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  • What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…

    ... :p a pattern on the screen. I remember the first time ... first command I typed was CIRCLE, as I'd read how ...
    RST#08 RST#08 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…

    ... buffer every frame. but line/circle draw routines are running as ... four frames to update invisible screen and still have multicolor on ... half of screen. but thats theory.
    AOWEN ... bit boring against ARDA's screen :)
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Development
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... hoards of explosions which circle around the screen and disperse.

    jesus 666 jesus 666 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... explain.
    c64 can scroll screen in a simple way but ... GPU ports.
    generating of screen is process which is done ... pixels" and when half of screen is generated it "changes mind ... hoards of explosions which circle around the screen and disperse.
    [/ ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…

    ... one, and still have the circle here?[/QUOTE]

    You ... 've got overlapping objects on screen though as they may partly ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Fuse PSP has been updated!The brilliant FUSE PSP has just been updated to Fuse 0.10.0.1 (FUSE PSP released on January the 1st, 2009), and is available at: [url]http://psp.ako…

    ... a virtual button
    O (circle) ?stick? a sticky virtual button ... all the time?? Why 2-screen modes looks like... well, better ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Emulators
  • Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …

    ... the screen is available. The same applies to DRAW & CIRCLE.

    DRAW & CIRCLE uses Bresenham's ... and are MUCH faster (specially CIRCLE).

    Anyway: Unused rutines ...
    boriel boriel May 2009 Development
  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... , Y follow)
    6=[B]CIRCLE [/B](three parameters follow: X ... draw a Red Diamond on screen will be:
    Bytes: 1 ... an absolute position on the screen.

    Angle: If you ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …

    ... ).
    ; PRINT, PLOT, CIRCLE and DRAW now function on ... attributes in the MODE 2 screen area.

    ; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ... 'S' ; channel type: 'S' = screen

    ; attach stream
    chev chev May 2009 Development
  • can someone help with a rom routinei have been trying to draw a simple line with a the rom routine , but i just cant get it to work , so if anyone can give me an example in z80 that wo…

    ... the same way as the circle routine. In this case, however ... try to draw off the screen.
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) August 2009 Development
  • Graphics DisplaysI?m not sure if this should be in here in in the BASIC section, so mods please move if necessary Does anyone know of any programs (TZX or type-in) t…

    ... this great pattern on the screen but it took over two ... refer to. It was a circle with ripples like when you ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • best 3d software?have been looking around for some free 3d software, the word on the web seems to be either blender or truespace. i have downloaded blender, but have…

    ... thing on the work screen, and the lamp is the circle thing.
    mile mile January 2010 Chit chat
  • Fastest fill m.c. routine ever?What is the fastest fill routine you've ever seen? Is there a listing somewhere? Most games and adventures that use fill routines were considered slo…

    ... be filled by drawing a circle at 127,88,87 because ... algorithm but this time entire screen bytes are drawn at a ... safe to remove the restricting circle at 127,88,87 but ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…

    ... as the graphics library -- line, circle, etc ; the abstract data types ... a specific location on screen. There are different screen modes, different libraries ... text at specific positions on screen. Anything that does this is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Games
  • Graphics problemHi guys. Finally got a REAL zx spectrum, cost ?20 from a friend. When i draw plots and circles, it takes time to do it, but how do i do it instantly…

    ... in order to make the circle look smooth. Each line segment ... by taking advantage of a circle's geometric symmetry. Additonally on ... very quick to modify a screen address to move over by ... it slower!!) and it computes screen addresses from pixel coordinates.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Smiler 2: In the CityHi All, I've now completed my next game, "Smiler 2: In the City". It is available for download here:- [url]http://wonko.gotdns.org/sinclair/smile…

    ... would move it around the screen, but the intricate graphics of ... . So I instead drew a circle and put a simplistic smiley ... draw these sprites on the screen. I posted a screenshot of ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2010 Brand new software
  • Blackstar by Richy Pitch[youtube]FQLznlyLONI[/youtube] Discuss. Points will be deducted from the first person who asks "can this be done on a real Spectrum?"

    ... I might make the big screen
    We rarely had access ... weed heads talk
    Rawlings circle, estate, to the old road ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... final simplified version of the "screen flipping" test program:-
    ... on having the second screen already stored on the ... 1;"Screen 1": FOR i=1 TO 5: CIRCLE INK 3 ... is, that somehow the screen doesn't get loaded to ... the shadow screen, so you get one ...
    mulder mulder April 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How paint in the down two lines ?The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines wi…

    ... /> 70 REM Drawing on whole screen:
    80 BORDER 5
    170 CIRCLE 128,96,N
    180 ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How to read +3BASIC program in PC ?Is it possible to see the +3BASIC file content in the pc with some editor ?. I used a HEX editor and i saw that the program is there but converted to…

    ... used to save entire programs, Screen$, CODE and DATAs through the ...
    I save a CIRCLE with SAVE *"b" SCREEN $
    I closed ...
    I type LOAD *"b" SCREEN $ and work good.

    zx_if1 zx_if1 June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • ToadrunnerDid anybody finish this game? I would like to map it, but I would need some concrete tips how to use objects, respective which object can kill druid,…

    ...
    ----

    At start screen remove item(lighter) from under ... move right, right, right (to screen with yellow dragon)
    < ... left, left, left (to start screen)

    pickup gunpowder ... in the middle of the circle of stones
    barrel ...
    saiwong saiwong June 2010 Games
  • Invasion of the Zombie Monsters - What do you think of it?In case you missed it, RELEVO Videogames have just released their excellent Invasion of the Zombie Monsters game for free... (See [url]http://www.wo…

    ... gamesheet ;):

    [CODE]GREEN CIRCLE - POWER UP:
    Your moonlight ... BLAST:
    All enemies on screen are destroyed.

    PURPLE ...
    viejo_archivero viejo_archivero July 2010 Games
  • Invasion of the Zombie Monsters - What do you think of it?In case you missed it, RELEVO Videogames have just released their excellent Invasion of the Zombie Monsters game for free... (See [url]http://www.wo…

    ... gamesheet ;):

    [CODE]GREEN CIRCLE - POWER UP:
    Your moonlight ... BLAST:
    All enemies on screen are destroyed.

    PURPLE ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman July 2010 Games
  • Text Adventure Vector graphicsI've often wondered what the memory cost of graphics in a text adventure was. If you were to hazard a guess, how many bytes would it be possible to …

    ... part of arc (but full circle is easy and can drawn ... on number of details in screen. for example Hobbit screens takes ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2010 Development
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... =ASH-II;470835]
    bigger screen resolution please or even a ... one has two new commands - CIRCLE and ELLIPSE. See my previous ... pointless on a 256 colour screen. You cannot determine if a ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bloodwych RPG game - how to KILL? ;)Hello. How to fight/defend in "Bloodwych"??? http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Bloodwych$&pub=^Image+Works$&loadpics=1 Seems li…

    ... rooms, so you can quickly circle them, and attack them from ... a hard job making a screen-dump of a first-person ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie December 2010 Games
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... display is composited. The main screen (window 0) is rendered, and ... is a single colour. The screen is 8bpp, so changing colours ... you can sub-divide the screen, or are you talking about ... that you can PLOT/DRAW/CIRCLE etc to.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Need in beta-taster`s helpHello to all. I have developed hard-soft emulator of ZX Spectrum 48, but there are problems in work. My topics is: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... ROM area).

    Try CIRCLE 128,88,87 as this ... what comes up on the screen?

    My advice is ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2011 Emulators
  • Need in beta-taster`s helpHello to all. I have developed hard-soft emulator of ZX Spectrum 48, but there are problems in work. My topics is: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... 1. In the screen i see 0.1415..... . CIRCLE 128,88,87 ...
    Vasil Vasil February 2011 Emulators
  • A LOAD of old site!If there was a website that released distinctly retro styled games to play online or download them for free but only a small amount of the game was i…

    ... grey like a speccy 48k screen, and it has a (C ... commands (ELLIPSE as well as CIRCLE, textured fills, turtle graphics (by ... can have "screens" inside the screen with configurable transparency. Memory banks ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2011 Chit chat
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