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  • How to load "Pang 16c" with EmuZWin and other emulators supporting ATM TurboHi, I'm a complete nut with Russian clones and one of the games I'd rather like to watch and play is the 16-coloured version of Pang, which I found …

    ... 128K BASIC IIRC.

    I got slightly different graphical effects by ... changing the model and BASIC mode, but ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2008 Games
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... I just put this pure-BASIC screen-flipping demo together.

    Download BASIC demo screen flipping snapshot here ... REM main program
    105 BORDER 2: GO SUB initscr
    BASIC area, reserving room for the ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... screens almost instantaneously, even from BASIC.

    (Hint: never use ... the exponentiation operator in Sinclair BASIC where it can be avoided ... /> I also removed the red BORDER lower screen section that had ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... isn't actually needed in BASIC!

    [code]
    5 ... POKE syspage,23
    130 BORDER 6: PAPER 6: INK 1 ... *i: NEXT i
    150 BORDER 4
    190 IF q ... , you will see that even BASIC is capable of very rapid ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Star Wars like game...I remember playing a game, maybe around 88 or 89, that was inspired in star wars... I can't remember much about it...only that you would aproach dea…

    ... game, was pretty basic but i loved the sound effects.

    psj3809 psj3809 August 2008 Games
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... /c and how to mix Basic and machine code on the ...

    ; Black background & border, invert mode on
    LDA ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p

    ... same machine according to thermal effects.)[/QUOTE]

    Ok, then ... something wrong, but after first basic part, loading second machine code ...
    Pegaz Pegaz September 2008 Emulators
  • Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…

    ... correct timings, all of the effects of video contension, all of ... need such precise timing and border control, but what else? I ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2008 Emulators
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... /> ; and restored before returning to BASIC
    PTR1 EQU $FB
    BASIC would otherwise use
    LDA ...

    ; Black background & border, invert mode on
    LDA ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question about something I don't know what is called.I am interested in reading about something which I don't know what is called (duh). I am looking for (online/offline) reading material which explain…

    ... XOR operation to cause the border colour bits to invert, causing ... and you'll see the border go blue (you may also ... you were expecting. Thats because BASIC is too slow to make ...
    Phu Phu September 2008 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum Sound Upgrade to C64Would it be possible to interface in a seperate C64 style SID sound device to the ZX Spectrum to make existing ZX Spectrum games sound like their C64…

    ... " (sound shape) controller, making sound effects generation hardware-side.

    BASIC are generated in software using ...
    Phu Phu September 2008 Hardware
  • New (adult oriented) game availableHello ! Kyv/3umpf has asked me to post a message on WOS that they released a new game (this is an English version of a Russian game): [url]http://p…

    ... then sits forever with a border which is whether yellow or ... ), loading using the LOADER, 48 BASIC and even USR 0 mode ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2008 Games
  • Spellbound musicThe other day I was surprised to notice that the music in the game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004744"]Spellbound[/URL] i…

    ... the effects, as if it was made with the 128 basic PLAY ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG October 2008 Games
  • Spellbound musicThe other day I was surprised to notice that the music in the game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004744"]Spellbound[/URL] i…

    ... the effects, as if it was made with the 128 basic PLAY ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak October 2008 Games
  • Pentagon 8x1 attr mode - what's the POKE?There isn't one. It's an OUT.

    ... mode on to see full effects" or something like that. On ... be used very well in Basic (Attribute map from 24576, 6144 ...
    LCD LCD October 2008 Emulators
  • Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…

    ... write a program in Sinclair BASIC that emulates a Windows PC ... />

    1 Set the border and paper to black, the ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Emulators
  • Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…

    ... can we do it in BASIC or what?[/QUOTE]

    Some kind of "still-BASIC-mode" would be to have ... a BASIC program that includes some POKEs ... with different values for the border stripe colours.

    Not ...
    Rickard Rickard October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Forum Improvements[quote=Dunny;307892]Yebbut, I'm not interested in reporting any threads that are off topic, so long as they stay in the off topic area. What I would …

    ... refer to Tap files or basic code and have it emulated ... ][/INDENT]

    or a basic file:

    [INDENT][Spec48 ... basic directly to have it emulsted:

    [spec48]
    10 Border ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2008 Chit chat
  • Forum Improvements[quote=Dunny;307892]Yebbut, I'm not interested in reporting any threads that are off topic, so long as they stay in the off topic area. What I would …

    ... refer to Tap files or basic code and have it emulated ... ][/INDENT]

    or a basic file:

    [INDENT][Spec48 ... basic directly to have it emulsted:

    [spec48]
    10 Border ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman October 2008 Chit chat
  • Looking for a type-in.I remember a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. It used code to shift the screen blocks. At the start of a game you could select how many m…

    ... it drew a picture with basic commands for the puzzle, and ... remember magenta ink for the border of the puzzle, white background ...
    FrankT FrankT October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PSP UsersIf you're a PSP user (as opposed to those common Nintendo DS plebs) and you use FUSE PSP then if you have the time please go to: [URL]http://forum.…

    ... is that?) to program Spectrum BASIC in FUSE PSP?

    2. Synchronise all the effects, coz not all is shown ... 've never seen any wrong effects in FUSE PSP, and I ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Emulators
  • +2a datacorder problemsHelloooo, how's it going? Reason I'm posting is that 1) I'm a massive speccy fan, it was the first range of computers I ever owned 2) I'm having rea…

    ... back.

    NONSENCE in basic : the link you posted reffers ... and 128k+) that displays white border and black raster as soon ...
    gtsamour gtsamour October 2008 Hardware
  • +2a datacorder problemsHelloooo, how's it going? Reason I'm posting is that 1) I'm a massive speccy fan, it was the first range of computers I ever owned 2) I'm having rea…

    ... back.

    NONSENCE in basic : the link you posted reffers ... and 128k+) that displays white border and black raster as soon ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC October 2008 Hardware
  • Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…

    ... /> Reminds me of my early BASIC coding attempts. I remember sitting ... out its variant of BASIC by inputting ZX BASIC code and seeing ... it to cycle through the border colours, in the exact same ... . I don't use ZX BASIC at work, after all. It ...
    Danforth Danforth October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Edge of Disgrace on the other side :)Got my mind blown today... saw the Edge of Disgrace demo on the commie ;-) Regardless if you are a c64 fan or not, you should see it. Effects and Des…

    ... links between parts that border on being throwaway effects, and awesome, awesome ...
    gasman gasman October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Edge of Disgrace on the other side :)Got my mind blown today... saw the Edge of Disgrace demo on the commie ;-) Regardless if you are a c64 fan or not, you should see it. Effects and Des…

    [QUOTE=Jimmy;312464]
    If somebody can explain why (technically) this demo is supposed to be so good then I'd be most grateful. Even a
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Edge of Disgrace on the other side :)Got my mind blown today... saw the Edge of Disgrace demo on the commie ;-) Regardless if you are a c64 fan or not, you should see it. Effects and Des…

    ... don't even notice the border is missing, so people don ... AND doing most of the effects shown in 1 frame
    netraider netraider November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …

    ... multiplexer, which switches between paper/border colour and ink depending on ... of NOR gates, the ULA basic gate type]

    [code ...
    csmith csmith November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …

    ... provided it (with some simple BASIC listings that anyone could have ... that people know about these effects and have been 'sitting on ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Two different versions of Bruce Lee?There's a possible MIA here, I think. I sat down at lunchtime to play a bit of Bruce Lee and discovered that the version I'd downloaded from WOS (th…

    ... .

    2. Enter Amstrad BASIC (in WinAPE32: with Num Lock ... " for some really cool sound-effects.

    15. To the ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2008 Games
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