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Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
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[*]Scene elements ... instead of drawing the entire screen in a back buffer, ... and background) is copied to screen. A big advantage is ... so that the entire screen does not have to be rendered.
Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... /> [*]Only draw character cells on screen that change
[*]Scene elements ... instead of drawing the entire screen in a back buffer, ... and background) is copied to screen. A big advantage is ... so that the entire screen does not have to be rendered.
Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... you say "256 planes were not enough".
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screen objects which can be from ... a character cell to screen, everything in that char ... instead of the whole screen. The z-order of ... most 3d objects on screen will not move so their position ...Did all Spectrum 128Ks have that large heatsink?Question as per title. I can't seem to find the answer to this. I'm sure I've seen a picture of one without it. Would this be because someone has car…
... text label should be red, not white. Maybe it's a piss ...Did all Spectrum 128Ks have that large heatsink?Question as per title. I can't seem to find the answer to this. I'm sure I've seen a picture of one without it. Would this be because someone has car…
... text label should be red, not white. Maybe it's a piss ... 128 should be in red not white.
I have also ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... ://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/russian.htm[/ ... Just remember QL, last Sinclair's machine (not counting handheld ones) - ... computer build. You can not build practically nothing even close ... was cheap. But not so cheap that Sinclair not earn money with ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... Just remember QL, last Sinclair's machine (not counting handheld ones) - is ... problems were later rectified, by Sinclair engineers, especially on Samsung ... was cheap. But not so cheap that Sinclair not earn money with it ... is about Pascal versus Sinclair Basic.The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... a development line with Sinclair. This is not because it couldn't ... , nothing was done because neither Sinclair nor Amstrad were interested in ...History Channel documentary doesn't even mention the SpectrumI recently saw this documentary about the history of computers and it didn't even mention the Spectrum. Was it really irrelevant when it comes down t…
[QUOTE=NickH]Sadly Sinclair didn't choose a unique name for the Spectrum - "spectrum" makes me think of the electromagnetic spectrum.[/QUOTE]
The Sinclair Rainbow does not have the same ring to it does it??If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
... beige was easy... just mix yellow and white alternate dots. With the ...When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to display ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... in an emulator -- basin does not emulate the flicker-freeness.[/QUOTE ... switch from shadow screen to the updated main screen is not synchronized with ... />
By the way, I not used basin to wrote it ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... ]OUT 255,6[/b] the screen mode should change from 31x24 ... the top half of the screen is completelly buggy. Is it ... support for this screen mode, so the screen is not written to correctly ...When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…
... of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to display ...Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright[/url]
... can read...American though? the copyright bit (4th paragraph) on ... told by a copyright lawyer that the copyright symbol © has ... word copyright so always put copyright 2006 or copyright © 2006 but not © ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... absolute outside. The calculator will not be a problem. I'm ... advantage of the machine have not been forthcoming.
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I'll not be using the current set ...Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
Anyway, since the Spectrum originated from the UK wouldn't it be covered by UK copyright laws etc and not American law.Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
[QUOTE=BruceNorton]Anyway, since the Spectrum originated from the UK wouldn't it be covered by UK copyright laws etc and not American law.[/QUOTE]
Not if Copyright law works the same way as the extradition laws.
ADJBPC ProbsJust been given a PC to fix. Everything is now fine except the damn thing won't re-boot. It'll start up on a cold boot no probs, but it will not, e…
Depends on why it will not start up on a re- ... message or just a black screen?? Normally you experience this sort ... you only get a black screen (and not even BIOS start up ...New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini
[QUOTE=Jmk]Maybe this should be in Sinclair Miscellaneous?[/QUOTE]
Not really you'll be amazed to see how quickly it will devolveMr. and Mrs. PacmanNot strictly Sinclair related... but I'm a very happy chappy today... I just got a Mr. and Mrs. Pacman pinball machine for my games room... Yay! I'…
... , it's got the yellow and white plugs for the TV (instead ...ResiDOS v1.92 and +3e ROMs v1.30 releasedI've just updated ResiDOS to v1.92, and the +3e ROMs to v1.30. Full details can be found at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/"]http://…
... . Some features (like passwords) are not available, and maximum program size ... for the hi-res Timex screen mode in your CP/M ... already have an 80 column screen driver that you're welcome ... on the standard Speccy screen.
Might not be a top ...Issue two picture qualityDoes anyone know if issue two and earlier spectrums have worse picture quality (in general, beside colours) compared to issue 3 and later? I mean on…
... ULA is a 6C001 and not a 5C112.
According to ... , its just that the screen is not as clear as i would ... want it to be. Its not like it is unreadable or ... anything, its just not clear.
The transistors i ...basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... confused by this since Sinclair Basic does not supply LEFT$, RIGHT$, ... be done in Sinclair basic and not in other Microsoft ... Tiles wanted to rewrite Sinclair basic for the spectrum from ... linked lists of lines. Sinclair Basic does not, meaning searching for ...basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... linked lists of lines. Sinclair Basic does not, meaning searching for a ... by line.[/QUOTE]
Not quite - lines are stored with ...That scene in "Big".....Anyone remember that scene in [URL="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/"]Big[/URL] when Tom Hanks finally completes the adventure game, towards the e…
... that I'd not forgotten my Sinclair BASIC despite not having touched it ...Am I being tricked?Hi guys. I recently bought this book from amazon.co.uk: [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0246120185/202-9500833-2876666[/url] Z. X. Sp…
[QUOTE=TechnicianSi;176324]The one you're thinking of is probably [i]Iain[/i] Sinclair.[/QUOTE]
Nope; Iain Sinclair is definitely not the guy who wrote the William Jarneyvore stories (which appeared at the beginning of the 1980s)...Lcd TvWell after getting tired of carting around my multisystem TV to handle my PAL (speccy) computers and my NTSC stuff...I broke down after much thinking…
... Pal speccy. Believe it or not the Pal speccy is the ... the RCA video input (usually yellow). Not sure about the c64 but ...Lcd TvWell after getting tired of carting around my multisystem TV to handle my PAL (speccy) computers and my NTSC stuff...I broke down after much thinking…
... the RCA video input (usually yellow). Not sure about the c64 but ... with a dvd player but not with the c64, ts2068, ql ...Vacancies!!Anyone want to join the shed team? Whether its writing (regular) articles, reviewing games or sourcing articles/interviews etc.... Drop me a PM or…
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Fear thee not, you'll need that chair ... sitting in front of the screen (hoping not to witness the terror ...
