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  • 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…

    ... to pause the scrolling text; BORDER will slowly flash black/white ... ; Press SPACE until current BORDER colour restored to resume scrolling ... 64 by the instructions sub-routine.

    A couple of ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2016 Brand new software
  • Line DemoI was looking in the source code of another game (that Akalabeth game), with lots of line drawings. The difference was that they don't use the PL…

    ... low as possible for your routine, but I also noticed that ... will not only set the BORDER to the same colour as ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • 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) …

    ... /> // Memory[$11CD] := $05; // Cyan Border
    // Memory[$1266] := $0D; // ...
    // Trap the KEY-LINE routine

    PutWord(@Memory[$0296 ...
    // Memory[$11CD] := $05; // Cyan Border
    // Memory[$1266] := $0D; // Cyan ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2016 Development
  • 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 ... per game (your ram copy routine+stack size) + 27 bytes per ... game).

    Your copy routine will dump all three slots ...
    Dan Dare Dan Dare October 2016 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... will suffice ! The machine code routine above is simple enough to ... it gives clicks and multicolored border.
    This is essentially addressing ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…

    ... 't find Patrik Rak's routine myself, thanks!

    I ... both drawn in the top border.

    I think I ...
    colonel32 colonel32 December 2016 Brand new software
  • Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…

    I played around with the border timings the other day, amazing ... /> Also I'm flashing the border red for my hit tests ... hurry to write the die routine yet. Makes testing quicker, especially ...
    colonel32 colonel32 January 2017 Assembler
  • Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…

    ... front of the machine code routine. A '1' followed by an ... /> 60 INK 7: PAPER 0: BORDER 0: BRIGHT 0: FLASH 0 ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Games
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    ... tape recorder, because the load routine wants to load the second ... if you get error (flashing border) then if you press any ...
    Geco Geco March 2017 Announcements
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    ... tape recorder, because the load routine wants to load the second ... if you get error (flashing border) then if you press any ...
    Hood Hood March 2017 Announcements
  • Bug in Empire! by Firebird?Hi I got this game on a YS covertape years ago and really enjoyed it. It's a space shooting/trading type of thing like Elite but in a top down view.…

    It doesn't just fill the attributes, it sets the paper/border to flash in the interrupt routine. Haven't found it yet.
    FrankT FrankT March 2017 Games
  • So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…

    Incidentally, I once wrote an explosion routine which shovelled the first several bytes of the ROM through the appropriate port, thereby getting a chuff of white noise accompanied by a chaotic border
    robert@fm robert@fm March 2017 Assembler
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... colour is currently moving (Black border for Black, White for White ... mean having a dedicated print routine and message data, but it ... on where its a black border and paper predominantly.

    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • Double Buffering Artefacts on Real HardwareI have a project that I've played around with for a while and always tested using emulators, either ZX Spin or Spectaculator. It is a 128k game th…

    ... be 255 when drawing the border and display bytes when the ... /~jb/qaop/unijoy.asm]universal routine[/url] (not tested actually ...
    qaop qaop May 2017 Development
  • 128K memory bank selection to avoid contention issuesI'm currently developing a game and I'm trying to get my head around the memory contention issues of the various 128K/+2/+2A/+3 spectrum models in or…

    ... sounds.

    1. During border time, both contended and regular ... have a typical IM2 interrupt routine with an AY music player ...
    Hikaru Hikaru May 2017 Development
  • 128K memory bank selection to avoid contention issuesI'm currently developing a game and I'm trying to get my head around the memory contention issues of the various 128K/+2/+2A/+3 spectrum models in or…

    ... the raster is in the border area, with this in mind ... . I could get the IM2 routine to switch in the bank ...
    adrian_singh adrian_singh June 2017 Development
  • I am soo glad I owned a SpeccyJust passing the time here, and decided (after seeing some CPC screenshots of Shadow Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games with their…

    ... the display right over the border area).

    For a ... something like the Cobra scroll routine.
    AndyC AndyC June 2017 Games
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... 192 cycles to the bottom border. So wait that long ... lines ahead. But this routine is written without knowledge of ... the scroller. The print_word_wrapped routine has been changed to pause ... works. A specialized scroll routine may have better performance. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…

    ... you are in the lower border. But I'm not really ... pointing 'close to' your interrupt routine, or just someplace you have ...
    Hikaru Hikaru August 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ...
    300 REM
    310 BORDER 0
    320 CLS

    The new routine is 49 bytes and takes ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... is to write a mouse routine in Z80. I knocked up ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Most played games: Pirated vs BoughtMy confession of guilt in the piracy thread that I'd never legitimately bought an Ultimate game, despite playing Knight Lore to death BITTD, led me t…

    ... tape using the standard ROM routine, so had a brand-new ... ), changed it to mask the border during loading and saved Knight ...
    Gwyn Gwyn September 2017 Games
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... port/mask injection into my routine for completion.


    ;Redefine Keys routine
    ;By Ast A. Moore ... /> call 8859 ;inside ROM routine BORDER ($2294)
    call 3503 ...
    ;A crude debounce routine to prevent
    ;registering ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • 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 routine at
    [code ... set the initial border colour. However, for the border to keep that ... set later in the NEW routine:
    [code]
    1265: ... changing the length of the routine.

    So, for ...
    GReW GReW November 2017 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... I listed above, the initial border colour is set using a ...
    [/code]
    For the BORDER, P-ATTR and T-ATTR ... tweak the initial memory test routine to fill memory with $FE ... increments instead of decrements; the routine still works as before but ...
    GReW GReW November 2017 Hardware
  • Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…

    ...
    ;
    ;CALL the set_up routine first
    ;Thereafter repeatedly CALL ... ,slp0 ;
    out (0feh),a ;BORDER 0

    entry:
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…

    ...
    ;
    ;CALL the set_up routine first
    ;Thereafter repeatedly CALL ... ,slp0 ;
    out (0feh),a ;BORDER 0

    entry:
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
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