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  • How do I manually BLOCK pop-ups in Ff?I'm using Ff 3.0.15 When I go Tools -> Options -> Content -> Block pop-up windows -> Exceptions it only allows me to type in sites I want to ALLOW .…

    ... -> Options -> Content -> Block pop-up windows -> Exceptions ... is it called "[I][B]Block[/B] pop-up windows[/I ... the ... do I actually manually BLOCK sites from using pop-ups ... at the top of the screen)
    ZnorXman ZnorXman November 2009 Chit chat
  • SCREEN$ and Sinclair Basic: Help Required !Two simple questions: 1) When saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the bottom of the loading screen from being chopped off by the 'Start Tape & Press Any…

    ... :

    1) When saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the ... bottom of the loading screen from being chopped off by ... load back a block of code, the loading screen is obscured with ...
    Hercules Hercules March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Fuzzy Screen On 48k Spectrum.Hi there. I bought a Spectrum off eBay last week (another for my collection lol), and it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like interference …

    ... it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like ... of writing commands on the screen, even though the keyboard isn ... . I'm at that mental block stage now lol.

    Jimbob-Squarepants Jimbob-Squarepants January 2011 Hardware
  • Magic BlockMagic Block has been done by Dmitriy Bekkerman. This is clearly seen on a loading screen: [img]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=s…

    Magic Block has been done by Dmitriy Bekkerman.
    This is clearly seen on a loading screen:
    [img]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/m/gif/MagicBlock.gif[/img]
    moroz1999 moroz1999 February 2011 Infoseek database
  • Screen Viewer: Speccy View 4SpeccyView (v4.0) Here is my new zx spectrum screen viewer, result of this weekend's work. Features: Loads: -Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw …

    ... /> Features:
    Loads:
    -Standard Screen Files (6912 byte raw .scr ... match border colour to the screen,
    -Loading and header ... emulator
    Hotkeys
    Save screen to Scr, Png, Bmp, Jpg ... has a 6912 byte long block SV4 will pick it. About ...
    Arda Arda April 2011 Announcements
  • BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…

    ... on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www. ... pourri/bob.zip]BOB the Screen Builder[/url]". There's two ... much room as possible for screen definitions (there's about 30kb ... characters and attribute tokens. The block of DATA statements can then ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • ULAPlus: showing different screen modes in one screenI wanted to write a demo showing the same screen, converted to various screen modes available on the Spectrum (well, a Spectrum clone capable of show…

    ... the same screen, converted to various screen modes available ... a standard Timex HiColor screen (hires attributes using the ... screen (low res attributes with 64 colour palette), and the fourth block ... is a Timex HiColour screen with ULA+ ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix May 2012 Development
  • Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…

    ... with a character-mapped screen and render that as ... we have a 2K block of data that defines ... drawn, to try to minimise screen tearing.

    ... is larger than the rendered screen and/or wraps-round ... the translation from map to screen.

    And ...
    joefish joefish March 2013 Development
  • Arcade Game Designer 4Just released over at the AGD forums. New this time: Sprites can now be individually coloured using the SPRITEINK command. If 16x16 sprites aren't…

    ... Sprites can now be individually coloured using the SPRITEINK command. If ... Want an intro/control menu screen? There's an event for ... a control menu/static text screen), double height text and ... a screen. The adventure modification also has a new block type ...
    jonathan jonathan May 2013 Brand new software
  • display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…

    ... I've done a little screen slicing program in both ... amp; move things on the screen once the structure of the ... the details:

    The screen is divided into three segments ... function calls by setting the block write length for each ... as a single CODE block.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Manic Miner - Loader And Screen DifferencesThere are some changes between the various releases and re-releases of Manic Miner with both the loader and the loading screen itself. Here I'll deta…

    ... the loader and the loading screen itself. Here I'll detail ... regard to the author information block. The game code appears to ... the game on the Warehouse screen and the 'typewriter' version ... of the screen cheat.

    [img]http ...
    spider spider September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... pixel line, i.e. each block of 8x1 pixels) like [URL ... pixel lines, i.e. each block of 8x2 pixels) as planned ... ]bicolor[/B] graphics everywhere* on screen.

    In practice, [B ... NIRVANA ENGINE is also "full-screen". Technically, perhaps it would be ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2013 Brand new software
  • Calculating screen address to alternative ATTR area?I'm using this small snippet of code to convert a screen address to an attribute cell address... [CODE]AttrDE: ld a, d ; get the hig…

    ... of code to convert a screen address to an attribute cell ... ; get the high byte of screen address
    rra ; divide h ... the start of the attribute block
    ld d, a ; load ...
    Sokurah Sokurah January 2014 Development
  • Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…

    ... (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the ... onto the main display screen. This allows me to ... screen to the display file. You can now make huge, multi-block ... sprites and shift them up and down the screen ... hl, 25000 ;Start of DB Screen
    ld de, 16384 ...
    LuMan LuMan April 2014 Development
  • Block RoutineHi Folks, I want to draw a block on the screen dependent on providing the X,Y,W,H values. I came up with the following: [CODE]100 LET l$=" …

    ... want to draw a block on the screen dependent on providing the ... CLS : PRINT AT 0,0;"Block Routine"
    160 GO SUB ... /> 170 STOP
    180 REM Block Routine
    190 REM x ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • How to stop a block name appearing on load[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am putting together a tape loader for my game and so far it works apart from one problem. After loading the ?loading screen? …

    ... . After loading the ?loading screen? image, the next block writes ?bytes: somename ... in a blank area of screen but is there a poke ... to stop it showing the block it is about to load ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside August 2014 Development
  • Issue 2 Spectrum - Black screenHi I have an issue 2 spectrum which I'm having some issues with. I bought it on ebay so have no idea of the history or how it came to be broken. Whe…

    ... the screen every time I turned the spectrum on. either coloured garbage ... or back screen with thin red lines ... with an almost completely black screen. You could almost say though ...
    whoremoan whoremoan November 2014 Hardware
  • mkloader - compressed loading screen makerI made a new tool, available on my github at: [url="https://github.com/jarikomppa/speccy"]https://github.com/jarikomppa/speccy[/url] The tool gene…

    ... embedded compressed loading screen to screen, loads the next block and RANDOMIZE USR ... .75k of a "normal" loading screen:
    [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA December 2015 Announcements
  • spectrum 48k issue 3b coloured blocksI have pucked up a nice looking plus but when powered on get black or yellow border and random coloured blocks on screen, I have taken keyboard off a…

    ... yellow border and random coloured blocks on screen, I have taken keyboard ...
    caver99 caver99 February 2016 Hardware
  • Does anyone have a good Spectrum screen shot pack?Man, I hate to ask a question like this - and I'm sure there is one out there somewhere ... but I just can't be arsed to look, lol. The screen sh…

    ... .

    The screen shot pack I already have ... contains it multiple identical screen shots of the same ... /> The name of the screen from TLL has had its ... .gif' and the Nexor screen is named 'FLEXO_.gif' ... but somewhere in the Eastern Block is a good guess, ...
    Sokurah Sokurah November 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Name Game: sharpen coloured pencilsMany moons ago (back in the day) I saw a type-in that I REALLY wanted to try. Doing so has been very near the top of my 'todo' list for decades. It's…

    ... /> The game was about sharpening coloured pencils. From the artwork in ... from the top of the screen, before they reached the bottom ...
    ZX_Steve ZX_Steve June 2020 Games
  • Direct drive LCD screen - looking for information on previous projects people may have attempted.Hi All, My first post, so please forgive and guide if I've posted in the incorrect section. I'm a speccy user from way back in the 80's, but m…

    ... start again with designing the screen, so was working on building ... and captures writes to the screen location so as to build ... I can add a coloured border around the screen.

    ... also solve the problem around screen compatibility, and leave me with ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk December 2020 Hardware
  • Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …

    ... comes up on the screen. Sorry no service today ... movements on a large TV screen. No.2 says " ... worked. Look at the screen. He actually thinks he' ... in a copse. Mountains block the way north.^{7} ... citizens seated in brightly coloured chairs enjoying the music.^{ ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Games
  • Adding to the WOS archiveI've just had my first foray into the world of MakeTZX. And apart from it recognising the initial "Program:" block as a Turbo Loading block (how, why…

    ... the checksums are wrong. The screen attributes load slightly wrong and ... at the end of the screen. Therefore, I'm now screwed ... of the block, and may not be loadable.

    "Coloured loaders ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2003 Games
  • Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…

    This has all gone right over my head.

    But I do remember Robber - it had a very crude loading screen made entirely of single coloured character squares, so it only loaded the attributes rather than the whole screen block.
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... of eight, but the coloured tiles beneath get tinted ... rectangle (usually the full screen rectangle sp_ClipStruct) so using ... ) ; get clr from clr block
    inc bc
    ... colours
    // stored in colour block

    colourSpr(clrBlock ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... and can (most easily) be coloured by calling an API function ... otherwise be moved around the screen, like regular sprites are, to ... separate z80asm compiles for each block. So, maybe the ability to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…

    ... positioning of sprites on the screen. It can be eliminated ... hitting a particular user-defined block - like a trampoline.
    ... the player collides with certain block types or alien nasties, ... with nasties leaving different coloured bars behind has been ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... plot of land has a coloured border around the plot to ... to a player have their coloured borders flash (and for this ... so code in the "if" block is executed. There are just ... = 0 if none)
    uchar *screen; // +8 address in display file ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • What was the name of that game?Hi there, This is my first thread of any kind! I hope it brings me beginners luck. I?m after a game I used to play and was very fond of, but you'v…

    ... to shoot their white block containing a coloured symbol (sometimes a red ... the other side of the screen (piled in columns of different ... />
    On some levels, the coloured geometric symbols were replaced by ...
    trotsky trotsky November 2009 Games
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