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  • Specbas new game PacmanWell I have been beavering away at this for a bit and I am now happy with it. (nearly) it's not bad (even if I say so myself) [img]http://i699.phot…

    ... :" TO "sys:demos"
    50 INK 0: PAPER 8: CLS: CLEAR

    Change the values after "edfontscalex" and "edfontscaley" to 1 and you'll ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …

    ... the walls, at least - floors and ceilings are a lot more ... AMOS back in the day, and now I can :)
    http ... .org/md32s6iu3/texmaze.png
    And here's the code:
    INK 127;0,0 TO w ... -1,h/2 FILL : RECTANGLE INK 48;0,h/2 TO ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…

    ... ,Y coordinates of pointed pixel and memory address for the relevant ... , bit position, attribute byte address, INK colour, PAPER colour and whether INVERSE and FLASH are on.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler June 2015 Emulators
  • TommyGun updatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXFKYO5i1IlN2U4MUtrRVZZWUE/view?usp=sharing Hi, I have updated my TommyGun application and since we can't uplo…

    ... to the majority colour to be the ink colour (set pixel) and the non ... set pixels therefore become the paper colour ... the attributes are turned off; and so you can fix this ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2016 Development
  • Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …

    ... white (bright) ink and black paper / border. I had to change one more instance ... changed to say yellow border/paper a break on load would ...
    spider spider October 2016 Development
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... can be addressed directly in BASIC by making it part of ... ,... works, AT 23,... doesn't and so TAB has to be ... >=low;AT r-(21 AND r>=low),0;"printing ... lower screen's colour attributes, which shares its PAPER colour with the BORDER ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... can be addressed directly in BASIC by making it part of ... ,... works, AT 23,... doesn't and so TAB has to be ... >=low;AT r-(21 AND r>=low),0;"printing ... , which shares its PAPER colour with the BORDER colour.[/quote]

    Hi ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • A few Speccy loading questions.So I want my program which is mostly BASIC to automatically run after it's loaded from .tap file. How do I do this ? Also how would I add a loading …

    ... colour, one of the simplest ways, is to have the global PAPER, INK and ... BRIGHT set to that use uniform colour, then use ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • How to take SCR out of multicolour games?Emulators do not seem able to take scr out of Nirvana games correctly. I have tried SpecEmu, Speculator and Jspeccy. Try to save El Stompo or SunBu…

    ... />
    SCR is very old and simple format which is actually ... of Spectrum memory containing graphics and attributes at some moment. Yet ... attributes, you lose which colour is ink and which is paper...

    It ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2016 Emulators
  • How to take SCR out of multicolour games?Emulators do not seem able to take scr out of Nirvana games correctly. I have tried SpecEmu, Speculator and Jspeccy. Try to save El Stompo or SunBu…

    PNG supports 256 colour palettes images, so if you ... information including which is INK and which is PAPER (and subsequently any hidden info ...
    AndyC AndyC December 2016 Emulators
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... cells.

    And have a global paper colour (another ULA register like ... used for the border colour), that ... to define one of 256 INK colours. By this, I mean ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK January 2017 Hardware
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... cells.

    And have a global paper colour (another ULA register like ... used for the border colour), that ... to define one of 256 INK colours. By this, I mean ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar January 2017 Hardware
  • SAM Revival magazine issue 25 now out!It's finally out! * SAM Revival issue 25 - 56 pages packed with SAM Coupe goodies for the 25th Anniversary of the computer. * Brand new SAM Robot…

    ... as just a black and white paper magazine a cover disk was ... both old and new SAM Coupé software. The next change occurred with ... , instead of the black and white (and occasional colour page) laser printed issues ...
    Quazar Quazar February 2017 Announcements
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... changing the entire screen colour to indicate Check Mate ... or which colour is currently moving (Black ... stuff, like raise, move, change somehow, then the graphics routines ... where its a black border and paper predominantly.

    I ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…

    ... PRINT AT 0,10; INK 2; PAPER 0; FLASH 1; “ ... on your stereo and pressing PLAY and, well, designing ... accept these “instructions” and actually play back the ... Sinclair Spectrum Basic, sufficient to amuse me and provide a ... idea of writing a Basic as friendly as ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore May 2017 Chit chat
  • endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …

    ... that they could do some basic formatting like cursor placement, ... new and classic libs have terminals that emulate zx basic's ... in basic you can print certain codes to change ink, move cursor and so ... on in the print string and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Development
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... on paper especially if you're fiddling individual bits on and off ... the binary number in fours and then convert each group to ... = bright
    PPP = paper colour 0-7
    III = ink colour 0-7
    ink red (2 = 010 binary) and paper yellow (6 = ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • Issue with TV signal + Inductor Coil (16K Issue 2 Speccy)Hello guys, I just got a 16K Issue 2 Speccy from eBay. It was sold as not working so I knew there would be some work needed before it's working ag…

    ... at some point of time and one of those things got ... some ghosting when I change the border and paper to other color than ... Cursor changed to Extend. Mode and the 'RUN' command appeared. When ... a full list of existing Basic commands and an 'invalid color' message ...
    Vaylo Vaylo August 2017 Hardware
  • Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…

    ... to detect and I'm unlikely to re-use that colour by ... if the value of either ink or paper is constant across the ...
    Hikaru Hikaru August 2017 Development
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... AND DISPLAY CONTROLS———————

    ld a,71 ;WHITE INK (7) + BLACK PAPER ...
    and 248 ;leave them alone, except for INK
    ... it with A to only change INK
    ld (23695),a ... port for Kempston joystick and change the LSB of your ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • counting in assembleri have this program which cycles through the character set. how do i do this with numbers say 0 to 65535? org 40000 ld b,120 ld (23612),a L…

    Even better if you (like I did) write it to allow control codes, able to change INK & PAPER of characters and all without using any ROM calls.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2019 Assembler
  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... of the screen down and then using the method ... bytes from the graphics, and use 15 bytes of ... working for lines 1 and 2, and then not drawing ... /> out ($fe),a ; border change
    ld de,%0100111101000000 ; attr ... it D (i.e. INK 1, PAPER 1, BRIGHT 0; FLASH ...
    robpearmain robpearmain June 2019 Development
  • Raster effects - quick questionHi Guys Just a quick question regards what the ULA is doing as its drawing each scan line. Assuming the beam has finished drawing the border, am I…

    ... i'm new to this and not making myself clear...
    ink and 1 paper colour. Each frame, I can ... an 8x4 cell, with 1 ink and 1 paper colour. Each frame, I can ...
    Dax Trajero Dax Trajero August 2019 Development
  • Stuck again! Please help meI'm in the process of making a little game, eventually it will become rather more sophisticated (I hope) but I am testing out routines one at a time.…

    ... us if a pixel is INK or PAPER coloured (a pixel that ... in the INK colour and anything that's not text in the PAPER colour.
    INK colour, it looks if there's ... />
    And of course, it's a colour command like INK, PAPER or INVERSE ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 BASIC
  • Looking for any maze game where the map is different every timeHi folks, I'm looking to sharpen my game writing skiils (or lack thereof!) and I need an example of a simple maze game which creates a different map…

    ... maze algorithm is fast and super handy!
    https ... replying in the thread and not per PM, but ... center of the crossing and draw the walls according ... needs, but as usual Basic programs are pretty hard ... 20 INK 0: PAPER 0: BORDER 0: CLS
    30 INK 1: PAPER ...
    JianYang JianYang September 2020 Games
  • z88dk sp1 Scene EditorHi, I've been developing for the last couple of weeks a scene editor (tile editor + scene tile placement+ export to c sp1 compatible) to aid me in…

    ... 11:35:30 Mask out Paper colour and shift bits down
    if ... 11:35:30 Mask out Ink colour
    if ( ( $zxattr & ... gt;info( sprintf( "\tZX Next Ink: \%%%8.8b %3d \(\$%2.2X ... ) {
    # $log->info( "Push ink" ); # :dbolli:20210119 13:52:52 ...
    dbolli dbolli January 2021 Development
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... to make a directory, change there and then save. See a ... a directory with MKDIR "name". Change to a directory with CD ... convert plain text to tokenized basic and vice versa. Any such programs ... t display properly (think multi-colour games, eg). It will actually ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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