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vote rigging ?This is not intended to cause any major rows , id just like some sensible views on the voting from regular forum users , 2 games that ive noticed wit…
... you do something constructivefor a change . Why do you start personal ... here , your a disgrace and lack a basic human trait - personality. Im ... -
BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…
... make the code more readable. And line numbers could be inserted ... 9000
BORDER 1: INK 7: PAPER 0: CLS
RETURN
Spy Hunter?I played this game for the first time in about 1000 years a couple of nights ago, and I don't get it at all. There is a timer that counts down, but w…
... ...) but noticable is change of ground's colour (from green to yellow ... , then to white... then to ???) and ...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 :…
... You learn Spectrum BASIC and get two commands; border and paper; they don' ... t directly translate to an out command and ... what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at ... of direct translation between BASIC and machine code! This won ...Print 'n' Plotter SPRITE MACHINEJust got this from an ebay seller this afternoon. I just TZXd it and sent it to the Steve at the vault, yet it might be a while before it gets put up…
... too late to change. But working in 128 BASIC is a plus ... "vectorial" graphics, composed of lines and fills. Correct me if I ... adventure for so long time. And this kind of package looks ...Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…
... makes it really easy to change it to RGB, LCD ... slot so that i can change it whenever i want.< ... /> But i like the SE Basic so i will leave this ... the moment. I can still change it later.
... of things to implement, change etc and it will be possible to ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... the screen layout/ resolution and attribute colour that it had/has.
and yet because every pixel can be any colour the processor ... data which holds colours for paper, pen, for each character ... like it does... to give colour, and yet keep the memory burdon ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... colours. One half is INK and the other PAPER - so, unlike a ... /> 11110000
11110000
Ink Paper
( or vice versa, I ...
There's the Terminator and the other pic as examples ... been thinking of updating it and offering it to Retrogamer.< ...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…
... very different machines to Commodore and Atari's kit.
[/quote ... version of BASIC for the Z80. One swift CPU change later and 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…
... version of BASIC for the Z80. One swift CPU change later and 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…
... version of BASIC for the Z80. One swift CPU change later and the ... 20+ years later, *most* Spectrum and Commodore 64 owners have called ... a truce and now respect each other's ...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…
... zx cls"
0 ink
7 paper
asm ;"asm code ... zxsetborder ;"sets the zx border colour"
int zxbcol ;
=zxbcol ...How the hell does this work then??[url="http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf"]http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf[/url]
... /> PRINT AT 0,0; PAPER 1; INK 7; BRIGHT 1;" The Psychic ... number, addtogether both digits and then subtract the total from ... /> PRINT AT 0,0; PAPER 1; INK 7; BRIGHT 1;" The ...RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
... about 300 colours using ink/paper/bright combos and three dithers.? I think ... dither was 1/4 ink and 3/4 paper (each 4x4 pixel block ... ) red ink and green paper produced a noticeably different result from green ink and red paper ...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…
... put at fight a compiled BASIC game against a MC game ... really shitty MC game and a great BASIC game), so using a ... change), pure BASIC + MC by 0.8, compiled BASIC by 0.8, compiled BASIC ... C + MC by 0.5 and MC by 0.4 - or ... if it was coded in BASIC and 1.5/10 if it ...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…
... point to your UDG
and you can read them in ... different color than the controlcharacter and read it with ATTR(y ... : LET X=10:
5 INK 0 : PAPER 7: CLS
6 ... PRINT AT 20,20;INK 2;CHR ...The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
... draw my own jump and run levels with keys, ... bombs and walls to be blown etc. on graph paper. Then ... back with water-proof ink and move the ruler over ... the level, thus running and jumping around.
Whenever ... who liked those 'games' and asked me to do a ...Weird loaders; 1) Why? 2) How? (Curiosity question)Hello again. Sorry to be asking/posting so much today, but I've just arrived here and am plumbing the depths of nearly 22 years of making cups of te…
... When you're loading and saving from Basic, you're stuck with ... the ordinary loader routines (yellow and ... shop.
Flashy and different - yes. There's no ... the stripes being a different colour, and certainly no practical benefit ...Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…
... = Ink gray, paper black.
Sprites 0 and 1 (all frames) = Ink purple, paper ... gray.
And yet when ...What is the best graphics to be seen on a speccyI'd like some opinions on that, out of interest. I except loading screens. Tir Nan Og was a landmark for sure, but what bettered it?
... Europa. It mentions all the colour and the colour clash. When the game ... OutRun Europa all mention the colour. It was a last minute change.z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... have to get a pencil and paper out to map where everything ... and IDE things.
But nothing with the 128's Basic ... RAMdisk. A RAMdisk is very easy to implement and I ... implementation will include a static and a dynamic Huffman encoder / ...SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
... USR 65368 from within your BASIC program. The routine copies ... ) TO HL(32768) and returns to BASIC. Basically it copies your ... BASIC,
SAVE "name" CODE 32768,6912
Change ... />
Hope it helps, and it's wayyyyy faster than BASICBest collectablesHere's another poll, what's your best collectable spectrum related stuff...? I used to work for a guy called Terry Pratt who was one of the people b…
... PCB is made of resin and paper, so looks like it's ... made of a brown paper envelope. They are normally made ... is it just by the colour because i have a issue ... board that is a creamy colour ?????print at line 22 and 23I have a faint recollection of POKES to allow print at 22,x and 23,x, anyone know what they are? (rather than using the print #0 #1 stuff..)
... INK/PAPER colors. Therefore you select the ATTRibute value with the PEEK and ... easier just to use INK 8 / PAPER 8 (and BRIGHT / FLASH 8 if ...BASin release 12c available for downloadHi again, folks - I've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so I'm assuming that we've now got a stable editor. Release 12c is now availab…
... -1: PRINT AT f,bxc; PAPER 5; INK 5;" ": NEXT f
775 PRINT AT t1d+byc,bxc; INK ... 8; PAPER 8;"\p";
Saving to a snapshot and testing on an emulator, it ...BASin release 12c available for downloadHi again, folks - I've had no more reports of further bugs in BASin, so I'm assuming that we've now got a stable editor. Release 12c is now availab…
... 1: PRINT AT f,bxc; PAPER 5; INK 5;" ": NEXT f
INK 8; PAPER 8;"p";
Saving to a snapshot and testing on an emulator, it ... me a .bas version [B]and[/B] a snapshot - preferably a ... ll have a nose around and see if I can't ...Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…
... to ATTR decimal 69 (cyan INK, black PAPER).
Therefore the routine ... part of the screen, and hence is safely out of ... effect is greatly reduced, and the game becomes playable under ... ' code from affected games, and replace with equivalent code, without ...Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …
Ah! That's an old chestnut. Basically you poke the output routine in CHANS for stream 2 so that it points to a RET instruction.
(Then poke it back again :) )
Some loaders used a bit of same colour/same paper screen in INK 8 paper 8 mode.coloursJust wondering if any of you 'experts' could answer this question... When Clive invented the Speccy, and he selected the colours used... Instead of…
... of R(ed),G(reen) and B(lue). on speccy ... 0 1 1 magenta (red and blue ..011 bin=3dec)
ink and 3 bits for paper, the rest of ... bits) is used for flash and bright.
in such ... component which leads to 2 (paper and ink) x 3 (components) x ...
