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ZX-2-PC Interface continue...A couple of months ago I started to built an interface for less then ? 5,00 which should communicate to the PC on a high speed. Yesterday I managed t…
... directly to harddisk/diskette. In this way it is not ... from harddisk. This small MC-program can however also be ... 64000 TO 64255
20 OUT 31,255 : REM SIGNAL ... IS CORRECT
40 OUT 31,0 : REM SIGNAL ... 50 NEXT F
In MC however the Spectrum and PC ... -
WANTED: tape replacement for +2?Any tape replacement possible for a +2? My +2 works wonderfully but the incorporated datacorder is simply worn out and won't load ANYTHING. Dirty sig…
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20 PRINT IN 254
30 OUT 254,BIN 11111111
change the value in line 10 to BIN ... 6 read by IN 254 after the appropriate OUT from an Issue ...
LD A,#18
OUT (254),A
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The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
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WallpaperI got a little bored and made some simple speccy desktop wallpaper... I decided to use it myself so here I am making it available to all. [url="http:…
... spectrum never had any Orange colour in its pallette. Yellow is ... />
Incidentally, the logo colour scheme is close the VIBGYOR ... indigo and Violet are left out. So, u have blue ... machines. A case of incorrect colour translation on the website perhaps ... -
TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... extra RLE compression will come in *very* handy.
... Kev's post... Two replies in one!
... noise we can filter out, the less work the ... /> [quote]
simple change to add in a CSW block (such ... re not embedding another format in the TZX format - ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... to hundreds or thousands of IN and OUT commands, and if you ... instruction would take in machine cycles so that complex colour routines could ... to study the spectrum. Find out what makes it tick. The ... so far. As Cyborg pointed out, you're not proving yourself ... -
did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... that haven't been called out, verify called numbers and generate ... A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 more ... of game. Horizontal scrolling implemented in MC.
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did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... that haven't been called out, verify called numbers and generate ... A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 more ... of game. Horizontal scrolling implemented in MC.
6) Several ... -
"Empire" by FirebirdDownloaded this game of WOS the other night on one of them ol' whims. It looks quite intriguing but, such is life, whilst stuff like Xecutor has a wh…
... courage to ask a girl out who I had a ... apply -
w zoom in
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5 move cursor ... your destination the whiter the colour on the radar gets, ... will take damage.Make it out the other side, you ...
ah, you can run out ship fuel. If this happens ... -
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... -points:
1) Border emulation in windowed mode. Hardly a big ... fact that emulation in every emulator is best in full screen mode ... 98 % of Dos based emulators out there. :)
BTW, as ... should work with every system in the world, so long as ... -
Graphics in bordersI am 50% certain that I remember a game that had graphics in the borders. This always made we wonder why none of the other games did. Am I right or h…
You don't.
You change the border colour at precise time intervals. It takes a fixed amount of time to draw portions of the border, just as it does with the screen.
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Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... seeing people 'get stuck in' to Speccy. U mentioned ... Infoseek and type genie in the search box. Make ... Genie says input page in and out values, just press 'enter ... to control the 'lives'; in fact, you can only use ... press ENTER twice
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Need_Help...*.SCR TO *.TAPPLEASE...NEED HELP... HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE??? In 'Taper' convert .z80…
... loading screen, override
the border colour from the snapshot and select ... can NOT use the result in a TAP file, since a ... on the net are saved in 48K mode, while
they ... programs will
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The need for multiple versions of the same gameWhile looking through the TZX Vault I was struck by how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and I wondered whether there really was an…
... like Alchemist, for instance, had border colour variations to the inlays but ... some games were even released in more than ten slight variations ... -
New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
The idea of a 256 colour Spectrum doesn't appeal to ... everything else the same but change the colour scheme would be an ... . For example the clever colour combinations in Deathchase gave us one of ... the only 3D full colour filled ... -
Jil - speccy spoilersIve just downloaded the "new" ending zips to check out and noticed some icon files in a couple. What are they cos i aint seen em in any before and i …
... called rainbow folders before to change the colour of your folders........it ... but left a small file in every coloured folder which the ... folder reverted back to normal colour. -
TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…
... to see is to change the format in any drastic way ... that weren't discovered back in the days when we ... is an utility being devloped in parallel which will be ... . My VOC2TZX is way out-dated today to be of ... REALLY enjoyed being the maintainer in the past, and the ... -
Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... 15 colours or change the way the video out works to something ... made to be an affordable colour computer. Hence all these suggestions ... -
Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…
... name to bring their dream out to the masses. Initially ... Atari. Atari was bought out and the new owners were ... you cant use the same colour in a cell at two ... appreciated. I've checked out FTPs but not found much ... of those games never came out here and id like ... -
EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…
... give strange colours? For ex, in the conversion of Dun Darach ... /> EDIT: Ok, got the colour mixing sorted out. Had to turn on ... and GFleveledOR (haven't figured out why both are required though ... move with a strange lines in the background as they move ... -
EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…
... strange colours? For ex, in the conversion of Dun ... Try Up/DownMixChgBright=0..100, in percents. It may be ... at this char position. In such case background is ... Ok, got the colour mixing sorted out. Had to turn on ... time to draw it in another place/state, then ... -
"Mega-tree (Manic Miner 3)" : development disks to be auctioned on eBayI plan to sell the development disks of "Mega-tree" to coincide with the 20th anniversary; the third game in Matthew Smith's "Manic Miner" / "Jet Set…
... in front of a stove covered in pots, vapour rising out ... with a spatula in hand, ... alot of energy and colour in his skin and well ... friends now who were in late teens/early adulthood ... way more fun, going out and all that was ... -
The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …
... diferencies between BASIC and MC games. probably only few ... there are only 2 games in MC compo. on other side ... music written in WHAM! or simply mc routine it ... BASIC can. kicking them out is a mistake, that ... MINED OUT is much better game than many games in MC)
SpecEmu 2.2Just downloaded this emulator. Seems very nice. I like simplicity of user interface - I don't need toolbar and icons. Debugger is also good. The abil…
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2. Border seems large! I like meduim ... and Klive). Maybe put "border size" in settings
... , and I can't change this! I prefer right ...
I increased the border size to the full size ... a Spectrum's display in order to test rendering ...What sort of new games would you like to see on the Speccy?With the amount of coders we have around, I'm surprised that we don't see more new Speccy games. _________________ [url="http://www.gamestyle.net"]h…
... , but a `True` sequel in the vein of the first ... the first two had used colour in quite an amazingly subtle ... to have some of you MC guys sharing code perhaps, ... Dragon 2 and 3 in the arcades were very poor ... in my opinion)...
...ANN: Speccy Search Bar v1.6 releasedHello. This is just a quick note to say that Speccy Search Bar has been updated to version 1.6. In case you don't know what it is, it's an integrat…
... been modified to handle installers in the same way as Firebird ... do.
I may change the text to read "Mozilla ... /> If you're interested in helping out with The Italian Project, I ...3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... about it needing to be in MC... good luck with learning, ... I never did figure out how to turn the simple ... you can record any graphical out into a Blitz$ string ...
and the truth... MC scares the living bajeezus outa ... I`ll type your prog out on SAM, from the ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... Amstrad who bought out Sinclair in 1986? Eh?[/quote ... out Sinclair, their own machines just weren't selling in ... greatest asset. Full colour graphics with a decent ... (although writing objects in and out at speed can be ... not a lot of colour in some modes either.
Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…
... $ from the stack as used in fig-Forth & Forth 83 ... /> procedure zxsetborder ;"sets the zx border colour"
int zxbcol ;
=zxbcol ... be saved as SPTWORD.FTH in /UNITS directory .
How can I see how long it took for IM2 to runHow can i see how many cycles it took for my interrupt routine to run, is there some way with Spectaculator debugger etc to see how long it has taken…
Change the border colour at each end of the routine...? =-)
