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What new (ish) ZX game have you played mostJust wondering what games from 2000 on have grabbed you most, I found a lot of TR-Dos games on here last year and was seriously impressed by a little…
... /shuffle around as Bub from screen to screen... the last version you posted ... buzz of what you wanted to create in your mind otherwise ... -
The best adventure game on the speccy.I'm on a roll ain't I? Well the best adventure game this time. The Hobbit for me for various reasons: it was the first speccy adventure game I playe…
dont the Magic Knight games (2-4) count?
just because they are window driven, doesnt mean they arnt just build-up to Monkey Island games and the like... and are still adventure games! -
Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …
... your loader after the LOAD "" SCREEN$
and before any other ... LOADs.
Just remember to put the second poke in ... first one disables any printing to screen (I think). -
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... don't know how to do is convert basic ... I read something about Spectrum screen driver? How do I use ... think you're going to have to use "\x05" instead ... you'll gain access to up to 85 column ansi-mode ... is not done directly to screen and will only appear ... -
Cd'sdo you guys think compact discs will become obsolete in the future? will these blue ray discs, drive down the cost of dvd discs. all the laptops i …
i very rarely write to cd's anymore, if im backing stuff up i use a DVD, and if im transfering things from work to home. (speccy games) i use a usb memory stick. -
Cd'sdo you guys think compact discs will become obsolete in the future? will these blue ray discs, drive down the cost of dvd discs. all the laptops i …
... nuisance that's nothing to how irritating HD DVD ... and Bluray are likely to be.[/quote]
to make the consumer suffer? ... can we look forward to with the next generation ...
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... redesigned in the c64 version to keep up the framerate.[/QUOTE ... then it would only need to draw the background once. Then ... taking advantage of features unique to the machine.
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... by telling which sprite to display... one write to memory.[/QUOTE]
< ... but it gives an opportunity to point out that dedicated ... take a couple hundred cycles to update your sprites with ... there is no technical advantage to having the sprite hardware ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... your battery runs down to about 2% and you ... why does the laptop write to the EPROM when booting anyway ... br />
"Press [F1] to restore factory defaults and reboot ... complaint). So I have to make sure that my ... is always charged enough to survive a boot at ... -
TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... /> o Moved the build settings to a new dialog box ... o Added ZigZag support to ZX Spectrum image parser ... /> o Added ability to remove Attributes from ZX ... Mask mode button (to apply to all frames of an ... the general editor settings to the colours useable.
Spectrum Screen Memory MapWhat's the advantage (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation? 6144 bytes divided into 3 blocks, 2048 bytes long. if you want t…
... avoid the screen layout - the best way to deal with ... it is to create a ... lookup table that maps Y coordinates to screen ... addresses, and refer to that all ... swap the registers around to use HL if you ...How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... does) of writing suspect registers to screen RAM or changing the border ... be a bit frustrating having to reload the assembler and 20K ... and there wasn't room to add it without overwriting part ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... got the idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load ... you to, eg, load up a screen$ and then copy it to ... from that extra memory back to screen$. As the name suggestes ... equiv) into/from the screen RAM would be much quicker ... 're just copying a screen to and fro.CD-RW's in CD playersI want to burn some music on to a CD-RW disc, but will it work in a hi-fi CD player or just on the PC? Does it depend on the brand of disc?
... running the Nero software to packet read/write to the CD WR was ... up. Deaths right, just stick to CD Rs , they are so ...I'm not Russian into anythingI seem to have attracted the attention of a very pretty young lady from Russia. So, get your betting heads on..... How many emails it will take bef…
... very pleased, if you will write to me also another Letters. I ... . It was very difficult to place to me my structure in service ... very romantic woman also try to make my life Interesting. I ... life, family, work and entertainments. Write to me, me Your letter will ...I'm not Russian into anythingI seem to have attracted the attention of a very pretty young lady from Russia. So, get your betting heads on..... How many emails it will take bef…
... the American women Frivolously touch to family, that for them their ... ?. It it is very difficult to me To understand it. I think ... , but I would like to finish university to have good
Formation ... time of me to To go home. I shall write to you tomorrow. I ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... which makes it not to useful to be used in games ... it, but going directly to gasman?s SoundTracker tutorial ... also be modified slightly to write to the 2068's AY ... routine to load the songs? We must write them ... 's up to us in the present to write things for ...I'm not Russian into anythingI seem to have attracted the attention of a very pretty young lady from Russia. So, get your betting heads on..... How many emails it will take bef…
... ? You do not want to write to me? You do not ... should bring only happiness to us to two. You understand me ... only to be with you to love you and to be ... you do not have time to write to me I shall understand. ... joyful that you have written to me the letter.
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... easily. However, having to copy a full screen and move lots of ... , were ones that flipped from screen to screen, rather than scroll. There were ... some exceptions to this (some of which have ... speccy, you would be able to do quite a bit more.....Birthday chat session tonightHi folks, let's have a birthday [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/chat/"]chat session[/URL] tonight, starting at 20:30 CET (19:30 in the UK), like…
[QUOTE=FRGT/10]I tried to write to my ISP if they could unblock the WoS IRC channel, bt they said no because "they're afraid of viruses"...[/QUOTE]
Jeez, if that's they're attitude I'm surprised you can even connect!Replacement ROMsSo, I've replaced a couple ROMs in my +3 to be a +3e. I used a couple of 27c256's, which has worked a treat. So if I wanted to replace the ROMs in …
... line or something straight to the NEC/Hitachi jumper, ... there is 3 condition required to activate EPROM (ROM) ... , or workaround: wire 27 to VCC and: /RD OR ... /MREQ and lead it to
/OE, and ... line, so any accidental write to ROM address space will cause ...Fire&ice - PokeThis is poke for ZX game FIRE&ICE: Start game, and write in the game or in map #820C RET #8681 JP #81FD Press key "J" in game = finished level […
... , which would be rather awkward to convert to a tape... How far ... terms?[/QUOTE]
If that, write to me, I shall help than ... /> However in 2007 I hope to complete new small game. :oWanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
... aiming to use that for sprites, backdrop images, full screen ... storyboard pages?[/QUOTE]
If you are refering to ... s required. I tend to always just store graphics ... blasting normal and transparent sprites to screen.
And ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... it's decidedly sluggish compared to the Spectrum version. The same ... ratio of CPU power to screen area which is particularly good ... update, which is just enough to fool the human eye into ...basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
... the code at 30000 due to the textual representation being different ... to the actual number?[/QUOTE]
< ... manage that? What do you write to get "30000" value by writing ...basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
[quote=Arda;167083]Being curious: How can you manage that? What do you write to get "30000" value by writing "32768"? Colour codes? :)[/quote]
erm... does he mean 8000h?
/got nothing...
Andrewbasin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
... manage that? What do you write to get "30000" value by writing ...basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…
... manage that? What do you write to get "30000" value by writing ... />
The easy way is to write 30000 and make:
Alterantively, write the line with the number you want to appear in ...spectaclator and windows vistaanyone know if it will work on vista- I dont want to have to pay up again for a new version...
... mentioned that if you go to [URL]https://winqual.microsoft ... error information is sent to MS it will be ... passed on to the author of the ... and you should be able to track down the bug. ... related. Dies Spectaculator try to write to the registry on start up ...American ParanoiaI just had to write about this: Yesterday, Jan. 31, a bunch of suspicious light emiting packages were found in Boston, MA: LED magnetic lights with a…
Yeah but if your mum can write to the airport and to say it is your own bomb then you often get it back.
