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  • How can I make a UDG rotate?I designed a set of UDG's that can be used for making shapes or letters. Trouble is that my circle - for example - consists of 4 pieces and it would…

    ... ; 10 GOSUB 9900: REM * Display Mouse Pointer *
    ; 20 ... the next byte of graphic data
    CALL ... A,C ; Load A with column coordinate
    AND 7 ; AND A ...
    colonel32 colonel32 November 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Alternative to Poke 23659,0 to prevent a 'break in' to a Basic Program.Good morning everyone, My memory fails me these days but in the early days of programming I used to use Poke 23659,0 as a crude way of offering so…

    ... as it interferes with the display a bit.

    ... for INPUTs, error reports and so on. Normally this ... use PLOT down here and PRINT AT will only ... to use PRINT #1; "text" which works just as ...
    Hope that helps and not causes more confusion!
    spider spider March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…

    ... br /> I had made a couple of text adventures using Gilsoft Spectrum ... and with a little work, many of these sorts of homegrown text ... including extra details, expanding the text, more responses, possibly adding ... WINPAW at all. The display is different, the cond ...
    catventure catventure April 2018 Games
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... "]So I decided to run a test and generate some simple code ... strange characters on the emulation display and then the CPU memory window ... it![/quote]
    30K of text would definitely break if you ... to BASIC itself).

    A 30K array loaded from tape ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    you can drag the display window bigger in basin by ... uses UDG "A" and UDG "B"
    UDG "A" has a little graphic and UDG "B ... " is blank I then shift the graphic ... gives "E" and "F" and again etc so the graphic ends up in ...
    ASH-II ASH-II May 2018 BASIC
  • Tablet shortcomings? Help pleaseTo my disappointment when I tried to use the Documents app to write a story, it showed me the title of the previous test piece I'd done (and the only…

    ... an iPad mini 2, and the highlighting for cut/ ... to copy involves scrolling the text X(

    ... memory error pop-ups. And as with any touch ... laptops etc on display, then (a) have a play and (b) make ... (that you thought about and wrote down earlier). Then ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2018 Chit chat
  • Kempston Mouse DriverHi Folks, Does anyone know the email of Chris Cowley who wrote the Kempston Mouse Driver in the WOS Archive? Many thanks Paddy

    ... /> ;
    ; 10 GOSUB 9900: REM * Display Mouse Pointer *
    ; 20 REM ... at the next byte of graphic data
    CALL _get_next_row ; Shift ... /> LD A,C ; Load A with column coordinate
    AND 7 ; AND A to get ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2018 Hardware
  • PLATOTerm for IRATA.ONLINE for ZX SpectrumHello everyone, I've been holding off on any formal announcement until the terminal actually functioned, but, now that there is a version of PLAT…

    ... page (jessie and stretch), using "pterm" in a command window to ... text font
    -fb FONT Bold text font
    -geometry GEOMETRY Position and ... Do(default) or do not display a scrollbar
    -log PATH ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2018 Software
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... />
    There are two graphic modes, text mode and hires.

    In ... or paper of a 6 x 1 line and this impacts every ... , so you can set a colour, have a graphic image to the right ... did allow for a lot more colour without clash and colour bleeding ...
    Antiriad2097 Antiriad2097 December 2018 Hardware
  • Budget gem - Rescue by MastertronicHi All, Digging through my old Spectrum tapes today from my youth I discovered a budget gem - Rescue by Mastertronic I'm really impressed with…

    There is certainly a 'pattern' to the style and complexity of games ... to rely on Sinclair User and Your Computer. These only ... ' loading to just display two lines of text. Bit frustrating when ... your waiting for the game to load and a ...
    Luny Luny March 2020 Games
  • What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…

    ... which draws the tile, and the loops are smaller ... rather than 32 UDGs; and 12 tiles down, rather ... row in the display file were a row of tiles ... br /> I moved the tile graphic away from the UDGs because ... characters
    ld a,(hl) ; and c loops for the ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Development
  • Play games good or bad?Since the day the Internet was available, every parent thought playing games was harmful. But is that true? Play a game like a double-edged sword. …

    ... it could be a problem to a certain extent, and as you say ... fair, are a lot more indepth, graphic heavy, have a lot more content ... go out and kick a ball around, or go out and ride their ... kids play virtual outside games, and text each other, or talk on ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2020 Chit chat
  • Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…

    ... to which made it into a bin and tap file. It said ... on this page, which should display some text, but I get the ... .zip[/url]

    and the online version (HTML), which ... the computer as a calculator, and it also had a few simple programming ...
    c354r_0x7cb c354r_0x7cb July 2021 Development
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... contain the operating system and other things and the updater uses TBBLUE ... ".txt2bas" and ".bas2txt" will convert plain text to tokenized basic and vice versa ... only meant as a last effort to get a display working if it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... to following graphic rather than have parsing and long data ... is pretty simple. Display a picture, add a short description then present ... leads to another graphic with description and choices as before. ... cut back on the graphic files by occasionally reusing ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... demand into the layer 2 display area and it will take up ... there is actually a full screen of text on the ula surface ... the bottom half holding ula text and the top half holding layer ... so you can make a window for ula text that is confined ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen to vector?I've found old topics covering this subject and even spoke to Geoff about this, but still want to ask a few questions. I've been playing with vector…

    No, vectorizing is still not a thing easy to do on ... it's still a lot of packages to install and work with ... are tools to store and display regular pictures into text adventures.

    Timmy Timmy June 2022 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... a
    call 8859
    call 3503

    ;*title screen graphic ... /> jp nexlvl

    ;display level number then start game ... b, a
    ld a, (hl) ; get the attrib
    and ~7 ... br /> ld a, (hl) ; get the attrib
    and ~7 ; mask ...
    Kotek Kotek July 2022 Development
  • New release of ZEsarUXFound today by chance on: [url]https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases/tag/10.1-13122021[/url] [quote]ZEsarUX-10.1 Beta1 Pre-release che…

    ... a real Z88
    -Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display ...
    Improved Debugging:
    -Added a setting to show on which ... scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color ... cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible< ...
    Luzie Luzie August 2022 Emulators
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... so that's useful for text adventure style games.

    and update scr_out position
    ; C = character code to display
    xor a
    ld (scr_out_col), a
    ld a, (scr_out_row)
    inc a
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Development
  • Whatever happened to the BBC Domesday Project?Do you remember this huge Project that was to record lots of info about Britain for future generations to read about, in the manner of a 21 century "…

    ... the preservation of something, a copy of something and a digital reproduction (or ... that can be shown on a electronic display or be printed out ... , that’s like copying the text from a book, but not including ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2022 Chit chat
  • New release of ZEsarUXFound today by chance on: [url]https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases/tag/10.1-13122021[/url] [quote]ZEsarUX-10.1 Beta1 Pre-release che…

    ... a real Z88
    -Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display ... tape/snapshot/disk that contains a spectrum screen (SCR) as ... -Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk a Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file ... showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible< ...
    Luzie Luzie October 2022 Emulators
  • Emulator compatibility with real SpectrumHi emulator programmers... Having spotted for the last 6 months that my iPAQ is still missing a Spectrum emulator I started typing last tuesday - an…

    ... still missing a Spectrum emulator I started typing last tuesday - and behold ... 69888 tstates, issue a z80 interrupt and update the display (I do not ... my emulator shows the screen and a keyboard and there is no room ... the use of the in and out ports (it could be ...
    Anders Anders September 2001 Emulators
  • who owned a zx81 before the spectrumHow many of you owned a zx81 before getting a spectrum and did it make you want to get a spectrum. I owned a zx81 first but all my mates had a spectr…

    ... of you owned a zx81 before getting a spectrum and did it ... make you want to get a ... all my mates had a spectrum and i used to be ... high res graphics,sound and colour,,but one thing ... it had expired and needed update and can not seem ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr February 2002 Games
  • Looking for a game.I'm looking for a game and I don't know its title. I played it years ago and I still have a casette with it, but I haven't got right player and caset…

    I'm looking for a game and I don't know ... it years ago and I still have a casette with it ... , but I haven't got right player and ... arcade game. You fly a plane and you must shot down ... Also, ther is choppers and flying arrows there. Third level ...
    MaxEd MaxEd January 2002 Games
  • adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…

    I always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my ... to find the solution to a puzzle..and it was due to ... on my own and dracula after help from a letter i sent ... to Computer and Video games ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr January 2002 Games
  • Please help me with the name of a gameHi, I used to play this game with my late Father as a kid and I would love to play it again for nostalgic purposes: All I remember is that there we…

    ... with my late Father as a kid and I would love to ... were like tanks going over a bridge and you (the player) shot ...
    Dave Dave November 2001 Games
  • MIS Update 07/11/2001 (HUGE)Hi folks, I've finally managed to sort though all the TZX vault submissions along with Steve, and I've identified the titles that are MIS (Missing i…

    ... submissions along with Steve,
    and I've identified the titles ... resolved a lot of Text Adventures (152), 3 Games, 1 Utility and a couple ... of titles
    have been removed (errors etc.). Unfortunately, a ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2001 MIA/STP/SDP
  • loading programs using taper on a spectrumHello, I have the taper program and a bunch of games in a tzx and tap file format. I'm trying to load them to my spectrum/or make copies on new caset…

    ... the taper program and a bunch of games in a tzx and tap file ...
    thoma thoma February 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A new addition to the Speccy database sceneI've released an early version of my Speccy database front-end called inRetroSpect which is available for download from the Utilities\Database Progra…

    ...
    The version available is a bit incomplete (as in what ... ve worked on for a couple of years and (I hope) ... in that it is purely a data entry program at ... working on will make it a more front-end program ...
    Please give it a try and let me know what you ...
    Chris Chris January 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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