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Unresponsive Spectrum with Magenta border.This Spectrum is taking an age for me to repair, thank for all the help thus far! So after I switch on the ZX Spectrum+ I get the familiar white…
... the 1982 message however the border is magenta (occasionally black, if ... -
Magenta border and black screenGot my hands on a issue 3 48k machine. Did the initial resistance checks and everything seemed in order buy when I switch the machine on all I get is…
... I get is a magenta border and black screen with the ... -
Less MIA for SPA2 again - Rainbow Islands (1990)(Erbe Software)[+3 disk][re-release]Hi all :) dsk image: [url="http://forest.no-ip.org/wos/rie/Rainbow%20Islands%20(1990)(Erbe%20Software)(Side%20A)%5Bre-release%5D.dsk"]forest.no-ip.…
... .no-ip.org/wos/rie/Rainbow%20Islands%20(1990)(Erbe%20Software ... .no-ip.org/wos/rie/Rainbow%20Islands%20(1990)(Erbe%20Software ... .no-ip.org/wos/rie/Rainbow%20Islands%20(1990)(Erbe%20Software ... -
ZX Spectrum border and sound problemAfter recap stange problem with ZX Spectrum (issue 3b) with sound and border. See video at: [url="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhYHKW6xjI-aVdMcE…
... (issue 3b) with sound and border. See video at: [url="https ... -
ZX Spectrum border and sound problemAfter recap stange problem with ZX Spectrum (issue 3b) with sound and border. See video at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhYHKW6xjI-aVdMcEY4ajVk…
... (issue 3b) with sound and border. See video at: https://drive ... notes: When type LOAD "" ENTER border flicking and sounds stops. When ... breaks loading flicking border and sound continue -
Border flashing in solid colors when loading a tapeIs this normal behavior or is there something wrong in the tape loading, if the border just flashes in solid colors? There's some stripes in the begi…
... the tape loading, if the border just flashes in solid colors ... there are stripes on the border throughout the load. -
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…
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Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
... things going on in the border that look like a very ... />
Anyone mentioning the "Features Rainbow Graphics" link on WOS - I ... what is and isn't "Rainbow Graphics" varies from game to ... -
Fuse/SPIN vs Spectaculator border timingsHello, I'm trying to figure out at which moments the 48K ULA samples the current border color into its internal latch. To do that I wrote a small …
... 48K ULA samples the current border color into its internal latch ... few lines on the top border at specific CPU ticks and ... -
border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …
... with border effects like
10 border 1
20 border 2 ... /> are there any other ways border effects can be done in ... -
Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
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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…
Crash magazine once did a tape of utility programs called "The Crash Tech Tape" (I Think) which included a program for saving programs in turbo load form. It definately had options for changing the border colours (probably not rainbow coloured though). -
A silly BASIC programming challenge for you all..This is a very, very sily idea. So only read if you are bored. I use E-bay a lot. (my user id is thx1138ebn) edit: it's now retro-technology :edit…
10 PRINT "GOOD EBAYER":FOR A=1 TO 7:BORDER A:PAUSE 1:NEXT A: GOTO 10
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what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…
... a rainbow processor but a posh one running in the border
border, disabled break, scrolly countdown! The ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
I once used OUT (well, to be exact I think it was OTIR) in a short machine-code routine (12 bytes or so) to give an "earthquake" effect to a BASIC game, by rainbow-striping the border and sounding a short burst of white noise on the beeper... -
GP2X handheld - ZX Spectrum emu goodnessIt's probably been covered here before, but I've spent the last week going crazy over the GP2X Linux-based, dual-core handheld that can emulate somet…
... rainbow effects in Zynaps and Uridium now show properly, and the border ... -
non standard loader bar coloursAs with my speedloader thread, when did non standard colours start to appear and who came up with the idea and what was the reaction?
... Cliff Hanger) has a rainbow stripe border which is pretty simple to ... -
OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…
... (via the newly-added orange-border-of-death diagnostic error messages ... - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
Rainbow Islands - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf1 ... -
ZXSpin for Spectrum DevelopmentI found this handy guide to setting up a cross-platform development environment for the Spectrum: [URL="http://zxspectrumdev.blogspot.com/2009/01/set…
... that they can emulate the rainbow and border effects that you see ... :
10 BORDER 6 : PAUSE 1 : BORDER 2 : PAUSE 1 : GOTO ... -
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... blocks. Look at the screen border graphics; 2 characters wasted on ... all be using full-screen rainbow generators in every game. -
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... all be using full-screen rainbow generators in every game.[/QUOTE ... is going to build upper border (14500T) and the upper ... just have to reach bottom border before beam.
It ... upper and bottom border (cca 43000T) = 113000 T.
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Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... is going to build upper border (14500T) and the upper half ... just have to reach bottom border before beam.
It gives ... upper and bottom border (cca 43000T) = 113000 T.
Rainbow generator is ... -
Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... I discovered another drawback in border-swapping when I tried it ... . You have to swap the border colour during the horizontal fly ... in usable width of your rainbow effects. You'd have to ... it ironic, that flashing the border makes it harder to actually ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... t get printed outside the rainbow area. I've sent the ... br /> ; It incorporates joefish's 'Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using ... print attributes
; outside the rainbow area
pop bc ; get ... />
;Pause for the top border:
ld bc, 435
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... of the next, during the border edges and flyback.
border phase again and stays there ... /> Ermm, the pixel row of RAINBOW is this:
[code ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... -allocate the space for the rainbow attribute buffer. However, they're ... 're done during the top-border timing phase of the interrupts ... . Since it's mostly top-border time, the tables being in ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... [/i] runs during the bottom border (and if it doesn't ... 's used during the top border to draw sprites) and the ... make sure the game code, rainbow and sound buffers are all ...Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…
... like the extended border in Aquaplane or the rainbow effect in the ...More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... changing the palette in the border area. I'd like to ... games do (in conjunction with rainbow effects), so doing it in ... bloody hard to time a border colour change amongst all the ...
