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  • 128k programmingOk, I have had the normal man look (ie. not really), I want a good resource for 128k asm programming. Mostly just to find out how the RAM bank switc…

    ... have to page the screen in at the top of memory to write to it ... can't page the alternate screen in at the bottom of ... in place of the normal screen.

    Though when copying ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... to manage them one character at a time. You build up a screen ... using the codes to say what to draw for each ... running out of characters to store all the animations, ... lots of characters on screen at the same time, ... the best examples to look at to see what is ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... to manage them one character at a time. You build up a screen ... want lots of characters on screen at the same time, ... the best examples to look at to see what is ... big-detailed ones on screen at the same time ... be a game with screen-by-screen and slow groups of ...
    zx_kel zx_kel November 2013 Development
  • Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…

    ... or actually any need, to make clashbasher itself compatable ... using an out to port 3 to control flash ... normal mode if you write to an attribute square it ... switch that character square to normal spectrum display ... up areas of the screen to display in normal mode ...
    Basher Basher December 2013 Hardware
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... just use nirvana to set attributes, and write to the screen directly?
    ...
    E.g. set these squares to ... directly on the screen, trusting nirvana to keep the attributes ... - but am willing to handle drawing and undrawing ...
    Gedlion Gedlion January 2014 Brand new software
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... just use nirvana to set attributes, and write to the screen directly?
    ...
    E.g. set these squares to ... directly on the screen, trusting nirvana to keep the attributes ... want on the bitmap screen, while [B]NIRVANA[/B ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2014 Brand new software
  • 128k gamesHi. I've come to World of Spectrum for advice. I'm a Commodore guy OK, please be nice to me, as I seek your wisdom! I love the Commodore 128, and I'…

    ...
    For example, to draw on the second screen (which is only ... the top of memory to be able to write to it. You couldn' ... , when you want to write to the hidden screen and have its bank ... blocks, but with no way to write to either screen - those were the only ...
    joefish joefish January 2014 Games
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... 29676,0 disable original filling screen with attribute

    screen graphics position
    ... /> LD A,D ;screen graphics address to screen attribute addrees
    RRCA ... LD (DE),A ;write tile attribute to screen
    EX AF,AF ...
    Ralf Ralf January 2014 Games
  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    ... are always 010 when writing to the screen

    ... segment of the screen to write to

    The screen is divided into ... square (also called an attribute) to write to

    the last ... pixel line of the attribute to write to, 0 to 7.

    ...
    slenkar slenkar February 2014 Development
  • Retro Games Battle 2014Retro Games Battle 2014 started! [url]http://retrogamesbattle.com/index.php?lng=eng[/url] Archive for playing on the ZX Spectrum [url]http://retro…

    to tell you the truth, I ... whipping people and getting them to write to me in russian...not very ... a author of DreamWalker loading screen. So get ready for amazing ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore March 2014 Games
  • Chloe 280SE keyboard for ZX-UnoI'm sorry. This conversation comes from another forum. It's a spanish forum and can't continue there. [url]http://zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=…

    ... to write to the left half of the screen. But they would need modifying to write to ... the right half of the screen ... . So you make a change to ... " to the second screen.
    antoniovillena antoniovillena March 2014 Hardware
  • [NEW] Speccy for Android ReleasedHello, All! A while ago, I have released the Android version of [i]Speccy[/i], my ZX Spectrum emulator. It emulates Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A…

    ... B] wherever it failed to work, and [B]removes ... /> * If can't write to external SD card, saving states ... to /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/com.fms.speccy/files.
    * Fixed screen ... decorations covering ZX Spectrum screen with OpenGLES disabled ...
    fms fms April 2014 Emulators
  • Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…

    ... consider it more efficient to shadow CPU writes between ... , page in the alternate screen, write to it, then page it ... it on show, then write over it with what ... same spot on the main screen. You'd get a ... if you were trying to do something like scroll the screen.
    joefish joefish April 2014 Hardware
  • Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…

    ... you switch the normal screen from the lower to the upper 8K ... controls whether to display the normal or the shadow screen. I guess ... it's set to act as a second-screen and mapped over ... OUT port to control which bank to write to, and which one to display. But ...
    joefish joefish April 2014 Hardware
  • Plea for new hardwareI'm posting this as a poll as I want to judge if I'm a solo loon going on about this, or if people really are interested in either of the following S…

    ... switch the normal screen from the lower to the upper ... s set to act as a second-screen and mapped ... port to control which bank to write to, and which one to display. ... say, board B to listen to writes and channel them ... two or more boards to add extra displays. ( ...
    chev chev April 2014 Hardware
  • byte to screen eventI have another question regarding assembly routine in MMCOYZXS by Toni Baker page's 87-88 [QUOTE]21A440 LD HL,40A4 11083F LD DE,3F08 0608 LD B,08…

    ... of the screen so directly points to it. But when you write to it ... the LD (HL),A is said to be ... indirect addressing mode as you write to the memory indirectly through a ...
    seedy1812 seedy1812 April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…

    ... to use both screens on the 128, always treating the screen ... way means you can build up the screen at your leisure, ... and you're good to go for the next ... />
    The downsides to this method are that it ... meaning that you might have to juggle memory around at ...
    Marko Marko April 2014 Development
  • 128K shadow screen?Hi How does the shadow screen feature work , and how can it be used?

    ... you could page the alternate screen in to the bottom third of ... . If you want to write to it, you have to page Bank 7 into ... 7 paged in for the screen to be displayed from it.
    to draw on the alternate screen, you have to keep swapping ...
    joefish joefish May 2014 Development
  • Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…

    ... need to time it better, or re-write the copy routine to ... /> ld sp,screen_table ; Moves pointer to screen table (visable address of each ...
    ; Displays 8 pixel lines to the screen

    ld (temp1 ...
    richdotward richdotward June 2014 Development
  • FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…

    ... ) {
    int pipe;
    int screen;

    pipe = open("/home ... (ch==0) write(pipe,"*",1);
    }

    close(screen);
    close ... -states
    ld (hl),a ; write to buffer | 7 t-states
    tstih tstih June 2014 Development
  • Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…

    ... maths. I could use C to write a pre-assembly expression expander ... math but if you need to write something, don't do any ... pre-assembly expression expander, just write it as an asm library ... by render which draws directly to screen.

    If that sounds ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…

    ... . Instead of trying to calculate the value to write to the palette you could ... the right colour on the screen under ULAplus. So my logic ... would seem to have problems with Normal Red ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …

    ... a lot +1000 of words to change.[/QUOTE]

    to print the filenames to screen, or launch the ... assume you're going to want to print out a ... element (n) corresponds to the numbers on the screen.

    write much BASIC normally :)
    guesser guesser June 2014 Development
  • Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …

    ... . Then when you come to print the filenames to screen, or launch the ... assume you're going to want to print out a screenful ... element (n) corresponds to the numbers on the screen.

    ... of mistakes. I don't write much BASIC normally :)[/QUOTE]
    rich_chandler rich_chandler June 2014 Development
  • ZXDS 1.3.0Hello, I am really glad I can announce one more [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]ZXDS release[/URL] on this special day. The major new feature is the lo…

    ... two from my sleeve to speed the entire screen rendering first, in ... order to make the slowdown ... +2A/+3 and improved Pentagon screen timing, too.

    [ ... any chance of an ability to write to text files? Or would that ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak July 2014 Emulators
  • Test screens for ZX PrismNot sure that this is *really* the right section for this request, but it's relating to new hardware I'm developing so let's start it off here - a mo…

    ... contains up to 8K of screen data; so far all screen modes I ... uses data from "screen 1" and "screen 3" to achieve double width.
    to write to:

    0000 - "default" - whichever screen is paged ... "bit" for each screen is used to make a 4 bit ...
    JeffB JeffB July 2014 Hardware
  • Skool Daze & Back To Skool discussionFollowing my video of Back To Skool ( [url]http://youtu.be/4K2ZUkTOT0g[/url] ) I just wanted to see if these two games are still fondly remembered b…

    ... 't realise it was the screen (and the ROM)... I remember ... present value of IX. The screen then loads (or, rather, reloads ... the game loading, once the screen has loaded open the .scr ... (eventually) build up the screen again. Works for Skool Daze, Back To Skool ...
    leespoons leespoons August 2014 Games
  • Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…

    ... on the board, (and writes to them)[/QUOTE]

    ... on the board (and write to them) except in a ... for a Speccy game to have a map large ... enough to compensate using A*, since ... the way around the screen before moving to the center) despite ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2014 New game ideas
  • Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…

    ... squares on the board (and write to them) except in a few ... the way around the screen before moving to the center) despite not ... available cos it has to fill the screen.

    my a ... the open and closed squares to the screen it would be even ...
    slenkar slenkar August 2014 New game ideas
  • Help with Assembly - DEFB, etc.Dear all, I'm going through Jnathan Cauldwell's tutorial and find myself scratching my head at part I can't find a decent explanation of anywhere! E…

    ... to say it with another words

    When you write ... code isn't drawn to screen and data aren't ... write it easier:

    [CODE] ld a,2 ; upper screen ... bc,4 ; length of string to print
    call 8252 ; ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2014 Development
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