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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…
... screen layout could have been made linear (just switch some address lines ... -
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…
... screen layout could have been made linear (just switch some address lines ... -
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…
... nothing about the way the screen would handle attributes and colors ... two lines in different colors crossing each other on the screen without ... -
Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…
... drawing your sprite to the screen before the raster has ... reached the point on the screen that you are drawing ... 64 is the number of lines from the top of ... to the top of the screen (display file). Using the ... etc. take 228 tstates per screen line. Hope this is ... -
Idea for site - High Score ChallengeHi all An idea for the site.. CPC Zone (cpczone.emuunlim.com) has run a sucessful High Score Challenge for the past 12 weeks.. The organiser choo…
... up here but at 100 lines I would be just wasting ... a screenshot of the end screen showing only his high score ... -
My first gameHi, I'm trying to get the title of a game. It was the first computer game I played (I was 6). It was about pirates, you guided a ship through a map, …
I tried them both but it's none of them. Now I'm not so sure it was a Speccy game... Anyway I think there was a loading screen that appeared by lines, like the Spectrum ones. Hmmm, this will be harder than I thought... -
Pixel LimitIF Y3<192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK
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On 2004-11-16 21:44, dalmudlee wrote:
I have never seen this graphics restriction before. Why does the Spectrum have this limitation?
1720 FOR A=0 TO INT ((50*3.14)-38) STEP 3.14/P
1730 LET Y3=96+Y*A*COS A
Spectrum monitor display questionsLike most people, I never played the Spectrum with anything other than a standard TV with rf connection to get my picture. For other computers of the…
... is huge interference on the screen which isn't kind to ... lesser extent on the loading screen to Fairlight where a couple ... effect which creates vertical black lines that aren't really there ...Spectrum monitor display questionsLike most people, I never played the Spectrum with anything other than a standard TV with rf connection to get my picture. For other computers of the…
... is huge interference on the screen which isn't kind to ... lesser extent on the loading screen to Fairlight where a couple ... effect which creates vertical black lines that aren't really there ...Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
... syntax is something along the lines of:
SAVE "myprog ... also created a nice loading screen for the game using ZX ... .
Something along the lines of:
GOSUB tokenparser ...Problem with saving picture for game!Thanks for the code guys! The auto-start code is very sweet! And thanks for telling me about programming it to pick up items etc. There's only one p…
... could try copying/pasting the screen$ blocks (there's two of ... :
LOAD "": SAVE "MyScreen" SCREEN$
as one line ... you like. The lower two lines will be obliterated by the ... .
Tried loading your screen into The Artist II and ...MemoryI am writing a game for the Spectrum and need to store a lot of map data. What is the lowest address I can start to store the data at ?
... map data just after the screen attributes but was aware of ... Basic other than a few lines to load and run the ...Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…
... file is not contigous between lines. Instead 4020h refers to line ... . This produces several screen segments that are 64 lines each (64 x ... ). So 4800h and 5000h start lines 64 and 128.
Troubleshootin PeteAll this talk about a certain person has been a downer this week, so to lighten things up how about if we had some tales of YS? Preferably ones that…
... the finalists on the main screen in the club. I remember ... had said something along the lines of 'the sad git in ...Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…
... ) If in 64 lines times the CRT is at Screen[48,64 ... the last pixel of the screen until just before the first ... pixel of the screen in the next frame. What ...128k Shadow Screen?When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without canc…
... no need to page the screen in. Think about the physical ... do is change the address lines that wire up from the ... the same organisation of bus lines.128k Shadow Screen?When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without canc…
... coming in on their address lines. You could happily swap the ... lines around and things would look ... the ULA can load a screen attribute byte and a byte ...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…
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…
... working are the 3 lines in the first screen marked with :(
'Ocean' development microdrivesI think one of you guys should take a look at this thread over at The Ocean Experience: [url="http://oceanexp.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=memory…
... and * MOVEd everything onto a clean cart.
Now that ... to take it into a Screen editor and actually repair the ... mockup screen, after all not many pixels ...Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…
To eliminate the chance that the bottom two lines (of the line editor) are still visible use POKE 23693.
POKE 23693,0: POKE 23624,0: CLS: LOAD "" SCREEN$
will give the proper result.ZX81 Help needed PleaseHi All. I have two ZX81's with the same problem. When connected to the tv I get two vertical thick distorted black lines. Have any of you people an…
mel the bell >
I have spectrums aswell, but the problems are with the ZX81.
Foebane >
Thanks anyway.
I can see the cursor at the bottom of the screen, but with 2 big back lines.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…
... very simple one, not those lines and lines of calcuations...
screen when you switch screens in ...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…
... all over the screen, I remember reading a few lines of pokes ... seen people scroll the entire screen in basic, not just upwards ... into a corner on say screen 4, and you don`t ...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…
... 't waste your nice loading screen) you can use this poke ... can read them in a SCREEN$. [Dr. BEEP]
* Alternatively if ... UDG is placed on the screen then use a different color ... be sent to the TV screen.
Bit 5: Any newly ...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. …
... /> You have to tilt your screen along the horizontal axis away ... clones with four or five lines of UDG landscapes with that ...Saving EliteCan anybody recommend an emulator and elite download that I'll be able to save the commanders progress on? I've stopped using my favourite Spectrum g…
I get the normal stripes first, but then when the screen goes black, I get the red and black lines. I got these before on my real speccy with another game (Necris Dome), and that meant bad news.
