...Nowhere near as exciting or complicated as one of Morkin's quizzes, but... Can you work out which game's loading screen was loading into which of ZX …
256 colour mode's working :)
[IMG] ... them anyway. This mode, the border colour is used as the paper ... colour and the whole attribute byte ... is used as the ink colour.
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Issue 4s - Not 'Jailbars' but lines alloverIt's not another 'Jailbars' question!, but I've got this Issue 4S that aside from the 'Jailbars' on the Paper area of the screen which I can live wit…
... main thing is in the border area. There are alternating light ... that if I change the border colour from white then the lines ... in the border do disappear!
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Issue 4s - Not 'Jailbars' but lines alloverIt's not another 'Jailbars' question!, but I've got this Issue 4S that aside from the 'Jailbars' on the Paper area of the screen which I can live wit…
... is all white or if border is set to white. The ... than normal and when paper colour is changed you can only ... />
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Issue 4s - Not 'Jailbars' but lines alloverIt's not another 'Jailbars' question!, but I've got this Issue 4S that aside from the 'Jailbars' on the Paper area of the screen which I can live wit…
... ;791558]When I change the border colour the lines don't seem ... no visible interferences at the border zone close to the left ... shows everywhere, even in the border zone close to the left ... -
+2 DIAGNOSTICSIs there a diagnostics test available for the spectrum 128 (+2) in tzx format? I've just obtained a spectrum +2 Grey and all looks fine with it on f…
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assembler for PcHi guys, I'm in the process of teaching myself machine code, and wondered if there is a good pc program for writing code. Or is the best thing to use…
... /> To set a permanent red border we can do this:
call 8859 ; set border colour.
so this is ... part of the rom's border routine?
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You get what you pay for-You live and learnDecided to try for a cheap spectrum + on ebay described as not being able to tune it and some keys did not work - haha Duly received and opened up a…
Is the border colour white? What are the exact voltages measured on the +12v, -5v and +5v rails?
It is most likely a lower RAM fault, but if the border colour is non-white then it could be a faulty CPU also.
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You get what you pay for-You live and learnDecided to try for a cheap spectrum + on ebay described as not being able to tune it and some keys did not work - haha Duly received and opened up a…
[QUOTE=balford;820727]Is the border colour white? What are the exact ... RAM fault, but if the border colour is non-white then it ... /> Thanks Balford
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Stuff the Spectrum wasn't really supposed to be able to doHello :) Today I was rearranging my bookshelves and I ended up spending almost an hour, looking at the old Sinclair User magazines I have held on to…
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The 20th comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition thread!Hi all, [SIZE="7"][B][CENTER]ANNOUNCEMENT![/CENTER][/B][/SIZE] The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 is now well and truly OPEN! [url]…
... /> 10 PAUSE 1: BORDER 0: BORDER 0: BORDER 0: BORDER 6: BORDER 0: GOTO 10 ... PEEK AT TAN LINE IN BORDER"[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http ... takes BASIC to simply change border colour, but then again I suppose ... -
My first Greasemonkey script, up for testingI've decided to play with Greasemonkey and javascript today. (Greasemonkey is an add-on under Firefox)<br><br>Here's my first script written purely f…
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Also that border colour somehow is the same as ... the quote bar colour.
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My first Greasemonkey script, up for testingI've decided to play with Greasemonkey and javascript today. (Greasemonkey is an add-on under Firefox)<br><br>Here's my first script written purely f…
... became white.
Also that border colour somehow is the same as ... the quote bar colour.
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DiscipleI have got a Disciple Disk Interface, with no manual, software. I have downloaded the PDF Manual from WOS, which says I have to load the operating…
... no idea what the current border colour is, which RAM page is ...DiscipleI have got a Disciple Disk Interface, with no manual, software. I have downloaded the PDF Manual from WOS, which says I have to load the operating…
... no idea what the current border colour is, which RAM page is ...IN and OUT in hardware terms... what are 'ports'?Hi all, I understand PEEK and POKE, but have never managed to get my head around IN and OUT. The books all go on about how they read from and wri…
... Spectrum - OUTs that change the border colour or toggle the speaker. And ...IN and OUT in hardware terms... what are 'ports'?Hi all, I understand PEEK and POKE, but have never managed to get my head around IN and OUT. The books all go on about how they read from and wri…
... For instance, the Speccy’s border colour is controlled through an I ... /O port... but the border colour can only ever be [i ... to find out what colour the border is set to, unless ... Spectrum’s video hardware what colour the border is, because the Spectrum ...Were there other graphic modes for the ZX Spectrum?I've read that there was a "hi-color" mode that allowed the color clash to be 8x1 instead of 8x8. Maybe I have the name of that mode wrong. I'm…
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Sinclair wanted a colour machine. The very low cost ...
Because the requirement was colour graphics, the ULA was designed ... for a single colour graphics only "mode". Unlike ... the three bits for the border colour. This means there is ...No contended memory?Sorry if this is a stupid question. But I'm trying to learn more about the ZX Spectrum. If I had a stock 48k Speccy and I could wave a magic wa…
... to keep things in sync. (border colour for example)Vega ARM SOC?I read that the core of the new Vega was an ARM SOC. I thought it would have been an FPGA. But it seems it's an ARM running an emulator. Anyone kn…
... techniques to change the border colour at specific times so ... to find out what colour the border must have during ... 8 pixels of border, changing the colour every 224 T- ... /> ld a,0 ;initial border color
ld d, ...
