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  • Simple Spectrum Character Creator Web AppHey guys, Here is a simple web app i wrote to create ZX Spectrum 8 x 8 characters: http://www.amelyn.com/speccy_character_builder/index.htm …

    ... to copy and paste them into a Sinclair BASIC program.

    1. Select an ink and paper colour to view the 8 x ... 8 character with different foreground and background clour combinations.
    ... grid more suitable for copying and pasting into a wide ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick June 2016 Development
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... for such a trick, to change Ink and paper every four pixel.
    Anyway ... 16 or 32 bit colour depth and be compatible to DirectX 8 ... . If I can do a Colour ordered dither with BMP2SCR in ... to help to include a colour ordered dither mode in the ...
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... for such a trick, to change Ink and paper every four pixel.[/quote]
    change paper. :- ... i also had to remove ... 16 or 32 bit colour depth and be compatible to DirectX 8 ... to help to include a colour ordered dither mode in the ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game: STARS(Gumi)Hey! It is Gumi and he really likes to find blinking stars anywhere in the Space. You can meet them in old nonworking stations, among black holes a…

    ... All the beams are made and the team empty sprite ... are not spoiled if you change ink and paper unit, which is exhibited in ... events should be banned sprites change colour when touched with this unit ... It staggers me how clever and innovative people are at using ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2015 Brand new software
  • Z88DK NOOB cplot INK colorHi I am a complete NOOB with Z88DK, I am trying to draw colored circles. How does ink, paper and border work with Z88DK. I started trying to wo…

    ... ink and paper colour only have meaning inside the terminal drivers and you would change that ... writes. (A colour mask would allow you to change INK or PAPER only).

    ld (hl),c ; change colour

    ex de,hl ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2016 Development
  • how to edit a romhi, i just wanted to know the best way to edit a rom. im going to do it in an emulator first and then run it in a spectrum.

    [quote="digital;893182"]border/ink and paper colour on boot[/quote]
    I' ... .

    The initial BORDER colour is set by:
    $11CC ... the BORDER and PAPER to different colours. The byte to change is in ...
    GReW GReW January 2017 Hardware
  • z88dk sticky?I've just tried to PM Alcoholics Anonymous and couldn't because "Alcoholics Anonymous has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot acc…

    ... to PM Alcoholics Anonymous and couldn't because "Alcoholics ... stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages ... /> #asm
    // Sets default ink and paper colour, then clears screen
    ld ... 3503
    // Sets border colour
    ld a,1
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington January 2012 Development
  • Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…

    ... 't solve your problem of colour clash. (you can use DRAW ... hide the source by setting ink and paper colour same.
    *You can copy ... a block of code and click "Collapse" and they become one line ... code.

    [flattery]
    And thanks to Dunny, BASin is ...
    Arda Arda October 2006 Development
  • Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…

    ... for testing, never released and lost on some disks which ... Those should have the same ink and paper colour to simply obscure the scenery ... /column with a different ink or paper colour scrolled at 8 pixels ... may well have existed and already been utilized in ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2008 Games
  • What is exactly the scr format?Hello everyone and I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. I'm trying to understand the use of the scr format. I understand it's a screen memor…

    ... were hidden by making the ink and paper colour the same. As such, this ...
    mheide mheide December 2008 Emulators
  • What is exactly the scr format?Hello everyone and I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. I'm trying to understand the use of the scr format. I understand it's a screen memor…

    ... were hidden by making the ink and paper colour the same. As such, this ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz December 2008 Emulators
  • Monkey Island Adventure DemoThe demo to this has been completed and has been uploaded to WOS so hopefully it'll be on-line later on today. I generally expanded on the six room…

    I was thinking... is possible with GAC to add a text font (instead of using standard ROM characters) and change INK and PAPER colors? I could suggest it for the final version, so it may look much attractive to our sight.
    Neil Parsons Neil Parsons March 2011 Games
  • Monkey Island Adventure DemoThe demo to this has been completed and has been uploaded to WOS so hopefully it'll be on-line later on today. I generally expanded on the six room…

    ... of using standard ROM characters) and change INK and PAPER colors? I could suggest it ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi March 2011 Games
  • New Game: STARS(Gumi)Hey! It is Gumi and he really likes to find blinking stars anywhere in the Space. You can meet them in old nonworking stations, among black holes a…

    All the beams are made and the team empty sprite spriteink. ... are not spoiled if you change ink and paper unit, which is exhibited in ... events should be banned sprites change color when touched with this ...
    kas29 kas29 November 2015 Brand new software
  • how to edit a romhi, i just wanted to know the best way to edit a rom. im going to do it in an emulator first and then run it in a spectrum.

    border/ink and paper colour on boot
    digital digital January 2017 Hardware
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... ZX81. Which features would you change to the original design? Please ... /> a) No colour clash, ie keeping the 8 basic colours with their ... , but without the limitations of INK and PAPER of the low-resolution grid ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do I change the foreground and background colors?I assume I use INK and PAPER, right? But how do I change the screen to dark blue and the text to white? Paul

    I assume I use INK and PAPER, right?

    But how do I change the screen to dark blue and the text to white?

    Paul
    Paul Panks Paul Panks May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... a different ink bright and flash value.

    Paper values ... it just alternates between paper and ink and to make the flash ... because you cannot change a pixels ink colour just by changing ... setting an attribute cell's ink and paper to the same value, ...
    Basher Basher August 2013 Hardware
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ... RANDOMIZE USR 32768' in Basic and press enter. Using the ... the documentation for that. INK and PAPER are implemented as control ... your C function. Eg, to change border colour:

    [ ... ]
    void border(unsigned char colour)
    {
    #asm
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two bytes ... : LET X=10
    5 INK 0: PAPER 7: CLS
    6 ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not be ... need arises, eg. a mode change made normally from the keyboard ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…

    ... [/i] font used by SE Basic is designed for legibility with ... you can't pass colour commands, you can change colours (e.g ... channel must be created below basic
    ; so look at the ... /> call dwncr ; deal with nasty INK and PAPER control codes.
    ld a ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... same character cell. After applying colour, this was the result:
    ink and paper. To switch on a sprite ... in the attribute memory to change the ink and reveal the sprite(s ... , so you can read the BASIC code:
    [url]http://www ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... /> This is the 'Sinclair BASIC Attribute Scroll Mechanism', or [b ... typically with the same INK and PAPER so they show up ... don't forget to change the '3' on ... br /> 30 REM Sinclair BASIC Attribute Scroll Mechanism
    colour:
    110 FOR s ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Games
  • I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…

    ... .com/en/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/[/url]

    basic commands, so it should be ... allowing the attribute table to change every second scanline, so ... to have an ink colour and paper colour - but with bi-colour the top 2 ...
    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck July 2017 BASIC
  • SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…

    ... start"
    CHANGE: UDGs have been changed, and no longer require ... Sinclair BASIC, identifies characters at an x and y coordinate ... for mono fonts, matches current INK and PAPER
    REPLACE$ function ... handling that caused overwriting and CAT to fail
    Dunny Dunny February 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Castlevania ZX looking REALLY nice in color :)[url="http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html"]http://www.redeya.com/bytemaniacos/castlevania.html[/url]

    ... that you change change an attribute square's colour more than ... 4x8, one side paper, one side ink, then the rainbow ... to have different ink and paper.

    [quote]and since each of ... paper and one ink, when you put a paper color on one side and an ink ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2003 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... ? They WERE available from BASIC, and that's where they are ... code, and even I know you can change border colour with a ... simple out command, and paper colour with ... to write a routine to change paper colour once, then just re- ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... can change border colour with a simple out command, and paper colour with a ... You learn Spectrum BASIC and get two commands; border and paper; they don ... what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at ... make the transition from BASIC expert to novice ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... colours with BRIGHT affecting both INK and PAPER at once.
    [/quote ... Indeed - but 15 colours or change the way the video out ... made to be an affordable colour computer. Hence all these ... suggestions that 'no coloured sprites' and 'no alternate video modes' ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... to your claim that more colour, etc., would not have ... colours with BRIGHT affecting both INK and PAPER at once.
    [/quote]< ... colours with BRIGHT affecting both INK and PAPER at once.
    [/quote ... Indeed - but 15 colours or change the way the video out ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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