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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... didn't work just a coloured block screen, swapped the rom out back ... -
Strider coloured loading screenAumented: [img]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/imagenes/spectrum/strider_loading__big.png[/img] Original resolution: [img]http://www.bytemaniacos.co…
... [/img]
Original loading screen:
[img]http://www.worldofspectrum ... ]
Great than monocromatic screen, minor adjustement for better colour. -
Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…
... /> [b]Controls - most are on screen when the program is run ... REM *** start of main composer screen ***
405 PAPER 7: ... STEP 2: REM Draw middle screen 'grille' effect.
1265 ... /> 1300 REM Draw bottom right screen 'speaker' graphic.
1310 ... -
Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... or x4 sizes. Sometimes the screen is too small;"
... possibility to display a zoomed screen on right click, with ... Instead of saving the converted screen to hd immediately after conversion ... for later save, as PUT-Block, Screen (with optiona compression) r ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... have this structure:
block 1) program instructions written in ... more blocks
2) Screen (LOAD "" SCREEN$)
3) CODE - ... file, it runs first block, that displays instructions, starts ... split second, displays second block (screen), then gives the error ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... have this structure:
block 1) program instructions written in ... more blocks
2) Screen (LOAD "" SCREEN$)
3) CODE - ... file, it runs first block, that displays instructions, starts ... split second, displays second block (screen), then gives the error ... -
Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…
... at the edge of the screen and tap left to flip ... 't delete reuse/redesign that block/screen/sprite. Also have 2 versions ... -
Chuck your speccy through the window momentsInspired by my recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a mission first try and then the game crashed. I then failed to do this mission fo…
... I'd get the 'flashing block' screen of death.
It ... -
machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
... 16384
1st block - screen$
2nd block - 24e3,41536 bytes (I ... already saved this code block as a separate file)
3rd block - 16384,280? (I already saved ... because of the big code block. ;)
@Zetr0: This game ... -
More tea, vicar on disk?Hello, can somebody help me putting the 128k version of this game on disk? The 128k version is free available from Jonathans Webseite. However, the g…
... .- Standard block, contains BASIC, clear at 24000
2.- Standard block, screen$
3.- Standard block, code 24000,39110
4.- Headerless block, code 49152, length 16384, flag ... -
The 'why did I buy that?' threadWhich games did you shell out your hard-earned cash on - despite crap or indifferent reviews? I remember spending ?7.95 on Ocean's [URL="http://www.…
Combat School for ?9.99. Horrible controls and too difficult to pass events. And that bland Speccy basic-coloured title screen! -
The 'why did I buy that?' threadWhich games did you shell out your hard-earned cash on - despite crap or indifferent reviews? I remember spending ?7.95 on Ocean's [URL="http://www.…
... . And that bland Speccy basic-coloured title screen![/QUOTE]
I ... -
The 'why did I buy that?' threadWhich games did you shell out your hard-earned cash on - despite crap or indifferent reviews? I remember spending ?7.95 on Ocean's [URL="http://www.…
... . And that bland Speccy basic-coloured title screen![/QUOTE]
A ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... - Fail - loading error after first block (screen). Fail on retry
LIMS ...
LIMS_HYBRID.TZX - normal screen turbo main block. Loaded fine.
screen data. Failed retry
LIMS ... -
Programming with an 8-year-oldI have promised to write a game with my 8-year-old son and was wondering what languages or tools to use. Does anyone have any suggestions? My own c…
... tempting to just drag *every* block onto the sketch without really ... starting using Lego blocks. Different coloured blocks represented different commands (RED ... a command that dropped a coloured block on the board. Now we ... -
Made In Creative UK - Loading screen.I'm a UK developer, and so support Made In Creative UK [URL="http://madeincreativeuk.com/"]http://madeincreativeuk.com/[/URL] My ZX81 games now incl…
I think the ZX81 ROM graphics could look good as a coloured intro screen... -
ZEsarUX beta 5.1Hi I have just uploaded today a new beta version of ZEsarUX. Binaries are for Linux, Mac, Windows and Raspberry (raspbian) You may download i…
... starts up to a "Random coloured Spectrum Screen" and I have to ... -
ZXBaremulator v1.2Hi!, I've released ZXBaremulator v1.2. The new release add a few features and removes a limit. :) The new version can be downloaded from projec…
... did a "genuine" looking multi coloured block slow reset! It has a ... -
ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…
... am I getting a multi coloured stalled screen/ stalled boot when I ... -
ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…
... am I getting a multi coloured stalled screen/ stalled boot when I ... -
Defective +2 grey with only random coloured screen while powering onHi, so the story goes: After buying myself an divIDE and a grey +2, this runs well for a few days. But while playing a game the picture stucks and …
... picture stucks and gets random coloured.
At this time ... , I only get a random coloured picture most white and blue ... NMI key of this, the screen changes one time to another ... -
Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... ;HL=START OF PRESHIFTED GRAPHIC BLOCK
CLIPDISP LD C ... . OF COLUMNS TO DRAW (FIRST BLOCK)
LD SP, ... ,BC ;HL = ADDRESS OF PRESHIFTED BLOCK
LD A,( ... the first column
;HL=screen addr.
;DE=address of ... -
Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…
... write different values to a block and see if I can ... fastast way to fill a block of memory with 1 value ... fastest way to update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr ... -
Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…
... recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only ... colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in ... colors in every 4x4 pixel block.
I wrote a ... -
Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …
... of the attribute for the block that contains that pixel.
screen.
Does anyone know ... that once I understand the screen layout better then I will ... hopefully help me understand the screen layout better. -
Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …
... loader" and she load screen verticaly line by line, ... most impressive.
Uncompressed screen must be at 49152, ... of loading main data block, game not start and ... want to load another block of data.
... put another small data block which start the game, ... -
Spectrum Screen Memory MapWhat's the advantage (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation? 6144 bytes divided into 3 blocks, 2048 bytes long. if you want t…
... (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation?
... to draw something on screen you have to poke ... behind this implementation? Why screen memory isn't interpreted continuously ... to draw something on screen avoiding 3 block structure? -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... /> The big news is the SCREEN$ paintbox. It's now in ... . (Daren Pearcy)
Added - The SCREEN$ paintbox tool. It's basically ... statements, or as a memory block. It will be used by ... -
Screen access in assemblerI am again troubled by the unusal screen design of the Spectrum. :) If I want to do something with, say, a 16x16 bit block of the screen (in the sam…
... again troubled by the unusal screen design of the Spectrum. :)
block of the screen (in the same 1 ... -
Fastest Block Drawing Code?Following on from my scrolling thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=351304#post351304"](http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
... in order to scroll the screen.
Now I am ... 4x4 char block (4 bytes * 32 Rows) to the screen.
Assuming HL holds the address of the Graphic Block ... , and DE holds the screen address, does anyone ...
