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  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... bitmap, just word sized character codes+flags for palette selection, X ... add the new character map codes to the top/bottom/left ... of RAM is available to control the powerful Yamaha YM 2612 ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Override AUTOLINE start?Hi there, Is there a poke that prevents a BASIC program from auto running, when it was previously saved with the LINE command? Cheers, Steve

    ... rid of colour codes and other protections before giving control back to ...
    zxbruno zxbruno November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • It's snowing!Yes I know all you northerners have had snow for a week but down here in London it's a very rare thing!

    ... concise information about the error codes, etc, and that I have ... cross the hatch to the control panel, so he has to ...
    thx1138 thx1138 December 2010 Chit chat
  • It's snowing!Yes I know all you northerners have had snow for a week but down here in London it's a very rare thing!

    ... concise information about the error codes, etc, and that I have ... cross the hatch to the control panel, so he has to ...
    Morkin Morkin December 2010 Chit chat
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... made from 2-byte tile codes to 1-byte. This ... program could only print character codes as background graphics rather than ... allowing both character codes and absolute memory addresses. I ... is usually out of my control anyway (where Mister Beep does ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Development
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... ability to change who you control. All of this has to ... opening and 'teacher giving out codes' routines worked. There's another ...
    Jimmy Jimmy January 2011 Development
  • 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…

    ... for which will be a string of bytes (width*height in ... make it more difficult to control.
    [/quote]

    I ... part of your main program control.
    [/quote]

    Ok ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... in a string for controlling, animating or passing user control to a ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • +2A/+3 compatibility fixes thread!It might be a good idea to keep these fairly common +2A/+3 compatibility fixes (and requests) in a single thread for quick reference ;) Let's start …

    ... IY+$01 Various flags to control the BASIC system:
    ; Bit ... 6: 1=Numeric variable, 0=String variable.
    ; Bit 7: 1 ...
    jp jp January 2011 Games
  • yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…

    ... handler just has to transfer control to an external hook which ... -
    ;; 1) mapping of scan codes to zx ascii code
    ;; special character codes are
    ;; 0x01 - caps shift ...
    tstih tstih March 2011 Development
  • Serial protocol, help!Hi, simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC to real ZX Spectrum for testing purposes. Under Windows I tried using Spxfr and it w…

    ... /* Standard library */
    #include /* String function definitions */
    #include /* UNIX ... definitions */
    #include /* File control definitions */
    #include /* Error ... br /> #include /* POSIX terminal control definitions */

    int ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • Serial protocol, help!Hi, simply trying to find best way to transfer programs from PC to real ZX Spectrum for testing purposes. Under Windows I tried using Spxfr and it w…

    ... /* Standard library */
    #include /* String function definitions */
    #include /* UNIX ... definitions */
    #include /* File control definitions */
    #include /* Error ... br /> #include /* POSIX terminal control definitions */

    int ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... the first character of a string.

    What do you ... start of a string. After dealing with an AT control, instead of ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …

    ... bit with the call 8252 string.

    Does this help ...
    ld de,string ; start of score text string
    ld bc ... ,12 ; length of string in bytes
    call 8252 ... codes before RST 16 or in the defbs of the string work ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2011 Development
  • Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…

    ... your string. The CHR$ 23+CHR$ 25+CHR$ 0 TAB control puts ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…

    ... your string. The CHR$ 23+CHR$ 25+CHR$ 0 TAB control puts ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…

    ... de, score_string ; start of score string

    ld bc, 12 ... ; length of string in bytes

    call ... /> ld a, 17 ; papper color control code

    RST 16 ... /> ld a, 16 ; ink color control code

    RST 16 ...
    ooze48k ooze48k July 2011 Development
  • Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…

    ... de, score_string ; start of score string

    ld bc, 12 ... ; length of string in bytes

    call ... /> ld a, 17 ; papper color control code

    RST 16 ... /> ld a, 16 ; ink color control code

    RST 16 ...
    ooze48k ooze48k July 2011 Development
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    ... ago about games with bad control key assignments and patches to ... the thread.

    Bad control keys, unavoidable or random deaths ... save option (or level access codes), illogical mapping, any game with ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2011 New game ideas
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    ... ago about games with bad control key assignments and patches to ... /> [QUOTE=Battle Bunny;548754]Bad control keys, unavoidable or random deaths ... save option (or level access codes), illogical mapping, any game with ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 New game ideas
  • Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…

    ... 't mention how to implement control lines, but that's easy ... could be implemented as custom codes that directly change the "unconditional ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Development
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... ]
    showing the character offset codes, shows a two-row deep ... may have been a little control panel there, something that made ... it fits in with the codes being used, I think that ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2011 Infoseek database
  • Anyone know what this is?[IMG]http://s4.postimage.org/1pb0bs1us/IMG_9052.jpg[/IMG] Im leaning towards a barcode reader of some sorts, has the logo MSI on it but thats about …

    It's from an Amstrad Video recorder. You read the bar codes from the Radio Times with it.


    Being Amstrad, they had to have it wired in, like the remote control.

    :D
    thx1138 thx1138 September 2011 Chit chat
  • Anyone know what this is?[IMG]http://s4.postimage.org/1pb0bs1us/IMG_9052.jpg[/IMG] Im leaning towards a barcode reader of some sorts, has the logo MSI on it but thats about …

    ... recorder. You read the bar codes from the Radio Times with ... wired in, like the remote control.

    :D[/QUOTE]
    zx1 zx1 September 2011 Chit chat
  • Anyone know what this is?[IMG]http://s4.postimage.org/1pb0bs1us/IMG_9052.jpg[/IMG] Im leaning towards a barcode reader of some sorts, has the logo MSI on it but thats about …

    ... You read the bar codes from the Radio Times with ... supported it, and the codes could be difficult to read ... as quick as using these codes.
    It was also ... to the recording when using codes.
    If the TV ... TV-signal itself to control the scheduled start/stop ...
    Pilsener Pilsener September 2011 Chit chat
  • Anyone know what this is?[IMG]http://s4.postimage.org/1pb0bs1us/IMG_9052.jpg[/IMG] Im leaning towards a barcode reader of some sorts, has the logo MSI on it but thats about …

    ... Norway supported it, and the codes could be difficult to read ... as quick as using these codes.
    It was also a ... to the recording when using codes.
    If the TV-show ... the TV-signal itself to control the scheduled start/stop time ...
    zx1 zx1 September 2011 Chit chat
  • IN or INKEY ?just curious which is better to use.. I have a menu done.. and use 6/7 to go up down it + space to cycle thru the options (using inkey).. obv. if I w…

    ... code 13 for ENTER, and codes 10/11 respectively for down ... checking for plain "6"/"7" (codes 54/55) at present for ... still be used to treat codes 10/11 the same as ... only be needed for keyboard control if multi-key combinations were ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • New WIP underway - 'Dingo'.Hi, Prepare for a long post. Perhaps I can even challenge ewgf here. :razz: Anyway, I've been meaning to get into Z80 programming and making a game…

    ... it works for the different control methods, :)
    Hopefully ... />
    [CODE]
    ; joystick control routines
    ;
    ; all routines ... br /> ;
    ; prints a string which is terminated with $ff ... cp 255 ; end of the string
    ret z ; so ...
    polomint polomint October 2011 Development
  • Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…

    ... mentioning is that since the control code has changed, the key ... the table of seven key codes at address 37558, and these ...
    jonathan jonathan November 2011 Development
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