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Screen distortion problems, I can't fix it!I just managed to get myself a ZX Spectrum +2 from the local car boot sale but for some reason theres a distortion halfway down the screen when i pla…
... a distortion halfway down the screen when i play games.
screen the screen goes out of wack ... -
screen$ and ramdisk 128kDoes anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?
Does anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape? -
Screen damaged while loadingI've written a simple Spectrum game and did a loading screen for it and now i'm trying to put it together into tzx file. My Basic loader is really s…
... game and did a loading screen for it and now i ... simple:
1 Load'' Screen$
2 load '' Code
My problem is that after screen is loaded,
Spectrum starts ...
"Bytes:code" statement into screen, just into hero's face ... -
128k Speccy ScreenAm I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and d…
Am I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and draw the sprites etc... a-la 48k ??) -
How to play Alone in the Dark on the PC?I have all three Alone in the Dark games, and they all run fine, but I don't have the manuals, so can anyone tell me the control keys, please? I don'…
... all three Alone in the Dark games, and they all run ... -
screen$I'm wanting to create a game which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC skills but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply it I…
... these in memory
eg screen 1 at address 23296 to ... 30208
screen 2 at address 30209 to ... used to mess up the screen if you were pressing a ... -
Dark EmpireI just downloaded The Dark Empire which I used to play as a lad all the time, I have a problem however anyone played this and can remember the key co…
I just downloaded The Dark Empire which I used to play as a lad all the time, I have a problem however anyone played this and can remember the key combination to bring up the in game menu as it is very difficult to play without this? -
SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed! -
What Spectrum games have yet to be bettered on any machine?What Spectrum games do you think are still better than any other of their types, on any machine? I mean, Turbo Esprit is an absolute classic, but I t…
... /> Manic Miner: The best single screen 2D platform game ever, even ... , are all 3D (Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Conker's Bad Fur ... -
what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…
on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet..
e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader.. multi channel sound from Vectron.. etc ? -
Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on the ... -
The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …
... to understand the way the screen is controlled.
The ... controls output to the the screen and the rom sets out ... the memory locations of the screen ( and attributes ). is this correct ... -
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 ... -
Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…
... (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)
screen
Can ...
; Clear the screen to show we are bringing ... ; Copy from store to the screen
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Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …
How do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one for memory and then copy them all together into one tap file)
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perfect dark questionas i cant ask on retro survivals forum as its still down, thort id ask here perfect dark on the n64 i bought yesterday for ?6 no box or instrus.....w…
... id ask here
perfect dark on the n64 i bought ... -
Name This Game pleaseI'm asking on behalf of someone I know.. Here it is in his words: "one like Lord of the Rings where you had 4 different characters and had to send o…
... a martial campaign against a Dark Lord lookylike? It took hours ... then that I videotaped the screen which told us that peace ... -
Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever? -
Name that screen shotJust picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on pag…
Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1 -
Screen DisolveHas anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see
Has anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see -
128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…
... that I can display one screen, draw to the other and ... -
Screen effects in MCAs I see there is still interest for MC programming on Speccy. So, I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source files, demon…
... , I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source ... -
Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…
Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text.
Does anyone know of any code to do this?
CheersGetting 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 …
... attributes but was in the screen.
Does anyone know ... that once I understand the screen layout better then I will ... hopefully help me understand the screen layout better.How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…
... like to add a [B]SCREEN$[/B] viewer.
I ... way to display a Speccy screen, like in a picture box ... I tried to figure out screen handling in VBSpec, but the ...How to create pretty screenshot maps[size=+1][b]A. What will I need?[/b][/size] 01. Your favorite [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html]Speccy emulator[/url]. 02. An util…
... title.php%3Fid%3Dscreensnap]ZX Screen Snapper[/url] (supports almost ... Software+Ltd$]Incentive Software[/url] – Dark Side, Driller, …) or racing ... favorite Speccy emulator, run ZX Screen Snapper (ZX SS).
... values correctly. [b]ZX Screen Snapper works on the ...Forbidden Planet QuestionI just loaded up Forbidden Planet (Design Design) and I noticed the menu screen says it's "Part Three of the Dark Star Trilogy". Does anyone know wha…
... the menu screen says it's "Part Three of the Dark Star ...SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…
... inserted at the start-up screen
- Added delay to disk ... SAM palette spread, which made dark colours too bright
- Fixed ... PNG screenshot palette being too dark
- Fixed pixel format colour ...Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…
... what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don ...
