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Best beeper player with good trade-off between sound quality and CPU timeHi all.. I'm toying with the idea of writing a small demo/intro on the 48k Speccy. Last time I did this I cheated and used an AY add-on but this t…
... the current speaker bit and border colour. The call to close writes ... the current speaker bit and border colour. This way there is no ... music and tritone uses the border colour last set by the user ... -
Russian-speaking topic - Multiface 3Hi friends! The Administration will not mind if I create a topic in which you can communicate in Russian? No politics. No racism. Speccy only! :-) …
... game situation have spoiled forever border: cry:
Can I ... at boot time snapshot black border instead of blue?
[/ ... Poke the address of your border change routine into Multiface RAM ... button will now execute your border change routine, then the game ... -
Z88DK NOOB cplot INK colorHi I am a complete NOOB with Z88DK, I am trying to draw colored circles. How does ink, paper and border work with Z88DK. I started trying to wo…
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To change border colour you can use "zx_border(INK_BLUE ... of the last colour written to the border so they won ... 't change its colour or ...
ld (hl),c ; change colour
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A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... " changes the background, "" adds the border timer and "o" exits to ... , 28, 20}; // full screen minus border
struct sp1_Rect levelbrect = {0 ... -
48k Speccy died, resistors getting too hot to touchHi folks, With 2 days to go till an exhibition my trusty dual-boot 48K issue 3b that I made last year has given up the ghost and I'm not sure I ha…
... I can see the alternating border colour. Start the normal 48K ROM ... -
Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…
... /white; Press SPACE until current BORDER colour restored to resume scrolling text ... -
Help a new user pleaseI love old school games and never had a Sinclair as a kid so thought I would rectify that via eBay! I have a 48k+ Model that was sold as working, …
... out I get a RED border but that’s it.[/quote ... something, so it changes the border colour to show this. If it ... from a suitable source, the border would change to coloured stripes ... would have given me a border or something, but I’m ... -
ZX Spectrum CartridgesI have been thinking of "cloning" ZX Cartridges for a while (case, board and silicon skirt), to be able to make new releases or replace damaged cartr…
... game you need 48k (Ram) + Border colour (stored in ULA) + z80 registers ... -
Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…
... , eg:
[code]
14 BORDER 1: POKE 23624,7*8 ... )'(20)'"row 21";i$:
BORDER 1: STOP
[/code]
colour attributes, which shares its PAPER colour with the BORDER colour. -
Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …
... border as expected. If I type BORDER 1 (blue or any other colour ... ) and then type NEW the border colour ... -
Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…
... , eg:
[code]
14 BORDER 1: POKE 23624,7*8 ... )'(20)'"row 21";i$:
BORDER 1: STOP
[/code]
colour with the BORDER colour.[/quote]
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A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…
... OUT port that controls the border colour. If you do OUT 254 ... 7 it will change the border colour. That's the first three ... run. (It also turns the border black). -
where is border/ink, etc stored in rom?hi, i just wondered where these were stored in rom and how i change these?
The border colour is held in system variable BORDCR (23624) along with the lower screen attributes (the PAPER colour is used for the border). -
how to edit a romhi, i just wanted to know the best way to edit a rom. im going to do it in an emulator first and then run it in a spectrum.
[quote="digital;893182"]border/ink and paper colour on boot[/quote]
I ... bytes.
The initial BORDER colour is set by:
$11CC ... can't easily set the BORDER and PAPER to different colours ... -
Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …
... register like used for the border colour), that then leaves the attribute ... some ULA pins for extra colour outputs, remove the keyboard port ... -
Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …
... register like used for the border colour), that then leaves the attribute ... some ULA pins for extra colour outputs, remove the keyboard port ... too? I wonder how many colour would have been available to ... -
Disabling the ROM without removing the whole thingHi! I've got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. I suspect the ROM may be bad, but other things may be faulty as well. I've read that in an otherwis…
... does is to change the border colour to white. So it is ... -
ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …
... white screen and with grey border . The screen was white ... within its area .The border area also had some smaller ... of the grey border area so the outer border colour was not just ... clear differentiation between screen and border area.
Fitting ... -
Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …
... need one to change the border colour black? Since it's clearly ... -
Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …
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zx_border() changes the border colour directly through port 0xfe. Because ... change border colour. The reason is z88dk will record the last border colour written ... subroutines do not change the border colour when they output beeper sound ... -
ZX Spectrum 48K it only shows colored barsHello, I'm new to the forum and I need help with a ZX Spectrum 48K which I bought recently unfortunately defective. I want to mention that before t…
... questions...
> Does the border area on the display always ... as white (grey/white in colour)? You need to power it ... , then power on, check the border colour, then repeat the cycle about ... all?
If the border always shows as white, it ... -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
The original code didn't set the border colour using the BORDER command, only writing 6 to port #FE. The default colours were simply paper 7, ink 0. -
Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... start to fill and the border colour changes to yellow:-
[img ... all rows are filled the border goes back to white:-
zx Spectrum repairHi, First post! My son gave me hi old none working Spectrum, so I thought I'd try to get it working, or throw it away. The RV showed the start page…
... its loading phase? Did the border colour change? Did any noise come ...Best and worst loading coloursWas just thinking the other day about this, what are the worst / best loading colours that have been seen ? :) Apart from loaders with either mult…
... headerless screen data with custom border colour c.
let c=7 ...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…
... is the registers for the border colour, the keyboard, the bleeper, the ...Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…
The initial border colour is set during the NEW ... the initial border colour. However, for the border to keep that colour after any ... can't easily have the border and paper as different colours ... blue paper, with a blue border, change the following bytes:
Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…
... far as I understand each colour has a value ranging from ... I listed above, the initial border colour is set using a single ... colour:
[code]
0 = BLACK< ...
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For the BORDER, P-ATTR and T-ATTR ...Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…
... if it does *that* (wrong border colour, garbage on the screen, crash ...
