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  • How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …

    ... understanding is that the character set is accessed via memory ... address of each character within the character memory area and ... within inverted commas as 'numeric character code'? For example, 'H' ... screen display location such as 16384?

    Sorry ...
    Jagd Tiger Jagd Tiger February 2009 Development
  • Character set variableCan anybody help me? I'm trying to find out where the pointer to the ascii character set is. I remember that if you wanted to change the font on the …

    ... the pointer to the ascii character set is.
    I remember ... spectrum where to find the character set, so that it pointed ...
    Neil^P Neil^P May 2002 Games
  • What was your 3 Character Signature?What was your 3 character signature? Mine was 'mik'. (short for Mike) 'mik' once showed up on the top of the first R-Type machine to hit Rhyl in the…

    What was your 3 character signature?
    Mine was 'mik'. ( ... ).
    Long live the 3 Character signature!

    I'm ...
    fairziff fairziff May 2003 Games
  • Character SetAlright, this may not be the right forum for this question (it does sort of relate to a game which I'm trying to get working properly - long story) -…

    ... is that points to the character set in the ROM?
    character set in the rom, but ... point to a user defined character set in RAM if you ...
    Neil^P Neil^P August 2004 Games
  • Character Array tape header block parameters?Hello all! Long time since I've been here! Hope everyone's bright and cheerful as usual! I've been trying to figure out the structure of a Spectrum…

    ... the structure of a Spectrum "Character Array" tape file. While the ...
    trellis trellis June 2006 Development
  • Speccy character set address in ROM?Hi guys Can anyone tell me where the speccy character set lives in speccy rom, say, starting from the ! (ASCII 33) character? I'm actually writing …

    ... tell me where the speccy character set lives in speccy rom ... , starting from the ! (ASCII 33) character?

    I'm actually ... want to use the speccy character set, because it's so ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills August 2006 Development
  • Best Who 'Casted' Character.[FONT=Courier New]Never really thought about this before & because this forum has some interest in Dr. Who, I figured it would be a good place to pos…

    ... interested to know which 'good' character (excluding the Doctor & ... however Nicholas Courtney had a character in The Daleks Masterplan ( ... just mention the story this character was in.[/FONT]
    < ... to the "Greg Sutton" character from "Inferno". That was ...
    CP/M User CP/M User November 2006 Chit chat
  • lizardy characterexcuse my ignorance - i'd like to ask, who?s the lizardy character with a long neck at the WOS homepage :???:

    excuse my ignorance - i'd like to ask, who?s the lizardy character with a long neck at the WOS homepage :???:
    cichlasoma cichlasoma February 2007 Games
  • Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…

    ... routine that moves an 8x8 character across the screen one pixel ... ]loadgraphic[/B]
    ld hl,16384 ;screen address
    ld de ... to right
    ld hl,16384 ;screen address to start at ... /> dec hl ;move back one character to the left

    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Development
  • Best player controlled character in a gameAs the title suggests , which is the best character you've played in a Speccy game A tough guy like Rambo or Cobra ? Maybe a Champagne Charlie lik…

    ... suggests , which is the best character you've played in a ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley September 2007 Games
  • Character designerHi Martijn can we have an infoseek entry for Chibur's character designer, please? [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300…

    ... infoseek entry for Chibur's character designer, please?

    [url ...
    ghbearman ghbearman February 2008 MIA/STP/SDP
  • smallest character?- games like Earth Defence where you basically control a cursor don't count, I'm talking about where your character is an actual sprite. any suggest…

    - games like Earth Defence where you basically control a cursor don't count, I'm talking about where your character is an actual sprite.

    any suggestions? who is the smallest of them all...
    def chris def chris April 2008 Games
  • Dump Sinclair character set to file?Hi guys, I'm working on a version of Manic Miner for the TI-99/4A. It's not a port, as I'm not looking at the original Z80 code, just re-creating th…

    ... like to use the Sinclair character set in the game. Can ... get a dump of the character set? Years ago, I could ... can't remember where the character set is in the ROM ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Most charismatic ZX Spectrum character?So, that's it, what do you think is the most charismatic character in a zx specrum game? :-)

    So, that's it, what do you think is the most charismatic character in a zx specrum game?

    :-)
    Danae's Fan #1 Danae's Fan #1 January 2009 Games
  • Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…

    ... which contains two bytes per character (character # and attribute) and the ... _MB23_grid
    ld de, 16384
    ld c, 0< ... _b2a

    ; Next character screen address:
    pop de ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2009 Development
  • Machine Code Microdrive File LoaderI've been experimenting with transferring games to run from microdrive. Typically I like to see a loading screen while things are happening, and I li…

    ... code files have a single character filename [0,1,2]
    ;
    ld de,16384 ; unpack loading screen
    call ...
    jp jp August 2009 Development
  • Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…

    ... the Display file, from addresses 16384 to 22527, which stores a ... the paper colour of one character square to blue.
    - draw ...
    bigjon bigjon November 2009 Development
  • Game w/ character moving inside a castleI'm looking for examples of games with a recurring theme and if I'm not mistaken there's no list or a way to search for them. A forum and Infoseek se…

    ... find all games where the character has to move around inside ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2010 Games
  • Character Printing routines - 27/32 lines?There are lots of extra character-per-line routines out there for 42,51,64 even 85 characters. Are there any that do 7/6 pixel rows - and do 27 or 3…

    There are lots of extra character-per-line routines out there ...
    Gedlion Gedlion November 2010 Development
  • Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…

    ... is just focusing on the character movement, left right and jump ...
    hedge hedge January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…

    ... ,bits ;reset bits (lines of character for next from top
    inc (hl) ;character moving down, increase twice for ... , table below
    screen defw 16384 ;row 0 (first segment 0 ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2011 Development
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... horror at the ZX Spectrum character set in the screenshot*...yeah ... that use the ZX Spectrum character set.

    [edit: I ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2011 Games
  • fav spectrum charactermy fav spectrum character is called dizzy

    my fav spectrum character is called dizzy
    andy20066 andy20066 October 2011 Games
  • Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …

    ... come up with, wiping each character from the right:

    START
    ld hl,16384
    ld bc,6144
    Morkin Morkin March 2012 Development
  • 28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…

    ... a way of doing 18-character wide multicolour on a 48k ... />
    Looking at the 18-character wide 8x1 multicolour code, it ... , the code below does 28-character wide multicolour, for eight attribute ... the PUSHes deal with two character columns each. One way in ...
    AMW AMW April 2012 Development
  • OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…

    ... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a ... ,976 bytes of data at 16384, then do an ERASE command ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.

    * No direct ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Multi-sized character screen driverFollowing on from the thread on [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've dug o…

    ... ?t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've ... a mixture of five different character sizes:
    [img]http://mdfs ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston June 2012 Development
  • Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…

    ... if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :)

    The one ...
    spider spider June 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 40 Column Printing RoutineI've written a 40 column printing routine, which I'd like to share... It's my first piece of 'public' code so go easy on me! I don't think it is a…

    ... ,0
    ld hl,16384
    add hl,de ... called with hl pointing at character.
    ld de, ... x position. LSB xx111111 = character position MSB 11xxxxxx = shift ... scratchspace ; used to shift character before printing to screen
    uglifruit uglifruit August 2012 Development
  • Game character on the WoS homepageHi, I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-l…

    Hi,

    I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-left corner of the Spectrum.

    Thanks in advance.
    zboszor zboszor September 2012 Games
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