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  • Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…

    ... matter if you could just copy whole character rows instead...

    copy individual lines and that couldn ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…

    ... matter if you could just copy whole character rows instead...

    copy individual lines and that couldn ... pixels. Most games are not character aligned so drawing across multiple ...
    seedy1812 seedy1812 September 2014 Development
  • Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…

    ... pixels. Most games are not character aligned so drawing across multiple ... . For vertical scrolling you just copy whole lines in one go ... matters if you want to copy individual pixel rows, or move ... for the bytes in each character, capture the overflow bits in ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • What five games that you've not played/briefly played would you want to take?I was thinking the other day about, how every so often on almost every gaming forum, you see a "What are you top ten favourite games?" style thread. …

    ... a bullet from your virtual character's leg with a pair ... />
    I've got a copy for the XBox kicking around ...
    Zagreb Zagreb September 2014 Chit chat
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    ... it was just a rough copy from the Spectrum, but actually ... in whole characters using the character map.

    I can ... drawing the sprites with per-character occlusion so that they look ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…

    ... I found was explicitly setting "character selector" first:

    [IMG ... .

    Anyway after setting "character selector", I was finally able ... wasn't able to copy it to another character position, since every ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2014 Emulators
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…

    ... I found was explicitly setting "character selector" first:

    [IMG ... .

    Anyway after setting "character selector", I was finally able ... wasn't able to copy it to another character position, since every ...
    clausjahn clausjahn October 2014 Emulators
  • Top 5 Arnold films...I think these are the best of Arnies or... 1. Predator 2. Terminator 3. Commando 4. Conan I 5. Raw Deal

    ... tbh, those 5 polygon per character type games were 10 a ... if I still have my copy of it?

    [QUOTE ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2014 Chit chat
  • Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…

    ... the background so the block copy doesn't matter. The sprites ... four, allowing for an empty character for it to scroll into ... it renders the full 32 character width of the screen, as ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…

    I made a couple of small corrections to the BASIC runner last night. I'd copied the editor from another of my programs and had left in a couple of inappropriate bits. Here's the corrected one ([strike]I haven't updated the ZIP file yet[/strike]), with ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... 's on screen (or a copy held in a buffer) across ... /> If you're just using character scrolling, you could easily write ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • clear a windowed area of the screenHi everyone! Ain't been on here for donkeys, but have recently started messing around with a little game. I'm looking for ideas/opinions on the bes…

    ... general routine for clearing any character-based rectangle in the ... /> [code]
    ; clear a character-based rectangle
    ; PRINT AT ... address of the data to copy
    ld c,(ix ... ) ;C =cols =bytes to copy per line
    ld a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2014 Development
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... new "project" cartridge and copy the files from the ... loading screen and an optional character set.
    Don' ... And you can test the character set with:
    [CODE ... 're having difficulty finding character sets then the [URL ... br /> Here's a copy of the LOMM [URL=" ...
    jp jp October 2014 Announcements
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... would use a byte per character (so 32 x 24 = 768 ... of the bits within each character to describe the corners where ... the correct character which represents that arrangement of corners, and copy all ...
    bobs bobs December 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... 160,000 T-states to copy from buffer to screen. If ... t-state (per half a character). 65*768*2=99840 t ...
    introspec introspec December 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... t-state (per half a character). 65*768*2=99840 t ... per byte, my routine to copy pixels from linear buffer to ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... unpacked once into 'graphC'; a copy offset by 4 pixels is ... a buffer cycle and then copy the buffer to the screen ... square
    ;so a normal character square contains 4 sqxels
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2014 Development
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... a second hand Japanese PS3 copy on eBay. I was left ... R2 to run and the character jumps automatically whenever it needs ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob December 2014 Chit chat
  • Testers for new z88dk clibA long (long, long, long) time ago a few people offered to help test the new clib in z88dk. Much time has passed since then and I won't hold people,…

    ... which means you enter one character at a time and cannot ... />
    ioctl(fd, IOCTL_ITERM_GET_EDITBUF, b_array_t *); // copy the b_array being used for ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2014 Development
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... /> A small studio made digital copy only indie game, and Oh ... wobbly, and Lana (the main character) starts to actually look like ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2014 Chit chat
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... are: not be able to copy spectrum graphics at their best ... was so good, why not copy the spectrum graphics and colour ... like pyjamarama). Compare the main character on Extreme on the spectrum ...
    Jim M Jim M December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... was so good, why not copy the spectrum graphics and colour ... like pyjamarama). Compare the main character on Extreme on the spectrum ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly December 2014 Games
  • Edge Grinder, how would YOU do it?I always meant to post about this and AndyC reminded me in the 'vs' thread in games. [QUOTE=AndyC;808887]The thing I love about threads like this is…

    ... ),HL

    ; calculate the character address
    LD H,0 ... HL,BC

    ; copy the character letter to the screen
    MatGubbins MatGubbins December 2014 Development
  • Simple text scroller, first character problemin a text scroller, whole line scrolled to the left by 1 pixels using RL(HL) ; DEC L method. But at the rightmost character must be printed immediate…

    ... byte buffer to draw the character in, then shift each byte ... but with an extra character width, then copy it to the screen ... you do effects in the copy bytes operation, like making it ...
    joefish joefish January 2015 Development
  • Simple text scroller, first character problemin a text scroller, whole line scrolled to the left by 1 pixels using RL(HL) ; DEC L method. But at the rightmost character must be printed immediate…

    ... byte buffer to draw the character in, then shift each byte ... each new character you can just do a block copy from the ...
    gasman gasman January 2015 Development
  • Simple text scroller, first character problemin a text scroller, whole line scrolled to the left by 1 pixels using RL(HL) ; DEC L method. But at the rightmost character must be printed immediate…

    ... each new character you can just do a block copy from the ...
    Arda Arda January 2015 Development
  • New Game: BALACHOR'S REVENGEBalachor is back.. Here it is..! [B]Balachor's Revenge[/B], the sequel to Catacombs of Balachor. By me & Rorthron - our second game. [IMG]http://i10…

    ... , playing with the Monument Microgames copy, excellent presentation, btw!, and the ... fresh. I love that the character moves so fast, otherwise the ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx January 2015 Brand new software
  • Specbas new game PacmanWell I have been beavering away at this for a bit and I am now happy with it. (nearly) it's not bad (even if I say so myself) [img]http://i699.phot…

    ... as normal, but no other character was visible, let alone moving ... the current window as a copy and paste graphical image) and ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Help for beginner with z80Hi chaps, I'm reasonably new with z80, but had a fair amount of experience with 68000, so decided to give a few things a go. One little thing I'm t…

    ... ),HL

    ; calculate the character address
    LD H,0 ... HL,BC

    ; copy the character letter to the screen
    MatGubbins MatGubbins February 2015 Development
  • Any Examples of player controlled masked sprite over flip screen tilemapped rooms?Please does anyone kindly have any z80 code examples of a flip screens tile map with a masked character sprite that you can control via keyboard, ie …

    ... source
    LD (HL),A ;copy it to screen
    INC ... =0 -> going to new character row
    RET NZ ;other ... - staying in the same character row

    LD A ... ,L ;going to new character line
    ADD A,32 ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2015 Development
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