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Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
... the serial (or byte order) buffer at 57484 to the Spectrum ... -
destiny missionJust wondered what you all thought of the game destiny mission. I love the music but the game itself i feel is lacking and the background are too bu…
... feel is lacking and the background are too busy to see ... -
OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…
... formerly used for the printer buffer (directly after the screen) is ... screen are used as a buffer for the PALETTE command. This ... -
Battlefield 3Anyone playing this? Is it me or is it a lot harder to know what the hell is going on and where you are supposed to go in Multiplayer. I'm good at …
... themselves often blend into the background so I'm dead before ... -
"Gryzor" artworkThe great Bob Wakelin recently sent a copy of his original art for this game to the archive: [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b357/mlucifersam/…
... made, purposely leaving a blank background. This is not the same ... screen is this one. The background has been filled in by ... 'Giger-esque' work in the background.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket ... -
Encyclopaedia GalacticaThis is the development thread for Encyclopaedia Galactica, the game upon which I'm currently working, along with a few others. The idea is that the…
... some decent 16x16 sprites or background graphics and have a few ... -
Name the Spectrum book...Hi, as I don't have access to Sinclair Miscellaneous, I am posting this here. Back in the mid-late 80s I got a book from the Home Computing Club and…
... a black and white graphic background on the text listings pages ... -
Grrr property improvement programmes...Gnggh. I'm in the break room at work, tv on in the background, one of those awful property development programmes is on and this woman has a room in …
... work, tv on in the background, one of those awful property ... -
Game BoosterAnyone here use it? I've recently been experimenting with Gamecube emulation and most games are only giving me about 30fps instead of 60, so, I was l…
... shutting down all un-needed background tasks. He showed a video ... -
How to change the colour of an input line?Hello my fellow WoS'ers I remember the way-back machine on the humble 48k where I could write a REM statement in basic, but I could also change the …
... I could also change the background paper of that text input ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. Even so, sometimes experienced developers may decide to access BIFROST* internal routines directly, for ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... animates) a tile in the background (which happens periodically for every ... -
Interview with Steve Wetherill (Odin)Hi you all!!! Here is the interview done to STEVE WETHERILL (Nodes of Yesod, Robin of The Wood, Arc of Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at […
... for the sprite and key background objects - this allowed me to ... -
INKEY$ giving me troubleHello, I have been using BASin (great program by the way...) Sad though it seems during the typhoon here I have been re-learning my spec-skills an…
... a brick wall.
Background:
Am reading through the ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 4In previous posts I demonstrated how to move multicolor tiles up and down smoothly by a single pixel, and sideways by an entire char (8 pixels). Thi…
... tiles moving against an empty background or passing behind fixed position ... . Using masks would preserve the background bitmaps but not their colors ... -
Pages from CEFAXStrangely its 2:10 am on a Sunday morning in 2012 and BBC2 are showing pages from CEFAX accompanied with background music. Has my TV areal fallen in…
Strangely its 2:10 am on a Sunday morning in 2012 and BBC2 are showing pages from CEFAX accompanied with background music.
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BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 5In my [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40437"]previous post[/URL] I demonstrated how to move multicolor images smoothly i…
... to move");
// draw background screen and disable tile map ... -
Rodland in colourAs promised (some time ago already ;) ), here is my hack attempt to add some colour to Rodland : [URL=http://www.image-share.com/ipng-1680-98.html][…
... /> Sprites take colour of the background. If they had their own ... -
Spectrum in black TS1500 case with grey "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" labelAt the Spectrum30 event yesterday, someone had brought a Spectrum like object with an unusual case and I never did find out whose it was or where it …
... the label had a grey background with black writing on it ... -
How much memory on sprites, maps etc.I've been tinkering with shifting & pre-shifting sprites recently, but as I haven't had that much experience with Z80 assembly I sometimes find it ha…
... %)
- map - 10KB (25%)
- background/scenery/tile graphics - 10KB (25 ... -
Revisiting Spectrum CPU clock regenerationWarning: This post will be a bit nerdy :-) Some time ago, I experimented with phase locked loop circuits as a possible way to regenerate the Spectru…
... , but for copying one frame buffer into another - absolutely not. Even ... -
Spectrum+ Guest appearance on Waterloo RoadDid anyone see Waterloo Road on BBC1 tonight - there was a couple of shots inside one of the teacher's flats (Chalky?) where there was a Spectrum+ bo…
Did anyone see Waterloo Road on BBC1 tonight - there was a couple of shots inside one of the teacher's flats (Chalky?) where there was a Spectrum+ box in the background behind the character !! -
Anyone know where this is going wrong?I've written a simple routine to make a block drop from the top of the screen, but for some reason it wont 'cover its trail' so to speak. The block i…
... stop it messing up the background, but I cant work out ... -
PCL / PS driver questionsDon't know if this ever happened to any of you. I've been searching but I've yet to find a practical, permanent solution. Let's say I have a 1.4M P…
... all modern printers had a buffer of sorts and could grab ... -
Mini scroll routineI'm looking for a routine that scrolls a small section of the screen downwards and replaces it with nothing, 2 x 2 charcter blocks to be precise, to …
... using sprites, its just the background data I want to manipulate ... -
Covering my tracks using OVERI've got myself in a bit of a mess again I'm afraid, the routine I have written is for 4 characters to move across the screen 2 spaces at a time in I…
... 1 to avoid corrupting the background. This is what I have ... -
Universe isn't real.....probably.....[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/11/physicists-may-have-evide_n_1957777.html[/url] [quote]"Physicists say they may have evidence that th…
... caused by interaction with cosmic background radiation. But Beane and co ... -
Image To Zx Spec 1.3.3_02 - Video And Performance ImprovementsI've released Image To ZX Spec 1.3.3_02. In addition to the changes below one notable change is the ability to convert much larger videos as there i…
Asking for help: ZXBC to ASM routine translationHallo, In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler [code] sub light(x as uinteg…
Hallo,
In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler
[code]
sub light(x as uinteger,y as uinteger,intensity as ubyte)
dim adr as Uinteger
if xGift From The Gods - New Loading Screen.So, here it is - the new loading screen for Ocean's Gift From The Gods. Based on Bob Wakelin's original artwork : [img]http://i1239.photobucket.com/a…
... wanted to have the brighter background and columns as well as ... that out and the black background is always an easy thing ...