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Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …
... why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it ... really speedy.
A new question on the way.
This ... time is how to paint a ... squared zone of the screen with some color ... -
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…
... for ideas/opinions on the best way to clear a window on the screen RAM.
My last attempt at a game used the ... want to clear a 25x24 char section of the screen.
Any ... -
Crash: On The Screen compo scansAs the work on Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel printed loading screens restoration is going well lately, I would like to start preparing for making the sa…
As the work on Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel printed loading screens ... start preparing for making the same work on Crash: On The Screen competition.
... is coming onto the higher level, I have a nice plan, ... are welcomed, and a bigger announcement is on it's way ... -
Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…
... this and the room cheat will leave a visible marker on the screen if used ... .
The game now ... only flicks through the ... -
Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
... like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder ... how to do that in the ... set up a position in memory with some string, e ... .g. "Hello world of spectrum" and print at a ... I am looking for the equalient of PRINT AT ... -
Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
... would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to ... do that in the most easy ... either select upper lower screen or use the right start call.
Here is a list of all the games on the Amstrad e-mailer.I reallydon't recommend getting this e-mailer for the Spectrum games! I bought it cos my BT e100 died. Anyway this is a list of the games, as a coup…
... Anyway this is a list of the games, as a couple of ... )
Moon Cresta
Pheenix (A Classic)
** Arcade ... A Classic)
Tetris (A Classic)
Chess
Eric and the ... Amstrads wording as it appears on the screen.
...Building a new emulator ON the ZX SpectrumIn 1997 I wrote a ZX81-emulator for the ZX Spectrum. In 2000 I wrote a Videopac/Odessey2-emulator for the ZX Spectrum. Now I'm thinking of an emulat…
... with just 1 fixed screen with games on it like DONKEY KONG ... are built up? The have a fixed screen with only a limited number of ... in which a character could light up. Emulation of the screen can't ... be too hard. You can load the fixed screen ..."This is a screensaver that do not save the screen"Which was a quote from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001. Little did he know that, against the best judgement of myself and my peers, I…
Which was a quote from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001 ... ]
Unpack the SCREEN$.scr file and the "scr" folder to your ... /> A few words on configuration:
SCREEN$ has possibly the nicest Speccy screen you ...I'm not getting a picture up on my puter screenToday, I switched the jumpers on my hard drives, so that master became slave and slave became master. But when I switched my computer back on, it all…
Today, I switched the jumpers on my hard drives, so that ... I switched my computer back on, it all powers up just ... I'm not getting a picture on the screen!
On a hunch I reseated ... , and I blasted awayy the dust with a pair of bellows. Is ...is there something special about the left hand column on the screenSo.... I've noticed that when I move my player round when it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5,1;"X" etc that the controls rev…
... it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5 ... as I use a border for the playing area....but on this occasion ... as a teleport...but while the same code is working fine on the right ... hand side of the screen (say print at ...problem on the video output (spectrum 2+)Hello, I'am french. (Sorry my english is very bad). I have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have 2 area where 2 t…
... have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv ... (even after extinguished the tv).
Now, the picture is very bad ... are some square and line on the screen.
Please, help me ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
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The big news is the SCREEN$ paintbox. It's now in a state ... timer. (Daren Pearcy)
Added - The SCREEN$ paintbox tool. It's basically ... tool for tokenising/detokenising a whole string on the popupmenu. Basically so I could ...A new twist on the 419[Quote] Dear Sir. We are writing to you from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Nigeria, due to the recent report received on t…
... are writing to you from the Economic and Financial Crime ... Nigeria, due to the recent report received on the activities of fraudulent Nigerians ... money back, no doubt by a direct transfer into my account ... idiot once so there is a good chance you will be ...VIC 20 on the SpectrumThe original "20 Commodes" program released for CSSCGC 2008 has been improved and now has its own entry in WoS. The improved code has been sitting on…
... The improved code has been sitting on my computer for a while ... thought Oct 31st would be a suitable release date - after ... this version (1.90) ticks a few more boxes :
... reflected on the screen immediately (try pressing CAPS+SYM+C on the emulator screen)
A few questions on the Z80A cpuI know this has been discussed before and I read (a while back) the post which goes over the different Z80A CPUs ...(CMOS, NMOS? can't recall exactl…
... tests the Z80 Flags and also tests the MEMPTR.
On the ... Z80 Flags I get a few ... why hehe
On the MEMPTR test everything passed.
the same failed entries on the Flags test...
Has anyone completed a Spectrum game on the day they bought it?Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day? I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was …
Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day?
I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was so easy.
I think i did the same with Yie Ar Kung fu as well but i can't be sure.What game had a metallic rat on the cover?So I have memories of a game which had a robotic/metallic rat/mouse on the front cover. It wasn't hand drawn, but a photo. Sorry not much to go on…
So I have memories of a game which had a robotic/metallic rat/mouse on the front cover. It wasn't hand drawn, but a photo.
Sorry not much to go on! Does it sound familiar to anyone?
Definitely not Micro Mouse ;)Whats the best Boulderdash game on the Spectrum?Just that. I used to play Rockford's Riot a lot. But it probably isn't the best; playing it now, its really irritating that you can run off the side …
... 's Riot a lot. But it probably isn't the best; playing ... off the side of the screen before the scrolling catches up. So whats the best ... clone? I seem to remember there was once a ... decent one on the front of Crash.How many interfaces can be paired up together (as a combo) on the Speccy's back edge connector?Well some would say none as it puts too much of a power strain on the Speccy's power supply . So ignoring this aspect the same question can be asked …
... puts too much of a power strain on the Speccy's power supply ... . So ignoring this aspect the same ... .
For example :- The Multiface has a back end edge connector ... be plugged into it at the back . But how many ...z88dk : FIle Handling in C on the +3e environment under Win 764bitHello my fellow WoSers! I am wondering if someone can help me solve this little pickle of z88dk / Windows using +3e Filesystem. So a little inf…
... could just lump the bin in the memory of the system but I ... prints out on the screen "Writing text to file" followed by a new line ... with the text "File Created ... - sadly no output on the disk at all... not a sausage and no ...Quidditch would be a brilliant game on the Spectrum!For me, the best part of the Potter books and films were the Quidditch matches. Man, what I wouldn't give to be able to play it for real. It doesnt r…
... having a range of broomsticks to choose from probably on the basis ... of points earned in a game. < ... d give the computer control of the Beaters/Bludgers as a mixture ... this on a 128k Spectrum or even 48k Speccy with the graphics ...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... by the terminal code but I think a front-end on all the ... that platform specific. On spectrum, 8-bit and on other platforms one ... one word (an english word, not a 16 bit word) -- and let a lower ... i can send out a justified string to the screen. In my case i ...New material on the early days of CRASH at CRASH OnlineIn preparation for "The Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey" (due later this year), Oli found some historical documents relating to the early days of CRASH. T…
... honour the occasion.
I've also added a 'hover' effect on the ... links to the individual issues of ... CRASH, bringing up a thumbnail of the ...Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... created a similar function for the Speccy.
Draw on the CoCo ... a sub string
C = change color
A = changes the rotation of the ... drawing.
"R10F15E15R10D30L12U10G13H13D10L12U30" draws a big M on the screen.
You could ...Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…
... wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling ... do something crude drawing bars on the screen of differing heights (in fact ... very, very crude and on the Amiga so I'll apologise ... but I was wondering how the likes of Chase HQ, Outrun ...Games in the JSW mouldRight, folks. I need you all to suggest to me games that are like [I]Jet Set Willy[/I] (but aren't JSW, obviously). By this I mean platform games, se…
... (preferably loads) of flick-screen (ie the player can pass from room ... the aim is to collect objects and each screen has a name displayed on the screen ... .
On you go...Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... memory which have a direct effect on the screen display.
The complicated way is ... down the screen.
In the spin assembler line 5, delete the word 'road' in the ... comments.
At the ...Question on copying screen bufferHi, Al my prevoius games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could d…
... were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now ... I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could draw ... m not clearing any sprites on the screen, I'm just copying static ... image from buffer to screen after HALT.
...Cyberbig (Animagic S.A.)So, on dm_boozefreek's semi-recommendation (he's bored of it now) I've been playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0010481]Cyb…
... by the size of the disks collection display on the pause screen, there's a high ... chance that the game has ... to do it in a given place on the screen, sometimes it's central ...
