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  • Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…

    ... . I always found the text interfaces a huge drawback. My approach ... with BASIC and devise a menu system rather than a text interface.
    a bit of text that will be displayed and maybe an ... for a flag, one for clear, one for set, to display ...
    joefish joefish 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…

    ... "big pixel" graphic is unpacked once into 'graphC'; a copy offset by ... are no longer referenced and only the display file address is recorded ... apply all changes in a buffer cycle and then copy the buffer ... to be a lot slower than decoding them once and addressing ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2014 Development
  • assembler for PcHi guys, I'm in the process of teaching myself machine code, and wondered if there is a good pc program for writing code. Or is the best thing to use…

    ... a source-file and generate a .tzx file, with a BASIC header that loads and ... END of the Variable Value text.

    [CODE]
    ...
    Create a file in the Text Editor of your choice ... example file, the screen should display coloured squares.

    GReW GReW December 2014 Development
  • 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…

    ... clear what sort of display the fonts were designed ... ?

    One display resolution is 640x200 for an ... to make text both justified on both sides, and after ... just chop the long text into seperate chunks that ... 've used a text that is very long and didn't ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2015 Brand new software
  • Website ideaHi, In an effort to expand my PHP & MySQL skills with a real world project, and solve an issue I have with always struggling to find articles in my …

    ... (he has given me permission) and plan to add other platforms ... am aware WoS does not display magazine results in the search ... and games.

    If you know CSS or are a graphic designer ... I would love some help with the design side, and a ...
    jonesypeter jonesypeter January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A good graphics tool requiredI'm trying to design / draw some large graphics for my game and have been using TommyGun. Unfortunately this tool has a few bugs that is making the j…

    ... images, moving, cutting,copying and pasting them
    -drawing ... lines, circles and rectangles
    -using different ... size, dithered etc.)
    -adding text
    -airbrush
    -layers ... Spectrum formats but as a graphic editor it is very ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2015 Development
  • Hacking a +2 into a shorter caseIf anyone's got a copy of the notes or text they posted about re-wiring the +2 joystick ports or hooking up a tape recorder to the motherboard casset…

    ... /> I got an MP3 player and a set of Cherry MX switches ... datacorder, so it's a little screen and microswitched buttons to select ... that has wired buttons, a screen, and is a sensible size for the ... to get text looking good, as the edit box display is inconsistent ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK May 2015 Hardware
  • Chromium / Iceweasel screen shotsFogartylee asked me in <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50633/the-magic-s-gone/p3">this thread</a> to post a screenshot. Pos…

    ... of scripts etc. just to display some text and hyperlinks though ;)
    Well ... / whatever loading from 1 server, and that server works good, pages ... the page hinges on a script, and the server which produces ... this adds something useful to a site: okay, so be ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie June 2015 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Design CompetitionNow that you can see how the basic look of the forum is, why not brush the dust off your paintshop disk and design the forums!<br><br>The winner will…

    ... for me; by providing a separate
    and passive colour between items ... distracted by the wall ot text and buttons



    display.Secondly non of the best ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler June 2015 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Design CompetitionNow that you can see how the basic look of the forum is, why not brush the dust off your paintshop disk and design the forums!<br><br>The winner will…

    ... for me; by providing a separate
    and passive colour between items ... distracted by the wall ot text and buttons



    display.Secondly non of the best ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2015 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Will the Infoseek reported errors ever be corrected? and the database?I would like to know if the errors reported in the fórums will be changed in the database, and also if the database will be renewed, in the sense tha…

    ... WoS permission to publish and distribute, but theystill retain ... can grant it. (and there are a number of games ... doesn't have to display a copyright notice for material to ... copyright. Copyright automatically protects all text, images, code, software, websites ...
    impomatic impomatic July 2015 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Will the Infoseek reported errors ever be corrected? and the database?I would like to know if the errors reported in the fórums will be changed in the database, and also if the database will be renewed, in the sense tha…

    ... WoS permission to publish and distribute, but theystill retain ... can grant it. (and there are a number of games ... doesn't have to display a copyright notice for material to ... copyright. Copyright automatically protects all text, images, code, software, websites ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2015 WoS/Forum Issues
  • Removal of "reset on break" protection (old basic program)Hi, Long time lurker, here! This is hopefully quite simple but there's an old basic game in the I'd like to bring up to date / take a look at …

    ... the code last night and dealt with the at ... there, too. I made a mistake somewhere as I was ... point. I did a line comparison and couldn't see any ... missing between the 'raw' and my modified so perhaps one ... gives out a graphic dump.... I'll try the text dump next ...
    briscaF1 briscaF1 August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... be used for graphic adventures (for example see MENU and INV commands ... /> Design the game with a point and click adventure creator for pc ... export the game to text, pdf and html. Make a program to create ... .php?t=203519
    and walkthroughs at these sites as ...
    hikoki hikoki October 2015 New game ideas
  • ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…

    ... , line editing, pixel width measurement and text justification.

    [quote]< ... There were a few but the zx81's display is generated by ... you can get a 256x192 display if you have a 16k ram ... all 256 bit patterns in a display byte due to missing ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pixels, the Spectrum and the Meaning of Life!Imagine a computer running a program that systematically changes 1 pixel at a time and runs until it's shown every possible combination of pixels. If…

    ... a computer running a program that systematically changes 1 pixel at a time and ... planet, landscape, text from every book in every language and in all ... fonts that the computer is able to display ... ? That's quite a big number. And I wonder how long ...
    murtceps murtceps February 2016 Chit chat
  • So I did a thing...And it's nearly ready for release: [img]http://s18.postimg.org/4453ayo5j/Screen_Shot_2016_03_30_at_16_18_17.png[/img] Apologies for the enormou…

    ... error occurs
    64bit and 32bit builds display their bit-types on ... a+=10 to add 10 to a. Also for -=,*=,/= -and- %= (mod) ^= (power) &=,|=,~= (AND ... /> Faster display updates in Linux versions
    PRINT and TEXT could cause a stack ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…

    ... ...unless this was in a forum for graphic designers and this would be ... rather than just plonking down text in a Sinclair font with the ... 'd go for a logo AND the text. The text would be part of ... just have the new logo and no text.

    Now, you ...
    redballoon redballoon April 2016 Announcements
  • Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…

    ... ...unless this was in a forum for graphic designers and this would be ... rather than just plonking down text in a Sinclair font with the ... 'd go for a logo AND the text. The text would be part of ... just have the new logo and no text.

    Now, you ...
    Hikaru Hikaru April 2016 Announcements
  • Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…

    ... IX and IY is a bit more generic and easy but has a size and ... to load it into a register from memory and then perform the ... char
    ld a,(SP1V_PIXELBUFFER+0) ; get background graphic
    and b ; mask ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2016 Development
  • TommyGun's getting a Debuggerhttp://youtu.be/B_kZVRvYV98 I have always wanted to debug the programs I write in TommyGun using TommyGun instead of the debuggers in emulators. …

    ... that are then transferred to display memory.
    Something I ...
    As for outputting text messages to a debug stream; I have ... user writing a message to a buffer and then using a hex/text dump ... might even capture the messages and display them in an output ...
    Kiwi Kiwi June 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... a demo with horrendous "programmer" placeholder artwork, you'll have graphic ... this "concern" never surfaced, and it was a contest, where showing progress ... work, time and dedication to build a game, and for me it ... yet, after this wall of text, [b]I welcome you ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Development
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... and held in a 2D array which just requires a single pass to display ... the graphic it still takes ... on that Ultima compilation CD and compare the timings. Oh, one ... handy for checking the gameplay and screen layouts.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • New engine: MuCho, Multiple-Choice Adventure Engine, Release 1I made a multiple choice adventure engine, or choose your adventure engine, or gamebook engine. Something in those lines. Win32 toolkit: http://so…

    ... execute a command like changing text colour?
    And if you have a '$ ... for example) tests a flag and then changes the text colour, is the ... ). But it would make text and graphics on the same screen ... a full screen you can leave the graphic up and keep the text ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Development
  • "ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…

    ... Spectrum graphics as a .PNG image and outputted to text as a .TXT file ... , E, + and - to make it look like a seven-segment LED display in ... even enough for the display to handle) and an attempt to evaluate ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • 48K vs 128K BASIC, I prefer the keyword entry system how about you?Being brought up with the 48k rubber and 48k+ I find the keyword entry system really fast and enjoyable to use. When I've played around with the 128k…

    ... was on display on the keyboard itself and this encouraged ... the manual except as a reference and instead tried things out ... would have benefited from a real keyboard and single key entry. ... keys and text editors means I'd much rather use a text editor and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…

    ... . You could expand this in a text editor but the mass of ... a display[/url]. I find this ok too since the author defines and ... understands a screen update as a sequence of non ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2017 Development
  • endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …

    ... to collect keyboard input and act as a display of ascii characters. They ... use sprintf to generate formatted text into a buffer if you want ... , you'd do your own text printing because most games do ... text input but I've looked into this and it is also a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Development
  • What am I doing wrong?Working on the idea of making a book type game I decided to start with a title screen. However I thought that the extension .scr was what the Spectru…

    ... quote]

    With DivIDE and emulators loading from .tap files ... huge. I've considered writing a graphic text adventure for the CSSCGC that ... be awful to play on a real Spectrum but might be ... well as or instead of text compression you could
    - ...
    textvoyage textvoyage June 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…

    ... Its easier to use a Windows environment and then squeeze the final ... has a kinda compression engine, can fit about 20k of text ( ... (ONLY!) real problem is the graphic side of things. Well if ... Spectrum... Fitting large pieces of text is not difficult for me ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2017 Chit chat
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