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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... ; HL must be set to the string before calling this routine
fetchan ld a,(hl)
push hl< ... hl
ploop1 ld a,(hl)
cp 0xFF
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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... of the text string. It doesn't go to the end of the ... increase every time the text gets placed on the screen, making the same text appear ... code]
The reason the
add a, 6
does ... work is because text_out uses the A register and you do ... -
48K protectionWhich games were 'protected' by loading a full 48K block of code so that no copy program could fit in to memory? I know of 2 by heard. Pole Positio…
... /> a loader with screen, then you reloaded the screen over the ROM and the rest on
the screen ... and memory to save the ... how a cassetterecorder worked and were the SPACE-key was on the keyboard. -
Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …
... fans fancy making a text-adventure just like in the good old ... . There's also quite a few adventures on the site to download and ... collaborating on making an adventure using ADRIFT?
All the best ... -
PLEASE HELP MEI just got my ZX Spectrum out of its box after being in the loft for a number of years and tried to play a few games but when I turned it on and tune…
... box after being in the loft for a number of years and ... play a few games but when I turned it on and tuned the ... signal. It showed a border and inside the border are black and ... for a while I think some writing is meant to appear on the screen ... -
KEYBOARD PROBLEM HI, MOST OF THE KEYS ON MY SPECTRUM + 48K WONT WORK, I`VE HAD IT FOR YEARS AND WAS WONDERING DO I NEED A NEW MEMBRANE OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE? THE D…
HI, MOST OF THE KEYS ON MY SPECTRUM + 48K WONT WORK, I`VE HAD IT FOR YEARS AND WAS WONDERING DO I NEED A NEW MEMBRANE OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE? THE DISPLAY SEEMS OK IT SHOWS THE "SINCLAIR 1982 " ON THE SCREEN. -
heavy on the magick question?in the heavy on the magick manual it mentioned four sequals. where they ever relases. the names i think where castle pilefoot pardise regaglo tombo…
in the heavy on the magick manual it mentioned four sequals. where they ever relases.
the names i think where
castle pilefoot
pardise regaglo
tombos of tarro
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MLTDoes anyone know how to load the MTL files that are saved using BMP2TAP? I have tried load""screen$ and load""code but neither of them work. Is there…
... anyone know how to load the MTL files that are saved ... BMP2TAP? I have tried load""screen$ and load""code but neither ... a paint package on the speccy that will load them? They must work on the ... speccy as the ... -
SpecEmuI was wondering, if in SpecEmu, it was possible to get a listing of the machine code instructions that scroll along in the machine code part on the s…
... was possible to get a listing of the machine code instructions that ... scroll along in the machine code part on the screen? I also think ... i dont know how? There a detailed guide to usin this ... -
ID this game pleaseIt was a snooker game from 1986/1987 and released on some budget label (I think) The balls were small and to help those with green screen (Amstrad C…
... on and there was a guide to these balls on the far right of the screen ... . I also think there was a scrolling message on the ... top of the screen ... -
Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…
... PC on the stack sometimes overwrites a graphics buffer or something, so the next ... time annomalies appear on the screen. In the ... time of 48k Spectrums the programmers were ... -
football gameim after a football game i used to play im pretty sure it was called world cup i've looked on the games section and there are a few with world cup in…
... on the games section and there are a few with world cup in the ... just had a blank screen and when a goal was scored the screen would go ... the second half you had a football boot at the bottom of the screen and a ... -
#1 on Xmas eve...erm.. a bit of egoistic post this. But I couldn't pass it up! :) Right, a quick check on the member list will reveal that we have a new #1 poster. n…
erm.. a bit of egoistic post this. ... up! :)
Right, a quick check on the member list will reveal ... that we have a new #1 ... seems to have let up a bit and so has Alessandro ... -
WANTED: Spectrum 128k (Any version) and Interface 1My poor old +2A has come down with Alzheimer's and occasionally forgets to put program names on the screen, so i am now looking for a new 128k and an…
... program names on the screen, so i am now looking for a new 128k ... -
Something i'd like to see in future spectrum emu'sI haven't checked every emu out so i hope this hasn't been implemented somewhere already...one thing i'd like to see is a special enhanced mode where…
... a lot of things are moving on the screen...i know the purists probably love the ... no end...a friend of mine played knight lore on the spec emu ... slowed down still like the original machine on his p4 2ghz pc ... -
Spectrum modficationsThere is a post about Outrun on the games forum, which makes the fair point that the game is playable when you double the speed on an emulator. Other…
... a post about Outrun on the games forum, which makes the fair point that the ... course, when playing the games on a real machine, this isn ... be a true improvement on the original, rather than a machine ... intensive screen modes that people have been going on about ... -
Speccy machine code info where is it?Recently I've been trying to learn Z80 and I've managed to make limited progress (some of my routines even compile now!) but I seem to be having trou…
... programming seem to be a bit thin on the ground, unless Im missing ... more info on how the screen works and stuff like reading the keyboard and ... that. There seem to be quite a ... few people one here who know about the workings of the ... -
Lunar Jetman = The Confusion 2k3I had a 128k Spectrum in my youth, now experimenting with a ZX emu on my Amiga I played some Jetpack and found out what an amazing game it was and th…
... youth, now experimenting with a ZX emu on my Amiga I played ... />
So I did a quick search on the net today and found ... out Crash did a review in ... as one of those games on the Spectrum I didnt knew what ... -
GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…
... would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games ... -
Currah uSpeach repairHi I've a uSpeach which does not work. Just get random colour squares on the screen whenever it is plugged in. I cant work out how to open it up to …
Hi
I've a uSpeach which does not work. ...
get random colour squares on the screen
whenever it is plugged ... anything.
Any ideas to a) how to open, and b ... -
What are these games called?Game #1: You're controlling a man in some kind of futuristic facility a corridor. He starts to run really fast from left to right on the screen. He h…
... some kind of futuristic facility a corridor. He starts to run ... fast from left to right on the screen. He has to avoid obstacles ... : you control a wizard on top of the castle. There is a forest and ... dinasaurs keep coming from the forest and ... -
Can anyone help me with a game please?? Sorry to bring up such an annoying topic, but figuring out the name of this one is really doing my nut. You controlled a robot dog that could fire…
... you discovered a tape, and that was the end of the level.
Not a very colourful game, the screen was ... black and the exits in the rooms ... -
Spectrum +2 problem...I've just had a Spectrum go down on me (not that way TK, so don't try it...) I was playing a game with no problems for about 20 minutes, and the Spe…
... s come up with garbage on the screen before, but this is different ... screen boot thing, then sometimes it displays just a (C) copyright ... you press a key, it resets again. On other occasions, on resetting, it ... , but I had the +2 stored in a garage. Do you ... -
Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…
... games, were they the most advanced games at the moment?
When ... going "WOOOOW, THINGS ARE MOVING ON THE SCREEN! LOOK AT THOSE GRAPHICS!!!" -
Spectaculator 5.21 problemI am using Spectaculator V5.21 and 99.99999% of the time it is excellent, but on some games (especially old BASIC games with scrolling and Oracles Ca…
... Oracles Cave) I get the word SPECTRUM appear on the screen, some times mutiple times ... . This usually appears after the screen has ... scrolled.
Anybody have the same problem ... -
Long Lost ListingsWay back in the day when I still had those three issues of Sinclair Programs (which got lost in the Great House Move of three years ago DAMNDAMNDAMN)…
... had a Dragon at the time as well. The magazine was printed on rough ... by long multiplication, printing the result on the screen as it went along... "Comedy ... columns...
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Editing in-game UDG'sI have just started playing an RPG that was in Sinclair User in 86'. The game is called Forest of Long Shadows and was excellent. You can find it on …
... You can find it on the Type Fantastic web page ... is a slight bug in that the nasties ... come accross should appear on the screen in UDG's ... the nasties. What is the eaiest way of editing UDG's in a ... basic program rather than having to use the BASIC editor on the ... -
characters on the indexcan anyone tell me who the PI dude is on the index of the site? I can't remember the name of the game at all!
can anyone tell me who the PI dude is on the index of the site?
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Any professional programmers here ???I just received the news that the compagnie I work for accepted my programm to replace some old systems. I tried to give the programm a name related…
... tried to give the programm a name related to the ZX Spectrum.
and a version added to the name.
on the screen.
Anyone else tried ... name his/her programm to a link with the ZX Spectrum??? -
ZX Spectrum on GBAHey guys could you do ourself a favor ? There s a tread on a Game Boy Advance site regarding what emulator for the GBA is mostly awaited. Could you g…
... do ourself a favor ?
There s a tread on a Game Boy ... Advance site regarding what emulator for the ... we are ?
The site is : [url="http://gbafan ... is a little poll on the upper right side asking the question.
The ...
